From: Sue Cavendish
[suecavendish_at_blueyonder_dot_co_dot_uk]
Sent: 01 April 2008
11:52
Subject:
NetRhythms & the Poisson d'Avril
Hello Everyone, welcome back to
NetRhythms
No April fooling about on NetRhythms today - just
Folkery and the latest NEWS and REVIEWS.
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THE ENGLISH
ORIGINALS FOLK FESTIVAL
Friday 25 April - Sunday 27 April 2008
Town Hall
& Symphony Hall, Birmingham
There is a celebration of English music traditions
over the weekend of 25-27 April at Town Hall and Symphony Hall Birmingham,
paying tribute to a musical heritage passed down through centuries and
generations. Featuring: Billy Bragg, Norma Waterson, June Tabor, Martin Carthy,
Seth Lakeman, Kathryn Williams, Tim Van Eyken, Chris Woods, Tunng, Sharron
Krauss, Bishi, Lou Rhodes, Lisa Knapp, Little Sister and The Old Dance
School
25 April 2008
The Old Dance School, Level 3 Bar
Symphony Hall at 5.30pm FREE
Billy Bragg pre-concert book reading, Town Hall
Birmingham at 6.30pm Admission free to concert ticket holders
Billy Bragg and
Special Guests Chris Wood and Kitty, Daisy & Lewis £15 £18.50
£22.50
26 April 2008
Seth Lakeman, Tunng, Sharron
Krauss, Town Hall Birmingham at 7.30pm £19
27 April 2008
Folk Britannia, Town Hall
Birmingham 2.00pm Admission free to any English Originals concert ticket
holders
Little Sister, Level 3 Bar Symphony Hall at 6.00pm FREE
Daughters
of Albion, Symphony Hall at 7.30pm £15 £18.50 £22.50
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CYRIL TAWNEY -
LIVE RECORDINGS NEEDED
Recordings of Cyril Tawney's concert and club
appearances are needed for inclusion in his Archive, which will be held by the
Vaughan Williams Memorial Library at the English Folk Dance and Song Society in
London. Some very useful items have already been received, but there are still
some gaps to be filled, particularly by the many traditional songs in his
repertoire which were not recorded commercially.
Rosemary Tawney asks for Music-hall songs - Married
on Pension Day, With Me Little Bit Of Hair On The Top etc. Popular songs - She
Wears Red Feathers (yes, the Guy Mitchell hit), also the Andrews Sisters songs
Her Bathing Suit Never Got Wet and Three Little Sisters. "Most of all in this
category I would love to have a recording of Baltimore Oriole, a beautiful,
bluesy Hoagy Carmichael song which Cyril rarely sang in public. Here's a
reminder of the opening lines: 'Baltimore Oriole, took one look at that mercury,
forty below, no life for a lady, to be draggin' her feathers around in the
snow'. We have no recordings of the themed presentations which he occasionally
gave at Festivals and Arts Centres: "Tawney in Depth", "Hands to Dance and
Skylark" and "Royal Navy Humour". Does anyone have these, please?"
tawney3_at_tiscali_dot_co_dot_uk
01392 426 055
http://www.cyriltawney.co.uk
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NAVIGATOR
RECORDS
We've already reviewed some of this excellent
label's releases and there'll be more coming along shortly - including a
NetRhythms Front Page feature in a few days.
Navigator Records Artists -
quality guaranteed I'd say:
Lau. Bellowhead. Heidi Talbot.
Faustus.
Kris Drever, John McCusker, Roddy Woomble.
Spiers and
Boden, Boo Hewerdine. Mawkin Causley.
John McCusker's Under One
Sky. The Angel Brothers.
Dean Owens. Benji Kirkpatrick.
http://www.navigatorrecords.co.uk
Adam Hurt - Insight (Ubiquitone)
Elizabeth
Nicholson & Stringed Migration - Fly Not Yet (Waterbug)
Meg Hutchinson -
Come Up Full (Red House)
Brooks Williams - The Time I Spend With You (Red
Guitar Blue Music)
Jackie Oates - The Violet House (Chudleigh Roots)
Tom
Palmer - Tom Palmer (Chudleigh Roots)
Danny Schmidt - Little Grey Sheep
(Waterbug)
Southern Tenant Folk Union - Revivals, Rituals, & Union Songs
(Ugly Nephew Records)
Luke Doucet - Blood's Too Rich (Six Shooter)
Paul
Curreri - The Velvet Rut (City Salvage/Tin Angel)
Eileen Rose - At Our Tables
(Evangeline)
Kate Doubleday - Belonging (Copper)
The Storys - Town Beyond
The Trees (Hall)
Mary McPartlan - Petticoat Loose (MacP Productions)
Bobby
Casey - The Spirit Of West Clare (Bow Hand Records)
Kathryn Williams &
Neill MacColl - Two (Caw Records)
Catriona Macdonald - Over The Moon (Peerie
Angel)
Rebecca Hollweg - Orange Roses (EMU)
Willie Nelson - Moment Of
Forever (Lost Highway)
Various Artists - The Gift: A Tribute To Ian Tyson
(Stony Plain)
The Waybacks - Loaded (Compass)
Justin Townes Earle - The
Good Life (Bloodshot)
Chatham County Line - IV (Yep Roc)
Jefferson Pepper
- American Evolution (American Fallout)
Jason McNiff - In My Time
(Snowstorm)
The Galipaygos - The Demise Of Gary Lip-Gloss (Own
Label)
Madam - In Case Of Emergency (Reveal)
Rocky Votolato - The Brag
& Cuss (Barsuk)
Essie Jain - We Made This Ourselves (Leaf)
Heather
Dale - The Road To Santiago (Amphisbaena Music)
Danbert Nobacon - The Library
Book Of The World (Bloodshot Records)
Monte Montgomery - Live - At Workplay
(Provogue Records)
Eric Clapton et al. - Clapton Is God!; The Cream Early
Years (Castle)
John Power - Stormbringer (Tanuki Tanuki)
Danny Bryant's
Redeyeband - Black And White (Continental Blue Heaven)
Big Bill Broonzy -
Volume 1 (Pre-War Years) / Volume 2 (Post-War Years) (SPV Blue Label)
David
Wilcox - Boy In The Boat (Stony Plain)
Betty Harris - Invitation (Evidence
Music)
Sylvia Barnes - Colour Of Amber (Greentrax)
Dàimh - Crossing Point
(Greentrax)
Clive Gregson & Christine Collister - Mischief (Gott
Discs)
Stackridge - The Forbidden City (Angel Air)
Ross Kennedy - Scottish
Voice & Acoustic Guitar (Greentrax)
Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas -
In The Moment (Culburnie)
Blazin' Fiddles - Blazin' Fiddles Live (Blazin'
Fiddles)
Dysart & Dundonald Pipe Band - Terra Incognita
(Greentrax)
Gordon Duncan - Just For Gordon (Greentrax)
Lady June Campbell
Cramer - Lady June's Linguistic Leprosy (Market Square)
"Peerie" Willie
Johnson - Wllie's World (Greentrax)
Margaret Stewart - Togaidh Mi Mo Sheolta
(Along The Road Less Travelled) (Greentrax)
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And the Poisson
d'Avril? As everyone know, some things sound so much better in
French!
Love, Sue