Best of the Rest of the UK - November 2000
Fri 3rd Huw & Tony Williams
http://members.aol.com/tcsprodns/
Westhoughton Folk Club Bolton
"Huw & Tony Williams must now have the widest repertoire
of any duo playing today. Well-crafted songs, prepared with
humour and verve, and startlingly brilliant instrumental technique.
They are the best live act in the country." Western Mail
Sat 4th Oysterband
http://www.oysterband.co.uk/
The Zodiac, Oxford
Touring the UK prmoting their 2-CD "Best Of...." collection
'Granite Years' (Cooking Vinyl).
Mon 6th Peter Bruntnell
http://www.rykodisc.com/Catalog/dump/rykoalbums_1031.asp
The Greys, Brighton
His current album 'Normal for Bridgwater', is described by
Music Week as a "fine collection of songs. With more than
a trace of Jimmy Webb and Glen Campbell evident, this
album stakes its place in the countrified rock canon... it should
not be much longer before Bruntnell finds a wider audience."
Tue 7th Croabh Rua
http://www.futuris.net/linen/feature/68craobh.html
Leigh on Sea
(Pronounced Creeve Rua and meaning 'red branch') "with quiet
whimsy, slight bewilderment, and excellent musicianship, Craobh
Rua are making their place in Celtic music. After just two years
of touring, they are one of the most in-demand Irish groups in
folk circles in America. They've been called "the ultimate seisun
band," and the group accepts that for the compliment that it is."
Dirty Linen
Fri 10th Dick Gaughan
http://www.dickalba.demon.co.uk/main.htm
Lichfield Centre
Fri 10th Niamh Parsons
http://www.pressproms.demon.co.uk/page9.html
Westhoughton Folk Club
Thur 16th Old Blind Dogs
http://members.xoom.com/OldBlindDogs
Lemon Tree Arts Centre,Aberdeen, Scotland
Fri 17th Woody Mann & John Renbourn
http://www.woodymann.com &
http://www.johnrenbourn.com/
Cambridge Folk Club 01223 262775
Top British guitarist and ex-Pentangle member paired with
renowned American guitarist Woody Mann, whose playing
Sing Out! describe as "dazzling and technically flawless finger
style guitar at its most listenable. Mann blurs the lines between
jazz, blues, classical, and world music creating his own sound
in the process....This is brilliant playing that demands to be
heard."
Mon 20th Harvey Andrews
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/haska/
Katie Fitzgerald's Stourbridge
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For a complete list of UK & European Festivals see the
Folk Roots
Magazine page.
Fri 24th - Sun 26th Fiddle 2000, Edinburgh, Scotland
http://www.netreal.co.uk/fiddle2000/
Details from: Stan Reeves, Adult Learning Project,
184 Dalry Rd, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH11 2EP.
Tel: (0131) 346 0977. Fax: (0131) 337 9316.
e-mail: scots_fiddle@lineone.net
Scotland's premier fiddle festival, now in its fifth year.
This year the programme focuses on the rich heritage of
Scotland’s North-East. First-rate concerts, masterclasses,
workshops, recitals and talks, in the perfect setting of
Edinburgh’s Assembly Rooms
Alasdair Fraser (with Paul Machlis on piano)
http://www.culburnie.com/artists/AlasdairFraser/profile.htm
Carmen Higgins
http://www.musicscotland.com/acatalog/MusicScotland_com_Carmen_Higgins__1097.html
Paul Anderson
http://www.celtic-routes.com/musFidS.htm
Catriona MacDonald
http://www.innotts.co.uk/~buck/cat_ian_web/cat_ian.html
John McCusker
http://www.rootsworld.com/temple/battlefield/johnmccusker.htm
and many others.
Fri 24th - Sun 26th Bedworth Folk Festival, Warwickshire
http://www.folkfax.net/folkday
Details from: Malc Gurnham, BFF2000, 22 Juliet Close,
Nuneaton, Warks, CV11 6NS. Tel: (024) 7634 5568.
e-mail: bff2000@folkfax.net
Now in its 22nd year and firmly established as by far the
biggest annual winter folk event in England.
Damien Barber
http://www.mobradshaw.cwc.net/
Les Barker
http://www.compulink.co.uk/~ackroyd/welcome.htm
Burdett, Simpson & Young
http://www.fyldefolk.freeserve.co.uk/fyldefolk/b.html
Pauline Cato & Tom McConville
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/obm/tom_p.htm
Johnny Collins
http://ds.dial.pipex.com/alan.j.hardy/JohnnyCollins/
Bob Walser
http://www.camsco.com/artists/bob_walser.html
Dave Webber & Anni Fentiman
http://freespace.virgin.net/daveandanni.music/
and many others - see links at http://www.folkfax.net/folkday
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Paul Castle pdcmusic@freeuk.com
Across the Pond @ http://www.folkmusic.about.com
NB Previous editions are archived in the Articles section at http://folkmusic.about.com/musicperform/folkmusic/library/weekly/mpreviss.htm
Wherever you're bound this month, have a great time.
Paul pdcmusic@freeuk.com
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