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Elbow Jane, as well as surviving members of The Spinners (Hughie Jones, Mick Groves & Tony Davis with Cliff Hall’s son, Clifford Hall) receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award.
www.acousticfestival.co.uk
Shepley Spring Festival
(20th – 22nd May) has a line-up including Bellowhead, Le Vent Du Nord, Session A9, Roy Bailey, Finest Kind, Skerryvore, John Jones, Nancy Kerr & James Fagan, Moore, Moss, Rutter, Will Noble, Bryony Griffith & Will Hampson, Belshazzar’s Feast, Fay Hield Trio, Pete Coe, Random, The Young’uns, Lucy Ward, Gavin Davenport, Tyde and more. Tel: 01629 827013;
www.shepleyspringfestival.com
Bath International Music
Festival (25th May – 5th June) has some roots music themes running through it including Fire In The Flint, “celebrating the poetry and virtuosity of Celtic music” with Kathryn Tickell, Alasdair Nicolson & James MacMillan, Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill amongst others; Songs Of Freedom – an exploration of political song dedicated to Paul Robeson, as well as performances by Billy Bragg, Johnny Mars, Adriano Adewale, Umpatacum, Hopping Mad, Diana Baroni with Rafael Guel & Tunde Jegede. Box Office: 01225 463362;
www.bathmusicfest.org.uk
Folkworks’ Hexham
Gathering (25th – 29th May) sees ceilidhs, concerts, open air performances and sessions at venues in Hexham and across Tynedale, featuring Le Vent Du Nord, Fay Hield Trio, Peter Tickell, Sam Sweeney & Hannah James, final year students from England’s only degree course in Folk And Traditional Music at the University of Newcastle and more. Queen’s Hall Arts Centre Box Office on 01434 652 477;
www.queenshall.co.uk
Orkney Folk Festival (26th – 29th May) has appearances from Bob Sharp, Ceilidh Minogue, Da Fustra, Daimh, Emily Smith, Ewan Robertson, Gary Innes & Martin O’Neill, Four Men And A Dog, Fullsceilidh Spelemannslag, Geordie, Jim & Joe, Habbadam, Kristan Harvey, Session A9, Southern
Tenant Folk Union, Stamp & Go, The Halton Quartet, The Poozies, Broken Strings, Bruce Mainland, Fiona Driver & Graham Simpson, Frank Keenan, Jo Philby, Kirkjuvagr Ceilidh Band, Saltfishforty, Stromness RBL Pipe Band, Stronsay’s Silver Darlings and The Chair. Tel: 01856 851635;
www.orkneyfolkfestival.com
Knockengorroch World
Ceilidh 2011 takes place between 26th – 29th May. Playing in the Galloway hills are: Horace Andy, Dub Asante, Salsa Celtica, Adrian Edmondson & The Bad Shepherds, The Demon Barbers, Russkaja, Lau, Michael McGoldrick’s Future Trad Collective, Aberfeldy, Hidden Orchestra, Bajaly Suso and many more artists.
www.knockengorroch.org.uk
Ireby Festival (27th & 28th
May) features Colum Sands, Adrian Edmondson & The Bad Shepherds, The Hut People, Jaywalkers, Lizzie Nunnery, Kirsty McGee & The Hobopop Collective, Sam Carter and more. Tel: 01697 371645;
www.musicinireby.co.uk
Magdalen Folk Festival (27th to 29th May) at Magdalen Farm, Winsham, Chard – a residential education centre at the heart of an organic farm – has a line-up including Nick Wyke & Becki Driscoll, Tickled Pink, Miranda Sykes & Rex Preston, Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman, Ian Parker, Talis Kimberley, Street Heat Samba Band, Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin and Howling At The Moon. 01460 30144;
www.themagdalenproject.org.uk
The 5th Bude & Stratton
Folk Festival runs from 27th – 30th May 2011 with Duncan McFarlane, Corncrow, Barrie & Ingrid Temple, Dyer:Cummings Band, Broadside Mummers, Thorn & Roses, George Wilson, Hamish Currie, Andy Clarke and more.
www.budefolk.com
The 12th Fishguard Folk
Festival runs from 27th – 30th May with Belshazzar’s Feast, Hérétique, Mike Chant, Rapsquillion and Catrin O’Neill.
www.pembrokeshire-folk-
music.co.uk/Festival.htm
Ryedale Folk Weekend
(27th – 30th May) at Ryedale Folk Museum has a line-up including Dave Swarbrick, Nakaira, Fribo
Kathryn Tickell – Bath International Music Festival & Swaledale
plus Richard Grainger & Chris Parkinson, Rebekah Findlay, Nic Dow, Paul Metsers, Johnny Handle, Landermason, Dick Miles, Zoox, John Ward & Mario Price and Fiona Katie Roberts.
www.festivalonthemoor.co.uk.
Chester Folk Festival (27th – 30th May) takes place in the village of Kelsall with Mabon, Nancy Kerr & James Fagan, Belshazzar’s Feast, Finest Kind, Jez Lowe, Damien Barber & Mike Wilson, Sara Grey & Kieron Means, Colum Sands, The Carrivick Sisters, George Papavgeris, Les Barker and Pete Grassby.
www.chesterfolk.org.uk
Chippenham Folk Festival
(27th – 30th May) has a line-up including Steeleye Span, Finest Kind, John Kirkpatrick, The Wilson Family, JigJaw, Isambarde, Ian Bruce, Nick Dow, Polkaworks, Old Swan Band, Random, Florida and more.
www.chippfolk.co.uk
Swalesdale Festival (28th
May – 11th June) sees guest appearances from Nuzha, Kathryn Tickell Band and The Hut People. Tel: 01748 880019;
www.swaledale-festival.org.uk
Tilburg’s International Gipsy
Festival takes place on 29th May at Interpolistuin with Boban & Marko Markovic, Fanfare Ciocarlia, Kálmán Balogh & the Gipsy Cimbalom Band, Nadara Gipsy Wedding Band, No Blues & Vasile Nedea, Maurice Leenaars & Flamencos De Malaga and Koninklijk Zigeunerorkest Roma Mirando.
www.gipsyfestival.nl
The first artists confirmed to be performing at this summer’s WOMAD Charlton Park festival (28th – 31st July ) in Malmesbury, Wiltshire are Danyel Waro, Nidi D’Arac, Baaba Maal, Aurelio & The Garifuna Soul Band, Rodrigo Y Gabriela, I Am Kloot, Nomfusi & The Lucky Charms, Pacific Curls and Bomba Estéreo. Booking line: +44 0118 960 6060;
www.womad.org
Amongst the first names announced for the Co-operative Cambridge Folk Festival (28th – 31st July) are cover star Abigail Washburn, Chris Wood, Bellowhead, Richard Thompson, Kate Rusby, Penguin Cafe, Raul Malo, Laura Marling, Emily Portman, Pentangle, The Robert Cray
Band, Femi Kuti & The Positive Force, Port Isaac’s Fisherman’s Friends, Peatbog Faeries, Frankie Gavin & De Dannan, Home Service, Spiers & Boden, Danú, Mahala Rai Banda, Justin Townes Earle, Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill, Anxo Lorenzo Band, Orkestra Del Sol, Brian McNeill, The Spooky Men’s Chorale, Damien O’Kane, Saltfishforty, Moore, Moss, Rutter, Jim Moray’s Silent Disco and Mary Chapin Carpenter.
www.cambridgefolkfestival.co.uk
Oops! Apologies for a mix-up of August Bank Holiday festival line-ups in the April edition of fRoots, caused by a news editor malfunction. The correct line-up info for Towersey Village Festival and Shrewsbury Folk Festival is as follows…
Towersey Village Festival
(25th – 29th August) plays host to Billy Bragg, Oysterband, Home Service, Cara Dillon, The Spooky Men’s Chorale, The Burns Unit, Spiers & Boden, Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick, Lau, 17 Hippies, Karine Polwart, The Demon Barbers, Saltfishforty, Coope, Boyes & Simpson, Emily Portman, Alasdair Roberts, Tim Edey & Brendan Power, The Old Dance School, Jonny Kearney & Lucy Farrell, Brian Peters, Tickled Pink, Toothless Mary, Bedlam, Bryony Griffith & Will Hampson, Geckoes, Random, Pat Ryan, James Findlay, Gog Magog Molly, Berkshire Bedlam, Chiltern Hundreds Morris, Star & Shadow Rapper and Stone The Crows Border Morris. Box Office: 01629 827016;
www.towerseyfestival.com
Shrewsbury Folk Festival
(26th – 29th) has appearances from the likes of The Imagined Village, Oysterband & special guests, Bellowhead, Show Of Hands, Kepa Junkera Band, Cara Dillon, 17 Hippies, The Cecil Sharp Project, Home Service, Turtle Duhks, Martin Simpson Band, Demon Barber Roadshow, Spiers & Boden, Gerry O’Connor Trio, Chris Wood & Andy Cutting, Breabach, John Tams & Barry Coope, John Kirkpatrick, Martyn Joseph, Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman, Sam Carter, Jim Moray, Caroline
Nidi d’Arac – coming to Womad (and Sidmouth)
Photo: GS Studios
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