Dear Friends,
welcome to our
first email in May. We have a number of great shows coming up this month.
Tonight (Wednesday 13th May) we have a double headline night with two
young upcoming alt-folk bands - Blue Rose Code
+ Urusen, with support coming from club favourites
Chris Sargeant and Benedict Taylor. Then Friday this week sees the second
installment of Friday Folk at the Stoke Newington International Airport
(the last one was rammed to the rafters!) with Celebrity
Chimp, Katy Carr and Timothy Victor's Folk Orchestra. To finish
things off in May, we have our last Wednesday show from
FOLKLAHOMA featuring the amazing
Gadarene.
Sam, Joe and
Lauren.
...The Shows...
Blue Rose
Code
Urusen
Chris Sargeant and Benedict Taylor
Wednesday 13th May
The Old Queen's
Head
44 Essex Road, N1 8LN
£5 advance/£6 OTD
Doors 7:30 -
12am
Two headline bands for Joy at The Old Queen's Head, with
support from Chris Sargeant and Benedict Taylor. We think all these acts
are destined for great things, so come and check them out
now!
tickets
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FRIDAY FOLK::Avant
Garde
Timothy Victor's Folk Orchestra
Celebrity Chimp
Kary
Carr
Friday 15th
May
Stoke Newington International Airport
£5 adv, £6 on the
door
8pm-2am
Following the sell-out jam-packed success of
the first installment of FRIDAY FOLK, we here present the second,
featuring and exploring the more outlandish and experimental end of the
spectrum.
Timothy Victor's Folk Orchestra, a
raucous ensemble fusing Americana and Eastern European sounds with a nice
healthy dose of traditional Essex.
Celebrity Chimp
- best described as comedio-folk-pop with slamming banjo, slapped up bass
and some fatback drums!
Katy Carr - constantly
pushing the boudaries of folk music and performance, Katy is an award
winning multi-instrumentalist with many a trick up her sleeve. Will it be
sing-a-long, who knows!
The venue is the quirky Stoke Newington
International Airport, a hidden (not secret!) art space in the heart of
Stoke Newington - hidden in the sense that it is tucked away and a little
tricky to find, but is an amazing space a million miles away from what you
might expect! Come check it out!
The address is:
The Stoke
Newington International Airport
1-15 Leswin Place
N16
7NJ
(Leswin place is a cobbled alley off Leswin Road, situated at
the bottom of Batley Road).
***
Gadarene
Wednesday 27th May
The Old Queen's
Head
44 Essex Road, N1 8LN
7:30-12am
£7
Gadarene blends obscure
traditional English tunes, virtuoso acoustic musicians and a unique
approach to electronic sampling. It creates a sophisticated and exciting
performance, drawing on many diverse musical influences, yet making a
sound that is all their own. The band's repertoire focuses on unusual and
compelling tunes, carefully researched from Eighteenth and Nineteenth
century manuscripts.
Gadarene attacks these glorious tunes with
the raw energy and verve often associated with the cream of traditional
dance musicians. The electronic element, composed by band members, is
created by exploring and sampling the sounds of the band's various
instruments. These samples are layered and electronically altered, then
added to the live mix, to create an exotic swirling sound, the real
musicians interacting with their home-grown virtual band.
Gadarene
is: Nick Wyke, well known for his ground breaking explorations of
traditional fiddle music with Becki Driscoll, and an experienced performer
in many folk and rock bands. Laurel Swift is best known as a ‘folk
activist' and for her fiddle playing in The Gloworms. She brings her
double bass to Gadarene, revealing some hitherto unknown skills. Matt
Norman, championing the mandolin in current English folk, is gaining a
well-deserved reputation for his virtuosity and eclectic performances.
Gadarene produces fascinating, upbeat and original music, sure to get
audiences on their feet.
***
Recommended Shows from The Magpie's Nest....
Cut A Shine Barn
Dance
Saturday 16th May
The
Finsbury Town Hall
Roseberry Avenue
8-2am
£10 advance
tickets
Put a Spring in
your step and hop along to the next Cut A Shine Barn Dance - a night of
unparalleled barn dance mayhem! Come help us save 2000 years of English
Folklore by dancin' some raucous reels and jovial jigs. Spring is here,
the sun's come out, the long summer days are looming and it's time to
stomp on the barn dance floor. Cut A Shine! 8-2am, Barn Dance, DJs,
Ciders, nice bar and a right ol' jolly social knees up - for a snippet at
10 quid.
***
Future Shows from the Magpie's Nest Family, at a
glance...
13th May - Blue Rose Code
+ Urusen
15th May - Friday Folk: Timothy Victor's
Folk Orchestra + Celebrity Chimp + Katy Carr
27th May -
Gadarene
29th May - Wychwood Festival
10th
June - Ruth Theodore + Friends
19th June -
Friday Folk: Sam Carter + The Woodlarks + Theo Bard
+ Plaster of Paris
24th June - Mary
Hampton + Tom and Ben Paley + The Laish Quartet + Jo
Burke
26th June - Glastonbury Festival - Friday Folk,
Shangri-La Field
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