UK Festivals - May 2001
For a full list of May UK and European
festivals see the Folk
Roots site.
Fri 4th - Sun 6th Girvan Folk Festival,
Ayrshire, Scotland
Info: Maggie Macrae Tel: 01560 321102. Accommodation info,
advance tickets and festival shop: Robert Jardine, Westcliffe Hotel,
Louisa Drive, Girvan, Scotland.
Email: seaayr@ntlworld.com
One of the friendliest and most popular Folk Music festivals in
Scotland. Girvan is a small Scottish fishing town in South Ayrshire,
60 miles south of Glasgow. It nestles snuggly in the hills around the
mouth of the river Girvan commanding a view of Ailsa Craig, Arran,
and the Mull of Kintyre. The folk festival takes place around the
harbour and upper area of the town, the venues all within easy
strolling distance of one another, in some cases just a matter of yards.
Blazing Fiddles
http://www.blazin-fiddles.co.uk/
Sid Kipper
http://www.adastey.demon.co.uk/kipper/index.htm
Kieran Halpin
http://www.kieranhalpin.com/
Brian Peters and Gordon Tyrell
http://www.rootsworld.com/harbourtown/peters.html
Blackeyed Biddy
http://www.scottish-irish.com/html/813.html
Sara Grey
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/SaraGrey/
John Watt
http://www.scottish-irish.com/html/2229.html
Wendy Welch
http://www.scottishsongandstory.co.uk/index.htm
Jack Beck
http://www.thetraditionbearers.com/htmfiles/singers.htm
Chris Miles and Gordeanna McCulloch
http://members.tripod.co.uk/chris_miles/
Hatrick
http://www.scottishfolkdirectory.com/category.asp?code=1100
and others
Fri 4th - Mon 7th Wath-Upon-Dearne
Festival 2001,
South Yorkshire. Festival hotline 01709 877269
Email to ragwells@btinternet.com
Concerts / Singarounds / Ceilidhs / Morris Dancing /
Sword Dancing / Children's Events
Lindisfarne
http://www.lindisfarne.de/
Tom Robinson
http://www.tomrobinson.com/
Winter Wilson
http://www.winterwilson.com/
Ray Hearne
http://fp.nomasters.plus.com/ray_hearne_details.htm
Burach
http://www.stoneyport.demon.co.uk/bio/burachbio.html
Robin Garside
http://www.robin-garside.freeserve.co.uk/
Ruth and Gary Wells
http://www.neckit.co.uk/realukmusic/artists/folk/localartists/RandGWells.htm
Angel Brothers & Satnam Singh
http://www.angelsingh.co.uk
Plus more to be confirmed
Fri 5th - Sun 7th Holmfirth Folk
Festival, Holmfirth, West Yorkshire
Details from: Linda Rice, 230 Dunford Rd, Holmfirth,West Yorkshire,
HD7 1DU. Tel: (01484) 686792. Fax: (01484) 684049.
e-mail: Linda@riceholm.demon.co.uk
Holmfirth Folk Festival has been an annual event since May 1978.
The Holme Valley with its moors, mills and the picturesque town
of Holmfirth, famous for weavers cottages, interesting alleys and
ginnels and the UK TV show 'The Last of the Summer Wine',
provide an ideal setting for the celebration of music and traditional
dance.
Kate Rusby
http://www.purerecords.demon..co.uk/
The Zulu Nation (South Africa)
http://www.zulunation.com
Whapweasel
http://www.whapweasel.com/
Doonan Family Band
http://www.doonanfamilyband.co..uk
Roy Bailey
http://www.stirrings.co.uk/folkzone/artistes/roybailey/
Tanglefoot (Canada)
http://www.tanglefootmusic.com
Barachois
http://www.barachois.com
Tom Lewis (Canada)
http://gamgee.acad.emich..edu/~tomlewis/
Martyn Wynham Read & Friends
http://www.folkmusic.net/htmfiles/inart366.htm
Colonel Custard
http://www.cshore.fsnet.co.uk/actlist2.html
and many more
Fri 11th -13th Folk
On The Pier, Cromer, Norfolk
Scott Butler, The Box Office, Pavilion Theatre, Cromer, N Norfolk,
NR27 9HE. Tel: 01263 512495. Fax: 01263 515113.
Email: media@north-norfolk.gov.uk
Cromer's famous Pavilion Theatre will be hosting the third and
most ambitious of its 'Folk on the Pier' folk and acoustic roots
music showcases - with extra acts, a more varied line-up and the
addition of a real ale bar and club marquee, as well as extra free
workshops and events.
Harvey Andrews
http://www.HarveyAndrews.com
Tickled Pink
http://www.geocities.com/tickled_pink_uk/
Shep Woolley
http://www.amsunews.demon.co.uk/
Shave the Monkey
http://www.shavethemonkey.net/
Bill Jones
http://www.brickwallmusic.com
Partners in Crime (Sid Kipper and Dave Burland)
http://www.adastey.demon.co.uk/kipper/
Shooglenifty
http://www.shoogle.com/
Barachois
http://www.barachois.com
annA rydeR
http://www.rowdymusic.net/
Band of Two (Pete Fyfe and Gary Blakeley of the Tabs)
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~pdcs/bandoftw.htm
Alan Burke
http://www.shogem.demon.co.uk/alan/
Steeleye Span
http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/steeleye.span/
Cromer Smugglers
http://www.cromer19.freeserve.co.uk/CromerSmugglers/page3.html
Xim
http://www.xim.org.uk
Fri 25th - Mon 28th Orkney
Folk Festival
Details from: PO Box 4, Stromness, Orkney, Scotland,
KW16 3BJ. Tel: (01856) 851331. Fax: (01856) 851636
e-mail: orkneyfolkfestival@btinternet.com
A celebration of traditional and contemporary folk music, dance,
song, stories and much more. Taking place over four days in
May each year, the festival, now in its 19th year, has grown to
become one of the highlights of the Orkney calendar.
Dick Gaughan
http://www.dickalba.demon.co.uk/main.htm
Brian McNeill
http://www.b-mcneill.demon.co.uk/Brian_McNeill_Biography.html
Flook
http://www.flook.co.uk
Stravaig
http://www.foodsafe.freeserve.co.uk/Personal/Solutionspersonal/Strav.htm
Martin Curtis
http://www.folkwales.org..uk/martin.html
Rory McLeod & Aimee Leonard
http://www.adk93.dial.pipex.com
Last Night's Fun
http://www.skd.ndirect.co..uk/sherbart/
Colin Reid Trio
http://www.stoneyport.demon.co.uk/bio/reidbio.html
Wrigley Sisters
http://www.orknet.co.uk/wrigley/
John Watt
http://www.scottish-irish.com/html/2229.html
Jack Beck
http://www.thetraditionbearers.com/htmfiles/singers.htm
Daimh
http://www.daimh.com/
Malinky
http://www.musicscotland.com/acatalog/MusicScotland_com_Malinky_293.html
Fri 25 - Mon 28 Chippenham
Folk Festival, Wiltshire
Details from: Folk Festival Office, The Bridge Centre,
Chippenham, Wilts, SN15 2AA. Tel: (01249) 657190.
e-mail: chippfolk@aol.com
Chippenham is a small market town on the banks of the river
Avon in rural Wiltshire, England. The Folk Festival is now in its
30th successful year. Although it has seen many changes since its
beginnings in Lacock all those years ago, it still retains its 'village'
atmosphere, providing three and a half days packed with song,
dance, workshops and dance displays.
Bayou Seco
http://www.cantos.org/bayouseco/home.html
Bill Jones
http://www.brickwallmusic.com
Chris Bartram & Keith Holloway
http://www.chris-bartram.co.uk/bahindex.htm
Crasdant
http://www.users.bigpond.com/johnbs/HardYacka/crasdant.htm
Cross 'o' the Hands
http://www.folkspace.free-online.co.uk/coth/cothwelcome.htm
Debby McClatchy
http://www.geocities.com/cecily_jello/debbymcclatchy/default.htm
Dr Faustus
http://www.appledore-music.co.uk/drf.html
Folkwise (Jeff Dennison & Benny Graham)
http://www.folkwise.co.uk/
Grand Acoustic Roadshow (Maggie Boyle, Clive Carroll,
Tom McConville & PaulineCato)
http://www.tomcatmusic.com
His Worship & The Pig
http://www.hisworshipandthepig.co.uk
Hoover the Dog
http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/trg/focsle/hoover.htm
Johnny Collins
http://ds.dial.pipex.com/alan.j.hardy/JohnnyCollins/
Keith Kendrick & Lynne Heraud
http://www.eyup.freeuk.com/
Magpie Lane
http://homepages.tesco.net/~andy.auds/magpielane.htm
Notts Alliance / Sid Long
http://www.flaxfield.demon.co.uk/
Pete Watkinson
http://www.users.waitrose.com/~pjntrish/
Steve Jordan
http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/trg/SCoFF/stevepub.htm
Steve Morris
http://mickweb.com/morrisminor/
Strawhead
http://listen.to/strawhead
Tanglefoot
http://www.tanglefootmusic.com
Tom Lewis
http://gamgee.acad.emich..edu/~tomlewis/
and many more
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Paul Castle pdcmusic@freeuk.com
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