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Rooting About
WHAT’S HAPPENING News Edited by Sarah Coxson
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FESTIVALS & EVENTS
The WOMEX caravan makes a welcome return to these shores, with the first ever event to hosted in Wales. It hits Cardiff from 23rd – 27th October at Motorpoint Arena for the daytime activities (including Conference, Films and Daycases) and Wales Millennium Centre for night-time events (including the Showcase Festival). WOMEX 13 Cardiff is hosted by Cerdd Cymru: Music Wales, a partnership between Arts Council of Wales/ Wales Arts International and Welsh Music Foundation. As well as the plethora of panels, trade stands, discussions and networking events, the official showcases include Amira, April Verch Band, Ayşenur Kolivar,
Aysenur Kolivar –Womex
Cumbia All Stars, Debademba, Ebo Taylor, Emily Portman Trio, Ensemble Al-Kindi, Fanfara Tirana meets Transglobal Underground, Fanfaraï, Filastine & Nova, Flamenco Eléctrico, Ganesh-Kumaresh, Ghazalaw, Grupo Bongar, Guillaume Perret & The Electric Epic, Horomona Horo / Waiora, Jambinai, Lau, Les Tambours de Brazza, Ljova & The
Kontraband, Lo Griyo, Navarra, Orquestra Contemporânea de Olinda, Radik Tülüsh, Rascasuelos, Shangaan Electro, Sidi Touré, Stelios Petrakis Quartet, Teta, Vojasa, Winston McAnuff & Fixi as well as some more local talent from the UK and
Ireland as part of the line-up on the Horizons Stage: 9Bach, Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita, Family Atlantica, Fiona Hunter, Georgia Ruth, KAN, Lokkhi Terra, Ross Ainslie & Jarlath Henderson andWe Banjo 3. The opening concert is also a celebration of Welsh culture with Cass Meurig, Gwenan Gibbard, Sian James, Dwy Delyn Deires (Robin Huw Bowen a Rhian Bebb), DnA (Delyth Jenkins & Angharad Jenkins), Ghazalaw (Gwyneth Glyn & Tauseef Akhtar), Gwyneth Glyn, Patrick Rimes, Georgia Ruth, Twm Morys, Dawnswyr Bro Taf, Treorchy Male Choir, Choir of Mount Stuart Primary School, Frank Moon, Cerys Matthews, Ballet Cymru and more. This year’s winner of the WOMEX 13 Professional Award will be the Festival au Désert.
www.womex.com
Finishing just three days
before Womex, English Folk Expo is a new international delegate event, running from 17th – 20th October in Bury, akin to Scotland’s Celic Connections, with a focus on the vibrant and rapidly expanding source of folk music talent in the country. The event hopes to provide an effective and previously unavailable route into the English folk, roots and acoustic market. Presented in partnership with Homegrown, the Met’s own festival, there will also be a showcase of export-ready English folk, roots and acoustic music open to the public. Delegates will be given access to all Homegrown festival performances, as well as
additional industry-only showcases and events which will provide opportunities to make links with and form new working relationships with the folk, roots and acoustic music industry in England. Artists featured include: Kate Rusby, Seth Lakeman, Jim Moray, The Full English, Mark Radcliffe, Chris Wood, O’Hooley & Tidow, Martha Tilston, The Urban Folk Quartet, Bella Hardy, Olivia Chaney, Jackie Oates, Sam Carter, Keston Cobblers’ Club,
Lau –Womex & Derby
Bella Hardy, Rachel Dadd, Jim Moray & The Doret Ensemble play Sweet England, Lady Maisery, Jim Causley, Megson, Blackbeard’s Tea Party, Maz O’Connor and a host of rising folk stars. Homegrown performances take place across the stages of The Met in Bury and those of its satellite venues.
www.themet.biz/homegrown or
www.englishfolkexpo.com
Stroud Folk Festival at the Subscription Rooms, Stroud takes place on 21st September with Spiers & Boden, The Young ‘Uns, Martha Tilston & The Scientists, Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar, O’Hooley & Tidow, Johnny Coppin and Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin.
www.seetickets.com
Amongst those on the bill for
Tenterden Folk Festival (3rd – 6th Oct) are: The Claque, Gavin & Julie Atkin, Greg Harper, Chris Davis & Gary Holder, Jim Bainbridge, Na Mara, Paul & Liz Davenport, Pete Castle, Pete Coe, Pete Morton, Sussex Pistols and Martyn Wyndham-Read.
www.tenterdenfolkfestival.org.uk
The seventh Derby Folk
Festival (4th – 6th Oct) has a line- up including The Mighty Doonans, Dervish, Lau, April Verch, Rhiannon Giddens & Leyla McCalla, Tim Edey, Andy Irvine, Nancy Kerr & James Fagan, Sam Sweeney & Hannah James, Melrose Quartet, Tyde, The Young ‘Uns, Cupola: Ward, Vin Garbutt, Luke Jackson, Maz O’Connor, Keith Kendrick & Sylvia Needham, Brian Peters & Jeff David, John Tams will lead the 16-strong Derbyshire Volunteers through a recreation of the album A Map of Derbyshire, released in 1973 by the band Muckram Wakes of which he was an original member. tel: 01332 255800;
www.derbyfolkfestival.co.uk
The 2013 Lewes Folk Festival (8th – 13th Oct) sees a line-up including Andy Irvine,Martyn Wyndham-Read & Iris Bishop, Jeff Davis & Brian Peters, Shirley Collins, The Copper Family, Frankie Armstrong, Leon Rosselson, Lucy Ward, Anwa Teixeira & Brandy Zdan & Cara Luft, Mick Ryan & Pete Harris, Sandra Kerr, The Watch & Caller Nick Walden, Jim Bainbridge, Naomi Bedford &
Photo: Judith Burrows
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