11 f Playing soon at Nettlebed
Village Club, High St are Craobh Rua, Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker, Feast Of Fiddles, Andy Irvine, Artisan and Steve Knightley. Tel: 01628 636620;
www.nettlebedfolkclub.co.uk
Chapel Sessions is a community led not-for-profit occasional music series at the Victorian Chapel, Royal Victoria Country Park, Netley, Southampton. April dates include Ben Somers & The Growling Old Men and Blair Dunlop & Emma Stevens.
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London’s Cellar Upstairs will be hosting nights at a number of venues this month (see website for details). Guests include: Kevin Burke, Gail Williams & Jim Younger, Oliver Mulligan & Brendan Mcauley, Martin Carthy and The Askew Sisters.
www.cellarupstairs.org.uk
Alistair Anderson is back on the road, concentrating on his own performing and composing career. As well as being more generally available for solo concerts, Alistair has an ongoing duo with banjo master Dan Walsh and has just formed an exciting new band, Alistair Anderson & Northlands (with Ian Stephenson, Sophy Ball and Sarah Hayes) which will concentrate on songs and tunes from Northumberland and the borders. Alistair will be appearing at the Maltings Arts Theatre, St Albans on 11th April
www.alistairanderson.com
Sage Gateshead has
forthcoming appearances from Tom Kitching Band, Fanfare Ciocarlia, Murad Ali Khan, The Wilson Family, Eliza Carthy, Kate Rusby, Demon Barbers XL and The Young ‘Uns.
www.sagegateshead.com
Lewes Saturday Folk Club workshops and concerts include: Benny Graham, Barrie & Ingrid Temple (28th March); John Spiers (11th April) and Tom McConville (25th).
www.lewessaturdayfolkclub.org
The Anti-Capitalist Roadshow Celebrating Subversion comes to Irish Centre Birmingham, Digbeth on 24th April with Frankie Armstrong, Roy Bailey, Robb Johnson, Reem Kelani, Sandra Kerr, Grace Petrie, Leon
Monsieur Doumani – new CD
Rosselson, Janet Russell, Ian Saville, Jim Woodland and Boff Whalley offering inspiration to resist austerity and cutbacks in the run up to May’s general election.
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CDs These recently in: 17 Hippies
Biester (Hipster Records); Mohamed Abozekry Ring Road (Jazz Village); Derroll Adams Banjo Troubadour (Starman); Arooj Aftab Bird Under Water (own label); Altan The Widening Gyre (Compass Records); Anouar Brahem Souvenance (ECM); The April Maze Sleeping Storm (own label); The Barker Band The Land We Hold Dear (BB Records); Buena Vista Social Club Lost And Found (World Circuit); Paul Bradley Banish Cherish (own label); Olivia Chaney The Longest River (Nonesuch); The Charflies Linoleum Angel (own label); Código de Baros El Naán (ARC Music); The Corn Potato String Band Volume 2 (Agilest Music); Manuel Diogo Music Of Angola (ARC Music); The Drystones A Tale Of Sound And Fury (own label); Fairport Convention Myths & Heroes (Matty Grooves); Joe Filisko & Eric Noden On The Move (own label); The Foxglove Trio These Gathered Branches (own label); Nathan Gourley & Luara Fedderson with Brian Miller Life Is All Checkered (own label); Mike Grogan Make Me Strong (Poacher Records); Himmerland The Spider In The Fiddle (TUTL); India Electric Company The Girl I Left Behind Me (Proper); Jigjam Oh Boy! (own label); Wizz Jones A Life On The Road 1964-2014 (Sunbeam); Seckou Keita 22 Strings (Arc Music); Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba Ba Power (Glitterbeat); The Khoury Project Revelation (Enja); Lead Belly The Smithsonian Folkways Collection (Smithsonian Folkways); Maírí MacInnes Gras (Puffin Recordings); Mad Dog Mcrea Almost Home (God Dam Records); Malinky Far Better Days (own label); E.T. Mensah & The Tempos King Of Highlife Anthology (RetroAfric); Monsieur Doumani Sikoses (own label); Andrea Pancur & Ilya
Shneyveys Alpen Klezmer (Globalistas Records); Andy Dale Petty Frick’s Lament (Voodoo Rhythm); Re Niliu In A Cosmic Ear (Alfa Music); Tiganá Santana Tempo & Magma (Ajabu); Serenata Guayanesa Canta Con Venezuela! (Smithsonian Folkways); SpiroWelcome Joy And Welcome Sorrow (Real World); Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project (Borealis); Nath Trevett Cariad Neu Ddicter (Tryfan); Vaavu Keyodhoo Rahveni Club Maldivian Traditional Music from V. Keyodhoo (Asasi Records); Various Hanoi Masters: War Is A Wound, Peace Is A Scar (Glitterbeat); Various Highlife On The Move (Soundway Records); Various Rosekolla: Vokal Folkemusikk Fra Seterlivet (Norsk Folkemusikksamling); Various The Rough Guide To African Rare Grove Vol. 1 (Rough Guides/World Music Network); Various The Rough Guide To Latin Rare Groove (Vol. 2) (Rough Guides/World Music Network) Various The Rough Guide To Psychedlic India (Rough Guides/World Music Network); Various The Rough Guide To Psychedelic Salsa (Rough Guides/World Music Network); Various Tout-Puissant: 10 Years Of Zephyrus & World Music In Ghent (Zephyrus).
MISC.
We were sorry to hear of the deaths of Finnish world music radio DJ Ole Holmberg on 8th February, of veteran Midlands world music promoter Brian Parsons (a.k.a. Zuppa Inglese) on 14th February, aged 64, and of author and folklorist Roy Palmer on 26th February, aged 83.
It’s still proving impossible to get advance programme news out of the BBC. All we know for sure is that BBC Radio 2’s The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe (Wednesdays at 7pm) will be broadcasting the Radio 2 Folk Awards live from Cardiff on 22nd April, and BBC Radio 3’s World On 3 (Fridays at 11pm) with Mary Ann Kennedy will be presenting a specially recorded session on 3rd April with Nazim Ziryab, the first world music artist to be discovered through BBC Introducing.
DJ Ritu’s A World In London
(Wednesdays at 6.30pm on Resonance 104.4 FM, and online) features Ali Azimi (18th March); Alejandro Full Attack Band (25th); Kiran Ahluwalia (1st April); Mosi Conde (8th); Branco Stoysin (& tbc Farid Adjazairi) (15th); Jo N’gala & Bantu Blues (22nd) and PSK Trio (29th).
This year’s Grammy-winning albums in that strange place across the sea included Folk: Old Crow Medicine Show Remedy; Regional Roots Music: Jo-El Sonnier The Legacy; Blues: Johnny Winter Step Back; Bluegrass: The Earls Of Leicester; World: Angelique Kidjo Eve; Americana: Rosanne Cash The River And The Thread; Boxed or Limited Edition: Various Artists The Rise & Fall Of Paramount Records, Volume One (1917-27).
Sousou & Maher Cissoko’s
album Africa Moo Baalu has won the national Swedish Music Manifest Award for Best Folk Album 2015.
Robert Hilburn, the well- known pop music critic of the LA Times for the last 35 years, is currently working on a biography of Paul Simon, with the latter’s full support and approval. The author is going to be in the UK the week beginning Monday,13th April and plans to spend time with as many of the people who knew Paul from the formative times of the early days. He wants to track down as many of these people as possible, especially people who ran local folk clubs back in the early days when Paul first came to England in 1963 and the subsequent early years. Contact Miranda Ward
miranda_ward@hotmail.co.uk Congratulations to Jill
Martin, the winner of our recent competition with a big prize of the 100 CDs that we selected for our Playlist charts in 2014. You obviously like tricksier questions as we got a much bigger entry than usual. Jill (as did others) identified that the EP was Stick In The Wheel’s Bones, the former Old Crow was Willie Watson, the duo from Shropshire were Beguildy, the band from China were Shanren, the Manchester Trio were Harp & A Monkey and the dead violinist from Greece was Alexis Zoumbas. Well done!
Old Crow Medicine Show – folk Grammy.
Photo: © Judith Burrows
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