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Next Season
Well we finished off this years program with a great Futureproof last Sunday. Read more
St Andrews Day Suggestions?
I'm currently putting the finishing touches to the Autumn program and I still haven't filled the 29th November, which just happens to be St Andrews day. Read more
Sammy's Bar
Here's the rather strange and beguiling version of Cyril Tawny's classic "Sammy's Bar" that Kevin was talking about at the club last night. Read more
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Two of the finest voices in folk team up for a powerhouse evening of traditional song. |
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Dana and Susan are two of the most spellbinding performers around. Self-penned and traditional songs are woven into a sound of shimmering beauty accompanied with guitar, fiddle and banjo. |
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Perhaps the finest songwriter of his generation, Robb's songs of the personal and the political are at once moving, inspiring and intensely entertaining. |
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California born Hunter is establishing a name as one of the finest clawhammer banjo players to have emerged in recent years.
"Songs for the Masses is for neither the masses nor the timid. But if you're up for a walk through the lonesome valley that stretches across the moonless landscape of the old, weird America, Robertson will show you the way." ~ Jerome Clarke for Rambles.Net |
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Bill Caddick is one of the great underrated English songmakers, crafting sensitive songs which seem to be both timeless and of their time. |
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Reuben's Train are a duo performing mostly American songs, some traditional and some not so traditional, from the darker side of life.
Once seen, never forgotten. |
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With the release of their debut album "The Awkward Recruit" Mawkin:Causley have firmly established what we all already knew - they are the most fearsome band on the folk scene today.
You have nothing better to do this evening. |
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Dan Quinn, Ian Kearey and Adam Bushell team up for an evening of superb and rather eccentric musicianship. Includes phonofiddle! |
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A fine singer songwriter.
"Pete is everything we want our singer-songwriters to be. Fiercely creative, proudly independent, skilful, talented, and, further reinforced by the evidence of Casa Abierta, terminally unpredictable." ~ Alan Rose, Tykes News. |
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The mouthwatering combination of singer Maggie Boyle, guitarist Dick Baker and the incendiary fiddle playing of Ben Paley is something not to be missed.
A real folk supergroup! |
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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.
"Simply fantastic traditional music - look out, England - the sisters of stomp are heading your way!" - James Fagan and Nancy Kerr |
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Will Kaufman's Woody Guthrie: Hard Times and Hard Travellin', is a captivating '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.
Altogether the show highlights the blending of music and radical politics that marks Guthrie's most powerful work. |
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A St Andrews Day special. Fraser Nimmo is a singer/songwriter who mixes Scottish traditional material freely with his own songs.
You may also have seen him supporting Fairport Convention on many occasions.
"He radiates good humour" ~ Marlo Rellch, The Scotsman |
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