UK Festivals
For a full list of UK and European festivals see the Folk Roots site
Thur 5th - Sun 8th Larmer
Tree Music Festival
Tollard Royal, nr Salisbury, Wilts. Julia Safe, PO Box 1790,
Salisbury, Wilts, SP1 3WR.
Tel: 01722 415223. Fax: 01722 413670.
Email: info@larmertree.demon.co.uk
Described by Andrew Cleal in Folk Roots Magazine as "the most beautiful festival venue in the UK", the Festival (the 11th) is held in the idyllic Larmer Tree Victorian Pleasure Gardens in the heart of the remote and beautiful Cranborne Chase, on the Wiltshire/Dorset border . Music from all around the world on 4 stages in 11 acres of laid back gardens surrounded by eastern temples, peacocks and Nepalese pagodas. The grounds were laid out around the Larmer Tree in 1880 by the pioneering archaeologist General Pitt-Rivers and it soon became a favourite spot with many Victorians including Thomas Hardy who declared "this is the prettiest sight I ever saw in my life."
Van Morrison
http://www.harbour.sfu.ca/~hayward/van/
Robbie McIntosh & Gordon Haskell
http://www.robbiemcintosh.com/
Shooglenifty
http://www.shoogle.com/
Gjallarhorn (Sweden/Finland)
http://www.gjallarhorn.com/
Mystery Juice
http://www.mysteryjuice.co.uk/
Maroon Town
http://www.demon.co.uk/andys/maroon.html
Huckleberries
http://www.thehuckleberries.com
see http://www.larmertree.demon.co.uk/friday.html
for:
Le Cod Afrique
G-13
Bluprint Breeze
The Troubadours
Head to Head
The Bush the Tree and Me
http://www.thebushthetreeandme.com/
Justin Adams & the Wayward Sheikhs
http://www.justinadams.co.uk/
Cara Dillon
http://www.ghostland.co.uk/site/cara.html
Kangaroo Moon
http://www.kangaroomoon.com/
Kevin Brown & Moussa Kouyate (UK/Senegal)
http://moussaweb.speedroad.net/index.html
Thea Gilmore
http://www.theagilmore.com/
Imbongi with Albert Nyathi (Zimbabwe) http://www.harding54.fsnet.co.uk/Imbizo_Home/Albert_Sounds/albert_sounds.html
Rajan Spolia with Maninderpal Singh (India)
http://www.jazzservices.org.uk/band/bandr/RajanSpolia.htm
See http://www.larmertree.demon.co.uk/saturday.html
for
T & LaTouche (ex Edward II)
Keith Donnelly
Cantaloop
Mukka (Romania/UK)
The Amazing Pilots
Eric Bibb (USA)
http://www.ericbibb.com/
Nick Harper
http://www.nickharper.com
John Herald (USA)
http://www.shoeshine.co.uk/Rollon.htm
The Bap Kennedy Band
http://www.bapkennedy.com/
Bohinta (Eire)
http://www.ctmuk.com/bohinta/index.html
Zuba (Liberia/Spain/UK)
http://www.zuba.co.uk/
Pronghorn
http://www.pronghorn.co.uk/
Crispin Thomas
http://www.ctmuk.com/outtolunch/index.html
Out to Lunch
http://www.ctmuk.com/outtolunch/index.html
see http://www.larmertree.demon.co.uk/sunday.html
for
Batanai Marimba (Zimbabwe)
Mukka (Romania/UK)
Panelinha do Samba
Hardcore Fluff
Beltaine
Dubheart
Woman Wants Tall Man (Martin Ansell & Debbie Cassell)
Connie Lupino's Voodoo Kitchen Sound System
Earthrites
Fri 20th - Sun 22nd Customs
House International Guitar Festival
Mill Dam, South Shields, Tyne & Wear.
Dave Smith, The Customs House, Mill Dam, S Shields, NE33 1ES.
Tel: 0191 427 6207. Fax: 0191 427 6323.
Email: davesmithnem@cs.com
Bert Jansch (Scotland)
http://www.folklib.net/index/j/jansch_bert.shtml
Pierre Bensusan (France/Algeria)
http://www.pierrebensusan.com/
Martin Simpson (England)
http://www.martinsimpson.com
Clive Carroll (England)
http://www.clivecarroll.co.uk
Nick Harper (England)
http://www.nickharper.com
Big Jim Sullivan (England)
http://bigjimsullivan.com/
Bernie Torme
http://www.bernietorme.ision..co.uk/
Steve Phillips
http://www.mark-knopfler-news.co.uk/asarts.htm
Fri 20th -Sun 22nd Trowbridge
Village Pump Festival
Alan Briars, PO Box 984, Bath, Avon, BA1 6YH.
Tel: 01225 769132. Fax: 01225 769132.
Email: alan.briars@virgin.net
Trowbridge has a reputation as one of the best organised festivals in the country, with a unique atmosphere which is very special, drawing people back year after year. The festival site is one of the most picturesque settings in the country for an event of this type.
Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart's Mowlam Dub
http://www.30hertzrecords.com/jahwobbl.htm
All About Eve
http://www.julianneregan.net/aae/index.html
The Soweto String Quartet
http://www.cama.org.za/southafr/sowetost/
Mary Coughlan
http://www.cnotes..com/cnotes.artists/mary.html
Country Joe McDonald & Reet Petite and Gone
http://www.countryjoe.com/
Great Big Sea
http://www.greatbigsea.com/
Kila
http://www.kila.ie/www/home/index.html
Little Johnny England
http://www.shogem.demon.co.uk/lje/
Gjallarhorn
http://www.gjallarhorn.com/
Hans Theesink
http://www.inode.at/theessink/
Les Barker & the Mrs Ackroyd Band
http://www.compulink.co.uk/~ackroyd/welcome.htm
Hank Wangford & The Lost Cowboys
http://music.excite.com/artist/biography/-8554
Eh, La Bas!
http://hometown.aol.com/ehlabas1/
Artisan
http://www.artisan-harmony.com
Zydecomotion
http://www.swampmusic.demon.co.uk/zc%20intro%20and%20list.htm
This Way Up
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/thiswayup/
The Tango Band
http://www.otbproductions.demon.co.uk/tangoband/
The Black Cat Theory
http://www.simplenetuk.net/bct/
Broderick
http://www.broderickonline.co.uk
and others
Thur 26th - Sun 29th Cambridge
Folk Festival
Eddie Barcan, The Guildhall, Cambridge, CB2 3QJ
Tel: 01223 457515. Fax: 01223 457529
Email: eddie.barcan@cambridge.gov.uk
Levellers
http://www.levellers.co.uk/
Suzanne Vega (featuring Michael Visceglia)
http://www.vega.net/
Richard Thompson Band
http://www.amug.org/~deeg1225/
John Prine
http://www.jpshrine.org/index..html
Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings
http://www.billwyman.com/
Heaton & Rotheray
http://www.cam-folkfest.co.uk/?type=artists&code=90
Brian Kennedy
http://www.briankennedy.co.uk/
Capercaillie
http://www.capercaillie.co.uk/
Sharon Shannon & The Woodchoppers
http://www.compassrecords.com/shannon.htm
North Mississippi Allstars
http://www.nmsallstars.com/
The John Tams Band
http://www.topicrecords.co.uk/john_tams_topic_records.html
Carlos Núñez
http://www.cam-folkfest.co.uk/?type=artists&code=96
Show of Hands
http://www.showofhands.co.uk
Michael McGoldrick Band
http://www.compassrecords.com/mcgoldrick.htm
Kathryn Williams
http://www.cam-folkfest.co.uk/?type=artists&code=99
Rhonda Vincent & The Rage
http://www.cam-folkfest.co.uk/?type=artists&code=100
Peatbog Faeries
http://www.peatbog-faeries.com/
Slàinte Mhath
http://www.slaintemhath.com
The Campbell Brothers
http://www.campbellbrothers.com/
Black Umfolosi
http://www.artsworldwide.org.uk/touring_artists.html
Brian McNeill
http://www.b-mcneill.demon.co.uk/Brian_McNeill_Biography.html
Slaid Cleaves
http://www.slaid.com
Rock Salt & Nails
http://www.rock-salt-nails.com
Colin Reid
http://users.d-n-a.net/dnetXBgE/colinspage/main2.htm
Bill Jones
http://www.brickwallmusic.com
Wood
http://www.cam-folkfest.co.uk/?type=artists&code=110
North Cregg
http://www.cam-folkfest.co.uk/?type=artists&code=112
The Bush The Tree & Me
http://www.cam-folkfest.co.uk/?type=artists&code=113
Telephone Bill & The Smooth Operators
http://www.cam-folkfest.co.uk/?type=artists&code=114
Horace X
http://www2.prestel.co.uk/horacex/
The Posh Band
http://www.poshband.clara.net/
The Black Cat Theory
http://www.simplenetuk.net/bct/
Backyard Band
http://www.cam-folkfest.co.uk/?type=artists&code=126
Blazing Homesteads
http://www.bhomesteads.freeserve.co.uk/
Ricky Howlett
http://www.cam-folkfest.co.uk/?type=artists&code=124
Cara Dillon
http://www.cam-folkfest.co.uk/?type=artists&code=119
Buddy Mondlock
http://www.buddymondlock.com
Carol Elliott
http://www.carolelliott.com/
Jeb Loy Nichols
http://www.jebloynichols.com/
Alan Burton and Steve Hunt
http://www.cam-folkfest.co.uk/?type=artists&code=121
Jenny Crook and Henry Sears
http://www.cam-folkfest.co.uk/?type=artists&code=122
Fri 27th - Sun 29th Warwick Folk
Festival
Jenny Freeman, Box Office, PO Box 1533,
Harbury, Leamington Spa, CV33 9ZU.
Tel: 01926 614932. Fax: 01926 614932.
Email: warwick.folk.festival@iname.com
The county town of Warwick in the rural Heart of England is one of the most complete historic towns in the country. The outstanding medieval Warwick Castle, in view from the festival campsite, perches on a cliff overlooking the River Avon. The Great Fire of 1694 destroyed part of the old town but the elegant rebuilding of the Queen Anne period provides Warwick with a unique architectural heritage.
Slainte Mhath (Canada)
http://www.slaintemhath.com
Tarras
http://www.tarras.org/
Roy Bailey
http://www.stirrings.co.uk/folkzone/artistes/roybailey/
Bill Jones
http://www.brickwallmusic.com
Colum Sands
http://www.waterbug.com/sands..html
The John Wright Band
http://www.johnwrightband.co.uk/
The Johnson Girls (New York)
http://www.thejohnsongirls.com
Steve Tilston
http://www.steve-tilston.co.uk/
Seize the Day
http://www.seizetheday.org
Dan Milner & Bob Conroy
http://sites.netscape.net/folkmusic/aboutdanandbob
The Gravelly Hillbillies
http://www.brinklow-57.freeserve.co.uk/gravhill.htm
Clive Carroll
http://www.clivecarroll.co.uk
Serious Kitchen
http://www.securit-solutions.co.uk/seriouskitchen/nfframeset.htm
and many more
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Paul Castle pdcmusic@freeuk.com
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