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The Tattletale Saints - Fell Upon The
Fields - How Red Is The Blood -
www.tattletalesaints.com/
Bright Season - Shenandoah - Bright Season -
Folkstock Records www.brightseason.net/
Di Henderson - The Fisherman's Wife - Timeless -
henddi music www.dihenderson.co.nr/
The Henry Sisters - No Matter What You Say -
Louder Than Words - Beste Unterhaltung
www.thehenrygirls.com/
Maeve Gilchrist - 20 Chandler Street - 20
Chandler Street - Adventure Music
maevegilchristmusic.com/
Sean Tyrrell - Come Home Paddy Reilly -
Moonlight On Galway Bay - Longwalk Music
www.seantyrrell.com/
Ben Bedford - Guinevere Is Sleeping - What We
Lost - Waterbug www.benbedford.com/
The Tattletale Saints - Complicated Man - How
Red Is The Blood - www.tattletalesaints.com/
Bright Season - The Yeoman's Son - Bright Season
- Folkstock Records www.brightseason.net/
Di Henderson - Stone By Stone - Timeless -
henddi music www.dihenderson.co.nr/
The Henry Sisters - Home - Louder Than Words -
Beste Unterhaltung www.thehenrygirls.com/
Maeve Gilchrist - Twa Corbies - 20 Chandler
Street - Adventure Music
maevegilchristmusic.com/
Sean Tyrrell - Dan O'Hara - Moonlight On Galway
Bay - Longwalk Music www.seantyrrell.com/
Ben Bedford - Empty Sky - What We Lost -
Waterbug www.benbedford.com/
The Tattletale Saints - New Zealand born duo
Tattletale Saints is vocalist, guitarist,
songwriter Cy Winstanley and vocalist, double
bassist Vanessa McGowan. Now based in Nashville
Tennessee, and originally part of London based
4-piece band Her Make Believe Band, Winstanley
and McGowan recorded the debut Tattletale Saints
album How Red Is the Blood in January 2013 in
Nashville with Grammy winning producer and
multi-instrumentalist Tim O’Brien. Winners of
the New Zealand Music Award for Folk Album of
the Year 2014, the band is currently touring the
USA in support of the worldwide release of the
album in March 2014 which contains beautifully
composed songs, superb instrumentation and
glorious harmonies invoking the early sound of
Simon and Garfunkel;
Bright Season: formed in 2013 bringing together
the talents of singer and guitarist Michael J
Tinker, fiddle-player Ella Sprung and
accordionist Simon Dumpleton. Together they
perform traditional and self-penned songs and
tunes, displaying their own individual gifts and
combining to deliver stunning arrangements and
harmonies. Included in their set are traditional
ballads such as The House Carpenter, a cappella
arrangements of John Ball and the shape-note
song Africa and also tune sets drawing on
influences from European folk. This is
particularly brought to the fore with Ella’s
Nyckelharpa. Michael J Tinker has performed and
recorded with Damien O’Kane (Kate Rusby band)
and Katriona Gilmore and is currently working on
a collaborative project with Bella Hardy,
Josienne Clarke, The Young’uns, Tom Oakes, Ian
Stephenson with a guest track from Jon Boden. In
addition he has supported Bellowhead, Lucy Ward,
Sam Carter, Maz O’Connor and many more. Ella
Sprung is a fiddle player, singer and dancer.
She specializes in French, Breton, and
Scandinavian folk music, and performs with
European folk dance band Trip the Light and folk
groups Gallivant and Jack’s Rake. In addition to
playing the fiddle she also plays the Swedish
Nyckelharpa. Simon is a multi-instrumentalist
who has performed with numerous people including
Kirsty Bromley and in the ceilidh band Trinculo.
He has recently produced recordings for Jess and
Richard Arrowsmith, Hekety, Outre Manche and the
Melrose Quartet;
Di Henderson: well-known and respected
traditional singer and interpreter from the
industrial Northeast of England who cheerily
adds contemporary material to her repertoire and
thus enriches the tradition anew. Primarily an a
cappella album, with a smidge of tasteful
instrumental seasoning from Ailsa Mackenzie on
harp and the excellent Tom McConville on fiddle,
and vocal assistance from local chanteuses Marie
Little and Anni Fentiman on the choruses all
indicate the quality and care behind this
recording of songs from the Northeast and
Scotland including Belle Stewart's “Blue Blind
Bleezing Drunk”, Ewan MacColl's ”Wha Wid Be A
Fisherman's Wife” and Judy Small's “Mothers,
Daughters, Wives” alongside traditional fare
including the “White Cockade” and ”The Durham
Lockout” - gorgeous!
The Henry Sisters: 5th studio release from this
stunning Irish trio of multi-instrumentalist and
harmony vocals sisters from Donegal with a gift
for songwriting that combines pure Americana and
deep Irish trad roots and brings forth
hook-laden 3 and 4 minute masterpieces that
unfold like perfectly created videos of the 9
original compositions and 1 cover - Bruce
Springsteen's Reason To Believe on which they
add Liam Bradley on drums and percussion, Ted
Ponsonby on resonator guitar, Donal McGuinness
on trombone, Aidan Simpson on trumpet, Sean
McCarron on tenor saxophone, Nick Scott on bass
and the choral majesty of the Inishowen Gospel
Choir. The Henry Sisters knock it out of the
park again - magnificent!
Maeve Gilchrist: born and raised in Edinburgh,
Scotland, Maeve grew up immersed in traditional
folk music. At an early age she was accepted
into the City of Edinburgh Music School where
she spent seven years studying classical piano,
clarsach (Celtic harp) and vocals. From her
early teens, Maeve was an in-demand member on
the traditional music scene in Scotland where
she performed at events such as the opening of
the Scottish Parliament, the Celtic Connections
Festival and the International Edinburgh Harp
Festival. At seventeen she received a full
scholarship from the Berklee College of Music in
Boston, USA where she studied jazz and world
music, alongside a colorful career as a
professional musician and teacher. Now based in
Brooklyn, NY she performs in various
collaborations including percussive dancer Nic
Gareiss and Darol Anger's new All-Star Band. On
this release she combines her own excellent
compositions alongside tunes from contemporaries
such as Aidan O'Rourke and Swedish maestro Ale
Moller plus a lovely interpretation of ”Twa
Corbies” - sheer quality;
Seán Tyrrell: well established West coast of
Ireland singer, songwriter,
multi-instrumentalist and playwright, with a
voice that can convey the weight or the joy of
the world with equal conviction, turns his
attention here to a collection of songs
including some that he at one time regarded and
dismissed as much-hackneyed even kitschy
classics. A chance request for “Galway Bay” from
an old lady at the Milwaukee festival many years
later got Seán thinking and once he read the
lyrics he was hooked. Humbled by what he had
ignorantly regarded as songs for the corn beef
and cabbage circuit he set to work learning them
with a passion that has taken these old gems and
lovingly breathed new life into them. Presenting
them in his own inimitable style and always
about the lyric and getting the story across, as
luck would have it all of these lyrics are
married to the most beautiful melodies, and so,
with the help of a small band of great
musicians, once again Seán Tyrrell has delivered
a rare and wonderful album;
Ben Bedford: 3rd album from this gifted
singer-songwriter from Illinois who writes
story-songs that unfold before your eyes like an
epic from the glory years of Hollywood;
literate, insightful, and with a gift for
melody, Bedford ploughs through the oft visited
fields of literature, the daily news, and World
and American history to bring us people and
events that reveal themselves in close proximity
before us - the homeless, the Confederate
soldier's wife during the Civil War, Amelia
Earhart, John The Baptist, the poet Vachel
Lindsay, Jack London, the murder of Emmett Till,
and the 1973 Pine Ridge standoff are some of
people and events that populate his songs
described by Chicago Tribune writer Eric Zorn as
"American Portrait Writing". Ben Bedford will be
in concert with Little Rock Folk Club on Sat Jun
7th 2014.
mail: albion@kuar.org
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