13 f August and September dates
at Bristol Folk House, Park St include Hot Vultures, Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage, Rory McLeod & The Familiar Strangers, Martin Carthy, Jim Causley, Robb Johnson, Katriona Gilmore & Jamie Roberts, Andy Irvine, O’Hooley & Tidow and more.
folkhousemusic.com
Cellar Upstairs, at either Calthorpe Arms or Lucas Arms, both on Gray's Inn Road, London WC1 or Harrison, Harrison St, WC1, has future dates from Jed Grimes, Bob Wood & Gemma Khawaja, Jimmy Hutchison, Beverly Smith & John Grimm, Jim Mcfarland & Ken Wilson, Martin Carthy and more. Tel: 020 7281 7700;
cellarupstairs.org.uk
Coming soon to Buxton Opera House & Pavilion Arts Centre are Sam Lee, Gordie MacKeeman & His Rhythm Boys, Leveret, Lulo Reinhardt & Andre Krengel Quartet, Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill and more. Tel: 01298 72190;
buxtonoperahouse.org.uk
Sage Gateshead has forthcoming guests including Gordie MacKeeman & His Rhythm Boys, Nancy Kerr & The Sweet Visitor Band, Karen Matheson, Fara, Ashley Hutchings’ From Psychedelia to Sonnets, Robb Johnson, Ange Hardy & Lukas Drinkwater, Martin Green’s Flit, Show Of Hands, Paco Peña, Rakesh Chauasi, Tcha Limberger's Budapest Gypsy Orchestra. Tel: 0191 443 4661;
sagegateshead.com
Kings Place, London has September highlights with Leveret, Sekouba Bambino, RURA and Ashley Hutchings. Tel: 020 7520 1490;
kingsplace.co.uk
CDs These recently in: Afenginn
Opus (Westpark Music); Alma Varieties (RootBeat); Auburn Love & Promises (Scarlet); Aussegrasn Fei Scho (Galileo); Ian Anderson Almost The Country Blues (Ghosts From The Basement); Michel Balatti The Northern Breeze
(Felmay); Banda Nella Nebbia Banda Nella Nebbia (Unzipped Fly Records); Barley Moon Ayreheart (Sono Luminus); Mamadou Barry & Afro Groove Band Tankadi (Label Bleu); Jim Causley & Luke Thompson The Clay Hymnal: Poems Of Jack Clemo (Westwords Publications); Compagnia Sacco Di Ceriana Tabulae (Felmay); Constantinople & Ablaye Cissoko Jardins Migrateurs (Ma Case); Henri Dikongué Diaspora (Buda Musique); Adama Dramé Dakan (Buda); Drcarlsonalbion Falling With A Thousand Stars & Other Wonders From The House Of Albion (Dr Carlson Albion); Ellestad Wiik Duo On The Water (Just For The Records); Emicida Emicida (Sterns Brasil); Ganovim- Lider Schikker Wi Lot (DanZone); Rebecca Gilbert & Kellswater Bridge Origin (Spiritone); Martin Green Flit (Reveal); Robbie Greig & Friends Robbie Greig & Friends (Robbie Greig); Harper Tasch Further (Harper Tasch); Hodmadoddery Hodmadod Meets Gogmagog (Hodmadoddery); Dana Immanuel & The Stolen Band Come With Me (Dana Immanuel); Cera Impala Tumbleweed (Cera Impala); Bill Jackson The Wayside Ballads Vol. 2 (Laughing Outlaw); Hannah James Jigdoll (RootBeat); Andrew John & Lissa At Home (Last Resort); Robb Johnson My Best Regards (Irregular); Karuna Tuulispää (Kuu); Ruth Keggin Turrys (Purt Sheearan); David J. Kelly Man & Mountain (David J. Kelly); Golfam Khayam & Mona Matbou Riahi Narrante (ECM); Jan Ibro Khelil Lament For Syria (Etnisk Musikklubb); Khmer Rouge Survivors They Will Kill You, If You Cry (Glitterbeat); Ustad Rahim Khushnawaz Afghan Rubab With Songbirds (Felmay); King Courgette King Courgette (Salty Dog); Padraig Lalor Light Up (Padraig Lalor); Ronan Le Bars Group An Erc’h Kentan (Coop Breizh); Lewis & Leigh Ghost (Celticana); Ida Maria Scandalize My Name (Kirkelig Kulturverksted); Ralph McTell & Wizz Jones About Time (Leola); O’Hooley & Tidow Shadows (No Masters); Orkney Folk Festival Fiddle Gathering (OFF); Os Argonautas Samba Delle Streghe (Digression/Puglia Sounds); Paride Peddio e Jonathan Della Brinca (Picchiadas); Pushkin Klezmer
Ian & June Green of Greentrax with their Landmark Award
Band Klezmer Über Alles! (DanZone); Rusalnaia Time Takes Away (Cambrian); Lizabett Russo The Burning Mountain (Folklore Noir); Sanacore E La Partneza (Buda); Screamin’ Miss Jackson & The Slap Ya Mama Big Band I Heard The Voice Of A Donut (Little Paradise); Sami al-Shawwa Prince Of The Violin (Arab Music Archiving); Siama Rivers – From Congo To The Mississippi (Siama Matuzungidi); Eliza Soares A Mulher Do Fim Do Mundo (Mais Um Discos); Kathy Stewart Almost Home (Treehouse Records); Sunburst Ave Africa (Strut); Vicki Swan & Jonny Dyer Paper Of Pins (Wet Foot Music); Tambours Croisés Tambours Croisés (Buda): Chaim Tannenbaum Chaim Tannenbaum (Storysound); Allan Taylor There Was A Time (Stockfisch); Ten Strings And A Goat Skin Aupres Du Poêle (TSAAGS); Ruth Theodore Cactacus (Aveline); Transglobal Underground Digging The Underground (Nation); Katie Webster The Swamp Boogie Queen: I’m Bad (Wolf); Wilful Missing Unsinkable Sailor (Little Attic Records); Eugene Wolf & Mitya Kuznetsov Where We’ll Never Grow Old (Ethno Kuznya); Fran Wyburn & The Indigos Postcards (own).
MISC.
We were sad to hear of the deaths of Nepali composer-singer (including of Nepal’s national anthem) Amber Gurungon on 7th June, aged 78; of Dark End Of The Street composer Chips Moman on 13th June, aged 79; of Irish musician Henry McCullough on 14th June, aged 72; of ‘60s/‘70s blues and punk promoter Ron Watts on 21st June, aged 73; of music journalist, peace campaigner and singer Karl Dallas on 21st June, aged 85; of Pakistani qawwali singer Amjad Sabri, assassinated on 22nd June, aged 45; and of bluegrass banjo and singing legend Ralph Stanley on 23rd June aged 79.
An OBE has been awarded to UK-Indian composer and musician, Baluji Shrivastav, founder of Inner Vision Orchestra.
Ralph Stanley On 8th June the Hands Up For
Trad organisation, which promotes Scottish traditional music, presented the Landmark Award to June and Ian Green of Greentrax Recordings. This comes in the year Greentrax Recordings celebrates its 30th anniversary with the release of a double CD collection of 30 tracks selected from the many special projects that have been undertaken in that time. Congratulations to both!
greentrax.com
Congratulations also to Paul
Wilson and Marilyn Tucker, who set up Wren Music in Okehampton, Devon, in 1983, who have been awarded highest accolade in English folk music, the Gold Badge from the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS). It's being presented by Eliza Carthy; the citation is being read by Doc Rowe, and there will be a performance by Peggy Seeger, a patron of Wren. It's all happening at a special awards ceremony at the Cygnet Theatre in Exeter on 22nd July.
wrenmusic.co.uk
In June, the banjo and music-
making duo Pharis & Jason Romero suffered a catastrophic fire in their banjo workshop and home in BC, Canada, which not only devastated their business and vintage instruments, but also all of their records and CDs. Fundraisers are being held locally to help them rebuild, but you can also support them by buying their great digital albums via
pharisjasonromero.bandcamp.com
The world's best-selling tutor method for the traditional Tenor D Whistle – The Low Whistle Book by Steáfán Hannigan and David Ledsam – has been given a facelift and is being re-launched by UK publishers Soar Valley Music Publications.
soarvalleymusic.co.uk
The Milkmaid Folk Arts
Centre CIC is struggling to raise funds for its Bury St Edmunds Station project to create a Folk Arts centre to allow
disadvantaged and vulnerable people, disabled and non- disabled, ethnic minorities and migrant workers and the whole community to access the folk arts as equals.
milkmaidcentre.com Error: Apologies for an error on a review last month listed as Paul McGeechan. It should have been listed as Starless.
Amjad Sabri
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