Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Archie Green has died

US collector of industrial folklore, Archie Green, has died.
You can read a full obituary HERE.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Chango - Che of the accordion

Chango Spasiuk (Leeds Wardrobe, February 25)



The Argentinian accordionist, Horacio "Chango" ("the kid") Spasiuk, doesn't play the tango.
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.
During a current US tour he is at Carnegie Hall, New York, on March 27.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Rory McLeod wants a tongue sandwich from you

Rory McLeod UK Roots – Soul-Singer- Rhythmic Tapdancing - Songmaker

- Percussive Storyteller, Multi-instrumentalist. Best live act:  BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2002, Texas harmonica champion 1981.

 

 

Rory McLeod's epic song 'London kisses' is some 7-8 minutes long. He is inviting JPEG format pictures (no larger than 50Kb) of "people kissing, affectionately,  hungrily kissing, pecking kisses,  grandma kisses, baby kisses,  clumsy kisses, smoorikins, smoothie, snogging,  giving a smacker, canadian tonsil hockey, Beso, beyos,  pogues, pogs, wenching, Suhss, kissannes,  posh, abmows, maahch, moonumberry,  Yeorpas, Pash, a tongue sandwich" to be part of a collection of 'kissing' images, for a video to go with the song. Pictorial contributions should be emailed to him at kissingphotos@rorymcleod.com.

 

Rory's MAY 2009 UK tour, so far....

 

Saturday May 2 Wath Festival,  3.15pm,

Montgomery Hall,

Church Street,

Wath upon Dearn,

Rotherham,

South Yorkshire.

 

Tuesday  May 5,   8pm. Paisley Scotland,

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

North Road,

Kirkby Stephen

BOX OFFICE 017683 72123

 

Friday May 15    Leicester   

The Musician 21.00

Clyde street,

 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,

187 Enville Street,

Wollaston,

Stourbridge

Box office 01384 374410

 

Monday  May 18 Essex

Burnham on Crouch.

Barge Innisfree

West Quay

Essex CM0 8AS

01621 783332

 

Tuesday  May 19

Leigh on Sea . 8pm.

The Ship

HOY AT ANCHOR Folk Club.

New Road,

Leigh on Sea,

Essex, SS9 2EA

01702 27 982

 

Thursday  May 21 Southampton   

Talking Heads

320 Portswood Road,

Southampton,

Hampshire

SO17 1TD

07714 760104

 

Friday  May 22 Brighton   

Prince Albert

48 Trafalgar Street,

Brighton

East Sussex,

BN1 4ED

 

Saturday  May 23 London   

Hammersmith Irish Cultural Centre

Blacks Road,

Hammersmith,

London

W6 9DT

0208 563 8232

 

Monday May 25

Bluebell Inn,

Near Saffron Walden

Essex.

01799599199

 

Wednesday  May 27 Tewkesbury

The Roses Theatre,

Sun Street,

Tewksbury.

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 UK and Europe  please Contact:

Andy Cooper

Mob: +44(0)7825 512 168 Tel: +44(0)1332 384518

andy@tomtommusic.co.uk.



FOLK MUSIC NEWS FROM SUSSEX

FOLK AT THE ROYAL OAK
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.uk/~tinvic  and

http://www.myspace.com/royaloakfolklewes

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/royaloakfolklewes
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/folk
This site all always kept updated with the latest events.
***********
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
**********
THE FOLK DIARY ON LINE
THE FOLK DIARY is available on-line at
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~tinvic/fd.htm You will need Adobe ACROBAT
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.org/LAFC/workshps.html or contact Valmai
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.org/LAFC/Sessions.php
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.uk/~tinvic/pistols.htm and they have a MYSPACE profile as well athttp://www.myspace.com/thesussexpistols



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Fairport Convention: 2 new CDs, acoustic tour, and Cropredy bill

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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 Sandy.

 

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).

 

Reviews of these two CDs will follow in due course. 

Fairport 'Acoustic' Convention UK Tour 2009

 

May 1

Dartford

Mick Jagger Centre

01322 291100

May 2

Margate

West Coast Bar

07967 028844

May 3

Hailsham

Hailsham Pavilion

01323 841414

May 5

South Petherton

David's Hall Arts Ctre

01460 240340

May 6

Dartington

Ariel Centre

01803 847070

May 7

Southampton

Talking Heads

02380 678446

May 8

Lichfield

Arts Centre

01543 262223

May 9

Colchester

Arts Centre

01206 500900

May 10

Cromer

Folk on the Pier

01263 512495

May 11

Portsmouth

New Theatre Royal

02392 649000 

May 14

Dublin

Whelan's

00353 1 4780 766

May 15

Chesterfield

Alexanders

01244 340005

May 16

Alnwick

The Playhouse

01665 510785

May 17

Boston

Blackfriars Theatre

01205 363108

May 18

Nettlebed

The Folk Club

01628 636620

May 19

Swindon

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

Leamington Spa

The Assembly

01926 523001

May 24

Haddenham

Arkenstall Village Ctre

01353 740999

May 25

Shrewsbury

West Mids Showground Music Events

0845 050 8252

May 26

Leek

The Swan

01538 385260

May 27

Stirling

Stirling Folk Club

01259 218521

May 28

Bromsgrove

The Folk Club

0121 476 5938

May 29

York

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.

 


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