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Omar Souleyman, Wille & The Bandits, Benjamin Francis Leftwich, Ruth Notman & Sam Kelly, Mànran, Daoirí Farrell, CC Smugglers, Coco & The Butterfields, Martha Tilston, Grace Petrie, Idlewild, Kris Drever, Elephant Sessions, Sam Lee’s Singing With Nightingales, Sharon Shannon & Seckou Keita, Irish Mythen, Gordie MacKeeman & His Rhythm Boys, Eddi Reader and more.
Supergroup I’m With Her
(made up of Sara Watkins, Aoife O’Donovan and Sarah Jarosz) have one UK date at Hackney Empire in London on 19th March.
Halifax’s Square Chapel has
gigs with Flossie Malavialle, Tom McConville & Stewart Hardy, The Unthanks, The Houghton Weavers, Cara Dillon, Eddi Reader and more.
At St George’s in Bristol are
events with Olivia Chaney, Kate Stapley, Seth Lakeman, Aly Bain & Phil Cunningham, Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening, Gretchen Peters, The Unthanks, Jim Moray, Thea Gilmore, Tori Freestone Trio and more.
Nettlebed Village Club near Henley-on-Thames has shows coming up with Aly Bain & Phil Cunningham, Feast Of Fiddles, Banter & The Beginnings Of Fairport Convention, Daoirí Farrell, The Shee, Talisk, Fariport Convention, Còig, Chris & Kellie While, The Churchfitters, Jon Boden and Cara Dillon.
At Norden Farm Centre For
The Arts in Maidenhead are Megan Henwood & Findlay Napier’s Story Song Scientists, Belshazzar’s Feast as well as ceilidhs with Nedron’s Jig.
At The Gulbenkian in
Canterbury, Global Music series have events with Sona Jobarteh, members of The Orchestra Of Syrian Musicians, Dobet Gnahore, Omar Sosa & Yilian Cañizares and Tunde Jegede.
Halsway Manor in Somerset has in their spring programme a Percussive Dance Weekend with Hannah James, Nicola Lyons and Jim Molyneux, a European Ensemble Weekend with Paul James, Anne Niepold and Merit Zloch, a weekend exploring the music of North East England with the Andy May Trio, a Melodeon
Oliver Mtukudzi
Workshop with Emmanuel Pariselle and Albion to Appalachia, a weekend of American traditional music with Brian Peters, Sara Grey, Kieron Means, Ben Paley and Kerry Fletcher.
MISC.
We were sorry to hear of the deaths of Edinburgh-based agent and organiser Frank Bechhofer on 10th December, aged 83; original Pigsty Hill Light Orchestra member and later a BBC Bristol personality, John Turner, on 23rd Dec aged 71; Irish singer Tim Lyons on 3rd January; the music writer Dave Laing (co-author of The Electric Muse), on 7th Jan, aged 71; BBC Radio Merseyside folk presenter and club organiser Geoff Speed, around 22nd Jan, aged 76; Palestinian oud master Adel Salameh, on 23rd Jan, aged 53; Zimbabwean guitarist/singer Oliver Mtukudzi, on 23rd Jan aged 66; World Music Network founder (Rough Guides and Riverboat Records) Phil Stanton, on 26th Jan, aged 54; Kenyan nyatiti virtuoso and singer Ayub Ogada, on 1st February aged 64; the US folk activist, founder of New York’s famous Folklore Centre, Israel Goodman ‘Izzy’ Young, on 4th Feb, aged 90; Burmese slide guitar master U Tin on 5th Feb, aged 87; hammered dulcimer king (of Fennig’s All-Star String Band fame) Bill Spence, on 7th Feb, aged 79; folk musician and activist Roger Marriott on Feb 8th; Malian singer Sali Sidibe on Feb 8th, aged 59; and South African singer Dorothy Masuka on Feb 23rd aged 83
All My Life’s Buried Here –
The Story Of George Butterworth is a brand-new feature documentary that tells the remarkable tale of the gifted young composer, folk song collector and dancer cut down in his prime on the Somme in 1916. For years George Butterworth's music has been miscast as 'pastoral' and little more than 'landscape painting in sound', but this film invites us to reappraise all we think we know about the artist and take on board just how radical his music – and his
Phil Stanton
championing of the music of the rural singers – really was in its day. Following a successful premiere in London in January the film is now booking in cinemas across the UK. Visit
georgebutterworth.co.uk
To celebrate Topic Records’ 80th Anniversary, the next 12 months will see the label bring out a flurry of new releases plus deluxe re-issues under the Topic Treasures banner. At the end of May, Topic will release an album of eminent artists from the folk world including Richard Thompson, Martin Simpson, John Smith, Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker and many more, covering tracks they’ve chosen from the vast back catalogue.
In April, Wales celebrates the recent successes of its folk scene with its own brand-new Wales Folk Awards. Winners will be chosen from a long-list nominated by invited folk club and festival organisers and tradition-bearers and enthusiasts across the industry. The awards will be held on April 11th at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff.
Molly Pipe, a recent winner
of the Bromyard Folk Festival competition Future of Young Folk has gone on to be cast as a character in the world’s longest radio drama on BBC Radio 4, The Archers, in the role of Mia Grundy. The Future of Young Folk Award is hosted by the festival every year for singers under 25 – head to their website for information on how to apply.
Paris-Londres: Music Migrations (1962 – 1989) is a new exhibition at Paris’s Musée de l’Histoire de L’Immigration, tracing how migrant music influenced popular trends and political and social movements in the backstreet bars of Camden town and Soho, and the cafes of the Parisian banlieue.
Stolen Moments: Namibian Music History Untold is to be an exhibition coming to SOAS, London, in July, chronicling the intimate stories, songs and experiences of those who shaped Namibian popular culture during some of the most repressive years of Apartheid rule. It will include a documentary film, photographic exhibition, music memorabilia, listening stations tuned to radio stations of the time, a selection of over 100 hours of interviews with
Dr Strangely Strange – new book George Butterworth – new film
musicians and contemporary witnesses and much more. To enable this valuable exhibition to happen, there is a crowdfunding campaign underway: go to
soas.hubbub.net/p/stolenmoments
Steve Heap, who has been
Director of Towersey Folk Festival since 1975, has decided the time has come to step back and will be retiring after this year’s event.
François Post also retires
from the Lusafrica label after years of working with artists such as Cesaria Evora.
Dr Strangely Strange: Fitting
Pieces To The Jigsaw is a new book written by Adrian Whittaker about Dr Strangely Strange and their glory years, 1967 – 1972. A book launch gig takes place at Cafe Oto, London (14th April).
The music of Senegalese kora
player Seckou Keita has been transcribed for western instruments for the first time in the form of eight books of sheet music, in a collaborative project with musician and arranger Alex Wilson, and arts organisation Opera North.
The Plymouth Morris Tradition,
edited by John Summerscales and Plymouth Morris, is a new book compiling a short history of early morris dancing and the music and dance notation for the tradition, available for free download from the University Of Plymouth website.
And a happy 70th birthday to
that Richard Thompson on 9th April. Blimey, that makes him younger than our Editor!
Photo: Andren Bannister
Photo: Ian Anderson
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