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Rooting About
WHAT’S HAPPENING News Edited by Lily Washburn
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TOURS
Lankum have autumn tour dates across the UK at St George’s, Bristol (17th Oct); The Bodega Social Club, Nottingham (18th); The Drygate, Glasgow (19th); Hartlepool Folk Festival (20th); The Sage, Gateshead (21st); Liverpool Philharmonic (22nd); The Greystones, Sheffield (23rd); Borderline, London (25th); The Grand, Clitheroe (27th).
Afro Celt Sound System
has ‘An Evening With...’ autumn dates at Princess Theatre, Torquay (14th Nov); Cheese & Grain, Frome (15th); Lighthouse, Poole (16th); Tyne Theatre, Newcastle (17th); Town Hall, Leeds (18th); Brighton Dome (20th); The Barbican, London (21st); The Cambridge Corn Exchange (22nd); Royal
Afro Celt Sound System
Northern College of Music, Manchester (23rd); Warwick Arts Centre (24th).
Sam Amidon will tour the UK with support from Eamon O’Leary with dates including The Cuban Embassy, Birmingham (20th Oct); The Hope & Ruin, Brighton (22nd); The Louisiana, Bristol (23rd); Night & Day Café, Manchester (24th); Brudenell Social Club, Leeds (26th); Pleasance Cabaret Bar, Edinburgh (27th); The Greystones, Sheffield (29th); The Cluny 2, Newcastle (30th); Cadogan Hall, London (19th Nov).
Mokoomba appear at
Birmingham Town Hall (16th Oct); Band On The Wall, Manchester (17th); Musicport Festival, Whitby
(19th); Songlines Music Awards Ceremony, Electric Brixton, London (20th); The Apex, Bury St Edmunds (24th); St Mary’s Church, Walthamstow (25th); National Centre for Early Music, York (26th).
Vieux Farka Touré plays The Spree, Paisley (16th Oct); 24 Kitchen Street, Liverpool (17th); Band On The Wall, Manchester (18th); Subterania, London (19th); Songlines Music Awards Ceremony, Electric Brixton, London (20th); Musicport Festival, Whitby (21st); The Fleece, Bristol (22nd); Belgrave Musical Hall, Leeds (23rd). All will be solo shows apart from 19th/20th/21st where Vieux will appear with Mamadou Kone and Valess Assouan.
Jimmy Aldridge & Sid
Goldsmith tour their new album Many A Thousand with dates at Wingfield Barns, Diss (28th Sept); The Stables, Milton Keynes (29th); Bristol Folk House (30th); Kitchen Garden Café, Birmingham (2nd Oct); Cottingham Live, East Yorkshire (3rd); Live at Sam’s, Sheffield (4th); Village Folk, Derby (13th); Llantrisant Folk Club, Pontyclun (17th); Brockweir Events, Chepstow (20th); Span Arts, Narbeth (26th); Blaxhall Village Hall, Woodbridge (9th Nov); Ely Folk Club (14th); Illuminate Rotherhithe, London (22nd); Holy Trinity Church, Cookham, Berks (24th).
Rachel Newton has dates to promote her new solo album West at Allen Valleys Folk Festival, Allendale (29th Sept); The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen (2nd Oct); Dunoon Burgh Hall (3rd); Paisley Arts (4th); The Slaughtered Lamb, London (6th); Haverhill Arts Centre (7th); The Art House, Southampton (9th); Black Swan Folk Club, York (11th); Pound Arts, Corsham (12th).
If you enjoy Northern
Flyway (Jenny Sturgeon and Inge Thomson) on this issue’s fRoots 70 compilation, then you might just have time to catch the ongoing tour at Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh (17th Sept); Cecil Sharp House, London (19th); St George’s, Bristol (20th); Cornerstone, Didcot (21st); Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, Cardiff (22nd);
Karine Polwart
The Stables, Wavendon (23rd); Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock (25th); The Tolbooth, Stirling (26th); Lemon Tree, Aberdeen (27th); Lyth Arts Centre, Caithness (29th) and Findhorn Bay Arts Festival (30th).
Rachael McShane & The Cartographers are back on the road with a tour after their recent release When All Is Still, with shows at Manchester Folk Festival (20th Oct); Riverhouse Barn, Walton-on-Thames (21st); Norden Farm, Maidenhead (24th); Ropetackle Arts, Shoreham-by-Sea (25th); The Lights, Andover (26th); The Slaughtered Lamb, London (27th); Quay Arts Centre, Isle of Wight (28th); Alexander’s Live, Chester (1st Nov); The Civic, Barnsley (2nd); Kirkgate Arts, Cockermouth (3rd); The Froize, Woodbridge (16th Dec).
Karine Polwart brings her Laws Of Motion Tour to Cadogan Hall, London (17th Oct); The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth (18th); Pontardawe Arts Centre (19th); Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester (20th); Exeter Phoenix (21st); Komedia, Brighton (22nd); Cambridge Junction (23rd); City Varieties, Leeds (24th); Walker Theatre, Shrewsbury (31st); St George’s, Bristol (1st Nov); Birmingham Town Hall (2nd); Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal (3rd); The Sage, Gateshead (4th).
Tamikrest appear at Turner Sims, Southampton (13th Nov); Band On The Wall, Manchester (14th); Nell’s Jazz & Blues, London (16th).
Jackie Oates performs material from her new album The Joy of Living, at Kitchen Garden Café, Birmingham (15th Nov); Pound Arts Centre, Corsham (16th); Tuppenny Barn, Emsworth (17th); The Greystones, Sheffield (21st); Shelley Theatre, Bournemouth (24th).
Steve Tilston celebrates his
new release Distant Days with shows including Evesham Arts Centre (27th Sept); Music at the Mo, Sheringham (28th); Derby Folk Festival (6th Oct); Oxford Folk Club (12th); Ropetackle Arts Centre, Shoreham-by-Sea (1st Nov); Folk Upstairs, Lincoln Drill Hall (3rd); The Musician, Leicester (8th); Appleton Thorn Village Hall (10th); St Neots Folk Club (13th); Rhosygilwen Mansion, Pembrokeshire (16th); The
Photo: Mark Bennett
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