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Elbow Jane
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Lowdham Village Hall
Price: £12.00

Elbow Jane
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Lowdham Village Hall
Price: £10.00

Ewan Mclennan
Door 7pm. Folk2Future (Big Chill DJs) 7-8pm and 11pm - late Live music 8 - 11pm includes two sets from Ewan McLennan, plus one each from Rosemary Lippard & Tim Graham and Piers Haslam. Real ale. Mix of seating and standing. Seats are not reserved. Please come early to ensure a seat. Concessionary tickets are for the unwaged - proof required at the door on the night. Tickets on the door (where still available) will be £8. For more information, or to contact the Goose, please see our website www.thegooseisout.com
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012
Time: 7pm
Venue: London The Ivy House
Price: £8.00

The Watch With Sheena Masson
We welcome back the dynamic trio of Rob Murch (banjo), Dan Quinn (squeezeboxes) and Gareth Kiddier (keyboards). We are also very lucky to have Sheena Masson to call the dances - she's usually out playing in her own ceilidh bands on a Saturday.
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012
Time: 7.45pm
Venue: Surrey The Borough Hall
Price: £9.50

Pat Smith & Ned Clamp: Shammick Acoustic Concert
The last time they visited, they brought along the Mari Lwyd, the Welsh New Year horse, but this time they'll confine themselves to the music. There are many singers and concertina players, but in addition, Pat is a virtuoso spoons player and you don't get many of those! As half of the popular Welsh duo Calennig for many years, and still a member of the Calennig Big Band, playing for twmpathau (Welsh dances), Pat is an accomplished performer whose enthusiasm for Welsh traditional culture has taken her all round the world and they don't come any more Welsh than Pat! Although born an Englishman, guitarist Ned has been adopted by Wales, and has been involved in the folk scene there for over twenty-five years. His music has ranged from folk to ragtime, and from country to big band music truly eclectic tastes! Together, Pat and Ned perform fascinating songs and tunes, old and new, blending gentle harmonies with top-drawer musicianship, drawing in their audiences wherever they go. As a great lead-up into the evening concert, Pat will, in the afternoon, be leading a spoons workshop definitely worth having a go!
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Combe Martin The Pack o' Cards
Price: £6.00

Kathryn Roberts And Caroline Herring
Kathryn Roberts and Caroline Herring met for the first time during the highly successful Cecil Sharp Project. An admiration of each other's talent and an instant friendship fuelled their determination to work together again. This performance at Cecil Sharp house will hopefully be the first of many as a duo where the ladies will explore each other's back catalogue and write new material together. Caroline Herring is one of the American South's most unique and resonant voices. Herring grew up steeped in Southern literature, sang in church choirs, and had her start professionally as a host and house-band member of a live audience radio show in Oxford, Mississippi in the late 1990s. From her 2001 debut Twilight and its immediate successor Wellspring (2003) to the widely acclaimed Lantana (2008), Herring's music has been hailed for combining traditional sounds with striking, original observations into modern life and love. The Austin Chronicle proclaimed Lantana to be "the best modern Southern Gothic album since Lucinda Williams' 'Sweet Old World.'" Born and raised in the South Yorkshire mining town of Barnsley, Kathryn has simply sung since she could speak. Her musical parents took great delight in introducing her to many types of music including a regular summer trawl of folk festivals. This engendered a lifelong love of traditional song and also introduced her to some of the finest young talent on the British folk scene. An early duo career with fellow Barnsleyite Kate Rusby led to much critical acclaim and an award winning album. This partnership led swiftly to the teaming up with 3 brothers from West Devon and the folk - pop band 'Equation' was born. Many years fronting the band saw Kathryn grace exotic stages all over the world, 5 years of which were spent almost exclusively in the U.S. Now after a few years of proud motherhood she feels ready to return to the place she belongs, singing at the front of a stage. Presented by EFDSS in association with Songlines
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012
Time: 7.00pm
Venue: London Cecil Sharp House
Price: £12.00

Tannahill Weavers
Traditional Scottish music at its best - the Tannahills are as tight and versatile as any band in the Celtic music scene. Blending traditional melodies with the power of modern rhythms, they can summon rock-n-roll intensity or haunting introspection.
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012
Time: 7pm doors, 8pm start
Venue: Aylesbury Limelight Theatre
Price: £11.00

Native Grass Folk - Cut The Shuffle
American Old Timey Bluegrass, Old Country Americana etc... Bands, Open Mic Sessions
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Margate Tom Thumb Theatre
Price: £5.00

Kooky Folk Night With Martha Tilston
Martha Tilston is an enchanting singer-songwriter and captivating performer blessed with a glorious clear and seductive voice www.marthatilston.co.uk
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Cornwall Miss Peapod's
Price: £8.00

Magic Drum Workshop
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012
Time: 2.00 pm
Venue: Dorchester Arts Centre
Price: £5.00

Magic Drum Workshop
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012
Time: 2.00 pm
Venue: Dorchester Arts Centre
Price: £4.00

Eilidh Grant
Eilidh, who will be supported by a guitarist, loves to sing Scottish traditional songs - and is especially fond of those of Robert Burns, but her feel for and interpretation of lyrics shows when she switches to a more contemporary style. During the summer Eilidh was delighted to win a Scottish New Music Award, a new awards ceremony set up to acknowledge the wealth of talent throughout all the different genres in Scotland. She was nominated in the folk/traditional recording of the year and was up against the likes of Dougie MacLean and Mairi Campbell.
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012
Time: Doors open 7.30pm
Venue: Ulpha The Browfoot Room
Price: £8.00

Rena Stamou
Rena Stamou is one of the most celebrated figures of Rebetiko music in the world today. She grew up in an orphanage in Crete, Greece. At the age of thirteen, she moved to Athens and by chance she found work as a childminder for legendary singer Rita Ampatzi, who was her first introduction to Rebetiko Music. Rena worked for two years as part of a top-class team of Rebetiko musicians including Markos Vamvakaris, Vassilis Tsitsanis, Yiannis Papaioannou, and Apostolos Kaldaras. With her beautiful singing she made a name for herself and has since performed all around the world. Tonight she will be performing a special show as part of Rebet Asker Series. She will sing a beautiful collection of Rebetika songs and narrate stories about her life and about her fellow creators of Rebetiko. PLEASE NOTE: The venue comprises both seated and standing space. There are a limited number of tables. These are allocated on a first come first served basis, with priority given to diners. If you'd like a table, please ensure you arrive early. We reserve the right to release all unclaimed tickets for re-sale at 9.30pm. If you will be arriving after this time, please inform us in advance, so that we can hold your tickets for you.
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012
Time: Doors @ 7pm. See GreenNote.co.uk for start time.
Venue: London Green Note
Price: £12.00

Genticorum
GENTICORUM has become one of the most sought-after exponents of Quebecois musical culture, having now performed and toured across North America, Europe, Asia and Oceania more than 15 countries in all. ...Firmly rooted in the soil of their native land, this energetic and original power trio also incorporate the dynamism of contemporary North American and European folk cultures into their music. They weave precise and intricate fiddle and flute work, gorgeous vocal harmonies, energetic foot percussion, and guitar and bass accompaniment into a jubilant musical feast. GENTICORUM's distinctive sound, sense of humour and stage presence make it a supreme crowd pleaser though never at the expense of the music. GENTICORUM's second album, Malins Plaisirs, released in Canada in 2005, won in the Best Ensemble category at the Canadian Folk Music Awards and was nominated for Juno (Canada) and Félix (Quebec) awards. Now released in Europe (in collaboration with the Weatherbox label), the album is getting rave reviews on the other side of the Atlantic. The trio's brand new album, La Bibournoise, was released in Canada in April 2008 to critical acclaim. This work builds on GENTICORUM's trademark sound, combining rollicking interpretations of Quebec folk songs with original instrumentals written in the traditional style. Energetic yet folky, its harmonized songs sublime, its frenzied rhythms mesmerizing, its arrangements fresh and unique this is La Bibournoise, and sometimes it's hard to believe it is the work of just three band members ! See www.genticorum.com or http://www.myspace.com/genticorum -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Raven are Stephen Moncrieff on guitar /vocals, and Carolyn Forbes on vocals/flute/guitar. They perform their own arrangements of traditional folk songs from Britain and Australia as well as covers of some of their favourite folk-style songs, and a few self-penned pieces. Separately both Ste, from Liverpool, and Caz, from Australia, have been playing and performing for many years. Ste originally played saxophone, performing in bands and as a session musician in Liverpool. Since moving to London he moved to playing guitar, having been influenced by artists such as John Martyn and Nick Drake. Caz comes from a family of musicians, and has been singing since she was very young. She was introduced to folk music in her teens and has enjoyed performing solo and in groups ever since. See http://theraven.me/
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: London The Slaughtered Lamb
Price: £12.00

The Old Tire Swingers Californian Oldtime Bluegrass Americana Folk
Monday 30th Jan: The Old Tire Swingers + Supports @ Acoustic Sessions by Candlelight The Cock Inn, Sarratt, nr Rickmansworth WD3 6HH Owlsworld Presents The Old Tire Swingers + Support Acts The Old Tire Swingers 2012 Jan Tour Bluegrass from California + Support Act If you liked the Water Tower Bucket Boys then the chances are you'll love these guys to! Were touring for 3 weeks in Jan ending up with our last show at the wonderful venue The Old Barn, The Cock Inn... Tickets will be £5 pre booked seated or £7.00 on the door standing room only! ticket links to follow.... http://soundcloud.com/oldtireswingers https://www.facebook.com/oldtireswingers http://www.oldtireswingers.com/ Influenced by the Appalachian string bands as well as their own Central California country roots, they play a style that's somewhere between old time, bluegrass, and country, which has resulted in not only a set of traditional tunes but also their own blend of music which is The Old Tire Swingers. A typical Old Tire Swingers set, listeners will hear both traditional and original songs. Although much of the music the band plays is hard driving old time music, fans of bluegrass, country, acoustic, folk, and Americana are sure to find something they will enjoy in the songs. When Paul Chesterton first heard bluegrass music back in 2003, he fell in love with the banjo. He soon purchased his first banjo and started teaching himself how to play it. At a local bluegrass festival, he learned the claw hammer style at a pickin workshop, and after spending a couple of years focusing on his style and writing songs, Paul put together a hard driving, old time string band. Joined by Nick Kennedy on guitar, Frick Dau on upright bass, and Nathanael Felon on mandolin. Energized by the response they've received over the last year, they've recorded a full length13 track CD which they will be touring in early 2012. Doors 7.30 for 8.30 Tickets are £5 Pre booked and £7.00 on the door Info : 07775526881 https://www.facebook.com/events/129668010477994/
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Sarratt Owlsworld Acoustic Sessions
Price: £5.00

Bob Walton
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: Croydon Ruskin House
Price: £6.00

Bob Walton
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: Croydon Ruskin House
Price: £4.00

Woody Guthrie: Hard Times And Hard Travellin' "live" Musical Documentary
Book early for this unique event in the centenary year of Woody's birth. WOODY GUTHRIE: HARD TIMES AND HARD TRAVELLIN' is a live documentary that sets the songs of Woody Guthrie in the context of the American 1930s the Dust Bowl, the Depression, the New Deal and the state of popular music itself. In the presentation, Will Kaufman brings such hard-hitting Guthrie songs as Vigilante Man, Pretty Boy Floyd and I Ain't Got No Home into conversation with other relevant songs from Joe Hill's The Preacher and the Slave to Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?. These renditions, buttressed by detailed historical commentary, exemplify the blending of music and radical politics that marks Guthrie's most powerful and evocative work. No one can understand the American people without listening to Woody Guthrie. Will Kaufman's doing important work here. Tom Paxton I thank Will Kaufman for introducing a new generation of Europeans to 'the Other America'. It's a wonderful job he's doing. Pete Seeger WILL KAUFMAN is a singer, guitarist and Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Central Lancashire. In 2008 he was awarded a BMI-Woody Guthrie Fellowship. His book, Woody Guthrie, American Radical was published in 2011 by the University of Illinois Press.
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012
Time: 7.45pm
Venue: Liverpool The Royal British Legion
Price: £6.50

Whitehorse
Six Shooter Records' Melissa McClelland and Luke Doucet tie the musical knot with the debut of their new band, Whitehorse, marrying their talent and chemistry on stage as a smoldering duo. Gutsy and resolute in their pursuits of sound and substance, Luke and Melissa's fusion of the personal and professional brings to mind the road-tested romance of Johnny and June. Individually, Luke and Melissa have been recognized with awards and nominations from the Juno Awards, the Canadian Folk Music Awards, the Hamilton Music Awards, the Independent Music Awards and the Polaris Prize. Together, Luke and Melissa create music that cascades forth, rushing like currents fluid and electric. More than the sum of considerable talents, Whitehorse showcases the rarity of true give and take in partnership, uniting falcon with songbird to dramatic effort. This fall, Whitehorse breaks headlong and heartstrong in pursuit of it all, cards on the table, everything on the line. Luke and Melissa figure the odds the way travelers count miles, undaunted by twists and turns of luck and road, so let dice and wheel roll.
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: London The Slaughtered Lamb
Price: £7.00

Tom Kitching & Gren Bartley
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012
Time: 7.15pm
Venue: Birmingham Red Lion Folk Club
Price: £11.00

Scarlet Jacks
Having made their debut at Rochester Sweeps Festival in 2011 and then brought the house down at Cambridge Folk Festival a few weeks later, fiddle and guitar combo Scarlet Jacks (Greg McDonald and Gemma Gaynor) play in Hastings for raggedtrouseredfolk. An intimate gig, cabaret style, limited to just forty people.
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Hastings The Jenny Lind
Price: £6.00

The Chuck Farley Band
What an awesome band. As well as Chuck himself, Pete Stroud, Steve Simpson (in fine fettle), Poli Palmer and Sam Kelly give you funky, rocking blues.
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012
Time: 8.45pm
Venue: Kingston Grey Horse
Price: £6.00

Outside Track
A stunning synthesis of virtuosity and energy, The Outside Track's marriage of Canadian, Scottish and Irish music and song has been rapturously received around the world. Hailing from Scotland, Ireland, Cape Breton and Vancouver, its five members are united by a love of traditional music and a commitment to creating new music with the tradition as a foundation. Using fiddle, accordion, harp, guitar, flute, step-dance and vocals these five virtuosos blend boundless energy with unmistakable joie de vivre. Each player in The Outside Track is a master of their chosen instrument with the band stacking up an impressive amount of international awards. Such talent alone would be enough to recommend the band but in this case the end result is so much greater than the sum of the parts.
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012
Time: 8.00PM
Venue: Bridgwater Arts Centre
Price: £14.00

Folk At The Theatre
Sheppey Little Theatre hosts the opening night of a 3 legged Kentish tour of small theatres. Los Salvadores, Wheels and The Flowing are 3 of Kent's finest acts in the modern folk movement. Music starts 7.30pm. Tickets will be allocated as best available at time of sale.
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012
Time: 7.00pm
Venue: Sheerness Sheppey Little Theatre
Price: £5.00

Quiet Loner
QUIET LONER is the pen-name of songwriter Matt Hill. As Quiet Loner he sings songs about love, loss, infidelity, suicide, murder, capital punishment, the database state, terrorism, religion, war, fallen angels, the secret rulers of the world and the redemptive power of country music. http://quietloneruk.wordpress.com
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Norwich The Bicycle Shop
Price: £3.00

Songwriter Double Bill: Ian Bailey Plus Dan Wilde
A shared evening with talented singer/songwriters from Lancashire. Ian is the older musician, with a folk-pop approach and coincidentally signed to the same music publisher as Chris While, while Dan is building his reputation as a strong writer and performer, soon to record his second CD with a top Irish producer. Both artists had songs on last year's Dylan tribute disc Younger Than That Now.
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: York Black Swan Inn
Price: £7.00

Tiny Ruins + Mirel Wagner
TINY RUINS: "she's managed to avoid the applied angst that so often ruins the work of British female singer-songwriters and created a debut album of vast beauty. It isn't out in the UK yet but, hopefully, it should be soon. If not, I'll spend the rest of the year making you all copies; everybody should have one" Tom Ravenscroft - BBC 6 Music "an absolutely gorgeous album" - Bob Harris - BBC Radio 2 "her voice, somewhere between Karen Dalton and Nathaniel Rateliff, is filled with contradictions - fragile yet forthright, vulnerable but fiercely determined - the lyrics allusive and elusive as dreams" - 4 Stars - MOJO "one of the most sophisticated and moving albums of the year" - New Zealand Herald Prior to the release of Some Were Meant For Sea, Tiny Ruins (aka New Zealand based Hollie Fullbrook) had been quietly going about her business in New Zealand for some time - building a solid reputation and a burgeoning fan-base thanks to countless shows both at home and in Australia that perfectly showcased her rather stunning yet subtle songs. However, since the release back in July in the southern hemisphere of her widely acclaimed debut album, the pace has certainly picked up. Said the New Zealand Herald, "From time to time an album comes along that stops you in your tracks and demands you to listen. Tiny Ruins' Some Were Meant For Sea is one such record". Australian press were also smitten with triple j magazine writing, "Kiwi captures attention and hearts" and Mess & Noise noting, "the songs sway and heave with warmth and approachability". Ever since a few tracks found their way to the BBC she's received regular spins on Radio 2 and 6 Music - so much so that the the album has now got a UK release after some incredible feedback from, listeners. It's recently been made Album Of The Day on 6 Music and was given a an excellent 4 star review courtesy of Mojo with the heading "Watch out Laura Marling!". As a result of all this plans were put in place for a trip to Britain for a brief promo tour - plans that were ruined when Hollie was involved in a serious motorbike crash while on holiday in Africa that resulted in several broken bones and left her unable to travel. She's now finally well on the road to recovery and will be over in the UK in January / February for a nationwide tour after completing a series of NZ dates as support to Fleet Foxes. www.tinyruins.com MIRIEL WAGNER is a 23 year old singer/songwriter, born in Ethiopia and raised in Finland. Since age 16 she's writing gloomy Blues and Folk songs, stripped down to the bone. It's just about her airy but rough voice and a minimalistic guitar picking. Avoiding theatric gestures effortlessly her music has a unique intensity and emotional weight. "...Mirel Wagner is the real deal, an innovator among imitators. In a genre ridden with cliches she cuts through with the sheer the power of her lyrics and intricately fingerpicked guitar. And that voice.When I first heard her perform at an open mic night in Helsinki a few years back, it was THAT voice that blew me away. Deep and dark, it is the antithesis of how a young woman in her early twenties should sound. It has those world-weary and resigned tones that make Billie Holiday and Leonard Cohen so appealing. It sounds like the truth...." (Jean Ramsay/Rumba) ".. In her words and her sound you can see a landscape lit by full-moonlight, fog swirling about like ghosts dancing a slow waltz, stately old trees hanging heavy with Spanish moss. You sense an eerie otherworldliness in the atmosphere she weaves, and you can't tear your ears away from that voice and that melody. She has created something that you rarely or never hear these days. On the banks of the Mississippi Delta in the 1920s it might have been common. But the thing is, Mirel Wagner is here now, in the second decade of the 2000s, and she's from Finland." (Spydersden) PLEASE NOTE: DOORS OPEN: The venue comprises both seated and standing space. There are a limited number of tables. These are allocated on a first come first served basis, with priority given to diners. If you'd like a table, please ensure you arrive early (doors open 7pm). We reserve the right to release all unclaimed tickets for re-sale at 9.30pm. If you will be arriving after this time, please inform us in advance, so that we can hold your tickets for you.
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012
Time: Doors @ 7pm. See GreenNote.co.uk for start time
Venue: London Green Note
Price: £7.50

Big Pete
Doors are at 6.30pm Show due to begin at 8pm/8.30pm
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012
Time: 6.30pm
Venue: London Round Midnight
Price: £7.00

Rm Hubbert
RM Hubbert + Friends (Album Launch Show) One of Glasgow's more prolific artists, RM Hubbert has released music under a variety of guises and on several labels since 1993. It was El Hombre Trajeado's triptych of albums released between 1995 and 2005 though, that really put Hubbert on the musical map, earning swathes of critical acclaim, three Peel Sessions and support slots with the likes of Sebadoh, Tortoise, Nick Cave, Deerhoof, Mùm, Mike Watt and (auspiciously) The Delgados. Following El Hombre Trajeado's 'retirement', guitarist Hubbert took a break from playing live and began studying a host of different musical forms before returning to the scene in 2008 and releasing his debut solo album 'First & Last', in March 2010. The nine instrumentals that make up the album manage to skilfully incorporate elements of flamenco and samba, utilising their percussive techniques whilst retaining the melancholy folk stylings of his earlier material. A second album is currently in the pipeline with long-time friend Alex Kapranos from Franz Ferdinand on production duties. The album will feature collaborations from some very special artists such as Aidan Moffat, Emma Pollock, Luke Sutherland, Stuart Braithwaite and Alasdair Roberts. A hugely talented artist, RM Hubbert finally looks set to gain the recognition he so richly deserves.
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: London Kings Place
Price: £9.50

Kent Duchaine & Leadbessie
Kent DuChaine started in music when his father taught him to play the ukulele at the age of six, at thirteen he got his first electric guitar and formed a band with his buddies in his hometown of Wayzata, Minnesota, playing mainly popular music at private parties and school functions. After reading some liner notes of an Eric Clapton album Kent started researching blues music. He discovered a Robert Johnson album and was astounded and fascinated at the banging sound as the bottle neck knocked against the frets as Johnson slid it up and down the neck of his guitar. Kent used a butter knife at first determined to recapture the wonderful sound. He immersed himself into the blues music of Johnson, Muddy Waters, Lightening Hopkins, T-Bone Walker, Bukka White and never looked back. Kent learned to play the slide guitar and soon developed his own ferocious wild style. In 1970 he opened a show for one his hero's, the slide guitar genius, Bukka White. From 1972 - 1975 Kent performed in a band with Kim Wilson from the present day Fabulous Thunderbirds. The band backed up blues greats such as Fenton Robinson, Boogie Woogie Red, Luther Tucker, Hubert Sumlin and Eddie Burns. The reputation of the band grew and Willie Dixon arranged a recording contract and a concert sharing the bill with Albert Collins, John Lee hooker, Howling Wolf and Margie Evens. In 1979 Kent met up with his beloved and ever faithful Leadbessie. She's a beat up 1934 National Steel Guitar that wows and astounds audiences when the equally beat up case she travels in is opened and her extra heavy strings are furiously played. Kent discovered and looked up a legendary blues man with the name of Johnny Shines in 1989. They traveled together for three years and performed over 200 shows together. In that time they recorded Back To the Country with harmonica great Snooky Pryor and were honored with the coveted W.C. Handy Award for best country blues album but unfortunately they did not add Kent's name onto the recording! In 1991 the Smithsonian Institute honored the king of the delta blues, Robert Johnson. Kent and Johnny were specially invited to perform and Roots Of Rhythm And Blues: A tribute To Robert Johnson Era was the result. This was recorded by Sony/Columbia and also Grammy nominated. Kent and Johnny's wonderful partnership and friendship was cut short when Johnny Shines sadly passed away in in April 1992. Since going solo in 1982 and hitting the roads, riding the rails, flying the skies and sailing the seas, Kent and Leadbessie have probably by now clocked up over two million miles together including over 80/81 overseas tours (yup, she's faithful old girl!). A (small) handful of wives have been picked up and lost along the way and many stories gained of friendships, loves, heartaches and the blues that he communicates to his audiences, most of which, leave folk laughing or scratching their heads in disbelief. He also speaks of the history of the blues music, the great men who developed it, and his incredible involvement with some of them to audiences far and wide. Songs such as Shake Your Money Maker, Jitterbug Swing have folk up dancing, Kent's' versions of Trouble In Mind, St James Infirmary have been seen to bring tears in many eyes. The London Times newspaper has named him as one of the best five concerts in the U.K. Kent and Leadbessie have dedicated fans all over the world who are asking all the time for him to add another album to the seven (and one live DVD) that he has already released which include his own ingenious compositions as well as songs that he loves and keeps alive that those wonderful, old blues guys produced. www.kentduchaine.com
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Bath Chapel Arts Centre
Price: £10.00

Nick Harper
Doors Open 8pm Son of the legendary UK singer-songwriter Roy Harper, Nick was born in London and raised in Wiltshire. Having played the guitar from the age of 10 and surrounded by the likes of Keith Moon, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and Dave Gilmour as he grew up, it was no surprise when Nick made his recording debut on his father's Whatever Happened to Jugula? in 1985 Non Members pay an extra £1 Trades Club signing in fee CONCESSIONS APPLY TO TRADES CLUB MEMBERS ONLY
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Hebden Bridge The Trades Club
Price: £9.00

Singing Loins - First Friday Folk & Roots
Authentic raw folk from the Medway Delta.
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012
Time: 7.00pm
Venue: Margate Tom Thumb Theatre
Price: £8.00

The Old Fashioned
Fi Fraser, Pete Bullock & Howard Mitchell - piano, bass & fiddle Please note admission prices are £1 extra on the door,
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012
Time: 7.45pm
Venue: Guildford Institute
Price: £9.00

Cole Stacey, Jenny Lindfords & Pepe
Cole performs live with Guitar ,Vocals & Piano, and is always accompanied by one or 2 supremely talented multi-instrumentalists www. colestacey.co.uk www.jennylindfords.com
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Cornwall Eden Project Cafe
Price: £4.00

Lost In Space - 7-piece Party Band
They're a stomping seven-piece party band with raunchy female vocals, a full brass section, funky bass, jazz guitar and more percussion than you can shake a stick at, playing ska and blues, all with an edge of funk and jazz, re-working old standards, and writing their own songs too.
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012
Time: 9pm
Venue: The B-Bar @ The Barbican Theatre
Price: £3.00

Bobby Valentino & The Musicians
You've almost certainly heard Bobby Valentino's violin playing, most notably on "Young At Heart" by the Bluebells, which he also co-wrote, but also on recordings and gigs with the likes of The Men They Couldn't Hang; Mark Knopfler; Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers; Bob Dylan; The Style Council; Billy Bragg; Big Country; Nick Lowe and many, many more, as well as TV and film soundtracks. But have you heard him sing? No? Then you're in for a treat. He's a born-again crooner in the Bing Crosby, Dean Martin vein but, unlike Bing and Dean, he also writes his own songs. At the Green Note Bobby will be show-casing his current album, "Pat-a-Cake, Pat-a-Cake", a collection of 14 songs that already sound like classics, released on Handmade Music. His new band - The Musicians (well what else would you call 'em) include a great new young guitarist, George Risk, the double-bass virtuoso, Simon Thorpe, and percussionist John Blease. has the entertaining gift of writing songs that sound like 60 year old originals. A Gem Q Magazine A wonderful selection of Big Band croon and swing jazz that oozes wit and relaxed charm. Irresistible Sunday Press A right charmer whose silky baritone slides insidiously out of the speakers, up your leg and into your ears John Conquest, Third Coast Music, Austin TX. His solo album shows how good a player he is, with demonstrations of fine, and at times, fiery violin work..there are some good songs, from his own upbeat The Man Who Invented Jazz to a laid-back Walking After Midnight. Robin Denseslow, The Guardian. PLEASE NOTE: DOORS OPEN: 7pm, MUSIC STARTS AT 9pm. The venue comprises both seated and standing space. There are a limited number of tables. These are allocated on a first come first served basis, with priority given to diners. If you'd like a table, please ensure you arrive early. We reserve the right to release all unclaimed tickets for re-sale at 9.30pm. If you will be arriving after this time, please inform us in advance, so that we can hold your tickets for you.
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012
Time: Doors @ 7pm. See GreenNote.co.uk for start time
Venue: London Green Note
Price: £10.00

Máire Ní Chathasaigh & Chris Newman
Back by popular demand after a previous sell out show the brilliant, innovative harp playing of Máire Ní Chathasaigh, Irish Traditional Musician of the Year 2001, and the astonishing virtuosity and versatility of English guitar wizard Chris Newman, has been heard all over the world. Now they come to the Victoria Hall again with their addictive and stylish cocktail of powerhouse Irish dance music, gorgeous airs, evocative old songs and striking new compositions - with shots of hot jazz and bluegrass thrown in. "Máire Ní Chathasaigh is in a class of her own" The Guardian "An ecleticism and spirit of adventure that is quite thrilling... Virtuoso playing... bewitching string fantasies and a wonderfully clear and expressive voice" The Times "Dazzling virtuosity... The speed and complexity is to be marvelled at... exquisitely delivered... delightful" The Daily Telegraph SEATING INFORMATION This event is sold with unreserved tickets and the seating configuration may change depending on the size of the audience. We advise arriving as close to the doors open time as possible.
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Settle Victoria Hall
Price: £12.00

Green Angels Cd Launch
An evening of funky French and blissful Breton music and dance to celebrate Green Angels debut CD. Free dance workshop at 7pm. Support band Wod play at 8.15pm Green Angels play at 9.45pm Green Angels have been surprising and delighting french / breton dance fans for several years. At the heart of their unique sound are the rhythms and melodies of ancient dance music from Britanny and the joyful, flirtatious social dances from central France and european folk culture. These centuries-old folk tunes are re-interpreted by four talented musicians with a deep love and respect for tradition, adding their own mix of spice drawn from their wide musical and personal experience. The Cd launch at Glastonbury town Hall will be a memorable night of music and dance. Green Angels are supported by Wod, a trio from Oxford who play French and Breton dance tunes in a more traditional style, with rare soul and sensitivity. Magical stuff! It's well worth arriving early for the free dance workshop at 7 pm, if you want to learn some basic steps. Free dance workshop at 7pm. Support band Wod play at 8.15pm Green Angels play at 9.45pm
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012
Time: 6.30pm
Venue: Glastonbury Town Hall
Price: £7.50

Acoustic Strawbs
Acoustic Strawbs are David Cousins, Dave Lambert, and Chas Cronk, the front-line of the classic 1970s line-up of Britain's most successful international folk-rock band. Unlike many groups that are past their commercial prime and churn out inferior, dispirited versions of the hits from their glory days, the Acoustic Strawbs stand out as a band that performs their old material with passion and precision. Furthermore, they have broken new ground by harnessing the power of their electric incarnation in an acoustic setting. They are masters of their instruments and the guitars and vocal harmonies complement each other perfectly.
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012
Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: Sevenoaks The Rock Plaza
Price: £15.00

Los Salvadores - The Flowing Wheels
A triple headline theatre tour featuring Kent's finest modern Folk
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Margate Tom Thumb Theatre
Price: £5.00

Ahab
ahab are returning due to popular demand, this time to a bigger venue - with room to dance! Selling out their first visit to Folk in the Barn these gorgeous guys will be delighting us with their stunning harmonies and superb musicianship. A real feel good band - with something for everyone - don't miss them. Doors 7.15pm starts 8pm
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012
Time: 7.15pm
Venue: Canterbury The Chapel
Price: £12.00

Liane Carroll
The Collective is proud to present the award winning singer/pianist LIANNE CARROLL. We consider her to be one of the best jazz blues singers in Europe ... possibly the world! "Deeply soulful wonderfully honest" - The Times "Highly recommended - I love it " - Micheal Parkinson. "The real thing" - Sholto Brynes, The Independent On Sunday "Utterly brilliant" - Time Out. THE MENU for this event will definately include dumplings! This is because our favourite musician luvs 'em! Menu to be comfirmed!
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012
Time: Doors open 7pm & food served until 8.00pm
Venue: Bury St Edmunds The Devil's Kitchen Collective at The Greene King Social Club
Price: £20.00

Cole Stacey, Jenny Lindfords & Pepe
Cole ia an impassioned & ambitious young songwriter playing the guitar, piano and accompanied by other supremely talented musicians.... www.jennylindfords.com www.colestacey.co.uk
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Cornwall Miss Peapod's
Price: £4.00

Chuck Farley
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012
Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: Dorchester Arts Centre
Price: £12.00

Chuck Farley
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012
Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: Dorchester Arts Centre
Price: £10.00

Doctor's Orders
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Pontypool Borough Blues Club
Price: £7.00

Mauricio Velasierra Quintet
Mauricio Velasierra is a pioneering player of the Kena Flute, mixing traditional Andean melodies and contemporary harmonies His Main instrument The Kena, is normally played in one key, but Mauricio has created his own system to play in all keys and quarter tones; allowing for the melancholic sounds of an ancient culture to combine with Asian sounds, and a rich mixture of Afro-Andean grooves. His band combines musicians from all over the world, coming from very different musical styles: Henrik Jensen (Double Bass), Camilo Menjura (Guitar), Jenny Adejayan (Cello), Gregorio Merchan (Percussion & Drums) Mauricio Velasierra (Kena Flutes & Moceños), Special Guest: Stephanie O'Brien (Paraguayan Harp, Voice)
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012
Time: 6.45pm
Venue: London St Ethelburga's
Price: £10.00

Richard Barry & The Chaps
Richard is one of the most fondly revered performers on the UK folk circuit and Debt Records is making it theirbusiness to bring his work to a wider audience (whether he likes it or not). In the past Richard has supported the likes of Bob Geldof, Kiki Dee, Midge Ure, Fairport Convention and Dr Feelgood. He is also a much-demanded voice-over artist, narrator and actor. Recently Richard collaborated with Louis Barabbas and Alabaster Deplume on Debt Productions' musical "Dead At The Café Styx" and performed it to much acclaim at the Brighton Fringe Festival (and later Studio Salford) where he was described by one (particularly morbid) reviewer as having a talent that "Vivian Stanshall would roll around in flames for". The following month he played one of the most talked about sets at the Kuiperfest acoustic festival in North Spain and received a standing ovation at the prestigious Dancehouse Theatre later in the year. http://www.debtrecords.net/artists/richard_barry/
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012
Time: 8.30pm
Venue: Glossop Redroom at The Oakwood
Price: £3.00

The Zen Hussies
RIP-ROARING ROOTS MUSIC THE ZEN HUSSIES BORN SHOWMEN WITH ONE EYE ON THE ABSURD SUNDAY 5TH FEB £10 The Zen Hussies 3rd album 'Troubled Feet' has created a highly original and characteristic slice of contemporary roots music. These 11 tracks meld a diverse range of genres, (Rhythm and Blues, Ska, Swing, Dixieland, Rockabilly, Calypso) culminating with their inimitable punked-up swingska sound. They trail blazers for new artists enjoying the resurgence of interest in pre-war music. Naturally fusing these musical influences climaxing into an instantly recognisable sound that is contemporary, and not mere nostalgia. A memorable name on the live circuit now for a decade, performing over a thousand gigs on stages of all shapes and sizes, The Zen Hussies are very much a live band, long renowned for their high energy and marathon length sets, gregarious showmanship, deft musicianship and good humour alike. The Zen Hussies prove popular with DJs and fans across Europe and beyond with recent releases in Japan to much success. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWT-0n1hu3I www.zenhussies.com DOOR £13 Open at 6pm food until 10pm, your table will be allocated on arrival, diners get preferential seating. Tickets from www.quecumbar.co.uk www.wegottickets.com/
Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012
Time: 6pm
Venue: London Le Quecum Bar & Brasserie
Price: £10.00

Anthony John Clarke
**** Album launch night! **** Club fave; by turns humourous, touching, hilarious, heart-breaking. Sounds like Tony Hancock right? You might well be on the ball there!
Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012
Time: Access from 7 pm - music from 8pm
Venue: Southport Park Golf Club
Price: £6.00

The Outside Track
A stunning synthesis of virtuosity and energy, The Outside Track's marriage of Canadian, Scottish and Irish music and song has been rapturously received around the world. Hailing from Scotland, Ireland, Cape Breton and Vancouver, its five members are united by a love of traditional music and a commitment to creating new music on its foundation. Using fiddle, accordion, harp, guitar, flute, step-dance and vocals these five virtuosos blend boundless energy with unmistakable joie de vivre. The line up comprises Norah Rendell (Canadian Traditional Singer of the Year nominee), Mairi Rankin (Beolach), Ailie Robertson (Live Ireland Winner, BBC Young Trad Finalist), Fiona Black (BBC Fame Academy Winner), and Cillian O'Dalaigh. Each player within The Outside Track is a master of their chosen instrument with the band stacking up an impressive amount of international awards. This amount of talent alone would be enough to recommend the band but in this case the end result is so much greater than the sum of the parts. The band have enjoyed 5 years of extensive touring in the UK, Europe, Canada and the USA, including appearances at Celtic Connections, Celtic Colours, Goderich, Mission, Memoire et Racines, Sidmouth, and Whitby Festivals. www.theoutsidetrack.com
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012
Time: 7.00
Venue: London Green Note
Price: £10.00

Rab Noakes
Rab's great songs have been covered by the likes of Lindisfarne and Barbara Dickson. He was recently featured on the BBC4 series 'Singer Songwriters at the BBC' and his love of classic pop song formula be it Everly Brothers or Radiohead results in a glorious mix of live material.
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012
Time: 8.30pm
Venue: Etton The Processed Pea
Price: £10.00

Patsy Matheson & Becky Mills
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Lowdham The Old Ship Inn
Price: £8.00

Acoustic Strawbs
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012
Time: 7.15pm
Venue: Birmingham Red Lion Folk Club
Price: £13.00

Richard Wood & Gordon Belsher
Arguably one of the most entertaining and talented fiddlers from the Celtic world has lost none of his fire and zip in the intervening years. Accompanied on guitar, bodhran, and vocal by Gordon Belsher their performance combines the best of jigs, reels and Strathspeys with Richard's own compositions. If ever there was a demonstration as to the high quality of Canadian musicianship then these two lay down the standard for others to follow. "The best or more precisely, the most entertaining fiddler I have ever seen." Shetland Times "Richard has the fire of a rock god and all the talent and skill of a master musician" Time Out PLEASE NOTE: DOORS OPEN: 7pm, MUSIC STARTS AT 9pm. The venue comprises both seated and standing space. There are a limited number of tables. These are allocated on a first come first served basis, with priority given to diners. If you'd like a table, please ensure you arrive early. We reserve the right to release all unclaimed tickets for re-sale at 9.30pm. If you will be arriving after this time, please inform us in advance, so that we can hold your tickets for you.
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012
Time: Doors @ 7pm. See GreenNote.co.uk for start time
Venue: London Green Note
Price: £10.00

Munto Valdo + Kadialy Kouyate
Muntu Valdo Muntu Valdo's music is rooted in the blues, mixing African traditions with modernity and technical mastery. His solo set juxtaposes his raw, passionate voice and emotive melodies with an ingenious use of loops, samples and effects. He has played with some of the great names of African music including Ali Farka Touré and Manu Dibango, toured with Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Congolese superstars Staff Benda Bilili, and collaborated with the likes of alt-folk singer Alasdair Roberts and Damon Albarn's Africa Express. Muntu's debut album Gods & Devils was described by NME as a rapturous record that shudders with joy and passion. "The crowd were treated to Muntu Valdo's guitar magic. Sauntering on stage with a springy step, softly picking at his guitar and blowing in his harmonica, he resembled a youthful, latter-day Bob Dylan. But his music is from a different stream. Using a box of tricks to double-track his guitar and voice live, he added layers of sound to create full-textured, soft songs about peace, love and Cameroonian witchcraft that charmed the audience (Financial Times). Kadialy Kouyate Kadialy Kouyate performs original music inspired by the West African griot repertoire. Born into the great line of Kouyate griots in Southern Senegal, Kadialy first made a name for himself in the UK with both his solo performances and success with steel pan player Fimber Bravo. Kadialy's new ensemble features an outstanding group of London-based musicians. With their upcoming album Teriya and successful performances at the Southbank Centre, the Shambala Festival and the London African Music Festival, Kadialy Kouyate is a star to watch. Senegalese kora virtuoso/singer Kadialy Kouyate showcases his fleet-fingered skills on this mesmerizing instrument, complementing it with his hauntingly, darkly beautiful voice, to create a Toumani Diabate-meets-Youssou N'Dour sound" (Time Out).
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: London Vortex
Price: £11.00

Patsy Matheson & Becky Mills
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Barton The Ropewalk
Price: £10.00

Walsh & Pound
Will Pound and Dan Walsh are two of the most exciting, unique young musicians on today's music scene. Labelled respectively as 'one of the most original harmonica players in Britain' and 'the UK's top Clawhammer banjoist', the two have joined forces to create a highly entertaining and astonishing live set which made its debut in May 2009 to a rapturous reception. Since then they have gained critical acclaim for their live performances across the UK, including The Sage Gateshead, London's Southbank Centre and many festivals. 2011 saw them working at festivals across the UK to sell-out audiences, including Sidmouth, Wilderness, Shrewsbury, Warwick, Bromyard and Broadstairs. Will has recorded on the brand new Martin Simpson "Airs and Graces" CD, alongside the likes of Richard Thompson, Dick Gaughan and Jon Boden. He is also working with Guy Chambers on various recording projects. Their new album continues to notch up radio plays and has received many four and five star reviews in the music press. Prepare to be astonished by stunning vocals, frailing banjo wizardry and sounds you didn't think were possible on harmonica. This duo is destined for great things, with their ability to encompass an amazing array of musical genres with ease, energy and excellence!!!!
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012
Time: 8.30pm
Venue: London King's Head, Crouch End
Price: £12.00

Ola Onabule
With a career that has spanned nearly two decades, Ola Onabule is touring his seventh album release, Seven Shades Darker. A British-Nigerian musician born in Islington, London, he has blazed his own trail at every step, and has become a regular presence at some of the world's premier festivals and concert halls. Blending soul, jazz, funk and folk influences his writing deals with personal themes as well as tackling global issues.
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012
Time: 7pm doors, 8pm start
Venue: Aylesbury Limelight Theatre
Price: £12.00

Rainbow Chasers
Folk legend Ashley Hutchings has joined forces with three highly talented musicians: Joe Topping (guitar and vocals), Jo Hamilton (viola, guitar and vocals) and Ruth Angell (fiddle, guitar and vocals). Together they are Rainbow Chasers, performing a repertoire of self-penned songs of the highest quality and sophistication, drawing from a broad range of ideas and influences. Skilful musical arrangements are neatly balanced with tremendous harmony singing and shared lead vocals.
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Goole Junction
Price: £10.00

The People's String Foundation, Sion Russell Jones
Two acts destined for great things in 2012, The People's String Foundation and Sion Rusell Jones. www.thepeoplesstrings.co.uk www.sionrusselljones.co.uk
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Cornwall Eden Project Cafe
Price: £4.00

Claude Bourbon - Virtuoso Jazz-world-folk Guitarist
A breathtaking acoustic fusion of blues, jazz, folk, classical and Spanish guitar from a stunning guitar virtuoso from France. This finger-picking guitarist has performed and studied all over the world; he has crafted an unbelievable fusion of classical and jazz, with ethereal Eastern influences, Spanish and Latin elements with strains of Western folk.
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012
Time: 9.00pm
Venue: The B-Bar @ The Barbican Theatre
Price: £3.00

Amira Kheir
Sudanese-Italian singer/songwriter Amira Kheir is creating a sound that is inspired by traditional Sudanese singing and instrumentation, and blended with elements of Jazz, Soul, East and West African as well as Middle Eastern music. The result is a unique amalgamation of arrangements that give tasters of Sudan's rich musical and cultural heritage whilst being reflective of our ever-merging world.
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012
Time: 6.45pm
Venue: London St Ethelburga's
Price: £10.00

Nancy Kerr And James Fagan
Live Music - Doors 7.15 Show at 8pm
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012
Time: 7.15pm
Venue: Ireby The Globe Hall
Price: £10.00

Dave Swarbrick
Dave Swarbrick Saturday 11 February 8.30 Tickets £10 The very welcome return of the legendary folk fiddler. During an illustious and influential career, Swarb has worked with Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, Ian Campbell and (of course) Martin Carthy. He was also a member of Fairport Convention and Band of Hope as well as founding Whippersnappers. Swarb received the coveted Gold Badge from the English Folk Song and Dance Society and a Lifetime Achievement Award in the annual BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in 2004. Swarb's evening will doubtless be well peppered with anecdotes about the music and musicians. www.folkicons.co.uk/swarb.htm
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012
Time: 8.30PM
Venue: South Molton The George Hotel
Price: £10.00

The Webb Sisters
Born into a family of musicians in Kent, England, Charley and Hattie are The Webb Sisters.....Dynamic performers with expressive voices and plangent harmonies, The Webb Sisters are multi-instrumentalists and songwriters of originality and intelligence. Ingénues yet thinkers, the sisters create enthralling live performances. Their singing and playing (harp, guitar, mandolin, piano, drums) draw from the folk and pop traditions of Britain and the United States. The Webb Sisters have recorded three albums, building a following on their travels, achieving album, single and record of the week on iTunes and BBC Radio Two. Charley and Hattie have performed twice for Princess Anne and once for Queen Elizabeth. The new album 'SAVAGES', produced by multiple Grammy Award winning producer Peter Asher, is currently set for a May 2011 release in the UK and beyond. 'Baroque Thoughts' (featured on 'Savages') won the International Music Award for 'best Adult Contemporary Song'. The Webb Sisters were chosen to join Leonard Cohen's live band on his first tour in fifteen years. 247 shows were played around the world between 2008 and 2010. Two DVD and audio albums have been released documenting the musical performances of the tour, 'Live in London' and 'Songs from the Road'. On the DVD 'Live In London', Charley and Hattie are featured on the song 'If It Be Your Will' Charley and Hattie received an invitation to sing on Sting's album 'If On a Winter's Night' and on Natalie Maines' (of The Dixie Chicks) version of 'God Only Knows', which was featured on the series finale of HBO's 'Big Love'. The Webb Sisters have toured with Jamie Cullum, Rufus Wainwright, Jason Mraz, James Morrison, Kubb, Katie Melua, Leya and Joe Echo. The Webb Sisters represented the United Kingdom at America's 400th Anniversary celebrations, contributed songs to several major TV shows (such as "Cane" on CBS), and recorded a pro-peace song 'Fortune of Soldiers' for a Judy Collins tribute album 'Born To The Breed' alongside Dolly Parton and Chrissie Hynde.
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012
Time: 7PM
Venue: Sandwich St Mary's Church
Price: £15.00

Kangaroo Moon
Doors open 9pm Kangaroo Moon weave many strands from world, rock, folk and dance, with acoustic and electronic influences into a funky, psychedelic, heart-lifting wall of sound. Trancy, richly melodic and dancey, listeners experience a sound which unites the body and soul in deep, joyful psychedelia and elemental dance. Kangaroo Moon have their roots in the music people play and the music people dance with .They've played and danced their way through more than a few permutations of global sound. Well travelled, extensive touring in Australia and Europe, the band has played Glastonbury and Womad several times, as well as Phoenix, Guildford, Mistelbach (Austria) Sfinks (Belgium) Oerol (Netherlands) Maleny & the National Folk(Oz). CONCESSIONS APPLY TO TRADES CLUB MEMBERS ONLY
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012
Time: 9pm
Venue: Hebden Bridge The Trades Club
Price: £9.00

Alun Parry At Radical Liverpool
An evening of live acoustic and folk music with a difference, drawing on Liverpool's radical traditions.
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012
Time: 7pm
Venue: Liverpool Studio 2
Price: £4.50

Ox
Ox began in the smokey confines of East-side Vancouver's Profile Studios- as songwriter Mark Browning's project to remake Woody Guthrie's 'Dust Bowl Ballads'. What started as a musical history excercise and sonic experiment quickly transformed into an intimate expression of rambling folk soundscape mixed with indie rock. Browning's 2003 debut, 'Dust Bowl Revival' bridged the burgeoning roots alt-country scene into indie cult status coming out of nowhere to eventually reach #1 on Canada's national college radio chart- the first time an independent record has achieved such an honour. Following this, thousands of miles of touring across Canada, the USA, UK, Ireland, Germany, and the Netherlands crystalized Ox's underground cult status. Avoiding the mainstream, and ignoring the industry, Ox lurks on the fringe with a fiercely independent DIY approach and through subsequent albums and tours- each generating critical acclaim- has gained a loyal following. After 7 years and 4 albums, Browning moved the Ox homebase to his hometown of Sudbury, Ontario. There, with support from longtime Ox collaborator Ryan Bishops, and part-time sideman Brian Dunn, he founded Cosmic Dave's Sound Emporium- an atmospheric analog equiped recording studio and vintage music store situated in an iconic old-time Sudbury diner. Here, Ox continues the tradition begun in Vancouver combining haunting dust bowl soundtracks with reverb-soaked garage indie folk- either providing late night playlists for all night prairie drives.
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012
Time: 8.30pm
Venue: Glossop Redroom at The Oakwood
Price: £3.00

Latin Quarter
Great band best known for their chart-topper 'Radio Africa' play Bournemouth just in advance of their European tour.
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012
Time: 7.15pm, music 8pm.
Venue: Bournemouth Centre Stage
Price: £5.00

Allan Taylor
Sophisticated writer with "an emotional reach that leaves you reeling" (Clive Pownceby, Living Tradition magazine)
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012
Time: From 7pm - music from 8pm onwards
Venue: Southport Park Golf Club
Price: £7.00

Ewan Mclennan
Recent nominations for BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards and Scots Trad Awards confirm his ongoing success. ewanmclennan.co.uk
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Norwich The Bicycle Shop
Price: £7.00

Jo Long & The Pure Drop
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012
Time: 6.30 pm
Venue: Dorchester Arts Centre
Price: £5.00

Kyla Brox Trio
Kyla Brox can be tender, urgent and gritty: she blurs the distinction between pleasure and pain like the soul greats of old. The daughter of blues singer Victor Brox, Kyla started singing on-stage at the age of 12 and has several albums to her name, including the band triumph Coming Home (2004) and the stripped and sensitive Grey Sky Blue (2009). The different setting, from band to duo/trio, encourages two distinct Kylas to come to the fore - the salty blues mama in line from Bessie Smith, and the tender soul singer who sets out her hopes and fears in song. She never flinches from emotional reality in either situation, and is undoubtedly the finest UK blues and soul singer of her generation. The trio shines a light on the virtuoso guitar-work of helpmate and songwriting partner Danny Blomeley, and the riveting saxophone of Tony Marshall, who often sounds like the missing link between John Coltrane and King Curtis.
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012
Time: 7.00pm
Venue: Ripon The Cellar Door
Price: £10.00

Maggie Boyle And Paul Downes
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: Croydon Ruskin House
Price: £10.00

Maggie Boyle And Paul Downes
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: Croydon Ruskin House
Price: £7.00

Ian Nagoski Presents To What Strange Place Tour
A fascinating, new view of American Folk Music at this VERY special and unique evening at The Old Boot Factory, to bring joy to your brain and your feet - Ian Nagoski discussing and playing tracks from his amazing collection of obscure early 20th Century Eastern Mediterranean 78s, To What Strange Place (Tompkins Square), and Chris Hladowski's The Family Elan kicking out the Anatolian jams in their new bouzouki/bass/percussion trio formation. http://coocooclub.wordpress.com/ https://www.facebook.com/events/229116117170402/
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Oxford The Old Boot Factory
Price: £7.00

Ian Nagoski Presents 'to What Strange Place' And The Family Elan (live)
This concert sees a rare pairing of two musical entities divided by the Atlantic but united by a mutual love for obscure musical outpourings from under-heard sections of diverse cultures. Ian Nagoski is a radio presenter and musicologist based in New York who has received great plaudits in recent months for the 3cd package he compiled for the excellent Tompkins Square label, To What Strange Place : The Music Of The Ottoman-American Diaspora, 1916-1929. Along with the extensive notes contained within the package, Nagoski has produced a tantalising treasure trail relating the stories of the countless intertwined lives of people originally from Anatolia, the Eastern Mediterranean, and the Levant who migrated to the US in the early 20th Century and the music they brought with them. ‎Comparisons with Harry Smith's anthology or Revenant's American Primitive are in order, not least because this is American music with a capital A, animated by the same feelings of desperation, nostalgia, the quest for cheap kicks and the agony of loss. Like Smith, Nagoski is a Walter Benjamin visionary, using his collection of 78s to hallucinate a history that actually happened but which remains hidden beneath official dogma and nationalisms. -The Wire, August 2011 I was entranced; I was FASCINATED. It is one of the most worthwhile purchases you will make this year. I went and got mine; I think you should, too.  - Henry Rollins, KCRW Ian Nagoski's To What Strange Place is a work of great beauty. - Jace Clayton / DJ/rupture, WFMU It feels as essential to an understanding of American music as anything else. - Pitchfork Ian will play and discuss a selection of tracks from the collection and relate stories of migration, the embryonic record pressing industry, cultural dispersal and interweaving he's delivered several such presentations in the US, where the musical mix of deep contemplation, utter tragedy, blazing jams and some hilarity has left deep impressions on his audiences. THE FAMILY ELAN Nagoski's playback and discussion will be followed by a performance from The Family Elan, the ongoing project of renowned multi-instrumentalist Chris Hladowski, who you might know from his work with A Hawk And A Hacksaw, Nalle and The One Ensemble. Delving into the same mine of influence as To What Strange Place, and dipping musical toes in Uzbekistan, Eastern Europe and elsewhere, the current formation of The Family Elan as bouzouki/bass/percussion power trio has inspired involuntary dervishes in audiences across Europe on recent tour dates.
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: Manchester Kraak Gallery
Price: £6.00

Lemur Promotions Presents... The 1930s
**PLEASE NOTE: THIS SHOW HAS MOVED FROM THE GREEN DOOR STORE** Lemur Promotions Presents... The 1930s with support from Bradley Hicks + More Support tbc The Hydrant (downstairs), 75 London Road, Brighton, BN1 4JF Tickets: £4 on the door / £3 with flier or name on the event wall The 1930's Announce Headline Tour! Belfast folk duo The 1930s are set to descend upon the shores of Brighton to play a very special, Valentines Day, show at The Hydrant. The 1930s have taken the Belfast scene by storm with folky hooks, infectious melodies and captivating live shows. Comprising Andrew Cameron and Jonny Solari, the duo were recently invited by MTV to perform at the EMA's, and with a single and album scheduled for this year along with a string of high profile fans including Carl Barât and Mumford and Sons, 2012 is shaping up to be a great year for the young band. Four years ago, Bradley Hicks began a musical journey by busking on the streets of the south coast of England. Following the positive reaction of venturing between Porstmouth ...and Brighton and strecthing up to North London, Bradley began composing his debut EP "Searching". The EP consists of four original tracks and was released on Jan 1st 2012 in small time record stores and is also available from any of his live shows. The EP has been released in conjunction with 100 gigs in 100 nights, Bradley's self-organised small time tour across the South Coast. To follow Bradley Hicks' music, keep track of all 100 gig dates and read all blogs find him on myspace, youtube or follow his official Facebook page. "Bradley has spent the best part of two years honing an acoustic sound that is hard to ignore. Exceptional guitar work and dreamlike vocal lines lend this young lad a repertoire of acoustic classics." - Jack Boyd, Chi Live www.facebook.com/lemur.promotions http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-1930s/173000674982 http://www.facebook.com/bradleyhicksmusic
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012
Time: 8:00pm
Venue: Brighton Hydrant
Price: £3.00

Juice (vocal Ensemble)
Twisted at the Root; a mix of sounds from Central African-inspired riffs to vocal percussion and ethereal harmonies. Concert starts at 7.30pm
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012
Time: 7.00pm
Venue: Keele University
Price: £14.00

David Newey - Cd Launch
David Newey is one of the UK's most in demand acoustic guitarists, songwriters and singers. David was inspired by his headmaster to start writing songs and playing the guitar aged 10. Since then, he's never really stopped, playing pubs and clubs around his native Hampshire until the age of 18, when he moved to Newcastle to study Folk and Traditional Music. Under the tuition of such established names as Chris Newman, Martins Simpson and Carthy, and John Renbourn, David honed his style. His guitar playing is unique and unrivalled, encompassing both the flatpick and fingerstyle techniques with power, fluency and control. David often blurs the boundaries between Acoustic and Electric styles, coaxing out sounds normally associated with rock and roll, jazz and country, and placing them within his more folk based playing. As such, he's in high demand as a collaborator, playing with BBC Radio 2 Folk Musician of the Year Tom McConville on a regular basis, and touring and recording with other luminaries and peers such as Christi Andropolis, Emily Portman, Sandra Kerr, and many others. He was a finalist in the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Musician of the Year in 2003, and has appeared all over magazine and radio, including BBC Radio 3's 'Late Junction', BBC Radio 2 Folk Show with Mike Harding, and in the Froots playlist and cover CD. As a songwriter, David has two albums to his name - 2005's 'A List of Names' and 2009's 'Cities and Power', the latter receiving a range of plaudits including a five star review from Rock n Reel, being called 'brave and imaginative' by Tom Robinson, and given numerous outings on national radio. His songwriting is political and personal, original and austere, echoing Richard Thompson, Boo Hewerdine and Chris Wood, but remaining entirely unique, and as a solo performer he likes to challenge and involve an audience. See www.davidnewey.com
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012
Time: 7:00pm
Venue: London Gallery Cafe
Price: £8.00

Hannah James And Sam Sweeney
Hannah and Sam have been playing together since 2002 are probably best known for their work in Kerfuffle, and in more recent years with the Demon Barber Roadshow and Bellowhead. Forming officially as a duo in 2008, they released their first album, Catches & Glees, in 2009 and were nominated for the Horizon Award the the 2010 BBC Folk Awards. Since the release of the album, Hannah and Sam have toured nationally, played festivals across the UK and received radio play internationally. They play predominantly English songs and tunes on Accordion and Fiddle, and the live show includes Hannah's renowned clog dancing. Presented by EFDSS in association with Songlines
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012
Time: 7.00pm
Venue: London Cecil Sharp House
Price: £12.00

Breabach
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012
Time: 7.15pm
Venue: Birmingham Red Lion Folk Club
Price: £12.00

Megson At Rout Of The Blues
Rout of the Blues - trad and psych folk night at The Wilmington Arms Rosebery Avenue Clerkenwell London EC1 featuring special guests MEGSON and MILKWOOD. Combining the talents of northerners Stu and Debbie Hanna , the folk duo MEGSON are hot property on the British folk and roots scene. Their four albums including the latest gem 'The Longshot' have chronicled that blossoming creative talent. Hailing from Teesside MEGSON draw heavily on their heritage to create an infectious and unique sound mixing heavenly vocals, lush harmonies and driving rhythmic guitars and mandolas. http://www.megsonmusic.co.uk Support comes from London based indie folksters MILKWOOD. http://www.myspace.com/milkwoodband Rout of the Blues is presented by The Fox and the Blacksmith and expresses a deep enthusiasm for folk influenced sounds from the early sixties through to the present where Fairport, Shirley Collins, Caravan & even Hawkwind can be heard along with Johnny Flynn, The Unthanks, Midlake and Tunng. http://www.myspace.com/routoftheblues
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: London Wilmington Arms
Price: £8.00

The Wiyos
American roots music sensations, The Wiyos made their first major impact on BBC TV with Seasick Steve, filmed at The Barbican's big Folk America extravaganza. In 2009, they went out on a 27-date run of US baseball stadiums with Bob Dylan, in 2010, they wowed a capacity crowd at Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow and scored such an outstanding success that they got an invitation to return. Now a five-piece band with a brand new album, Twist, to promote they are back for another UK tour. Reviewers on both sides of the Atlantic have written great things about the 'live' performances and recordings. After playing tracks for several times on his BBC Radio 2 programme, Bob Harris told listeners: This is great music, The Los Angeles Times said they were: A Pure Joy, while No Depression described them as a Once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Belfast Black Box
Price: £10.00

Tim Edey And Brendan Power
On Stage 8pm Adventurous creative players are drawn to each other, and the first time Tim and Brendan met the musical sparks flew! The magic erupted whenever they played, so they finally decided to resist the urge no longer and get serious as a performance duo Non Members pay an extra £1 Trades Club signing in fee CONCESSIONS APPLY TO TRADES CLUB MEMBERS ONLY
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012
Time: 7pm
Venue: Hebden Bridge The Trades Club
Price: £11.00

Kathryn Roberts And Sean Lakeman
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: Leicester The Musician
Price: £9.00

Richard Digance
16th February - Richard Digance 8pm, tickets, £16.00/£14.00 in advance Many people sing, play guitar and tell stories but not many have supported Steve Martin, Robin Williams or played a guitar duet with Brian May of Queen, Richard Digance has. 'Richard Digance is a National Treasure' - Bob Harris
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Ascot Jagz
Price: £14.00

Son Of Eagle And Megan Henwood
Son of Eagle are a band of humble origins. It was back in 2009 when Benjamin Edmonds began impromptu jam sessions with his friend Dean Collier, setting out to create what they described as traditional folk meets nu folk. As the sound grew so did the band, with viola-player Sarah Lloyd joining Benjamin and Dean. The band was now picking up momentum, and the music being created was taken from the personal space of Benjamin's spare room and brought to the outside world. After a steady flow of well-received gigs in the bands hometown of Derby, the young Son of Eagle decided to return to the intimate practice space of Benjamin's spare room, where all of their songs had begun, and record their first EP, Take Me Back. The EP was built up layer by layer through a single microphone, recreating that closeness that characterised Son of Eagle's live performances. As the band's popularity snowballed, Son of Eagle realised that they needed more pairs of hands to recreate the expansive sound of their debut EP when playing live. First to join was bassist Phil Thompson who, according to the band, was found playing along to the band's EP in his bedroom. Shortly afterwards followed the recruitment of drummer Liam Walker, plucked from the crowd at a local gig to join the band on stage, immediately becoming a permanent addition. Son of Eagle are not a group of five that forced themselves together to create music, not a jumble of musicians that struggle to occupy each member for the duration of a song. Son of Eagle are a collective that has grown organically over time, each member being assimilated as the sound grew. This reflects in the music that the band creates. The superfluous is avoided in the music of Son of Eagle. It could be due to the chosen recording method of each layer of music being added through a single microphone. It could be due to each member being brought into the group when the sound required it. Each instrument knows when it needs to be heard and when it needs to settle into the background, creating the ebb and flow that is characteristic of Son of Eagle's sound. Massive violin riffs give way to the interweaving texture of sparkling guitars. Underneath is the shifting basslines and rumbling percussion of a rhythm section that cannot sit still. On the top, matching the rise and fall of the band's music with its contrasting softening and intensity, is the distinctive voice of Benjamin. Music that nods towards influences such as the accomplished musicianship of Bob Dylan and James Taylor, whilst drawing on and distinguishing itself against contemporary acts such as Bon Iver and Fleet Foxes. The momentum of Son of Eagle's growing sound and ability is matched by the increasing exposure they are receiving. The band has been featured on BBC introducing, as well as playing a multitude of well-‐received festival slots. Signed to Expat records the band has released their debut album From the Ground. Megan Henwood Megan showed signs of what was to come from a very early age. Her first public performance was at the local Henley Youth Festival where she performed one of her own songs at the age of 9! As a teenager Megan's songwriting skills continued to develop and she performed, both as a solo artist and with her band, honing her craft on the local live circuit. At eighteen she spent six months travelling where she paid her way playing guitar and singing to crowds in Venice, Thailand, India and Malaysia. It was during this time she fell in love with the people of Nepal and has since returned to Kathmandu twice to record with leading Nepalese musicians Nirmal Kulu, Binod Katal and Shyram Saram Nepali. Back in the UK, between songwriting and performing Megan regularly contributes to music therapy sessions for people with learning difficulties. These experiences have had a profound effect on her songwriting. Her powerful, poignant and often witty lyrics are woven around wonderful timeless pop melodies and demonstrate a depth and maturity far beyond her years. Megan won the BBC RADIO 2 Young Folk Award in 2009 with her brother Joe, beating off strong competition in the final at Queen Elizabeth Hall on London's Southbank, at the age of 20. Her debut single What Elliott Said was released last September and won a number of new fans through its playlist at BBC Radio 2 and sessions at various stations including the Janice Long show on Radio 2. Megan has since been writing and recording her debut album, Making Waves which features a number of celebrated guests such as Peter Knight (Steeleye Span) on fiddle, Barriemore Barlow (Jethro Tull) on drums plus Joe Brown, Sam Brown and Mollie Marriott, among others. Megan's recent festival appearances have included Cropredy, The Cambridge Folk Festival, Secret Garden Party, Towersey Village Festival, Warwick Folk Festival, Moseley Folk Festival, Oxford Folk Festival, Cheltenham, Sidmouth Folk Festival and she played her first Glastonbury in 2010. She has also played support slots around the UK with Ray Davies, Cara Dillon, Julie Fowlis and Eilen Jewell. plus a UK theatre tour supporting Eric Bibb. She continues to perform live around the UK and this summer's festivals confirmed so far include Cambridge Folk Festival, Secret Garden Party and the Larmer Tree Festival. She's a regular at her local Nettlebed Folk Club. Megan is clearly rooted in the folk tradition but is by no means bound by it. Her songs have a timeless and universal radio-friendly appeal. Here is a truly talented British singer-songwriter with a long and fruitful career ahead of her. She has been steadily finding new fans and building her audience and the debut album Making Waves features some of her best songs honed over all those live performances including the beautiful 'White Lies', which ultimately won her the Folk Award, the debut single What Elliott Said, and Hope on the Horizon. Making Waves is a truly remarkable debut album. Student tickets are available 'on the door' @ £7
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Bath Chapel Arts Centre
Price: £8.00

Jon Gomm
Live at 'The Farncombe Cavern' Jon Gomm. Jon Gomm is an acoustic singer-songwriter with an incredible virtuoso guitar style, where he uses one acoustic guitar to create drum sounds, basslines and sparkling melodies all at the same time. The emphasis is still on the soulful vocals and songwriting however, and his original material is influenced by everything from Robert Johnson to Radiohead.
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012
Time: 8:30pm
Venue: Farncombe Cavern
Price: £5.00

Gloria Jeffries
An occasional Singers Night visitor who always entertains, Gloria now does a first guest booking under this name, although in other guises she has been a frequent and favourite club guest ever since the early 1980s. A great singer and a skilled guitarist, she has some excellent self-penned material and a wide range of traditional tunes and other covers, including some beautiful pieces on the flute.
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: York Black Swan Inn
Price: £7.00

Lee Mitchell
Lee Mitchell: Lee Mitchell hails from a small town in Northern Ireland that already boasts an outstanding music heritage. Bangor‟ the quiet North Eastern settlement has spawned the likes of Snow Patrol, Two Door Cinema Club, Duke Special, Foy Vance and Van Morrison. He has been asked to support the likes of Jamie Woon, Joan as Policewoman, Ane Brun, Tilly and the Wall, Josh Doyle (The Dum Dums), The Departure, Ella Edmundson and Joey Cape. As interest from fans continued to grow, Lee finally rested his touring shoes and hit the recording studio to record his first EP and answer the constant question from fans; Where can I buy your music?!. Whisky and Water explore the journey of trial and error in life, overcoming hardship and enjoying good things, finally reaching a conclusion in hope. I thought it time to bring them a release that I was properly proud of. Whisky is the first of two EPs Lee Mitchell will release this year. The second is entitled Water. Absolutely gorgeous Tom Robinson, BBC 6 Music www.whoisleemitchell.com Sam Edwards: Sam Edwards is new to Norwich's music scene. Although a solo act, Sam performs as 'The B Roads' (his small group whose EP 'Out of Here' is soon to be released as a free download). Sam's influences span from The Rolling Stones through to the music played and sung in Folk Clubs, but strong lyrics, says Sam, are the only qualification to what he listens to.
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Norwich The Bicycle Shop
Price: £3.00

Sheelanagig
The very popular five piece dance band from Bristol who play an eclectic blend of Balkan folk, gypsy jazz and world music.
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Take Art Take Art Dummy Account
Price: £8.00

Marcus Malone
Marcus Malone, the Detroit-born blues and rock guitarist, has been delighting British audiences for many years with his magnificent velvet-toned vocals and his magnetic stage presence. An impressive musician and songwriter he has performed with the likes of BB King, Walter Trout and Gene Black. His latest album, Let the Sunshine In, was released in April 2011 and recorded in the UK.
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012
Time: 7pm doors, 8pm start
Venue: Aylesbury Limelight Theatre
Price: £12.00

Bryony Griffith & Will Hampson
'English folk at its absolute best' - Rock & Reel magazine. Please note that admission prices are £1.00 more on the door.
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012
Time: 7.45pm
Venue: Guildford Institute
Price: £9.00

The Outside Track
Highly energetic and melodic 5-piece folk band from Scotland, Ireland, Cape Breton and Vancouver. Using fiddle, accordion, harp, guitar, flute, step-dance and vocals.
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012
Time: 7.00PM
Venue: Shaw Playhouse2
Price: £10.00

Connie Lush And Blues Shouter
PLEASE NOTE: WE ABSORB ALL BOOKING FEES - THIS EXPLAINS THE ODD PRICE LISTED HERE! WHEN YOU GET TO THE CHECK OUT, 10% WILL BE ADDED AND, HEY PRESTO, THE FULL TICKET PRICE IS REACHED Widely regarded as one of the finest blues singers that the United Kingdom has ever produced, Connie Lush's inimitable, explosive and unforgettable voice has wowed audiences across the globe for over 20 years. She has recorded with some of the world's greatest blues artists including The Memphis Horns and The Hodges Brothers (Al Green's backing band), as well as touring Britain with the legendary BB King. Connie was voted Best UK Female Vocalist by readers of Blues in Britain for five successive years, earning a richly deserved place in their Gallery of the Greats and was also honoured in the French Blues Trophies awards as European Singer of the Year as well as winning Blues Personality of 2006 in the Digital Blues Awards. Connie is one of the nation's foremost blues divas and, alongside her band, Blues Shouter, continues to produce some of the best rocking and soulful music this side of the 1920s.
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012
Time: Doors 7.30pm, Show 8.00pm
Venue: Selby Town Hall
Price: £10.91

Scaramouche
Parisian café, jazz, folk, klezmer, tango... Suzie Collier violin Steve Mulligan saxophone Nicola Hadley accordion Jacob Collier double bass Taste the deliciously fresh flavours of Parisian café, move across Europe with traditional folk and klezmer, towards the intoxicating sounds of night-time jazz and electrifying tango. Let us take you on an invigorating acoustic journey across Europe, put a smile on your face and energy in your dancing shoes! Scaramouche have recently recorded a CD called 'Scaramouche at home', which features (amongst others) our Tangos, French and Greek tunes, Sunday Suite, Norwegian Wood, and Jacob's new arrangement of Blackbird. PLEASE NOTE: DOORS OPEN: 7pm, MUSIC STARTS AT 9pm. The venue comprises both seated and standing space. There are a limited number of tables. These are allocated on a first come first served basis, with priority given to diners. If you'd like a table, please ensure you arrive early. NO ENTRY AFTER 9.30pm.
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012
Time: Doors @ 7pm. See GreenNote.co.uk for start time
Venue: London Green Note
Price: £9.00

Chantel Mcgregor Band
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Pontypool Borough Blues Club
Price: £10.00

Megan Henwood, Son Of Eagle
BBC Young Folk Award Winner Megan Henwood and upcoming nu folk band Son Of Eagle,. www.sonofeagle.co.uk www.meganhenwood.co.uk
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Cornwall Eden Project Cafe
Price: £4.00

Out To Grass - Bluegrass Business
Our favourite bluegrass boys mean bad-ass business as they apply their amazing ability to well-known tunes. Like Plymouth's Hayseed Dixie. But better!
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012
Time: 9.00pm
Venue: The B-Bar @ The Barbican Theatre
Price: £3.00

Ian Nagoski And The Family Elan
Powan Presents and Edinburgh University Middle Eastern Society brings you an evening of Eastern Mediterranean stimulation for body and mind! This tour sees the rare pairing of American musicologist/record collecto...r, Ian Nagoski, talking about and playing music from his latest release 'To What Strange Place' as well as the return of the great Anatolian-psych jams of Bradford's The Family Elan. Ian Nagoski (Tompkins Square, Mississippi Records) http://mangkunegaran.tumblr.com/ Nagoski is a radio presenter and musicologist based in New York who has received great plaudits in recent months for the 3cd package he compiled for the excellent Tompkins Square label, To What Strange Place : The Music Of The Ottoman-American Diaspora, 1916-1929 Along with the extensive notes contained within the package, Nagoski has produced a tantalising treasure trail relating the stories of the countless intertwined lives of people originally from Anatolia, the Eastern Mediterranean, and the Levant who migrated to the US in the early 20th Century and the music they brought with them. Ian will play and discuss a selection of tracks from the collection and relate stories of migration, the embryonic record pressing industry, cultural dispersal and interweaving he's delivered several such presentations in the US, where the musical mix of deep contemplation, utter tragedy, blazing jams and some hilarity has left deep impressions on his audiences. Comparisons with Harry Smith's anthology or Revenant's AmericanPrimitive are in order, not least because this is American music witha capital A, animated by the same feelings of desperation, nostalgia,the quest for cheap kicks and the agony of loss. Like Smith, Nagoskiis a Walter Benjamin visionary, using his collection of 78s tohallucinate a history that actually happened but which remains hiddenbeneath official dogma and nationalisms.-The Wire, August 2011 I was entranced; I was FASCINATED. It is one of the most worthwhile purchases you will make this year. I went and got mine; I think you should, too. - Henry Rollins, KCRW Ian Nagoski's To What Strange Place is a work of great beauty.- Jace Clayton / DJ/rupture, WFMU It feels as essential to an understanding of American music as anything else.- Pitchfork The Family Elan http://thefamilyelan.com/ Delving into the same mine of influence as To What Strange Place, and dipping musical toes in Uzbekistan, Eastern Europe and elsewhere, Chris Hladowksi will be bringing the latest incarnation of his clan Elan back to Caledonia to bathe us in their psych-folk jams. The Family Elan has been the vehicle for Chris's own musical endeavors outside of his collaborative work (A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Nalle, The One Ensemble, Scatter, Costa and Nero) over the past decade. After releasing their debut album on Locust Music (Sir Richard Bishop, Josephine Foster, Henry Flynt, Espers), the Family Elan presented us with their second LP 'Bow Low Bright Glow' in 2010 drawing new musical constellations that follow the gypsy trail from India through Asia Minor and into outer space. 'When Hladowski achieves instrumental levitation, the ghosts of Comus, Jan Dukes De Grey and The Incredible String Band might be hovering over his shoulder; there's a similar sense of acid-spiked, dervish abandon. Like the latter, he references ethnic music - Indian ragas, Balkan gypsy dances, Greek rembetika - but with a rare feeling and finesse, and not a trace of whimsy.' Wire 'The Family Elan reveals the right combination of dexterous playing and unstudied feeling to qualify as a success.' Dusted
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Edinburgh Pleasance Cabaret Bar
Price: £5.00

Jensen Ehwald Duo (denmark Germany)
The Jensen Ehwald duo consists of German saxophonist Peter Ehwald and Danish bassist Henrik Jensen. The repertoire consists of German and Danish folk/trad songs with a few original tunes. The music is treated very loose and free, but with an underlying understanding of what is needed from each performer and piece. The Tenor/Soprano sax and Double bass compliment each other beautifully, and these great old songs shine in these divine surroundings. Peter Ehwald is an intensely touring musician who studied Saxophone at the Royal Academy of Music and City College New York. Henrik Jensen studied electric bass at The Musicians Institute. He later transitioned to the double bass at the Royal Academy of Music on the Under-Graduate Jazz course. Peter Ehwald : Sax Henrik Jensen Double bass http://www.jensenehwald.com/
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012
Time: 6.45pm
Venue: London St Ethelburga's
Price: £10.00

Dave Swarbrick
An intimate evening with Dave Swarbrick
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012
Time: 7.00pm
Venue: Knaresborough The Frazer Theatre
Price: £14.00

Tim Edey & Brendan Power
Adventurous creative players are drawn to each other, and the first time Tim and Brendan met the musical sparks flew! Nominated for 'Best duo' - Radio 2 folk awards 2012 Tim Edey nominated for 'Musician of the year' Radio 2 Folk awards 2012 Brendan Power - voted Best harmonica player 2011. Tim Edey is one of the finest multi-instrumental players of his generation in the worldwide Celtic music scene. A virtuoso on both acoustic guitar and button accordion, Tim's incredible musical ear and total technical command allow him to play the most demanding instrumentals and improvise freely in any style you throw at him. His great gifts have been recognised by the top names in the Celtic music scene, and led to touring/recording with Sharon Shannon, Lunasa, Michael McGoldrick, Seamus Begley, Mary Black, Altan and Capercaillie - to name a few. Tim has released four solo albums and had his compositions recorded by Sharon Shannon and other respected Celtic artists. UK based Kiwi harmonica player and composer Brendan Power is acknowledged by many as one of the most versatile and creative harp players around today. He has recorded with the likes of Kate Bush, Sting, Van Morrison, Paul Young, James Galway, John Williams, Paul Brady, Altan, and Artie McGlynn. A fluent improviser in jazz/blues/pop styles, Brendan is also an expert player of Irish traditional music, winning the All Ireland title in 1994. He has recorded 15 solo CDs and works for Suzuki Musical Instrument Corp as their International Harmonica Specialist. He sings and composes original songs, and often throws in some nifty beatboxing too. The duo's powerful blend of passion and virtuosity is infectious. What sets them apart from most folk/Celtic acts is their free-wheeling approach to live performance. Tim and Brendan love to improvise, which means that every time they do a piece it sounds different& fresh. It's that sheer mad spontaneity which unfailingly captures audiences everywhere! "Virtuoso performances and thrilling improvisation" - Time Out, London "Instrumental wizardry of the highest order. The finest collaboration from two of the nicest blokes on the folk circuit". - Maverick 4* review "A sparkling 17-track debut - Tim's warm guitar and attacking accordion have range and flair whilst you wonder why Brendan's huffing and puffing doesn't blow the house down! Exhilirating." Properganda Magazine
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012
Time: Doors open 7:30pm, music starts 8;15pm
Venue: Glossop Globe
Price: £10.00

Martin Carthy
Mad Dog Folk in conjunction with Beverley Folk Acoustic Roots Festival 2012 presents Martin Carthy
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: Barton The Ropewalk
Price: £12.00

Ahab
From busking London markets, via Nashville, to the main stage at Fairport's Cropredy Convention, ahab have continued to excite audiences around the UK and Europe on the 2011 summer festival circuit. Their blend of quality musicianship, well crafted songs, and four part harmonies has created a buzz proving they are worthy of being the act to watch out for in the next twelve months. With a new EP and a tour supporting the mighty Bellowhead under their belts they deliver a high energy performance that is infectious, with a sound that is fresh and honest. The band features Callum Adamson on 12-string guitar and vocals, Luke Price on mandolin and vocals, Dave Burn on guitar and vocals, Steve Llewellyn on bass and vocals, and Grahame Rolfe on percussion. "I loved Ahab's terrific performance at Cropredy festival. They are blistering live - alt-country edge and sheer class." Bob Harris OBE, BBC Radio 2 "Ahab is the real deal - top-notch UK Americana featuring tight four-piece harmonies." Simon Mayo, BBC Radio 2
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Bath Chapel Arts Centre
Price: £10.00

Paul Jones With The Digby Fairweather Half Dozen
Join Paul Jones and the Digby Fairweather Half Dozen in an evening of Blues, Rock and Jazz. One not to miss
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Teddington Landmark Arts Centre
Price: £18.00

Sheelanagig
The very popular five piece dance band from Bristol who play an eclectic blend of Balkan folk, gypsy jazz and world music.
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: Taunton Curry Mallet and Beercrocombe Village Hall
Price: £8.00

Steve Knightley
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012
Time: 7.15pm, music 8pm.
Venue: Bournemouth Centre Stage
Price: £17.00

Steve Knightley
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012
Time: 7.15pm, music 8pm.
Venue: Bournemouth Centre Stage
Price: £10.00

Tattie Jam
Tattie Jam (Seylan Baxter & Ruaridh Pringle) offer a distinctive brew of songs, from dark ballads and protest songs to off-the wall humour, and tunes ranging from slow airs to driving Strathspeys and kinetic jigs and reels. Much of our material's given a playful or funky contemporary twist, with contrast provided by the odd starker a capella song or unaccompanied tune. Our material's a diverse but harmonious blend of reinterpreted songs and tunes plundered from the hugely rich Scottish tradition, and songs and tunes written by Ruaridh. Thoughtful arrangements and the fact both musicians harmonise vocals whilst playing elements of lead, rhythm and percussion give Tattie Jam a sound that's quite unmistakable, and consistently surprises new listeners with its size and scope.
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012
Time: 8.00PM
Venue: Bridgwater Arts Centre
Price: £12.00

Royal Traditions | Gavin Davenport
Crucible and Glorystroker comes to The Royal to deliver songs straight up with sincerity and simplicity. The guest starts at 8pm prompt and finished around 10pm, followed by a singing session to which you are all encouraged to contribute - we have House Songs to chose from if you don't have one of your own :o) We can only sell as many seats as the pub has - if this event is 'sold out' you are still warmly invited to stand at the bar and join in the revelries. For this we ask you make a contribution to 'The Hat' - all of which goes straight to the artist.
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012
Time: 7.30pm tunes for an 8.00pm start
Venue: Sheffield The Royal Hotel, Dungworth.
Price: £7.00

The Acoustic Strawbs
Doors open 9pm The first Strawbs album was released over 40 years ago. Now David Cousins, Dave Lambert and Chas Cronk, of the original line up, tour as the Acoustic Strawbs. 'The Acoustic Strawbs stand out as a band that performs their old material with passion and precision' Chicago Tribune. CONCESSIONS APPLY TO TRADES CLUB MEMBERS ONLY
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012
Time: 9pm
Venue: Hebden Bridge The Trades Club
Price: £12.00

Brooks All Stars
A recently formed all star band culled from some of the best musicians to have appeared at Brooks Blues Bar comprising Steve Morrison, Alan Glen, Richard Ansell, Steve Elliott and Paul Clifford. Bar (including real ale) at club prices.
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: London The Parsons Green Sports & Social Club Ltd
Price: £12.00

Megan Henwood, Son Of Eagle
BBC Young Folk Award Winner Megan Henwood and upcoming nu folk band Son Of Eagle, massive violin riffs with interweaving textures of sparkling guitars. www.sonofeagle.co.uk www.meganhenwood.co.uk
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Cornwall Miss Peapod's
Price: £5.00

Silencio - Folk/acoustic/alternative (watford)- Sat Feb 18th@the Pumphouse
The pump House, Local Board Road Lower Watford High Street, Watford, Hertfordshire WD17 2JP Josienne Clarke - http://www.josienneclarke.co.uk/ Manuela Barczewski - http://www.myspace.com/manuelabarczewski Pete White - http://www.myspace.com/petewhite
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012
Time: 8.30PM
Venue: Watford The Pump House Theatre & Arts Centre
Price: £3.90

Paul Jones With Digby Fairweather's Half Dozen
A powerful non stop evening of blues, rock and jazz. PLEASE NOTE: THESE TICKETS ARE FOR THE UNRESERVED SEATING AT THE REAR OF THE VENUE
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012
Time: 6.45pm for performance start 7.30pm
Venue: Teddington Landmark Arts Centre
Price: £15.00

The Old Dance School
Supporting new arts cafe in Birmingham's up and coming creative district Balsall Heath, genre-busting cinematic folk septet THE OLD DANCE SCHOOL join forces with award-winning guitar and fiddle duo JACK MCNEILL AND CHARLIE HEYS for a barnstorming night to remember.
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Birmingham ORT Arts Cafe
Price: £6.00

King Twit + The Long Fingered Bandits
These Liverpool based pixies sing some ridiculously infectious songs, and alongside the King Twits this promises to be a great night of revelry. With a solid 5 cat line-up, an E.P. on the way, and a killer new set Long Finger Bandits look ready to jive their way through 2012 offering a bedazzling show of genre-gymnastics as they blend jazz, ska, circus and stories into their already hip-swinging rock and roll concoction. The face paint has not worn off, and neither their mischevious unrehearsed stage frivolics, with spontaneous puppets, preaches, jokes and jiggles. Oh yes, and TRUMPETS TRUMPETS TRUMPETS! "The splendidly-adorned Long Finger Bandits have the semblance of a carnival troop...with their infectious fusion of ska, folk and circus music" - Purple Revolver "If smiling faces, madness, great tunes, amazing vocals and sheer potential are your cup of tea then these girls will be right up your street. This lot mix gypsy, punk and folk ingredients and then sprinkle it with a little magic to produce a very tasty flavour indeed." - Mangone Music "They're pretty honest for a group of bandits because every time I've seen them they produce exactly what they promise. Infectious musical stories, painted faces, and harmonious havoc." - Unregulated Music Distribution "high energy funk, jazz, folk and fun is irresistible, and their presence on the stage is a magically beautiful thing to watch. a repertoire of lyrically special tunes full of character and power, really connect with their audience and are tooting good fun." - Artfulfuse
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012
Time: 8.30pm
Venue: Glossop Redroom at The Oakwood
Price: £3.00

Miller Anderson / Dr King & The Prisonaires
Doors 8.00 pm. Show 9.00 p.m. til midnight - stellar blues rock from artist who has jammed with Hendrix and backed John Lee Hooker, backed by musicians who have played with Dylan, Jansch, Petty, Knopfler, Bluesbreakers etc etc
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012
Time: 8.00pm til 12.00 pm
Venue: London The East Dulwich Tavern
Price: £5.00

Kevin Montgomery
Kevin Montgomery grew up on Nashville's Music Row, as a child of parents whose careers crossed over from country music to the early, seminal days of American rock 'n' roll. While the contemporary yet timeless feel of Kevin's own music is strongly influenced by the California country-rock of artists like Gram Parsons, The Eagles, and Roger McGuinn, his deeply resonant songwriting recalls the Americana-flavoured storytelling of Bruce Springsteen and Jackson Browne. He has built an almost cult-like following in Britain and Europe in over 10 years of relentless touring and this time he will be promoting his new album, Some Comfort. He'll be accompanied by Mike McAdam, previously of Steve Earle and the Dukes, and one of he best slide guitarists around. www.kevinmontgomery.com
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Brighton Latest Music Bar
Price: £14.00

Vicki Swan And Jonny Dyer
Vicki and Jonny have been playing music together well over 10 years, meeting whilst playing for their local county youth orchestra. Vicki's unique style of playing the Scottish Smallpipes that is at once spell-bindingly beautiful and haunting is perfectly complimented by Jonny's driving guitar playing. Strong believers in letting music live and breathe, Vicki and Jonny allow the melody to sing without any constraints. Constantly seeking new harmonic pathways they help to keep pipe music alive and growing. Apart from their excellent vocal prowess and inventive harmonies their current range of gigging instruments include Scottish Smallpipes, flute, nyckelharpa, double bass, guitar, accordion and low whistle Currently taking the world by storm, Vicki and Jonny are establishing themselves as one of the best young duos around on the folk scene today. Although best-known for their instrumental skills with Scottish Smallpipes, accordion and even Swedish Nyckelharpa, the duo are well recognised for their songs arrangements too. With their blend of traditional material and contemporary interpretations, they have developed a sound that is both familiar and fresh.
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012
Time: 8:00pm
Venue: Twickenham Cabbage Patch Pub
Price: £7.00

Lester Allen
Songwriter recognised for his poignant and powerful songs in BBC TV's Goldie's Band.
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012
Time: doors 7pm, music 8pm
Venue: Bournemouth Centre Stage
Price: £5.00

Rue Royale
Like an early 20th-century Elliott from ET (minus the BMX basket/alien), a be-suited man flies through the sky on his bone-shaker bicycle. He's clutching two clothes lines of flags that spell out 'Guide To An Escape'. The cartoon cover art of Rue Royale's second album perfectly sums up the Anglo-American outfit's self-propelled adventure. Driven in every sense of the word, Ruth and Brookln Dekker have amassed 80,000 miles on the road in Europe alone since the release of their first eponymously-titled LP in 2008.
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Norwich The Bicycle Shop
Price: £5.00

Nancy Kerr And James Fagan
One of the most established and respected duos on the folk scene, Nancy Kerr and James Fagan are winners of the 2011 BBC Radio 2 Folk Award for Best Duo (and previous winners of 2003 Best Duo and 2000 Horizon Award.) As well as being great exponents of their instruments (fiddle, viola and guitar-bouzouki) both are regarded as fine and influential singers. 2010 marked the 15th year of this electrifying duo. In that time they have toured full-time and headlined festivals throughout the UK, Ireland, Europe, Australia, Japan and Canada. Wherever they play, Kerr and Fagan make new friends and fans, as their love of live performance is tangible and affirming. Consistently great live shows and five highly respected albums, plus their recent collaborations with Robert Harbron and The Melrose Quartet, have cemented their reputation as one of the classiest acts in acoustic music. www.kerrfagan.com
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012
Time: 7.00pm
Venue: London Green Note
Price: £12.00

She'koyokh
Award-winning klezmer band returns to Green Note... She'koyokh is Britain's best klezmer and Balkan music band (Songlines) and winners of the Netherlands' International Jewish music competition. The band's evolution spans the humble origins of busking at East London's Columbia Road flower market to performing in the famous concert halls of Europe including Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, the Gasteig in Munich and London's Purcell Room. Founded at the Jewish Music Institute's first Klezfest in 2001, She'Koyokh's line-up consists of eight UK-based musicians who have travelled and studied with master musicians in Eastern Europe, the Balkans and Turkey. They perform a thrilling mix of klezmer, Sephardic, Russian, Kurdish, Turkish, Greek, Romanian, Serbian, Hungarian and Bulgarian music, most of which would traditionally be played at weddings and festivals. The Band: Cigdem Aslan, Voice Matt Bacon, Guitar Susi Evans, Clarinet Meg Hamilton, Violin Zivorad Nikolic , accordion Ben Samuels, Mandolin Paul Tkachenko, Double bass and Voice Vasilis Sarikis, Multi-percussion PLEASE NOTE: DOORS OPEN: 7pm, MUSIC STARTS AT 9pm. The venue comprises both seated and standing space. There are a limited number of tables. These are allocated on a first come first served basis, with priority given to diners. If you'd like a table, please ensure you arrive early. We reserve the right to release all unclaimed tickets for re-sale at 9.30pm. If you will be arriving after this time, please inform us in advance, so that we can hold your tickets for you.
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012
Time: 7.00pm
Venue: London Green Note
Price: £10.00

Harvey Andrews
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012
Time: 7.15pm
Venue: Birmingham Red Lion Folk Club
Price: £12.00

Daphna Sadeh And The Voyagers - Born In Parallel
We are happy to welcome back the fabulous Daphna Sadeh who will be performing her new composition "Born In Parallel" which fuses World music, jazz and Baroque for a scintillating, heady night's musical journey. Bringing together jazz and Middle Eastern musicians and led by Daphna with her brilliantly expressive double bass playing this promises to be a rich and rewarding evening. Daphna Sadeh ~ Double Bass and compostion, Stewart Curtis-flute,soprano sax, Soufian Saihi-oud, Hilary Michael- Baroque Violin, Mark Bassey-trombone, Guy Schalom-percussion, Ronen Kozakaro on percussion
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: London Vortex
Price: £10.00

Ellen And The Escapades
Delicate, bitter-sweet and soul searching are some of the words usually associated with the music of alt folk/rock quintet Ellen and the Escapades. Their upbeat and catchy debut single 'Without You', released on their own home grown label Branch Out Records, was lovingly packaged in hand stitched felt and greeted warmly by the likes of Steve Lamacq and Rough Trade in the summer of 2009. Since then, Ellen's dusky, captivating vocals and honest lyrics have helped push the band to new heights, including winning Q Magazine/Glastonbury's Emerging Talent Competition and playing a total of 5 stages at last year's festival. Following that with more UK festival appearances including Larmer Tree and Summer Sundae, they then joined Paolo Nutini and Stornoway at the Pilton Party in September before selling out venues across the UK promoting their self-released EP 'Of All The Times'. Ellen and the Escapades are currently writing and recording material for their first album and 2011 is shaping up to be a great year for this wonderfully wholesome band.
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Bath Chapel Arts Centre
Price: £8.00

Preston Reed
Legendary acoustic guitarist Preston Reed Doors at 6.30pm, on stage between 8pm-8.30pm
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012
Time: 6.30pm
Venue: London Round Midnight
Price: £9.00

Brooks Williams
Brooks is officially one of the Top 100 Acoustic guitarists, with over 17 recordings to his name and 23 years on the road, this Statesboro Georgia native is now based in the UK - and is definitely out gain! He rocks every gig with acoustic and resonator guitars and has a beautiful voice too, delivering the deepest and most intense interpretations of everything from early blues to his own original masterpieces. Doors at 8pm, unreserved seating.
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: Aldershot West End Centre
Price: £10.00

Woody Guthrie Folk Club (thu 23 February 2012)
The feistiest folk club in the known galaxy. Songs of humour, celebration and struggle.
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Liverpool The Ship & Mitre
Price: £3.00

Patsy Matheson & Becky Mills
One half of the now defunct award-winning female group Waking The Witch, Patsy and Becky are touring as an acoustic duo. As songwriters and guitarists with roots in folk, blues, R & B, jazz and rock, and with a special emphasis on intricate vocal harmonies, they have a unique and very personal sound. Add in their engaging charm and sense of humour for an evening of top quality contemporary musical entertainment.
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: York Black Swan Inn
Price: £8.00

Pagan/earthy & Radical Folk Night - Damh The Bard
Damh is a musical storyteller who works within the world of myth that cannot be proved; where the Faerie really do dance on Midsummer's Eve, where the trees talk, and the Hollow Hills take you into the realms of Annwn. Where the Goddess rides her horse, guiding you to magic, and the Horned God of old calls us from the shadows of the Greenwood. So relax, and let the music take you there. Damh the Bard has joined the illustrious company of bards whose perpetual songs maintain the harmony of Albion. - The Druid Network Celtic folk songs which weave a brilliant tapestry of mythological tales and modern-day love songs - Foxydigitalis Reviews
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: Tamworth The Progressive Club
Price: £5.00

Dave Swarbrick (with Kate Riaz And Jake Wilson)
* Door 7pm * Folk2Future (Big Chill DJs) 7 - 8pm and 11pm - late * Live music 8-11pm includes two sets from Dave Swarbrick (accompanied for some of the time by Kate Riaz and Jake Wilson) , plus a set each from two support acts to be confirmed. * Late bar with real ale * Mix of sofa and row seats * Concessionary tickets are for the unwaged - proof required at the door on the night * Tickets on the door (where still available) will be priced at £12/8 * Seats are not reserved, and a ticket may not always guarantee a seat, although there will be standing room - please come early to ensure a seat. * Children are welcome but sorry, we have to ask that they are of an age to be able to sit quietly and listen without disturbing or distracting others. If you are in doubt, please contact us via our website before purchasing tickets · For more information or to contact the Goose please see our website www.thegooseisout.com
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012
Time: 7pm
Venue: London SE22 DHFC
Price: £11.00

Steve Tilston
Steve is one of the most recognised and talented names in the Folk/Roots world - a prolific songwriter, original and highly entertaining
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012
Time: 7.30pm for 8pm
Venue: Bognor Regis Folk on the Coast at `Seasons`
Price: £7.00

Dunajska Kapelye
Dunajska Kapelye play traditional Gypsy and Eastern European tunes shot through with searing jazz improvisation. Led by violin virtuoso Piotr Jordan who "...breaks our hearts with the minor key beauty of his sound" (Evening Standard) this is music of the heart and cannot fail to leave you moved and uplifted and "with a big, stupid grin on your face" Metro PLEASE NOTE: DOORS OPEN: 7pm, MUSIC STARTS AT 9pm. The venue comprises both seated and standing space. There are a limited number of tables. These are allocated on a first come first served basis, with priority given to diners. If you'd like a table, please ensure you arrive early. We reserve the right to release all unclaimed tickets for re-sale at 9.30pm. If you will be arriving after this time, please inform us in advance, so that we can hold your tickets for you.
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012
Time: 7pm
Venue: London Green Note
Price: £10.00

Kan
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Barton The Ropewalk
Price: £12.00

Megson
Recently described as the most original duo on the folk scene, Megson have been three times nominated at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. Moving from intimate acoustic and delicate vocals through to driving guitars and soaring harmonies with equal confidence, they draw heavily on their Teeside heritage to create their own unique brand of folk music.
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012
Time: 07.30pm
Venue: Holmfirth Hepworth Village Hall
Price: £12.00

Kit Holmes Trio
Kit's trademark sultry vocals and virtuoso guitar playing have wowed audiences across the UK through extensive touring with guitar hero, John Etheridge. The Observer described her music as, 'Macy Gray meets Nick Drake,' and both Bob Harris and Andy Kershaw have featured her on their BBC shows. She has just released her eagerly anticipated third album, Driving into the Blue, which features the legendary double bass player Danny Thompson and has met with high critical acclaim. Junction is proud to present an enthralling and energetic live performance of rootsy-blues and folk from Kit and her excellent band. 'Full of warmthan absolute delight.' The Observer 'Impressivea new British guitar heroine.' The Guardian
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: Goole Junction
Price: £10.00

Ellen & The Escapades, Rosie Vanier
Ellen & the Escapades music is delicate, bitter-sweet and soul searching. Rosie Vanier is bewitching, intriguing and beguiling. www.ellenandtheescapades.co.uk www.rosievanier.co.uk
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Cornwall Eden Project Cafe
Price: £5.00

Mama Tokus - Gospel And Blues Vocals
Mama Tokus hosts a night of soul and blues
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012
Time: 9.00pm
Venue: The B-Bar @ The Barbican Theatre
Price: £3.00

February Folk Day
Afternoon Concert, Evening Ceilidh and Folk Club, Sessions, Singarounds etc. with Chris Sherburn & Denny Bartley, Katriona Gilmore & Jamie Roberts, GU4, Full House.
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012
Time: 12pm
Venue: Chester Hoole Community Centre
Price: £4.50 - £16.00

Paul Downes: Shammick Acoustic Concert
It's more than three years since Paul's last appearance at Shammick Acoustic, and it's high time he was back again! A superb acoustic guitarist in every musical style imaginable as well as a mellifluous and sensitive singer, as an individual performer, he's nowhere near as well known as he should be. Starting in his early teens as a classical guitarist, he rapidly discovered folk music, alongside his friends Steve Knightley and Phil Beer, and has made his living in its various forms ever since. Starting with Downes and Beer, then with the Arizona Smoke Revue, and the legendary Pete Seeger, he has toured the world. More recently, he has worked with The Joyce Gang, and currently tours and records with song and ballad opera writer and singer, Mick Ryan. No wonder he rarely does solo gigs! So this is a rare opportunity to find out why the man is in such demand to work with other artists. He has a fun, but not irreverent, approach to his live performances which is particularly engaging, and puts him amongst the most respected artists on the British acoustic music scene. Don't miss him!
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Combe Martin The Pack o' Cards
Price: £6.00

North Sea Gas Scottish Folk Music
Scottish folk entertainers North Sea Gas are first and foremost a Scottish folk band that have now been performing for almost 30 years. The band's eclectic career includes live performances in a variety of venues from national theatres to private functions, oilrigs, folk clubs and open-air concerts. They have recorded 13 albums, and have maintained a large and diverse repertoire. North Sea Gas' philosophy is one of quality folk music coupled with entertainment. The band has attracted large audiences to concerts held during the Edinburgh Festival over the past 16 years. In 1998 the band collected a Gold Disc award from the Scottish Music Industry for their album Caledonian Connection http://www.scottish-folk-music.com/bands-singers-pages/band-north-sea-gas.htm
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012
Time: 8.30pm
Venue: South Molton The George Hotel
Price: £8.00

Phil Beer - Music
Phil's outstanding skills on acoustic & electric guitar, fiddle and mandolin are well known. He's worked with countless artists over the years, including The Rolling Stones, Mike Oldfield and Steve Harley. Part of 'Show of Hands', of course. The Birchmeadow's a great-sound space, cabaret layout, nice feel, good beer (sorry!) and wine.
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012
Time: 7:30 pm doors open
Venue: Broseley Birchmeadow Centre
Price: £10.00

Fay Hield
Celebrated folk singer Fay Hield performs in her 'Trio' line-up with Rob Harbron (English Acoustic Collective) and Sam Sweeney (Bellowhead) to present a spicy stew of songs and ballads, catches and caprices, featuring tracks from Fay's debut solo CD Looking Glass, which was released in September 2010 on the prestigious Topic Records.
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Sheffield Freeman College
Price: £10.00

Dick Barton - Special Agent
Dick Barton, hero of the BBC's 1940s radio serial is back in an action packed adventure
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012
Time: 2.00pm
Venue: Margate Tom Thumb Theatre
Price: £10.00

Dick Barton - Special Agent
Dick Barton, hero of the BBC's 1940s radio serial is back in an action packed adventure
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Margate Tom Thumb Theatre
Price: £10.00

Ellen & The Escapades, Rosie Vanier
Ellen and the escapades, alt/folk rock quintet are a delicate, bitter-sweet and soul searching band. Rosie Vanier is a bewitching, intriguing and beguiling singer and musician. www.ellenandtheescapades.co.uk. www.rosievanier.co.uk
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Cornwall Miss Peapod's
Price: £5.00

Moishe's Bagel
The annual visit from the boys has become something of an institution at the Victoria Hall, and once again their fantastic show is sure to sell out. Moishe's Bagel bring rip-roaring, foot-stomping, jazz-inflected klezmer and Balkan music from some of Scotland's finest musicians. An intoxicating, life-affirming mix of Eastern European dance music, Middle Eastern rhythms and virtuoso performances. Boasting some of the best instrumentalists that Scotland has to offer, having performed with the likes of Salsa Celtica, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Celtic Feet and Scottish National Jazz Orchestra, the group are equally at home jamming in a late night jazz den, grooving at a forest festival, or enthralling an upmarket concert hall. expressive and raunchy improvising confidence but with a classical attention to detail striking new material The Guardian this brilliantly accomplished and adventurous five-piece emphatically puts the "class" into "unclassifiable" The Scotsman SEATING INFORMATION This event is sold with unreserved tickets and the seating configuration may change depending on the size of the audience. We advise arriving as close to the doors open time as possible.
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Settle Victoria Hall
Price: £13.00

The Roy Mette Band
A man whose guitar playing leaves you gasping, whose voice can turn from a gentle whisper to window-rattling bellow, whose songwriting ability seems boundless and whose interpretations of other people's material always brings an individual twist, Roy is deservedly gaining greater recognition with appearances at Festivals throughout the UK and gigs in Europe." Digital Blues
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012
Time: 7.30pm - 12 midnight
Venue: Worthing Grand Central
Price: £8.00

Jon Gomm
Jon Gomm is an acoustic singer-songwriter with an incredible virtuoso guitar style, where he uses one acoustic guitar to create drum sounds, basslines and sparkling melodies all at the same time, and combining styles from blues and jazz to rock and pop. The emphasis is still on the soulful vocals and songwriting however, and his original material is influenced by everything from Robert Johnson to Radiohead. Jon first laid his hands on a guitar at the age of two (actually it was a ukulele - his parents couldn't find a guitar small enough). He started taking classical guitar lessons, wrote his first song at the age of six, and at twelve he was accompanying his father, a music critic, to blues gigs in his hometown of Blackpool. Touring musicians would often stay at the Gomm household on the understanding Jon would get a guitar lesson, meaning he had one-to-one instruction from such legends as Walter Trout, Bob Brozman, Sherman Robertson and Norman Beaker (Jack Bruce band). On leaving school Jon turned down a place at Oxford University to attend The Guitar Institute in London. While there he paid his way through college playing jazz in café-bars, recording as a session guitarist, and even playing Country & Western in working mens clubs for line-dancers. Eventually he heard the call of the north and moved to Leeds, where he is now based, to study on the Jazz degree course at the music college there. He decided to try his hand at performing solo, and discovered all kinds of new sounds he could make with an acoustic guitar hitting the surface of it to make snare drum, bass drum and bongo sounds, re-tuning the strings to get bass sounds, and teasing high harmonics from the guitar for synthesizer-like effects. He worked all these techniques into his own songs, and put his years of singing blues into use. Nowadays he tours Europe, playing at festivals from Rome to Athens, has a huge cult following and is regarded by those in the know as one of the world's most talented and innovative acoustic guitarists. Even with only one CD so far released he is already cited as an influence by many other performers. His videos are watched thousands of times within days of appearing on Youtube, and his home-recorded CD Hypertension has sold over ten thousand copies with no industry backing. Sheer bloody genius sublime, impassioned songwriting - Sandman Magazine We have seen the future of acoustic guitar playing, and it is called Jon Gomm - Blues Matters One of the world's most successful, gifted and inspirational guitar players - Acoustic Magazine "Once you get over the jaw dropping manoeuvres and technique, you will be rewarded with some spectacularly beautiful songs." - Blues & Soul magazine "Pushes the guitar's envelope, fitting small moments of genius into each and every song." - The Glasgow Herald This guy has it all - great heartfelt vocals, inspired and original songs, and guitar playing as good as you will ever hear. The new Hendrix. - ReviewCentre.com "A one-man symphony, fusing so many different strands of music together and straddling the gulf between blues and drum'n'bass, western rock'n'roll and Asian influences to create something unique and captivating." - Isle Of Man Today
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012
Time: 8.30pm
Venue: Glossop Redroom at The Oakwood
Price: £6.00

Lady Maisery
Third and final concert comprising the 'Warthog Winter Weekend'
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Lowdham The Old Ship Inn
Price: £8.00

Jim Moray
Jim Moray is one of the most consistently inventive musicians working in traditional folk music today. After three ground-breaking and award-winning albums - 2003's BBC Radio2 Folk Album of Year 'Sweet England', 'Jim Moray' in 2006 and fRoots Critics Poll and Mojo Folk Album of the Year winner 'Low Culture' in 2008 - he now finds himself at the forefront of a new folk revival in the UK, and hailed as a pivotal influence by a new generation of folk musicians while still only being in his 20s himself. Recording his first album 'Sweet England' while still studying classical composition at Birmingham Conservatoire in the day and playing drums in power-pop bands by night, Jim Moray emerged onto the UK folk scene seemingly fully formed in 2003. His imaginative reimagining of English traditional music blended with orchestral flourishes, guitars and electronics soon found him awarded the unprecedented combination of 'Best Newcomer' and 'Best Album' at the 2004 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. After notching up a live reputation with performances at Glastonbury, Cambridge Folk Festival and WOMAD, and alongside Richard Thompson and Oysterband, Jim followed this with 2006's 'Jim Moray' and 'Low Culture' in 2008. Awarded the prestigious fRoots critics poll prize for best album and Mojo magazine Folk Album Of The Year, Moray assembled an all-star band including Saul Rose (Waterson:Carthy, Eliza Carthy Band) and William Bowerman (La Roux) to headline summer festivals through 2009. He most re! cently broke with convention, giving his fourth album 'In Modern History' away on the cover of Songlines magazine before releasing a deluxe two disc version in June 2010. Outside of his own albums, he has branched out as producer of his sister Jackie Oates' award-winning 'Hyperboreans' album and been awarded Honorary Life Membership of Birmingham Conservatoire for outstanding achievement in music. Praise for 'In Modern History': "This new set shows him moving towards the mainstream, relying on his fine, distinctive voice rather than shock tactics... One of the folk scenes great originals" **** The Guardian "This album marks the full flowering of his singular talents...A ravishing record with an abiding theme: expect the unexpected." ****1/2 The Sun "Pretty wonderful" - Outstanding The Independent on Sunday "A compelling landmark in contemporary folk" Album Of The Week - The Independent Acclaimed young Cumbrian singer Maz O'Connor will be opening the evening. A finalist in the BBC Young Folk Awards she is currently in the process of recording her debut album http://mazoconnor.co.uk
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Twickenham Cabbage Patch Pub
Price: £12.00

Catriona Mckay And Chris Stout
Catriona McKay, (Scottish harp) and Chris Stout (Shetland fiddle) explore new music and new ideas within a partnership of two distinctly traditional instruments, sculpting their musical identities together as a duo and as members of Shetland's leading band, Fiddler's Bid. Their work as a duo blends elemental intensity with graceful eloquence. They continue to evolve a sound and style operating at a rarefied level of expertise (Glasgow Herald) Tickets: £10/£8 in advance, £11/£9 on the door. www.mckaystoutmusic.co.uk
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Otley Courthouse
Price: £10.00

Patsy Matheson & Becky Mills
Since the well publicised break up of Waking the Witch, Patsy Matheson and Becky Mills have continued to delight audiences throughout the UK Patsy as half of a duo with the legendary Clive Gregson (Gregson & Collister, Richard Thompson Band), and Becky singing alongside Ken Nicol (Steeleye Span) and Ashley Hutchins (Fairport Convention). Now, these two world class songwriters, singers and guitar players have joined forces resulting in a unique and personal sound, drawing on roots in traditional and contemporary folk, acoustic blues, R & B, jazz and rock, with an emphasis on intricate vocal harmonies. Combine this with the pair's engaging charm and sense of humour, and this promises to be a very special evening of top quality entertainment. Expert musicianship and compelling interchanging lead vocals (Maverick Magazine) www.patsymatheson.co.uk
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012
Time: Doors 7.30pm / Show 8.00pm
Venue: Birmingham Kitchen Garden Cafe
Price: £8.00

Haight Ashbury
Doors open 8pm Described by some as Fleetwood Mac meets Jesus and Mary Chain, with their brand of 60's Folk harmonies and Bluesy Noise, Haight Ashbury took the world by surprise when the quiet release of their first single Favourite Song found its way onto radio stations across the world and they've embraced by everyone from Country music fans in the USA to Italian football fans. 'Low slung mix of brattish, Spector-like girl pop & shoegaze-inflected sonics from Glasgow' Sub Culture 'Absolutely Brilliant' - Lauren Laverne, BBC 6Music. CONCESSIONS APPLY TO TRADES CLUB MEMBERS ONLY
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Hebden Bridge The Trades Club
Price: £8.00

Stevie Nimmo And Sebastien Vaivrand
The charismatic frontman from the award winning Nimmo Brothers Band playing a selection of blues, gospel and Americana from his latest album accompanied by the amazing French keyboard player Sebastien Vaivrand.
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Sheffield The Greystones
Price: £10.00

Son Of Eagle
Musical influences from the likes of Bob Dylan , James Taylor, Bon Iver and Feet Foxes from this upcoming nu folk band. sonofeagle.co.uk
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Norwich The Bicycle Shop
Price: £3.00

Moscow Drug Club Unique Smoky Haunting Vocals To Tango, Gypsy, Swing And More
SUNDAY £15/MONDAY £12 - 26/27 FEBRUARY Unique smoky haunting vocals to Tango, Gypsy, Swing and more MOSCOW DRUG CLUB Is a curious musical place where certain elements of 1930's Berlin Cabaret, Hot Club de France, New Orleans Funeral Parade & Gypsy Campfire meet, have a few to drink and then stagger arm in arm into the darkness of some eastern European cobbled street on a mission to find the bar where Django Reinhardt & Tom Waits are having an after hours jam with the local Tziganes. Combining their original material with songs by the likes of Jaques Brel, Leornard Cohen, Tom Waits, Mario Lanza, Edith Piaf & Duke Ellington Moscow Drug Club provide an intoxicating & intimate musical experience. You are cordially invited to share a wry smile with us as you enter the darkly comic world of Moscow Drug Club..this way please & mind the stairs!!! www.moscowdrugclub.com Katya Gorrie - Chanteuse & purveyor of sinister lyrical adventures Denny Ilett ~ Rhythmic & solo guitar administrations Dave Archer ~ Complimentary & exemplary guitar outbursts Mirek Salmon - Accordionistic chordal & melodic offerings Andy Crowdy ~ Providing eccentric bass-end rhapsodies All tickets at www.wegottickets.com/lequecumbar www.QuecumBar.co.uk doors open at 6 food until 10. All seating allocated on arrival £15 on the door tables may have to share.
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012
Time: 6pm
Venue: London Le Quecum Bar & Brasserie
Price: £15.00

Owlsworld Presents Navaro + Support Act
Monday 27th Feb: Owlsworld Presents Navaro Plus Support @ Acoustic Sessions by Candlelight The Cock Inn, Sarratt, nr Rickmansworth WD3 6HH Owlsworld Presents Navaro + Support at The Old Barn Sarratt Navaro are no strangers to the Candlelit music sessions held in the atmospheric settings of the old barn at The Cock Inn, Sarratt having played to a full house back in 2008/2009 with their debut album Under Diamond Skies, the band are back to play another original concert from their long awaited second album Heartlands. Watford based Navaro have grown in size since they played here last as a trio back in 2009 into a new contemporary folk outfit, fit for the larger stages of the Indy folk world, they've now grown to become a 5 piece. 3 vocals, 2 guitars, keys, bass and drums, this is going to be fun fitting them all into this very cosy barn. https://www.facebook.com/events/147109978727340/ http://youtu.be/YwduE9dnN9c http://www.navaro.moonfruit.com/# http://www.navaromusic.com/ Doors 7.30pm for 8.30pm Tickets £5 pre booked or £7.00 on the door http://www.wegottickets.com Doors Open at 7.30pm till 11.00pm
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: Sarratt Owlsworld Acoustic Sessions
Price: £5.00

The Askew Sisters
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: Croydon Ruskin House
Price: £8.00

The Askew Sisters
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: Croydon Ruskin House
Price: £6.00

Moscow Drug Club Unique Smoky Haunting Vocals To Tango, Gypsy, Swing And More
SUNDAY £15/MONDAY £12 - 26/27 FEBRUARY Unique smoky haunting vocals to Tango, Gypsy, Swing and more MOSCOW DRUG CLUB Is a curious musical place where certain elements of 1930's Berlin Cabaret, Hot Club de France, New Orleans Funeral Parade & Gypsy Campfire meet, have a few to drink and then stagger arm in arm into the darkness of some eastern European cobbled street on a mission to find the bar where Django Reinhardt & Tom Waits are having an after hours jam with the local Tziganes. Combining their original material with songs by the likes of Jaques Brel, Leornard Cohen, Tom Waits, Mario Lanza, Edith Piaf & Duke Ellington Moscow Drug Club provide an intoxicating & intimate musical experience. You are cordially invited to share a wry smile with us as you enter the darkly comic world of Moscow Drug Club..this way please & mind the stairs!!! www.moscowdrugclub.com Katya Gorrie - Chanteuse & purveyor of sinister lyrical adventures Denny Ilett ~ Rhythmic & solo guitar administrations Dave Archer ~ Complimentary & exemplary guitar outbursts Mirek Salmon - Accordionistic chordal & melodic offerings Andy Crowdy ~ Providing eccentric bass-end rhapsodies All tickets at www.wegottickets.com/lequecumbar www.QuecumBar.co.uk doors open at 6 food until 10. All seating allocated on arrival £15 on the door tables may have to share.
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012
Time: 6pm
Venue: London Le Quecum Bar & Brasserie
Price: £12.00

Fay Hield Trio
Fay Hield with Sam Sweeney and Rob Harbron. Nominated for the Horizon at the 2011 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. Runner up for 'Best Female Vocalist' FATEA Awards and 'Best Album' fRoots Critics Poll. The Unicorn is a wonderful venue for their music. This may be one of the last appearances of the Trio before Fay moves on to another project.
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Abingdon The Unicorn Theatre
Price: £10.00

Olie Jobes / Peacock Angell
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012
Time: 7.15pm
Venue: Birmingham Red Lion Folk Club
Price: £11.00

This Is The Kit
This Is The Kit is Kate Stables playing banjo, guitar and a voice of unaffected clarity accompanied by her Wild Band creating primal and electric textures on songs of unpretentious beauty. If you thought you didn't like the banjo then you'll find out you were wrong! Kate rips forward with a hypnotic twang pattern and a voice of rare unaffected beauty. Accompanied by a backing-band of minimal psychedelia, This Is The Kit will transport you to a warm bath in the middle of a forest. absolutely gorgeous, like an aural bath with the warm winter lapping over you (Cerys Matthew, BBC6 Music), just one of the best things I've heard all year (Gideon Coe, BBC6 Music).
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012
Time: Doors 7.30pm / Show 8.00pm
Venue: Birmingham Kitchen Garden Cafe
Price: £8.00

The Living Room: Rachel Sermanni + Ethan Ash + The Scarlet Jacks
Rachel returns to Cambridge after her superb performance at the Cambridge Folk Festival. More details: https://www.facebook.com/thelivingroomacousticnight
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012
Time: 8:30pm
Venue: Cambridge CB2 Internet Bistro
Price: £4.00

Fay Hield Trio
Doors open 8pm Celebrated folk singer Fay Hield performs in her 'Trio' line-up with Rob Harbron (English Acoustic Collective) and Sam Sweeney (Bellowhead) to present a spicy stew of songs and ballads, catches and caprices, featuring tracks from Fay's debut solo CD Looking Glass, released on the prestigious Topic Records. CONCESSIONS APPLY TO TRADES CLUB MEMBERS ONLY
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Hebden Bridge The Trades Club
Price: £11.00

The Carrivick Sisters
Sisters Charlotte and Laura Carrivick have grown up playing and writing music together. Their unique style shows their strong bluegrass influences without obscuring their English roots. With tight harmonies that only siblings can achieve, they perform their original songs on guitar, fiddle, mandolin, dobro and clawhammer banjo. They have performed both in the UK and internationally. They recorded their first CD 'My Own Two Feet' five years ago at home. Their second CD, "Better Than 6 Cakes" was recorded at Modern World Studios in September 2007 and attracted great critical acclaim. Their third CD - Jupiter's Corner - was released in early 2009. It was mixed by Joe Rusby at Pure Studios and has received rave reviews including a 5* review in Maverick Magazine. The same year they were invited to SxSW in Texas, toured in Canada and Europe. 2010 saw the sisters somehow making 26 festival appearances including Glastonbury and the Llangollen Eistedffod. Other highlights included a live session on BBC's Womans Hour. In October they twins went into the studio again with Joe Rusby and several top musicians including BJ Cole to record their 4th album 'From the Fields'. This is now getting rave reviews. Jaw-droppingly talented The headline is that this is fantastic work and I'd urge anyone to get hold of the album or take the chance to see them play.this new album is music of full maturity, capable of standing shoulder to shoulder with pretty much any album I've heard in the last few years. Flying Shoes review of 'From The Fields' They are at their best singing together, but the way they play all of the bluegrass instruments is almost frightening. Their fiddle, mandolin and vocal work on their songs 'Now I know' is almost too hot for comfort. So young, so much talent John Atkin, Froots Nov 2011 "I am very impressed by The Carrivick Sisters, one of the best young duos I've ever heard. The girls sing and play as one and their work is characterised by great musicality. They are not only very talented instrumentalists and singers but they write really good songs as well." Ralph McTell
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012
Time: 7pm show starts at 7.30pm
Venue: Shrewsbury The Lion Hotel Ballroom
Price: £8.00

Eddie And Frank Thomas - From Mississippi, Usa
With three CDs of original songs released in less than a year, brothers, Eddie and Frank Thomas are telling unique stories from a baby boomers' perspective. They grew up in the northeast Mississippi foothills of the Appalachian Mountains and aren't sugar coating or over dramatizing their experiences. With a wide-eyed, mischievous but serious point of view they say, "The stories we'll be telling are all mostly true." During a thirty-year, award-winning career as Thomasfilms, Inc., Eddie and Frank learned to paint pictures. Original sound tracks always personalized the Thomas brother's film and video productions, but Angels on the Backroads, a 4CD tribute to blues and jazz, took a different tact and moved the music to the forefront. Angels on the Backroads became a multimedia stage show that spanned 12years and was featured on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition Sunday. Eddie and Frank leave film and silver screen behind for this spring 2012 tour of the UK. With guitar, bass and Southern accent they take you on an American journey of story and song through the eyes of brothers from Mississippi.
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012
Time: 7.45pm
Venue: Liverpool The Royal British Legion
Price: £6.50

Gren Bartley (album Launch)
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: Leicester The Musician
Price: £9.00

Heidi Tidow And Belinda O'hooley
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012
Time: 7.15pm, music 8pm.
Venue: Bournemouth Centre Stage
Price: £10.00

Heidi Tidow And Belinda O'hooley
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012
Time: 7.15pm, music 8pm.
Venue: Bournemouth Centre Stage
Price: £5.00

Roots Showcase
1st March Roots Showcase 8pm, tickets, £5.00/£3.00 in advance Featuring some of the best Roots and Folk artists around.
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Ascot Jagz
Price: £3.00

Iona
Uniquely combining rock / folk / progressive / ethnic and ambient elements with the crystalline voice of Joanne Hogg as their focus, IONA create 'a blaze of colours and textures...all the sounds fusing into a single, yearning, heartfelt beautiful cry.' Doors 7.15pm
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012
Time: 7.15pm
Venue: Canterbury The Chapel
Price: £14.00

Kieran Halpin
Little introduction is needed for this great Irish singer who is one of our perennial favourites. Kieran is an exceptional songwriter, widely covered by other artists, and a dynamic live performer, his skills honed by 30 years on the road across Europe and beyond. Powerful, passionate, intimate and intense, he lives every song on stage.
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: York Black Swan Inn
Price: £9.00

Stompin' Dave And His Band, Boogie Woogie Night
An extravaganza of a show is promised that will showcase all aspects of Stompin' Dave's music. From acoustic American old-time and bluegrass on banjo and fiddle to guitar based blues, all delivered in Dave's unique style. Dave and his band are planning on particularly featuring Dave's red hot boogie woogie piano playing. "Stompin' Dave is a formidable talent and outstanding musician as well as larger-than-life personality. He's also a brilliant boogie piano player, a mean blues guitarist and a fine singer! Stompin' Dave got a standing ovation at the Isle Of Wight blues weekend, so don't miss this evening!" Boogaloo Promotions. SEE DAVE STOMP CLICK HERE: http://www.stompindave.com/videopage.htm Recently described as "One of the world's greatest performers" by Maverick Magazine, Dave has appeared at countless festivals including Glastonbury Festival, The Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival, The Great Dorset Steam Fair, Wadebridge Folk Festival, Southsea Folk & Roots Festival and The Dorset Knob Throwing Festival. Dave has competed in the world banjo contest at Winfield Festival, Kansas USA and recently won the FOAOTMAD old-time banjo competition. As well as being a multi instrumentalist, Dave is well known for his flat foot dancing skills. Stompin' Dave's band will include the vastly experienced Graham Bundy, on drums Graham has worked with rockabilly luminaries such as Nashville Star's Jody Evans, Rockabilly Hall Of Fame members Dale Hawkins(author of swamp-rock classic Susie Q.) and Billy Lee Riley. Graham has also performed with Chuck Berry, recorded at the legendary Sun Studios in Memphis and performed at The Grand Ole Opry. Also appearing will be multi instrumentalist Prof. Oz, Dave's old stompin' partner. Visit Dave's MySpace pages here: http://www.myspace.com/stompindave
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Bath Chapel Arts Centre
Price: £10.00

Delicatessen
Delicatessen are a London-based group playing instrumental music and songs from the Balkan and Mediterranean regions and beyond. The group's choice of music reflects the diversity of their backgrounds (Greece, Japan, Turkey, France, Germany and the UK), their shared musical interests and their passion for performing familiar and less well known pieces in a unique, engaging way. The 7-piece band's line-up includes violins, accordion, oud, guitar, bass, darbuka/tablas and two singers and their repertoire weaves a colourful tapestry of moods and emotions, telling stories through the sounds and melodies of heart-stopping love songs, tales of every day life and furiously driving dance rhythms. From Klezmer to Sephardic, Rebetiko to Rai, their aim is to delight their audiences with a musical feast from East and West. PLEASE NOTE: DOORS OPEN: 7pm, MUSIC STARTS AT 9pm. The venue comprises both seated and standing space. There are a limited number of tables. These are allocated on a first come first served basis, with priority given to diners. If you'd like a table, please ensure you arrive early. We reserve the right to release all unclaimed tickets for re-sale at 9.30pm. If you will be arriving after this time, please inform us in advance, so that we can hold your tickets for you.
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012
Time: 7pm
Venue: London Green Note
Price: £8.00

Chris Coe & John Adams
Two of the mainstays of the folk revival - singing and musicianship at its very best. Please note that admission prices are £1.00 extra on the night.
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012
Time: 7.45pm
Venue: Guildford Institute
Price: £9.00

Nuala & Thomas Ford
Our resident bluesman (playing harmonica and slide guitar) duets with his vocalist pal Nuala for a night of earthy blues and soul.
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012
Time: 9.00pm
Venue: The B-Bar @ The Barbican Theatre
Price: £3.00

Tim Edey - Collective Duo
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012
Time: 7.00pm
Venue: Margate Tom Thumb Theatre
Price: £10.00

The Old Swan Band
We are extremely proud to present one of the finest English country dance bands in the land - and have been since they sparked off the reviavl in interest in English dances back in the 1970's. Fiddles, brass, keyboards and percussion - what's not to like?!
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012
Time: 7:45pm
Venue: Surrey The Borough Hall
Price: £10.50

Beach Keys - Jazz, Gypsy And Latin Guitar
Authentic Raw Folk from the Medway Delta
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012
Time: 7.00pm
Venue: Margate Tom Thumb Theatre
Price: £7.50

The Dove & Boweevil Band
The Collective prides itself in discovering musicians on the "up" and we're right behind this new blues combo from Norfolk. We proudly present: THE DOVE AND BOWEEVIL BAND with the fabulous Suffolk based acoustic blues duo Saltshaker. The Dove & Boweevil Band was founded by Norwich Blues musicians Lauren Dove & Mark Howes. 'You guys are awesome' Ramon Goose, Nu Blues "sounded like Seastick Steve on speed with female vocals to confuse you further, Blues Matters Magazine 'Dove and Boweevil will refresh your sense of the blues' Sue Marchant, BBC Radio In 2010 they performed in Chicago and then Canada's prestigious BLUESFEST. They have recorded an acoustic debut album & last year got the support spot of the year when they got to tour with the multi award winning blues star Oli Brown & his band who has become one of their many fans 'Great Blues ... not to be missed' Oli Brown. The band takes its influences from 60's blues such as Janis Joplin and Big Brother, Delaney and Bonnie, The Band, Howlin Wolf, Etta James, Aretha Franklin & Koko Taylor, The Allman Brothers & , Derek & The Dominoes, & more recently the Tedeschi-Trucks Band - pure authentic Roots music steeped in Blues and Soul. Food served from 7pm until 8.30pm. FRESHLY MADE DISHES USING LOCAL PRODUCE: just £5. Smoked Norfolk Turkey & Lentil Soup served with warm thyme scones Lentils enhances the flavour of the smoked turkey and combined with four tasty vegetables they make a fine meal-in-a-pot dish topped with locally grown thyme scones. Suffolk Potato, white bean & Fennel Soup served with warm rosemary scones. The simple flavours in this creamy soup are enhanced by the delicate perfume of fennel and complimented by rosemary scones. Homemade Apple Cake with cream £4
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012
Time: Doors open 7.00pm & food served until live music
Venue: Bury St Edmunds The Devil's Kitchen Collective at The Greene King Social Club
Price: £10.00

Eddie And Frank Thomas
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012
Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: Dorchester Arts Centre
Price: £12.00

Eddie And Frank Thomas
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012
Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: Dorchester Arts Centre
Price: £10.00

King King
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Pontypool Borough Blues Club
Price: £10.00

Lucy Ward
Double BBC folk award nominee Lucy Ward makes a welcome third appearance at Rugby Roots. Having supported many of the top folk artists including Seth Lakeman, Chris Wood, Tams & Coope, Phil Beer, Dave Swarbrick, Nancy Kerr & James Fagan and The Oysterband. Lucy has gone on to become a headline act in her own right at festivals and clubs all over the country. Lucy crowned a highly successful 2011 festival season with a stand-out performance and a standing ovations to a capacity audience at Shrewsbury Folk Festival. Having signed to Navigator Records in 2010, her debut album "Adelphi Has To Fly" was released in June 2011. It attracted very positive reviews from Mike Harding (BBCRadio 2), Verity Sharpe (BBC Radio 3) as well as publications such as The Guardian, Uncut, and Froots Mag. Lucy is a 21 year old acoustic artist from Derby. She plays guitar and concertina but considers her voice to be her first instrument. Her sets are an eclectic mix of traditional and modern folk interpretations, interspersed with her own songs. There is a natural and easy sound to her music that is brought to life by expressive performance, breath-taking delivery and Lucy's own brand of banter and crowd participation. Lucy has the ability to still an audience with the strength and purity of her voice, which she uses to great effect on the unaccompanied songs that sprinkle her set. She is developing into a fine songwriter and a consummate performer who wows her audience with her genuine and sparkling personality and her stunning voice. Lucy will be supported by Kent based young singer/songwriter Luke Jackson
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012
Time: 7.15pm
Venue: Rugby Lawrence Sheriff Hall
Price: £10.00

The Solid Air Band
Formed in spring 2011 the Solid Air Band performs the songs of John Martyn. Selecting from an unrivalled catalogue of music and drawing on the great artist's own original and idiosyncratic sound the Solid Air Band create an atmospheric and spontaneous tribute to the strength and intent of a true master. What the Solid Air Band lack in physical resemblance to the great man and his loyal band of musicians is more than compensated by the ambiance created by some of Liverpool's finest musicians. Capturing the emotion and sensitivity of John Martyn's own performances, this is definitely a vibe-alike not a look-alike tribute to a much missed performer.
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012
Time: 8.30pm
Venue: Glossop Redroom at The Oakwood
Price: £3.00

Gasanji (congo Drc)
Gasandji infuses like a mystery the sacred dimension of her music and her voice. With a wealth of collaborations behind her, she has developed in her music and voice a hybrid world of her own and sings in French, English and Lingala.
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012
Time: 6.45pm
Venue: London St Ethelburga's
Price: £10.00

Mike Silver
Consummate guitarist and always catches his audiences by surprise with that little extra bit of dexterity, just when they least expect it. His voice is full and crystal clear and his skill with an audience is outstanding. When it comes to writing Mike is up there with the very best melodic craftsmen Britain has produced in the last thirty years. Emerging in the 1970‟s, Mike was one of the first signings to Elton John‟s Rocket Records. Since moving on from Rocket, he has played festivals, clubs and arts centres all over Europe and released a good number of albums in the process. In July 2003, Mike‟s song, Not a Matter of Pride, from his album Solid Silver was added to the play lists of no less than 36 local radio stations up and down the UK and was given extensive rotation on BBC Radio 2 on Terry Wogan‟s early morning programme. Hidden gem. Now the secret is out Bob Harris.
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Twickenham Cabbage Patch Pub
Price: £8.00

Fraser Nimmo
Scots singer/guitarist with Fairport connections. Oh, and did we mention banjo!? No wait, come back!
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012
Time: Arrive for 7 pm - music from 8pm
Venue: Southport Park Golf Club
Price: £6.00

Froots Presents... Telling The Bees
Telling The Bees are an innovative acoustic band from Oxford, making unique and original, darkly crafted folk. Taking their inspiration from folklore, landscape, psychedelia, paganism and the politics of protest, Telling The Bees mix driving songs and tune-sets with haunting ballads. Intelligent lyrics, exotic rhythms and modes. Their skilful arrangements, wild at times, gentle at others, conjure up vivid images, as crafted, rugged and graceful as a woodcut. Andy Letcher writes the songs, fronts the band and provides rhythm on mandolin and stomp. He also plays pipes and is a leading figure in the English bagpiping revival. He cut his teeth in bands like Celtarabia, Paescod and Space Goats, taught alongside Chris Wood at the English Acoustic Collective Summer School and has guested with Bellowhead.. Classically trained but steeped in folk music, Jane Griffiths is a gifted fiddle player. Her light touch and effortless ability to move between styles have made her an in-demand session musician, most recently recording for Maddy Prior, Moon'shee and Simon Emerson (Imagined Village). Anglo-Concertina pioneer Jim Penny is renowned for his unique, funky approach to the instrument, exploring its improvisatory potential and treating it more like a Hammond Organ than the scratchy folk instrument of yore. He was a founder member of the much missed Red Dog Green Dog, playing for French and Breton dancing. Cellist Barney Morse Brown also tours and records with his own group Duotone and folk supergroup The Imagined Village, and worked with Chris Wood on the latter's Handmade Life album and tour. His versatility, precision and sense of funk have made him an in-demand session musician, most recently recording with Jackie Oates. Colin Fletcher is a respected bass player, a longstanding member of the Tim Van Eyken Band. His innovative approach to the bass, using overhand technique, means he can oscillate between funky bass lines and chordal pads, both of which give Telling The Bees a distinctive sound. PLEASE NOTE: DOORS OPEN: 7pm, MUSIC STARTS AT 9pm. The venue comprises both seated and standing space. There are a limited number of tables. These are allocated on a first come first served basis, with priority given to diners. If you'd like a table, please ensure you arrive early. We reserve the right to release all unclaimed tickets for re-sale at 9.30pm. If you will be arriving after this time, please inform us in advance, so that we can hold your tickets for you.
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012
Time: Doors @ 7pm. See GreenNote.co.uk for start time
Venue: London Green Note
Price: £9.00

Bellowhead
Anyone who thinks folk can't rock has obviously never attended a Bellowhead concert. Although deeply steeped in the age-old history of the genre, what sets this unique group apart is the range of other influences this eleven-piece big band will weave into their sound. Jazz, funk, English music hall and New Orleans marching bands are all present in this riotous yet hugely entertaining performance. From the rampaging vocals of Jon Boden to Gideon Juckes' growling, slightly scary sousaphone, Bellowhead will sweep you through a heady mix of great tunes, innovative arrangements, rampant imagination and brazen front. Life for the 11 members of this folk big band has been hectic - to say the least "They're a constant rumbling juggernaut of activity," says their PR person. Their ever-increasing fan base - is set to swell as they've played practically every festival in the country this summer, from Glastonbury, Latitude to V Festival, including an appearance at WOMAD in Charlton Park. With their delirious joie de vivre and compelling ability to radicall! y reinterpret the tales of our past still very much intact, there's little sign of the Bellowhead juggernaut running out of steam just yet. 5 X Winner 'Best Live Act' BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. ALSO featuring the premiere of VICI composed by Bellowhead's Pete Flood starring Super Strings. The new work VICI, inspired by Wiltshire folk hero Alfred William, commissioned by Super Strings and composed by Bellowhead's Pete Flood, will see 120 young string players from Wiltshire play alongside some of Britain's top folk musicians, including Methera violinist Miranda Rutter, concertina virtuoso Robert Harbron, harpist Steph West and Bellowhead's Ed Neuhauser. Under 14's to be accompanied by an adult. This event is being held at Steam Museum Swindon. We Got Tickets are provided with an allocation, if you require more tickets than are available on this site please call the Swindon Arts Centre on 01793 614837 between 12 - 5pm Monday to Friday and 10 - 1pm Saturday.
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012
Time: 7pm
Venue: Swindon Steam Museum
Price: £22.00

Alex Roberts
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012
Time: 7.15pm, music 8pm.
Venue: Bournemouth Centre Stage
Price: £5.00

Alex Roberts
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012
Time: 7.15pm, music 8pm.
Venue: Bournemouth Centre Stage
Price: £3.00

O'hooley & Tidow - Cd Launch
O'Hooley & Tidow "Blessed with sensitivity, coupled with a great sense of humour, Belinda and Heidi write creatively, expressing new ideas both lyrically and musically in a beautiful way." Nic Jones Belinda O'Hooley (The Unthanks) and Heidi Tidow are the dapper gentlewomen behind the groundbreaking Silent June; one of MOJO Magazine's Top 10 Folk Albums of 2010. Hailed as pioneers of innovative chamber-folk, their music defies easy description, crossing folk and classical boundaries with a hint of burlesque theatricality. Their beautifully unusual songs touch on everything from dark folk tales, cross-dressing historical figures through to the invisibility of the elderly and the global economy, yet are always sure to tug on your heart-strings. Their new album The Fragile, released in February 2012, sees them touring the country with their irresistible blend of striking arrangements, sublime harmonies and cheeky Northern banter. Praise for Silent June (No Masters) A MOJO Magazine Top 10 Folk Album of 2010 Spiral Earth Best Debut 2011 Fatea Records Innovation Award 2011 'Striking and refreshingly ambitious. A bold, unsettling debut.' The Observer 'Gorgeous'**** The Financial Times 'Hard to resist' Uncut
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012
Time: 7.00pm
Venue: London Green Note
Price: £10.00

Patsy Matheson And Becky Mills
Since the well publicised break up of Waking the Witch, band members Patsy Matheson and Becky Mills have continued to delight audiences throughout the UK Patsy as half of a duo with the legendary Clive Gregson (Gregson & Collister, Richard Thompson Band), and Becky singing alongside Ken Nicol (Steeleye Span) and Ashley Hutchins (Fairport Convention). Now these two world class songwriters, singers and guitar players have joined forces resulting in a unique and personal sound, drawing on roots in folk, acoustic blues, R & B, jazz and rock, with an emphasis on intricate vocal harmonies. Combine this with the pair's engaging charm and sense of humour, and this promises to be a very special evening of quality entertainment.
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012
Time: 8.30pm
Venue: Etton The Processed Pea
Price: £9.00

Cathryn Craig & Brian Willoughby
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Lowdham The Old Ship Inn
Price: £8.00

Chris Wood
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012
Time: 7.15pm
Venue: Birmingham Red Lion Folk Club
Price: £12.00

Group Doueh (day One)
Two days of sandblasted trancendentalism at Cafe OTO with this residency for Group Doueh from Dakhla in the Western Sahara. Performing as a five piece band and playing two extended sets each night, the group switch between a hypnotic and ecstatic guitar trance that filters their rock and pop influences to meditative and transcendental acoustic folk tracks as well as synthesising all of these strands into celebratory new forms. Seeing them in such an intimate club setting over here is a rare treat and this is sure to go down as one of the highlights of 2012! Group Doueh's mix of the ancient and modern is rooted in the traditional foundations of Sahrawi/Hassania music, but is also entirely their own. It shares its roots with the neighbouring styles of Mauritanian music, however Group Doueh have managed to transcend the classical limitations of that music with a fiery, independent, and individualistic approach that incorporates a distinctly rock element anomalous in the region. It's a sound that can only come from the land that inspired it: the Sahara desert. The now legendary Group Doueh have been playing in and around their native Dakhla, in the Western Sahara for over 27 years. They first came to Western ears via tireless work of Sublime Frequencies who heard a track on an AM radio broadcast in Morocco in 2005 and then tracked them down as part of an exploratory mission that finally landed Hisham Mayet in the group's compound - but only after chasing an overland trail all the way to the Mauritanian border! Group Doueh then toured Europe with labelmate Omar Souleyman in 2009 for western audiences where Western audiences first witnessed the power of the group's mighty live shows. Doueh's guitar heroics and wife Halima Jakani and Bashiri Touballi's soaring vocal interplay entranced all who were present. In 2010 Doueh hosted Tony Allen in his home town and joined in on some of his dates in Europe before returning to Europe in May 2011 with new album Zunya Jamma in tow, delivering a blistering set at the Animal Collective ATP and sending the atmosphere skybound everywhere they travelled. One the festival's finest feelgood moments snaking, mesmeric guitar playing Doueh and family made the entire room glow with folk chants and electrified stomps - Spin on Group Doueh at ATP The savage flipside to the careworn sound of Tinariwen unity of place, traditional instrumentation and source material helps it weave an otherworldly spell - Uncut "A densely layered piece of cultural cross-pollination that consistently spills over into outright joy." Pitchfork (on Zayna Jumma)
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012
Time: 8PM
Venue: London Cafe Oto
Price: £12.00

Group Doueh (two Day Pass)
PASS GETS YOU ENTRY TO BOTH DAYS! Two days of sandblasted trancendentalism at Cafe OTO with this residency for Group Doueh from Dakhla in the Western Sahara. Performing as a five piece band and playing two extended sets each night, the group switch between a hypnotic and ecstatic guitar trance that filters their rock and pop influences to meditative and transcendental acoustic folk tracks as well as synthesising all of these strands into celebratory new forms. Seeing them in such an intimate club setting over here is a rare treat and this is sure to go down as one of the highlights of 2012! Group Doueh's mix of the ancient and modern is rooted in the traditional foundations of Sahrawi/Hassania music, but is also entirely their own. It shares its roots with the neighbouring styles of Mauritanian music, however Group Doueh have managed to transcend the classical limitations of that music with a fiery, independent, and individualistic approach that incorporates a distinctly rock element anomalous in the region. It's a sound that can only come from the land that inspired it: the Sahara desert. The now legendary Group Doueh have been playing in and around their native Dakhla, in the Western Sahara for over 27 years. They first came to Western ears via tireless work of Sublime Frequencies who heard a track on an AM radio broadcast in Morocco in 2005 and then tracked them down as part of an exploratory mission that finally landed Hisham Mayet in the group's compound - but only after chasing an overland trail all the way to the Mauritanian border! Group Doueh then toured Europe with labelmate Omar Souleyman in 2009 for western audiences where Western audiences first witnessed the power of the group's mighty live shows. Doueh's guitar heroics and wife Halima Jakani and Bashiri Touballi's soaring vocal interplay entranced all who were present. In 2010 Doueh hosted Tony Allen in his home town and joined in on some of his dates in Europe before returning to Europe in May 2011 with new album Zunya Jamma in tow, delivering a blistering set at the Animal Collective ATP and sending the atmosphere skybound everywhere they travelled. One the festival's finest feelgood moments snaking, mesmeric guitar playing Doueh and family made the entire room glow with folk chants and electrified stomps - Spin on Group Doueh at ATP The savage flipside to the careworn sound of Tinariwen unity of place, traditional instrumentation and source material helps it weave an otherworldly spell - Uncut "A densely layered piece of cultural cross-pollination that consistently spills over into outright joy." Pitchfork (on Zayna Jumma)
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012
Time: 8PM
Venue: London Cafe Oto
Price: £21.00

David Celia
On his 12th tour of England, David brings us his roots rock with hints of folk wrapped in a pop package''. davidcelia.com
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Norwich The Bicycle Shop
Price: £5.00

Vandaveer
Students £7 on door only (proof required) VANDAVEER is the song-singing, record-making, globetrotting project penned and put forth by alt-folk tunesmith Mark Charles Heidinger. Born in Ohio, raised in Kentucky, and currently camped out in Washington DC, Vandaveer offers up melodic Americana that is both haunting and easy, forlorn and welcoming, with stories as universal as the songs they inhabit. Vandaveer shapeshifts from studio to stage and back with a revolving cast of characters, most prominent among them Rose Guerin, offering up the loveliest harmonies heard this side of Eden. What started as a solo side project for Heidinger in 2007 blossomed into something more dimensional a year later, with Guerin adding new depth and color to Vandaveer's sound. The two were integral members of DC's Federal Reserve collective, a ramshackle group of folk and not-so-folk types alike curating monthly musical happenings throughout the DC area. Informal collaborations in that environment soon galvanized, with Guerin's voice becoming a reliable fixture in Vandaveer. The band has toured regularly on both sides of the Atlantic since, playing nearly 500 shows, steadily building a diverse fan base from the ground up. Vandaveer's third full length, Dig Down Deep, offers a collage of churning rhythms, steady guitar and ringing piano beneath tales of war and impermanence, loss and love. The music serves as both mirror and platform for Vandaveer's stories - booming bass drum during moments of turmoil and conquest, throaty cello in moments of peace and predation, trembling keys in moments of uncertainty and hope. Out of the mosaic rise two voices in perfect harmony narrating and navigating the lives of Vandaveer's characters with confidence and grace. With rich lyrical imagery and lush, spectral production courtesy of long-time collaborator Duane Lundy, Dig Down Deep is Vandaveer's finest effort to date - a record both dense and direct, for and from the heart. Dig Down Deep was released in April 2011 via Supply & Demand Music and Alter K Records. Select Press quotes for Dig Down Deep: Dig Down Deep is an intricate, cohesive collection of heartfelt songs that offer music as rich as the lyrical content. It's an emphatic demonstration of Vandaveer's wide array of talents and an excellent addition to their catalogue. Consequence Of Sound Dig Down Deep reveals a more gutsy approach to the group's amalgam of country and folk and acknowledges frontman Mark Charles Heidinger's Kentucky roots more than ever. Vandaveer have taken the country genre from its side-street status and brought it, integrity intact, into the palatable mainstream for the masses to enjoy. Q Magazine Dig Down Deep is a delicate collection of artfully crafted Americana that pulses with an honesty and elegance that ultimately makes these songs memorable while also sounding distinctly timeworn and familiar, even upon first listen. The Line Of Best Fit Equal parts folk and pop, towing a line where Nick Drake and Andrew Bird set up shop, Vandaveer tells campfire stories under the guise of crafty, quiet, dynamic torch ballads, beautifully executed and brilliantly captivating. American Songwriter Magazine http://www.vandaveer.net/home.php
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Bath Chapel Arts Centre
Price: £8.00

Martha Tilston
Martha Tilston is a captivating performer, an enchanting singer-songwriter blessed with a gloriously clear and seductive voice. She expresses herself in her trademark, endearingly direct, poetic manner, putting forward her philosophy of life, and examining relationships in an accessible, universal way. "Folk for a new generation, performed, as always with a sprinkling of magic" (Time Out). No more than a step from greatness" (The Daily Telegraph).
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012
Time: Doors 7.30pm / Show 8.00pm
Venue: Birmingham Kitchen Garden Cafe
Price: £10.00

Kirsty Mcgee
Guided by something far more important than a little magnetism and the night sky, Kirsty McGee creates a smoky and folky jazz fug of quietly militant and socially conscious music that is as dark as it is enlightening, as gloomy as it is optimistic, and as angry as it is in lovebeguilingly ethereal music. Currently working on her sixth studio album, Kirsty Mcgee's last album no.5 with her band the hobopop collective won the independent music awards vox pop for best live performance album 2011. Wife by Kirsty McGee & The Hobopop Collective - http://kirstymcgee.bandcamp.com/track/wife Twice nominated for BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards and winner of the 2011 Best Live Performance Album (vox pop) in the Independent Music Awards, Kirsty McGee has been recording and touring to critical acclaim since her debut in 2002. Her style continues to defy categorisation and charm audiences around Europe, earning her the tag of 'cult' singer-songwriter in the UK. Combining styles as diverse as folk, jazz, chanson and Americana, her work is held together by her distinctive lyrical style and astonishing voice, equally comfortable in dark, intimate ballads and up-tempo carny-shuffle numbers. With a history of politics, homelessness and wanderlust, Kirsty McGee suffuses her work with a musical vagrancy that enriches her songs and styles, from "hipkat trilby swing" (acoustic magazine) to "exquisite and skeletal" (Q Magazine). 'bewitching, exquisite and skeletal.' - **** Q 'a fascinating talent' - clash 'rich, versatile and immaculately controlled' - americana-uk 'perennially stunning' - netrhythms Kirsty's website here, http://www.kirstymcgee.com/news.html
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Bath Chapel Arts Centre
Price: £10.00

Chris Smither Plays Steve Tilston's Trades Roots
Doors open 8pm Chris Smither is an American songwriter, singer, musician, poet, and author whose musical style crosses the lines between blues and folk. CONCESSIONS APPLY TO TRADES CLUB MEMBERS ONLY
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Hebden Bridge The Trades Club
Price: £13.00

Group Doueh (day Two)
Two days of sandblasted trancendentalism at Cafe OTO with this residency for Group Doueh from Dakhla in the Western Sahara. Performing as a five piece band and playing two extended sets each night, the group switch between a hypnotic and ecstatic guitar trance that filters their rock and pop influences to meditative and transcendental acoustic folk tracks as well as synthesising all of these strands into celebratory new forms. Seeing them in such an intimate club setting over here is a rare treat and this is sure to go down as one of the highlights of 2012! Group Doueh's mix of the ancient and modern is rooted in the traditional foundations of Sahrawi/Hassania music, but is also entirely their own. It shares its roots with the neighbouring styles of Mauritanian music, however Group Doueh have managed to transcend the classical limitations of that music with a fiery, independent, and individualistic approach that incorporates a distinctly rock element anomalous in the region. It's a sound that can only come from the land that inspired it: the Sahara desert. The now legendary Group Doueh have been playing in and around their native Dakhla, in the Western Sahara for over 27 years. They first came to Western ears via tireless work of Sublime Frequencies who heard a track on an AM radio broadcast in Morocco in 2005 and then tracked them down as part of an exploratory mission that finally landed Hisham Mayet in the group's compound - but only after chasing an overland trail all the way to the Mauritanian border! Group Doueh then toured Europe with labelmate Omar Souleyman in 2009 for western audiences where Western audiences first witnessed the power of the group's mighty live shows. Doueh's guitar heroics and wife Halima Jakani and Bashiri Touballi's soaring vocal interplay entranced all who were present. In 2010 Doueh hosted Tony Allen in his home town and joined in on some of his dates in Europe before returning to Europe in May 2011 with new album Zunya Jamma in tow, delivering a blistering set at the Animal Collective ATP and sending the atmosphere skybound everywhere they travelled. One the festival's finest feelgood moments snaking, mesmeric guitar playing Doueh and family made the entire room glow with folk chants and electrified stomps - Spin on Group Doueh at ATP The savage flipside to the careworn sound of Tinariwen unity of place, traditional instrumentation and source material helps it weave an otherworldly spell - Uncut "A densely layered piece of cultural cross-pollination that consistently spills over into outright joy." Pitchfork (on Zayna Jumma)
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012
Time: 8PM
Venue: London Cafe Oto
Price: £12.00

Claudia Aurora
With a following to rival flamenco, the haunting melodies of Portuguese fado have always held listeners spellbound; Claudia Aurora is its powerful new voice. Claudia Aurora sings fado traditional Portuguese folk-blues like no one else. The singer-songwriter's debut album, "Silêncio", is the first collection of original fado songs to be recorded in the UK since the great Portuguese Fado diva Amália Rodrigues recorded at Abbey Road Studios in 1952. Claudia Aurora is a fadista and songwriter from Oporto, Portugal. She is based in Bristol, UK since 2003 and has built a reputation as a stunning live performer. Claudia has sung fado at numerous venues in the UK, including the prestigious Kings Place, Queen Elizabeth Hall (Southbank Centre), Momo and Heaven, in London, Royal Theatre in Norwich, and St George's in Bristol. "Haunting Portuguese fado from this rising star of the scene here performing heartbreakingly poignant material from her widely acclaimed 2011 album 'Silêncio'" (Time Out) "I love this album by Claudia Aurora. Exquisitely simple and uniquely traditional - unadorned music at its best. Silêncio is mood music personified, embracing the classical fado themes of loss and yearning. Her deeply expressive voice is a joy to listen to." (Liz MacIntosh, Festival Previews) "She has a beautiful voice and her album is excellent" (Elizabeth MacIntosh, Festival Previews) "Spine-tingling" (Alex Denney, NME) "A finely judged and superbly executed programme" (Gordon Turner, Norwich) "She is really amazing one of my highlights of the year" (Viktor Wynd, The Last Tuesday Society) "Drenched in emotion and drama" (Lucy Duran, BBC Radio 3) "Boy, she has a voice, as elementally strong as the tides of which she sings, and as imbued with ability to induce calm and awe." (Venue Magazine) "Porto-born singer/songwriter Claudia Aurora enraptures with the spine-tingling emotion of her powerful, mournful Fado torch songs. Her extraordinary voice, drenched in a sadness that courses through the audience, gives the soaring sound of Portugal unique dramatic expression." (St. George's Bristol) PLEASE NOTE: DOORS OPEN: 7pm, MUSIC STARTS AT 9pm. The venue comprises both seated and standing space. There are a limited number of tables. These are allocated on a first come first served basis, with priority given to diners. If you'd like a table, please ensure you arrive early. We reserve the right to release all unclaimed tickets for re-sale at 9.30pm. If you will be arriving after this time, please inform us in advance, so that we can hold your tickets for you.
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012
Time: Doors open 7pm. See GreenNote.co.uk for start time
Venue: London Green Note
Price: £15.00

Rory Mcleod
Rory Mcleod - ex-circus clown and fire eater. A one man soul band, poet and storyteller, singing his own unique upbeat dance stories. A modern traveling troubadour using tap shoes, a cappella, harmonica, guitar, trombone, spoons, finger cymbals, bandorea, djembe and various percussion instruments! Rory has traveled the globe for different reasons at different times, from Asia to the middle East from Gambia to Cuba, Central America, Australia, North America, Canada, Europe and other nooks and crannies of the earth. "You don't listen to McLeod you travel with him" City Hub, Sydney (Australia) "I've traveled to look for work, to mend a broken heart, to be with someone I longed for. I'd travel to visit friends and on the way I'd make new ones, I'd roam because I was curious to see what was around the next corner, sometimes I traveled to follow the warmer weather and migrate... like the birds and the big whales and fishes do". Rory
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012
Time: 8.30 pm
Venue: London King's Head, Crouch End
Price: £15.00

Johnny Coppin & Mike Silver
Since they began playing together years ago these top singer/songwriters have gone from strength-to-strength. As well as the classic songs which have won both fans all over the UK, the show features some new songs and collaborations.
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Exeter New Theatre
Price: £10.00

Patsy Matheson & Becky Mills
or half of award winning female acoustic group 'Waking the Witch', these two world-class songwriter / singer / guitarists have joined forces to create a sound that combines folk, blues, jazz and acoustic rock with intricate vocal harmonies.
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012
Time: 8.00PM
Venue: Bridgwater Arts Centre
Price: £10.00

Hank Wangford & Brad Breath
Crossing the country from Cornwall to Cumbria to universal acclaim in more than 200 village halls, Hank Wangford now has a new saddle pal in the shape of Brad Breath (aka Andy Roberts) and is offering Part Two of No Hall 2 Small Hank and Brad offer an evening of stories from the highway of life and a clutch of original heartbreakers, toetappers and gems culled from the dark underbelly of Country Laughter and pain are both sides of the same tear stained coin. Dolly Parton said that Country Music is 3 chords and the truth. With Hank and Brad it's sometimes only two! Hank Wangford godfather of British Country music over 3 decades was indoctrinated by Gram Parsons in 1970. He has lassoed the hearts and minds of his public in songs, TV series and books the latest of which, No Hall Too Small will be a celebration of Hank's rural touring. His new compadre is yodelling Brad Breath celebrated for his classic Glimpses of Gloom and his mastery of the guitar, mandolin and dulcimer. As Andy Roberts, Brad has played with The Scaffold, Bonzo Dog, Plainsong, Billy Connolly, Pink Floyd, Rolf Harris and many others. Many of the songs will be from Hank's most recent albums Best Foot Forward and Whistling In The Dark An emotional rollercoaster ride. From honkytonkin' heartbroken songs of 1950s and '60s rural America via the 1984 British miner's strike, right up to the present day. Beautifully crafted original songs full of class, wit and poignant observations. We laughed and cried sometimes at the same time it's a privilege to be present on nights like these. Mike Leigh A must see and must hear for any fan of Country music and if you're not a fan you'll soon convert. The music is beautiful, the stories funny and they have great taste in cowboy gear. Carn to Cove, Cornwall PLEASE NOTE: Door open 7pm, Music starts at 9pm. The venue comprises both seated and standing space. There are a limited number of tables. These are allocated on a first come first served basis, with priority given to diners. If you'd like a table, please ensure you arrive early. We reserve the right to release all unclaimed tickets for re-sale at 9.30pm. If you will be arriving after this time, please inform us in advance, so that we can hold your tickets for you.
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012
Time: Doors @ 7pm. See GreenNote.co.uk for start time.
Venue: London Green Note
Price: £12.50

O'hooley And Tidow
Show starts at 8pm with a support act to be confirmed. Bring your own 'refreshments '! and for any further info call 01446 771166 (10-5.30pm)
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Cowbridge The Minstrel Room
Price: £10.00

Kirsty Mcgee, Julian Gaskell
Twice nominated for BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards and winner of the 2011 Best Live Performance Album in the Independent Music Awards. www.kirstymcgee.co.uk
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Cornwall Eden Project Cafe
Price: £4.00

Liverpool Acoustic Extra, Featuring Bird
Liverpool Acoustic eXtra returns for a one-off event on Friday 9th March for a show featuring local atmospheric folk favourites Bird. Joining Bird from Cornwall and London are the fantastic folk trio The Sea Kings. Expect tight harmonies, great songs (some of them even about the sea!), and wonderful musicianship. Finally we've got singer-songwriter and youtube star Thom Morecroft, who's already a firm favourite and a crowd pleaser on the local acoustic music scene. Doors open at 8pm and the music runs from 8.30pm to just after 11pm. Unfortunately there is no disabled access as the venue is on the third floor of the gallery. There is a full bar, and it's an over 14 event. Tickets are £5 in advance and £6 on the door. This is set to be a popular night and demand for tickets will be high. Tickets will go on general sale from Friday 27th January and will be available from http://wegottickets.com/liverpoolacoustic
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: Liverpool The View Two Gallery
Price: £5.00

Spikedrivers
The Blues Roots Revue is a collaboration between three of Britain's best live acts in the blues tradition: Spikedrivers, Fran and Mike McGillivray and Sam Hare. Each has their own distinctive style both in performance and songwriting and together they promise an unforgettable musical evening. You will hear each one doing their own unique thing but you will also hear what happens when three superb guitarists, two stunning bass players and an impeccable drummer/percussionist and six glorious voices come together in various combinations. This will be a rare treat and there will only be a handful of performances so make sure you don't miss it.
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Manningtree Red Lion
Price: £11.50

Nick Harper
The welcome return of the songwriing and guitar genius that is Nick Harper. Blessed with a voice that is pure and strong, virtuoso guitar skills and songs that range from all out guitar madness to the most beautiful ballads. Catch one of the finest live acts in the country... you wont be dissapointed. Only 60 tickets available for this intimate show. Food will be available before the show. Please contact venue direct to book a meal before the gig.
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Edinburgh Berits & Brown
Price: £10.00

Hokie Joint
Friday Night Blues Club is proud to announce the first in a string of concerts at London's infamous Bloomsbury Lanes. A stellar lineup of the hottest young things on the circuit to kick things off... HOKIE JOINT Born out of contempt for the soulless guitar histrionics of the 21st century blues scene, Hokie Joint are a blues and boogie-rock n roll ensemble, thats refreshingly original and dangerously addictive to listen too. In its place you find relentless grooves, hook-laden songs and a healthy dose of x-rated humour. Their sound blends the classic songwriting of the 60s Blues Boom with the vaudeville theatricality of Tom Waits and Captain Beefheart to create a refreshing, irreverent and downright addictive fusion of the old and the new. Formed in 2007, they have already shared stages with the likes of Booker T, ZZ Top and the late great Solomon Burke and are proving the darlings of blues, rock and pop critics alike. Miss this and be fucking gutted. A British quintet that brings throbbing/roaring groovy neo blues. MG, Gitarist Magazine (NL), 2009 JD SMITH Roots and rockabilly rub shoulders with roaring guitarsa one man blues-punk powerhouse! BUZZSAW JOINT DJs spinning a blend of blues, soul and funk all at 45rpm!
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012
Time: 8pm - 3am
Venue: London Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes
Price: £3.00

Chris Wood
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Barton The Ropewalk
Price: £12.00

Patsy Matheson & Becky Mills
Since the well publicised break up of Waking the Witch, Patsy Matheson & Becky Mills have continued to delight audiences throughout the UK Patsy as half of a duo with the legendary Clive Gregson (Gregson & Collister, Richard Thompson Band), & Becky singing alongside Ken Nicol (Steeleye Span) & Ashley Hutchings (Fairport Convention). Now, to support the release of their two new album's (Patsy's Stories of Angels & Guitars, available 16th Jan 2012, & Becky's Dandelion) these two world class songwriters, singers & guitar players have joined forces resulting in a unique & personal sound, drawing on roots in traditional & contemporary folk, acoustic blues, R & B, jazz & rock, with an emphasis on intricate vocal harmonies. Combine this with the pair's engaging charm & sense of humour, & this promises to be a very special evening of top quality entertainment.
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Wellington Arts Centre
Price: £9.00

Spikedrivers' Blues Roots Revue
The Spikedrivers' Blues Roots Revue is a collaboration between three of Britain's best live acts in the blues tradition; The Spikedrivers, Fran &Mike McGillivray and Sam Hare. Each will do their own thing with their own distinctive style in performance and song writing, but in addition you will also hear what happens when three superb guitarists, two stunning bass players, an impeccable drummer/percussionist and six glorious voices come together in different combination. A rare treat. 1st half: Unreserved seating, 2nd half: Standing. Doors at 8pm.
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: Aldershot West End Centre
Price: £10.00

Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman
The beautiful sultry voice of Kathryn Roberts accompanied by Sean Lakeman's dextrous guitar playing creates an appealing mix. Doors 7.15pm for 8pm start
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012
Time: 7.15pm
Venue: Canterbury The Kingston Barn
Price: £12.00

Other Roads
Born out of the untimely demise of John Wright, Other Roads have emerged as talents in their own right. Songwriter and guitarist Pete Abbott, the band's front man; superb championship-winning fiddle player Gregor Borland, and singer, songwriter, multi instrumentalist Dave Walmsley. Show starts 8.00pm
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012
Time: 7.00PM
Venue: Shaw Playhouse2
Price: £10.00

Aynsley Lister - Solo
PLEASE NOTE: WE ABSORB ALL BOOKING FEES - THIS EXPLAINS THE ODD PRICE LISTED HERE! WHEN YOU GET TO THE CHECK OUT, 10% WILL BE ADDED AND, HEY PRESTO, THE FULL TICKET PRICE IS REACHED Regarded as one of the county's finest proponents of rocking blues, this is a rare chance to see Aynsley Lister up close and personal in a stripped down, intimate acoustic set-up. Influenced from an early age by 60s RnB, Aynsley takes the era's key elements and mixes them with a more contemporary, melodic and lyrical approach. He is one of very few artists playing blues infused rock with a modern edge - tangible, heartfelt, soul searching, played with passion and vitality and full of fine song writing. After live sessions for BBC Radio 2's Bob Harris and Paul Jones, and performances alongside the likes of Buddy Guy, John Mayall and Robert Cray, Aynsley became the only British performer to be featured in Classic Rocks Top 10 Contemporary Blues Rock Artists. His solo performances are the perfect platform to witness Aynsley's amazing ability to sync rhythmical chords, bass lines, and stinging lead guitar, accompanied by soulful vocals and his custom built stomp box!
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012
Time: Doors 7.30pm, Show 8.00pm
Venue: Selby Town Hall
Price: £9.09

Kirsty Mcgee
Twice nominated for BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards and winner of the 2011 Best Live Performance Album in the Independent Music Awards. Combining styles as diverse as folk, jazz, chanson and Americana. www.kirstymcgee.co.uk
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Cornwall Miss Peapod's
Price: £5.00

Joined At The Hip
Voice and keys duo Peter Gill and Graeme Budd have a vast repertoire of Boogie-woogie, blues, jazz, rock and much more. The duo combine superb music skills with easy humour, thus creating a highly entertaining evening of pure joy, not to be missed. This event is a joint promotion with Roger Collett.
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012
Time: 8:00pm
Venue: Bridgwater Arts Centre
Price: £10.00

Tatcho Dram (balkan And Gypsy Music)
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Bow Village Hall
Price: £9.00

Tatcho Dram (balkan And Gypsy Music)
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Bow Village Hall
Price: £7.00

Jennifer Crook
Bath-based singer songwriter and harp player Jennifer Crook recorded her new solo album Merry-Go-Round in Glasgow with producer and hit songwriter Boo Hewerdine. The album, featuring guest vocals from Eddi Reader and a duet with Nashville's Darrell Scott, will be released in the UK on 11th July 2011 by Proper. Described as 'spellbinding' by Acoustic magazine, Jennifer's blend of contemporary folk, americana and pop is delightfully difficult to pigeonhole. Jennifer has toured throughout Britain and Europe with many top artists and bands. She was a BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Musician finalist, and recently performed with Snow Patrol throughout their 'Reworked' tour. a very special performance from a lady who will definitely make waves. Maverick 2011
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012
Time: 8:00pm
Venue: Twickenham Cabbage Patch Pub
Price: £7.00

Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin
Phillip Henry and Hannah Martin are two musicians with a growing follow-ing on the folk and roots scene. philliphenryandhannahmar-tin.co.uk
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Norwich The Bicycle Shop
Price: £5.00

Cloud Garden
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012
Time: 6.30 pm
Venue: Dorchester Arts Centre
Price: £5.00

Modeste Hugues
Award winning songwriter and guitarist Modeste Hugues returns to Green Note, bringing his unique style of music from the Betroka region of Madagascar. His infectious music has wowed audiences around the world including appearances at the Womad festivals in the UK, Sicily & Singapore. PLEASE NOTE: DOORS OPEN: 7pm, MUSIC STARTS AT 9pm. The venue comprises both seated and standing space. There are a limited number of tables. These are allocated on a first come first served basis, with priority given to diners. If you'd like a table, please ensure you arrive early. We reserve the right to release all unclaimed tickets for re-sale at 9.30pm. If you will be arriving after this time, please inform us in advance, so that we can hold your tickets for you.
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012
Time: Doors @ 7pm. See GreenNote.co.uk for start time
Venue: London Green Note
Price: £10.00

Steven Finn
From the driving rhythm of his National guitar picking to the raw energy of his explosive harp playing Steven Finn has been electrifying audiences across Europe. Steven combines English folk and Delta blues music to provide a backdrop to his songs of protest delivered with Northern edge. Described as one of the best young acoustic blues guitar players on two legs, Steven was number 1 in the UK Blues charts in Summer 2010, having had one of his songs selected by legendary John Peel's producer, Louise Kattenhorn, as part of the Storm the Charts campaign. During his career Steven has performed with Martin Carthy, Rory McLeod, Martin Simpson, the Beautiful South, Martin Stephenson, Watermelon Slim, Dougie MacLeod and Elvis Costello. Steven played guitar for British harmonica champion Dave Aston and is also an All Ireland champion in the grupai cheoil. In 1999 he recorded an album with Andrew Dinan and John Jo Kelly entitled 'Before The Flood'. During her 'Fisherman's Woman' world tour Steven played main guitar with Emiliana Torrini before releasing his debut solo album 'Houdini's Blues'. This album was very well received by audiences and critics alike and has led to him playing many theatres and festivals in Germany, Holland, Ireland and the UK.
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012
Time: 7.00pm
Venue: Ripon The Cellar Door
Price: £10.00

Louise Jordan
Absolutely Glorious. Fatea Magazine This is one of the best debut albums I have ever heard, definitely five star. I cannot believe she has done it all herself. This girl is one to look out for. Richard Digance, BBC Louise's music is unique. It is a product of her life's experience and is inspired by the natural tranquillity of the countryside where she now lives. She draws from the traditional folk songs that she has performed so often and there is also a clear influence from the classical singing of her youth. Since leaving home, life has brought Louise various challenges from teaching at under- performing secondary schools in East London to working for both national and international charities focusing on disadvantaged children. These experiences have shaped the musician Louise has become, with a gift for empathy and storytelling.
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Preston The Continental
Price: £6.00

The Thomas Brothers
From Luka, Mississippi a must see show for any Delta/country blues fans. This is Eddie and Franks first UK visit since their hugely successful Angels on the Backroads theatre tour 7 years ago a show that traced the musical history of Highway 61. If you want a genuine, honest, sincere, simple blues show that touches the soul then this is it. " If you get a chance to see this show you must grab it with both hands." Blues in Britain.
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Sheffield The Greystones
Price: £10.00

Wendy Arrowsmith
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: Croydon Ruskin House
Price: £7.00

Wendy Arrowsmith
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: Croydon Ruskin House
Price: £5.00

Bright Phoebus Presents The Melrose Quartet
Some things just go well together. Port and stilton. Blackberry crumble and custard. So it is with The Melrose Quartet, which brings together two great duos - Nancy Kerr & James Fagan and Richard and Jess Arrowsmith. Glorious four-part harmony singing combines with crunchy twin fiddles, majestic melodeon and powerful bouzouki in a set that will leave your heart singing and your feet tapping. Since becoming neighbours in Sheffield in 2010, the four have shared a lot of pie and many a late night, but best of all they have found an instant rapport that will leap off the stage and surround you with intoxicating musical joy. Tickets: £9 in advance £11 on the door
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012
Time: 7.30pm DOORS CONCERT 8.00PM
Venue: Sheffield The Greystones
Price: £9.00

Jim Moray
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: Leicester The Musician
Price: £10.00

The Acoustic Gathering
The Acoustic Gathering consists of Ray Jackson, founder member of Lindisfarne, Jerry Donahue, the 'guitarist's guitarist', a stalwart of Fairport Convention, Fotheringay and The Hellecasters amongst others, and Doug Morter, long time member of the Albion Band and Magna Carta. A magnificent pedigree! Together they will be playing songs and instrumentals from the Acoustic Gathering CD and Doug and Jerry's duo repertoire, with three part harmony and sparkling instrumentation featuring Jerry's award winning guitar style, Ray's virtuoso harmonica and mandolin sound, and Doug's individual acoustic accompaniment. Plus, of course, some iconic Lindisfarne tunes and other well known numbers from their back catalogue. A treat not to be missed!
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012
Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: Hastings St Mary in the Castle
Price: £12.00

Pete Abbot - Other Roads
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012
Time: 7.15pm
Venue: Birmingham Red Lion Folk Club
Price: £12.00

Cate Ferris
Guitar, keyboard, loop station and magical songs sung with an incredible voice. cateferris.com
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Norwich The Bicycle Shop
Price: £3.00

O'hooley & Tidow
The music of Belinda O'Hooley (formerly enjoyed in York with The Unthanks) and fellow songwriter Heidi Tidow defies easy description, crossing as it does folk and classical boundaries with hints of burlesque theatricality. After the success of their debut CD (one of Mojo's Top 10 Folk Albums in 2010), these dapper gentlewomen are now touring to promote follow-up record The Fragile, with their irresistible blend of striking arrangements, sublime harmonies and cheeky Northern banter.
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: York Black Swan Inn
Price: £9.00

Greg Trooper - Americana Act
Greg Trooper is a singer/songwriter who has released 11 albums since 1986. Raised in the shore town of Little Silver, New Jersey he became enthralled by the greater New York area's rich music scene. He discovered a sort of holy musical trinity in the work of Otis Redding, Bob Dylan, and Hank Williams, with their guiding lights of passion, literary dexterity and plainspoken honesty. It's one reason Trooper's music feels equally informed by Memphis soul, Greenwich Village folk and Nashville twang. Trooper has made an impact on the music scenes in all the places he's lived since leaving home after high school: Austin, Texas, Lawrence, Kansas, Nashville and New York. Music critics praise his poetic feel, infectious melodies and insightful lyrics. Americana star Buddy Miller produced 1998's 'Popular Demons' album, while soul legend Dan Penn steered 2005's extraordinary 'Make It Through This World'. His songs have been recorded by numerous artists including: Vince Gill, Steve Earle, Billy Bragg, Robert Earl Keen, Maura O'Connell, Lucy Kaplansky and Tom Russell.
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: The B-Bar @ The Barbican Theatre
Price: £8.00

Craobh Rua St Patricks Tour
Friday16 March 8.30 Tickets £12.50 This will be the third visit to the George by Belfast's finest and this year on St Patrick's night itself. It promises to be another compelling celebration of Irish music and song. This exciting acoustic four-piece takes a refreshing un-pretentious and uncommonly skilled run at some of the greatest music in the world. Craobh Rua (pronounced Crave Ru-ah - the Red Branch) play Irish Traditional Music from the heart. This is traditional Celtic fare at its finest, mixing rousing jigs, reels and polkas with tender ballads and airs. Theirs is a music driven by uillean pipes, fiddle, whistles and the exciting banjo and mandolin playing of group founder Brian Connolly with passionate vocals from Jim Rainey. Previous performances have sold out. Book early! www.craobhrua.com
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012
Time: 8.30pm
Venue: South Molton The George Hotel
Price: £12.50

Jamie Smith's Mabon
An irresistible blend of world music, Celtic roots and rabble-rousing funk folk, Jamie Smith's MABON is an essential and heady treat. Awardwinning, stunning, joyous and vibrant 'Celtic music without borders', Jamie Smith's MABON is currently seen by audiences and critics alike as one of Britain's fastest rising 'must see' roots acts. As 'fRoots' put it, wonderful.
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012
Time: 8.00PM
Venue: Bridgwater Arts Centre
Price: £14.00

Belinda O'hooley & Heidi Tidow
Formerly a member of Rachel Unthank and the Winterset (now The Unthanks) pianist Belinda O'Hooley has now teamed up with fellow Yorkshire singer-songwriter Heidi Tidow to form one of the most popular duos on the folk scene today. To quote one reviewer "I was expecting sad music at this gig, but I wasn't anticipating for it to also bring with it so many belly laughs." Please not tickets are £1.00 extra on the door.
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012
Time: 7.45pm
Venue: Guildford Institute
Price: £10.00

The Baghdaddies
A night of delirious abandon with The Baghdaddies and special guests. Making a special trip from their home town of Newcastle, with a intoxicating blend of Gypsy, Ska, Calypso and Nuevo Mundo this is a rare chance to have a night out with one of the best festival bands in the country. 'If Jerry Dammers and Terry Hall had grown up listening to world music, The Specials might have sounded very like the Baghdaddies.' Nigel Williamson Uncut Magazine July 2010 'The band have a particular flair for the Balkans and capture its frenetic energy and flamboyance wonderfully. There is also a fair share of Klezmer, Jazz, Ska and Punk an anarchic fusion where Ivo Papasov meets The Clash meets The Beat' [Songlines magazine] www.baghdaddies.com
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Bath Chapel Arts Centre
Price: £7.00

Chartwell Dutiro
South West based Zimbabwean Chartwell brings his spiritual music and his mbira (thumb piano) to the B-Bar. Expect to journey to another place...
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012
Time: 9.00pm
Venue: The B-Bar @ The Barbican Theatre
Price: £3.00

Pattrick Duff
Patrick Duff was born in Bristol, England, to an Irish father and a Welsh mother on 30th June 1966. After dropping out of school and spending time as a street busker, he became lead singer of the alternative rock band Strangelove, who were signed to Food, Parlophone/EMI. The band released three critically-acclaimed albums, Time For The Rest of Your Life, Love and Other Demons and Strangelove between 1991 and 1998. After Strangelove ended he briefly formed another band, Moon, who split up after nine months and released one single, Anaesthesia. Between 2000 and 2004 he went on to travel the world as a solo artist with WOMAD Festival, collaborating with a number of artists, most notably the then 81-year-old veteran African master storyteller and musician Madosini, with whom he lived and worked in the township of Langa, in Capetown, South Africa. On returning to the UK, Duff released his first solo album Luxury Problems, produced by Adrian Utley of Portishead and Alex Lee (Goldfrapp/Placebo/Suede/Strangelove). The album was released on EMI's legendary Harvest label once home to Duff's childhood hero Syd Barrett in June 2005. The following year Patrick was commissioned by Bristol City Council to write a Christmas choral symphony, intended for a one-off exclusive performance at Bristol Cathedral, which he subsequently recorded over six weeks in Salt Lake City, Utah. Unfortunately, back in Bristol, the city elders were completely freaked out by the 90-minute piece, entitled Seven Sermons To The Dead, and it was never staged. In 2007, he began work on his second solo album, The Mad Straight Road, a collection of 12 songs which Duff describes as a synthesis of some of the music that has shaped my life stuff like Disney soundtracks, the Beatles, the Kinks, Bob Dylan, Nick Cave and Johnny Cash it all went right into the heart of me and came back sounding like this. The album features, alongside Patrick, a host of acclaimed musicians, including drummer Damon Reece of Massive Attack, pianist John Baggot (Robert Plant's Sweet Sensation/Massive Attack/Portishead), Phantom Limb's bass player Dan Brown (who also provided backing vocals) and pianist Dan Moore, members of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Alex Lee, who adds an eerie bowed saw to Dead Man Singing. The Mad Straight Road was produced by Stew Jackson who also added guitars, banjo, pedal steel, drums, percussion, harmonica, harpsichord and backing vocals at Robot Club Studios in Bristol.
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012
Time: 8.30pm
Venue: Glossop Redroom at The Oakwood
Price: £3.00

Nancy Kerr & James Fagan
One of the most established and respected duos on the folk scene, Nancy Kerr and James Fagan are winners of the 2011 BBC Radio 2 Folk Award for Best Duo (and previous winners of 2003 Best Duo and 2000 Horizon Award.) As well as being great exponents of their instruments (fiddle, viola and guitar-bouzouki) both are regarded as fine and influential singers. 2010 marked the 15th year of this electrifying duo. In that time they have toured full-time and headlined festivals throughout the UK, Ireland, Europe, Australia, Japan and Canada. Wherever they play, Kerr and Fagan make new friends and fans, as their love of live performance is tangible and affirming. NEW CD: "TWICE REFLECTED SUN" released Aug 9th 2010 "Moves their creative endeavours onto higher planes of invention - delicious dancing poetry, intelligent and sparkling musicianship." FROOTS The purity of Kerr's singing and some unerringly tasteful arrangements make for a subtly persuasive collection. MOJO "Exquisitely executed and a joy to listen to" BRIGHT YOUNG FOLK
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012
Time: Doors open 7:30pm, music starts 8:15pm
Venue: Glossop Globe
Price: £10.00

The Devine Family
Come and celebrate St Patrick's Day 2012 with John, Joe and Caz Devine, three members of the same musical family, with roots firmly planted in the Irish musical tradition. The Devine Family play traditional Irish dance music mixed with contemporary and classic Irish songs, on an inspired mix of instruments, including Uilleann pipes, banjo and saxophone.
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012
Time: 7pm doors, 8pm start
Venue: Aylesbury Limelight Theatre
Price: £10.00

An Evening Of Blues - Stan Webb's Chicken Shack / Virgil & The Accelerators / The Geoff Everett Band
The old, the new, and the local boys too! Three great bands to illustrate the diversity of music available under the Blues tag. Firstly, Stan Webb's Chicken Shack: Stan has been playing since the mid-60's, he's a living legend of the blues in the UK his instinctive, virtuoso electric guitar style has been honed over these many years, and he has steadfastly continued to champion the music he loves. Secondly, we have one of the crop of great young blues artists emerging from the UK scene, Virgil & The Accelerators, a youthful unit so full of energy and power that audiences are left simply breathless. Virgil McMahon is without doubt the finest young player to emerge in the UK for a good many years. Last, but not least, The Geoff Everett Band, a power trio from our own Kent. Geoff's guitar work fuses an older man's phrasing with a younger one's irreverence and, in truth, he probably retains more lead in his musical pencil than most of the current superstars. Three very excellent, but very different artists, all united in their love of the Blues. This will be a night to remember!!
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012
Time: 7.00 pm
Venue: Chatham Central Theatre
Price: £14.00

Watermelon Slim (usa)
Brooks Blues Bar exclusive
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012
Time: 7:30 pm
Venue: London The Parsons Green Sports & Social Club Ltd
Price: £15.00

The Way Of The Drum - Mugenkyo Taiko Drummers
Experience the thundering and exhilarating rhythms of Taiko in a dynamic show that transports audiences into the enthralling world of this powerful art form. The Way of the Drum is a fusion of primal rhythm, choreographed movement and athleticism that captivates people of all ages and backgrounds. Members of the renowned Mugenkyo Taiko Drummers return to the roots of Taiko Drumming, performing traditional Taiko pieces and revealing the history and culture of this fascinating folk art in a lively and entertaining concert. 'Not just incredibly skilled musicians, they are also excellent performers: theatrical and energising.' Edinburgh Evening News
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Goole Junction
Price: £14.00

St Patricks Night At The Oddfellows
Celebrate St Pat's night in the traditional style with JOHN HOWARTH (Oldham Tinkers) and the LEGPLAITERS Ceilidh Band. Great music, plenty of laughs and ,of course, plenty of Guiness to wash it all down. Show starts 8.00pm
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012
Time: 7.00PM
Venue: Shaw Playhouse2
Price: £12.00

Panda Su
Panda Su found her own voice early last year with the release of the critically acclaimed 'Sticks & Bricks'. Her darkly fascinating music weaves a spell with childlike simplicity that is nothing less than compelling. www.myspace.com/thepandasu
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Cornwall Miss Peapod's
Price: £4.00

Nana Tsiboe's Supa Hi Life Band
Master Ghanaian percussionist and his band in the hall with the best atmosphere in the world ! Licensed bar helps subsidise Roots' events.
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Graffham The Empire Hall
Price: £12.50

Sublime Folk
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012
Time: 7.30pm for 8pm
Venue: Lyme Regis Marine Theatre
Price: £10.00

Patsy Matheson & Becky Mills (ex-waking The Witch)
Waking the Witch was formed In 2003 as a four piece female band featuring acoustic instruments & fine vocal harmonies with Patsy Matheson and Becky Mills in the line up. The band rapidly went from strength to strength, releasing three groundbreaking albums and a live DVD. They completed numerous tours of the UK, played at many of the major UK festivals including Cambridge, Trowbridge and Glastonbury and made countless radio appearances, including live sessions on BBC Radio 2 for both Janice Long and Bob Harris.
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Preston The Continental
Price: £6.00

Vin Garbutt
Vin Garbutt is reputed to have said that he is not interested in becoming a big star in the accepted sense. Nevertheless in the area of music where he performs, there is no bigger star. He prefers to be a big fish in a small pond. This attitude means that his need for privacy and a balanced home life are safeguarded and satisfied. What the world realised long before Vin did, was that the small pond had grown over the years into a considerable lake. All this has happened without the hype from big Record Companies, and without the usual publicity from the mass media. He has performed all over the globe, and in parts of countries that the biggest stars will never see. This phenomenon has occurred solely by word of mouth, spread by people who have come across him, and felt the need to share this unique experience with their fellow countrymen. "Vin Garbutt's blend of outlandish humour and powerful songs (usually self penned) turns a live performance into an emotional roller coaster ride. Not for him, songs of loves lost or the navel gazing of other songwriters. Whether he is singing of industrial workers in Britain, chemical weapons in Iraq, toxic sprays in New Zealand, or human embryo research, he grasps many a nettle that others would rather avoid. Share his opinions or not, one has to respect his diversity, intensity and integrity. These songs move the hardest of hearts." - The Real Groove.
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Twickenham Cabbage Patch Pub
Price: £10.00

Jinski - Steve Jinski And Dave Kennedy
Original and arresting own-write songs with superb guitar accompaniments - all styles served here!
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012
Time: Doors from 7pm - music from 8pm
Venue: Southport Park Golf Club
Price: £6.00

The Ric Sanders Group Featuring Catherine Howe
"At a Ric Sanders Group concert the audience can expect the unexpected. These four world-class musicians draw their repertoire from the greatest contemporary composers of popular music, crossing all boundaries and defying categorization. Their own songs and tunes share the stage with these great composers of yesterday and today. The band comprises Ric Sanders (Fairport Convention) along with percussionist Michael Gregory (The Albion Band, Home Service), Guitarist Vo Fletcher and Guest vocalist Catherine Howe." Since 1985 Ric Sanders has been the violinist with the British institution Fairport Convention, touring the world and contributing many instrumental compositions and arrangements that have become fixtures in their repertoire. In 2001 Fairport received the BBC's "Folk on 2" Lifetime Achievement Award. Although considering himself primarily a jazz musician, Ric is equally adept in rock, folk and world music. Early in his professional career he toured with the renowned classical/rock percussionist Stomu Yamash'ta, and then went on to play with the celebrated jazz pianists Johnny Patrick and Michael Garrick. In the late 1970's he was in both The Albion Band (appearing on the classic album Rise Up Like the Sun) and the legendary jazz-rock group Soft Machine. In addition to Fairport, he has worked with a remarkably diverse roster of artists including Rick Wakeman, Dave Cousins (The Strawbs), Jethro Tull, Robert Plant, Roy Harper, Gary Brooker (Procol Harum), Pentangle, Gordon Giltrap, Andrew Cronshaw, June Tabor, Martin Simpson, Charlie Landsborough, All About Eve, The Mission and John Etheridge Vo Fletcher has recorded and performed with such notable artists as Nigel Kennedy, Touch & Go, Rik Mayall, Dave Swarbrick, Andrew Cronshaw, Martin Simpson, Chris Leslie, Simon Nicol, Donovan and many others. Vo contributes many fine compositions to the Ric Sanders Group repertoire. Michael Gregory first worked with Ric as a fellow member of The Albion Band during the Rise Up Like the Sun period. His vast experience as both a drummer and percussionist found him working with the Maddy Prior Band, the John Kirkpatrick Band, Home Service, Martin Simpson and the late John B. Spencer. More recently, he has been in demand for film and theatre work where he has played with The Royal Shakespeare Company, The Royal National Theatre, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre and in West End productions.
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012
Time: 7.00pm
Venue: London Green Note
Price: £10.00

Emmy The Great
Doors open 8pm Emmy the Great (AKA Emma-Lee Moss) already has quite a history. She has performed as a member of the indie folk group Lightspeed Champion, acting as their vocalist for a brief period in 2007 alongside Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine, and collaborated with both Fatboy Slim and Tim Wheeler from Ash, on the 'This is Christmas' album. She is a mentor for The Joe Strummer Foundation for New Music - Strummerville and and has worked with Jail Guitar Doors, Billy Bragg's prison-based music charity. "One of the boldest young writers in pop today." The Guardian. "Ambitious, thoughtful, outright feminist pop." The Mirror. CONCESSIONS APPLY TO TRADES CLUB MEMBERS ONLY
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Hebden Bridge The Trades Club
Price: £12.00

Lucy Ward
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: Leicester The Musician
Price: £9.00

Rachel Harrington
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Lowdham The Old Ship Inn
Price: £8.00

Julie Felix
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012
Time: 7.15pm
Venue: Birmingham Red Lion Folk Club
Price: £12.00

Watermelon Slim
Slim is a genuine bluesman. The Boston born Vietnam vet has gone from travelling the US as a trucker to garnering awards by the bucketload in an ever expanding career of "ramshackle grandeur". A masters degree, small time criminality and Mensa membership are just snippets of a remarkable life that has enriched his stunning blues music and made him one of the best in the world. Doors 8pm, unreserved seating.
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: Aldershot West End Centre
Price: £12.00

Jim Moray
One of the most influential and creative musicians of the new UK folk scene, winner of many critical awards, and consistently inventive.
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: Chichester The Chichester Inn
Price: £10.00

Evening Star
Evening Star play European traditional music influenced by 21st century sounds. Blowzabella's Paul James (bagpipes, saxophones, flutes) leads a multi-cultural, world class line-up of Patrick Bouffard (France; hurdy-gurdy); Carlos Beceiro (Spain; bouzouki, bass guitar), Luke Daniels (UK/Ireland; diatonic button accordion), Victor Nicholls (UK/Armenia; bass and electric guitars, electronics), and Gigi Biolcati (Italy; drums and percussion).
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012
Time: 8.00PM
Venue: Bridgwater Arts Centre
Price: £14.00

Miranda Sykes & Rex Preston
22nd March Miranda Sykes & Rex Preston 8pm, £10.00/ £8.00 in advance Miranda has been performing with Show of Hands since 2004, augmenting their sound with her powerful double bass and rich harmonies. She continues to build a repertoire of contemporary and narrative songs that are showcased to critical acclaim in her most recent, unique collaboration with Rex Preston. The unusual pairing of double bass and mandolin has a timeless feel and universal appeal.
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Ascot Jagz
Price: £8.00

Duck Baker
A welcome return by one of the world's premier fingerstyle guitarists, with a repertoire ranging from traditional Irish and Appalachian music to blues, gospel, ragtime, swing and modern jazz. As well as being a dazzlingly proficient player, Duck is a delightfully witty and engaging stage character.
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: York Black Swan Inn
Price: £9.00

Gren Bartley
A phenomenal young guitarist and singer.... This chap is definitely going to set the acoustic world alight" - The Real Music Club · "Beautiful, beautiful playing" - BBC Radio · "Very accomplished guitar playing.... fabulous drive to the music. · Lovely to listen to - great stuff." - John Kirkpatrick · an engrossing and engaging display of virtuosity - Rock'n'Reel Magazine · "With a glorious serrated edge... ...artists like this seem to be a dying breed" - FATEA · "Gren is writing a lot of his own stuff these days and is also playing a little banjo" -Loughborough Echo Gren Bartley sits on the edge of the ever growing link between English and American folk music. He explores the whole range from traditional English songs to the darkest American blues ballads. Add to this his impressive songwriting with "a depth and insight of someone twice his age" and you will find an artist that is sure to be an important contributor to the roots scene for many years to come. Gren's live act is his strongest asset. His guitar playing is "effortlessly astonishing" and his lyrics serve perfectly to accompany the audience through the spectrum of musical landscapes he visits. But it is his soft yet absorbing voice that provides the thread of continuity throughout the set. He has toured all over the UK and is quickly building a core of fans wherever he goes. Catch him now... quick! PLEASE NOTE: DOORS OPEN: 7pm, MUSIC STARTS AT 9pm. The venue comprises both seated and standing space. There are a limited number of tables. These are allocated on a first come first served basis, with priority given to diners. If you'd like a table, please ensure you arrive early. We reserve the right to release all unclaimed tickets for re-sale at 9.30pm. If you will be arriving after this time, please inform us in advance, so that we can hold your tickets for you
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012
Time: Doors @ 7pm. See GreenNote.co.uk for start time
Venue: London Green Note
Price: £7.00

Roxanne De Bastion
Roxanne De Bastion: For Roxanne de Bastion there is no plan B. Performing since she was 10 and composing since she was 15 years old, she is a musician, heart and soul. Roxanne moved to the UK in 2007. She had her guitar, a suitcase and a oneway ticket. In the 4 years since then, she has gone from playing open mic nights to headlining some of England's most prestigious venues such as the 100 Club, the Cavern Club and the Barfly. Roxanne plays in the major music centres, Berlin, London and New York. Berlin's raw cool, England's musical legacy and New York's vibrancy have all coloured her music - it's honest, quirky and in a genre of its own. Her song writing has been aligned to Dylan, Ray Davies and Regina Spektor; Roxanne's song One Morning was embraced by the BBC, receiving national and regional airplay (Tom Robinson, Martin Winch and Dave Monks). Together with her songs, it is Roxanne's remarkable stage presence and spirit that captures ears and hearts her live shows are magically dynamic and engaging, invariably concluding with a mass sing-along. ...One of the most perfect voices I have ever heard! Tom Whalley, BBC 6 Producer If you ever get a chance to go see her live definitely do! BBC Introducing Funny and biting, sometimes angry missives on love and life in London, Riot Grrl Folk if you will... Amazing Voice Barfly www.roxannedebastion.com
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Norwich The Bicycle Shop
Price: £3.00

Bournemouth Folk Festival
Seated & Standing. Wristband exchange at Festival Box Office. Under 14's accompanied by adult.
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012
Time: 1pm - 11.45pm
Venue: Bournemouth International Centre
Price: £10.00 - £50.00

Craobh Rua
Craobh Rua are one of the finest bands to come out of Ireland, and they are recognised and acclaimed the world over. Please come and join us for a very special St. Patrick`s celebration.
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012
Time: 7.30pm for 8pm
Venue: Bognor Regis Folk on the Coast at `Seasons`
Price: £11.00

Jah Wobble
Doors open 8pm John Wardle originally met John Lydon, John Grey and Sid Vicious at Kingsway College, London, in 1973. It was Vicious who originally nicknamed John Jah Wobble after a drunken binge, and would also loan him his first bass guitar. Wardle embraced punk and reggae, and in the process, created an original rock/reggae hybrid of his own. CONCESSIONS APPLY TO TRADES CLUB MEMBERS ONLY
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Hebden Bridge The Trades Club
Price: £15.00

Clare Free
Clare is an artist who is redefining the blues for the modern world. Her roots lie in the blues but her influences go way beyond the genre making her one of the most exciting new artists writing and performing in the blues world today. A passionate, award-nominated songwriter, and a fabulous guitar player, her fiery and heartfelt performances are backed by an excellent band.
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012
Time: 7pm doors, 8pm start
Venue: Aylesbury Limelight Theatre
Price: £10.00

Aynsley Lister Band
All Standing
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Barton The Ropewalk
Price: £10.00

Jacqui Mcshee's Pentangle
Pentangle's approach to their music is refreshing, these musicians have been around the block and have very little to prove the band is basically a project instigated for a love of music and a joy in improvisational collaboration. Considering the repertoires of the various musicians involved, it's no surprise that what they produce is a veritable chocolate box of eclecticism, ranging from traditional folk song arranged with an experimental jazz sensibility, to 'trad' folk and blues, and songs that would be quite at home in a smoky jazz bar basement. They can also rock it out pyschedelically careering off halfway to territory more usually inhabited by the like of Ozric Tentacles before calm is restored. All of this laid over with Jacqui McShee's beguilingly fragile yet tuneful vocals. They are a fascinating outfit in and of itself, and they are intriguing for another reason too - there are so many influences present that one is almost obliged to go and seek them out. Whoever said entertainment and education had to be mutually exclusive?
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012
Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: Sevenoaks St. Edith Hall
Price: £15.00

Sublime Folk
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012
Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: Dorchester Corn Exchange
Price: £10.00

Cam Penner & Jon Wood
In a complicated world, Cam Penner finds beauty in simplicity, with an honest, spare approach to folk music that is refreshing . www.campenner.ca
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Cornwall Eden Project Cafe
Price: £5.00

Spiro
A contemporary acoustic ensemble that first came together through Bristol's folk sessions scene, Spiro are an instrumental quartet, playing guitar, accordion, violin and mandolin, who rework traditional folk melodies into stirring, rhythmic and often complex pieces. Their album for the Real World label, Lightbox, is an extraordinarily stirring record. It showcases a highly imaginative and disciplined group with a sound that is unified but never uniform music that's intricate yet so full of momentum and echoing at various points the work of Steve Reich, Michael Nyman and the Penguin Café Orchestra, but, kindred spirits aside, it is the music of Spiro undeniably English, undeniably theirs. This is soulful music, passionate music and I love it Peter Gabriel "Breathtakingly moving" BBC Music "Sophisticated and adventurous" Guardian "Magnificent....rich, moving and cunningly wrought" Songlines SEATING INFORMATION This event is sold with unreserved tickets and the seating configuration may change depending on the size of the audience. We advise arriving as close to the doors open time as possible.
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Settle Victoria Hall
Price: £12.00

Javanese Gamelan And Dance Night: Siswå Sukrå
A celebration of the bronze gong orchestras and dance of Centra Java The mesmerising sounds of the Javanese gamelan and the graceful moves of Javanese dance return to St Ethelberga's on Friday 23 March. Siswå Sukrå, a community gamelan group based at the Southbank Centre at the Royal Festival Hall, will be playing an enchanting and varied set from 7.30pm. They will be accompanying Javanese dancers from the Lila Bhawa dance group. The Javanese gamelan is a bronze percussion-based ensemble that has fascinated and inspired Western composers for over a century. Tonight we will hear both traditional and modern gamelan pieces.
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012
Time: 6.45pm
Venue: London St Ethelburga's
Price: £12.00

Phil Beer
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Lowdham Village Hall
Price: £12.00

Mor Karbasi
Dramatic Diva with a Haunting Voice and Stunning Stage Presence Mor Karbasi burst onto the global world music scene in 2008 with the release of her first album, 'The Beauty and the Sea' and has continued to capture audiences internationally with her gorgeous, exceptional voice and looks to match. She was born April 23, 1986 in Jerusalem, to a mother from Nazareth of Moroccan descent and a father from Jerusalem of Persian ancestry. Mor is a young woman whose music is influenced by several cultures, though mainly by her Jewish heritage.All her influences come together in her predominately Sephardic repertoire: from traditional Jewish songs, to her own contemporary compositions. The traditional songs originate from ancient Spain and have traveled all around the world with the Jews who were forced to leave Spain in the 15th Century. They are characteristically haunting, beautiful melodic songs that withhold sheer emotion. Karbasi's voice, a powerful combination of fragility and power - filigree-delicate as a lullaby, haunting as a graveside lament, breathtaking as a ravishing call to arms will take you on an unforgettable journey. In 'Daughter of the Spring', her new album, Karbasi positions herself at the forefront of a new generation of world music divas Not to be missed!
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Bath Chapel Arts Centre
Price: £10.00

Craig & Willoughby: Shammick Acoustic
No strangers to North Devon audiences, this is a rescheduled date for Cathryn and Brian, due to the death of Cathryn's father just before their last intended visit to Shammick Acoustic. A much-in-demand Nashville recording sessions singer, American Cathryn has worked with The Righteous Brothers, Bobby Bare, Tom Paxton, Emmylou Harris and Chet Atkins, amongst many others. But she's also a very fine songwriter, and interpreter of American traditional songs, prompted particularly by the discovery that her grandfather's songs were collected by the famous English song collector Cecil Sharp. Brian began his guitar-playing career with Mary Hopkin, and then spent twenty-six years as lead guitarist with The Strawbs, working all over the globe. And for fun, he plays locally in a pub band which goes by the name of The Three Must Get Beers! He is a wonderful acoustic blues/rock guitarist, and a very sensitive accompanist, who can turn his hand to accompanying almost any style of song including recent involvement in a set of sea shanty CDs! Together, they gel beautifully with Cathryn's distinctive voice and emotional involvement in the songs, and Brian's sympathetic and effortless playing, one can't help but love them!
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Combe Martin The Pack o' Cards
Price: £6.00

Aly Bain And Phil Cunningham
At the Union Chapel, Islington. In 1986, Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham got together to work on a pilot TV show, and a partnership was born. The combination of their unique, exquisite and exciting musical talents has held audiences enthralled for quarter of a century. Their recipe for success has been their shared love of strong melody. They borrow not only from their native traditions of Shetland and Scotland, but also from Scandinavia, French Canada, Eastern Europe. in fact anywhere that melody shines. Phil and Aly take these tunes and craft them with their respective instrumental skills, playing with soul and passion that is unsurpassed. Phil's self penned airs, now very much a part of the living tradition regularly leave the audience searching for a Kleenex once Aly has coaxed every ounce of emotion from the notes. Their mind boggling dexterity has to be seen to be believed. Two of Scotland's best loved musicians, still friends after all these years, continue to forge a path for the music they love, individually and collectively gathering accolades along the way, including 10 honorary Doctorates between them, 2 MBEs and a Professorship, countless industry awards but most importantly to them... the love and respect of their peers and their audience. MSP Mike Russell said, "They are quite simply the best traditional musicians you are ever likely to hear."
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012
Time: 7.00pm
Venue: London Union Chapel
Price: £15.00

O'hooley & Tidow
Belinda O'Hooley (The Unthanks) and Heidi Tidow are the dapper gentlewomen behind the groundbreaking Silent June; one of MOJO Magazine's Top 10 Folk Albums of 2010. Pioneers of innovative chamber-folk; their music defies easy description, crossing folk and classical boundaries with a hint of burlesque theatricality. The Fragile, released in February 2012, sees them touring the country with their irresistible blend of striking arrangements, sublime harmonies and cheeky Northern banter.
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Sheffield The Greystones
Price: £10.00

Royal Traditions | Grace Notes (without The Keyboard!)
The most stunning blend of voices you'll ever hear. No keyboard. Nuff said. The guest starts at 8pm prompt and finished around 10pm, followed by a singing session to which you are all encouraged to contribute - we have House Songs to chose from if you don't have one of your own :o) We can only sell as many seats as the pub has - if this event is 'sold out' you are still warmly invited to stand at the bar and join in the revelries. For this we ask you make a contribution to 'The Hat' - all of which goes straight to the artist.
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012
Time: 7.30pm tunes for an 8.00pm start
Venue: Sheffield The Royal Hotel, Dungworth.
Price: £7.00

Watermelon Slim
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012
Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: Dorchester Arts Centre
Price: £12.00

Watermelon Slim
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012
Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: Dorchester Arts Centre
Price: £10.00

Cam Penner
Cam Penner Cam Penner is a wonderful folk singer from Canada, we were hooked on his music well before we opened Union Music Store and are very happy to now be able to bring it to you. Last year he performed an intimate in-store for Union, we loved him so much we've got him back in town for a full set this time, at the Royal Oak. Accompanied by a wonderful electric guitarist (Jon Wood), Cam's acoustic playing, storytelling and truly incredible voice will leave you spell-bound. Conrad Vingoe One of our local favourites, Conrad has played an in-store for Union, as well as one of our regular Roots Nights at the Lansdown pub. His infectious songs and excellent songs and will kick of the evening very nicely indeed!
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Lewes The Royal Oak
Price: £8.00

Folk Singing Workshop
Barry Goodman and Debbie Chalmers invite you to explore the world of English folk song a world of adventure, love, murder and betrayal, of wine and beer and loose women (and men!), soldiers and sailors and highwaymen. Songs will be sung both unaccompanied and with fiddle, melodeon and guitar accompaniment, you'll be able to take away the words of the songs and we'll give you some pointers to help you find out more about folk songs.
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012
Time: 10.30am - 4.00pm
Venue: Aston St Mary's School
Price: £30.00

Maggie & Mike's Irish Night
Village Varieties presents an Irish night with Maggie Duffy & Mike Weed
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012
Time: 7:00pm
Venue: Brixham Heritage Museum
Price: £7.50

Tao Of Steve
Steve Roberts is a singer-songwriter from Liverpool, UK, described by The Guardian as an acoustic troubadour. Currently he is playing with Steve Davies in Tao of Steve. His first proper band 16 Tambourines was a sprawling affair that played gigs as a 3 piece (the 'angry young men' set) up to an 8 piece with brass, percussion and on occasions a didgeridoo. The band played pubs and basement bars that usually only allowed cover bands. We practised in the middle of town at a place called The Ministry, were the Bunnymen and Teardrops used to rehearse when they were dead famous and heard loads of great stories about them that just frustrated us. Round the corner from The Ministry was a bar called Rudi's and we used to drink in there a lot and shout at the bands doing 'Alright Now' and all that. Obnoxious we were, but we felt like we were on a mission. We kept saying 'let us play' and they did to shut us up. One day a lad we had seen around came up and said 'I can get you a record deal in 6 weeks' and we were like 'oh go on then' and within 6 weeks we had a deal with Arista, home of Barry Manilow. It was like a Tommy Steele film or something. The band released their album 'How Green is your Valley?' and set off on tour. They sent us off with Hue & Cry & playing stadiums with Wet Wet Wet. It was all very weird. A tour with Squeeze was great though. The band was dropped when Arista decided to concentrate more on dance acts. A couple of weeks later the drummer joined another signed band and that was the end of it. Steve licked his wounds and wrote songs and played in bars and one of them asked him to run a jam night. The thought of that appalled me so I started an open mic singer-songwriter night the Acoustic Engine . The Coral, The Zutons, Criss TT, John Smith, Tom Hingley, The Stands and Damien Rice all played it along with hundreds of great songwriters who escaped from their bedrooms onto stages. In 2001 he put out his solo album 'It Just Is' on the Viper Label. The album was a mostly biographical collection of songs written during a turbulent couple of years during which Steve's oldest friend was murdered and a member of his family was imprisoned for a crime they didn't commit. Steve also got married and became a dad. Martyn Campbell of Lightning Seeds (now Richard Ashcroft) co-produced it. Mike Badger and Paul Hemmings ex the La's played on it, as did Howie Payne from The Stands. I then got lucky with some great gigs with the likes of Ron Sexsmith, Ian McNabb, Glen Tilbrook and Martin Stephenson. as well as my own tours. I got a number radio sessions and airplay, so I had fun going around on my own with just my guitar and spare undies. He also ended up on Ricky Tomlinson's album.I played guitar on it and dueted with him on 'Half The World Away!' The fruits of this union can be heard, if you dare, on Ricky's 'Music My Arse'. We did Parkinson and Noddy Holder was also in the band. I watched the show in a pub in the Highlands were I played a couple of days later. We stopped the gig halfway through and put the telly on. How odd. Steve's last solo album & 'Shake It, Make It & Don't Fake It' is another largely acoustic based offering but rootsier and more melodic, combining samples, banjos, fiddles and 12 string guitars, but still recognisably classic Mersey-pop. Martyn Campbell, who co-produced 'It Just Is', is again present offering his melodic bass lines and vocals. Martyn also plays in Steve's live band The Bank of England. Further assistance is given by Dan Dean guitarist with ex Probe Plus favourites The Onset, Robbie Taylor from bright new Liverpool band The Great North-western Hoboes and Brian Chin who co-wrote a number of songs on It Just Is. In 2006 Steve recorded an album Shut Up & Sing and released it under the name Captain Pop. The songs were all written by Steve and Brian Chin and the band consisted of Tony MacGuigan, Brian, Chris Roberts, Robbie Taylor and Alan Richardson. In 2008 Steve wrote and recorded a song every week and posted them to his website from where there were over 75000 downloads. Tired he took a break for a year and is now playing and writing again.
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012
Time: 8.30pm
Venue: Glossop Redroom at The Oakwood
Price: £3.00

Aly Bain & Phil Cunningham
Doors 7.15pm for 8.00pm concert start. Licensed real ale bar in auditorium. All seated. Unreserved seating. Shetland fiddler Aly Bain and accordion wizard Phil Cunningham are probably the best known of all musicians in the celtic tradition and have toured together regularly since 1988. On five visits to major Totnes area venues since 2003 they have sold out on every occasion. 2012 will be no exception. Book early! Presented by Harberton Cricket Club. U18/student concession and special seating requirements available only through www.harbertonfolk.co.uk.
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012
Time: 7.15pm
Venue: Totnes Ariel Centre
Price: £15.00

Ping, Plunk, Twang Why Do Musical Instruments Make Different Sounds?
Portland Folk Club presents a talk and concert exploring the acoustic properties of stringed instruments. Prof. Jim Woodhouse will discuss how instrument makers perfect the tone of their products. Cellist Anna Bull and guitarist/banjoist/fiddler and singer Robin Gillan will play stirring re-interpretations of traditional English and American tunes and songs.
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Cambridge CB2 Internet Bistro
Price: £5.00

Rosie Vanier
With her Hepburn/gamin face and a voice that swoops and soars like the most beautiful free-spirited bird. rosievanier.com
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Norwich The Bicycle Shop
Price: £3.00

Louise Jordan
Louise Jordan is a young singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist rapidly making an impact on the UK acoustic music scene. She has a purity of voice which melts the toughest of hearts and a delivery which unsettles the most discerning critic. Louise's idyllic music carries the listener away from the humdrum and mediocrity of daily life. It is at once sumptuous and all-embracing, yet delightfully simplistic; soothing yet powerful. A rising star (The Telegraph), ***** (Richard Digance, BBC), Absolutely Glorious (Fatea Magazine).
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012
Time: Doors 7.30pm / Show 8.00pm
Venue: Birmingham Kitchen Garden Cafe
Price: £7.00

Wilful Missing
Back for their 3rd intimiate gig, this time to celebrate their debut album 'Molehills out of Mountains'. The following album review from Allan Wilkinson of Northern Sky sums them up beautifully. For roughly four years now the Bradford-based quintet Wilful Missing have been steadily gaining a respectable reputation locally as a fine live acoustic indie/folk combo. During this time the band have ventured into recording their distinctive sound on a couple of occasions, some of their songs even being used in a popular BBC TV series, once again furthering their credentials as a band we should be taking notice of. Now four years on since their tentative steps into recording, firstly with their homemade demos cd and shortly afterwards with a couple of EPs, VAST ATLANTIC (2009) followed by LOOSE ENDS (2010) the band are now ready to launch their full-length debut MOLEHILLS OUT OF MOUNTAINS. With Sam Kipling's unmistakably original voice upfront, the band present eleven songs, each credited to the band with the one cover, Neil McSweeney's London Road, which showcases the band's unique sound. The set opens with the immediately captivating Cry for the City, a song featured along with Constitution Failed in the BBC television series Waterloo Road, which in turn garnered some considerable new interest in the band. Their earlier song DIY from the VAST ATLANTIC EP got the ball rolling on that particular venture, which has subsequently proved to be invaluable to the band's growing reputation. The band's highly textured contemporary sound incorporates traditional folk aspects such as the featured uillean pipes on The Waltz, an instrument Sam Lawrence actually makes, to the Waterboys flavoured mandolin coda on Cry for the City. With a multi-instrumentalist multi-tasking personnel, the core duties of which are divided between Sam Kipling on lead vocals and acoustic guitar, Sam Lawrence on guitars, Ruth Viqueira on drums, Albert Freeman on bass and Rhys Kelly on keyboards, Wilful Missing are possessed of that all important difference that will no doubt be their making.
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012
Time: 7.00pm
Venue: Ripon The Cellar Door
Price: £10.00

Vicki Swan And Jonny Dyer
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: Croydon Ruskin House
Price: £8.00

Vicki Swan And Jonny Dyer
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: Croydon Ruskin House
Price: £6.00

Sean Taylor
Sean Taylor has rapidly grown to be one of the hottest new names in the UK blues/acoustic scene. His incredible passion for performance, sheer talent and songwriting of the highest calibre is a testament to his frequent comparisons with John Martyn, Chris Isaak and Tom Waits. Sean's fourth album 'Walk With Me' was released last year and has been steadily attracting incredible reviews in all major press. The album was produced by Trevor Hutchinson (Lúnasa, Sharon Shannon, The Waterboys), and features pedal steel legend BJ Cole as well as a stellar array of other musicians including Vyvienne Long (Damien Rice, Lisa Hannigan) and Dave Hingerty (The Frames, Josh Ritter). 'Atmospheric ... fabulous music' BOB HARRIS BBC RADIO 2 'Sean Taylor is the king of singer songwriter styling ... mesmerising ... A classic album' MAVERICK 'prodigiously talented singer songwriter ... touchstones would be Tom Waits and John Martyn' R2 'the raw beauty of the guitar and piano ... fresh, cliché free and tugs at the soul.' ACOUSTIC MAGAZINE 'A consummate artist compelling exquisite original and supremely distinctive' FROOTS 'A star in the making ... a superb talent' METRO PLEASE NOTE: DOORS OPEN: 7pm, MUSIC STARTS AT 9pm. The venue comprises both seated and standing space. There are a limited number of tables. These are allocated on a first come first served basis, with priority given to diners. If you'd like a table, please ensure you arrive early. We reserve the right to release all unclaimed tickets for re-sale at 9.30pm. If you will be arriving after this time, please inform us in advance, so that we can hold your tickets for you.
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012
Time: Doors @ 7pm. See GreenNote.co.uk for start time
Venue: London Green Note
Price: £8.00

Jim Causley / Belida O'hooley & Heidi Tidow
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012
Time: 7.15pm
Venue: Birmingham Red Lion Folk Club
Price: £12.00

Gren Bartley & Matt Woosey
Students £7 on door only (proof required) Gren Bartley sits on the edge of the ever growing link between English and American folk music. He explores the whole range from traditional English songs to the darkest American blues ballads. Add to this his impressive songwriting with "a depth and insight of someone twice his age" and you will find an artist that is sure to be an important contributor to the roots scene for many years to come. Gren's live act is his strongest asset. His guitar playing is "effortlessly astonishing" and his lyrics serve perfectly to accompany the audience through the spectrum of musical landscapes he visits. But it is his soft yet absorbing voice that provides the thread of continuity throughout the set. He has toured all over the UK and is quickly building a core of fans wherever he goes. Catch him now... quick. His solo album "Carry Her Safe": "With a glorious serrated edge, Gren Bartley's "Carry Her Safe" features some great guitar and banjo picking. It's an album of strong heartfelt songs and some great musical interludes, not just instrumentals dotted around the album, but as solos, introductions and finishes to the songs with a vocal element. There is the spirit of the troubadour about it, particularly when the harmonica kicks in. You can imagine Gren and co hitching a lift at a truck stop trying to get to the next gig. Artists like this seem to be a dying breed." - FATEA Gren Bartley is touring relentlessly as he believes it is on the stage that the real music happens. No two gigs the same, and with such a large repertoire of original and traditional songs, it is no wonder that he is drawing such high regard. "A phenomenal young guitarist and singer.... This chap is definitely going to set the acoustic world alight" - The Real Music Club "Beautiful, beautiful playing" - BBC Radio "Very accomplished guitar playing.... fabulous drive to the music. Lovely to listen to - great stuff." - John Kirkpatrick http://www.grenbartley.com/Home.html Matt Woosey Combining an explosive slap-and-pick right hand guitar technique and a big-range blues shout, this sort of charismatic performer stops chat in the noisiest bar. But his songwriting is sensitive and soulful. Steadily building a strong national following for very good reason is Matt Woosey." http://www.mattwoosey.co.uk/
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Bath Chapel Arts Centre
Price: £8.00

Vicki Swan & Jonny Dyer
It is all of 6 years since we last hosted this great duo. Best known at that time for their instrumental prowess (Vicki on Scottish smallpipes, nyckelharpa and flute, Jonny on guitar and accordion), they are now highly rated as singers too. Apparently effortlessly, they blend traditional tunes and ballads with modern arrangements and original material, developing a sound which is familiar yet also fresh.
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: York Black Swan Inn
Price: £8.00

Deadly Gentlemen
Hi there! We're the Deadly Gentlemen. What would you like to know? We started out a couple years ago as an experimental spoken word bluegrass band, but we've changed the game plan this time around. Now we mostly play epic folk and grasscore. We have a brand new, unreleased CD called Carry Me To Home. There are five band members: Greg Liszt, banjo and vocals; Stash Wyslouch, guitar and vocals; Mike Barnett, fiddle and vocals; Dominick Leslie, mandolin and vocals; and Sam Grisman, double bass and vocals. Instead of having a lead singer, we use a nonstop orchestration of somewhat unconventional vocals, with everybody in the band doing everything they can. Expect a lot of three-part harmony singing, group shouting, really dense rhymes and an almost rap-like phrasing.
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Norwich The Bicycle Shop
Price: £5.00

Rory Mcleod
* Door 7pm * Folk2Future (Big Chill DJs) 7 - 8pm and 11pm - late * Live music 8-11pm includes two sets from Rory McLeod , plus a set each from Sarah Gillespie and Shadrack Tye. * Late bar with real ale * Mix of sofa and row seats * Concessionary tickets are for the unwaged - proof required at the door on the night * Tickets on the door (where still available) will be priced at £12/8 * Seats are not reserved, and a ticket may not always guarantee a seat, although there will be standing room - please come early to ensure a seat. * Children are welcome but sorry, we have to ask that they are of an age to be able to sit quietly and listen without disturbing or distracting others. If you are in doubt, please contact us via our website before purchasing tickets * For more information or to contact the Goose please see our website www.thegooseisout.com
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012
Time: 7pm
Venue: London SE22 DHFC
Price: £11.00

Bright Phoebus & Folk Against Fascism Present: Ewan Maclennan With Mc Roy Bailey.
BBC Radio 2 Folk Award Horizon Winner 2011 Ewan is a young, up-and-coming folk artist who has been making headlines over the past year performing at festivals, clubs and concert halls across the UK and beyond. His recent nominations for both the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards and Scots Trad Awards confirm this ongoing success. His music combines folksong from around Britain and further afield, but with an inevitable concentration on the tradition of Scotland where he grew up. His own self-penned songs are also receiving critical acclaim in their own right, with noted music journalist Colin Irwin reviewing one of his moving offerings as a modern classic. "I was completely and utterly bowled over by Ewan's music. One of the most exciting new voices I've heard in years!" Mike Harding, BBC Radio 2 In addition to his voice, his "first class musicianship" (Taplas) is influenced by the rigour and technique from studying and performing classical guitar. It retains a unique and compelling sound (Maverick magazine) in which both his immersion in folk music and his on-going work with guitar maestro Martin Simpson is evident. Ewan's music covers the broad range folk music has to offer, from powerful and moving ballads to lively dance tunes and melancholic airs strikingly arranged for the guitar. We try and stay away from obvious comparisons because everyone we book is brilliant in their own right, but he really does remind us of the great singer-songwriter and guitarist, Dick Gaughan - and no, not just because he's Scottish! "Only once in a while do you hear a new voice, a new sound that is really worth listening to, Ewan McLennan is one such! Martin Simpson The night will also be supported by EFDSS who have kindly offered us another Folk Rising spot to introduce you to someone you may not have heard of yet, who we think is great as well. We're just waiting to confirm the availability of a wonderful artist that we'd be very proud to have on a Bright Phoebus bill. WATCH THIS SPACE FOR UPDATES! The whole thing will be tied together by MC, Roy Bailey. Himself a stalwart of the folk scene and a singer of great stories of the human condition. Tonight will be a celebration of another way of looking at things and a celebration of the best of humanity. Doors 7:30pm Concert Starts at 8:00pm
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Sheffield The Greystones
Price: £8.50

Gren Bartley, Matt Woosey
Poetic lyrics, effortlessly astonishing guitar playing, and wide range of influences, songs to scythe back the overgrown. www.grenbartley.co.uk www.mattwoosey.co.uk
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Cornwall Eden Project Cafe
Price: £4.00

Iain Matthews (matthews Southern Comfort)
A one off show from the legendary founder member of Fairport Convention, who has continued to write and entertain audiences through the years, solo and with various collaborators. Iain reformed Matthews Southern Comfort in 2011 with sell-out success. This is an intimate duo show which promises to be very special.
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Wakefield Labour Club, 'The Red Shed'
Price: £10.00

Gbh With Caller Nick Walden
Another great ceilidh trio at Godalming Borough Hall featuring the Old Swan's percussionist Martin Brinsford - and the second visit from Godalming's favourite caller Nick Walden.
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012
Time: 7.45pm
Venue: Surrey The Borough Hall
Price: £9.50

Appalachia: Shammick Abroad Concert
With a potent brew of American roots music creating a perfect blend of strings, voices and musical styles, these four guys mix blues, country, jazz, ragtime, bluegrass and their own writing, providing an inspired take on American roots music. Appalachia's original arrangements use finely-crafted four-part harmonies, with guitar, slide, dobro, mandolin, banjo, fiddle, harmonica and double bass, delivering a foot-stomping, feel-good sound. They've created a real stir on the Bristol and Somerset acoustic music scene, going down a storm at Priddy Folk Festival and Didmarton Bluegrass festival, resulting in immediate repeat bookings at both. Guaranteed to put a smile on your face and a rhythm in your feet do NOT miss these guys!
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: South Molton The George Hotel
Price: £7.00

Chris Wood
Radio 2 Folk singer of the year 2009 & 2011. Chris Wood is an acclaimed singer-songwriter with a spellbinding stage presence.
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012
Time: 07.30pm
Venue: Holmfirth Hepworth Village Hall
Price: £12.00

Gren Bartley, Matt Woosey
Effortlessly astonishing guitar playing and poetic lyrics from a wide range of different influences. Songs to scythe back the overgrown. www.grenbartley.co.uk www.mattwoosey.co.uk
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Cornwall Miss Peapod's
Price: £4.00

Potbelly Folk Festival Spring Day Special
We are delighted to be hosting once again the growing & vibrant Potbelly Folk festival in a Spring Day Special. We will have returning friends & new faces, but all our acts will be quality folk & roots musicians, together with local fine ales, children's activities and a great atmosphere in our unique & historic venue.
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012
Time: 1.30pm
Venue: Kettering Arts Centre, St Andrew's Church
Price: £8.00

The Destroyers
Seductively dangerous Anna Meacham Clash Magazine a blow-your-mind original ... Minimum pretence and maximum style Lemez Lovas Songlines Without a doubt, they're certainly one of the most interesting acts the UK has seen in a long time Marcus Kernohan stereokill.net see them live the first chance you get Kenny McMurtrie musoguide.com they truly are "insane", "chaotic" and "absolutely menkle", but then can a 15-piece polka orchestra led by a short grandad in a fez who talks like a pirate be anything else? Q Magazine Glastonbury Review Special A 15-piece outfit of exceptional technical quality which plays a rich blend of Balkan folk music, jazz, Celtic and other influences Terry Grimley The Birmingham Post With 15 musicians on stage, wild brass, violins, guitars, accordion, furious energy, flamboyancy, revolutionary fervour, and gung-ho style, The Destroyers are what Emir Kusturica would have come up with had he been born in Birmingham! Do your self a favour and see them live at Rich Mix in Shoreditch! Promoting their new album Hole In The Universe.
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: London Rich Mix
Price: £12.00

Little Johnny England
Northampton and Banbury based five piece band Little Johnny England who redefined the folk-rock map according to Show of Hands' Phil Beer back in the late nineties/early noughties are, after a number of quiet years while the individual members concentrated on other projects, back with a vengeance, a new line-up and a fine new album Tournament Of Shadows. In the new line-up long time members Gareth Turner, PJ Wright and Guy Fletcher are joined by ex Fatima Mansion's bass player Hugh Bunker and respected writer and producer Mark Stevens on drums. Gareth, PJ and Guy have an impressive track record having between them played with Show Of Hands, Dave Pegg, Ruby Turner, The Steve Gibbons Band, The Albion Band, The Phil Beer Bands, Tickled Pink, Dansaul and The Dylan Project. Their unique take on traditional and contemporary folk music with a powerful rock foundation brought folk-rock to a wider audience and attracted the attention of audiences and press both from within the genre and beyond into the mainstream with their last studio album 'Mercs & Cherokees' achieving a glowing four star review in Q magazine.
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012
Time: 7.15pm
Venue: Rugby Lawrence Sheriff Hall
Price: £12.00

Blue Jewel In Concert
Blue Jewel, South Brent Village Hall, Saturday 31st March 2012 Blue Jewel are an exciting South Devon folk-acoustic band, four top musicians - Steve Banks violin/vocals, Scott McGowan acoustic guitar, Pat Butterly double bass, Ben Burrows drums. The band as formed in 2010 by Steve Banks (Maddy Prior & the Carnival Band, Chanter), since when they have been building an enthusiastic local following. Listen to tracks from their album Dart Songs at www.bluejewel.info. The set will include tracks from Dart Songs, along with storming Irish jigs and reels, covers of some classic acoustic songs (e.g. Incredible String Band, James Taylor, Monty Python), and great songs by Steve. Doors 7.30pm, on stage 8pm. Licensed bar. Tickets £8/£6 from Artworks and the Mare & Foal Charity Shop in South Brent, Totnes Tourist Information, www.wegottickets.com, or on the door.  Amazing instrumentals subtlety and imagination a memorable and enjoyable album. - 'What's Afoot Magazine. A journey down the Dart that brings in all the skill of serious musicianship. This album is a delight of variety a triumph! Maddy Prior
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: South Brent Village Hall
Price: £8.00

Ottersgear
Twas the summer of 2008 when Mikey Kenney decided to lock himself away and record the songs he'd written about his rambles into the Trough of Bowland. He'd been living in Quernmore, in Spacey's (Three Dimensional Tanx frontman) bungalow and trying to lay off the booze and get over the fact that fellow One Chip Potato singer Andrew Ranallo had gone back home to Minneapolis. The songs he was writing weren't always about the material world, but of the struggle within and the comfort and fear that the solitude could bring. So he recorded them on his own, locked away with his collection of instruments. Spacey became his butler, bringing coffee and toast, whilst Mikey went three days without sleep getting the job done. When the baby 'The Quest for Rest' was born, it was decided a band would be formed. The first of it's custodians was to be 'How's My Pop' frontman Andrew Raven who was brought in to play guitar, mandola and the whistle. Then came Charley Weatherill with the reed organ, Dan Haywood on the nylon string guitar and Mia Bleach on fiddle. Thus, the heralds of Ottersgear ascended from the valley. After much gigging the party grew, featuring many important guest players but also recruiting George Hitchmough with his bodhran and James Munroe and his bass. These days you'll find Ottersgear to be tramping about the country performing wherever and whenever the opportunity arises. The first album "Ottersgear- The Quest for Rest" is now available from the shop.
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012
Time: 8.30pm
Venue: Glossop Redroom at The Oakwood
Price: £3.00

Lucy Ward
Lucy Ward is rising star of the folk scene, leaving her mark wherever she goes with her expressive performance and infectious passion for folk music. The 20 year old from Derby started out modestly at a local folk club aged just 14, now after six years of performance experience under her belt she is playing at folk clubs and festivals all over the country, including the esteemed Nettlebed Folk Club, Priddy, Big Session and Shrewsbury Festivals. She accompanies herself on guitar and has also recently taken up the concertina; however she considers her voice to be her first instrument. She has the ability to captivate an audience with the strength and purity of her voice, which she uses to great effect on several unaccompanied songs that sprinkle her set. Throughout the last two years sinxe leaving school Lucy has devoted all her time to her music career. This passion and commitment has resulted in gigs supporting various folk luminaries such as Seth Lakeman, Dave Swarbrick, Tams and Coope, Jim Moray and Nancy Kerr & James Fagan. Her debut album 'Adelphi Has To Fly' was produced by Megson's Stu Hanna and has been well received in the media and sold well at all her performances
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Twickenham Cabbage Patch Pub
Price: £7.00

Paul And Liz Davenport
Ballads and other narrative songs - Trad. and new material in trad. style. If you like real folksong this is for you.
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012
Time: Doors from 7pm and music from 8pm
Venue: Southport Park Golf Club
Price: £6.00

Gerard & The Watchmen, Josh Bunce
Two young up and coming acts from the East of England. http://www.joshbunce.co.uk/ http://www.davegerardmusic.com/
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Norwich The Bicycle Shop
Price: £3.00

Cam Penner
In a complicated world, Cam Penner finds beauty in simplicity, with an honest, spare approach to folk music that is refreshing in an age filled with so much insincerity and irony. Singing uncompromising songs about redemption and truth, Penner is a voice for the disenfranchised, a storyteller for those who never reach their destination. Penner's fiercely personal lyrics are complemented by a gentle acoustic guitar style, and the defiant heroes of his songs are weary, but they are never defeated. Penner has described his philosophical outlook and songwriting muse: "Sometimes I feel the thousands of souls I've listened to are people living inside of me, telling their tales." Agreed. When listening to Penners songs you can hear the struggle, the hope, the yearning to be better. "I've never really written topical songs, I usually write about the emotional struggle, the pull between what's right and wrong.
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012
Time: 7.00pm
Venue: Ripon The Cellar Door
Price: £10.00

Skyhook
skyhook are an exciting collaboration of three of the finest acoustic musicians in Sheffield, England. Martin Harwood, Cath James and Eoin Teather play traditional tunes and songs from Scotland, Ireland, Cape Breton Island, plus some brand new self-penned compositions. skyhook are characterised by breathtaking twin fiddles combined with sublime guitar, bouzouki and voice. They shift seamlessly between driving dance music and spine-tingling songs, and play with a joy and precision that's hard to match. www.skyhookmusic.com
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012
Time: 7.00pm
Venue: London Green Note
Price: £8.00

Megson
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012
Time: 7.15pm
Venue: Birmingham Red Lion Folk Club
Price: £11.00

Maddy Prior With Giles Lewin & Hannah James
Maddy Prior (Steeleye Span) has a history of collaborating with unexpected musicians as she looks to approach traditional and written material from interesting and varied perspectives. She teams up with Giles Lewin, a multi-talented instrumentalist and singer with a classical background diluted by some years in the band After Hours. He is a stalwart of the Carnvial Band, another long-time collaboration of Maddy's. Hannah James, who is now a part of Lady Maisery, and has been in the Demon Barbers and Kerfuffle, will join them. She brings singing, accordion, clog dancing and youth.
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012
Time: Open from 7.30pm for an 8pm start
Venue: Reeth Memorial Hall
Price: £14.00

The Toy Hearts
Last September (2011) we had one of the best nights ever at Grateful Fred's when the fantastic Toy Hearts appeared. We are absolutely delighted to welcome The Toy Hearts back to Grateful Fred's for what will be another fantastic concert. Last time we sold out all 70 tickets in advance and had to turn away over 30 people. Please be sure to book your tickets in advance to be certain you can see this wonderful Bluegrass, Americana and Swing band. Supporting The Toy Hearts is Pip Mountjoy. Pip Mountjoy is a 17 year old sing-songwriter from North Yorkshire. In summer 2011 she was invited to record a live session and interview for BBC Introducing and has since been selected for the BBC Introducing masterclass at Maida Vale and Abbey Road studios. Her debut EP, 'Louisiana', which was described as 'a beautiful, sweet and delicate thing' by Bob Fischer, BBC Tees, was self-released through bandcamp in December 2011 and can be heard here:pipmountjoy.bandcamp.com. She has upcoming shows supporting a variety of artists, including Idlewild's Roddy Woomble, which can be found on her facebook page -www.facebook.com/PipMountjoyMusic"
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012
Time: 7.45pm
Venue: Liverpool The Royal British Legion
Price: £7.50

The Songs Of Leonard Cohen
As part of his nationwide tour, Keith James will perform the songs of Leonard Cohen in the intimate atmosphere of the Unicorn Theatre. Says Keith: I'm endeavouring to pare back each song to its' central core and original sense of purpose by performing each song as near to the way it was originally written, exposing Cohen's unprecedented sense of humanity.
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Abingdon The Unicorn Theatre
Price: £10.00

Bulawayo
Zimbabwean dance band Bulawayo take listeners on an educational journey through Zimbabwean tradition. Entrancing mbira thumb-piano and joyous vocals combine with jit-jive guitar, rolling bass and the powerful drum patterns of modern Zimbabwe. Expect to dance!
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012
Time: 8.00PM
Venue: Bridgwater Arts Centre
Price: £12.00

Dan Walsh & Will Pound
Labelled as one of the most original harmonica players in Britain and the UK's top clawhammer banjoist, Will and Dan create an astonishing live act, fusing musical genres with ease and energy. Prepare to be entertained by stunning vocals, banjo wizardry and sounds you didn't think possible on harmonica. This duo is destined for great things, with their CD nominated for Best Debut Album in the Spiral Earth Awards and Will in the running for Best Musician in the BBC Folk Awards 2012.
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: York Black Swan Inn
Price: £8.00

London Community Gospel Choir
Highly sought-after throughout the world, their concerts are full of songs and spirituals that will soothe the mind, heal the spirit uplift the soul and cheer your heart. Gospel Greats like: 'Oh Happy Day' and 'His Eye is On the Sparrow' from Sister Act, 'Amazing Grace', 'Hallelujah' and many many more... In 1982 a dream and a vision came alive. Revd. Bazil Meade, with the help of Lawrence Johnson, Delroy Powell and John Francis, made a mark in history pioneering the first concert gospel choir in Britain the London Community Gospel Choir (LCGC) Trying to fit LCGC into a neat slot is virtually impossible.They are adaptable, flexible and create dynamic melodies with rich harmonies whether they are performing as an octet or a 30-strong choir. LCGC is known for their funky gospel flair, swing-beat, R'n'B, traditional and soulful arrangements, with invigorating choreography and vocal gymnastics. LCGC are outstanding to watch! Its members perform just about anywhere: private corporate functions, after-show parties, conferences, schools, cabaret functions, clubs, weddings, christenings, funerals, prisons, churches, open-air festivals, theatres and concert halls. Controversial, Professional, Energetic, Inspiring and Spirit-filled! Whatever adjective you choose to describe the sound and vision of the London Community Gospel Choir, "there ain't no stopping them now". They will continue to go where angels fear to tread.
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: Southampton Brook
Price: £17.00

Simone Felice Group & Guest Simi Stone (the Duke & The King)
Simone Felice makes a triumphant return with the release of his debut album on April 2nd (for Reveal Records), and is charted to travel the length and breadth of the United Kingdom and Ireland with his band of remarkable players, who together make up the rootsy and hauntingly harmonious SIMONE FELICE GROUP. As well as debuting material from his outstanding new release, the acclaimed wordsmith will be performing many of the classics his devoted followers hold dear from his time with The Felice Brothers and The Duke & The King. Radio hit "You & I Belong" (with friends from Mumford & Sons) finds Simone at his melodic best, his star now burning brighter than ever. Simone Felice is a record certain to cement Felice's place as one of the great songwriter-poets of his generation. Come one, come all. 'Each song somehow sounding like a classic, each live performance suggesting we are in the presence of a rare, fiery brilliance.' The Guardian 'Spellbinding' (Uncut) 'Utterly devastating live.' Q Magazine SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCE from Simi Stone (The Duke and The King) Biography For Simone Felice, his self-titled Reveal Records solo debut has literally been a lifetime in the making. As a former key player in both The Felice Brothers and The Duke And The King explains, This album is the one I've had buried away, somewhere in my weird heart." This is a collection of songs sure to cement Felice's place as one of the great songwriter-poets of his generation. Felice doesn't use the word heart casually. When you sit with him in a room you can hear a subtle metallic ticking noise. If you hunt for the source of the sound you'll find a vertical scar bisecting the entire length of his chest, a visceral reminder of the open-heart surgery he was forced to undergo in the summer of 2010 after a childhood congenital defect brought him to the brink of death. He traces the line of that scar as if it's where his new songs actually emanate from, and in a way they do. Simone Felice is strikingly simple in its arrangements but extravagant in its emotional impact. There is a luminous aura surrounding these compositions, something magical and otherworldly, even when the lyrics are startlingly topical or reference historical events, on tracks like Courtney Love, New York Times and Ballad of Sharon Tate. Felice conveys his often mournful tales of star-crossed lovers and beautiful losers with remarkable empathy. Given his own life-and-death experiences the recent surgery and the birth of his first child were just the latest chapters -- his approach can genuinely be called openhearted. Over the course of a year, this Catskill Mountains-based artist found the most deeply resonant places in which to record his work, settings that were as haunted in their rafters as he felt in his bones: a barn near his home in the woods, an old church in London, an abandoned high school building by the Hudson River. What he created in these hushed, hallowed places is music that could be called folk but that has running through it a ghostly gospel-like feel. Occasionally helping him realize his vision were friends from Mumford & Sons, The Felice Brothers, and even the members of a local girl's choir, the Catskill High School Treblaires. Felice has long been a storyteller, writing prose and poetry as well as songs, and he has a truly remarkable story of his own to tell. Born in 1976, Felice was raised in the Catskill Mountains, in the shadow of Woodstock, the same area where Bob Dylan famously retreated to workshop with the Band after his mysterious motorcycle accident. As Simone, whose gaunt looks balance the sensitive and the rough-hewn, declares: I was born in the woods, with a drop of Indian blood. As a boy, I swore I saw a Mohican ghost among the birch trees. Or maybe it was just the acid." When he was 12 years old, Simone suffered a brain aneurysm and was pronounced clinically dead for several minutes. Following emergency neurosurgery, doctors warned his family that there was a good chance he would not survive. If he did make it, his motor faculties might be seriously impaired. Not only did he recover, but the young Felice began to apply himself to his creative endeavors with an urgency that only those who have looked death in the face can exhibit. I didn't know it at the time, Felice recounts, but writing a memoir of my childhood forced me to put my archeological helmet on and really dig up the past. Maybe I've always been walking that stone wall, the one between this world and the other. At 15, Felice was fronting a local punk band; a few years later he was starting to make treks to New York City, playing the fabled CBGB's and other low-down clubs. Simone then turned his attention to the written and spoken word, penning stories and poems and performing monologues at the Nuyorican Poet's Café on the Lower East Side. He eventually published two short works of fiction: Goodbye Amelia (2004) and Hail Mary Full of Holes (2005). A decade ago, just after 9/11, he resumed songwriting in earnest, collaborating with his brother Ian on a series of homemade recordings, which led to the formation, in 2006, with Ian and younger brother James, of The Felice Brothers. The sibling group started out playing on the streets and in the subways of New York City, but within a few short years they were traveling the world, headlining sold out shows and supporting artists like The Band's Levon Helm, Bright Eyes and Gillian Welch. In 2008, all-star producer Rick Rubin tapped Felice to drum on the sessions for The Avett Brothers' breakout release I and Love and You. This not only lifted Felice's profile but also provided him with valuable lessons about the record-making process: I wrote close to 30 songs for my album, but in the end I chose the 10 that really told the story. That's something I learned from Rick. He drives his artists to write, and write, and keep writing. That's what I did. It's not an album until it's an album. I had to learn not to be afraid to throw ideas away. I guess it's a good exercise for life itself, learning to let things go, like the victims of a flood Between his work with The Felice Brothers and the launch of his solo career, Felice briefly formed The Duke & The King, a folk-soul vocal group he fronted whose understated debut 'Nothing Gold Can Stay' was lauded as one of 2009's albums of the year by critics and audiences alike. He also completed his first novel, Black Jesus, a timely saga about a veteran blinded by a roadside bomb who comes home to a dilapidated America and finds the first real love of his life. She's a runaway, a busted angel, and she teaches him another way to see. As with his novel, Simone Felice focuses on stories about people he has known or read about, yet each contains a facet of Felice himself. Courtney Love is less recrimination than rumination on the loneliness in all of us that can lead to reckless, desperate behavior. Lead single "You & I Belong" (with friends from Mumford & Sons) finds Felice praising each new morning, a difficult chore in today's pixilated world of seven billion distractions. The darkly exquisite New York Times is a commanding lyrical onslaught about the dire state of the front page news. Simone Felice is both the start of a new career and the culmination of an arduous journey, an arc that began with his life-threatening aneurysm in 1988 and ended with his 2010 open-heart surgery. Felice has lived really lived to tell the tale. 'Simone Felice' will be released by Reveal Records on April 2nd 2012 http://www.simonefelice.com/
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Bath Chapel Arts Centre
Price: £14.00

Sons Of Noel And Adrian
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: London Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen
Price: £8.50

Rory Mcleod
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012
Time: 7.15pm, music 8pm.
Venue: Bournemouth Centre Stage
Price: £14.00

Rory Mcleod
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012
Time: 7.15pm, music 8pm.
Venue: Bournemouth Centre Stage
Price: £7.00

Beatles, Blues & Blue Violin
Back by popular demand after selling out the Barn in 2010 - the astonishing fiddle playing of ELO's Mik Kaminski , the smooth vocals of Tina McBain and the awesome guitar and singing from The Orchestra's Phil Bates. Blew everyone away in 2010 - they're back again for another wonderful evening of Blues and Beatles and ELO . Starts 8pm
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012
Time: 7.15pm
Venue: Canterbury The Kingston Barn
Price: £13.00

Po' Girl
Po'Girl have become one of the most successful bands ever to emerge from Canada, weaving a blend of musical influences, sweetness, grit & soul. These urban minstrels pen harmony drenched melodies you'll find yourself humming, wowing audiences across the globe with their powerful, passionate and spirited live show. The beauty and mystery of Po'Girl music, a sound that has beguiled fans the world over, springs from the dynamic, improbable, mesmerizing bond shared by its two principal singers and writers, Allison Russell and Awna Teixeira. Hailing from Montreal and Toronto respectively, both women left untenable home situations at fourteen, found music instead of bad ends, and lived to sing the tales. The interplay between these two stunning performers is truly something to behold. www.pogirl.net
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012
Time: 9pm
Venue: Cornwall Miss Peapod's
Price: £10.00

Lost In Space - 7-piece Party Band
They're a stomping seven-piece party band with raunchy female vocals, a full brass section, funky bass, jazz guitar and more percussion than you can shake a stick at, playing ska and blues, all with an edge of funk and jazz, re-working old standards, and writing their own songs too.
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012
Time: 9.00pm
Venue: The B-Bar @ The Barbican Theatre
Price: £3.00

Martin Turner's Wishbone Ash
Doors open 9pm With millions of album sales and concert attendances worldwide, Wishbone Ash's heritage as one of the most enduring and best loved British rock acts is assured. Wishbone Ash was formed by West Country musicians Martin Turner and Steve Upton, who arrived in London in 1969 to embark on their musical journey. Intent on creating a musical sound that was rich in texture and melody, Martin Turner envisaged the band's innovative harmony-guitar hallmark and guitarists Ted Turner and Andy Powell were recruited via a now legendary Melody Maker advert. The partnership of the original line-up of Wishbone Ash forged a unique musical identity that would produce some of rock music's best loved works and influence numerous successful bands. Wishbone Ash would become synonymous with high quality guitar-driven melodic rock music. CONCESSIONS APPLY TO TRADES CLUB MEMBERS ONLY
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2012
Time: 9pm
Venue: Hebden Bridge The Trades Club
Price: £16.00

Charlie Dore
PLEASE NOTE: WE ABSORB ALL BOOKING FEES - THIS EXPLAINS THE ODD PRICE LISTED HERE! WHEN YOU GET TO THE CHECK OUT, 10% WILL BE ADDED AND, HEY PRESTO, THE FULL TICKET PRICE IS REACHED Widely held to be amongst the UK's finest singer-songwriters, Charlie Dore is one of only a select number of UK female artists to secure a top 20 chart hit in the US Billboard Hot 100, where her enduring radio classic, Pilot of the Airwaves, reached number 13. Her songs have been recorded by a veritable who's who of popular music, including Tina Turner, George Harrison, Lisa Stansfield, Paul Carrick and Celine Dion, while her chart success has continued with a number four US hit for Sheena Easton and a UK number one for Ain't No Doubt sung by Jimmy Nail. While Charlie's songwriting talents have been recognised with two industry ASCAP Awards and an Ivor Novello nomination, she has also found considerable success as a screen, theatre and radio writer and actress starring alongside the likes of Eric Idle and Robin Williams. Her latest album, Cheapskate Lullabyes, mixes folk, country, jazz and pop, and led to performances at Glastonbury, Cropredy and Summertyne Americana Festival as well as a BBC Radio 2 session for Bob Harris.
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2012
Time: Doors 7.30pm, Show 8.00pm
Venue: Selby Town Hall
Price: £10.91

Kooky Folk Night With Ewan Mclennan & Martha Tilston
BBC Radio 2 Folk Award Winner 2011, Ewan McLennan joins us for a very special Kooky Folk Night. www.ewanmclennan.co.uk
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Cornwall Miss Peapod's
Price: £10.00

Danny Bryant's Redeyeband
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2012
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Pontypool Borough Blues Club
Price: £10.00

Ewan Mclennan
Students £8 on door only (proof required) BBC Radio 2 Folk Award Horizon Winner 2011 Scots Trad Awards nominee for best newcomer 2010 Fatea Awards Male Vocalist of 2010 Ewan is a young, up-and-coming folk artist who has been making headlines over the past year performing at festivals, clubs and concert halls across the UK and beyond. His recent nominations for both the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards and Scots Trad Awards confirm this ongoing success. His music combines folksong from around Britain and further afield, but with an inevitable concentration on the tradition of Scotland where he grew up. His own self-penned songs are also receiving critical acclaim in their own right, with noted music journalist Colin Irwin reviewing one of his "moving" offerings as "a modern classic". "I was completely and utterly bowled over by Ewan's music. One of the most exciting new voices I've heard in years!" Mike Harding, BBC Radio 2 In addition to his voice, his "first class musicianship" (Taplas) is influenced by the rigour and technique from studying and performing classical guitar. It retains a "unique and compelling sound" (Maverick magazine) in which both his immersion in folk music and his on-going work with guitar maestro Martin Simpson is evident. Ewan's music covers the broad range folk music has to offer, from powerful and moving ballads to lively dance tunes and melancholic airs strikingly arranged for the guitar. It has been described as "a mix of the Tradition, social history and political awareness, with his own songs that carry a profound punch...The impact he has with it all is quite formidable" (EFDSS). "Only once in a while do you hear a new voice, a new sound that is really worth listening to, Ewan McLennan is one such!" Martin Simpson Ewan's debut album 'Rags & Robes', hailed as "an unalloyed delight" by R2 (Rock n Reel), was released this summer on Fellside Records. It has so far been receiving rave reviews, chosen as the prestigious MOJO magazine's 'Folk Album of the Month', collecting several 'Album of the Week' accolades in radio, and being awarded a number of four-star reviews in the print media. With upcoming sessions on, amongst others, BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 3 this exposure looks set to continue. The Roots and Branch Review's contention that "Ewan McLennan may well be the best singer you'll hear all year" is echoed by Maverick's description of him as "quite possibly destined to become the UK's finest folk singer." 'With a gorgeous, lilting voice, a quietly assured and commanding presence, and some smart guitar arrangements...it's the tender sincerity of McLennan's own performance that [is] so moving.' MOJO - 'Folk album of the month' 'Making headlines across the UK, Ewan's guitar playing is first class and he has a voice that sounds like he's been singing for many years, earthy and raw in its delivery...giving him a unique and compelling sound. Quite possibly destined to become the UK's finest folk singer!' Maverick 'The entire album is an unalloyed delight!' R2 'I was completely and utterly bowled over by Ewan's music...one of the most exciting new voices I've heard in years.' Mike Harding, BBC Radio 2 'A resoundingly fresh-sounding album...Ewan McLennan may well be the best singer you'll hear all year.' Root and Branch Review 'The album's DNA is a mix of the Tradition, social history and political awareness, with his own songs that carry a profound punch... the impact he has with it is quite formidable, there's no denying the depth and dimension of this record.' EFDSS 'Only once in a while do you hear a new voice, a new sound that is really worth listening to. Ewan McLennan is definitely one such.' Martin Simpson 'Rags and Robes' was number 4 on Mojo magazine's folk albums of 2010 chart www.ewanmclennan.co.uk
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Bath Chapel Arts Centre
Price: £10.00

Po'girl At Korks Wine Bar, Otley
A fantastic opportunity to see the fabulous Po'girl in the intimate surroundings of Korks Piano Lounge. This is a return visit for Alli, Awna, Benny and Mikey to Otley. They sold out the Courthouse when they played a couple of years ago. Support will be from local favourites O'Donnell & Bird. Tickets are priced at £12.00. This gig is part of a European tour so tickets will sell fast. For more info on this fantastic band visit their website http://www.pogirl.net/index_brick.php
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Otley Korks Wine
Price: £12.00

An Intimate Evening With The Unthanks
Don't miss this opportunity to see The Unthanks close-up and paired down. For the past 3 years, The Unthanks have toured as a ten piece troupe, bringing their peerless sound to the stage in full glory. During that time they have performed in the atmospheric surroundings of some of the UK's finest cathedrals, concert halls and churches. Following a recent collaboration with the massed ranks of national champions Brighouse and Ratsrick Brass Band, the Mercury nominated Tynesiders now return to where they began, playing cosier venues, in the guise of their core quintet - the creative nucleus - for a more intimate and close-up musical and personal experience. Fronted by sisters Rachel and Becky Unthank, The Unthanks prefer to see folk as an ongoing unwritten history, rather than a style of music, drawing on a myriad of influences to story-tell in technicolour - from the minimalist eccentricity of Steve Reich, Antony & The Johnsons, Robert Wyatt and Miles Davis, to the singers of their Geordie native North East of England. The Unthanks prove that staunch traditionalism and sonic adventure need not be opposites. Special guests will be Jonny Kearney and Lucy Farrell, who were such a hit on The Unthanks 2009 Here's The Tender Coming tour. Jonny and Lucy will be performing songs from their debut album 'Kite', released Autumn 2011, described by Lauren Laverne as "absolutely gorgeous". www.the-unthanks.com www.jonnyandlucy.com
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Newbrough Town Hall
Price: £14.00

Jim Moray
Jim Moray plays at the west end centre. Doors 8pm.
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: Aldershot West End Centre
Price: £12.00

Oyster Band's Ray Cooper
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012
Time: 7.15pm
Venue: Birmingham Red Lion Folk Club
Price: £12.00

Lucy Ward
Doors open 8pm Just nominated for Best Newcomer in the 2012 BBC folk awards, 21 year old Lucy Ward is a rising star in the folk world. Having supported many of the top folk artists including Seth Lakeman, Chris Wood, Dave Swarbrick and The Oysterband, Lucy has gone on to become a headline act in her own right at festivals and clubs all over the country and crowned a highly successful 2011 festival season with a stand-out performance and a standing ovations to a capacity audience at Shrewsbury Folk Festival. CONCESSIONS APPLY TO TRADES CLUB MEMBERS ONLY
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Hebden Bridge The Trades Club
Price: £9.00

Neil Innes
Star of Monty Python and of Bonzo Dog Doodah Band performs intimate one man show.
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012
Time: 7.15pm, music 8pm.
Venue: Bournemouth Centre Stage
Price: £14.00

Blue Rose Code
Influential London post-folk artist Blue Rose Code has shared the stage with many a celebrated writer: Bert Jansch, Kris Drever, King Creosote, John Renbourn, and James Yorkston. Ross Wilson, moved from Edinburgh a full eight years ago, drawn to the pace and the hubbub of London. Having recorded his debut with London indie Ho Hum Records, Ross has a crop of new material and a brand new live band comprising voices, guitars, banjo & fiddle. 'North Ten', is slated for release in Spring 2012 followed by a UK tour and festivals. http://bluerosecode.tumblr.com/
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Norwich The Bicycle Shop
Price: £3.00

An Intimate Evening With The Unthanks
Don't miss this opportunity to see The Unthanks close-up and paired down. For the past 3 years, The Unthanks have toured as a ten piece troupe, bringing their peerless sound to the stage in full glory. During that time they have performed in the atmospheric surroundings of some of the UK's finest cathedrals, concert halls and churches. Following a recent collaboration with the massed ranks of national champions Brighouse and Ratsrick Brass Band, the Mercury nominated Tynesiders now return to where they began, playing cosier venues, in the guise of their core quintet - the creative nucleus - for a more intimate and close-up musical and personal experience. Fronted by sisters Rachel and Becky Unthank, The Unthanks prefer to see folk as an ongoing unwritten history, rather than a style of music, drawing on a myriad of influences to story-tell in technicolour - from the minimalist eccentricity of Steve Reich, Antony & The Johnsons, Robert Wyatt and Miles Davis, to the ! singers of their Geordie native North East of England. The Unthanks prove that staunch traditionalism and sonic adventure need not be opposites. Special guests will be Jonny Kearney and Lucy Farrell, who were such a hit on The Unthanks 2009 Here's The Tender Coming tour. Jonny and Lucy will be performing songs from their debut album 'Kite', released Autumn 2011, described by Lauren Laverne as "absolutely gorgeous". www.the-unthanks.com www.jonnyandlucy.com This show will take place in a seated marquee right next to our favourite local brewery, High House Farm Brewery. Location details http://www.highhousefarmbrewery.co.uk/
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Matfen High House Farm Brewery
Price: £14.00

An Intimate Evening With The Unthanks
Don't miss this opportunity to see The Unthanks close-up and paired down. For the past 3 years, The Unthanks have toured as a ten piece troupe, bringing their peerless sound to the stage in full glory. During that time they have performed in the atmospheric surroundings of some of the UK's finest cathedrals, concert halls and churches. Following a recent collaboration with the massed ranks of national champions Brighouse and Ratsrick Brass Band, the Mercury nominated Tynesiders now return to where they began, playing cosier venues, in the guise of their core quintet - the creative nucleus - for a more intimate and close-up musical and personal experience. Fronted by sisters Rachel and Becky Unthank, The Unthanks prefer to see folk as an ongoing unwritten history, rather than a style of music, drawing on a myriad of influences to story-tell in technicolour - from the minimalist eccentricity of Steve Reich, Antony & The Johnsons, Robert Wyatt and Miles Davis, to the ! singers of their Geordie native North East of England. The Unthanks prove that staunch traditionalism and sonic adventure need not be opposites. Special guests will be Jonny Kearney and Lucy Farrell, who were such a hit on The Unthanks 2009 Here's The Tender Coming tour. Jonny and Lucy will be performing songs from their debut album 'Kite', released Autumn 2011, described by Lauren Laverne as "absolutely gorgeous". www.the-unthanks.com www.jonnyandlucy.com This show will take place in a seated marquee right next to our favourite local brewery, High House Farm Brewery. Location details http://www.highhousefarmbrewery.co.uk/
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Matfen High House Farm Brewery
Price: £12.00

Twilight Hotel
Honestly, it's hard to know where to begin to express how much we love Twilight Hotel. This duo hailing from Winipeg, Canada, now residents of the coolest city we have been to, Austin Texas! Last year they immediately blew us away at an in-store followed by a top-notch set in Brighton, we were hooked on their dark, compelling story telling. Juno Awards winners in their native Canada, Brandy and Dave will captivate you with their rich tapestries of sound, incorporating vintage electric guitars, lap steel, accordion and male and female vocals that blend together with an intimacy born of 10 years spent on the road together. Autumn Red Lloyd Williams, front man of Autumn Red will open the show with a solo set. Playing his signature driving banjo and almost rock-like vocals Lloyd makes the perfect start to a great evening.
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: Brighton Prince Albert
Price: £8.00

Chris Wood
Chris Wood started out as a choirboy and much of his music bears the influence of those years spent with the likes of Bach, Handel, Gibbons and Boyce: he describes the album Handmade Life as "church music with drums." Self-taught on guitar and violin, he is a lifelong autodidact -- and his independent streak shines through in his composition and studio work. Always direct and unafraid to speak his mind, his song writing has been praised for its surgical clarity. His work is typified by his trust in the space music can create and a gift for lyrical understatement. He cites his major influence as "Anon". He has worked with Billy Bragg, Andy Gangadeen, Andy Cutting, Jean François Vrod and Hugh Lupton (Wood and Lupton's "One in a Million" won Best Original Song at the BBC 2 Folk Awards in 2006). Recently he has worked alongside Martin and Eliza Carthy and others in The Imagined Village: "Cold Haily Rainy Night", performed by Wood and Eliza Carthy, took the award for Best Traditional Song at the Folk Awards in 2008. He set up R.U.F Records in 1992 and this label continues to carry his catalogue. He also founded The English Acoustic Collective, a movable feast of musicians, writers, photographers and choreographers who look to England's indigenous arts as their inspiration. His first solo album, The Lark Descending, was released in 2006 to wide acclaim. A lyrical, pensive album ... possessed of a timeless quality. The Observer Music Monthly In 2009 his album, Trespasser, took on the idea of enclosure: spiritual, intellectual, cultural and physical. Billy Bragg writing in The Independent said Come Down Jehovah, is a measured statement of atheism that puts Dawkins to shame! Wood went on to receive "Album of The Year" and Singer of the Year from BBC Radio Two. He has been more reticent about the genesis of Handmade Life -- but the material clearly stems from a desire to explore a less human-centered world, and a world more engaged with the actual than the virtual. "It's all the little things are what we find that matter now that the circus has left town". "Chris Wood has developed into an exceptional songwriter venturing into areas that few artists would dare tackle." The Guardian ★★★★ "Wood"s tongue is truer than most." The Times "It really needs to win an award. The band is a marvel and Wood's unpretentious singing carries real weight." The Independent
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012
Time: 8.30pm
Venue: London King's Head, Crouch End
Price: £15.00

Pilgrims' Way
Lucy Wright, Tom Kitching, Edwin Beasant - vocals, fiddle, squeezebox - Nominated for the Horizon award at the 2012 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. Please note that admission is £1.00 more if purchased on the door.
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Guildford Institute
Price: £9.00

The Poozies
PLEASE NOTE: WE ABSORB ALL BOOKING FEES - THIS EXPLAINS THE ODD PRICE LISTED HERE! WHEN YOU GET TO THE CHECK OUT, 10% WILL BE ADDED AND, HEY PRESTO, THE FULL TICKET PRICE IS REACHED Formed in 1990 following a collaboration between Patsy Seddon and Mary Macmaster, of Scottish harp duo Sileas, and singer Sally Barker, The Poozies are Britain's premiere female folk supergroup. Originally joined by all-Ireland accordion champion Karen Tweed and fiddler Jenny Gardiner, the band have enjoyed critical acclaim as one of the most joyous and life affirming acts on the folk scene, playing a mix of traditional and contemporary English and Scottish acoustic music with trademark spine-tingling close vocal harmonies. They were joined for two years in 1996 by Kate Rusby, before her meteoric rise to stardom, via the Mercury Awards, swept her away from the group to be replaced by Highfield Band fiddler Eilidh Shaw and, more recently, accordionist and piper Mairearad Green. Comprising five members, each with astonishing virtuoso pedigree, The Poozies are masters of heart stopping instrumentals and breathtaking close harmony songs.
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012
Time: Doors 7.30pm, Show 8.00pm
Venue: Selby Town Hall
Price: £11.82

Bierre De Luxe, Thomas Ford
Young, Cornwall based, Gypsy Jazz band Bierre de Luxe with the one man blues show that is Thomas Ford. www.reverbnation.com/thomasford
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Cornwall Eden Project Cafe
Price: £4.00

Feast Of Fiddles
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Lowdham Village Hall
Price: £20.00

Feast Of Fiddles
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Lowdham Village Hall
Price: £17.50

Band From County Hell
live music Indie Celts, The Band From County Hell, return to Cambridge to bring their own brand of original celtic folk rock. This band have successfully released six, original albums and their latest album 'Shifts & Changes' has just received a four star review from international music magazine 'RocknReel', a great, live band not to be missed see www.bfch.co.uk for more details.
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Cambridge Portland Arms
Price: £6.50

Vin Garbutt
Possibly Britain's best-loved folk entertainer, well known for both his hilariously crazy intros and his gut-wrenchingly honest songs. Vin is a complete one-off. Superlative. Not to be missed. Car parking in schoolyard next door to hall. Venue has easy level access and facilities for disabled. Bar. Hot and cold food, home baked cakes available. Doors open at 7 p.m. Music starts at 7.30
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Huddersfield Birdsedge Village Hall
Price: £10.00

Jenna
Show starts at 8pm, Bring your own 'refreshments' !. For any other info call 01446 771166 ( 10-5.30pm)
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Cowbridge The Minstrel Room
Price: £8.00

John Renbourn & Robin Williamson
John Renbourn was a founding member of 60' band Pentangle which burst traditional categories thoroughly, but tastefully. A musician of an exceptional kind, combining an insight into the techniques of musical structure with an instrumental command and a sense of aesthetic adventurism, he is one of the most refreshing, skilled and sophisticated guitarists to grace our ears today. Robin Williamson, probably best renowned as a founding member of The Incredible String Band, can demonstrate a dizzying range of accomplishments. A songwriter of undisputed stature, a distinctive interpreter of traditional song, a published poet and novelist, the author of instructional works for the fiddle and penny whistle, and a leading light in the revival of the art of storytelling. John and Robin will perform both their own solo material as well as playing as a duo. The combination of these two rather special gentlemen will give you an evening of magical music and humorous tales blending harp, guitar and song.
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012
Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: Hastings St Mary in the Castle
Price: £14.00

Bill Caddick
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Broseley Birchmeadow Centre
Price: £7.00

Sisters Unlimited Concert
Acoustic/folk/harmony concert - see http://www.radicalliverpool.com/Big_Song_and_Dance.html for information
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012
Time: 6.30pm
Venue: Liverpool St Brides Church
Price: £10.00

Allan Yn Y Fan Quartet
Allan Yn Y Fan is a multi-instrumental and vocal quintet as famed now for their beautiful vocals as for their fiery instrumentals. On this tour Allan Yn Y Fan will be playing a selection of songs and tunes which make up their brand new album Pwnco. This concert will feature the band's interpretations of some further gems from the Welsh storehouse of traditional music and song along with a number of the band's own compositions. The title of this tour and the album comes from a new tune interpolated into one of the key songs on the album Canu Cwnsela which relates to the battle of wits played out within the Mari Lwyd tradition designed to reward the players with food and drink. Allan Yn Y Fan will reward their audiences with a concert that will range from contemplative and moving songs of life and love to uproarious selections of jigs, reels and polkas. Inspirational Max Boyce The most sensitive and experienced of Welsh bands.the rate at which Allan Yn Y Fan has gone from being just another instrumental Celtic outfit to front-runners is nothing short of astonishing Simon Jones fROOTS magazine June 2011
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Bath Chapel Arts Centre
Price: £10.00

Vicki Swan And Jonny Dyer
Swedish and English songs and tunes, small pipes, accordion, guitar and the wonderful nyckelharpa! THE happening duo of the moment.
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012
Time: Get here for 7pm, and hear music from 8pm
Venue: Southport Park Golf Club
Price: £6.00

Gren Bartley
His live act is his strongest asset, with effortlessly astonishing guitar playing and beautiful lyrics. grenbartley.co.uk
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Norwich The Bicycle Shop
Price: £3.00

Chris Stuart And Janet Beazley (backcountry)
Guitarist Chris, who was brought up in Texas and Florida, won first-prize at the prestigious Merlefest Chris Austin Songwriting Contest in both bluegrass and gospel categories, and his songs have been recorded by many top artists. Janet Beazley, banjo and lead/harmony singer, is a true westerner. She spent her early years in Bakersfield, California, as well as Alaska and New Mexico. She is an accomplished banjo player, teacher, songwriter, and singer
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Twickenham Cabbage Patch Pub
Price: £8.00

Country Blues
Stompin' Dave and Dave Saunders
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012
Time: 6.30 pm
Venue: Dorchester Arts Centre
Price: £5.00

Andy Irvine Live @ The Grapevine, Exmouth
Andy Irvine is literally as big a name as you can imagine in the folk music world. In a career spanning 45 years, his biography and multiple musical associations read like a who's who of traditional Irish Music, having been an integral part of great bands such as Sweeney's Men, the legendary Planxty alongside Christy Moore, Donal Lunny and Liam O'Flynn, Patrick Street with Jackie Daly, Arty McGlynn and Kevin Burke, as well as acclaimed solo work and collaborations with the likes of Paul Brady and Dick Gaughan. Grapevine Acoustic and Roots are very proud to welcome him to our venue on Sunday April 15th 2012. For all enquiries relating to event details, please email Event Promoter Richie Evans on richieevansmusic@hotmail.co.uk For full venue details, please visit www.grapevineexmouth.com
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012
Time: 7.00pm
Venue: Exmouth The Grapevine
Price: £14.00

The Askew Sisters
Emily and Hazel Askew are a young duo making waves on the folk scene with their energetic brand of English folk music. Using fiddle and melodeon, they play and sing with an infectious enjoyment and love for the music, winning them fans wherever they go. From rhythmic foot stomping tunes to powerful interpretations of songs and ballads, their playing always guarantees to engage and inspire those who hear. They've spent the last couple of years playing at venues across the country, from top festivals and folk clubs to London's National Theatre and National Portrait Gallery. "Hazel's rich gutsy voice and inventive melodeon playing combined with the skill of Emily's singing fiddle or soulful cello are a new force to be reckoned with!" Stirrings Magazine "What the Askew Sisters do so well is tell the story and allow the music accompanying to help that story-telling along." EDS Magazine See www.askewsisters.co.uk PLEASE NOTE: The venue comprises both seated and standing space. There are a limited number of tables. These are allocated on a first come first served basis. If you'd like a table, please ensure you arrive early. N.B: THE KITCHEN WILL BE CLOSED TONIGHT. DOORS OPEN: 7pm, MUSIC STARTS AT 8pm. NO ENTRY AFTER 9.30pm.
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012
Time: 7:50
Venue: London Green Note
Price: £9.00

An Intimate Evening With The Unthanks
Parking available at nearby Ship Lane carpark.
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012
Time: Doors 7.30pm
Venue: Ely St Peter's Church
Price: £15.00

Ray Cooper
Known to most people as Chopper, longstanding member of the award winning group Oysterband, Ray Cooper here presents songs from his critically acclaimed debut solo album released in 2010. Tales of Love War and Death by Hanging shows his voice off to full effect as well as his song writing and multi-instrumental skills. For this live performance Ray will be accompanying himself on cello and guitar. The repertoire is his own style of folk music, reflecting the album title. At times dark, at times warm, and sometimes showing a musical flavour from Sweden, which is where he has been living for the last few years.
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Rugby The Merchants Inn
Price: £12.00

John Spiers & Jon Boden
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012
Time: 7.15pm
Venue: Birmingham Red Lion Folk Club
Price: £13.00

Stacey Earle & Mark Stuart
Few musical duos provide audiences with the complete entertainment package that Stacey Earle and Mark Stuart dish out in a live performance. Returning to the Gun Room for the first time since 2010, where those lucky enough to be there witnessed what many believed to be "Gig Of The Year", where they played completely acoustically and wove pure magic that had the hairs on the back of the neck standing up! The years of touring the folk / Americana circuit have given them a knack for reaching out to the audience in an intimate "come in to my living room" fashion. This time they will be supported by the amazing Naomi Bedford and musical sparring partner Paul Simmonds (from The Men They Couldn't Hang), both top rated songwriters, and promoting Naomi's new album "Tales From The Weeping Willow" which is rocketing up all the roots/acoustic charts and getting rave reviews from all the major music publications.
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012
Time: 7.00pm
Venue: Southsea The RMA Tavern
Price: £10.00

Thunderbridge Bluegrass Vand
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012
Time: doors 7pm, music 8pm
Venue: Bournemouth Centre Stage
Price: £10.00

Thunderbridge Bluegrass Vand
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012
Time: doors 7pm, music 8pm
Venue: Bournemouth Centre Stage
Price: £5.00

Laish And The People's String Foundation
DOUBLE BILL Students £7 on door only (proof required) Laish Laish have gone and changed up. They released a debut album of playful, literate folk-infused pop, they soaked up the critical praise, supported Grizzly Bear and Beach House at the Roundhouse, toured their behinds off around the UK and in Europe with Sons of Noel and Adrian...Then they went and split up! The band went their separate ways, to pursue other careers and musical projects, leaving the songwriter and founder, Danny Green, at a bit of a loose end. It suddenly occurred to me that I was on my own again, he explains. I did a few shows by myself and was really enjoying the freedom that gave. I put the word out that Laish was now just me. Two weeks later - I had a five piece band! Strange how it works. And what a band. Emma Gatrill, multi-instrumentalist and singer provides clarinet, accordion and vocals. Martha Rose plays violin and sings. Patrick Lawrence plays the bass guitar and Dan Harding plays the drums. Danny still plays his nylon acoustic and sings. Their sound has been described as falling somewhere between the wit and joy of Herman Dune and the darkly lush arrangements of James Yorkston. 'She is Clever' is backed by a wonderful original video made by first time director, Matt Dreyer. The song is like an ode to a woman. A woman of virtue living a healthy life, sung by someone who spends most of his time in a van or drinking casual beers on stage. We wanted the video to somehow reflect that. The final scene has the band trying really hard to do yoga, and doing a surprisingly good job. Laish are just putting the finishing touches to their second album, Obituaries, to be released Spring 2012. The sound is expanded from the first album and the emotional range has been stretched both lyrically and musically. Head to their bandcamp to download the single for yourself: http://laish.bandcamp.com/ Response to the debut album: This is real, beautiful, honest, gracious and just plain wonderful music. 9/10 The Blue Walrus Beguiling songs of love and fasting Mojo Magazine Very special indeed Whisperinandhollerin 8/10 It's clear from the band's sound that they are aiming to do something different with the genre, twisting harmonies and song structure into something their own Muso's Guide Danny Green clearly wins at harmony arranging. He is worthy of some kind of harmonic rosette Bearded Magazine Daniel Green has the kind of voice that can melt butter. Sounds XP Spell-binding music Never Enough Notes The People's String Foundation The South West of England is the appropriate home for the beautifully evocative, languid and lush music of The People's String Foundation. Theirs is unfamiliar territory, scaling the heights of jazz, hip-hop beat-work, Middle Eastern melodies - performed with an eye toward experimentation and nods toward the avant-garde. The brainchild of multi-instrumentalist and jazz singer Ben Sutcliffe and world/blues guitarist Zaid Al-Rabiki - the duo combine to wonderful songwriting effect but it's in their live performances that the group combine, enlisting the assistance of a troupe of inspired musicians. The debut album 'Making Waves' is a concept album with various styles of Roots and Modern influences glued together with an intricate and expressive violin section. The result is the story/fable of a single wave (made from a falling leaf) and it's journey towards the sea. The People's String Foundation is inspired by the people they meet, the experiences of life on the road, and the global theatre of the present day. The People's String Foundation are a true community- their live band changes and flows depending on when and where they are at that moment, but these are songs built for recital and reinterpretation. The band includes the distinct, soulful lows of Chris Jones on electric and double bass, the pristine and effortless beats of Harry Harding on drums, Cuban inspired bassoonist Beth Hutchins and features fiddler-extraordinaire Clare Tomlinson. Clare's earthy and spiritual gypsy-jazz violin work contrasts majestically with Ben's more classical upbringing, lending the arrangements a sense of the fantastic and grandiose. http://www.thepeoplesstringfoundation.co.uk/
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Bath Chapel Arts Centre
Price: £8.00

Jeana Leslie & Siobhan Miller
Here are two of the very best young singers to emerge from Scotland in recent years. Two strong and natural voices blending beautifully together, a rich repertoire of traditional songs plus modern and self-penned material, and all embellished by Jeana's virtuoso fiddle and Siobhan's piano. They were voted BBC Young Folk winners in 2008 and have won numerous awards since then. Shows in England are rare, so don't miss this one!
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: York Black Swan Inn
Price: £9.00

The Wrigley Sisters
The Internationally acclaimed folk duo from the Orkneys promoting their new album.
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Sheffield The Greystones
Price: £10.00

Bayou Seco
Ken Keppeler and Jeanie McLerie, otherwise known as 'Bayou Seco', are lovers. That's not an attempt to describe the way they feel about each other, although after a close relationship of thirty years standing it may be very apt, but rather the nature of their bond with the people's music of Louisiana, New Mexico, Arizona and the entire southwest of the United States, from the Mississippi River to the coast of California. On first sight, the pair look like they might have stepped straight of the set of the Cohen Brothers' 'Oh Brother Where Art Thou?' but those prairie threads, that venerable facial rug, are no prop department pretence. They're outward symbols of a life lived in the service of roots Americana in its many guises. Their shows are a journey through time, an odyssey into the outback of the deep South West, with its shifting populations of Native American, French, Mexican, Polish, German, Irish migrant adventurers, each with their own particular flavour to add to the rich musical sauce. Inspired by listening to The Carter Family on the radio in her native New Jersey, Jeanie spent her early adult life in Europe, busking, archiving, researching and performing traditional music. In the 1960s, she hung out with Bert Lloyd, The Watersons and Peggy and Ewan McColl during the salad days of the UK's bourgeoning folk club scene. It was a neat time to be there, she remembers. It was so alive. Ken grew up in California surround by Mexicans and other south westerners. His early love of traditional Hispanic music, country and blues survived a tour of duty in Vietnam, and solidified into an early mastery of the violin and the banjo. I was never into the likes of Joan Baez, Ken admits, because I was so close to other traditions, living where I did. There's a feeling about traditional musicians that comes from human experience. I'm very attached to that. It was when Ken went to Louisiana in 1973 and met the great Dennis McGee, the Balfa Brothers, Marc Savoy and D L Menard that he began to focus on Cajun and Zydeco. Folk was derided in Louisiana at that time, but that didn't deter Ken. His fascination transcended the tawdry two-step of fashion, and it still does. Ken followed his nose and his passions, hitchhiking all over the USA, soaking up the forgotten music of marginal people. Jeanie and Ken met down at the Savoy Family's music store in Louisiana in the mid 1970s. They started performing and busking together, especially in and around the Cajun music mecca of Eunice. Eventually Jeanie's respiratory illness forced her to leave and so she and Ken moved to New Mexico, with their belongings in a truck and their mattress on the roof, like a pair of John Steinbeck soul adventurers. Jeanie and Ken ended up in Albuquerque, and started to learn Spanish colonial songs and fiddle music from singer Antonia Apodaca and the violinist Cleofes Ortiz amongst others. It was music on the verge of extinction and Ken and Jeanie were determined to keep it alive. Later they also turned the heat of their indefatigable curiosity on the fiddle music of Arizona's Native American Tohono O'odham people'The People of the Desert'. Eventually they formed a band, christened by grafting the name of Bonnie Apodaca's hometown, Arroyo Seco, with the swamp pools or 'bayous' of their beloved Louisiana. That's how 'Bayou Seco' was born. Since then Jeanie and Ken have been singing, playing, researching and archiving the music they love, sticking to a simple unadorned line-up of diatonic accordions, fiddles, guitar, mandolin, banjo, harmonica and voices, spreading their knowledge of the rough-hewn musical expression of a continent in front of audiences all over the world, on concert stages, in schools, bars, folk clubs, community and old people's centres. Jeanie and Ken took their music from forgotten people and they've spent most of their professional lives giving it back, with added verve, warmth and style.
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Sheffield The Greystones
Price: £10.00

Storm Warning
Storm Warning, acclaimed as one of the best and most interesting blues / rock bands in the UK, are back at the Limelight with their blend of contemporary blues / rock. Steve Norchi on vocals is supported by Bob Moore, Ian Salisbury, Rus Chaney and Derek White to complete the line up.
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012
Time: 7pm doors, 8pm start
Venue: Aylesbury Limelight Theatre
Price: £8.50

The Hut People
Champions of the standing ovation, The Hut People are rapidly gaining more and more of a reputation as one of the hottest & most entertaining Folk/World acts touring today. Taking the audience on a voyage across the globe with their varied material, they perform a hugely engaging, entertaining and truly unique blend of home-grown tunes mixed with British, Nordic and European folk music, perfectly formed & embellished with the driving accordion and a dazzling array of exotic percussion. Accordionist Sam Pirt & Percussionist Gary Hammond both have extensive backgrounds in music - having been part of and performed alongside legendary acts such as The Beautiful South, Nina Simone, The Dubliners & Sharon Shannon, their playing is still very much in high demand. Great music & virtuosity aside, a show from The Hut People is overflowing with humour, spontaneity and a 100% commitment to their getting-the-crowd-involved ethos. Don't miss them. a bewildering array of percussion and accordion-fired compositions.truly infectious! R2 an enormous ebullience, an absolutely hyper off-the-scale level of sweaty hi-energy, and total (ok, 200%) commitment. what an impression they madea very high 'wow' factor NETRHYTHMS certainly the most entertaining act on the folk scene by far. NOT THE WHITE HORSE FOLK CLUB PLEASE NOTE: DOORS OPEN: 7pm, MUSIC STARTS AT 9pm. The venue comprises both seated and standing space. There are a limited number of tables. These are allocated on a first come first served basis, with priority given to diners. If you'd like a table, please ensure you arrive early. We reserve the right to release all unclaimed tickets for re-sale at 9.30pm. If you will be arriving after this time, please inform us in advance, so that we can hold your tickets for you.
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012
Time: Doors @ 7pm. See GreenNote.co.uk for start time
Venue: London Green Note
Price: £8.00

The Unthanks
An Intimate Evening With The Unthanks with support from Jonny Kearney and Lucy Farrell Don't miss this opportunity to see The Unthanks close-up and paired down. For the past 3 years, The Unthanks have toured as a ten piece troupe, bringing their peerless sound to the stage in full glory. During that time they have performed in the atmospheric surroundings of some of the UK's finest cathedrals, concert halls and churches. Following a recent collaboration with the massed ranks of national champions Brighouse and Ratsrick Brass Band, the Mercury nominated Tynesiders now return to where they began, playing cosier venues, in the guise of their core quintet - the creative nucleus - for a more intimate and close-up musical and personal experience. Fronted by sisters Rachel and Becky Unthank, The Unthanks prefer to see folk as an ongoing unwritten history, rather than a style of music. Influenced as much by the minimalist eccentricity of Steve Reich, Antony & The Johnsons, Robert Wyatt and Miles Davis, as they are by their Geordie native North East England, The Unthanks prove that staunch traditionalism and sonic adventure need not be opposites. Special guests will be Jonny Kearney and Lucy Farrell, who were such a hit on The Unthanks 2009 Here's The Tender Coming tour. Jonny and Lucy will be performing songs from their debut album 'Kite', released Autumn 2011, described by Lauren Laverne as "absolutely gorgeous".
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012
Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: Redhill The Harlequin Theatre
Price: £17.50

Laish
Their sound falls somewhere between the wit and joy of Herman Dune and the darkly lush arrangements of James Yorkston. . www.laish.co.uk
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Cornwall Eden Project Cafe
Price: £4.00

The Toy Hearts
Led by three members of the Johnson family The Toy Hearts are completely immersed in the magical music of the American south, so much so, in fact, that they recorded their most recent CD in Nashville under the watchful eye of Grammy nominated producer David Mayfield. It's a triumph but doesn't really prepare you for the full-on experience of a Toy Hearts show. Brilliant musicianship and stunning stagecraft combine to leave audiences gasping for more. The Toy Hearts have been making music together for over ten years, partly because the core trio of the band is made up of family members, and partly because they are old school when it comes to music. They have honed their skills the hard way by gigging across the UK, USA and Europe, the result being that they deliver an exciting, energetic and dynamic live show, packed with just the right amounts of sweetness, sass and style. Sisters Hannah (lead vocal/mandolin) and Sophia (guitar/harmony vocals) front the band, and along with their father Stewart (banjo/dobro) they carry on the established tradition of the family aspect within country music. Blood harmonies, original songwriting and arrangements, instrumental virtuosity and a deep love for that high lonesome sound means that despite being geographically removed from the bluegrass state, the Johnson family have successfully created their own kind of sound that encompasses both Bill Monroe in Kentucky with a dash of hot club straight from the Continent. In October 2010 The Toy Hearts released their third album Femme Fatale, which was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee earlier that year and produced by Grammy nominee David Mayfield. Certainly their most significant recording to date, Femme Fatale aptly demonstrates their song writing maturity and a further honing of their now identifiable sound that draws influences from bluegrass, gypsy jazz, western swing, country and blues. Two download singles, 'Femme Fatale' and 'The Captain' have been released from the album both with accompanying music videos to the delight of an ever increasing online fanbase. The Toy Hearts continue to get great coverage in the specialist press, Guitarist, Acoustic, R2, Country Music People but have also had extensive features in the more mainstream national Press such as, The Independent, The Sunday Express and The Star on Sunday. 2011 has seen The Toy Hearts profile going from strength to strength as they perform at major UK festivals, amongst them Cornbury, Bestival, Shambala and Moseley Folk. As well as producing quite possibly the finest and most authentic-sounding blend of Americana of any UK act, The Toy Hearts possess a trump card in the heart-melting voice of Hannah Johnson... With 'Femme Fatale' as a calling card, the UK Americana crown is The Toy Hearts' for the taking. - Sean McGhee, R2 Rock and Reel Magazine They fully deserves to be the first British act nominated for a bluegrass Grammy. We should consider ourselves lucky, Nashville didn't confiscate their passports so they couldn't ever leave! - Mike Davis, Net Rhythms Fronted by sisters Hannah and Sophia Johnson, these are sweet harmonies and commendable forays into hot jazz and old-time swing - Duncan Warwick, Uncut Magazine Sisters Hannah (mandolin) and Sophia (guitar) were a delight, highly personable, and proved they have what it takes for some serious cross over potential without compromising their music. - Michael Hingston, Live Review for Country Music People Style and substance are admirable attributes for any band. But couple them with hard work and commitment and you're onto something good. The Toy Hearts have all the bases covered and Femme Fatale, recorded in Nashville, is a fine document of the Johnson family's winning formula. - David Kushar, Spiral Earth The vocals are pure and the musicianship is top-class... This group is going from strength to strength and I would recommend this album to all bluegrass fans - David Knowles, Maverick Magazine The overall sound is excellent, Hannah's vocal's quite superb and Sophia's guitar playing stunning. The album has a tremendous vitality about it and the elements of western swing that creep in here and there only add to the variety of a band who are as good to look at as they are to listen to. - Venue Magazine www.thetoyhearts.com www.myspace.com/thetoyhearts
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Bath Chapel Arts Centre
Price: £8.00

The Unthanks
An Intimate Evening With The Unthanks with support from Jonny Kearney and Lucy Farrell Don't miss this opportunity to see The Unthanks close-up and paired down. For the past 3 years, The Unthanks have toured as a ten piece troupe, bringing their peerless sound to the stage in full glory. During that time they have performed in the atmospheric surroundings of some of the UK's finest cathedrals, concert halls and churches. Following a recent collaboration with the massed ranks of national champions Brighouse and Ratsrick Brass Band, the Mercury nominated Tynesiders now return to where they began, playing cosier venues, in the guise of their core quintet - the creative nucleus - for a more intimate and close-up musical and personal experience. Fronted by sisters Rachel and Becky Unthank, The Unthanks prefer to see folk as an ongoing unwritten history, rather than a style of music. Influenced as much by the minimalist eccentricity of Steve Reich, Antony & The Johnsons, Robert Wyatt and Miles Davis, as they are by their Geordie native North East England, The Unthanks prove that staunch traditionalism and sonic adventure need not be opposites. Special guests will be Jonny Kearney and Lucy Farrell, who were such a hit on The Unthanks 2009 Here's The Tender Coming tour. Jonny and Lucy will be performing songs from their debut album 'Kite', released Autumn 2011, described by Lauren Laverne as "absolutely gorgeous".
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012
Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: Sevenoaks The Stag Theatre
Price: £17.50

Brass Monkey
PLEASE NOTE: WE ABSORB ALL BOOKING FEES - THIS EXPLAINS THE ODD PRICE LISTED HERE! WHEN YOU GET TO THE CHECK OUT, 10% WILL BE ADDED AND, HEY PRESTO, THE FULL TICKET PRICE IS REACHED The nation's foremost all male folk supergroup sound like no-one else on earth! Their most recent album, 'Head of Steam', heralds another chapter in the life of a band that have thrilled the live music scene in various incarnations since the early 80s. English folk's most celebrated performer, Martin Carthy, and former Steeleye Span and Albion Country band accordionist John Kirkpatrick, naturally lock into one another's playing with an ease and precision that can only come from performing together for over thirty years. Sharing the vocals, and sometimes singing together in unison on their 30th anniversary tour, Martin and John are joined by Roger Williams, tripping effortlessly through the fastest of tunes on the bass trombone and creating soft melodies on the euphonium, Martin Binsford, adding sweetness or punch on his mouth-organ, and Paul Archibald, whose classical trumpet training and love of folk music have added another dimension to the band's much loved sound.
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012
Time: Doors 7.30pm, Show 8.00pm
Venue: Selby Town Hall
Price: £11.82

Laish
Their alternative folk sound has been described as falling somewhere between the wit and joy of Herman Dune and the lush arrangements of James Yorkston. www.laish.co.uk
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Cornwall Miss Peapod's
Price: £4.00

Midnight Train
Bluesnight
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012
Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: Dorchester Arts Centre
Price: £12.00

Midnight Train
Bluesnight
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012
Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: Dorchester Arts Centre
Price: £10.00

Hannah Scott
Due to popular demand, Hannah Scott is back with her own show, and here is why! With performances across the U.K. and Italy, including shows alongside Ed Sheeran and support slots with folk favourites Cara Dillon and Seth Lakeman,Hannah has built a solid fanbase and is now gaining the wider recognition she deserves. Hannah has spent the last year recording a new album. Among the musicians to perform on the album was the keyboard player Dave Clayton, best known for his work with Simply Red. Special Guests: ELLIE PRICE & NATALIE HALL
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012
Time: Doors open 7.30pm Start 8pm
Venue: Southampton Hanger Farm Arts Centre
Price: £10.00

Peter Knight's Gigspanner
Peter Knight's Gigspanner has been hailed by Songlines magazine as another milestone in folk's rebirth of cool moment, but those in the know will tell you that there is far more to Gigspanner than meets the eye. A Bedrock of British traditional music is to be expected from Steeleye Span's legendary fiddle player, but Gigspanner's musical reach probes into Eastern European, French, African and even Aboriginal influences. It is no surprise that author Terry Pratchett wrote that Peter Knight can spin the worl