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Orbital, Cymande, Les Filles De Illighadad, Dhafer Youssef, DakhaBrakha, Ustad Saami, Soothsayers, Orquesta Akokan, BaBa Zula, Vadou Game, Maija Kauhanen, Rura, Kim So Ra, Vula Viel, Marja Mortensson, Fofoula, Channel One Sound System, Kokoroko, Hejira and Madalisto Band.
Cambridge Folk Festival is happening on 1st – 4th August and features Calexico and Iron & Wine (performing as a collective), Amadou & Mariam and Blind Boys of Alabama (also collaborating), Graham Nash, Gruff Rhys, The Unthanks, Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening, McGoldrick, McCusker & Doyle, Siobhan Miller, The Tweed Project, Ralph McTell, Sam Sweeney, José González, Karine Polwart, Nancy Kerr, James Fagan & Friends, Rura, Lisa O’Neill, Nick Mulvey, Lucinda Williams, Talisk, Tunng, Fisherman’s Friends, Richard Thompson, The Rails, Li’l Jimmy Reed, Siohan Miller and more.
Yorkshire’s Underneath The
Stars Festival takes place on 2nd – 4th August with headliners The Proclaimers, Billy Bragg and Kate Rusby, and the rest of the line-up comprising Coco & The Butterfields, The Unthanks, Hope & Social, Old Man Luedecke, Baskery, Bess Atwell, You Tell Me, Ruth Notman & Sam Kelly and more.
Sidmouth Folk Festival marks its 65th birthday this year from 2nd – 9th August with a programme including Richard Thompson, The Spooky Men’s Chorale, Steve Knightley & Friends, Julie Fowlis, Flook, Le Vent de Nord, Lady Maisery, Belshazzar’s Feast, Lindisfarne, Ralph McTell, The Young ‘Uns:The Ballad Of Johnny Longstaff, Martin Simpson, Sam Sweeney’s The Unfinished Violin, Hannah James’ JigDoll, Nancy Kerr & James Fagan, Sam Kelly & The Lost Boys, Topette, Amythyst Kiah, Tim Eriksen, Seth Lakeman, Blackbeard’s Tea Party, Rowan Rheingans’ Dispatches On The Red Dress, The Shee, Peatbog Faeries, Martin Carthy, John Kirkpatrick, Iona Fyfe, Rachael McShane & The Cartographers, Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith, Ian
Alasdair Roberts
Woolf II – A Terrascope Celebration takes place on 8th and 9th June in Seend, Wiltshire with Alasdair Roberts, Sharron Kraus, Trappist Afterland, Bevis Frond, Jim Ghedi,
Toby Hay, Ian A Anderson, Kitchen Cynics, Emily Jones, Alison Cotton, Byron Coley, The Left Outsides and more.
Terrascope’s Ian Fraser says "Terrascope returns to Cleeve House, Wiltshire with a stellar cast of
A Anderson, Emily Portman & Rob Harbron and Jim Causley plus lots more including a stellar Cellarful Of Folkadelia programmed by fRoots-persons featuring Lisa O’Neill, You Are Wolf, Mama’s Broke, Burd Ellen, Gwenifer Raymond, The Kimberleys, Çigdem Aslan & Tahir Palali, Jon Wilks, Ma Polaine’s Great Decline and Owl Light Trio. And of course the now legendary Sidmouth Horse Trials for the Aardman Award.
Fairport’s Cropredy
Convention will celebrate its fortieth anniversary this year. Running from 8th - 10th August, the line-up includes The Waterboys, Frank Turner, Fairport Convention, Gogol
Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino return to Womad
favourites old and new. No Terrascope celebration would be complete without Sharron Kraus and The Left Outsides, who both grace the Main Hall stage on Saturday, and on Sunday Alex Rex, Alasdair Roberts and Sound Of Yell will need keeping an eye on. Those with more left-field affiliations have plenty to look forward to – Mésange, Kitchen Cynics and the spiritual strains of Trappist Afterland – while Jim Ghedi and Toby Hay prove that dextrous 6- and 12- string picking is far from being a lost art.”
Bordello, Seth Lakeman, Richard Thompson, Wildwood Kin, Daphne’s Flight, Will Pound & Eddy Jay, Martin Simpson, Tide Lines and more.
Towersey Folk Festival (23rd – 26th August) celebrates its 55th anniversary this year with appearances from Oysterband, Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, The Selector, Fisherman’s Friends, The Unthanks, Hothouse Flowers, Seth Lakeman, Elephant Sessions, Rusty Shackle, Steve Knightley, Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita, Will Varley, Nancy Kerr & James Fagan, Sam Kelly & The Lost Boys, Rura, Beans On Toast, Kitty Macfarlane, Luke Daniels and more.
Graham Nash – Cambridge
Shrewsbury Folk Festival takes place this year from 23rd – 26th August, with a programme including Birds Of Chicago, Eddi Reader, Blair Dunlop, Andy Fairweather Low & The Low Riders, Capercaillie, Charlie Dore, AKA Trio, Áine Tyrrell, Kate Rusby, Oysterband, Martyn Joseph, Daphne’s Flight, Skerryvore, Gary Stewart’s Graceland, Phil Beer Band, Granny’s Attic, Urban Folk Quartet, While Matthews & While, Steve Knightley, Merry Hell, Edgelarks, Grace Petrie and more.
You can find festival contacts and lots of more detailed advertising in this issue’s Festival Pages – see index on Page 3.
Photo: © Judith Burrows
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