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Rooting About
WHAT’S HAPPENING News Edited by Sarah Coxson
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FESTIVALS & EVENTS
The Nest Collective celebrate their 10th Anniversary on 23rd April with the UnampliFire Festival at Master Shipwright’s Palace, Deptford with Tom Paley, Lisa Knapp, Bella Hardy, Emily Barker, Arthur Jeffes' Sundog, Stick In The Wheel, Firefly Burning, Olivia Chaney, Thomas McCarthy, Mann Castell, Brothers Gillespie, Count Drachma, Osp, Effra, FLUX, Buriers, Nessi Gomes, Theo Bard, Orlando Seal, Teyr, Tim Cumming and more.
www.thenestcollective.co.uk
The Big Session at Buxton Opera House & Pavilion Arts Centre runs from 29th April to 1st May with hosts Oysterband plus
Olivia Chaney – UnampliFire
Seth Lakeman, June Tabor, Sam Carter, Edward II, Emily Portman Trio, Gren Bartley, Will Pound & Eddy Jay, Lucy Ward and more.
buxtonoperahouse.org.uk
Poppleton Live Festival, Nether Poppleton, nr York runs from 29th April to 8th May with guests including Les Barker, Lindisfarne Story Band, Mean Mary, The Revelator Band and more.
www.poppletonlive.co.uk
Bristol Folk Festival runs on 30th April and 1st May with 9Bach, Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker, Gigspanner, Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin, TRADarrr, The Gerry Colvin Band, Moore Moss Rutter,
Lukas Drinkwater & Tobias Ben Jacobs, Ange Hardy, Gadarene, India Electric Co, Said The Maiden, Sam Kelly Trio, The Changing Room, Threepenny Bit, Kirsty Bromley and more.
bristolfolkfestival.co.uk
Jazz Sous Les Pommiers (30th
April – 7th May) in Coutances, Manche, France has guest appearances from Nguyên Lê, Taj Mahal, Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band, Leyla McCalla Trio, Raphaël Imbert & Pascal Danae, Haïdouti Orkestar, Baraji & Nguyên, Mbongwana Star, Romengo & Mónika Lakatos, Chico Trujillo, Eric Bibb & Habib Koité, Ray Lema, Tiganá Santana, Bojan Z & Julien Lourau and more.
www.jazzsouslespommiers.com
Summer is icumen in: a
variety of crack of dawn May Day events take place including: Jack- In-The-Green Awakening Ceremony, Bluebell Hill, Kent; Oxford Jack-in-the-Green; Deptford Jack-in-the-Green, Clun Green Man Festival, Clun, Shropshire as well as Padstow’s Obby 'Oss Day on 2nd and a weekend of festivities at Hastings Traditional Jack-in-the-Green Festival (29th April – 2nd May.) thecompanyofthegreenman.
wordpress.com/annual-events/
Hastings Folk Festival follows on immediately from 3rd – 8th May with Show Of Hands, Peter Knight’s Gigspanner, Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin and more.
hastingsfolkfest.org
Womad Caceres, Spain takes
place at Gran Teatro de Cáceres from 5th – 8th May.
www.womad.org
Moniaive Folk Festival runs
from 5th – 8th May with guest appearances from Paul McKenna Band, Martin Simpson, Northern Harmony, Talisk, Cairn Chorus and more.
www.moniaivefolkfestival.co.uk
Cork Fleadh takes place in Charleville, Co Cork from 5th – 8th May with Sharon Shannon, The Shandrum Céilí Band and more.
corkfleadh.ie
Taj Mahal – Jazz Sous Les Pommiers
Trinity Folk Festival at St Mary's Church, Star Inn and Boileroom, Guildford (6th & 7th May) features James Yorkston, Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar, Luke Jackson Trio, Ninebarrow, Talisk, Long Lankin, Kelly Oliver, Mad Magdalen, Andy Butler and more.
www.trinityfolkfestival.co.uk
Big Whistle Festival takes place at Elizabethan Suite, Town Hall, Knowsley Street, Bury (6th & 7th May) with Flook, Brian Finnegan, Barluath, Ross Ainslie & Ali Hutton, Treacherous Orchestra, The Hut People and Roisin Ban. 0161 761 2216
www.themet.biz/bigwhistle
Cromer’s Folk On The Pier
(6th – 8th May) features Fairport Convention, Ashley Hutchings with Ruth Angell, Demon Barber XL Roadshow, Nancy Kerr & The Sweet Visitor Band, Urban Folk Quartet, Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin, Calan, Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar, Jigantics, Fred Guichen, Sylvain Barou & Erwan Moal, Richard Digance, Steve Tilston, Blair Dunlop, Peter Knight’s Gigspanner, Spikedrivers and more.
folkonthepier.co.uk
Holmfirth Folk Festival (6th – 8th May) has guests including New Model Army, Los Pacaminos, Kate Rusby, Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker, Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar, Bob Fox plus support from Janet Russell, Flossie Malavialle, Common Ground, Ben Robertson and more.
www.holmfirthfestivaloffolk.co.uk
Oysterband – the Big Session rides again
Photo: © Judith Burrows
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