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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



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