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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
Ollie King - Taro Fair - Gambit - RootBeat
Records www.olliekingmusic.com/
The Unthanks - Magpie - Mount The Air - Rabble Rouser www.the-unthanks.com/
Dean Owens - Evergreen - Into The Sea - Drumfire Records www.deanowens.com/
Polly Paulusma - Lynch Pin - Leaves From The
Family Tree - Wild Sound www.pollypaulusma.com/wp/
Leonard Cohen - Joan Of Arc - Can't Forget - Sony Music www.leonardcohen.com/
Fatdog - Emigrantskipet
- New Found Land - Riverboat Records
www.worldmusic.net/
Ollie King - Lakes Of Cold Fen - Gambit - RootBeat
Records www.olliekingmusic.com/
The Unthanks - Last Lullaby - Mount The Air - Rabble Rouser
www.the-unthanks.com/
Dean Owens - Valentine's Day In New York - Into The Sea - Drumfire Records
www.deanowens.com/
Polly Paulusma - Two Houses - Leaves From The
Family Tree - Wild Sound www.pollypaulusma.com/wp/
Leonard Cohen - Got A Little Secret - Can't Forget - Sony Music www.leonardcohen.com/
Fatdog - Ring The Changes - New Found Land -
Riverboat Records www.worldmusic.net/
Smokey & The Mirror - Will & Woody - Rag & Bone - Second String
Records www.smokeyandthemirror/
Ollie King: "Ollie King is a melodeon player and singer whose music
is steeped in the customs and traditions of England. Based in Sheffield, he
is starting to make a name for himself as one of the most exciting and
interesting up-and-coming melodeon players in the country, and has already
developed into a mature, well-rounded musician with a unique style and
approach to traditional music. A defining feature of his sound is his sole
use of vintage Hohner instruments (maintained and
modified by Mike Rowbotham), setting him apart
from other players of his age. Since becoming a New Roots finalist in 2011,
Ollie has played up and down the country, and appeared on releases by Megson and The Young’uns. In 2013, he was
selected by the English Folk Dance and Song Society to be on their Aspire Programme for artistic development. This has led to
collaborations with BBC Young Folk Award winner James Findlay, both as a
duo and as a vocal trio with traditional singer Rosie Hood.Other
exciting projects are on the horizon - watch this space! Thanks to an
incredibly successful Kickstarter project, Ollie is currently recording his
first solo album, Gambit. The album was recorded and produced by Andy Bell
(Bellowhead, Spiers
& Boden, Fay Hield), with artwork by the
wonderful Elly Lucas and features BBC Folk Award
nominated musicians Fay Hield and Sam Sweeney, as
well as James Findlay and Rosie Hood." - Artist's website
The Unthanks: "There is a socially conscious heart to much of The
Unthanks' work. The Unthanks see folk music less as a style of music and
more as a oral history
that offers perspective on our own time. Their approach to storytelling
straddles the complex relationship between modernism and learning from the
past. Staunch traditionalism and sonic adventure may seem like polar
opposites, yet they are easy bedfellows in the gentle hands of The Unthanks.Nominated for the Mercury Music Prize and the
only British folk representation in The Guardian's and Uncut's
best albums of last decade (worldwide, all genres), The Unthanks is a
family affair for Tyneside sisters Rachel and
Becky Unthank, with Rachel married to pianist, producer, arranger and
composer, Adrian McNally. Even though McNally has scored symphony scale
arrangements for The Unthanks, all three are musically untrained, and put
their collective musical vocabulary down to the music they grew up
listening to, rather than playing, for which both McNally and the Unthank
sisters have parents to thank for. Using the traditional and folk music of
the North East of England as a starting point, the influence of Steve
Reich, Miles Davis, Sufjan Stevens, Robert Wyatt, Antony & The
Johnsons, King Crimson and Tom Waits can be heard in the band's 7 albums to
date." - Artists' website
Dean Owens: "Velvet-voiced Dean Owens is one of Scotland’s
most acclaimed and established singer songwriters, with fans including Bob
Harris, Irvine Welsh and Russell Brand. 2015 promises to be a great year
starting with a date at the prestigious Celtic Connections Festival, single
release, and a new Nashville-recorded album – Into the Sea –
coming out on April 27th on Drumfire Records. Into the Sea was recorded in
Nashville, Tennessee with producer Neilson Hubbard and a whole host of
amazing US musicians, including award winning guitarist Will Kimbrough and
renowned singer-songwriters Kim Richey and Suzy Bogguss.
It is out now on Drumfire Records!! The first single from the album –
Valentine’s Day in New York – was released on 14 Feb and was
followed by Evergreen. Dean’s music has been described as Celtic
Americana with a rocky pop edge, and draws as much from his Scottish roots,
especially his home town of Leith (referenced and loved by the Proclaimers)
as from his US heroes. The emotional honesty in his songs shines through as
he sings about people and places, love and regrets, drawing favourable comparisons with the likes of Springsteen. A
gritty yet lyrical Scottish sensibility, delivered with a searingly soulful voice. Dean’s solo career has
seen him tour far and wide, including in Europe, USA and Australia. Dean is
also highly regarded among other musicians and has played shows and toured
with Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris, Joan As Policewoman, Eddi
Reader, John Hiatt and Nanci Griffith, to name
but a few. In his early career Dean was the front-man of the much loved and
lauded Americana band The Felsons. Since
launching his solo career he has produced 5 albums, including the highly
regarded Whisky Hearts (also recorded in Nashville), New York Hummingbird
(recorded in the Big Apple with some exceptional New York-based musicians)
and Cash Back (Songs I Learned From Johnny) album, inspired by one of his
lifelong idols, Johnny Cash." - Artist's website
Polly Paulusma: "In 2003 Paulusma was happily putting the finishing touches to
shed-recorded debut album ‘Scissors in my Pocket’ when
Bjork’s label One Little Indian signed her up and catapulted her
round the world for six years, supporting Bob Dylan, Jamie Cullum, Joseph
Arthur, Coldplay and many others. In 2012 she set up her own label Wild
Sound to release her third studio album, Leaves from the Family Tree; the
label is now growing. From humble musical beginnings in a garden shed,
Polly Paulusma was signed to Bjork’s label
One Little Indian in 2003 and in 2004 released her self-produced,
home-shed-recorded debut album Scissors In My Pocket to international
critical acclaim. In 2012 (and two children later), Paulusma
released her third album, Leaves from the Family Tree. She founded record
label Wild Sound and bought a caravan called Ella (to make touring with her
young family a possibility – but only in the school holidays). On this joyful third album, she has
e-collaborated with folk heroes Adem and Erin McKeown, rock violin diva Anna Phoebe and acclaimed
film composer Michael Price of recent Sherlock fame, combining recordings
from her garden shed, Pinewood Studios, and everywhere in between to create
an insightful representation of the joys and complications of modern family
life." - Artist's website
Leonard Cohen: no description/introduction necessary!
Fatdog : "FatDog was born one night on the Swedish Koster Islands in the summer of 2011. Jazz trio Fattigfolket and folk trio Doggerland
were playing at the same festival and decided to end the evening by
performing together. The result was surprising, exciting – and oddly
beautiful. With members from Sweden, Norway and England, and based on both
sides of the Swedish-Norwegian border, FatDog
cross boundaries every time they meet, both literally and musically. Three
are established folk musicians anchored in the musical traditions of
Scandinavia and Britain. Three are accomplished jazz musicians with an ear
both for the local and the cosmopolitan, the traditional and the
experimental. FatDog’s instrument line-up
usually raises a few eyebrows: concertina, trumpet, cittern, clarinet,
hurdy-gurdy, saxophone and double bass. Having no percussionist, the rhythm
section is provided by the buzz of the hurdy-gurdy, the chug of the
concertina and, on occasion, the thrash of a cittern. The resulting
rhythmic drive is unobtrusive but irresistible. Not least, Anders’s
hurdy-gurdy, combining drones, melody and rhythmic
‘trompette’, is a powerhouse at the centre of the band. Patrik’s
bubbling clarinet, Hallvard’s sonorous sax
and Gunnar’s inventive trumpet each provide both improvisation and
chords, playing off the melody and each other in constant movement.
Underlying it all is Putte’s double bass,
solid and playful at the same time. FatDog’s
repertoire always has at least one foot in folk music, either taking a
traditional song or tune as their point of departure or composing new ones
in the folk idiom. The rhythms of Scandinavian dance are well represented
here, while influences from Macedonia to Morris dance turn up without
seeming out of place. About half of the material on New Found Land consists
of songs featuring Richard’s rich baritone. Whether singing in
Norwegian, French or his native English, his style, honed over 40 years of
singing traditional material, is honest and direct. Two of the tracks
featured are six-voice a cappella songs -
providing a change of musical scenery and giving the lie to the common
conception that jazz musicians can’t sing!" - Artists' website
Smokey & The Mirror: Smokey & The Mirror: "is husband+wife duo Bryan and Bernice Hembree
(Fayetteville, Arkansas). The Hembrees spent 7 years touring nationally as members of
folk/bluegrass trio 3 Penny Acre.
Building on the critical success of 3 Penny Acre, Bryan and Bernice
leaned back towards their early rock&roll,
country, and R&B influences to create Smokey & The Mirror. Smokey
& The Mirror recorded a live album with long-time collaborator
Daniel Walker (keys) in November of 2013. The live album, released by Goose
Creek Records, was recorded over three nights in three venues (Mucky Duck-Houston,
Cactus Cafe-Austin, and The Blue Door-Oklahoma City). In June 2014 they took the
same spontaneous approach into the studio. The Hembrees
assembled a band (including Daniel Walker on keys, Terry Ware on guitar, Nooch Carnuccio on drums, and
Travis Linville on lap steel) and entered Breathing Rhythm Studios in
Norman, Oklahoma for a 3 day session.
The result is the new album "Thin Black Line". The album was tracked live to
2" reel-to-reel tape. Smokey & The Mirror tours constantly as a
duo, and often with a full band (Ryan Pickop on
drums and Terry Ware on guitar). The Hembrees are
also the founders and co-creators of the Fayetteville Roots Festival
(Arkansas)." - Artists' website
Smokey & The Mirror will be in concert with Little Rock Folk Club
6/6/15
Streaming live Sat 2100h CMT/Sun 0300h GMT at http:
www.kuar.org/
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