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(22nd January); The White Horse, Ballincollig (24th); Tradfest, Dublin (25th); First Presbyterian Church, Belfast (26th); Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow (28th); Mareel, Shetland (29th); The Brudenell, Leeds (31st); St Barnabas Church, Oxford (1st Feb); Clifton Cathedral, Bristol (2nd); Gulbenkian Theatre, Canterbury (4th). sarahjarosz.com


Jim Causley with Devil’s


Interval appears at Normafest, Scarborough (6th/7th Jan); then solo at The Courtyard, Hereford (14th); New Greenham Arts, Newbury (18th); The Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury (19th); The Greys, Brighton (27th). jimcausley.co.uk


Phil Beer – solo


Music Room, Oxford (25th Feb); The Foundling Museum (26th); Norwich Arts Centre (27th); Glee Club, Birmingham (28th) and Phoenix Exter (1st Mar). sounduk.net


Phil Beer takes some time off Show-Of-Handing and tours solo, with dates at the Brook Inn, Plympton (11th Jan); Firbeck Village Hall, S. Yorks (14th); Square & Compass Barn, Ilminster (19th); Pavilions, Teignmouth (20th); Norden Farm Arts Studio, Maidenhead (27th); Sutton Benger Village Hall (28th); Chipping Norton Theatre (29th); Craven Arms Pub & Cruck Barn (2nd Feb); Browfoot Room, Ulpha (4th); Red Lion Folk Club, Birmingham (8th); Wyeside Arts Centre, Builth Wells (9th); Theatre Mwldan, Cardigan (10th); Flavel Arts Centre, Dartmouth (15th); The Grange, Olborne, Dorset (16th); St Edith’s Hall, Kemsing, Sevenoaks (17th); New Cut Arts, Halesworth (18th); Hanger Farm Arts Centre, Hants (23rd); The Goose Is Out, Nunhead, London (24th); Shelley Theatre, Bournemouth (25th); Plough Arts Centre, Torrington (26th) and on into March. philbeer.co.uk


A new version of Peter


Bellamy’s masterpiece The Transports, featuring The Young’uns, Faustus, Nancy Kerr Matthew Crampton, Greg Russell and Rachael Mcshane, comes to Cambridge Junction (24th Jan); Celtic Connections, Glasgow (25th); Sage Gateshead (26th); Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton (27th); Bury Met (28th);


Basco


Guildhall, Derby (29th); Exeter Phoenix (30th); Wavendon The Stables (31st); Crawley The Hawth (1st Feb); Cecil Sharp House, London (2nd); Ropetackle, Shoreham-By-Sea (3rd). thetransportsproduction.co.uk


Steve Tilston has solo dates


at Walthamstow Folk Club, Ye Olde Rose & Crown Theatre Pub (29th); Davy Lamp Folk Club, Washington Arts Centre, Washington (4th Feb); The Willows Folk Club, Kirkham (15th); Farnsfield Acoustic, Village Centre (18th); Everyman Folk Club, The Riverside Centre, Saxmundham (24th). stevetilston.com


Basco play at Victoria Hall, Settle (22nd); Conwy Folk Club (23rd); Bury Met (25th); Celtic Connections, Glasgow (26th); The Atkinson, Southport (27th); Hepworth Live (28th). bascoband.com


A Making Tracks tour with


Derek Gripper and Paolo Angeli – Solo Guitars Like Never Before – comes to mac Birmingham (2nd Feb); Pontio, Bangor (3rd); The Apex, Bury St Edmunds (5th); The Lantern, Colston Hall, Bristol (7th); University of Sheffield (8th); Cambridge The Junction (9th); Rich Mix, London (12th); The Stables, Milton Keynes (13th); Sage Gateshead (15th); NCEM, York (16th). makingtrackslive.org.uk


Sarah Jarosz tours in support of her recent album Undercurrent: find her at Celtic Connections, City Halls, Glasgow


Leveret have early 2017 dates at Celtic Connections, Glasgow (21st Jan); Bury Met (17th Feb). leveretband.com


Martin Carthy has New Year solo dates at Kitchen Garden Café, Birmingham (10th Jan); Black Swan Folk Club, York (11th & 12th); Rushpool Hall, Saltburn-By- The-Sea (13th); Norwich Arts Centre (17th); The Old Cinema Launderette, Durham (20th); Band On The Wall, Manchester (21st); St Boswell’s Village Hall (22nd); Hoy At Anchor, Westcliff-On-Sea (31st); Winchester Science Centre (4th Feb); Gordano Folk Club, Bristol (11th); Quay Arts Centre, Newport (12th) and with Eliza Carthy at Baltoppen Live, Hovedstaden, Denmark (24th); Tradfest, Dublin (27th); Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny (28th). alanbearmanmusic.co.uk


Martin Carthy & John


Kirkpatrick play duo dates at House Concert, Edinburgh (22nd Feb); Maltings Berwick (23rd); Reeth Memorial Hall, Richmond (24th); Alive Conference Centre, Lincoln (25th); Colchester Folk Club (27th); Komedia, Brighton (28th) and into March. johnkirkpatrick.co.uk


Martin Simpson has gigs at


New Vic Theatre, Newcastle Under Lyme (11th Jan); John Peel Centre For Creative Arts, Stowmarket (26th); The Lights, Andover (28th); Upstairs At The White Horse, Ballincollig (9th Feb); The Hot Spot Music Club, Greystones, Ireland (10th); St Patricks Gateway Centre, Waterford (11th); The Cove Bar, Waterford (12th); The Mill Arts Centre, Banbury (16th); West End Club, Barry (17th). martinsimpson.com


Tuulikki Bartosik & Hannah James


RANT have dates at Celtic Connections, Glasgow (21st Jan); Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Perthshire (24th); Traverse Theatre Edinburgh (27th). rantfiddles.com


Canadian singer-songwriter Stephen Fearing will be back in the UK in February touring to promote his ninth solo CD Every Soul’s A Sailor, released in January. Dates include: Edinburgh Folk Club, Summerhall (8th Feb); West Kirby Arts Centre (10th); Hopedale Music, Alstonefield Village Hall (11th); Garstang Unplugged, Kenlis Arms (16th); Mission Hall, Sutton Poyntz, Weymouth (17th); David Hall Arts Centre, South Petherton (18th); Elmslie House Venue & Gallery, Great Malvern (19th); The Met Studio, Stafford Gatehouse Theatre (20th); Green Note, Camden Town, London (21st) full tour details stephenfearing.com


Martha Wainwright’s


Goodnight City tour comes to Apex, Bury St Edmunds (24th Jan); St George’s Bristol (25th); Tramshed Cardiff (26th); City Varieties, Leeds (27th); 02 Ritz, Manchester (28th); Birmingham Town Hall (30th); Salisbury City Hall (1st Feb).


marthawainwright.com Tuulikki Bartosik & Hannah


James appear at Folk on Monday, Green Note, Camden Town, London (9th Jan); Unicorn Theatre, Abingdon (12th); Elmslie House Venue & Gallery, Great Malvern (13th); Silver Street Sessions, Cotleigh Brewery, Wiveliscombe (14th). tuulikkibartosik.com


Bryony Griffith, Jim


Causley, Jackie Oates and Paul Sartin come together to present a concert of songs celebrating the reissue of song books Marrowbones (EFDSS 2006) and The Wanton Seed (2015) and marking the launch of the new omnibus edition of The Foggy Dew and The Constant Lovers, published by Francis Boutle Publishers. This concludes a decade of work to revise and update the original, influential series of the 60s and 70s edited by the late Frank Purslow who selected songs from the early manuscript collections of The Hammond brothers and Dr George Gardiner, which are among the most important nineteenth-century collections of


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