Folk Music
Author: Fusive Created: Wednesday, November 09, 2005
This is a blog about folk music. It will include information on music from Ireland, music from Scotland, the U.K, information on musicians and also local Folk from the Lancashire area. Also info on local live music and gigs in the Pendle and Lancashire area.
BBC Radio 2 - Folk Music - Wednesdays.
By Fusive on Friday, May 19, 2006
Mike Harding chats to Jim Moray about the release of his new self-titled album. Jim's previous album, Sweet England, won him the 2004 BBC Radio 2 Folk Award for Best Album as well as the Horizon Award that year. Plus Mike's usual great selection of the best in folk, roots and acoustic music including news of artists currently on tour and the latest album releases.
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Roy Bailey - Great Gig at The Trades Club.
By Fusive on Wednesday, May 17, 2006
I went over to Hebden Bridge a few weeks ago to see Roy Bailey, veteran folk singer / guitarist for over 40 years, a great performance by Roy at the Trades Club, a superb club that really does get some of the finest performers playing on a very regular basis. I have seen a good few great Folk singer / Songeriter performances at the Trades Club over the last few years, a great venue, with a very appreciative audience. Roy Bailey's performance was superb, I have not heard a great deal of his music, maybe listened to a couple of his C.D.'s and a few tunes played on the Mike Harding Radio 2 Folk show on a Wednesday night, but as any review of Roy Bailey will tell you, he is not to be missed.
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Once again another Mike Harding Show on BBC Radio 2 - www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/r2music/folk/harding
By Fusive on Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Once again another Mike Harding Show on BBC Radio 2 http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/r2music/folk/harding/ WEDNESDAY 19th April Mike chats to record producer Joe Boyd, the man responsible for some of folk music's most historic and valued albums. In a special feature-length interview, Joe tells some of the inside stories from a life working with artists such as Muddy Waters, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Nick Drake and Fairport Convention. He plays some of the classic tracks he produced, including Drake's Way To Blue and Fairport's Who Knows Where the Time Goes?, featuring the vocals of the much-missed Sandy Denny. Plus Mike's usual great selection of the best in folk, roots and acoustic music including news of artists currently on tour and the latest album releases.
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Jim's Cafe - Music Night - Easter Sunday 23rd April
Local Folk Clubs, Pubs and gigs. By Fusive on Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Jim's Cafe Music Night, Easter Sunday. A great night was had back at Jim's Cafe last Sunday Night (Easter Sunday), we have had a good time over the last year with the music nights, more or less every fortnight. Lots of thanks to Jim and all the musicians who turned up to play, it was a really good night, it was the first music night of the year back at Jims, and it was well supported, hopefully it will be back now on a monthly basis, details to be posted here when they are confirmed.
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Mike Harding BBC Radio 2 Wednesday 8 pm
By Fusive on Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Another life saving hour of folk music from Mr Mike Harding on BBC Radio 2 Wednesdays with the Mike Harding BBC Radio 2 Folk show last night, another good show that was well worth a listen, you can listen again on the internet until next Wednesday night when it usually updated, use this link, or paste into your browser. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/r2music/folk/harding/
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Local Gigs -
Local Folk Clubs, Pubs and gigs. By Fusive on Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Welcome again to www.oakstoneclassics.co.uk there have not been many folk music nights that I have been to for the last few weeks, the last good session I attended was on St Patrick's day over in Huddersfield, an absolutely steaming good night, we went to see Softmick in one of the town centre pubs, and finished the night at the Irish Centre with an excellent music session, the best gig before that was the Fairport Convention 2006 Winter Tour, at Burnley Mechanics, both nights were absolutely fantastic. The only folk music I have had to get me through the dark evenings in the early part of this year has been Mike Hardings radio show on Wednesdays 8pm BBC Radio 2, at least that is consistant whatever the weather, some great music to listen out for. Listen again at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/r2music/folk/harding/ The next gig I will be going to will be to see Christy Moore in Manchester at the Bridgewater Hall on Good Friday, I can't wait to see him again, saw him last year when he played at the Royal
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22nd March 2006 - Mike Harding Show BBC Radio 2
By Fusive on Friday, March 24, 2006
Mike's guest in the studio this week is one of the young trailblazers of the folk scene, Seth Lakeman. Mike chats to Seth and plays tracks from his brand new album Freedom Fields which is released this week. Plus Mike's usual great selection of the best in folk, roots and acoustic music including news of artists currently on tour and the latest album releases. Also great favourites of mine Show of Hands get a mention for their title track on their latest album Witness, absolutely amazing to see live, don't take my word for it, go see for yourself how good they are, I saw them at Burnley Mechanics last year with their guest performer Miranda Sykes on double bass and vocals, probably the best performers I have ever seen, they had the crowd in the palm of their hand, with their sheer talent, warm personalities, and fantastic musicianship. Enjoy.
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St Patrick's Night - March 17th - 2006 - My night out in Huddersfield.
By Fusive on Friday, March 24, 2006
Hope you all had a great St Patrick's day wherever you are, what a great night I had, I was out in Huddersfield with friends, we went over to see a superb band at the Zetland in the town centre called Softmick, what a tight band, they played some fantastic songs and tunes that had the audience singing along and jigging about, they really made my day, along with a few pints of Guinness and a few good measures of Jamesons of course.
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Mike Harding - Folk on Radio 2 - Each week - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/r2music/folk/harding/
By Fusive on Friday, March 24, 2006
Another great show from Mr Mike Harding, and some fantastic songs, it was so good I listened to the show 3 times using the playback facility on the internet, Richard Thompson was the guest this week in the studio with Mike, I particularly like the song "Beeswing", which one of my all time favourites Singers Christy More has covered and features on his Burning Times album, well worth running out to buy. You can listen to each show for the next 7 days or so after it has been played on BBC Radio 2 on the Wednesday night, I also like to hear Billy Mitchell's song from his great album the Devil's Ground, make sure you get to listen.
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Arlo Guthrie
By Fusive on Thursday, March 09, 2006
Arlo Guthrie (born July 10, 1947, Brooklyn, New York ) is an American folk singer who is the son of folk singer and composer Woody Guthrie and his Jewish wife Marjorie Mazia Guthrie, a one-time professional dancer with the Martha Graham Company and founder of The Committee to Combat Huntington's Disease. He graduated from the Stockbridge School of Massachusetts in 1965, and briefly attended Rocky Mountain College. His most famous work is "Alice's Restaurant", a talking blues song that lasts 18 minutes and 20 seconds (in its orignal recorded version; Guthrie has been known to spin the story out to forty-five minutes in concert). The song, a bitingly satirical protest against the Vietnam War draft, is based on a true incident. In the song, Guthrie was called up for a draft examination, and rejected as unfit for military service as a result of a criminal record consisting in its entirety of a single arrest, court appearance, fine and clean-up order for littering.
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