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The first edition of FLEE magazine –- a 16-page silkscreen- printed journal with articles in English and French, with a limited edition 12” vinyl 6-track album – is all about the benga music of Kenya. It’s available digitally too.
fleeproject.com
The North American Folk Alliance presented their "International" Folk Music Awards at their February conference in Kansas City. Album Of The Year: Freedom Highway Rhiannon Giddens; Song Of The Year: You Didn’t Call My Name Molly Tuttle; Artist Of The Year: Ordinary Elephant; Spirit Of Folk Awards: Kristian Blak, Richard Gillmann, Martyn Joseph, Anaïs Mitchell, Betsy Siggins; The People’s Voice Award: Bonnie Raitt; The Clearwater Award: Winnipeg Folk Festival; Folk DJ Hall Of Fame Inductees: Dick Pleasants, Fiona Ritchie, Mary Cliff; Lifetime Achievement Awards – Peter, Paul and Mary (Living), Richie Havens (Legacy), Elektra Records (Business/Academic)
Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening Suddenly it’s Northumbrian gothfolk supergroup
mania! Kathryn Tickell has unveiled her new band The Darkening – herself on Northumbrian smallpipes and fiddle, Cormac Byrne (percussion), Joe Truswell (drums, programming), Kate Young (fiddle, vocals), Amy Thatcher (accordeon, vocals) and Kieran Szifris (octave mandolin). They’ve got May dates coming up at Norfolk & Norwich Festival (21st), The Stoller Hall, Manchester (23rd) and Bath Festival (24th), followed by summer festivals.
“Musicians from Northumberland, Scotland, Ireland and England invoke the dark, powerful, shamanic sounds of Ancient Northumbria and broadcast them to the modern world,” says the press release, continuing “Their inspiration comes from the wild, dramatic, weather-bitten countryside along
to his last documentary work in the early 1990s, the programme will present seminal artists and performances alongside obscure, unidentified, and previously unheard singers and players drawn from throughout the Lomax collections, from around America and the world. It is produced and hosted by Nathan Salsburg, curator of the Alan
Hadrian’s Wall, which seems so quintessentially Northumbrian…and yet, almost 2000 years ago that same landscape was inhabited by people from around the world, worshipping different gods and following different customs.”
Meanwhile, there have been rumours for several
years of – and just a handful of appearances by – Steve Malley’s project called Dark Northumbrian, featuring Alasdair Roberts, Lucy Farrell, Barnaby Stradling, Mary Hampton, Cath & Phil Tyler, Seth Bennett and Aby Vulliamy, which Lucy’s web site describes as “True soul music evoking the unique lives of the Northumbrians – their celebration and their struggle. Voices are used as instruments of melody, emotion and history joined in communality, evocative of the times the songs are drawn from…”
Lomax Archive at the Association for Cultural Equity, the non-profit research centre and advocacy organisation that Lomax founded in 1983.
culturalequity.org/podcast
The final of the New Roots’ young musicians competition will take place at Trestle Arts Base in St Albans on 8th April, with judges Emily Askew, Jamie Roberts, Andy Stafford and
Rhiannon Giddens – Folk Alliance Album Of The Year
Valmai Goodyst at the helm.
new-roots.org.uk
The Golden Thread Project is a ‘various artists’ celebration of folk songs that have a UK root and found a place in the USA musical tradition. The exhibition runs from 14th March to 29th July at Cecil Sharp House, Regent’s Park Road, London NW1.
Ensemble Eriu – the right answer!
Following last issue’s listing of the nominees in our neck of the music, Grammy awards went to Aimee Mann Mental Illness (Best Folk Album); Ladysmith Black Mambazo Shaka Zulu Revisited (Best World Music Album); and The Rolling Stones Blue & Lonesome (Best Traditional Blues Album). So there you jolly well are then!
We had lots of entries to our
competition in the Jan/Feb issue to win all 100 CDs we playlisted in 2017. The winner was Glynis Llewelyn of Newport, Pembrokeshire who was one of those who answered everything correctly, including the trick question! And those answers: 1) 2 CDs by one band – Ensemble Eriu (she also noted that there were 2 CDs featuring another band, Kronos Quartet, which many entries went for incorrectly, technically!). 2) A CD by an artist from Burkina Faso – Massa Dembele. 3) 2 CDs by bands including Andy Cutting – Topette!! and Leveret (yes, he was also a session musician on others, but that’s not what we asked!). 4) 2 CDs by Turkish artists – Baba Zula and Ulas Ozdemir. 5) A CD by a band from Estonia –
Trad.Attack!Well done!
Photo: © Judith Burrows
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