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Video Special: Shrewsbury Folk Festival 2010 Highlights

by Alex 18 January 2011 Uncategorized

The following videos are from the Shrewsbury Folk Festival 2010 which featured a host of names I’m sure many of you are familar with including Bellowhead, Dervish and Andy Irvine, Genticorum, Nancy Kerr and James Fagan, Boo Hewerdine and Heidi Talbot to name just a few.

Folk Gigs: What’s On Tues 18th – Sun 30th Jan

by Alex 17 January 2011 Uncategorized

Live Folk Gigs and event highlights coming up over the next fortnight include: John Kirkpatrick, The Long Notes, Madison Violet, Fay Hield Trio (sam Sweeney & Rob Harbron), Phil Beer And The Bully Wee Band, O’ Hooley & Tidow

Mànran – Help Get Their Gaelic Song in the UK Top 40

by Alex 17 January 2011 Uncategorized

Help Mànran to become the first band in the 21st century to take a Gaelic song into the official UK top 40. Download it today from itunes!

Album Review: The Outside Track – Curious Things Given Wings

by Alex 17 January 2011 Uncategorized

There is no doubt that The Outside Track’s latest release has proven that they are not only fine exponents of their musical traditions but that they are fine musicians who can enthuse and bring those traditions to a wider audience!

Album Review: Malcolm Holcombe – To Drink the Rain

by Alex 14 January 2011 Uncategorized

Malcolm Holcombe’s latest album, To Drink the Drain, transports you back to the likes of Townes Van Zandt. His voice has been drenched and intoxicated by an eventful and self-destructive life but his courage has saved him. He’s back and he’ll be touring the UK in March!

Chepstow Wassail & Mari Lwyd – Saturday, 15th January

by Alex 14 January 2011 Uncategorized

This Saturday, 15th January, sees the return to Chepstow of the annual Wassail & Mari Lwyd. This unique annual event is arranged by that hellrasing border morris side known as The Widders.

Album Review: Kevin Welch – A Patch of Blue Sky

by Alex 13 January 2011 Uncategorized

Kevin Welch proves again on his long awaited solo album, A Patch of Blue Sky, that he still has that great gift of songwriting that first set him off on his career way back in 1978 writing for the likes of Johnny Cash and Linda Ronstadt.

A taster of what we’ve been playing

by Alex 13 January 2011 Uncategorized

As many of you know I occasionally offer up a full day’s playlist to give you a flavour of what I’m playing. The following playlist is just a taster of the type of artists we are currently playing which ranges from Tradtional Folk and Celtic music and a sprinkling of America Roots.

Save ‘Folkwaves’ on BBC Radio Derby

by Alex 12 January 2011 Uncategorized

Folkwaves has been presented for the last 25 years by Mick Peat and Lester Simpson, and is Derbyshire and the East Midlands’ premier folk programme. So why the bloody hell is the BBC axing it? Lunacy? Or maybe they thought it would be a quiet sacrifice? Time to make your voice heard!:

Down the Lawson Track at Cecil Sharp House – 26 January

by Alex 12 January 2011 Uncategorized

In celebration of Australia Day EFDSS is to present a very special performance of Down the Lawson Track featuring Martyn Wyndham-Read, Shirley Collins, Pip Barnes, Jackie Oates and more!

The 12th Jimmy McHugh Memorial Concert – 15th January, Glasgow

by Alex 12 January 2011 Uncategorized

In January each year many of Ireland’s, and the world’s top traditional musicians travel to Glasgow to pay tribute to the late Jimmy McHugh who passed away in January 1999. By all accounts, and I’m told this on good authority, the post concert sessions are some of the best around

Jackie Oates to play song requests during tour

by Alex 11 January 2011 Uncategorized

Jackie Oates along with her full band head out on tour in in March 2011 and as a special treat for fans she will be playing one song request each night. Jackie will announce the winning request from the stage each night!

Will Jinxed ‘All Along the Wall’ Show take ‘curse’ back to Glasgow?!

by Alex 10 January 2011 Uncategorized

A specially commissioned, star-studded song and poetry show celebrating one of the Roman Empire’s most incredible engineering feats will finally receive its first major performance this month when All Along the Wall heads to Scotland for Celtic Connections, but will the curse follow?

The Bothy Band (video from 1976)

by Alex 10 January 2011 Uncategorized

You only need to read through The Bothy Band history to realise how big they were. All the names are world famous now and there is no escaping that they changed the face of irish traditional music forever.

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