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us back to basics here. We still think of R’n’B as Bo Diddley round these parts! theamauk.org

London Remixed Festival takes place at Shoreditch's Rich Mix on 3rd & 4th Feb, featuring headline Afriquoi, Elephant Sessions and DJ sets from the creators of Beating Heart. londonremixedfestival.com

Cambridge Folk Festival

presents City Roots from Feb 3rd – 11th, a new city-wide folk and roots festival featuring Salif Keita, Transatlantic Sessions (with Aly Bain and Jerry Douglas joined by John Paul White, Tift Merritt, Eddi Reader, Dirk Powell and Jim Lauderdale and a house band featuring John Doyle, Danny Thompson, Michael McGoldrick and John McCusker), Jim Moray, Paolo Angelli & Derek Gripper, Amy Wadge & Luke Jackson, Mad Dog McRea and more. cambridgelivetrust.co.uk

Costa Del…? Now if you really want to go on a warm winter holiday with some great roots music, try the admirable Sauti za Busara which runs from 9th – 12th February in Stone Town, Zanzibar with guests including Freshlyground, Rocky Dawuni, Yamoto Band, Sarabi, Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band, Simba & Milton Gulli, Jagwa Music, Bob Maghreb, Karyna Gomes, Sami Dan & Zewd Band, Chibite Zawose Family, Rajab Suleiman & Kithara, Wahapahapa Band, Buganda Music Ensemble, Batimbo Percussion Magique, Kyekyeku, Grace Barbe, Roland Tchakounté, Imena Cultural Troupe, Isau Meneses, Jessica Mbangeni, Sahra Halgan Trio, Tausi Women's Taarab, CAC Fusion, Ze Spirits Band, Loryzine, Madalitso Band, Mswanu Gogo Vibes, G Clef Taarab Orchestra, Afrijam Band, Cocodo African Music Band, Kiumbizi, Usambara Sanaa Group, Mcharuko Band, Taarab - Kidumbak Group and more. busaramusic.org

Love Folk Festival returns

from 10th – 11th February 2017 at The Atkinson, Southport with guests including Fairport Convention, Jon Boden, Luke Jackson, Folklaw, Sam Kelly & The Lost Boys and Lady Maisery. theatkinson.co.uk

9Bach – touring

The 29th Folk Alliance International Conference will be held from 15th – 19th February at the Westin Hotel Crown Center in Kansas City, Missouri, USA featuring the world’s largest conference for the folk music industry, annual winter Music Camp, International Awards Show, and the Kansas City Folk Festival. The keynote presentation comes from Billy Bragg. Official Showcase artists include Aindrias de Staic, Ana Egge & The Sentimentals, Bella Hardy, Ben Caplan, Blair Dunlop, Doolin', Élage Diouf, Eliza Gilkyson, Fraser Anderson, Fru Skagerrak, Gjermund Larsen Trio, Gordie MacKeeman & His Rhythm Boys, IsKwé, John McCutcheon, Kobo Town, La Banda Morisca, Laura Cortese & The Dance Cards, Lindsay Lou & The Flatbellys, Luke Daniels, Luke Jackson, Mari Black Celtic Band, Maria Dunn, Masters of Hawaiian Music, Molsky's Mountain Drifters, Rachel Sermanni, Ramy Essam, Robbie Fulks, Sam Kelly, Sara Watkins, Si Kahn, Sondorgo, Sousou & Maher Cissoko, Spiro, Ten Strings And A Goat Skin, The Changing Room, The Once, The Railsplitters, Tish Hinojosa, Vishtèn and more. folk.org

The Packie Manus Byrne

Centenary Weekend at Nesbitt Arms Hotel, Ardara, Co Donegal (17th – 19th February 2017) sees friends and family join for a weekend of music, song and storytelling to celebrate his life and musical legacy. Tel: 00353 (0)872 941 406;

ireland@folkmusic.net

Stage4Beverley, a winter celebration of music & the arts in Beverley, runs from 17th – 19th February, launched by two founder members of the long- running Beverley Folk Festival, Chris Wade and Ray Williams, along with local journalist Roy Woodcock and Simon Bedwell, Productions Manager at Beverley’s East Riding Theatre, where the major concerts will be held. On the bill: Dougie MacLean, Coope, Boyes & Simpson, John Hegley, Tcha Limberger Trio and Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar. stage4beverley.com

Shirley Collins – Lodestar live! TOURS

Album Of The Year winner Shirley Collins presents Lodestar live at Celtic Connections (4th Feb); Colston Hall, Bristol (11th) and Barbican Hall, London (18th). shirleycollins.co.uk

Salif Keita plays at Barbican, London (10th Feb); Corn Exchange (part of City Roots), Cambridge (11th). serious.org.uk/salifkeita

This issue’s cover person Alasdair Roberts Trio plays Feb dates as part of Pangs album launch at Café Oto, London (23rd Feb); South Street Arts Centre, Reading (24th); Ropery Hall, Barton Upon Humber (25th); Colchester Arts Centre (26th), and into March.

9Bach have February tour dates at Kings Place, London (10th); West End Centre, Aldershot (11th); Folk House, Bristol (12th); Prince Albert, Stroud (13th). 9bach.com

Jim Moray brings Upcetera (with strings, woodwind and full electric band) to The Witham, Barnard Castle (20th Jan); Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry 21st); The Phoenix, Exeter (22nd); Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool (27th); The Courtyard Theatre, London (3rd Feb); The Junction, Cambridge (5th). jimmoray.co.uk

Shake The Chains – a touring commission of new and classic protest songs featuring Nancy

Jim Moray’s large ensemble

Kerr, Findlay Napier, Hannah Martin, Greg Russell & Tim Yates – heads to St George’s Hall, Bristol with special guest Steve Knightley (23rd Feb); Firth Hall, Sheffield with special guest Martin Simpson (24th); Snape Maltings, Suffolk (25th); Guildhall, Derby with special guest Boff Whalley (26th); St John On Bethnal Green, London with special guest Peggy Seeger (27th). Shake The Chains will also perform exclusively at Folk by the Oak in July 2017, with a live album scheduled for release in September 2017. shakethechains.com

The Furrow Collective head out on the second leg of their Wild Hog album tour with dates at Normafest, Scarborough (6th Jan); Etal Village Hall, Cornhill-On- Tweed (11th Feb); mac, Birmingham (12th); The

Slaughtered Lamb, London (16th); Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh (20th); Perth Concert Hall (22nd). thefurrowcollective.co.uk

Ewan McLennan & George

Monbiot’s Breaking The Spell Of Loneliness show comes to North Wall Arts Centre, Oxford (13th Jan); Eden Court, Inverness (2nd Feb); Celtic Connections, Glasgow (3rd); The Reid Concert Hall, Edinburgh (4th); The Blue Lamp, Aberdeen (5th); mac, Birmingham (8th); Aberystwyth Arts Centre (11th). ewanmclennan.co.uk

Lisa Knapp, Sam Lee & Nathaniel Mann collaborate on a reinvention of a collection of British broadsides in Broadside Ballads which heads to Holywell

Photo: Eva Vermandel

Photo: Ian Anderson

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