11 f Les Barker is due to
“perform monologues, poems & parodies at the following culture emporia”: The Wilkes Head, St Edward St, Leek (30th April); Raunds Festival, Saxon Hall, Thorpe St, Raunds, Wellingborough (8th May); The Ivy Bush Hotel, 103 High Street, Pontardawe (13th); Stafford Gatehouse Theatre, Eastgate Street (18th); Chester Folk Festival, Village of Kelsall, Kelsall (28th).
Grupo Lokito play at Lighthouse, Poole (11th May); The Junction, Cambridge (12th); mac, Birmingham (13th); NCEM, York (14th); The Sage Gateshead, Gateshead (15th); North Wall, Oxford (18th); Band On The Wall, Manchester (19th); The Brewery, Kendal (20th); The Stables, Milton Keynes (21st); Union Chapel, London (22nd); St George’s, Bristol (26th); Pontardawe Arts Centre (27th); South Street, Reading (28th).
Hell Said The Duchess continue their Spring tour with dates at Village Hall, Long Clawson, Melton Mowbray (11th May); Ryhall Village Hall, Church Street, Ryhall, Stamford (12th); Bottesford Victory
Commemoration Hall, Belvoir Rd, Bottesford (13th); The Fold, New House Farm, Bransford, Worcester (14th); Alfrick & Lulsley Village Hall, Clay Green, Alfrick, Worcester (15th).
Monster Ceilidh Band play at Longhirst Hall, Morpeth (1st May); Cracoe Village Hall (7th); The Music Room, Oxford (21st); Eshott Hall, Northumberland (27th); Alfresco Walking Food Festival, Masham (28th); Off The Tracks Festival, Derby (29th).
Le Vent Du Nord play at Ashcroft Arts Centre, Fareham (18th May); Bury Met (20th); Shepley Spring Festival (21st); NCEM, York (22nd); The Betsy Trotwood, London (23rd); Norwich Arts Centre (24th); Stamford Arts Centre (25th).
Lúnasa have dates at Feile Oriel, Monaghain (29th April); Whelans, Dublin (30th); Fibbers, York (4th May); The Stanley Theatre, Liverpool (5th); Bury Met (6th); Hammersmith Cultural Centre, London (8th); Farnham Maltings (9th).
Four Men & A Dog come to Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham (20th May); Brewery Arts Centre,
Grupo Lokito
Kendal (21st); Waterside Arts Centre, Sale (22nd); Sage Gateshead (23rd); Saltaire Live, Nr Bradford (24th); New Vic Theatre, Newcastle Under Lyme (25th); Orkney Folk Festival (26th & 27th).
Clive Gregson’s Bittersweet
Spring Tour comes to Bellingham All Acoustic Music Festival (30th April); Green Note, Parkway, Camden Town, London NW1 (2nd May); Jazz @ Future Inns/Acoustic, Bond Street South, Bristol (4th); Henshaws Arts & Crafts Centre, Bond End, Knaresborough (6th); The Ropewalk, Maltkin Lane, Barton upon Humber (7th); Otterton Mill, Otterton, Budleigh Salterton (12th); The Wesley Centre, Blyth Road, Maltby (13th); Playhouse 2, Newton Street, Oldham (14th); Kitchen Garden Cafe, York Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham (15th); Colchester Folk Club, Colchester Arts Centre, Church Street (16th); Dartford Folk Club, Working Men’s Club, Essex Road (17th); Banbury Folk Club, Mill Arts Centre, Spiceball Park (18th); Ram Club, Old Cranleighan Club, Portsmouth Road, Thames Ditton (20th); Acoustic Routes @ CB2, Norfolk St, Cambridge (21st); Clydelsdale Folk Club, Biggar (26th); Rondo Theatre, St Saviours Road, Larkhall, Bath (28th).
www.clivegregson.com
Sweet-tongued Laura
Cantrell plays at Club Academy, Manchester (1st May); St Bonaventure’s Parish Social Club, Bristol (2nd); Sheffield City Hall (4th); Nottingham Glee Club (5th); Edinburgh Pleasance Courtyard & Theatre (6th); Old Town Hall, Gateshead (7th); Union Chapel, London (8th).
GIGS
Two major London events take place this month at the South Bank Centre… Martin Carthy At 70 celebrates one of British folk music’s greats with a birthday concert at Queen Elizabeth Hall with special guests Dave Swarbrick, Tom Robinson and Eliza Carthy on 14th May. And Stewart Lee’s Austerity Binge, part of South Bank Centre’s Festival Of Britain, revisits the success of last summer’s Sidmouth concert, In Search Of Nic Jones – a
tribute to the folk hero – with an event on 28th May featuring Martin Carthy, Ashley Hutchings, Pete Coe, Chris Coe, Tony Hall, Jackie Oates, Jim Moray, Blair Dunlop and Anais Mitchell. Box Office: 0844 875 0073;
www.southbankcentre.co.uk
Other upcoming gigs at the
venue include Melissa Laveaux from Haiti (Purcell Room, 22nd April); Mariza (QEH, 5th – 7th May); The Great Folk Jukebox – A Tribute To Singing Englishmen featuring Bellowhead members Andy Mellon, Pete Flood, Benji Kirkpatrick, Brendan Kelly, Ed Neuhauser, Justin Thurgur, Rachael McShane and Sam Sweeney (7th May, RFH); The Midnight Ceilidh (The Clore Ballroom, 7th May); Cultura Obscura: The Lunchtime with The Trad Gathering performing Recollections Of Camden Town, alongside stories and tales from Racker Donnelly and Debs Newbold (7th); Cultura Obscura: The Shindig with Jeff Warner’s Songs Of The British High Seas, and Thomas McCarthy’s Traveller Songs (The Clore Ballroom, 7th); Syriana (Purcell Room, 7th); Cultura Obscura: The Final Shindig with Bartram, Brookes & Weatherall performing Shropshire tunes and songs (The Clore Ballroom, 8th May); Breaking Boundaries! with Kosmos, Paprika and She’Koyokh (Purcell Room, 8th May); Loudon Wainwright III (Royal Festival Hall, 20th); Music For The Mind And Soul with Partha Bose (PR, 20th May); Kuricorder (The Clore Ballroom, 27th May); Trembling Bells & Mike Heron (QEH, 30th May). Ticket Office: 0844 847 9910;
www.southbankcentre.co.uk
Fanfare Ciocarlia vs Boban
Markovic have a Balkan showdown at Koko, Camden High Street, London NW1 on 22nd May. Tel: 0844 847 2258;
www.comono.co.uk
Several fundraising events in
aid of Norma Waterson, thankfully on the mend, are being held this month, including Martin Carthy’s Birthday Concert on 14th at London’s South Bank. These also include: Brian Peters and Bernard Wrigley at The Crown, Worthington. Tel: 01257 263678 (6th); Taffy Thomas at The Cumberland Arms, Newcastle.
Le Vent Du Nord
www.thecumberlandarms.co.uk (13th); Artisan, Ryburns, Steve Tilston, Gracenotes, Kimber’s Men, Bliss & Napper, Hérétique, Demon Barbers and Martin Simpson at The Square Chapel, Halifax. Tel: 01422 822569 (18th); Anne Lister, Dave Swarbrick and The Village Quire at Gwernyfed High School, Three Cocks, Nr Hay-on-Wye. Tel: 01497 847676 (21st); Herga presents: Reg Meuross, Craig, Morgan, Robson, Mary Humphreys & Anahata, Anne Lister, Winter-Wilson, Jim Causley, George Papavgeris at Pinner Green Social Club. Tel: 07747 768868 (22nd).
Orchestre National De
Barbès play at Indigo At The O2, London on 25th May. Tel: 0871 230 1097; 0871 424 4444;
www.the02.co.uk/indigo2
The Village Pump Folk Club at
the Lamb Inn, Trowbridge meets every Friday night with Craig, Morgan, Robson, Issy & David Emeney with Kate Riaz, Hungrytown, Sara Grey & Kieron Means, Peter Knight’s Gigspanner, Jeff Warner, Martin Simpson and Johnny Coppin. Tel: 01225 707346 or 01225 865107;
www.villagepump.org.uk
Forthcoming Knees Up Cecil
Sharp Ceilidhs at Regents Park Road, London NW1 feature The Watch with Sheena Masson, Chalktown and Climax Ceilidh Band with Chris Shaw.
www.kneesupcecilsharp.co.uk
Coming soon to the Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London EC2 are a Palestine Film Festival (29th April – 3rd May); Group Doueh & Hayvanlar Alemi (13th May).
www.barbican.org.uk
A 20 year anniversary gig for
The Far Side, esteemed importers of all musical things from the far, far East, sees Kuricorder Quartet plus DJ’s Iain Lee (Absolute Radio) and fRoots writer Paul Fisher at Cafe Oto, 18 – 22 Ashwin St, Dalston, London E8 3DL on May 20th.
www.cafeoto.co.uk
Barbara Dickson, John
Kirkpatrick and Flossie Malavialle appear in a Folk 4 Heroes concert at Assembly Rooms, Derby on 15th May. Box Office 01332 255800; Ticket Hotline: 01773 853428;
www.prpromotions.org.uk
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