|
Newsletter 16th May 2009 |
|
Contact
details | |||||
A
reminder of our upcoming events: |
|
| |||||
Ø
Thursday 21 May |
Cara Dillon
|
Chequer
Mead |
|
| |||
Ø
Monday 8 June |
Dick
Gaughan
Support:
Mary Hampton |
Ravenswood,
Sharpthorne |
|
| |||
Ø
Friday 19 June |
Show of Hands
SOLD
OUT
With
Miranda Sykes |
Chequer
Mead |
|
| |||
Ø
Monday 6 July |
|
Chequer
Mead |
|
| |||
Ø
Monday 20 July |
Iain
Matthews
Support:
Mary Leahy |
Ravenswood,
Sharpthorne |
|
| |||
|
Thursday Support: Horses Brawl
Click
here for News Release (PDF file) |
“One
of “A
musical tour de force to be reckoned with” Telegraph Irish
songstress Cara Dillon has a rare talent that you only come across a
handful times in your whole life. Her staggeringly beautiful voice has the
ability to reach inside the soul of a song and imbue material with not
only profound sweetness but also poignancy and depth.
Born in
Dungiven in 1975, Cara was brought up in a close musical family immersed
in the rich cultural heritage of her native Co. Derry. Having won the All
Ireland Traditional Singing Trophy aged only 14 she went on to sing with
Oige, De Dannan and then Equation. It was in this band that she met her
husband and musical collaborator Sam Lakeman. The combination of Cara's
expressive vocals and Lakeman's rippling piano and fresh production
squeezed new life into ancient material. Their original songs sit happily
alongside the traditional, reinforcing the debt they owe, whilst pointing
to a distinct and distinguished musical identity all of their own.
It was
Cara's unrivalled vocal talent and Sam's musical and arranging skills that
have seen them signed to major record labels since they were 19. First,
Blanco Y Negro (Warners) and then the enviably hip Rough Trade Records who
released her 3 solo albums to date, which have earned astonishing critical
success and showered her with countless awards and accolades. During the
course of their careers they've performed to appreciative audiences the
world over and have featured in some of the most exciting projects and
events around. Apart from giving birth to premature twins, 2008 saw the
release of Cara's first live DVD called " The Redcastle Sessions" and in
February 2009, she released her acclaimed 4th album " Hill Of Thieves".
The album immediately went to No 7 in the official UK Indie album
charts. Whether
she's singing her native traditional songs of lost love and emigration, or
their original compositions, you will be hard pressed to find a more
emotive and captivating performer. Cara Dillon is at the very top of her
field and one has the feeling she'll be there for a very long
time. "What
may well be the world's most beautiful female voice..."
Mojo "Dillon's
crystalline, angelic voice is an instrument of rare beauty capable of
melting the sternest of hearts" BBC Support: Innovative
instrumental duo from |
|
|||||
|
Monday at
The
Ravenswood with special
support: Tickets are
also available at Hobgoblin in Crawley and Bullfrog in
|
Scottish singer and guitarist
Dick Gaughan is just as strong and inspirational as when he started out,
over 30 years ago. He grew up steeped in the music of the Gaels with
his Scottish and Irish ancestry. Both parents were musicians - his mother
a singer and his father a fiddle player - and he started playing an
instrument when he was seven years old. His first solo album won him a
Folk Album of the Year award, and almost twenty years later in 1989, Folk
Roots Magazine voted his album, A Handful of Earth, Album of the Decade.
In 2005, Gaughan was nominated for the BBC Radio 2 Folk Singer of the Year
Award. Restlessly imaginative,
passionate in his beliefs, Gaughan remains a commanding presence on the
musical scene. You go home from a Dick Gaughan session feeling
exhilarated, not just at the wonderful skills of the most potent singer
ever to emerge from the Scottish folk-music revival, not just at the
astonishingly fluent and explosively eloquent guitar playing, but by the
sense of the stark exposition of wrong and the tremulously argued
legitimacy of right. "There
are very few singers who can inspire audiences with the commitment,
passion, emotion and downright understanding that Gaughan has consistently
achieved over the last 30 years or so. A truly masterful performer."
Folk
Roots "Commitment.
Passion. Honesty. You'll rarely find a review of a Dick Gaughan recording
or concert that doesn't come up with one of these terms"
Living
Tradition Special guest support for this
show is Mary Hampton, whose 2008 release, My Mother's Children, was Mojo's
Folk Album of the month in August 2008. "My Mother's Children' is an album I know I am
going to love for life." Eliza
Carthy "Songs
that recline with shimmering sensuality in various shady cloaks of
weirdness...fragility, desolation and humour...scurrying around “Coffee-table-shattering
purity...these are songs of unnerving delicacy, elemental and acoustic
simplicity...potent and enchanting" **** Uncut |
|
| ||||
|
Monday at
Chequer
Mead Support: Alex Hall
|
With a gravity-defying voice
and impressive live performances, Christine Collister (singer of the theme
song of the popular BBC Television series The Life and Loves of a She
Devil) is one of the most respected female vocalists in the contemporary
music scene. Although she first attracted
attention as a member of Richard Thompson's band in the late 1980s and
then in a duo that she shared with Clive Gregson, she's continued to make
her presence felt since embarking on a solo career in
1992. Over the course of her career
Christine has become a familiar name on the "..boundary
breaking is routine for Collister and makes her one of the finest grown-up
vocalists on the planet. ...so much soul you think she’d been
signed by Motown" Q
Magazine “Christine
Collister can sing the birds down off the trees and send them back with a
tiny flick of her vocal chords.” Mojo "Christine
Collister has a killer voice. As full as Dusty "Forget
your Katie Meluas. If you want a real voice try Christine Collister"
Alan
Clifford, BBC website Support for this show is from
Alex Hall, a young singer songwriter from |
|
| ||||
|
Monday at
The
Ravenswood Support: Mary Leay Tickets are
also available at Hobgoblin in Crawley and Bullfrog in
|
When some artists are referred
to as “legends” it is usually measured in years, or based on the quality
of their music. Few are measured in both time and quality. One artist that
has been judged by both is Iain
Matthews. As a founding member of
Fairport Convention back in ’67, Matthews appeared on the bands’ first
three recordings (Fairport Convention, What We did on our Holidays and
Unhalfbricking) until musical differences caused him to leave in ’69
during the recording of their third album. In order to facilitate and
develop his growing fascination with American singer/songwriters, in 1969
he formed his own band, Matthews Southern Comfort, This group spawned a
massive European hit with the Joni Mitchell song " Within a year Matthews was
again on the move, this time changing continents in a move to Intending to make the one
album, stay for a year and return to In 2000 he returned to Europe
and for the next 4 years worked closely with Dutch singer/songwriter, Ad
Vanderveen and together with Eliza Gilkyson, they formed the trio More
Than a Song, recording and releasing 2 albums.
3 years ago Matthews released
his 11th solo work, Zumbach's coat. On his latest album, Joy Mining
(with the Searing Quartet), Matthews says:”It’s the best work I have ever
done, without a doubt. It took me forty years to find this place and now
I’m here, I wonder where the hell I’ve been looking all those
years.” |
|
| ||||
|
Don’t forget
that as well as our own shows, the Acoustic Sussex website has a
Regional Gig
Guide and links to
venues and clubs in the South East that offer folk, roots and acoustic
music – and our MySpace site
contains over 500 links to a variety of other MySpace ‘friends’ sites,
including musicians, venues, magazines and lots
more. |
|
||||||
|
For
your
future diaries... |
Future 2009 dates in the
Acoustic Sussex programme include: Ø
7 September – Sam Baker
(band) + The Haley
Sisters Ø
21 September – Corinne
West + Tinderbox Ø
12 October – Uiscedwr +
Luke Sital
Singh Ø
9 November – Chris &
Kellie While + Joseph
Topping Ø
23 November – Jez Lowe and the Bad
Pennies Ø
11 December – Rachel Unthank & The
Winterset More
information on all up-and-coming artists can be found on our website:
www.acousticsussex.org.uk. You
can also find us on MySpace (with samples from some of the artists
appearing) at: www.myspace.com/acoustic_sussex. If
you know anyone who you think may enjoy our events, please forward this
email to them. |
|
UNSUBSCRIBE | ||||