Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Archie Green has died
You can read a full obituary HERE.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Chango - Che of the accordion
The tango, he explains via a helpful translator in the audience, is city music, but his is based on the chamamé country tradition of the Misiones, up in the north-eastern region of Argentina, bordering on Brazil.
But while his playing is quite different from the orquesta tipica which emanated from the Rioplatense working class urban areas of Buenos Aires in the first decade of the twentieth century, its rural origins don't mean it is unsophisticated. In fact, in its own terms, it is as innovative as the nuevo tango of the late bandéonista master,
Ástor Piazzolla.
His influences may be traced to his own cosmopolitan background, the Criollo and Guarani sounds of the border region where he was born, but especially the polkas he inherited from his Ukranian grandparents.
On stage he displays a charismatic persona, though never leaving his stool, his face lifted up in ecstasy and responding with infectious glee to the playing of his three equally virtuosic band-members. In his complete absorption in his music, he reminded me of no one so much as the rock guitarist, Carlos Santana.
Or, if you prefer, he radiates the power of an accordion-playing Che Guevara.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Rory McLeod wants a tongue sandwich from you
Rory McLeod
- Percussive Storyteller, Multi-instrumentalist. Best live act: BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2002,
Rory McLeod's epic song '
Rory's MAY 2009
Saturday May 2 Wath Festival,
Montgomery Hall,
Wath upon Dearn,
Tuesday May 5,
The Old Library,
9 High Barholm,
Kilbarchan
PA 10 2EF
Box office 01505 706070
Saturday May 9 Kirkby stephen
The Acoustic Tea Room
The Masonic Hall
Kirkby Stephen
BOX OFFICE 017683 72123
Friday May 15
The Musician 21.00
LE1 2DE
Box office 07970 529 760
Saturday May 16 knockerdown
Bearded theory Festival
Bradley Nook Farm Estate,
Hulland Ward,
Derbyshire,
DE6 3EL
Tel 07824 611628
Sunday May 17 Stourbridge
Katies Fest
Katie Fitzgeralds,
Wollaston,
Stourbridge
Box office 01384 374410
Monday May 18
Burnham on Crouch.
Barge Innisfree
West Quay
01621 783332
Tuesday May 19
Leigh on Sea .
The Ship
HOY AT ANCHOR Folk Club.
New Road,
Leigh on Sea,
01702 27 982
Thursday May 21
Talking Heads
Hampshire
SO17 1TD
07714 760104
Friday May 22
BN1 4ED
Saturday May 23
Hammersmith Irish Cultural Centre
Blacks Road,
Hammersmith,
W6 9DT
0208 563 8232
Monday May 25
Bluebell Inn,
Near Saffron Walden
01799599199
Wednesday May 27
The Roses Theatre,
Sun Street,
Gloucestershire GL20 5NX
Thursday May 28 8.pm. Kendal
Brewery Arts Centre,
High Gate Kendal,
Box Office 01539 730257
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More tour dates June-September 2009 to be confirmed and announced.
See www.rorymcleod.com.
To book Rory in the
Andy Cooper
Mob: +44(0)7825 512 168 Tel: +44(0)1332 384518
FOLK MUSIC NEWS FROM SUSSEX
Station Street, Lewes
Enquiries:- (01273) 478124 or 881316
Email tinvic@globalnet.co.uk.
Every Thursday 8.pm PROMPT START
For the four Thursdays in May, we will be having a season of Irish performers and each are outstanding performers bring different aspects of the rich tradition of that country.
Mar 26 * £6.00 * LEON ROSSELSON
This year Leon will be celebrating fifty years of singing his challenging, thoughtful, provocative songs. His performances are a delight.
Apl 2 * £5.00 * JIM BAINBRIDGE
A real one-off character. Jim's songs come from a wide range of sources and represent a unique approach to the tradition. He is also a great melodeon player
Apl 9 * £5.00 * MATT QUINN & TOM MOORE
Matt is a superb young multi-instrumentalist and singer who honed his skills at the Royal Oak. Tonight, he is joined by an even younger musician, the amazing fiddler, Tom Moore.
Apl 16 * £5.00 * HAZEL AND EMILY ASKEW
These sisters are two of the finest young performers on the scene. Fiddle and melodeon duets and lovely singing
Apl 23 * £5.00 * CHRIS FOSTER
One of the finest singers and most thoughtful inventive guitar accompanists of English folk songs. On tour from his new home in Iceland.
Apl 30 * £6.00 * THE PALINKA BAND
A young female quartet from Hungary and Transylvania bring us their interpretation of this very rich cultural heritage.
May 7 * £5.00 * CON FADA Ó DRISCEOIL *** Irish Season ***
One of Ireland's foremost comic song writers in the traditional style in recent decades and a very fine button accordion player
May 14 * £5.00 * KEVIN & ELLEN MITCHELL *** Irish Season ***
Two of Britain's finest singers of traditional songs. Kevin is from Derry and Ellen is from Glasgow
May 21 * £5.00 * OLIVER MULLIGAN & BRENDAN McAULEY *** Irish Season ***
Oliver, originally from County Monaghan, is a much respected singer of mainly Irish traditional songs, most in English and a few in Irish Gaelic. Tonight he is joined by a very fine uillean piper.
May 28 KATHLEEN O' SULLIVAN & BILLY TEARE *** Irish Season ***
A welcome return for Kathleen, the lead singer with "The London Lasses", one of the finest singers around, tonight in the company of one of Ireland's leading story tellers
In July, we will be presenting one of our most ambitious nights ever when we present THE MAGNOLIA SISTERS from Eunice in Louisiana with Jane Vidrine, Anya Burgess, Lisa Reed, and Ann Savoy
Our Future Guests will also include:-
TONY HALL * JERRY EPSTEIN & RALPH BODINGTON * SPIERS, SHEPHEARD & WATSON * MICHAEL MARRA *DAVE RUCH * DICK GAUGHAN * RATTLE ON THE STOVEPIPE
Our websites are at
http://www.users.globalnet.co.
http://www.myspace.com/
FOLK AT THE ROYAL OAK ON "MYSPACE"
Our MYSPACE profile enables us to profile sample tracks of coming guests as well as show photos and biographies of coming guests. It is at http://www.myspace.com/
Currently on our MYSPACE we have the following tracks by coming guests:-
Leon Rosselson - "Jumbo The Elephant" - (March 26th)
Jim Bainbridge - "East End Girls" - (April 2nd)
The Askew Sisters - "The Old Virginia Lowlands" - (April 16th)
Chris Foster - "The Banks of Newfoundland" - (April 23rd)
After each gig the songs will drop off to be replaced with another by an
upcoming guest.
In addition there are videos by each of the following coming guest artists:-
LEON ROSSELSON - March 26
THE ASKEW SISTERS - April 16
CHRIS FOSTER - April 23
TONY HALL - June 11
DAVE RUCH - October 22
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3] SUSSEX FOLK GUIDE WEBSITE - UPDATED
For all the listings of folk music, song club, dances, festivals in and
around Sussex, have a look at http://whatson.brighton.co.uk/
This site all always kept updated with the latest events.
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THE FOLK DIARY
Most of the listings on the Sussex Folk Guide website are taken from the
paper magazine, THE FOLK DIARY. To obtain copies of this free magazine as it is published,
please send SAE's to Vic Smith at the address below.
It is also the address to send album review copies to. Potential
advertisers are also asked to contact Vic for a statement of our advertising
rates.
Please contact
JIM MARSHALL 01273 559750 jimars@globalnet.co.uk
Or
VIC SMITH 01273 478124 tinvic@globalnet.co.uk
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THE FOLK DIARY ON LINE
THE FOLK DIARY is available on-line at
http://www.users.globalnet.co.
READER to read the pages. The size of each page is given by each page
link and the content of each page is indicated. The following issue is now
on-line and is listed here with the content of each page:-
ISSUE No. 235 Febuary - March 2009
Page 1 (1679kb) Folk at the Hawth Crawley, Luca's music lessons, Folk Camps, Beacon Tunbridge Wells (Mons), Barber & Taylor at Open House Brighton
Page 2 (1290kb) Piggies Open Mic Uckfield (Tues), Sussex Folk Association, Lamb Eastbourne (Wednesdays), Electric Voices presentations, Spyboy presentations
Page 3 (828kb) Lewes Saturday Club, Royal Oak Lewes (Thurs) - Advertising rates and copy dates
Page 4 (1306kb)Gary's Music Club Coolham (Sats), Vince's fiddles, Barry Murphy banjos, White Horse Bodle St. Green (Mons). Willows Folk Club Arundel (Weds)
Page 5 (1346kb) Spinning Jenny Dance Band, Seaford Folk Club (Fris), Hove Folk Club (Fris), Mid-Sussex Folk Singers (Weds)
Page 6 (1314kb) Brighton Acoustic Sessions (Mons), SEFAN Conference, North Brighton singarounds (Suns & Weds), Rude Mechanicals (Weds). Meltdown Ceilidhs (Sats), Cellarfolk Brighton (Tues), Fee calls Ceilidhs, Six Bells Chiddingly (Tues)
Page 7 (887kb) Broadstairs Folk Week, Brighton Folk & Blues Club, Hobgoblin Music
Page 8 (2068kb) Acoustic Sussex presentations, Horsham folk club (Suns)
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LEWES WORKSHOPS AT THE ELEPHANT & CASTLE
The workshops last a full Saturday or Sunday and the tutor performs at the
club in the evening. The programme for 2009 will be:-
March 28 Tom McConville Fiddle
April 25 Craig Morgan Robson Way through the Woods
April 26 Craig Morgan Robson Vocal harmony
June 6 Kerr /Fagan /Harbron Fiddle /Bouzouki /Concertina
June 7 Kerr Fagan /Harbron Vocal harmony/Winter MS tunes
July 11 Will Duke Scan Tester's tunes
July 18 Bonnie Shaljean Harp
Sept 12 Tommy Peoples Fiddle
Sept 19 Jeff Warner Song accompaniment
Oct 10 Tim Edey Melodeon
Nov 14 Vicki Swan Scottish smallpipes
Nov 21 Tom & Barbara Brown Ballad forum
Dec 5 Billy Teare Storytelling
Dec 5 Kathleen O'Sullivan Irish song
The website for more details is
http://www.lewesarmsfolkclub.
Goodyear on (01273) 476757 or email ValmaiGoodyear@aol.com
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NEW MONTHLY SESSION IN LEWES
After a gap of several years, Sunday afternoon tune and song sessions will be returning to the bar of the Royal Oak in Station Street in Lewes. These will be on the last Sunday of the month from 3.30 - 5.30pm. starting on March 29th. They will be run by Vic & Tina Smith.
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OTHER REGULAR SESSIONS IN THE LEWES/BRIGHTON AREA
Bryan Creer has taken on the task of detailing these, but has made changes to the way this is presented. Here is what he says:-
I have given free rein to my inner geek and written a new version of the Sessions page that works out the date of the next of each session (except
for the weekly ones where it seemed a bit pointless). This was inspired by the uselessness of "Fortnightly counting from 3rd October 2006".
I think it probably works almost all of the time (maybe). Would you like to change any references you make to it to
http://www.lewesarmsfolkclub.
Cheers
Bryan
Have a look and if there are any you think that Bryan has missed - contact him on Bryancreer@aol.com
Look out for a return of an old favourite. The free monthly Sunday afternoon sessions at the Royal Oak in Station Street are going to be revived in March. More details of this in next month's newsletter.
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...And if you are ever looking for a good barn dance band, look no further than THE SUSSEX PISTOLS - though you should get in quickly - available
dates for 2009 are being snapped up quickly.
Contact Tina on 01273 478124 or email her at tinasmith226@yahoo.co.uk to book the band. The band's website is at
http://www.users.globalnet.co.
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Fairport Convention: 2 new CDs, acoustic tour, and Cropredy bill
Fairport Convention follow their sell-out electric tour with two new CDs this month and next, and a 28-gig acoustic tour.
Fame and Glory, (Matty Grooves Records, Cat number: MGCD049) due out on Monday, April 20, is a 15-track collection of songs and tunes by Breton composer Alan Simon from the gold disc song cycle Excalibur.
Tracks include: Castle Rock, Pilgrims, Celtic Dream (live), The Gest of Gauvain, Morgane (live), Dragon Breath, Lugh, Behind the Darkness (live), La Guerre Folle, Fame And Glory (live), Sacrifice, Danza del Crepusculo, Marie la Cordeliere, Duchess Anne, and The Soldier.
The music is performed by Fairport Convention with guest appearances by Jacqui McShee, Martin Barre, Dave Mattacks, Dan Ar Braz, John Helliwell, James Wood, and Flook among others.
Live at Cropredy '08 (Matty Grooves Records, Cat number: MGCD048) was recorded on Saturday August 9, and features the following tracks:
Ye Mariners All, Reynard The Fox, The Eynsham Poacher, 3 selections from Babbacombe Lee (Breakfast in Mayfair, Cell Song, Hanging Song), Doctor of Physick, Reynardine, Mock Morris, Suite of 5 songs honouring the memory of Sandy Denny (Fotheringay, It'll Take a Long Time, John The Gun, Who Knows Where The Time Goes?, The Battle of Evermore), John Gaudie/The Bowman's Retreat, and Best Wishes.
To mark the 30th anniversary of the death of Sandy Denny , Fairport commemorated her life and work at Cropredy with a suite of five songs, all but one of which (The Battle of Evermore, by Robert Plant and Jimmy Page) were written by
The guest artists who sang them at Cropredy 2008 were:
Vikki Clayton (Fotheringay), Chris While (It'll Take a Long Time), Kellie While (John The Gun), Chris While and Kellie While (Who Knows Where The Time Goes?), and Robert Plant and Kristina Donahue (The Battle of Evermore).
Fairport 'Acoustic' Convention UK Tour 2009
May 1 | | Mick Jagger Centre | 01322 291100 |
May 2 | | West Coast Bar | 07967 028844 |
May 3 | Hailsham | Hailsham Pavilion | 01323 841414 |
May 5 | | David's Hall Arts Ctre | 01460 240340 |
May 6 | Dartington | Ariel Centre | 01803 847070 |
May 7 | | Talking Heads | 02380 678446 |
May 8 | | Arts Centre | 01543 262223 |
May 9 | | Arts Centre | 01206 500900 |
May 10 | Cromer | Folk on the Pier | 01263 512495 |
May 11 | | New Theatre Royal | 02392 649000 |
May 14 | | Whelan's | 00353 1 4780 766 |
May 15 | | Alexanders | 01244 340005 |
May 16 | Alnwick | The Playhouse | 01665 510785 |
May 17 | | Blackfriars Theatre | 01205 363108 |
May 18 | Nettlebed | The Folk Club | 01628 636620 |
May 19 | | Arts Centre | 01793 614837 |
May 20 | Abergavenney | Borough Theatre | 01873 850805 |
May 21 | Bury | The Met | 0161 761 2216 |
May 22 | Hertford | The Corn Exchange | |
May 23 | | The Assembly | 01926 523001 |
May 24 | Haddenham | | 01353 740999 |
May 25 | | | 0845 050 8252 |
May 26 | Leek | The Swan | 01538 385260 |
May 27 | | | 01259 218521 |
May 28 | Bromsgrove | The Folk Club | 0121 476 5938 |
May 29 | | The Duchess | 08700 600 100 |
May 30 | Papplewick | Village Hall | 01623 794700 |
May 31 | Didcot, Oxon | Cornerstones Arts Ctre | 01235 515144 |
Among the guests so far booked for Fairport's Cropredy Convention (August 13-15) are Steve Winwood, the Buzzcocks, Ken Nicol & Phil Cool, 4 Square, Harlequinn, Richard Thompson, Seth Lakeman, The Dodge Brothers, John Jorgensen Band, Ade Edmondson and the Bad Shepherds, BBC Young Folk Award Winners Megan and Joe Henwood, ColvinQuarmby, Ralph McTell, Dreadzone, Feast of Fiddles, Churchfitters, and Richard Digance.
For more Fairport news go to www.fairportconvention.com.
Purchasing Fairport CDs & DVDs
- Click HERE to check out Fairport on Amazon UK
- Click HERE to go to Fairport page on Amazon US
- Click on links below to order the box set of 25 years of Cropredy