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WATCHETLIVE C.I.C, the organisers of WATCHETLIVE FESTIVAL have announced the final headliner for their 10th Birthday Party across Bank Holiday 2016, and it’s a blinder! Former Glastonbury Festival headliners, Levellers will close the festival in their own imitable style. Drawing from their extensive back catalogue of over twenty chart hits, including What A Beautiful Day,… Read more »
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It was Bob Dylan’s 75th birthday on May 24th and, fashionably late, there’ll be a special tribute concert at next month’s 10th Gate To Southwell Festival on Saturday June 11th. Backed by a fantastic festival band, led by Jim Moray of False Lights, there’ll be special guest performances of Dylan classics by Steve Knightley, Jackie… Read more »
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Like many a British musician before him, Billy Bragg, bard of Barking, singer songwriter, political activist, and musical historian has made no secret of his obsession with the songs and the mythology of the Americas, not least those of his artistic and philosophical forebear Woody Guthrie. With his friend and collaborator, US singer songwriter Joe… Read more »
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There’ll be an explosive start to the Gate To Southwell festival on Thursday June 9th. To celebrate the tenth birthday of the Midlands’ premier acoustic and roots event, there’s an evening of great music plus a firework display at the site near Southwell Racecourse. The fireworks, and free buses between Southwell and the festival site,… Read more »
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The beast that was Bellowhead has been laid to rest with a celebratory final tour – although don’t be surprised if there are one off performances and a reunion tour à la Take That somewhere down the line. The various members of the band will all be gearing up for new pastures, whether solo or… Read more »
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Formed in 1997 by fiddle player and arranger Joe Broughton (The Urban Folk Quartet, The Albion Band, Joss Stone), their energetic live sets are a sight to behold, featuring a 15-piece horn section, five cello players, four percussionists and three electric guitarists, plus fiddles, flutes, clarinets, double bass, even a harp! They also all sing… Read more »
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fRoots magazine is one of those publications that we tend to take for granted, for 37 years it has been THE independent resource for the folk, roots and world music communities. Whilst other magazines have come and gone in an increasingly squeezed marketplace, fRoots has weathered many storms. There is no publishing conglomerate behind the… Read more »
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The BBC has the full Folk Awards 2016 show on their iPlayer for you to catch up on all of the awards, speeches and music from the night. bbc.co.uk/iplayer BBC Radio @ Folk Awards 2016 winners: Best Duo – Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman Musician of the Year – Andy Cutting Horizon Award – Sam… Read more »
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Nick Burbridge and Tim Cotterell’s last project – Gathered – received inspired reviews, and gained Nick the 2013 Spiral Earth Best Songwriter Award. It also found its way onto the AQA A Level Communication and Culture syllabus, the frontispiece of a book on Barthes, and formed the basis of an academic lecture at the University… Read more »
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Folk legend Peter Knight has been announced for East Anglia’s fast-rising festival FolkEast which returns to Suffolk for a fifth year this August. The three day festival takes place at Glemham Hall, between August 19-21. Few fiddlers can hold a candle to the iconic Knight whose presence has enriched the British music scene for more… Read more »
