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Concert Hall (29th); Birmingham Symphony Hall (30th) and into June.
www.bonnieraitt.com
Emily Portman & The
Coracle Band with Sam Sweeney, MG Boulter and Toby Kearney headline a night at Imagined Isle, THSH, Birmingham along with The Furrow Collective, Alasdair Roberts and Rachel Newton (13th May); and then the band go on to play Turner Sims, University Of Southampton, Highfield Road (14th). The Emily Portman Trio have spring dates at De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill On Sea (29th Apr); Big Session At Buxton, Pavilion Arts Centre (1st May); Square Chapel Centre , Square Road, Halifax (4th); The Mill Arts Centre, Spiceball Park, Banbury (5th); The David Hall, Roundwell Street, South Petherton (6th).
www.emilyportman.co.uk
Fairport Convention start warming up for their annual festival with a thirty-one-date spring tour throughout May and early June: 1865 Venue, Southampton (6th May); Corn Exchange, Stamford (7th); Folk On The Pier, Cromer (8th); Huntingdon Hall, Worcester (10th); Philharmonic Music Room, Liverpool (11th); Library Theatre, Darwen (12th); Unity Works, Wakefield (13th); Masham Town Hall (14th); Lion Quays, Oswestry (15th); Royal & Derngate, Northampton (17th); Memorial Hall, Sheffield (18th); Foxhole Arts, Leek (19th); Robin 2, Wolverhampton (20th); Cheese & Grain, Frome (21st); All Saints Centre, Lewes (22nd); Nettlebed Folk Song Club (23rd); The Watermark, Ivybridge (25th); Regal Theatre, Redruth (26th); The Convent, Stroud (27th); How The Light Gets In Festival, Hay on Wye (28th); Albany Theatre, Coventry (29th); The Theatre, Chipping Norton (31st).
www.fairportconvention.com
Lynched play at Cafe Oto, London (30th April/1st May); Orkney Folk Festival (27th – 29th); Hug & Pint Glasgow (31st).
lynchedmusic.com
Sam Lee & Friends have May dates at Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival, Belfast (5th); Market Place, Armagh (6th); Down Arts Centre, Downpatrick (7th); Whitstable Sessions (13th); Ropetackle Arts Centre, Shoreham
John McCusker
(15th); Wood Festival, Oxfordshire (22nd); Dumfries Arts Festival (27th); Hay Festival, Hay on Wye (31st).
samleesong.co.uk/
Martin & Eliza Carthy have spring tour dates at Cornerstone, Station Road, Didcot (13th May); Dart Music Festival, The Flavel, Dartmouth (14th); Exeter Phoenix, Bradninch Place, Gandy Street, Exeter (15th); Rhos-Y-Gilwen, Rhoshill, Cardigan (19th); Pontardawe Arts Centre Herbert Street (20th); Calstock Arts, The Old Chapel, Sand Lane, Calstock (21st); Wiltshire Music Centre, Ashley Rd, Bradford On Avon (22nd); The Goose Is Out! The Ivy House, Stuart Road, Nunhead, London (27th); Scarborough Fair, Lebberston (28th); St David’s Hall, The Hayes, Cardiff (31st).
Peatbog Faeries have forthcoming dates at Montrose Town Hall, Panmure Place (16th April); Victoria Hall, Victoria Road, Saltaire (15th); Waterside Arts Centre, Waterside Plaza, Sale (16th); Gulbenkian, University Of Kent, Canterbury (17th); Stamford Arts Centre, St Mary's St (18th); Worcester Live, Huntingdon Hall, Crowngate (19th); Eden Court Theatre, Bishops Road, Inverness (21st); Keswick Mountain Festival, Lakeside, Keswick (20th); Stonehaven Town Hall, Allardice (28th).
www.peatbogfaeries.com
Last issue’s cover stars The Rheingans Sisters play at The Folk House, Bristol (17th April); House Concert, Hereford (18th); The Cross Keys, Oswestry (20th); The Atkinson, Southport (21st); Shap Fell Bothy, Penrith (22nd); The Golden Fleece, Thirsk (23rd); The Cumberland Arms, Newcastle (24th); House Concert, Kings Langley (28th); The Campfire Club, London (29th); The Elephant And Castle, Lewes (30th); Samovar Tea House, Ely (3rd May); Ashby Parva Village Hall (4th); The Globe, Glossop (5th); Edibles, Marsden (7th).
www.rheinganssisters.co.uk
Josienne Clarke & Ben
Walker, who have recently have signed to Rough Trade, have spring dates at Wath Festival, Wath Upon Dearne (29th April); Bristol Folk Festival (1st May); Holmfirth Festival of Folk (6th); Acapela Studio, Cardiff (7th); Hitchin Folk Festival (8th); Stafford Gatehouse Theatre (9th); Ukranian Centre, Doncaster (13th); Imagines
Eliza & Martin Carthy
Isle, Birmingham Town Hall (15th); The Green Note, London (16th); Stapleford Granary, Cambridge (17th); Ramsbottom Cricket Club (18th); The Citadel, St Helens (20th); Kingskerswell Parish Church, Newton Abbot (22nd); The Willows Folk Club, Preston (25th); The Black Swan Folk Club, York (26th); Chester Folk Festival (28th).
josienneclarkeandbenwalker.co.uk
Chris Wood has May dates at Cogges Manor Farm, Church Lane, Witney (6th); The Heeley Institute, Gleadless Rd, Sheffield (7th); Kitchen Garden Café, York Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham (8th); The Junction, Clifton Way, Cambridge (11th); RNCM, Oxford Road, Manchester (12th); The Guildhall Theatre, Market Place, Derby (13th); The Coliseum, Victoria Place, Whitby (14th); Sage Gateshead, St Mary's Square (15th); Folk House, Bristol (20th); The Tolmen Centre, Fore Street, Constantine, Falmouth (21st); Topsham Folk Club, Matthews Hall, Fore Street (22nd); Chesham Folk Club, The White Hill Centre (23rd).
chriswoodmusic.co.uk
Sam Carter Trio’s How The
City Sings album tour heads to Kingskerswell Parish Church (6th May); Ashcroft Arts Centre (7th); Colchester Arts Centre (9th); Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury (11th); Gala Theatre, Durham (13th); West End Centre, Aldershot (19th); The Talbot Theatre, Whitchurch (21st).
www.samcartermusic.co.uk
Cara Dillon has dates at Arts Theatre In The Edge, Bath (12th
The Rheingans Sisters
May); Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal (13th); The Witham, Barnard Castle (14th); The Grand, Clitheroe (15th).
www.caradillon.co.uk
John McCusker continues his 25th Anniversary Tour with Andy Cutting, Adam Holmes, Innes White and Toby Shaer at Lincoln Drill Hall (1st May); NCEM, York (3rd); The Music Room, Liverpool Philharmonic (4th); Victoria Hall, Saltaire (5th); Brewery Arts, Kendal (6th); Tolbooth, Stirling (7th); Paisley Arts Centre (9th); Birnam Arts (10th).
www.johnmccusker.co.uk
RANT have May dates at
Kings Place, York Way, London N1 (12th); Ruskin Mill, Old Bristol Road, Nailsworth, Stroud (13th); Helmsley Arts Centre, The Old Meeting House (14th); Norden Farm Centre For The Arts, Altwood Road, Maidenhead (19th); Junction, Paradise Place, Goole (20th); Hexham Gathering, Queen's Hall Arts Centre, Beaumont Street (21st); Shepley Spring Festival (22nd).
rantfiddles.com
Show Of Hands’ Steve Knightley and Phil Beer will be back on the road as a duo this spring – for the first time since 2011 – with dates at Theatre on the Hill, Marlborough (16th April); Firth Hall, Sheffield (20th); Gala Theatre, Durham (21st); Victoria Hall, Saltaire (22nd); Northampton High School Theatre,
Hardingstone (23rd); Dorchester Corn Exchange, Dorset (27th); Octagon Theatre, Yeovil (28th); Theatre Royal, Winchester (29th);
Photo: © Judith Burrows
Photo: © Judith Burrows
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