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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
Fitty Gomash - No Man For Our Times - No Man For
Our Times - fittygomash.bandcamp.com/
Lucy Ward - Summers That We Made - I Dreamt I Was A Bird... - Betty
Beetroot Records www.lucywardsings.com/
Julie Fowlis - M' Fhearann
Saidhbhir\Nellie Garvey's\'G Ioman
Nan Gamhnan 'S Mi Muladach\Jerry's Pipe Jig - Live At Perthshire
Amber - Machair Records www.juliefowlis.com/
Jon Brooks - Cage Fighter - Delicate Cages - borealis records www.jonbrooks.ca/
Lori Lieberman - Letter Of Explanation - Ready For The Storm - Drive On
Records www.lorilieberman.com/
Vishtèn - Chalet Groove - Terre
Rouge - www.vishten.net/
Fitty Gomash - Wages Paid In Kind - No Man
For Our Times - fittygomash.bandcamp.com/
Lucy Ward - Daniel And The Mermaid - I Dreamt I Was A Bird... - Betty
Beetroot Records www.lucywardsings.com/
Julie Fowlis - Tune Set: The Thatcher\Peter
Byrne's\The Soup Dragon\Isaac's Welcome To The World - Live At Perthshire Amber - Machair
Records www.juliefowlis.com/
Jon Brooks - Highway 16 - The Smiling & Beautiful Countryside -
borealis records www.jonbrooks.ca/
Lori Lieberman - I Would Wait - Ready For The Storm - Drive On Records www.lorilieberman.com/
Vishtèn - Corandina
- Terre Rouge - www.vishten.net/
Fitty Gomash: "are a 7 piece band based in
Bristol who play traditional music with boldness, drive and simplicity.
Their live shows are always raucous and eventful, delivered with a passion
for the music and its history. They are equally at home storming barns with
ceilidhs or playing song sets to anyone that will
listen and dance." - fittygomash.bandcamp.com
webpage
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." - artist's website
Julie Fowlis: "is a multi-award winning
Gaelic singer who is deeply influenced by her early upbringing in the Outer
Hebridean island of North Uist.
With a career spanning ten years and four studio albums, her 'crystalline'
and 'intoxicating' vocals have enchanted audiences around the world. An
artist with a genuine curiosity to explore other traditions and natural
ability to cross genres, Julie has collaborated, recorded and performed
with artists such as violin virtuoso Nicola Benedetti, and acclaimed
singers Aled Jones, Grammy-Award winning James
Taylor and Mary Chapin Carpenter. Her passion for folk culture, song and
music is exemplified in her collaborations in 2015 such as with the
celebrated Québécois band Le Vent du Nord, her Vocal ConneXions project in Summer 2015 with singers from
Bulgaria, Brittany, Finland and Norway and her continued musical friendship
with Irish singer and musician, Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh. Nominated as
'Folk Singer of the Year' at the 2015 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, and 'Best
Artist' at the Songlines World Music Awards 2015,
Julie is a warm and engaging live performer who has graced stages around
the globe, from village halls in the Highlands to theatres in Paris and
Vienna, London and New York, to singing live at the opening ceremony of the
Glasgow XX Commonwealth Games in 2014, to a TV audience of over 1 billion
people. She will forever be recognised for
singing the theme song to 'Brave', Disney Pixar’s Oscar, Golden Globe
and BAFTA winning animated film, set in the ancient highlands of Scotland.
The track was recorded when Julie was eight months pregnant with her second
child, and has since been a worldwide smash hit, and was indeed long listed
for an Oscar nomination in 2013. - artist's
website
Her recent concert at Harding University in Searcy was sublime!
Jon Brooks: making his Little Rock Folk Club debut on Sat Dec 7th 2015 (tho not his Little Rock debut having played a brilliant
house concert ~14 months ago) Canadian singer/songwriter and guitarist Jon
Brooks is a powerful performer with a catalog of songs from his 5 CDs
capturing the human condition in all its brilliance and squalor with
unflinching descriptors not for the faint-hearted or those who like musical
wallpaper.
"Delicate Cages takes its title from the Robert Bly poem, TAKING THE
HANDS:
Taking the hands of someone you love/You see they are like delicate
cages...
Delicate Cages aims to reveal the complicit natures of good and evil, love
and fear, and freedom and imprisonment. The DELICATE CAGES we live within
are forms of enslavement - and not all 'cages' are necessarily bad. On his
latest and most urgent and accessible collection of songs, Jon Brooks
promises freedom to all who choose love over fear. Delicate Cages was
released by Borealis Records in May 2012. The album earned Jon his third
‘Songwriter of the Year’ nomination in 5 years from The
Canadian Folk Music Awards. Like its predecessors, Delicate Cages’
songs were inter-woven by themes of love and fear; and freedom and
imprisonment. The idea was inspired by the Robert Bly poem, Taking The
Hands: ‘Taking the hands of someone you love,/you
see they are delicate cages.’ Also consistent with Jon’s
albums, the song subjects were as wide ranging as they were topical and
controversial: the Alberta tar sands (Fort McMurray); Bill 101 and
Quebec’s language laws (Hudson Girl); Palestinian suicide bombers
(Son of Hamas); Bosnian child soldier turned Canadian mixed martial arts
fighter (Cage Fighter); and so-called ‘Honour
Killing’ (The Lonesome Death of Aqsa Parvez).
Morally and politically ambiguous, Delicate Cages, offered what Jon has
since called, “necessary and alternative understandings of
‘hope’ and ‘grief’ that are neither sanitized,
dumbed down, nor degraded by the modern lie of
‘closure.'”" - artist's website
Lori Lieberman: "“Lori Lieberman is one of the best singer-songwriter
guitar players around. She has the soul of a true poet”. Don McLean.
Leonard Cohen came up on stage in one of her concerts and sang “Bird
On A Wire”. Don McLean invited her to be a part of his documentary,
“American Troubadour,” Judy Collins called her “a gifted
songwriter”. Highly regarded among her peers and younger artists
alike, this legendary artist has gone on to record LP after CD, gleaning
the respect of an ever-changing industry and a loyal and devoted base of
fans. Lieberman’s defining career/life -changing moment came one
evening when her good friend, writer, Michele Willens,
invited her to a concert at the Troubadour, and the song “Killing Me
Softly”, from that experience, became one of the most beloved of our
generation. Born in Los Angeles but raised in Switzerland, Lieberman
expressed her feelings early on in journals and in song. One of three
sisters, her early musical influences began with Donovan, Francoise Hardy,
and Dionne Warwick, but her inspirations shifted when her sister returned
from college in Maine, and gifted Lori with her favorite music from U.S.
which included Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, and Tom Rush. “I finally
felt at home with their musical sensibilities and their writing really
reached into my heart, “ she says. She began
to write her own material, playing in high school bands and later, in
college in Boston, before landing her first record deal with Capitol
Records in the early 1970s." - artist's
website
Vishtèn: "For over a decade, Vishtèn has earned its place as one of the most
respected bands on the international touring scene. The members of this
driving trio are both powerful francophone singers and fiery
multi-instrumentalists, fusing Acadian and Celtic genres with rock and
indie-folk influence.In the North Atlantic Ocean,
in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence off Canada’s east coast, lays tiny
Prince Edward Island and nearby, the even smaller archipelago known as the
Magdalen Islands (Îles-de-la-Madeleine). In
addition to being connected today by a ferryboat, both islands have a
shared history and cultural ties that date back several centuries, the tale
is of early French Acadian settlers seeking a better life in the new world.
In their quest to survive, many of these settlers eventually became
fishermen and carried with them their musical traditions as a means of
celebrating their survival. Today, there is but a small enclave on Prince
Edward Island where the French culture is predominant, while the Magdalen
Islands still remains primarily French. For centuries, there has been a
musical connection between these two places, traded back and forth through
fishing trips and marriages among members of both communities. Contemporary
Acadian traditional group Vishtèn embodies
the spirit and the sound of this connection, in the present tense. Group
members Pastelle and Emmanuelle LeBlanc and
Pascal Miousse have become a distinctive and
powerful international voice for traditional music from this part of the
world. All three members are direct descendants of the first colonial
families that inhabited their respective islands and second-generation
traditional musicians. Twin sisters Emmanuelle and Pastelle
LeBlanc were raised on Prince Edward Island and grew up in a household
where fiddle music and percussive dancing was a common part of everyday
life. Similarly, Magdalen Islander Pascal Miousse’s
home was a frequent meeting place for traveling fiddlers and music
sessions. From their traditional roots, these three creative island
musicians have been crafting their own brand of new traditional music and a
trademark sound that combines original compositions and traditional
French-Acadian songs with driving rhythms. All highly accomplished
multi-instrumentalists and singers, their unique blend of fiddle, guitar,
accordion, harmonium, whistles, piano, bodhrán,
jaw harp, Moog, electric guitar and percussive dance make for a unique tour
de force, weaving together traditional and contemporary sounds. Since
forming in 2000, Vishtèn has become one of
the most exciting folk bands on the international music scene. During this
period they have released four albums, won numerous awards and have played
more than a thousand performances in more than a dozen countries throughout
Europe, Australia and North America. From the Vancouver Winter Olympics to
the Newport Folk Festival, Les Printemps de Pérouges in France and Festival International de
Louisiane to Woodbury Folk Festival in Australia,
Vishtèn has won over audiences of all
sizes – they are equally at home in intimate listening rooms or before
throngs in the tens of thousands. With inspiration, deep respect, and a
love for the sounds and rhythms forged by the musicians who came before
them, Vishtèn continues to reinterpret the
music of their parents, all the while creating a future heritage of new
music – their own legacy to inspire musicians for generations to
come." - artists' website
Streaming live Sat 2100h CMT/Sun 0300h GMT at http:
www.kuar.org/
Archives on line at
http://www.littlerockfolkclub.org/FAAB/faabindex.html
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