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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
Martin Simpson, Andy Cutting Nancy Kerr - Fair Rosamund
- Murmurs - Topic Records www.martinsimpson.com/ ~ www.andy-cutting.co.uk/
~ www.nancykerr.co.uk/
Nancy Kerr & The Sweet Visitor Band - It Was Red - It Was Red
& Gingerbread - www.nancykerr.co.uk/
The Drystones - Van Dieman's Land - A Tale
of Sound And Fury - www.thedrystones.co.uk/
Ana Alcaida - Sono -
Tales Of Pangea- ARC Music www.ana-alcaide.squarespace.com/
Maria Ana Bobone - Auto-retrato
- fado & piano - ARC Music
www.mariaanabobone.com/
The Stray Birds - Loretta - Echo Sessions - www.thestraybirds.com/
Martin Simpson, Andy Cutting Nancy Kerr - The Plains of Waterloo - Murmurs
- Topic Records www.martinsimpson.com/ ~ www.andy-cutting.co.uk/ ~
www.nancykerr.co.uk/
Nancy Kerr & The Sweet Visitor Band - Gingerbread - It Was Red &
Gingerbread - www.nancykerr.co.uk/
The Drystones - The Queen Victoria - A Tale of Sound And Fury -
www.thedrystones.co.uk
Ana Alcaida - Madenda -
Tales Of Pangea- ARC Music www.ana-alcaide.squarespace.com/
Maria Ana Bobone - Twilight - fado
& piano - ARC Music www.mariaanabobone.com/
The Stray Birds - I Wish It Would Rain - Echo Sessions -
www.thestraybirds.com/
Martin Simpson, Andy Cutting Nancy Kerr - "After a very successful
tour and recording schedule over the last six months the wonderful new trio
with Martin Simpson, Andy Cutting and Nancy Kerr will release their debut
album together on June 8th. Murmurs was recorded
in January this year and captures all the excitement of three master
musicians having musical fun together. The album will appear on DL, CD and
a limited edition Deluxe CD/DVD set. It’s a collection of songs that
communicate to the listener a sense of bonded musicianship, a real feeling
and empathy for each other’s playing and a collective love and innate
understanding of the music. Recorded with award-winning producer Andy Bell,
the combination of traditional songs, such as ‘Fair Rosamund’ and a stunning ‘Plains of
Waterloo’, and original compositions, including ‘Dark
Swift’ and ‘Not Even The Ground’ makes for a compelling
listening experience; stories are told with instruments played by these
masters of their respective crafts, but this is no showcase, more an
expression of the joy of playing and singing between three absolutely
intuitive musicians." - Topic Records website
www.topicrecords.co.uk/category/news/
Nancy Kerr - "Already a respected interpreter of traditional
material, Nancy’s emergence as a writer of rare style has drawn
comparisons to William Blake in her reawakening of a radical folk mythology
as a backdrop for contemporary narratives about love and conflict,
motherhood, migration, hardship and jubilation, and the tensions between
rural and urban life. Nancy is one of the most celebrated folk musicians of
her generation, and has to date won 6 Folk Awards from BBC Radio 2: 2015
FOLK SINGER OF THE YEAR • HORIZON AWARD 2000 • BEST DUO 2003
and again in 2011 with James Fagan • BEST GROUP 2014 with The Full
English • BEST ALBUM 2014 with The Full English. Nominated Best
Original Song 2011 for Queen of Waters. Winner Best Album (Spiral earth
2011) for Twice Reflected Sun (Navigator041)." - Artist's website
The Drystones - "It’s been a few years since The Drystones
released their first album - The Album (or what you will) - in late 2012.
But the duo are back with twelve sparkling new
tracks on a release deservedly funded by their loyal fans through Pledge
Music. From the first toe-tapping track, highlighting superb composing
skills, to a slightly more melancholic, traditional song telling of the
transportation of poachers in the 1800s, A Tale of Sound and Fury sees the
band take on bigger and better things. And whilst the Somerset-based lads
are now studying almost at opposite ends of the country, their relationship
as musicians seems to have grown only stronger and more determined. The new
album once again captures perfectly the energy and personality of The
Drystones - but this time both the music and the arrangements are certainly
more sophisticated, showcasing how both have developed and matured as
artists. Ford Collier (guitar, whistles, vocals)
and Alex Garden (fiddle, vocals) have certainly been hard at work since
their last album. The addition of a couple of songs (Van Diemen’s
Land and Rock of Ages) demonstrates how the pair continue
to add strings to their bow. Already fine musicians and composers (note,
for example, The Hemp Jig), Ford and Alex also appear perfectly comfortable
tackling songs which require strong and emotive vocals - and while these
songs may be newcomers to the normal repertoire, they break up the tune
sets nicely and add variety to the album as a whole. Once again, the duo call upon their adventurous sides to put together
unique, hand-crafted arrangements, ensuring that all instruments enjoy a
moment in the spotlight. The result is that each track on the new album is
wonderfully textured, with individual strands of sound and character so
tightly woven together that the end sound is bold and exciting. What
continues to be evident on the second album is that the duo
really do enjoy playing and working together. In experimenting with
different sounds and arrangements the pair steer
clear of the norm and do so with real gusto and passion. The Drystones:
back and better than ever. With A Tale of Sound and Fury expect the same
energetic, dynamic and flawless handling of tunes at break-neck speed, but
with an added air of sophistication. Do keep your eyes and ears open for
these rising stars as they prepare to take the festivals by storm this
summer." Rebekah Foarde - bright young folk
review
Ana Alcaida - "Ana Alcaide
is a Spanish performer, composer and music producer who carries out
research on ancient traditions and cultures. At the age of seven she took
up classical violin and began her lifelong journey in music. She studied at
the Getafe Conservatory of Music (Madrid) and later at Lund University
(Sweden). She has received formal scientific and musical training in
several countries (Spain, Sweden and Mexico) and holds a biology degree
with a specialization in botany from the University of Complutense
in Madrid. Her investigative spirit has led her to carry out a wide range
of projects, including the study of mushrooms found in the Baja California
Desert and the filming of bird nests in Scandinavian forests. It is this
same spirit that fuels her desire to research ancient musical instruments and
repertoires. After being awarded a biology
scholarship in 2000, Ana travelled to Sweden where she first laid hands on
the nyckelharpa, a traditional Swedish instrument
that dates from medieval times. Attracted by the complexity and depth of
its sound, Ana taught herself how to play the nyckelharpa
on the streets of Toledo, far from its traditional setting. In 2005 she
returned to Sweden to further pursue her music studies and to specialize in
this Swedish folk instrument. During this time she was also influenced by
other musical traditions and began studying other instruments and voice.
She graduated from Malmö Academy of Music (Bachelor in Performing
Arts) after successfully completing a personalized program (Individual
Project) in which she focused on world music, combining her interest in
traditional music with the study of more modern techniques. This has
allowed her to carve out her own path as both a performer and a composer. After
listening to her music in Samarkand (Uzbekistan), Indonesian music producer
Franki Randen invited
Ana Alcaide to travel to Java island (Indonesia)
and join the GOTRASAWALA FESTIVAL, which purpose is to integrate Sundanese
arts with the international scene. With the objective of a long term music
collaboration, Franki gave her all creative
freedom to write new music and work with an open group of different
musicians and this repertoire was elaborated in two different phases:
during November 2013 and October 2014. Both musical and personal
interactions among the group generated a natural desire of exchange and an
open dialogue that Ana wanted to register, to show the musical complicity
that emerged from this encountered and the overcome of the apparent
barriers between both worlds." - Artist's website
Maria Ana Bobone - "is unanimously
recognized as one of the best of her generation's fadistas.
She sings it and she does it in a distinct way: in the tradition of all the
great voices. Maria Ana Bobone started singing Fado at age 16, after completing courses in both Piano
and Singing at the National Conservatory of Music. Her debut album entitled
"Alma Nova", performed in partnership with two other singers,
would set the beginning of a brilliant career. She then recorded two albums
for MA Recordings: “Luz Destino” and
“Senhora da Lapa”,
revealing a refined musical taste and where she welcomes new instruments to
her fado (harpsichord and saxophone) in addition
to the usual presence of the Portuguese guitar. Her career continued with
the release of “Nome de Mar”, a project that gave her the
deserved public recognition and which collected the most positive reviews
from all the "media." The qualities and enormous talent of Maria
Ana Bobone led her to make various incursions in
other musical projects, constantly engaging in successful partnerships. It
were those same qualities that led her to gather around her prestigious
guitarists as Ricardo Rocha and Pedro Caldeira
Cabral, each contributing with the uniqueness and beauty of their own
compositions that reached, in the voice of Maria Ana Bobone,
the pursued sonority of it's creators. Performing
constantly in Portugal's major venues (Belém's
Cultural Centre, Oporto's House of Music, São Luiz Theatre, Culturgest Auditorium, among many others) Maria Ana
performs regularly at numerous festivals and concert halls throughout the
world, presenting Fado Music and Portuguese
culture to other cultures (England, USA, Brazil, Sweden, Belgium, Denmark,
Spain, Switzerland, France, Mexico, Italy, Morocco, Malta, Netherlands,
India...) Released June 2012, she presents the album - Fado
& Piano. In it, partnering with producer Rodrigo Serrão,
Maria Ana explores and reveals the full dimension of her talent: composing,
writing, singing, creating musical arrangements and playing all the songs
on the piano, she re-defines it as an instrument of choice in accompanying Fado (tradition that dates back to the early twentieth
century). Innovating once again, she sustains it in a deep respect and
knowledge of old traditions, accompanied as always by the inescapable Portuguese
Guitar and the Double-bass." - Artist's website
The Stray Birds - "have been flying high since the 2012 release of
their critically acclaimed self-titled album. The band –
multi-instrumentalists and vocalists Maya de Vitry,
Oliver Craven, and Charlie Muench – hails
from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. All three are classically-trained musicians
who’ve been making music of all kinds since childhood (before they
reconnected through the local music scene, de Vitry
and Muench first met in middle school orchestra);
however, they were also all raised with a steady diet of music ranging from
pioneers like The Carter Family and Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys
to the joyous invention of The Beatles and The Band, to the groundbreaking
artistry of Jimi Hendrix. After college, Craven was playing with Muench in a bluegrass band called River Wheel when he
and de Vitry first met. Craven and de Vitry began sharing their original songs with one
another, playing local open mics, and busking regularly at
Lancaster’s Central Market. In an effort to preserve their songs
before an impending parting, the pair recorded the Borderland EP in a
friend’s basement studio in 2010. Muench
appeared as a guest bassist on a few tracks. It was only a year before the
trio would wrap up other endeavors and reassemble in a recording studio,
independently releasing their first full-length album, The Stray Birds, in
2012. “Making that record was a really great process for us to learn
how we work together as a band,” explains de Vitry.
The album became a critical darling: NPR included it on their 10 Best
Folk/Americana Albums of the Year list and several songs from the project
were in heavy rotation on taste-making radio stations like WXPN. The 2013
EP, Echo Sessions, consists of covers of songs penned by Townes Van Zandt,
The Louvin Brothers, Jimmie Rodgers, Nanci Griffith, and Susanna Clark." - Artists'
website
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