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Jimmy Reed plays at Victoria Hotel, Menai Bridge, Wales (1st Sept); St John's Theatre, Listowel, Ireland (3rd); Wexford Arts Centre, Ireland (4th); Harvest Blues Monaghan, Ireland (5th – 7th); Fisher Theatre, Bungay, Suffolk (10th); Arlington Arts Centre, nr Newbury (11th); Bronte Blues Club, Keithley (12th); Worthenbury Blues Club, nr Wrexham (13th); Bromyard Folk Festival (14th).


Martin Carthy & Dave


Swarbrick play autumn dates Bury Met (4th Sept); Selby Town Hall (5th); Tyneside Irish Centre, Newcastle Upon Tyne (6th); New Greenham Arts, Newbury (11th); Kings Place Festival, London N1 (12th); Hitchin Folk Club (21st); The Apex, Bury St Edmunds (22nd); Ashcroft Arts Centre, Fareham (25th); Southdowns Folk Festival, Bognor Regis (26th); Forest Arts Centre, Old Milton Road, New Milton (27th); Theatre Royal, Margate (28th).


Sarah Jarosz plays at


Summertyne, The Sage Gateshead (20th July); Oran Mor, Glasgow (22nd); Milton Keynes, The Stables (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, Bishopston (30th); St John the Evangelist Church, Oxford (31st); Cambridge Folk Festival (2nd/3rd Aug).


Steve Knightley’s Grow


Your Own tour comes to St Ives Theatre, Cornwall (16th Sept); Kenn Village Hall, N.Somerset (24th); Worthern Village Hall, Shropshire (25th); Lowdham Village Hall, Notts (26th); Doug's Shed, Buckerell nr Honiton (27th).


Sheryl Cormier, along with Russell Cormier and The Flatville Aces play at The Vic, Menai Bridge, Anglesey (15th Aug); North Shropshire Cajun and Zydeco Big Weekend (16th); North Shropshire Cajun and Zydeco Big Weekend (17th); Tynewydd Barn, Llansilin (21st); Talking Heads, Southampton (22nd); Towersey Festival (23rd & 24th); The Cajun Barn, King Charles Church Hall, Tunbridge Wells (25th).


Chris Wood & Andy


Cutting play a rare duo date at Sidmouth Folkweek(2nd Aug). Chris Wood has solo dates at


Chris Wood & Andy Cutting


Purbeck Folk Festival (24th Aug); St Edith Folk, Kemsing (12th Sept); Stiwt Theatr, Wrexham (13th); Guildhall, Lichfield (14th); Waterside Arts Centre, Sale (18th); The Greystones, Sheffield (19th); NCEM, York (20th); Walthamstow Folk Club, Ye Olde Rose And Crown, London E17 (21st); The Junction, Cambridge (22nd); Jubilee Hall, Market Harborough (26th); Vivacity, Key Theatre, Peterborough (27th);


April Verch Band play at Sidmouth Folk Week (8th Aug); Broadstairs Folk Week (13th); The Live Room, Saltaire (15th); Whitby Folk Week (17th & 18th).


Lisa Knapp appears at Sidmouth FolkWeek (5th Aug); and then with the full band at Folk East, Glenham Hall (16th); Shambala Festival (24th); Lyme Folk Weekend (30th); Moseley Folk Festival (31st).


Martin Carthy plays at The Mill Arts Centre, Spiceball Park, Banbury (25th July); Bath Folk Festival (9th Aug); The Old Cinema Launderette, Durham (11th); AMC St Bride's Centre, Edinburgh (12th); Folk At The Hall, Trelawnyd Memorial Hall, nr Rhyl (16th); Hebden Bridge Trades Club (17th).


Martin Simpson plays at


Village Pump Folk Festival, Westbury (27th July); Cambridge Folk Festival, Cherry Hinton Hall Grounds (3rd Aug); Sidmouth Folkweek (4th/5th); Shrewsbury Folk Festival (24th); Towersey Festival (25th); Malmesbury Carnival (28th); Lyme Folk Weekend, Lyme Regis, (29th); Aslackby Village Hall, Sleaford (6th Sept); The Woolley Festival, Bradford On Avon (7th).


The Furrow Collective play at Sidmouth FolkWeek(7th Aug); Whitby Folk Week (20th & 21st); Purbeck Folk Festival (22nd); Cecil Sharp House, London NW1 (4th Sept); Batemans House Concert (5th); Bower House, Maidstone, Kent (6th).


Pennsylvanian trio, The Stray


Birds, return to this side of the Atlantic to play The Met Studio, Gatehouse Theatre, Stafford (1st Sept); An Tobar, Tobermory (3rd); SEALL at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Isle of Skye (4th); An Lanntair, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis (5th); Eden Court Theatre, Inverness (6th); Universal Hall, Findhorn (7th); The Old Library, Kilbarchan (9th); Carnegie Hall, Dunfermline


(10th); CCA, Glasgow (11th); Buccleuch Centre, Langholm (12th); Eastgate Theatre, Peebles (13th) and Passing Clouds, Dalston, London (14th).


Tony McManus has dates at Calstock Arts, Cornwall (3rd Aug); Sidmouth FolkWeek (5th & 6th); The George Hotel, South Molton (8th); The North American Guitar Shop, The Coda Centre, London (9th); Broadstairs Folk Week (10th); Wickham Festival (14th).


Flook have September dates


at Victoria Hall, Saltaire (13th Sept); Waterside Arts, Sale, Manchester (14th).


The Lindisfarne Story – Billy Mitchell and Ray Laidlaw in a special two-man acoustic show – comes to Berwick Maltings (4th Sept); Darlington Civic Theatre (6th); Theatre By The Lake, Keswick (7th); Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton (10th); Mill Arts Centre, Banbury (11th); Kings Hall, Ilkley (12th); Playhouse, Harlow (14th); Robin 2, Bilston (16th); Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon (17th); Tivoli Theatre, Wimborne (18th); Princess Pavilion, Falmouth (19th); Weston Super Mare Playhouse (20th); Lighthouse Theatre, Kettering (21st); Pavilion Theatre, Rhyl (24th); Palace Theatre, Newark (25th); Millfield Arts Centre, Edmonton (26th); Shanklin Theatre, Isle Of Wight (28th); Theatre Royal, Wakefield (30th).


Jim Causley plays solo Sidmouth FolkWeek (1st Aug); Wilderness Festival, The Folk Guild Stage, Cornbury Park, Charlbury, Oxfordshire (10th); Tooting Folk Club, The Selkirk, London (13th). Jim Causley & Lukas Drinkwater play as a duo Malmesbury Carnival, St Mary's Hall (6th Aug); The Brewhouse Theatre, Coal Orchard, Taunton (7th); Lyme Folk Weekend (29th); Riverhouse Barn Arts, Walton On Thames (24th Sept); Exeter Folk Project, Starz Bar (25th).


The Willows play at Sidmouth FolkWeek (5th/7th Aug); Broadstairs Folk Week (9th); Wilderness Festival (10th); Folk East Festival (16th); Purbeck Festival (23rd); Spalding Folk Club (3rd Sept; Kings Place, London (13th); Stables, Milton Keynes (19th); Roots North Festival (20th); Greystones, Sheffield (21st); Bluebell Inn, Hempstead (24th); South Devon Arts Centre (26th); Chapel Arts, Bath (27th).


The Stray Birds GIGS


In Flanders Fields – English and Flemish songs, stories and poetry from the Great War – an evening with Michael Morpurgo, Coope Boyes & Simpson and the Paul Rans Ensemble to mark the centenary of the First World War on Monday 25th August 2014, 6.30pm, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, N1.


Dave Bromberg & Larry


Campbell play at Bush Hall, London on 1st August. Tel: 08444 771000; www.ticketweb.co.uk


Show Of Hands have been invited to play a special acoustic show at Shakespeare's Globe, London on 20th Sept as part of a series of Concerts By Candlelight events in the newly opened Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.


Väsen, Sweden's roots music ambassadors, play on 28th August at The Ropetackle Arts Centre, Shoreham-by-Sea. www.ropetacklecentre.co.uk


Coming soon to the Barbican,


Silk Street, London EC2 is A Time And Place: Musical Meditations on the First World War featuring Becky Unthank, Rachel Unthank, Sam Lee and Adrian McNally (18th Sept). www.barbican.org.uk


Big Session-On-Sea – a one night only performance from Oysterband with many special guest, including June Tabor – takes place at De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea on 27th September. www.dlwp.com


Coming up at Cecil Sharp House, Regents Park Road, London NW1 are The Furrow Collective, Martin Carthy; a double bill of Carthy, Hardy, Farrell & Young and Rachel Newton, Karine Polwart, Kathryn Tickell & The Side, Leveret (the new project with Andy Cutting, Sam Sweeney and Rob Harbron), Miranda Sykes & Rex Preston, and Spin Cycle, the finale of Yan Tan Tethera – the season of events inspired by textiles and folk – with a sonic arts collective sampler-culture clash with knitters, weavers, textile machines, traditional musicians and Gaelic song, combined with electronic, visual


Photo: Ian Anderson


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