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Across The Amerikee (Smithsonian Folkways); Marry Waterson & David A Jaycock Death Had Quicker Wings Than Love (One Little Indian); Willie Watson Folksinger Vol. 2 (Acony Records); The Weather Station The Weather Station (Paradise of Bachelors); Kevin Wright, Olga Bystram, “Buffalo Phil” Taylor Blues For Jenny Pope... And Other Songs (OMPOK); Michael Wright Sleeping Pedlar (Inch); The Young‘uns Strangers (Hereteu); Msafiri Zawose Uhamiaji (Soundway); Zazou Bikaye Cy1 Noir et Blanc (Crammed Discs); Benjamin Zephaniah Revolutionary Minds (Fane Phonics).
Cambridge and Newport Folk Festivals will form a transatlantic partnership. Cambridge Folk Festival Managing Director Steve Bagnall commented: ‘Cambridge Folk Festival has always tested the boundaries of folk with its programme and we are excited to be working with and learning from a festival that has the artistic heritage and ambition of Newport. Twinning with Newport will allow both festivals to explore unique and extraordinary artistic opportunities that will excite audiences on both sides of the Atlantic.’ Next year’s Guest Artistic Curator at Cambridge will be Rhiannon Giddens.
www.cambridgefolkfestival.co.uk
MISC.
We were sorry to hear of the recent deaths of Malagasy kabosy virtuoso Jean Émilien on 5th April, aged 54; Bangladeshi musicologist Karunamoy Goswami on 30th June, aged 75; Italian blues guitarist Rudy Rotta on 3rd July, aged 66; South African guitarist Ray Phiri on 12th July, aged 70; Malagasy accordeonist Regis Gizavo on 16th July, aged 58; Karnatic violinist Komanduri Krishnamachari on 22nd July, aged 81; Australia’s Dr G Yunipingu, aka Gurrumul on 26th July, aged 46; the man they called ‘the Cajun Hank Williams’, DL Menard on 27th July, aged 85; fingerstyle guitarist Nick Dellar on 28th July; Hindustani dhrupad maestro H. Sayeeduddin Dagar on 30th July, aged 78; pioneering UK flat-pick guitarist Malcolm Price on 9th August; blues researcher and writer Paul Oliver on 15th August, aged 90; Scottish sound engineer Jon Scullard on 21st August; Latin music (and much more) writer Sue Steward on 23rd August, aged 70; bluegrass activist (Bluegrass Unlimited, IBMA) Pete Kuykendall, on 24th August, aged 79; 3 Mustaphas 3/Juju percussionist Salah Dawson Miller (a.k.a. Isfa’ani Mustapha), also on 24th August, aged 66, and 1960s singer/songwriter Mick Softley on 1st Sept, aged 76.
Sue Steward
This year’s winners and their musicians at the annual John Gasson Jig Competition at Sidmouth Folk Week were Will Marshall with Jim Sawyer (solo jig); Will Marshall and Kynan Harper Roth with Jerry West (double jig); Ben Moss with Hazel Askew (Audience Appeal); Chris Rudd with Bryony Leech (Over 40) and Nathaniel Diamond Jones with Michael Vitale (Best New Entrant).
Also at Sidmouth, the winner
of the Aardman Award for Best Beast at the 2nd annual Sidmouth Horse Trials was Gus The Galloper, created by Alex Merry and operated by Katherine Jones. Other rosette winners from an amazing field of 24 entries were The Salmon Of Knowledge, Sunny, Black Beauty and Rat Ass with Hawk Eye. We’re not making this up!
The rest of this issue’s news is brought to you courtesy of the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS). They have launched the Musicians In Museums scheme, a project to explore and celebrate the collections at three national museums and bring them to life through traditional music. Applications have been submitted for two-month residencies at the National Coal Mining Museum for England near Wakefield in West Yorkshire, the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London, and the Museum of English Rural Life in Reading, Berkshire.
EFDSS have made four awards under their 2017 Creative Bursary scheme and three through their Creative Seed Funding programme. Both initiatives are
Salah Dawson Miller Peter Lord and Aardman Award winner Gus The Galloper at Sidmouth.
funded through the PRS for Music Foundation Talent Development Partner scheme and come under the umbrella of EFDSS’ Artists’ Development Programme, which provides professional development support, both creative and business, to artists at all levels of their career.
Creative Bursary Awards have
been made to: Alex Vann (Spiro) to create an instrumental concert trio using traditional English tunes as the basis for improvisation where each performance is one piece of improvised music using traditional tunes as the cornerstones; Tom Moore & Archie Churchill-Moss (Moore Moss Rutter) to develop and produce an album of new art music based compositions and devised improvisations with their roots in local English folk tune traditions; Alma (John Dipper, Emily Askew & Adrian Lever) and Nick Hennessey to devise a new multimedia experience including lighting, data projectors and other technology to enhance the performance and build bridges between inherited traditions and modern media experiences; fiddler Rowan Piggott to explore traditional and contemporary folk songs highlighting the decline and environmental threats to our native honeybee and bumblebees.
The Creative Seed Funding awards have been made to: Emily Mae Winters to research, record and tour new songs dealing with modern socio-political issues including the movement of people, feminism, fake news,
Paul Oliver
global warming, war and social media; Heg Brignall (Heg & The Wolf Chorus) to research new material based on modern-day myths or myths and legends that have found their way back into our culture, leading to a single/EP release and finished studio album in 2018; India Electric Company to research, write, record and release the second in a series of releases for 2017 with the theme of country and the city on a six- track EP/album.
www.efdss.org
Arts and music supremo Alan
Davey CBE, currently Controller of BBC Radio 3 and previously Chief Executive of the Arts Council, has taken up a voluntary three-year post on the board of trustees at the EFDSS.
And EFDSS, finally, a new
exhibition, Kissing The Shuttle by Caitlin Hinshelwood runs from 27th September to 28th January at Cecil Sharp House, London NW1. It features large-scale textile banners created in response to research from the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, the Working Class Movement Library in Salford and the People's History Museum in Manchester. The work explores qualities of protest and resistance inherent in industrial and working song and union and protest banners. It draws on the folk practices, forms of communication and community identity and camaraderie that were
intrinsically tied to work and the workplace; taking into account the creative role of women in song and folklore practices.
DL Menard
Photo: Carmen Hunt
Photo: Alexander Brattell
Photo: © Judith Burrows
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