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Intro: Fairport Convention - Medley: The Lark in the Morning/Rakish
Paddy/Fox Hunter's Jig/Toss The Feathers - Liege & Lief
- A&M Records
The Demon Barbers - May Song - Disco At The Tavern -
http://www.thedemonbarbers.co.uk/
Bella Hardy - Oh! My! God I Miss You - With The Dawn - Noe
Records
http://www.bellahardy.com/
Jackie Oates - The Spyglass And The Herringbone - The Spyglass And The
Herringbone - ECC Records
http://jackieoates.co.uk/
Le Vent Du Nord - Le Rosier - Tatu - Borealis
Records
http://leventdunord.com/
Nick Edward Harris - Trying To Be Silent - Tall Trees - Twisted Fiction
Records http://www.nickedwardharris.com/index.html
The Young Novelists - palindrome - made us strangers -
http://theyoungnovelists.com/
Tillamook Burn - Honey Baby Blues - Tillamook Burn -
http://laurensheehanmusic.com/
The Demon Barbers - Three Ravens - Disco At The Tavern - http://www.thedemonbarbers.co.uk/
Bella Hardy - Time Wanders On - With The Dawn - Noe
Records http://www.bellahardy.com/
Jackie Oates - The Yellow Bittern - The Spyglass And The Herringbone - ECC
Records
http://jackieoates.co.uk/
Le Vent Du Nord - Confederation - Tatu -
Borealis Records
http://leventdunord.com/
Nick Edward Harris - Then And Now - Tall Trees - Twisted Fiction
Records http://www.nickedwardharris.com/index.html
The Young Novelists - brothers in the garage - made us strangers -
http://theyoungnovelists.com/
Tillamook Burn - Roberta - Tillamook Burn - http://laurensheehanmusic.com/
The Demon Barbers: combining traditional and contemporary folk song, hip
hop, street dance, Morris and rapper and clogging the DBs rock! Or should
that be folk! "Renowned for their no holds
barred approach to their live shows The Demon Barbers return to the concert
stage with a new repertoire, extra band members and a modern twist to their
multi-award winning Roadshow. Since 2009 The Demon Barbers have been
developing incredible folk and hip-hop dance extravaganzas. Following a
number of successful UK tours, including high profile shows at Glastonbury
Festival and 5 star reviews for their two week run at Edinburgh Fringe, The
Demon Barbers now bring some of the UK’s most exciting young clog,
sword, hip-hop and break dancers onto the concert stage to create the live
folk music and dance spectacular of the year! The XL show will feature new
material from their latest album Disco At The Tavern, a
collaboration with Grammy & Emmy Award winners Donal Hodgson and Kipper, best known for their work
with Sting." - Artists' website
"Spectacular…breathtaking…diverse…deeply rooted
in the Tradition…totally contemporary…securely
rooted…perpetually forward-moving, The Demon Barbers are significant,
important, innovative, influential, but most of all they are utterly
entertaining." - Nigel Schofield
Bella Hardy: "Bella’s seventh solo album With The Dawn
– her first since being named BBC Radio 2 Folk Singer Of The Year in
2014– isn’t just the latest collection of songs from this
prolific and ingenious artist. The album is an account of one year of her
life. Where previously Bella has adapted and explored traditional ballads
and fables to tell her contemporary folk tales, the stories that inspired
these songs are her own experiences: good and bad, happy or sad. With The
Dawn is a more intimate and reflective album than before. Working with
producer Ben Seal, the arrangements are more instinctive, more reactive, as
befits the mind-set that informed the lyrics. Vivid brass gives way to
lonesome piano; choral voices peal; banjos emerge out of beats and blips.
Elements of the initial demos, sometimes recorded into a phone as the
thoughts occurred, have been kept. Whatever instrument was nearest to hand
was grabbed and deployed whenever and wherever (even on one occasion in the
bath) giving With The Dawn its striking immediacy. These are songs written
on the road, full of that sense of displacement, longing and contemplation
that all itinerant musicians know. This was a time for a turning-30 Bella
where nothing was stable. Documenting that flux as an album was a way to
make sense of it all. On With The Dawn, Bella Hardy’s soaring
kite-like voice is married to lyrics that poetically question everything
she’s seen and done up till now; letting go of expectations, both
other people’s and her own. But with closing lullaby And We Begin
there’s a light at the end... or rather the beginning." -
Artist's website
Jackie Oates: 6th album from this award-winning "singer and fiddle
player hailing from Staffordshire. Her unique treatment of English ballads
and songs, and pure, haunting singing style has established her at the
forefront of the new English folk revival." - Artist's website
Over the course of 6 albums she has worked with the cream of the UK
music scene including The Imagined Village (Eliza Carthy,
Simon Emmerson, Martin Carthy and more), Karen
Tweed, Jim Moray, Belinda O’Hooley and
Chris Sarjeant, and was a founder member of
Northumbrian group and Mercury nominated Rachel Unthank and the Winterset.
The company she keeps speaks volumes!
Le Vent Du Nord: the creme de la creme of Quebecois music - say no more! Say no more!
Nick Edward Harris: "Having left his job and moved to New Zealand
to live a frugal and solitary life, Nick E. Harris began dedicating almost
every waking hour to homing his craft; and refining his guitar and
songwriting techniques, all whilst busking to pay the bills. When he
emerged again and returned to London, it was evident that this had paid off
when Harris released his debut album ‘Chimera’ which saw him
collaborate with the likes of Emma Gatrill (Moulettes, The Mariner’s Children/Sons of Noel
and Adrian). Now the progressive acoustic singer-songwriter is back to
release his second album ‘The Tall Trees’. His sophomore album
sees a significant development of both technique and style combing
beguiling and welcoming vocals with a percussive and progressive guitar
style that at times nods to the likes of Andy McKee, Thomas Leeb, and John Smith. The result is an album that sits
somewhere between John Martyn and Iron and Wine. The new album was recorded
with London producer Nick Trepka (Speech Debelle, Kieran Leonard, Emmy the Great), and features
an orchestra of instruments including accordions, horns, flute, strings and
some odd percussion" - Artist's website
The Young Novelists: "Through their rich but rustic sound, Toronto
roots-rock outfit The Young Novelists deliver a dose of honesty in audible
form. made us strangers, their sophomore effort,
showcases a significant sonic progression for the band. Ripe with raw but
elegant instrumentation and stacked multi-layered harmonies, their pure
take on folk-tinged rock translates equally well from the stereo or stage.
What first began as a stack of songs that frontman
Graydon James had amassed behind the drum kit in
various bands during his university years eventually became a collection of
recordings performed by the six-piece band, Graydon
James & The Young Novelists. But over time, as James’ wife Laura
Spink became integral to the creative process and the band began performing
and touring as a duo, the more succinct banner of The Young Novelists was born.“This record hinges on interpersonal
relationships,” James explains of made us strangers’ underlying
lyrical theme, which includes both traditional and non-traditional ones
– from brothers in a band to a torrid love triangle to a new father
missing the sound of his son’s voice when they’re apart.
As a published author with one novel – The Mall of Small
Frustrations – to his name and two others in the works, James’
words carry a weight and depth that demand repeat listens. The hope, he
says, is having a listener connect with the sentiment he explores, if not
the specific subjects. “As personal as the songs are,” he
offers, “I hope they’re connecting to other people in a way
that goes beyond the situations I was writing about.”" -
Artists' website
Tillamook Burn: "Tillamook Burn is the bi-coastal duo of Lauren
Sheehan and Zoë Carpenter.
Sheehan, an Oregon-based blues and Americana powerhouse, has been
one of my favorite songsters for years. Here she sings and plays mandolin,
banjo, and guitar. Carpenter, her amazingly talented daughter, may be known
to Huffington Post readers as assistant Washington editor of The Nation,
but she's also a soulful singer and impressive guitarist. It's particularly
nice to hear Washington's greatest harmonica player, Phil Wiggins, guesting
on "Roberta," a song he used to do with his late partner John
Cephas. Also fun are "Skinny Leg Blues," a song by the classic blues
singer Geeshie Wiley, whose mysterious past was
recently explored in the New York Times; and "In the Wee Midnight
Hours," a classic side by Blind Willie McTell
and Curley Weaver, which sounds more like old-time country than blues. On
all these tracks, as well as the traditional "Honey Baby Blues"
and the somewhat re-written "Corrina"
(with new parts by Carpenter), these ladies project soul, style, and skill
with every note." - Steve Winick, Folklorist (CD Baby website)
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