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Great Britain, Chicha Libre, Jaipur Kawa Brass Band, Tamburitza String Band, Söndörgö, Debademba, Ibibio Sound Machine, Kobo Town, MC Afrikan Boy and more.
www.barbican.org.uk/music/event- detail.asp?ID=16303
Underneath The Stars Festival
(25th – 27th July) is a new summer festival collaboration between Kate Rusby, her family
production team and Cannon Hall Open Farm, Cawthorne, Barnsley. On the line-up Richard Thompson, Kate Rusby, Treacherous Orchestra, Sarah Jarosz, The Bad Shepherds, Tunng, John Smith, Rachel Sermanni, Dave Burland, Damien O’Kane, Jaywalkers, Moore-Moss-Rutter, Carrivick Sisters, Maz O’Connor and more.
underthestarsfest.co.uk
Speyfest, Fochabers, Moray, Scotland (25th – 27th July) has a bill including Karine Polwart, Fred Morrison, Hayseed Dixie, Red Hot Chilli Pipers and Skippinish.
www.speyfest.com
The Village Pump Folk
Festival, held at the White Horse Country Park, Westbury (25th – 27th July) features Peatbog Faeries, Seth Lakeman, Martin Simpson, Eliza Carthy & The Wayward Band, Michael Chapman, Steve Knightley, Home Service, Brass Monkey, Sarah McQuaid, Phil King, The Blues Band, Peter Knight’s Gigspanner, Phil Beer, Vin Garbutt, 3 Daft Monkeys, Cathryn Craig & Brian Willoughby, Sarah McQuaid, Miranda Sykes & Rex Preston, Philip Henry & Hannah Martin, Merry Hell, The Young 'Uns, O'Hooley and Tidow, The Panic Brothers, Gren Bartley, Tickled Pink, The Willows, Baraka and more.
villagepumpfolkfestival.co.uk Singers at Traditional Singing
Weekend at Cullerlie (26th – 28th July) include: Stuart Carolan, Patricia Flynn, Lucy Pringle, Chris Miles, Geordie Murison, Alistair Ogilvy, John Waltham, Arthur Watson and Sheena Wellington.
www.abdn.ac.uk/elphinstone
Folk Holiday in Namest nad
Oslavou, Czech Republic (26th July – 2nd Aug) features appearances from La Cór De La Plana, Bára Hrzánová &
TOURS With cover-starring
Bellowhead’s new album Revival out on Island’s Pink label in June, they take to the road with dates at Ludlow Castle, Shropshire (5th July); Hop Farm Music Festival, Kent (6th); Harrogate Royal Hall (part of International Festival), North Yorkshire (11th).
Staff Benda Bilili play at
Larmer Tree Festival (19th July); Union Chapel, London (20th).
serious.org.uk/staffbendabilili
Martin Carthy plays at Sark Folk Festival (5th July);
Stonehaven Folk Festival (12th & 13th); Band on the Wall, Swan Street, North Quarter, Manchester (17th); The Mill Arts Centre, Spiceball Park, Banbury, Oxon (25th).
Tinariwen play at
Glastonbury Festival, Acoustic Stage (27th Jun); Latitude Festival, nr Southwold (19th July); Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon (23rd); St David’s Hall, St David’s Proms, Cardiff (24th).
Peatbog Faeries have dates
at Talking Heads, Portswood Road, Southampton (2nd July); Passing
Michael Chapman – Trowbridge Village Pump
Condurango, Bachtale Apsa, Light In Babylon, Dorota Barová & Lenka Dusilová & Beata Hlavenková, Karolina Cicha & Bart Pałyga, Szidi Tobias, Jana Kirschner, April Verch, Hradišťan, Bezobratři, Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba.
www.folkholidays.com
All day and weekend tickets for this year's 50th Anniversary Cambridge Folk Festival at Cherry Hinton Hall (31st July – 3rd Aug) have now sold out.
www.cambridgefolkfestival.co.uk
Coming to Urkult, Näsåker,
Sweden (31st July – 2nd Aug): Bollywood Masala Orchestra, Bombino, Hoven Droven, Jagwa Music, Kila, Martha Tilston, Taraf De Haidouks and
more.www.urkult.se
Camp Bestival, Lulworth
Castle, Dorset (31st July – 3rd Aug) features, on its varied bill, Jaipur Kawa Brass Band, Rory McLeod, Coco & The Butterfields and Cut A Shine.
www.campbestival.net
Clouds, 1 Richmond Road, London E8 (3rd); Hall for Cornwall, Back Quay, Truro (4th); Cornbury Music Festival, The Great Tew Park, Oxfordshire (6th); The Greystones, Sheffield (8th); Hare & Hounds, High Street, Kings Heath, Birmingham, (9th); The Stables, Stockwell Lane, Wavendon (10th); Moonbeams Wold Top Folk Festival, Wold Top Brewery, Hunmanby Grange, Wold Newton (11th); Village Pump Folk Festival, White Horse Country Park, Trowbridge Road, Westbury (25th); Alnwick Playhouse (31st).
Patrick Street have summer dates at Stonehaven Folk Festival (12th July); Gateshead Old Town Hall (13th); Waterside Arts Centre, Sale (14th); Swindon Arts Centre (15th); Borough Theatre, Cross Street, Abergavenny (16th); The Stables, Stockwell Lane, Wavendon (17th); Stamford Arts Centre (18th); The Apex, Bury St Edmunds (19th); Otley Courthouse (20th).
Martin Simpson and
American guitar and banjo player Dom Flemons (from the Grammy award-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops) are creating brand new collaborative material rooted in English and American folk traditions to tour this month. Researching and exploring how folk songs travelled from England to North America and vice versa, using archive collections in the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, they appear at: Cecil Sharp House, London (23rd July); Norwich Arts Centre (24th); Ropetackle Arts Centre, Shoreham (25th); Womad, Malmesbury (26th).
Martin Simpson also has solo dates at Summer of Love Party, Hawkhurst, Kent (5th July); Frome Festival, Merlin Theatre, Bath Road (11th); Village Pump Folk Festival, White Horse Country Park, Coach Road, Westbury (27th);
Experimental folk trio Dead
Rat Orchestra will undertake an innovative 273-mile tour across the canals of Southern England, taking them from London to Bristol and exploring the changing associations of the canal by rekindling its songs and sounds, and through the creation of new ones. The Cut tour launches at the London Canal Museum on 28th July and ends with a grand finale at Bristol’s Arnolfini on 16th August (with special guests Rachel Dadd and Will
The Magnolia Sisters
Kate Rusby – Underneath Stars
Newsome). Catch them at Canal Museum, London (28th July); Riverside Amphitheatre, Staines (31st) and dates into August (see next month).
Sarah Jarosz plays at Oran
Mor, Glasgow (22nd July); The Stables, Milton Keynes (24th); Bush Hall, London (25th); Underneath the Stars Festival, Barnsley (26th); The Greystones, Sheffield (27th); St David’s Hall, Cardiff (29th); St. Bonaventure’s Parish Social Club, Bristol (30th); St John the Evangelist Church, Oxford (31st).
The Magnolia Sisters summer tour dates include Hebridean Celtic Festival, Isle of Lewis, Scotland (17th & 18th July); Summertyne Americana Festival, The Sage, Gateshead (19th); Glencairn Memorial Institute, Monaive, Dumfries and Galloway (20th); Pirineos Sur Festival, Spain (22nd); Zaragoza Festival, Spain (23rd); Pirineos Sur Festival, Spain (24th); File Gumbo, Cecil Sharp House, London (25th); Birmingham Jazz Festival, Botanical Gardens, Birmingham (26th); WOMAD Charlton Park, Malmesbury (27th); The Band Room, Farndale (28th).
Dougie Maclean plays at Cleckheaton Folk Festival (5th July); The Stables, Milton Keynes (6th); Colchester Arts Centre (9th); The Gulbenkian Theatre, Canterbury (10th); Bromsgrove Folk Festival (12th).
www.dougiemaclean.com
She’Koyokh continue to
promote Wild Goats & Unmarried Women at Leigh Folk Festival,
Photo: Jeremy Llewellyn Jones
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