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EFDSS News: New concert series at Cecil Sharp House

New concert series at Cecil Sharp House

by Alex 6 January 2012 Music News

Several unique concerts are in the latest programme for the Spring/Summer season at the home of folk music, Cecil Sharp House in London!

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Karen Tweed - Essentially Invisible to the Eye

Karen Tweed – Essentially Invisible to the Eye

by Alex 4 January 2012 Music News

Essentially Invisible to the Eye is possibly Karen’s most emotive work to date and will be toured in its entirety in 2012.

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Frome Folk Festival

Chris Wood to join headliners at first ever Frome Folk Festival

by Alex 6 December 2011 Festivals

Multi award winning Chris Wood has been confirmed for England’s newest folk festival to be held at Frome in Somerset next February.

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Commonplace: A Chris Wood and Karine Polwart co-curated Event

Commonplace: A Chris Wood and Karine Polwart co-curated Event (plus audio interview)

by Alex 8 February 2011 Music News

Commonplace: In this uniquely curated event from Chris Wood the English folk tradition is explored, and the stuff of everyday life that informs it. He is joined in this unofficial celebration of the ordinary by John Boden and the Remnant Kings Martin Carthy, Karine Polwart, Hugh Lupton and many others. Also listen to the kings place interview with Chris.

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Folk Against Fascism Vol 1

by Neil McFadyen 21 June 2010 Reviews

Music has been used to spread messages; political, romantic, historical, for hundreds, probably thousands of years. It’s an effective medium and the musical traditions we’re so proud of owe their very existence to this fact. The trouble is, of course, that almost any message is open to interpretation. This CD, and the Folk Against Fascism [...]

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Andy Cutting – Andy Cutting

by Neil McFadyen 7 June 2010 Reviews

Andy Cutting is much in demand, and has been for some time, even more so since he won the BBC Radio 2 Folk Musician of the Year award in 2008. At last, though, he’s found time to put together a CD in his own name. This first release on Lane Records from Derby is available [...]

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Imagined Village – Empire and Love (plus free download)

by Alex 4 February 2010 Downloads

To the opening strains of Sheema Mukerjhee’s sitar joined by Mr Carthy’s trademark guitar the Imagined Village cross fertilisation of different cultures continues apace with a clever re-interpretation of the ballad “My Son John” utilising a more chilling, modern ‘take’ on the song’s powerful anti-war

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