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.
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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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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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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Mike Harding - BBC Radio2 - Wednesday -
By Fusive on Thursday, March 09, 2006
Mike Hardings folk show on BBC Radio 2 Wednesday 8 pm or for the next week listen online at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/r2music/folk/harding/ Always worth a listen each week for the best Folk Music played on the radio. WEDNESDAY 15th February Tonight's programme is made up entirely of listeners' requests for the very best in folk, roots and acoustic music.
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Cambridge Folk Festival
By Fusive on Thursday, March 09, 2006
The Cambridge Folk Festival is renowned for its eclectic mix of music and a wide definition of what might be considered folk. It occurs over a long weekend (3 1/2 days) in summer at Cherry Hinton Hall. 2004 was its 40th anniversary. The festival is very popular and tickets sell out quickly. In autumn 1964 Cambridge City Council, England, decided to hold a music festival the next summer and asked Ken Woollard a local firefighter and socialist political activist to help organise it. Ken had been inspired by a documentary, Jazz On A Summer’s Day, about the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival. The first Festival sold 1400 tickets and almost broke even.
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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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Mike Harding - BBC Radio2 - Wednesday Nights
By Fusive on Monday, February 13, 2006
WEDNESDAY 8th February 7-9pm Specially-extended highlights of Monday's 2006 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, when The Brewery in London hosted a glittering line-up of performers and celebrity presenters, celebrating the very best in folk, roots and acoustic music. Performances from folk legends Richard Thompson and Paul Brady, Fairport Convention, Kate Rusby, Seth Lakeman and John Tams, who had five nominations in this year's awards. You can listen again until next Wednesday at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/r2music/folk/harding/index.shtml
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Ashley Hutchins
By Fusive on Monday, February 13, 2006
Ashley Hutchings (born January 26, 1945) is a folk musician. Hutchings was born in Southgate, London but moved to Muswell Hill while still a child. He formed several groups, including "Dr K's Blues Band" in 1964. When he met guitarist Simon Nicol, they rehearsed on the floor above Nicol's father's medical practice. The house was called "Fairport" and lent its name to the group they formed together. Hutchings has quite possibly founded more groups than any other bass-player. The most famous are Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span (formed after he left Fairport in 1970) and the ever-changing Albion Country Band (formed after leaving Steeleye in 1971).
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Sandy Denny
By Fusive on Monday, February 13, 2006
Alexandra Elene MacLean Denny (January 6, 1947 – April 21, 1978) was a British singer and songwriter, born in Wimbledon, London, England. She is best known for her involvement with the British folk-rock movement, including two spells as a member of Fairport Convention. As a child she studied classical piano. She left school before taking A-levels and started to train as a nurse at Brompton Chest Hospital. In 1965 she enrolled at Kingston School of Art, where she became involved in the folk club on campus. It was there that she met fellow students John Renbourn and Eric Clapton. She travelled in to Earls Court to play at the Troubadour club, where a member of The Strawbs heard her. In 1967 Sandy Denny was invited to join the band and recorded one album in Denmark with them, including the earliest version of her best-known (and widely covered) song "Who Knows Where the Time Goes." In 1968 she became lead vocalist for Fairport Convention replacing Judy Dyble.
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Maddy Prior
By Fusive on Monday, February 13, 2006
Maddy was born on 14th August 1947 in Blackpool. While in her teens she moved to St Albans. In St. Albans she befriended the young Donovan Leitch and Mac MacLeod. She later formed a duo with MacLeod called Mac & Maddy. In 1966 she began performing with Tim Hart, another St Albans resident, and together they recorded two albums before becoming founding members of Steeleye Span in 1970. They were the backbone of the group until the early 1980s when ill-health forced Tim into semi-retirement. Maddy married bassist Rick Kemp, and their daughter, Rose Kemp, launched her own recording career in 2003. Although best known as the powerful soprano in Steeleye Span, Maddy has recorded session work, albums of her own songs and eclectic styles from medieval, through folk-rock, prog-rock and traditional songs. She left Steeleye Span in 1997 but returned in 1999.
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