From: jason robbins
[tofutastic_at_hotmail_dot_co_dot_uk]
Sent: 19 January 2009
19:24
Subject: TWILIGHT FOLK CLUB-JANUARY NEWS
Hi people,
Hope
the year is so far treating you well. Heres some gig news to cheer you all up if
not!
I have managed to organize a gig with the incredibly talented TIM EDEY,
hes so busy at the moment, but as hes a Broadstairs boy, his heart still lies on
our shores..he will be playing at Orange street Music Club, Canterbury, on weds
18th feb, at 8.00 pm with Pete Gazey-guitar and Iosbel Crowe vocals/fiddle,
(plus support).
In his own words-
"Tim Edey is 29 years old and is
regarded by many to be one of the finest melodeon+guitar players of his
generation in the Celtic music folk scene worldwide. From Broadstairs in Kent, a
coastal town where the sea serves an important role in everyday life and this
has influenced Tim's music a lot.
Tim currently plays in a trio with
Brendan Power and Lucy Randall, In Scottish superstar band Session
A9 and often plays with Kerry Irish music legend Seamus Begley and
the equally legendary Manchester Irish duo Michael McGoldrick+Dezi
Donnelly and most recently with Ireland's biggest trad act Altan as
dep for the guitarist Mark Kelly at a big festival in Budapest.
A mixture of
dazzling technical ability, soulful feel, musical charisma and amazing
instrumental improvisaton have made Tim a highly in demand session musician both
in studio+on stage.
He is a current master of more than ten instruments
including; melodoen, accordeon, guitar, banjo, bass, piano, mandolin, whistle,
bodhran and bouzouki.
To date Tim has appeared live on the Jools Holland
show on the BBC with the Brendan Power trio, toured every country in Europe
as melodoen player with German based dance troupe Magic of the dance with world
champion dancer Michael Donnellan, has composed a track for Sharon
Shannon, Little Bird, which appears on Sharons latest cd ..the Sharon
Shannon collection, appears on the new groundbreaking album Wired by Michael
McGoldrick, has been resident guitarist on the hugely popular Irish dance
show Irish folk ballet company on board Cruising ship m/s Silja Serenade and
Silja Europa for two years running in Scandinanvia, has played gigs with;
Phil Cuningham, Charlie McKerron, Donald Shaw, Julie Fowlis, John McCusker,
Eammon Doorley, Ed Boyd+Flook, Steafan Hannigan, Alan Prosser from The Oyster
band, played with the Michael McGoldrick trio and Session A9 whom he is a
member of, to more than 15,000 people in galicia+on stage with Donal
Lunny+Altan, did a Huge Uk tour with Sharon Shannon and the woodchoppers
in the year 2000 including the Royal albert hall with Paul Brady, Hothouse
flowers and more, and appears on numerous recordings with:
Michael
McGoldrick, Frankie Gavin+Rick Epping, Steve Cooney, Lunasa, the Daily Planet,
Frankie Gavin, Seamus Begley, Charlie McKerron+Donald Shaw, BBC Scotland, Kate
Purcell, Steafan Hannigan, Su Hart from Baka Beyond, Troy MacGillivray,
Breda+Cora Smyth and more.
Tim started playing Irish folk music at the
age of four on the piano followed by piano accordion at six and whistle.
Encouraged by his parents, grandparents, whistle player Fred Ayling with whom
Tim and his Dad had a trio when Tim was twelve years old called "Spatter the
dew" playing a residency at Salmestone grange in Margate and many other gigs.
Next Tim at fourteen met Dublin born singer+musician Enda Mccabe, and the
fiddle+banjo player Rob McGoerge from Kent and it was with these two musicians
and often fiddle players Saskia Tomkins and Ramona Egle with whom Tim was a
member of the popular Kent band Camine with Andy Renshaw+Zinta Egle. Tim
played four nights a week with all over Kent+France at the age of fourteen!. his
Mum is from Dublin and very much into the Irish music of her native land and his
dad is a fine guitarist+singer that plays lots to this day.
Later on at
around fifteen Tim played gigs locally alot in his teens, and also learned lots
of music both Greek and Irish, from musicians and great friends Dimitri
Michiladis and Jim O'Shea+Pete May in which he played in two gigging groups
Neptune's craic and Tim+Dimitri, all these musicians helped and encouraged Tim
with his music and especially on the guitar.
Tim has been influenced by his
favourite accordeon/melodoen players Sharon Shannon, Luke Daniels and Seamus
Begley since the age of twelve and guitarist and musical genius Steve Cooney
from Melbourne has influenced Tim's guitar playing to no end since meeting Steve
on Easter friday 1995 in London when Steve played with Seamus Begley at the Swan
in Stockwell. These three Irish music legends it is safe to say have been Tim's
biggest inspiration as well as his parents and Django Reinhart and De Dannan
founder Frankie Gavin.
Tim was also brought up listening in his parents
kitchen and on family boating holidays, to the legendary French jazz musicians
Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grapelli who are still regarded as the best Jazz
guitar and violin players of all time. Tim loves improvising and has often been
described as an Irish jazzer!"
www.myspace.com/timedey
So, that should
be great night!
Other gigs for the next month are hopefully in this order,
subject to conformation-
JAN-FRI 30TH -ROBB JOHNSON/PHILIP G MARTINS
DROHNE / RELIG ORAN
FEB-WEDS 18TH -TIM EDEY +
Support
MARCH-TBC-NANCY WALLACE/JASON STEELE/THE STRAW BEAR
BAND
APRIL-WEDS 22nd -THE SONS OF NOEL AND ADRIAN + Support
MAY- -
TBC - KIM THOMPSETT BAND + Support
JUNE - TBC- THE KITTIWAKES.
So
rather than fling too much info at you in one go, I will leave it there, and
hope to see you all at the ROBB JOHNSON gig, on the 30th jan.
All the
best,
Jason.
myspace.com/twilightfolkclub
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