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Leigh-on-Sea (28th June); Corfe Castle Village Hall, Dorset (3rd July); Beaminster Festival, Dorset (4th); Chichester Festival (10th); JW3 Jewish Community Centre, London (17th).
www.shekoyokh.co.uk
Steve Knightley plays his
Grow Your Own Gig gigs at The David Hall, S. Petherton, Somerset (2nd July); Otterton Mill (3rd); Magelake, Uffculme, Devon (4th).
Otis Gibbs plays at The Garret Sessions at The Queens Head, Fyfield (9th July); The Full Moon, Cardiff (10th); Americana-UK @ Acoustic Dustbowl at the View Two Gallery, Liverpool (11th); The Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham (14th); The Palmeira, Hove (15th); The Bicycle Shop, Norwich (16th); Truck Festival, Steventon (18th); The Stables, Milton Keynes (20th); Pull Up At The Roots @ The Old Queen’s Head, Islington (22nd); The Biddulph Arms (23rd); Bury Met (24th); The Roots Music Club, Ukrainian Centre, Doncaster (25th); The Birchmeadow, Broseley (26th).
Traditional London band Stick In The Wheel promote their Bones EP with gigs at the Strongroom Bar, Rivington Street Festival (22nd Jun); Leigh Folk Festival (28th) and some other summer festival dates.
stickinthewheel.bandcamp.com
The Mae Trio have July dates at Maverick (5th & 6th); Green Note, London (8th); Millenium Centre, Cardiff (11th); Catstrand, New Galloway (12th); Seamus Ennis Cultural Centre, Fingal (18th); Wexford Arts Centre (19th); Wickerman Festival (25th); Hootananny’s, Inverness (26th); Deeside Inn, Ballater (28th); Old Bridge Inn, Aviemore (29th); Ceilidh Place, Ullapool (30th) and into August with festival dates.
CoCo & The Butterfields play at Ropetackle Arts Centre, Shoreham by Sea, West Sussex, BN43 (4th July); Larmer Tree Festival (20th); Secret Garden Party, Mill Hill Field, Abbots Ripton, Huntingdon (24th & 25th);
Gordie MacKeeman & His
Rhythm Boys have UK tour dates at Belfast City Blues Festival, The Harp Bar, Belfast (27th Jun); Enler Delta Blues Club, Comber (28th); Bronte Music Club, Rathfriland (2nd July); Balor Arts Centre, Ballybofey (3rd); Ulster American Folk Park, Omagh (4th – 6th); Weigh Inn Bar, Omagh (5th);
The Mae Trio
Ropetackle Arts Centre, Shoreham-by-Sea (9th); Pocklington Arts Centre, nr. York (10th); The Civic, Barnsley (11th); The Old Town Hall, Hemel Hempstead (12th); Faldingworth Live, Faldingworth Memorial Hall, Lincs (13th); Colchester Arts Centre (14th); Bridport Arts Centre (15th); The Firestation, Windsor (16th); The Met, Bury (17th); Heb Celt Festival, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis (18th); SummerTyne Americana Festival, Sage Gateshead (19th); Music On The Marr, Castle Carrock (20th); Harrogate Theatre (21st); Hare & Hounds, Kings Heath, Birmingham (23rd); Old Queens Head, Islington, London (24th); Warwick Folk Festival (25th); Centenary Centre, Peel, Isle Of Man (26th); Womad, Charlton Park, Wiltshire (27th).
Kiran Ahluwalia plays at Bristol Folk House (4th July) and London Jazz Café (6th).
Hatful Of Rain appear at Chichester Festival (21st June); Union Music Store, Lewes (In Store) (28th); Queens Head, Islington, London (30th); The Berry, Deal, Kent (25th July).
Maz O’Connor plays five online shows between 7th & 11th July 2014 at 9pm (8pm GMT) from her London living-room, each with a different UK city in mind. Tickets available at
www.stageit.com.
Ewan McLennan plays at Ymuno Festival, Bryn Ffanigl Ganol Farm, Abergele (6th July); Hebden Bridge Trades Club (10th); The Old Cinema Launderette, Marshall Terrace, Durham (11th); The String Jam Club, The County Hotel, Selkirk (12th).
Tantz deliver a hard-hitting blend of Eastern European folk and driving beats at Larmer Tree Festival (19th July); Secret Garden Party, Mill Hill Field, Abbots Ripton, Huntingdon (27th).
Tarras appear at Moonbeams
Wold Top Folk Festival, Wold Top Brewery, Hunmanby Grange, Wold Newton, Driffield (12th July); Whistable Sessions Music Club, 1st Floor above The Royal Native Oyster Stores, Horsebridge Road, Whistable (18th).
The Two Man Gentlemen
Band have July dates at The Green Note, London (22nd); The Bicycle Shop, Norwich (23rd); Plough Arts Centre, Great Torrington (24th); Beach &
Barnicott, South St, Bridport, Dorset (25th); The Square and Compass, Worth Matravers (26th); The Bell Inn, Bath (afternoon) (27th); The Cross Inn, Clarbeston Road, Haverfordwest, Pembs (evening) (27th); The Kazimier, Liverpool (29th); House Concert, Edinburgh (30th); Carnegie Hall, Dunfermline (31st).
The Hot Seats come to Music on The Marr Festival, Brampton (17th July); The Border Club, Hawick (18th); SummerTyne Festival, Gateshead afternoon (19th); Coldingham Village Hall evening (19th); The Corn Exchange, Biggar (20th); The Steeple Hall, Kilbarchan (22nd); Universal Hall, Findhorn (24th); Glenbuchat Hall, Strathdon (25th); The Salmon Bothy, Portsoy (26th); Harbour Arts Centre, Irvine (27th); House concert, Edinburgh (28th & 29th); The Eastgate Theatre, Peebles (30th); Carnegie Hall, Dunfermline (31st).
GIGS
It’s quiet on the gig front – it’s festival season, and there’s some sport stuff going off, we’re told.
A must see (if you’re not at
Womad) at The Barbican, London EC1 are the refomed, legendary Les Ambassadeurs featuring Cheick Tidiane Seck, Salif Keita and Amadou Bagayoko plus Soumaoro Idrissa, Sekou Diabate – bass, Mahamadou Bakayoko, Modibo Kone, Mamadou Kone, Samake Harouna, Dante Aminata & Bah Kouyate on 26th July. Tel: 0845 120 7550;
www.barbican.org.uk
Norwich Arts Centre, St.
Benedict’s Street, NR2 4PG has forthcoming dates by Judy Dyble, Martin Simpson & Dom Flemons and Tinariwen.
www.norwichartscentre.co.uk
Coming up at The Goose Is
Out!, Nunhead, London SE15 are Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin, Drohne, Martin Simpson, Andy Cutting & Nancy Kerr, You Are Wolf, Steve Tilston, Jody Kruskal, Alasdair Roberts and more!
www.thegooseisout.com
The Atkinson in Southport has future dates with Kris Drever & Eomonn Coyne, Tir na nOg, Sam Sweeney’s Fiddle Made In
Ewan McLennan
The Great War, Martin Simpson, Andy Cutting & Nancy Kerr, Kieran Goss. Tel: 01704 533 333;
theatkinson.co.uk
Artsreach, Dorset’s touring arts organisation, features She’koyokh at Corfe Castle Village Hall (3rd July) and The Ridgeway Performers present To Hear the Nightingales Sing at Portesham Village Hall (13th July).
www.artsreach.co.uk
Nettlebed Village Club, High St, has imminent dates with Chris & Kellie While, Vin Garbutt, Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar, Home Service, PIG and Peter Knight’s Gigspanner
www.nettlebedfolkclub.co.uk
Lewes Saturday Folk Club run two 12th July workshops at Elephant & Castle, White Hill with: Andy Turner (English Dance Music Concertina) and Mat Green (English Dance Music Fiddle.)
www.lewessaturdayfolkclub.org/
CDs These recently in: Aallotar In
Transit (And Say We Did); Josephine Anthony & The Last Ones Left Spaces In Between (Nitebird Records); The Askew Sisters In The Air Or The Earth (Rootbeat Records); Karim Baggili featuring Le Trio Joubran Kali City (Home Records); The Barn Door Slammers The Barn Door Slammers (Ruben Records); Romain Baudoin 1 Primate (Pagans); Terry Harmonica Bean Catfish Blues (Wolf); Martyn Bennett Grit (Real World Gold); Blue Ejder with Neil Yates Songs To Poems by Karin Boye (Rosanna Records); Xavier Boderiou, Sylvain Barou & Jacques Pellen Morenn (Vocation Records); Lili Boniche Tresors De La Musique Judéo- Arabe (World Village); Bright Season Bright Season (Folkstock Records); Bumper Jacksons Sweet Mama, Sweet Daddy, Come In (own label); Mike Cooper Trout Steel/The Machine Gun Co. (Paradise Of Bachelors); Captain Cougar Âkerblomröselsen (Pinetree Records); Hanneke Cassel Dot The Dragon’s Eyes (Cassel Records); Pete Coe & Alice Jones The Search For Five- Fingered Frank (Backshift Music);
Photo: Judith Burrows
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