15 f Also in Hampshire,
Aldershot’s West End Centre has a folk programme including: Martin Carthy & John Kirkpatrick, Kris Drever & Boo Hewerdine, Evening Star, Mabon, Moore Moss Rutter, Kitty Macfarlane, Thea Gilmore Chris Wood, Coco & The Butterfields and Stick In The Wheel.
Ashcroft Arts Centre in
Fareham has upcoming dates with Kris Drever & Boo Hewerdine, Martin Carthy & John Kirkpatrick, Daoiri Farrell, Kitty Macfarlane and Jamie Smith’s Mabon.
Coming to the David Hall, South Petherton are guests including Coco & The Butterfields, St Agnes Fountain, Trad Attack, The Furrow Collective, Belshazzar’s Feast, Rant, Cara Dillon, Greg Russell & Jack Rutter, Louise Jordan, Blazin’ Fiddles and Noble Jacks.
The line-up for Chapel Arts
Centre in Bath includes Martin Simpson, Emily Mae Winters, Coco & The Butterfields, Littlemen & Wildwood Kin, Adam Holmes & The Embers and Baskery, 3 Daft Monkeys, Philip Henry, Dallahan, Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra, Roving Crows, Andy White, Faustus and Jim Moray.
Edinburgh Folk Club have announced their autumn programme with Ransik, Blueflint, Mike Wilson and Damien Barber, Quicksilver, and the Jenny Sturgeon Trio.
In Brighton, Folkroom
Records and Brighton Toy and Model Museum have partnered to form Toy Museum Folk Club, with autumn dates with Emily Mae Winters and Mairearad Green and Anna Massie.
Singer-songwriter James
Yorkston announces the return of concert series Tae Sup wi’ a Fifer at the Adam Smith Theatre, Kirkcaldy with guests including Justin Currie, Nell Ni Chroinin, Brigid Mae Power, Roddy Woomble, Archie Fisher, Laura Moody, Vashti Bunyan, Audiobooks, and Michael Pederson.
Nettlebed Folk Club, nr Henley On Thames has future dates with Chris Leslie, Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman,
Lazy Lester MISC. We were sorry to hear of the
deaths of Clarence Fountain of the Blind Boys Of Alabama, on 3rd June aged 88; Chicago blues legend Eddy ‘The Chief’ Clearwater on 1st June, aged 83; blues master Matt ‘Guitar’ Murphy on 15th June aged 88; Senegalese kora genius Kausu
Stick In The Wheel, Ralph McTell, Nancy Kerr & Luke Daniels, Frigg, Siobhan Miller, Peter Knight’s Gigspanner, Celtic Fiddle Festival, Martin Taylor & Martin Simpson, St Agnes Fountain and Belshazzar’s Feast.
Playing at Whitstable Sessions Music Club this autumn are Kris Drever & Boo Hewerdine, Siobhan Miller, The Furrow Collective,and Socks In The Frying Pan.
Croydon-based The Ukulele & Other Machines presents events with Benji Kirkpatrick, Barnstormer 1649, Sieben, Belshazzar’s Feast along with their regular session.
Norden Farm Centre For The
Arts in Maidenhead has upcoming dates with Dan Walsh & Alistair Anderson, a ceilidh with Nedron’s Jig, Fairport Convention, Faustus, Cara Dillon’s Upon A Winter’s Night, and a Christmas Ceilidh with Nedron’s Jig.
Earlsfield venue Tara Teatre has an eclectic autumn programme with Yiddish event Whitechapel Noise featuring Klezmer Klub, Katsha’nes and the Great Yiddish Paradem; Bangalore, Balkans & Bagels featuring She’Koyokh and violinist Jyotsna Srikanth; Chanukah Klezmer Ceilidh with The London Klezmer Quartet and 100 Years of Bollywood with Bollywood Brass Band.
Saltaire promoters The Live
Room have six shows coming up this autumn: Nashville banjo player Mean Mary, Tom Baxter, Blue Rose Code, Moore Moss Rutter, The Peter Bruntnell Trio, and O’Hooley & Tidow with their alternative seasonal show Winterfolk.
Kuyateh on 16th June, aged 68; UK-based sitar maestro and concert organiser Mick Taylor on 21st June, aged 69; Ugandan singer Geoffrey Oryama, on 22nd June aged 65; American folk rock pioneer (Cindy, Oh Cindy) Vince Martin, on 6th July aged 81; writer and archivist Professor Alun Howkins, on 12th July aged 70; record executive Ray Cooper who began his illustrious career at Transatlantic Records in the 1970s, on 28th July aged 69; Donegal fiddler Tommy Peoples, on 4th August aged 69; multi- instrumentalist John Field (Malcolm Price Trio, Amity etc) on 8th August, aged 75; soul and gospel great Aretha Franklin, on 16th August aged 76; Malian singer Khaira Arby on 19th August aged 59, and Louisiana bluesman Lazy Lester on 22nd August, aged 85.
The Fire Of Love by David
Owen (graphics for Sidmouth Folk Week, The Unthanks, Radio 2 Folk Awards, Folk Against Fascism, Bampton Morris among others) is a new exhibition at Cecil Sharp House, London, drawing on the graphic style of signs,
advertisements and record covers to challenge preconceived ideas of the genre. Playful and subversive, these works take a humorous look at English folk music and dance, championing the genre in all its forms. Admission is free, and it runs from 26th September through to 6th January.
cecilsharphouse.org
The third series of Jim
Moray's Low Culture Podcast starts at the end of September. Each episode has a different guest chatting about their work and approach to traditional music. This time round they include Andy Cutting, Rachel Newton, John Kirkpatrick, Sam Kelly and many more. The Low Culture Podcast is available every week from iTunes, Stitcher and all good podcast services, as well as direct from
jimmoray.co.uk
Johnny Coppin's Fine
Acoustic Music radio show is now airing across the West on BBC Bristol, Somerset, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire every Sunday at midnight and on iPlayer.
The English Folk Dance &
Song Society has announced four new recipients of its highest award, the Gold Badge. Gold
Khaira Arby
Kausu Kuyateh
Badges are presented for unique or outstanding contributions to folk music, dance or song, distinguished service to EFDSS and/or exceptional contributions to EFDSS’ work. Gold Badges for 2018 will be awarded to Frankie Armstrong, one of the outstanding singers of the folk music revival in Britain; John Bacon, morris dancer and organiser; Antony Heywood, preserver, teacher and advocate of folk dance; Vic Legg, ambassador of traveller traditions in singing and dance.
Renowned musician, Llio
Rhydderch, who is recognised as the foremost exponent of the Welsh Triple Harp, has received an Honorary Fellowship from Bangor University for her services to Music.
Gaelic singer Christine
Primrose has been awarded an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for 'Services to Gaelic Music to Culture and to Education in Scotland and Internationally'.
Hands Up For Trad announce the winners of their Community Music Awards 2018, to celebrate music teachers, young musicians, organisations and composers who make a difference to communities across Scotland. The winners are Katy Lavinia Cooper (Teacher Of The Year); Protest In Harmony (Music Project Of The Year); The BIG Project Youth Choir (Young Community Musician/s Of The Year); Science Ceilidh (Music Organisation Of The Year) and Ali Burns (Composer Of The Year).
Photo: Dave Peabody
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