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Party, The Gren Bartley Band, The Will Pound Band, Keith Donnelly, Jaywalkers, Dr Sunshine, Tom Lewis, Les Barker and many more.
www.bromyardfolkfestival.co.uk
The bill at St Ives September
Festival (13th – 27th) includes Seth Lakeman, Fisherman's Friends, Steve Knightley, Sally Barker, Dave Pegg & Anthony John Clarke, Whitetop Mountain Band, Moulettes and Fake Thackray.
stivesseptemberfestival.co.uk
Darbar Festival, celebrating Indian classical music’s rich and expressive traditions, takes place at Southbank Centre, London (17th – 21st Sept) with guest appearances from Bharat Bushan Goswami, Debashish Bhattacharya, Niladri Kumar, Manorama Prasad, Nityanand Haldipur, Kirpal Panesar, Surdarshan Channa, Torvi, Banerjee, Prabha Atre, Akkarai S Subhalaksmi and more.
www.darbar.org
Black Sheep Folk Festival
takes place in Otley from 19th – 21st Sept with Jez Lowe, Dave Burland, Gilmore & Roberts, Chris Sherburn & Denny Bartley, Dovetail Trio, Judy Dunlop, Duncan Mcfarlane Band, Vicki Swan & Jonny Dyer, Grace Notes and many more. Tel: 01943 464858 ;
www.otleyfolkfestival.com
TOURS
Cumbia Allstars have UK dates at Shambala (24th Aug); Devizes International Street Festival – afternoon (25th); The Forge, Camden (25th).
Richard Thompson plays at Folk by the Oak, Hatfield (20th July); Hawth, Crawley (22nd); Bath Forum (23rd); Warwick Folk Festival (24th); Womad Festival, Charlton Park, Malmesbury (25th); Underneath the Stars Festival, Barnsley (27th); Gawsworth Hall, nr. Macclesfield (30th); Cambridge Folk Festival (1st Aug); Towersey Festival (22nd); Buxton Opera House (24th); Queens Hall, Edinburgh (25th); Aberdeen Music Hall (26th); Grand Opera House, York (28th); Moseley Folk Festival (30th); End of the Road Festival, Salisbury (31st).
Cigdem Aslan Canzoniere Grecanico
Salentino play at QEH roof, Southbank Centre (2nd Aug); Snape Proms (3rd).
Jefferson Hamer & Kristin
Andreassen have some September dates in the UK at The Keep, Guildford (13th); Green Note, London (16th) and Admiral Bar, Glasgow (20th).
www.jeffersonhamer.com
Cigdem Aslan plays dates at Brighton Dome (21st Sept); The Lantern, Colston Hall, Bristol (24th); mac, Birmingham (25th); NCEM, York (26th); Old Town Hall, Gateshead (27th); Union Chapel, London (28th) and into October.
cigdemaslan.com
New kings of old-time Sheesham & Lotus & Son fly in from Canada to play Tønder Festival at the end of August before embarking on a string of UK dates that include The Kazimier, Liverpool (Sept 2nd); Grateful Fred’s, The Atkinson, Southport (3rd); The Cross Keys, Selattyn, Shropshire (4th); South Holland Centre, Spalding (5th); Town Hall, Selby (6th); Cube Cinema, Bristol (7th); The Barn, Three Horse Shoes, Towersey (9th); The Green Note, London (10th); Druidstone Hotel, Haverfordwest (11th); The Catstrand, New Galloway (12th); The Border Club, Hawick (13th); The Studio in Live Theatre, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (14th); house concert, Edinburgh (15th); The Old Library, Kilbarchan (16th); Eastgate Theatre, Peebles (17th); Acoustic Music Club, Kirkcaldy (18th); Eden Court Theatre, Inverness (19th); The Tin Hut, Gartly by Huntly (20th) and Harbour Arts Centre, Irvine (21st).
Bellowhead have August dates at Boomtown Fair, Winchester (8th); FolkEast, Suffolk (15th); Beautiful Days, Devon (16th); Wickham Festival, Hampshire (17th); Newquay Lusty Glaze Beach, Cornwall (18th); The Robin 2, Bilston (19th); Assembly Hall Theatre, Tunbridge Wells (20th); The Alban Arena, St Albans (21st); Galtres Festival, York (22nd); Carfest, Hampshire (23rd); Watchet Music Festival, Somerset (24th); Shrewsbury Folk Festival (25th).
Sam Sweeney’s Fiddle: Made
In The Great War – the story of how a fiddle, part-made by a WWI soldier, took almost 100 years to be completed and found its way into the hands of Bellowhead
fiddler Sam Sweeney, feat. Sam Sweeney, Hugh Lupton, Paul Sartin & Rob Harbron – comes to Cheltenham Town Hall (3rd Sept); West End Centre, Aldershot (4th); The Stables, Milton Keynes (5th); Colston Hall, Bristol (7th); Colchester Arts Centre (8th); Chipping Norton Theatre (9th); Theatr Mwldan, Cardigan (10th); Exeter Phoenix (11th); Britten Theatre, Royal College Of Music, London (12th); mac Birmingham (13th); Key Theatre, Peterborough (16th); City Varieties Music Hall, Leeds (18th); Sage Gateshead (19th); The Atkinson, Southport (20th); Palace Theatre, Mansfield (21st); Diss Corn Hall (24th); The Met, Bury (25th); The Civic, Barnsley (26th); Ropery Hall, Barton-On-Humber (27th); Wiltshire Music Centre, Bradford- On-Avon (28th);
www.madeinthegreatwar.com
Catrin Finch & Seckou
Keita play at Okarina Etno Festival (2nd Aug); Festival Interceltique Lorient, Lorient (6th); Shambala Festival, Northants (24th); Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Aldeburgh (25th).
Coope Boyes & Simpson
bring their In Flanders Fields to Dranouter Festival, Belgium (3rd Aug); Ypres, Belgium with Paul Rans Ensemble (4th); Kings Place with Michael Morpurgo and Paul Rans Ensemble, London (25th); Foundling Museum, London (12th Sept); Folk At The Flavel, Dartmouth (13th); Bristol Folk House (14th); Colchester Arts Centre (15th); Leicester Guildhall (16th); St Mary’s Church, Scarborough (17th); Lincoln Drill Hall (18th); West End Centre, Aldershot (19th); The David Hall, South Petherton (20th); Heeley Institute, Sheffield (21st).
A Time & Place: Musical
Meditations on the First World War, featuring Rachel Unthank, Becky Unthank, Sam Lee, Adrian McNally and more, presents an evening of music inspired by the folk song, stories and poetry of WW1. In his research for the project, Sam Lee spent some time unearthing the wartime folk songs and personal stories from rural communities in the South West, inspiring new songs and arrangements which he performed as work in progress back in each of the villages before developing further for the main
Sheesham & Lotus & Son
show. Becky and Rachel Unthank are creating new music set to First World War poetry as well as new arrangements of songwriters from the North East at the time of the War. Adrian McNally will be arranging all of the above material for an 11 strong line-up, including string quartet and brass: Birmingham Town Hall (17th); London Barbican (18th); Howard Assembly Room, Leeds (19th).
Dead Rat Orchestra
continue with The Cut, their canal tour, with dates at All Saint's Church, Marlow (1st Aug); Rising Sun Arts Centre, Reading (2nd); OCM, Oxford (4th); Braziers Park (5th); The Crown Inn Free, Pewsey (10th); Devizes Wharf (11th); Bath Folk Festival (14th); Arnolfini, Bristol (16th).
Penguin Cafe play at Brecon Jazz (9th Aug); Roundhouse, London (10th); Snape Proms (16th).
Martin Simpson, Andy Cutting & Nancy Kerr play at Sidmouth Folkweek (5th Aug); Bright Phoebus, The Greystones, Sheffield (16th Sept); Middlesbrough Town Hall (17th); Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal (18th); Settle Victoria Hall (19th); Lakeside Arts Centre, University Of Nottingham (20th); St Davids Hall, Cardiff (23rd); Gala Theatre, Durham (24th); The Atkinson, Southport (25th); The Goose Is Out!, London (26th); Cornerstone, Didcot (27th); Hitchin Folk Club (28th); Colchester Folk Club (29th); Band On The Wall, Manchester (30th).
Willie Watson has dates at St. Bonaventure's Parish Social Club, Bristol (3rd Sept); The Cluny, Newcastle upon Tyne (4th); CCA, Glasgow (5th); Night & Day Café, Manchester (6th); The Greystones, Sheffield (7th); The Borderline, London (8th); Button Factory, Dublin (10th); Coughlan's Live, Cork (11th); Cleere's Bar & Theatre, Kilkenny (12th); Leap Castle, Tipperary, Roscrea Co. (13th).
Rachel Newton showcases material from her Changeling CD at The Old Cinema Launderette, Durham (13th Sept); The Old Bridge Inn, Aviemore (14th); The Glad Cafe, Glasgow (16th); The Castle, Manchester(17th); The Musician, Leicester (25th); The Stables, Wavendon (26th); Cecil Sharp House, London (double bill with Carthy, Hardy, Farrell & Young) (27th).
Photo: Handan Erek
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