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Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool (5th); Ropetackle Arts Centre, Shoreham-by-Sea (7th); Phoenix, Exeter (12th); Shire Hall, Dorchester (13th); Kings Place, London (15th); Florence Nightingale Hall, Holloway, Matlock (16th); The Place, Bedford (17th) and more t.b.a.
matthewcrampton.com
Ange Hardy has Spring dates at Evesham Arts Centre, Evesham (26th April); Guildhall, Leicester (27th); Artrix, Bromsgrove (11th May); TwickFolk, Twickenham (13th); Fishguard Folk Festival (26th); Wimbourne Minster Folk Festival (9th June); Chapel Arts, Bath (14th); The David Hall, South Petherton (15th).
angehardy.com
Ferocious Dog play at The Sugarmill, Stoke (5th April); St Luke’s, Glasgow (6th); Exeter Phoenix (13th); Electric Palace, Bridport (14th); Bierkellar, Bristol (20th); The Globe, Cardiff (21st); 1865, Southampton (27th); Rock City, Nottingham (28th).
ferociousdog.co.uk
Raphael Callaghan has April tour dates at The Islington London (10th April); EDDA Community Arts, Ainsdale (13th); Honey Bee Blues Club, Sheffield (18th); Blues & Bikes Festival, Caistor (21st); Moon On The Water, Cleethorpes (22nd).
raphaelcallaghan.com
GIGS
Taking to the stage at London’s Royal Albert Hall on 20th June in a concert to honour the 60th anniversary of His
Highness the Aga Khan’s accession to the leadership of the Shia Ismaili Muslims: Master Musicians Of The Aga Khan Music Initiative (Homayoun Sakhi, Wu Man, Sirojiddin Juraev, Basel Rajoub, Saler Nader, Feras Charestan, Andrea Piccioni, Abbos Kosimov) and special guests Kronos Quartet and Bassekou Kouyaté in a performance of newly-created compositions.
serious.org.uk/Jubilee
There are still a few tickets left for an intimate Evening With Joe Boyd at the Green Note, Camden, London on Tuesday 17th
Väsen – Sage Gateshead Gwyneth Glyn – Union Chapel
April. The legendary record producer, activist, White Bicycles author (and much more) will talk about “Folk Rock From Newport to Fairport”, followed by a Q&A.
greennote.co.uk
Catrin Finch & Seckou
Keita, with Gwyneth Glyn, appear at London’s Union Chapel on 12th May.
serious.org.uk
Downend Folk Club, near
Bristol sees future dates with The Rheingans Sisters, Ian A Anderson, Daoiri Farrell, Rosie Hood, Rachael McShane & The Cartographers, Road Not Taken and Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage.
downendfolkclub.co.uk
Calan play at London Welsh Centre, Grays Inn Road on 12th May.
londonwelsh.org
Anvil Arts in Basingstoke have forthcoming dates with Lindisfarne, Tom Paxton & The Donjuans, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Ladysmith Black Mambazo and The Shires.
anvilarts.org.uk
Upcoming Folk On A Monday
gigs in London in the Spring include Green Note dates with Kirsty Law, Kim Lowings & The Greenwood, Dipper Malkin, The Dovetail Trio, Windborne, Emily Mae Winters, Andy May Trio, Rosie Hood & Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne, Hannah James & Claudia Schwab, Kelly Oliver, Trials of Cato, Nancy Kerr, The Bombadils. At The Slaughtered Lamb: The Iona Fyfe Trio, Mairearad and Anna, Ross Couper & Tom Oakes, The Outside Track, Phil ‘Swill’
Odgers with Bobby Valentino, Gilmore & Roberts, Josie Duncan & Pablo Lafuente, Dan Walsh Trio, Estbel and Emily Portman & Rob Harbron. At Water Rats: Moore Moss Rutter. At Heath Street Baptist Church: Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage. And at Rich Mix: Grace Petrie.
Nettlebed Folk Club, High St,
Nettlebed, Nr. Henley on Thames, Oxon has future dates with Peter Knight & John Spiers, Paul Downes & Phil Beer, Feast Of Fiddles, Kris Drever, Aidan O’Rourke & Kit Downes, Jackie Oates Band, Imar, Fairport Convention, Jim Moray, Chris & Kellie While, Tony Christie & Ranagri, Charlie Dore & Megan Henwood, Heidi Talbot & John McCusker.
nettlebedfolkclub.co.uk The Black Swan Folk Club in
York has Thursday club nights with Roisin Ban, Rachel Dawick, Kitty MacFarlane, Rosie Hood & Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne, Hannah James & Claudia Schwab, Nancy Kerr, Clive Gregson and Lucy Ward and concert shows at the Early Music Centre with Ritchie Parrish Ritchie and, at the Crescent, Brooks Williams & Hans Theessink and Lankum. The club will be running its free local festival over the first weekend in June.
blackswanfolkclub.org.uk
Saltaire promoters The Live
Room have forthcoming shows at Caroline Social Club including Michael Chapman, Rachel Baiman, Molly Tuttle, Birds Of Chicago, Katriona Gilmore & Jamie Roberts, John Jones & The Reluctant Ramblers, Heidi Talbot & John McCusker, The Maes and The East Pointers.
theliveroom.info
Coming soon to Barbican,
London, in addition to La Linea April dates: Thurston Moore, Kronos Quartet & Trio Da Kali, Tigran Hamasyan & Nils Petter Molvaer and Laura Cannell. Tel: 0845 120 7550;
barbican.org.uk
Chilli Fried Presents Geoff
Berner and Jeremy Hardy, with The Kosher Nostra DJs (featuring our very own Jamie Renton) on 19th May at Jamboree, Cable Street, London E1.
wegottickets.com/event/430670
Forthcoming Nest Collective
dates in London include Trembling Bells’ Dungeness
Birds Of Chicago – Saltaire
album launch, PicaPica, Duotone, You Are Wolf and Lankum.
thenestcollective.co.uk
Coming soon to the Sage
Gateshead: Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker, Lady Maisery, Tom Paxton & The DonJuans, Väsen, Kris Drever and Joan Baez. Tel: 0191 443 4661;
sagegateshead.com
Susana Baca appears at
Nell’s Jazz and Blues, London W14 on 19th May.
seetickets.com
The Cellar Upstairs Folk Club meets on Saturday nights at the Calthorpe Arms, Grays Inn Road, London WC1 with future guests including Ragged Trousers, The Bailey Sisters, Peta Webb, Ken Hall & Simon Hindley, Proper English, Sandra Kerr, Laura Smyth & Ted Kemp, Jim & Lynette Eldon, Jez Lowe, Anne Lamb, Carol Anderson.
cellarupstairs.org.uk
Lewes Saturday Folk Club has future dates with Nancy Kerr, Martin Carthy, Ian Hayden, Kevin Burke, Maire ni Chathasaigh, Chris Newman and more.
lewessaturdayfolkclub.org
Kings Place, London has future folk and roots dates with Rachel Newton Band, Ross Ainslie & Ali Hutton, Sheesham & Lotus and ‘Son, Mary Gauthier, Imar, Andy Cutting, Rura, John McCusker & Heidi Talbot, Megson, Frigg, Jyotsna Srikanth and more.
kingsplace.co.uk/folk
Artrix Arts Centre,
Bromsgrove has future dates with Emily Smith & Jamie McClennan, Talisk, Eddi Reader, Ange Hardy, Cara Dillon and more. Tel: 01527 577330;
artrix.co.uk
Monthly Folk At The New
Room events at the historic John Wesley Chapel, 36 The Horsefair, Bristol feature Laurel Swift’s new project Travelling With Thomas, Stray Local, Nick Wyke & Becki Driscoll and Daniel & Emma Reid in coming months.
newroombristol.org.uk/folk
The Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room at London’s Southbank Centre re-open in April after a two-year refurbishment, with QEH concerts including Paco Peña and Sam Lee’s Singing With Nightingales. Regular free performances take place every Friday as part of the Friday Lunch
Photo: Sarah Thoren
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