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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
Sam Kelly - Eyes Of Men - The Lost Boys - Sam Kelly Music www.samkelly.org/
Tim O'Conner And The Ant Farm Collective - Last Perfect Crime - Leitmotif -
www.facebook.com/Theantfarmcollective
Blair Dunlop - Seven Brothers - Blight & Blossom - Rooksmere Records www.blairdunlop.com/
Still On The Hill - I Go To Water - Once A River; story songs about the
Beaver Lake Watershed - Termite Tracs www.stillonthehill.com
Tom Russell w. David Olney - Guilty/Johnny Behind-The-Deuce - The Rose Of
Roscrae: a ballad of the West double CD Act 1 - Frontera Records www.tomrussell.com/
Beth Malcolm - Cold From The Inside - Better By Noon EP - www.bethmalcolm.com
Sam Kelly - Dullahan - The Lost Boys - Sam Kelly Music www.samkelly.org/
Tim O'Conner And The Ant Farm Collective - Dark Side Of The Looking Glass -
Leitmotif - www.facebook.com/Theantfarmcollective
Blair Dunlop - Blight & Blossom - Blight & Blossom - Rooksmere
Records www.blairdunlop.com/
Still On The Hill - The Bluff Church - Once A River; story songs about the
Beaver Lake Watershed - Termite Tracs www.stillonthehill.com
Tom Russell - The Rose Of Roscrae - The Rose Of Roscrae: a ballad of the
West double CD Act 1 - Frontera Records www.tomrussell.com/
Beth Malcolm - Better By Noon - Better By Noon EP - www.bethmalcolm.com
Rambling Jack Elliott, Jack Hardy, David Massengill, Tex Ritter - Cowboy
Voices Beyond The Campfire - The Rose Of Roscrae: a ballad of the West
double CD Act 1 - Frontera Records www.tomrussell.com/
Sam Kelly: "Sam Kelly is a twenty-three year old singer, song-writer
and multi-instrumentalist hailing from the depths of Norfolk. Sam's only
link to folk music as a young child lay in the gaelic folk songs that his
Irish grandfather would teach him to sing. Although many individual songs
and tunes have been lost in the blur of childhood memory, Sam has never
lost the love and awe for the beautiful sounds of traditional music, and
this passion pours out of him in every note he sings. Sam's debut EP -
entitled 'Your Way Home' was released in March 2013, which swiftly created
a buzz of interest in the folk scene for Sam's music. He followed this up
with the release of the widely acclaimed 'Spokes' EP in February 2015. This
cemented Sam's place further as one of the most exciting young prospects in
the folk scene - landing him a nomination in the Best Singer category at
the 2015 Spiral Earth Awards, and grabbing the attention of BBC Radio 2's
Folk Show. Touring as a trio with Jamie Francis (banjo) and Evan Carson
(percussion), Sam has gained a reputation for an incredibly high class and
dynamic live show, and the guys are rapidly becoming firm favourites at
venues and festivals in all parts of the country. After a barnstorming
performance to a completely rammed Club Tent at Cambridge Folk Festival
2015, the guys were invited to play their first session on Radio 2 live
from the festival. Not content with resting on his laurels, Sam
enlisted the extraordinary talents of new band members Ciaran Algar
(fiddle) and Graham Coe (cello) and went straight back into the studio to
record his debut album. 'The Lost Boys' came out in November 2015 to a
storm of rave reviews, cementing Sam's place as one of the most rapidly
rising stars on the UK folk scene, and enticing Radio 2 to invite the guys
into the BBC studios as the featured live session guests on the Mark
Radcliffe Show - an honour usually only bestowed upon much more established
musicians. The album has also been championed by numerous legends of folk
broadcasting, including Mike Harding - who played tracks from the album for
four weeks in a row on his online radio podcast. Sam is taking the album on
tour throughout 2016 with the full album band, aptly named Sam Kelly and
The Lost Boys. His love for Irish gaelic led Sam on to exploring other
celtic languages, namely Cornish - one of the most endangered languages in
the world. He co-formed the Cornwall-based collective The Changing Room
along with song-writer Tanya Brittain, and they began working with Cornish
language expert Dr Ken George to write exciting new folk-infused songs in
the Cornish language. This partnership has received national acclaim,
attracting guest musicians of the highest calibre including Jon Cleave
(Fisherman's Friends) and John McCusker, and after numerous features on
Radio 2 and Radio 3, Sam became the first person ever to sing in Cornish on
National Radio - generating a huge surge of interest in the largely
forgotten language. The Changing Room represented Cornwall at the
international Pan Celtic song competition in Derry in April 2015 and took
the contest by storm, winning all three categories that they were entered
in - Best Original Song, Best Traditional Song, and Best Traditional Band.
Their debut album 'Behind the Lace' is out now, and they are already
working on their second album, due for release in mid 2016. Coming from a
family largely made up of Norfolk dairy farmers has left Sam with an
unmatched experience of singing in front of hurtfully disinterested
Friesians, and his meandering musical journey has ranged from reaching the
final of ITV's Britain's Got Talent as a teenager, to being selected for
the first ever EFDSS Artist Development Scheme. Whether playing to 13
million people on prime-time television, or to 10 people in a tiny pub,
Sam's child-like fascination with music shines through, and his passion for
discovering and rekindling the sounds of his musical heritage has gained
him the respect of peers and audiences worldwide." - artist's website
Tim O'Conner & The Ant Farm Collective: "Tim O'Connor is an
English Folk/Rock songwriter based in Yorkshire, UK, Performing &
recording since the late Seventies, Tim has released a large catalogue of
albums, 31 to date, available on his record label, Uilleand Music.The Ant
Farm Collective, formed in 2014:
Alan Drever-Smith - percussion
Simon Strauli - Bass & Guitar
Trish Silvester - Voice, Recorders
Tim O'Connor - Voice, Guitar & Keys" - artist's bandcamp website
Blair Dunlop: "’s achingly beautiful Blight & Blossom may be
one of the most memorable and melodic debut albums of recent years, but
what has really marked him out from his peers is his ability to craft
meaningful songs that connect with everyone who claps ears on them on a
deeply emotional level that belies his age. Still only 22, few people in
the music world who had been paying attention were surprised when he
scooped the prestigious Horizon Award at the 2013 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards,
and although Blight & Blossom attracted a rapturous reception from the
critics and received regular airings from a host of stations including BBC
Radio 2 and 6 Music upon its release in August 2012, Dunlop took it all in
his stride and set off on his travels, playing everywhere from major
festivals to intimate front rooms… wherever and whenever he found an
audience willing to listen." - artist's website
Still On The Hill: "is a national and international touring group from
Arkansas that has been described as “Ambassadors of the Ozarks”
for the work they do to preserve a rich culture that is quickly
disappearing. Kelly & Donna of Still on the Hill are award winning
‘story telling-song writers’. Different than most
singer-songwriters, this dynamic duo embellishes their songs with a host of
unique instruments from the hills they call home. Many of these were
hand-made by old-timers and have amazing stories that go with them. KELLY
MULHOLLAN is a fifth generation native Arkansan who is a classically
trained guitarist. At six years old he cut his teeth, playing ukulele and
listening to Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger. As a teen he
embraced the progressive rock bands like Genesis and Yes and perfected that
complex style of music. Now when he plays the guitar, banjo, mandolin,
harmonica, ukulele or upright bass…you can hear all those influences-
along with his strong Ozark roots- coming through to create a sound that is
unique to Still on the Hill. Kelly’s masterful songwriting dips into
the deep well of history, and his love for the Ozarks is alive in every
word and note that he plays. DONNA MULHOLLAN learned the fiddle in the
kitchen with her dad, who played the guitar and sang old Hank Williams and
Bob Wills songs. For 35 years she toured the country playing with
various country-western bands and even did a stint with a large Las Vegas
show. At 18 she had met an old fiddle maker named Denton Boze who
lived in a tarpaper shack in the Arkansas backwoods. His story haunted her
for years and in her late 30’s she wrote her first song about him,
opening a floodgate of songs, many about people and places in the Ozarks.
Her instrumental palette includes; several one of a kind Ozark-made
fiddles, mandolin, musical saw, scrub-board, ukelin, guitar, mule-jawbone
and Ozark pickin’ bow."- artists' website
Still On The Hill will be making a very welcomed return visit to Little
Rock Folk Club on Sat Jan 9th 2016... info at www.littlerockfolkclub.org/
Tom Russell:"Tom Russell songs have been recorded by such icons as
Johnny Cash, Dave Van Ronk, Jerry Jeff Walker, Doug Sahm, Joe Ely, Nanci
Griffith, Iris Dement, and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, among others. No
less than Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the legendary poet, has said that he
shares “a great affinity with Tom Russell’s songs, for he is
writing out of the wounded heart of America.” Tom's 52 Track, double
record "The Rose of Roscrae" - A Ballad of the West, is to be
released April 14, 2015…with guest artists: Johnny Cash, Leadbelly,
Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Guy Clark, Dan Penn, Gretchen Peters, Ian Tyson and
dozens of others…the reviews are piling in:
"The Rose of Roscrae: A Ballad of the West is the third in a series of
extraordinary concept albums Tom Russell has delivered...yet another
masterwork. It is a work of rare ambition and rare brilliance that is
beautifully and artfully executed...Tom’s performances are riveting
throughout the long piece. So, too, are the other singers who take on
various roles in the folk opera...There is an embarrassment of riches among
the songs Tom composed for The Rose of Roscrae...Mike Regenstreif, Folk
Roots"
"Russell’s Roscrae masterpiece, as well as his back catalogue,
totally outstrips (so much of) the music by contemporaries that masquerades
as (Americana.) He open heartedly understands that historic context and
musical tradition are inextricably linked....Approached very much in the
panoramic spirit of classical composer Aaron Copland...Celtic blood courses
through this writer’s veins, and the sonically colorful melodies and
richly poetic images embedded throughout The Rose Of Roscrae are the stuff
of hair-raising chills and joyous optic moisture. Arthur Wood, No
Depression, April 2015"" - artist's website
Beth Malcolm: "is an 18-year-old singer/songwriter from Scotland,
currently based in Glasgow. Following several years developing her
songwriting, piano playing and performing in the UK and Germany, and at
festivals such as Celtic Connections and the Country2Country festival in
London, Beth has released her debut EP ‘Better By Noon’. The EP
is a self-penned eclectic mix of soft jazz and folksy pop that has become
Beth’s distinctive sound." - artist's website
Dad is the splendid Scottish singer/songwriter Jim Malcolm, Mum is harmony
vocals Susie Malcolm ... apple... tree... :-)
Streaming live Sat 2100h CMT/Sun 0300h GMT at http:
www.kuar.org/
Archives on line at
http://www.littlerockfolkclub.org/FAAB/faabindex.html
Program Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/Fromalbionandbeyond
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