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Newsletter 1 June 2009 |
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GRYPHON – 6
June at Queen Elizabeth Hall,
Southbank |
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Gryphon in 1974, clockwise from top left: Brian Gulland, Graeme
Taylor, Philip Nestor, Richard Harvey and Dave Oberlé |
Back in the
mid 70s, a South-East based outfit called Gryphon were one of the most
interesting and unusual progressive bands on the music scene. The band has
reformed for a reunion concert, taking place at “It’s been
over two years in the planning, but we’re delighted it’s happening at
last.” said Oberlé, who is the band’s
spokesman. “It’s over 30 years since
the band last gave a public performance – we were rather knocked sideways
like many bands at the time by the punk rock movement. Before that, we
were used to playing big venues such as “For the
reunion concert, all of the original band members will be there to play an
acoustic concert of material from our first two albums, ‘Gryphon’ and
‘Midnight Mushrumps’.” Read
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£1,000 donation made to the Teenage
cancer Trust
At the Mark
Erelli show on Monday 23 March, we held a successful charity raffle in aid
of the Teenage Cancer
Trust which,
together with a donation from Acoustic Sussex funds and a matching sum
from Legal & General plc, has resulted in a £1,000 donation
to the charity. |
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A
reminder of our upcoming events: |
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Monday 8 June |
Dick
Gaughan
Special
guest: Ruth Notman |
Ravenswood,
Sharpthorne |
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Friday 19 June |
Show of Hands
SOLD
OUT
with
Miranda Sykes |
Chequer
Mead |
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Monday 6 July |
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Chequer
Mead |
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Monday 20 July |
Iain
Matthews
Support:
Mary Leahy |
Ravenswood,
Sharpthorne |
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Monday at
The
Ravenswood Change
from previously advertised: PLEASE BOOK
EARLY: Tickets are
also available at Hobgoblin in Crawley and Bullfrog in
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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 for this show is
Ruth Notman, who was a
finalist in the 2006 BBC Young Folk Awards. She started out on the live
circuit at just 13 years old, performing at folk clubs and venues in the
Midlands and soon began securing slots at leading Festivals. Her debut
album, Threads achieved much critical acclaim with top reviews in The
Guardian, Mojo, The Independent, BBC Radio 2 and fRoots, among others.
Ruth's pure and powerful voice conveys stories of love, loss, adventure
and heartache, weaving through simple stripped down ballads and soaring
above complex arrangements. "Further
proof that the British folk scene is in remarkably fine
shape” **** The
Guardian "One of the most assured, varied and impressive
debut albums of the year." The
Guardian "She
gets so close to Sandy Denny's perfection that it's difficult to
discern the gap.“ *****
Rock 'n' Reel “An
18 year old with such a spark in her voice it's hard to see "A
great new talent."
John
Tams “A
new voice in British folk” The
Independent – ALBUM OF THE WEEK |
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Monday at
Chequer
Mead Support: Alex Hall
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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 |
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Monday at
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Ravenswood Support: Mary Leay Tickets are
also available at Hobgoblin in Crawley and Bullfrog in
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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.” |
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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. |
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For
your
future diaries... |
Future 2009 dates in the
Acoustic Sussex programme include: Ø
3 September – Claire
Martin 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+ Lucy
Ward Ø
11 December – The
Unthanks (formerly
known as 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. |
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