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Crackers, Fishermen’s Friends and The Fureys.
Oxford’s Oxfolk Ceilidhs has upcoming events with Playford Liberation Front (caller Bob Morgan) and Token Women (callers Jo Freya and Fi Fraser).
The Anvil in Basingstoke has
gigs with Fairport Convention, King of Ghosts & Around India With A Movie Cinema, Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening and Seth Lakeman.
London Jazz Cafe has shows
with Afro-Cuban All Stars on 4th and 5th March.
North Bristol’s Downend Folk Club have gigs with Awake, Arise – A Christmas Show For Our Times (Lady Maisery and Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith), Gavin Osborn & The Comments Section, Alden Patterson & Dashwood.
Near Rhyl in North Wales, The Record Journal continues its series of concerts with Michael McGoldrick, John McCusker & John Doyle, Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar and Ross Ainslie & Ali Hutton.
Coming to The David Hall in South Petherton in the next few months are guests including Ninebarrow, Paul Jones & Dave Kelly, Steve Knightley’s Roadworks, Geoff Lakeman, Ezio, Blue Rose Code, Jamie Smith’s Mabon, The FB Pocket Orchestra, Kitty Macfarlane and Tankus the Henge.
Coming to Whitstable
Sessions are artists Sam Reider & The Human Hands, Jackie Oates Band, Olivia Chaney and Thunder and Rain.
Imagining Ireland (30th Jan) is
a one-off concert of words and music exploring Irish life in England. Taking place at London’s Barbican, the music line-up features Martin Hayes, Iarla O’Lionaird, Lisa O’Neill, Radie Peat as well as various actors, presenters, novelists and poets.
Nettlebed Village Club near Henley on Thames has an upcoming programme including Belshazzar’s Feast, Bully Wee Band & Phil Beer, Seth Lakeman, Phil Beer’s patron’s night (with Kelly Oliver, Geoff Lakeman, Miranda Sykes), Breabach, Steve Knightley, McGoldrick, McCusker & Doyle, Peter Knight & John Spiers,
Roy Bailey
Craobh Rua, Aly Bain & Phil Cunningham, and two shows with Feast of Fiddles.
Norden Farm Centre for the
Arts in Maidenhead have gigs with Narthen, John Kirkpatrick, and Megan Henwood & Findlay Napier.
The Black Swan Folk Club in
York has winter guests including favourites Jez Lowe, Dan Walsh & Alistair Anderson and The Churchfitters, while debut visitors include Kentucky duo The Local Honeys, Ninebarrow and Jenny Sturgeon. Club events at the nearby National Centre for Early Music include Phil Beer, McGoldrick McCusker & Doyle, The Rheingans Sisters and an MND fundraiser with Martin Simpson and others.
On the Quantocks in
Somerset, Halsway Manor National Centre For Folk Arts plays host to a wide variety of residential courses. They also have occasional gigs, with future guests including Simon Mayer, Hilary James and Janet Giraudo, Faustus, a Hurdy Gurdy and Bagpipes concert, Lady Maisery, Piva, a Northumbrian Smallpipes concert and more.
A new folk club held at the
Toy Museum in Brighton has monthly concerts in 2019 starting with Martin Carthy, John Kirkpatrick, Kitty Macfarlane and Iona Fyfe.
Advance warning of an 80th Birthday concert for Wizz Jones, plus special guests, on Weds 24th April at Cadogan Hall, London.
MISC. We were sorry to hear of the
deaths of Trinidadian percussion- maker and steel pan musician Elliot ‘Ellie’ Mannette, on 29th August, aged 89; Algerian rocker Rachid Taha on 12th Sept, aged 59; Sliabh Luachra musician, dancer and teacher Timmy ‘The Brit’ McCarthy, on 12th Sept, aged 73; multi-instrumentalist and Fairport Convention member Maartin Allcock on 16th September, aged 61; one-time Reading and Bracknell folk club organiser Dave Wilkinson, on 16th September, aged 77; East
Bill Caddick
German musician and core team member of the Rudolstadt Festival Peter Uhlmann, on 24th September, aged 68; Chicago blues guitar great Otis Rush on 30th Sept, aged 84; Argentinian singer, songwriter, percussionist and historian Alfredo Martín Ábalos, on 24th September, aged 80; former Gloucestershire Old Spot Morris dancer Keith Glover, on 5th October; Hindustani classical music teacher, surbahar virtuoso and first wife of Ravi Shankar, Annapurna Devi, on 13 October, aged 91; ‘swamp rock’ songwriter Tony Joe White on 24th October, aged 75; long-time Saltburn (previously Redcar) festival organiser Johnny Taylor, on 31st October; renowned Irish musician and composer Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin on 8th November, aged 67; bouzouki-playing co- founder of De Dannan Alec Finn, on 16th November, aged 74; Hawaiian guitar master Cyril Pahinui, on 17th November, aged 68; the mighty founder of Earthworks Records, Jumbo Vanrenen, on 18th November; much-loved traditional and political songster Roy Bailey, on 19th November, aged 83; and the great Bill Caddick, singer and writer of John o Dreams, Unicorns, Waiting For The Lark and many other wonderful songs, also on 19th November, aged 74.
In 2019 BBC Radio 2 is planning to move the Radio 2 Folk Awards into the final quarter of the year. More details will be announced in due course.
English Folk Expo (17th – 20th Oct) have announced Scotland as their international partner for 2019, and opened registrations to music festival organisers, venue programmers, labels, publishers, agents or managers working with folk, roots or acoustic artists.
Cambridge Folk Festival have announced Sheffield-based duo Kate Griffin and Ford Collier as winners of its inaugural Christian Raphael Prize in support of emerging young talent.
Have Musical Traditions
Records made their last-ever publication? Proprietor Rod Stradling writes: “It seems that Songs And Tales From Flamborough Head, just released, may very well be MT's final publication. That would be a great
Tony Joe White
shame, however there seems little I can do about it – put simply, I don't know of any more sets of recordings of traditional singers or musicians that could make another MT publication. Despite frequent pleas in MT Editorials, nobody has come up with any possible project ideas. Anyone out there with something to offer?” Answers to
rod@mustrad.org.uk
Ireland’s RTE Folk Awards winners announced in October were Best Original Folk Track – Along The Western Seaboard by Declan O'Rourke; Best Traditional Folk Track – Bean Dubh A’ Ghleanna by Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh; Best Folk Singer – Radie Peat; Best Emerging Folk Artist – Emma Langford; Best Folk Instrumentalist – Martin Hayes; Best Folk Group – Lankum; Best Folk Album – Haven by We Banjo 3; Lifetime Achievement Award – Andy Irvine; Hall of Fame – Tom Munnelly and John Reilly.
Major label BMG has acquired the leading world music label World Circuit Records, home to Buena Vista Social Club, Ali Farka Touré and Orchestra Baobab. Plans are already well underway for a number of new releases and reissues, and the booming music streaming market is expected to extend the reach of World Circuit’s music even further. Founder Nick Gold said, “BMG’s respect for Artists and Writers, their vision of the future and the opportunities that lay ahead make it a natural and exciting home for World Circuit.Having been lucky enough to have worked with such amazing musicians and being a part of such timeless recordings, I’m now looking forward to the next chapter in the World Circuit story”.
We now have a weekly news roundup on the smart new, updated fRoots website, usually published later on a Sunday. Make a date with
frootsmag.com and look for Big Ears.
STOP PRESS! Among recipients of the Awards given by the North American Folk Alliance at their annual conference in February, this time in Montreal, Canada, will be Joni Mitchell, the late Leonard Cohen, Buffy Sainte-Marie, (Whispering) Bob Harris and… fROOTS getting a Lifetime Achievement Award!
Rachid Taha
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