7 f At The Atkinson in
Southport, Love Folk Festival (15th – 16th Feb) featuring a line- up including Martin & Eliza Carthy, Shackleton Trio, Mawkin, Roving Crows, Sound Of The Sirens and Blackbeard’s Tea Party.
EMADE (European Music and Dance Education) hosts a Winter School at Gaunts House, near Bournemouth (15th – 24th Feb) with European dance and music workshops, concerts and bals from musicians and instructors including Ciac Boum, Tondo, The Eel Grinders, Naragonia, Hot Griselda, HRD, Lyset i Forsen and much more.
Savannah Music Festival in
Georgia, USA (28th Mar – 13th Apr) includes John Doyle, Nathan & The Zydeco Cha Chas, The Del McCoury Band, Steep Canyon Rangers, Fatoumata Diawara, Noura Mint Seymali, Asleep At The Wheel, I'm With Her (Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz & Aoife O'Donovan), Daymé Arocena, Punch Brothers, Kat Edmonson, Pokey LaFarge, Jerry Douglas, Molly Tuttle Band, Pine Leaf Boys, Jourdan Thibodeaux et les Rôdailleurs, Angélique Kidjo, Dreamers' Circus, Seamus Egan Project, Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder, Anda Union, Robbie Fulks with Robbie Gjersoe, El Septeto Santiaguero, Robert Earl Keen and Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore.
Early announcements for further ahead: I Looked East And I Looked
West (26th – 28th Apr) is a celebration of the life and music of Irish fiddle player Julia Clifford, who helped define what is now a well-known genre of Irish traditional music. Taking place in Stowmarket in Suffolk, the line- up of guests includes Julia’s son Billy Clifford, Matt Cranitch, Jackie Daly, Bryan O’Leary, Gerry Harrington, Peter Browne, Jerry O’Reilly, Aoife Ni Chaoimh, Paudie O’Connor, Maire O’Keefe, Connie O’Connell and more. The event will include concerts, talks and presentations, workshops, set dancing, CD launch, a photographic exhibition, an archive film showing, pub session trail and visit to Julia’s grave.
Moonlight Benjamin
Glasgow’s Celtic Connections (17th Jan – 3rd Feb) is back with another huge line-up including Rhiannon Giddens, Cherish The Ladies, Graham Nash, Niteworks, Elephant Sessions, Bokanté, Loudon Wainwright III,
Judy Collins, Ronnie Spector & The Ronettes, Moonlight Benjamin, Kathy Mattea, Shooglenifty and Aidan Moffat & RM Hubbert, Benjamin Clementine, Delgres, The Como Mamas, Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita, Mariza, Bassekou Kouyate, Rachel Sermanni, Jarlath Henderson, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Karine Polwart & Kris Drever, Snuffbox, Duncan Lyall, The Hot Sardines, Gretchen Peters, Eddi Reader, Blazin’ Fiddles, Karen Matheson, John Grant, Christ Stout & Catriona McKay, Slow Moving Clouds, Síomha, Strung, Kilfenora Céilí Band, Daoiri Farrell, Gráinne Holland, Danú, Kieran Goss & Annie Kinsella, Steph Geremia, Lisa O’Neill & David Keenan and many more.
Programming also includes special live projects
including Brave in Concert (brought to life by Chris Stout, Lorne MacDougall, Jim Sutherland, Jarlath Henderson and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra), audio-visual performance An Tres Suaile’ (The Third Wave) with Julie Fowlis and Duncan Chisholm, and Ged Grimes’ The Bard’s Tale, a theatrical experience featuring music, gameplay and theatre, with Kathleen MacInnes, Fiona Hunter, Eilidh Cormack, Kim Carnie, Mackenzie, Gregor Philp (Deacon Blue), Ali Hutton, Innes White, Màiri Chaimbeul, Martin O’Neill and Brian McAlpine, and actor John Buick. Other one-off events include a celebration of John
Rhiannon Giddens – Celtic Connections
Martyn’s music to mark ten years since his death with a line-up including Paul Weller, Lucy Rose, Eddi Reader, Ross Wilson, Rory Butler, Eric Bibb, John Smith and Katie Spencer, directed by Teddy Thompson, and collaborative show 50 Years Of The Beatles’ Abbey Road with a host of special guests including KT Tunstall, The Staves, You Tell Me, Peter Brewis and Sarah Hayes. Also on the bill is an event to celebrate Welsh music curated by Gwyneth Glyn, and Oran Bagraidh, a collaborative concert exploring themes of multiple identities through music and traditional poetry, including artists and poets Josie Duncan, Lorcan Mac Mathuna, Gwyneth Glyn, Dominic Mac Giolla Bhríde, Conor Caldwell, Barnaby Brown, MacGillivray, Rody Gorman and Bragod.
Donald Shaw, Creative Producer for Celtic Connections, says: "Every year we strive to programme the most diverse and eclectic festival yet and 2019 is shaping up to be just that. From artists who have influenced the current scene, to musicians who are redefining the music of tomorrow, Celtic Connections 2019 will continue to embrace a huge range of styles and genres that showcase artists and cultures from across the world. For example, our strand ‘Above the Surface’ will welcome a host of one-off performances, including Scotland’s Kathleen MacInnes performing with Iceland’s amiina, Bassekou Kouyate and his band Ngoni Ba with Gaelic group SIAN, Rachel Sermanni and Jarlath Henderson performing alongside the Scottish Chamber Orchestra as well as Karine Polwart and Kris Drever who will also perform alongside the SCO. Scottish rising stars Snuffbox will play with jazz pianist Zoe Rahman and Duncan Lyall will perform his new show Milestone.”
Slow Moving Clouds – Celtic Connections too
Photo: © Judith Burrows
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