UK Festivals - June 2001
For a full list of May UK and European festivals
see the Folk Roots
site.
Fri 8th - Sun 10th Wimborne
Folk Festival, Dorset
Linda Wild, 32A Seaview Rd, Upton, Poole, Dorset, BH16 5NG.
Tel: 01202 672740. Email: lwildwimborne@zoomco.uk
Founded in 1980 and held in the shadow of the gracious 12th century
Minster Church of St Cuthburga, this annual event of Traditional Folk
Dance and Song has become the focal point for the largest gathering
of dance teams and musicians in the South of England. Now in it's
twenty first year, the festival is held in the town centre streets and has
it's own very unique atmosphere, attracting many thousands of visitors
from all over the UK and from the rest of the world.
see details of concert artists.
Oysterband Big Session with..... John Jones, Alan Prosser,
Ian Telfer, Chopper, Lee, Cara Dillon, Sam Lakeman, James
O'Grady & Benji Kirkpatrick
http://www.oysterband.co.uk/
Flook
http://www.flook.co.uk
Clive Carroll & Maggie Boyle
http://www.clivecarroll.co.uk
http://www.bromyard.co.uk/ejones/files/verb003.htm
Drop the Box
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/dropthebox/
macAlias
http://www.stoneyport.demon.co.uk/bio/macaliasbio.html
The London Lasses & Pete Quinn
http://www.lobby.ie/profiles/londonlasses.html
The Alan Burke Band with Henry Sears & Alan Burton
http://www.shogem.demon.co.uk/alan/
Broderick
http://www.broderickonline.co.uk
Steve Tilston
http://www.steve-tilston.co.uk/
Colvin & Quarmby
http://www.btinternet.com/~derek.rutherford/index_old.htm
Dalta
http://www.dalta.com/
Alistair Russell
http://home.clara.net/soundout/
The Bismarcks
http://www..fortunecity.com/tinpan/hifi/215/index.html
The RBB Band
http://www.welcome.to/RBB
Clive Cunningham & Peter Minkey
http://www.fantasiamusic.co.uk/ceilidh/dancingl.html
+ Over 65 Traditional Dance teams from the UK, USA & France
Fri 8th - Sun 10th Clitheroe Great
Days Festival, Lancs.
Steve Ragnall, PO Box 33, Clitheroe, Lancs, BB1 1GP.
Tel: 01200 425316. Email: info@great-days.co.uk
A weekend of music, dance and street theatre at venues in Clitheroe,
Lancashire
The Old Rope String Band
http://www.adastey.demon.co.uk/Old_rope/index.htm
Rory MaCleod
http://www.adk93.dial.pipex.com
Bernard Wrigley
http://www.bernardwrigley.com
Blazing Homesteads
http://www.bhomesteads.freeserve.co.uk/
Jez Lowe & The Bad Pennies
http://www.jezlowe.com
and many more
Fri 8th - Sun 10th Stamford
Folk & Blues Guitar Festival, Lincs.
David Popple, Stamford Arts Centre, 27 St Marys St, Stamford,
Lincs, PE9 2DL. Tel: 01780 763203. Fax: 01780 766690.
Email: boxoffice@stamfordartscentre.com
(All the guitarists will be leading at least one workshop during the
weekend)
Tony McManus
http://www.onqueueartists..com/mcmanus/
Mike Cooper
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/cooparia/
Roy Book Binder
http://www.roybookbinder.com
Woody Mann
http://www.woodymann.com
Bob Brozman
http://www.bobbrozman.com
Emily Druce
http://www.mnblues.com/cdreview/emilydruce-gb.html
Fri 15th - Sun 17th Beverley &
East Riding Folk Festival,
East Yorkshire. Chris Wade, 2 Star Row, North Dalton, Driffield,
E Yorks, YO25 9UR. Tel: 01377217569. Fax: 01377 217754.
Email: chris@adastey.demon.co.uk
Beverley is an historic market town situated some 5 miles north of Hull.
Its narrow streets broaden into a real market square bounded with
buildings typical of an old Yorkshire town. There are many attractions
around the town besides the Folk Festival including the gothic minster
founded in the eighth century, the Museum of Army Transport, the
racecourse, a plethera of excellent pubs and beautiful surrounding
countryside. During the festival weekend many of the pubs host various
sessions and street performances including morris dancers, magicians,
comedians, children's entertainers and mummers entertain locals and
visitors alike.
Jacqui Dankworth & The Passion
http://www.northernlight.dk/artists/jacqueline_dankworth.htm
Billy Bragg & the Blokes
http://www.billybragg.co.uk/
Salsa Celtica
http://www.netreal.co.uk/salsaceltica/
The New House Band
http://www.houseband.org
Bill Jones
http://www.brickwallmusic.com
Martin Carthy
http://www.folkicons.co.uk/wcart.htm
Jackie Leven
http://www.saghaug.com/leven/
Martin Simpson
http://www.martinsimpson.com
Flook
http://www.flook.co.uk
Les Barker
http://www.compulink.co.uk/~ackroyd/welcome.htm
Black Umfolosi
http://www.artsworldwide.org.uk/touring_artists.html
Robin Williamson
http://www.pigswhisker.com/
Bernard Wrigley
http://www.bernardwrigley.com
Nancy Kerr & James Fagan
http://www.sarcon.demon.co.uk/engfolk/s_n_kerr.htm
Mambo Jambo
http://www.soton.ac.uk/~oms/
Sam Pirt
http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/gpirt/sam.html
Elle Osbourne
http://www.elleo.com
Merry-May Gill
http://www.merrimaygill.com/
Doghouse Skiffle Group
http://www.skiffledogs.co.uk/
and others
Wed 20th - Sat 23rd Tommy Makem International
Festival of
Song South Armagh, Ireland
Forget your cares and worries and immerse yourself in the laughter, the
music, the culture, the hospitality and good camaraderie, and what the
natives call "the great craic!" The Festival invites the song people
of the
world to gather around the Slieve Gullion in South Armagh, heartland
of Irish myth and legend, for the second annual event in June 2001.
Named in honor of the area's most famous musical son, it will involve
a week of lectures, sharing of ideas, singing and presentation of old
and new songs and will work toward a further understanding of the
dynamics of the song tradition and its universal centrality in the cultures
of the world. The whole area of South Armagh is a unique place of
outstanding natural beauty.
Lectures and workshops:
Tom Sweeney - Aspects of Folk song
http://www.tomsweeney-irishmusic.com/
David Hammond - Ti Chulainn
http://www.slowriver.com/tradition/trcat052.html
Tommy Sands - Irish Song and Eastern Europe today
http://imovie.com/showcase/contemporary/tommysands.html
Tommy Makem - My fifty years of singing
http://makem.com/
plus spontaneous sessions of song, music, poetry and storytelling -
local area tours - songswaps - story telling and humorous verse from
South Armagh - Ancient Celtic Banquet in the Slieve Gullion -
Courtyard Commemoration of the deceased song people of Ulster
and the Oriel - with Tommy Makem, Makem Bros
and artists.
Tommy Makem Golden Jubilee Concert with Tommy and Special
guests.
Fri 29 - Sun 1 July Crawley Folk Festival,
W Sussex.
Liz Hart, The Hawth, Hawth Ave, Crawley, W Sussex, RH10 6YZ.
Tel: 01293 552941. Fax: 01293 533362. Email: info@hawth.co.uk
A weekend of traditional and contemporary folk and roots from Britain,
Ireland and America. Over 50 artists on five stages in a weekend of
great music and dance - workshops, a dance stage, a CAMRA
marquee, free camping, stalls selling everything from cds to jewellery
and clothing together make for that special festival atmosphere.
Popa Chubby
http://www.popachubby.com/
Norma Waterson & Martin Carthy
http://www.folkicons.co.uk/wcart.htm
Burach
http://www.stoneyport.demon.co.uk/bio/burachbio.html
Flook
http://www.flook.co.uk
Tarras
http://harp.rounder.com/rounder/artists/tarras/profile.html
Blyth Power
http://www.mono.org/~cabbage/blyth.html
Hackney Ramblers
http://www.swampmusic.demon.co.uk/Hackney%20Ramblers.htm
ThingumaJig with John Kirkpatrick
http://www.hobgoblin.com/thingumajig/
Connie Lush & Blues Shouter
http://www.btinternet.com/~connie.lush/contents.htm
John Kirkpatrick
http://www.musicwords.nl/kirkpatrick.eng.htm
Ben Paley & Tab Hunter
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~tinvic/pistols.htm
Roy Bailey
http://www.stirrings.co.uk/folkzone/artistes/roybailey/
East of Ealing
http://www.eastofealing.fsnet.co.uk/
Zydecomotion
http://www.swampmusic.demon.co.uk/zc%20intro%20and%20list.htm
Maggie Boyle & Clive Carroll
http://www.bromyard.co.uk/ejones/files/verb003.htm
http://www.clivecarroll.co.uk
Croft No.5
http://www.tartantapes.com/croft.html
The Rocky Mountain Ploughboys
http://www.ploughboys.co.uk/
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/2819/index.html
Sussex Folk Orchestra
http://www.sussexfolk.freeserve.co.uk/
Bill Jones
http://www.brickwallmusic.com
The Hot Tamales
http://www.leeron.com/blvdone..html
and many more
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Paul Castle pdcmusic@freeuk.com
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