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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
Lucy Ward - Ode To Whittaker Brown - I Dreamt I Was A Bird - Betty Beetroot
www.lucywardsings.com/
False Lights - Polly On The Shore - Salvor - Wrecord www.falselights.co.uk/
Emily Portman - Hinge of the Year - Hatchling - Furrow Records
www.emilyportman.co.uk/
The Dovetail Trio - Frozen Girl - Wing Of Evening - RootBeat
Records www.dovetailtrio.com/
Oh Pep! - War Song - Living EP - - Star House Collective www.ohpep.com/
Ballina Whalers - The Wreck of the Dandenong -
Pull Down Below - www.theballinawhalers.com/
Lucy Ward - Lion - I Dreamt I Was A Bird - Betty Beetroot
www.lucywardsings.com/
False Lights - Crossing The Bar - Salvor - Wrecord www.falselights.co.uk/
Emily Portman - Scorching Sun - Hatchling - Furrow Records
www.emilyportman.co.uk/
The Dovetail Trio - Poison In A Glass Of Wine - Wing Of Evening - RootBeat Records www.dovetailtrio.com/
Oh Pep! - Tea, Milk And Honey - Living EP - - Star House Collective
www.ohpep.com/
Ballina Whalers - Copper Ore - Pull Down Below - www.theballinawhalers.com/
Lucy Ward - Lucy Ward is an award winning singer-songwriter from Derby. She
plays guitar, ukulele and concertina but considers her voice to be her
first instrument. After getting her first guitar at the age of 14, Lucy
ventured into acoustic clubs, it was there that
she first heard the traditional music that she now loves. Captured by the
lyrics and stories of traditional song Lucy delved further into the world
of folk music, visiting clubs and sessions up and down the country before
getting booked to play gigs in her own right. In 2009 Lucy reached the
final of the BBC Young Folk Award and she hasn’t looked back since!
After winning the Horizon Award for best newcomer at the 2012 BBC Radio 2
Folk Awards, Lucy’s career has gone from strength to strength
establishing her as one of the hottest performers on the UK Folk scene,
pulling a full capacity audience for her Cambridge Folk Festival debut. In
2013 it was announced that she had been nominated for the acclaimed
“Folk Singer of the Year” at the 2014 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards,
making Lucy one of the youngest people ever to be nominated for this most
prestigious award. Her debut album “Adelphi Has To Fly” was
released in June 2011 by Navigator Records and was met with widespread
critical acclaim. Lucy was named by MOJO as ‘Britfolk’s
most vibrant and forthright new young talent’ and attracted four star
reviews from The Guardian and Maverick Magazine among others. Her brilliant
second album ‘Single Flame’ (again for Navigator Records), was
released on 19 August 2013 to rave reviews. Produced by Stu Hanna (of folk
duo Megson), ‘Single Flame’ showcased
a maturity from her debut and showed the development in Lucy’s music,
singing and musicianship. She now returns with her 3rd album “I
Dreamt I Was A Bird”, released on Betty Beetroot Records on 2nd
October 2015. As well as her own music Lucy has written for both film,
theatre and has been involved with many, varied projects.
False Lights - It was only a matter of time. A late night bar conversation
between Sam Carter and Jim Moray (both BBC Folk Award winners in their own
right) concluded in the forming of a
gleefully raucous guitar band that plays traditional songs and tunes,
without committing the sins of the past. False Lights are a folk rock
group, formed in the spirit of the genre’s late-‘60s
originators but informed by the music of Sam and Jim’s far more
recent youth. It felt to them that no one had updated the template. False
Lights owe as much to Radiohead as they do to
Fairport Convention. False Lights made their live debut headlining
Suffolk’s Folk East festival in 2014. By then the band had expanded
from a drunken notion into a line-up that boasts not only Carter and Moray
on vocals and guitars but also Nick Cooke from the Kate Rusby
band on melodeon, Tom Moore from Moore, Moss Rutter on violin, Jon Thorne
from Lamb on bass, and Sam’s long serving drummer Sam Nadel. A dream list of musicians making a fantastic
racket. Fans of Sam and Jim’s often sombre
solo work might be surprised by their stated intention to make False Lights
a joyful spectacle. But that’s immediately evident when they perform.
This is a turn-it-up-to-eleven and-
throw-yourself-about-your-dad’s-garage kind of group. Folk songs you
can jump to. The songs that make up False Lights’ debut LP Salvor came together during a week-long log cabin
retreat in Lincolnshire. Child ballad The Wife Of Usher’s Well, a
traditional Scottish tale of grief,
is set to a new tune from the American shapenote
tradition, with a nod to US super-producer Timbaland.
There are echoes of Queens Of The Stone Age too. And that’s just the
first track. Feedback and melodeons run into each other on the broadside
ballad Skewball, while the dancefloor’s
durability is challenged with an assault on Sam McGrady’s
The Charlesworth Hornpipe. Closing the record is
Tennyson’s Crossing The Bar, a hymn to life (set to music by Rani Arbo) which goes out in a blaze of horns and samba
percussion. Both the band name and the album title were inspired by Bella
Bathurst’s 2005 novel The Wreckers which tells of 18th centuryscavengers using false lights to wreck ships and
salvage the contents. No member of False Lights has ever knowingly wrecked
a ship and salvaged the contents. False Lights isn’t simply a side
project or a one-off collaboration by two of English folk music’s
most popular young singers. Jim Moray and Sam Carter have formed a brand new
folk rock group. And they’re really bloody excited about it.
False Lights are : Sam Carter – Guitar, Vocals; Jim Moray –
Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals; Nick Cooke – Melodeon
Emily Portman - Emily is the 2013 holder of the BBC Radio Two Folk Award
for Best Original Song; an accolade which reflects her power to conjure
darkly surreal netherworlds where folklore and myth collide with urban
landscapes. With her debut fairytale-inspired album ‘The Glamoury’ also gaining her critical acclaim and
two BBC Folk Award nominations, Emily is fast becoming a luminary of the UK
folk scene, sharing stages with folk legends including Martin Simpson and Waterson:Carthy. She has received widespread
international radio-play, performed live sessions for BBC Radio 2 and 6,
reached mojo’s top ten album lists and tours
extensively. Emily performs live with the Emily Portman Trio, alongside the
talented musicians Lucy Farrell (voice,viola
and saw) and Rachel Newton (voice, harp and fiddle) who have become known
for their “inventive arrangements using twinkling harp, brooding
strings and chiming vocal parts” (Observer). Lucy and Rachel are
highly sought-after soloists in their own right and together they beguile
audiences throughout Europe. The Emily Portman Trio count prestigious venues
including London’s Barbican and The Queen Elizabeth Hall among their
stamping grounds, not to mention a string of renowned Festivals from
Cambridge to Celtic Connections.
The Dovetail Trio - "Presenting England's traditional songs with a
bold and fresh approach, The Dovetail Trio explores familiar narratives and
modern themes with infectious energy and a passion for musical heritage.
The new collaboration effortlessly combines the distinctive voices and
acclaimed instrumental talents of BBC Radio 2 Folk Award nominee Jamie
Roberts, BBC
Performing Arts Award winner Rosie Hood, and Newcastle Folk Degree alumnus
Matt Quinn." - Artists' website
A gorgeous collection of trad material given a
fresh approach by a trio of 'young traditionalists' who bring enthusiasm
and instrumental prowess to the proceedings and have put a nice shine on
some old gems and uncovered some lesser known ones too!
Oh Pep!: "The sometimes foot-stomping,
somewhat heart-breaking, multi-award-winning original contemporary folk
Melbourne duo Oh Pep!, release their Living EP on August 21st through Star
House Collective. Comprising of two of Australia’s
brightest young talents Olivia ‘Liv’ Hally
and Pepita ‘Pep’ Emmerichs,
Living EP features a mix of reworked visions and new releases. The
Race is the first single to be taken from the EP.Not
even 23 years old, Oh Pep! have been awarded Young
Folk Performer of the Year 2014 and nominated for Best Folk Roots Album by
The Age Music Victoria. They have released two EPs to date and gained rapid
momentum, touring Australia, the USA and Europe. Amongst others,
they’ve been invited to play at The Woodford Folk Festival, Port
Fairy Folk Festival the National Folk Festival in Canberra, and Folk
Alliance International, Kansas City." - Artists' website
Oh Pep will be in concert with Little Rock Folk Club on Fri Sep 25th - info
at www.littlerockfolkclub.org/
Ballina Whalers - The Ballina Whalers (pronounced Bal-en-a)
are Pete Truin, Jamie Doe and Sam Brookes - three
musical barnacles clinging to the creaking hull of a musical tradition
stretching back over hundreds of years. Using just their voices they
explore ballads, shanties and seafaring songs that tell tales of whaling
ships, lost loves, roaring storms and hardship out at sea. We are very
excited to announce the release of our new EP 'Pull Down Below' which is
out now. Recorded in the rolling belly of the ‘Lightship 95’ -
a floating light house moored on the Thames River in London. As the final
EP in our planned trilogy, 'Pull Down Below’ strikes a more sombre chord with two poignant ballads of famous ship
wrecks, from little known Australian ballad 'The Wreck of the Dandenong' to the famous Hull song and lament to the
herring fisherman, 'Three Score and Ten' and finally 'Copper Ore'. In
addition to these fine songs we also get down to the heavy lifting with the
raw work songs of 'Pull Down Below' and 'Whip Jamboree' with 'Whaling
Johnny' giving us something to smile about. We are also using the launch of
this final EP to announce that we will be taking a break from live
performances for a while so we can each concentrate on other aspects of our
musical and personal lives. We are so grateful to all of you for your
support and for making the last 4 years such great fun. Who knows what the
future holds, but we look forward to singing together again soon - when the
wind wills it! Steady as she goes!
Jamie , Pete & Sam
The Ballina Whalers
Streaming live Sat 2100h CMT/Sun 0300h GMT at http:
www.kuar.org/
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