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March 2019
Luke Daniels
The composer, songwriter, guitarist and virtuoso melodeon player will be performing in ……….location ……….with renditions of Bach, traditional jigs and reels, folk songs and his signature c1880 polyphon machine. A restored Victorian music machine that provides his unique accompaniments to tunes like The Cumberland Reel and or classic folk songs such as Canadee IO. Originally from Oxfordshire, though now Glasgow-based this folk singer, producer and multi-instrumentalist was featured in fRoots magazine’s pick of 2018 whilst his acoustic songs were described…
CLAUDE BOURBON -Medieval & Spanish blues Guitar & Songs
Medieval & Spanish blues Guitar & Songs Ready for a unique and talented take on a wide range of musical traditions? Claude Bourbon is known throughout Europe and America for amazing guitar performances that take blues, Spanish, and Middle Eastern stylings into uncharted territories. Claude’s inimitable style incorporates all five digits on each hand dancing independently but in unison, plucking, picking and strumming at such speed and precision that his fingers often seem to melt into a blur. Thousands of…
April 2019
SALT HOUSE
A gentle, lulling delight.” – The Guardian Salt House is Jenny Sturgeon, Ewan MacPherson and Lauren MacColl. Their album Undersong has been praised by folk bible fRoots for bringing “startling freshness” to the British song tradition. Songs are central to Salt House. New songs that sound as if they’ve always been here. Ancient ballads woken up. Poems given the tunes they’ve long deserved. Songs about place, politics, landscape and birds. Singer, guitarist and harmonium player Jenny has a PHD in…
May 2019
Birkett & Fisk play Venuti & Lang
Emma Fisk – Violin James Birkett – Guitar The names of Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli are familiar to many as pioneers of all-string jazz. Less universally known are the names Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang, the Italian-American duo who played hot violin and guitar jazz in the 1920s and 30s. Joe Venuti has been referred to as ‘the father of jazz violin’, while his musical partner Eddie Lang is widely regarded as the first jazz guitar virtuoso. Bringing together…
June 2019
September 2019
Westward the Light
Westward The Light is a remarkable new band, a collaboration between piano/fiddle duo Charlie Grey and Joseph Peach (BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award Finalists 2017), fiddle and viola player Sally Simpson (Catriona Hawksworth and Sally Simpson, Heisk), and guitarist and vocalist Owen Sinclair (Tanara, Inyal). This band is the result of years of collaboration in a range of settings. Westward The Light a vessel for the members of the group to bring together an expansive knowledge of Scottish Folk…
October 2019
GNOSS
GNOSS Biography A dynamic quartet of fiddle, flute, guitar and percussion, Gnoss tackle energetic tune sets and driving folk song with a “maturity of ability many of a greater age will envy” (The Living Tradition). Current and former students at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Graham Rorie, Aidan Moodie, Connor Sinclair and Craig Baxter have been tipped as “ones to watch” by Songlines magazine, for their lively, engaging and honest performances. The band originally formed in 2015, as a duo…