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Newsletter 18 September 2009 |
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A
reminder of our events for the rest of
2009: |
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The
“There really isn’t a duff track on this release
and with a UK tour starting in late August accompanied by Dobro player
Doug Cox, I for one will be at the head of the queue to get a ticket to
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Monday 21 September |
Corinne
West
Support:
Tinderbox |
Ravenswood,
Sharpthorne |
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Monday 12 October |
Uiscedwr
Support:
Luke Sital Singh |
Chequer
Mead |
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Monday 9 November |
Chris & Kellie
While
Support:
Joe Topping |
Chequer
Mead |
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Frday 20 November |
Dar
Williams
Support:
Max Gilkes |
Ravenswood,
Sharpthorne |
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Monday 23 November |
Jez Lowe
& The Bad
Pennies
Support:
Lucy Ward |
Ravenswood,
Sharpthorne |
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Friday 11 December |
The
Unthanks
Support:
Jonny |
Chequer
Mead |
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Monday at
The
Ravenswood Support: Tinderbox Tickets are
also available at Hobgoblin in Crawley and Bullfrog in
Click
here for News Release and biography (PDF
file) |
"She
writes great songs, plays with top flight musicians, sports a killer
voice... There is not a bad song on the CD. With this much talent and
drive, I imagine Corinne West will be an important artist on the music
scene for some time." Dubbed the 'Princess of
progressive folk', West's music lives smack-dab at that intersection of
folk, bluegrass, and country styles that is called ' Her clear, penetrating voice
has been described as a cross between Alison Krauss and Natalie Merchant.
She can grab attention by almost whispering a hushed introduction to a
ballad, but she's also perfectly capable of raising the
roof. At age 15, Corinne grabbed her
guitar and left home to live in a converted old yellow school-bus occupied
by nomadic artists and activists. Nothing in particular was wrong at home
but she felt things might be really right somewhere else. Corinne was on
and off that bus for a few years, ending up back in Corinne is rapidly forging her
own contribution to For this tour, Corinne is
accompanied by the superb Dobro player, Doug Cox, who impressed audiences
when they performed at Shrewsbury Festival earlier this month (click here
for a short YouTube
festival video). “Just
three records in and The Promise, confirms Corinne West's place among
“I
love Corinne’s music and truly believe in her as an artist. She has
spirit, integrity and talent. I am a massive fan.”
Bob
Harris, BBC Radio 2 |
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Monday at
Chequer
Mead Support:
Luke Sital Singh
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The phenomenal Uiscedwr
(pronounced "ish-ka-dooer") is one of The band first came to public
attention when they won the BBC Young Folk Awards in 2002. However, during
2005, band founder Anna Esslemont was diagnosed with aplastic anaemia. Her
illness meant the group had to reduce its touring commitments and delay
work on the second album. Esslemont had a successful bone marrow
transplant in December 2006 and Uiscedwr resumed touring June 2007.
Subsequently, Anna has been active in fundraising for the Aplastic Anaemia
Trust charity (read News
Release for full
story). The band's new album, Fish Cat
Door (a play on words) was recently described by Mike Harding as the "best
thing they've ever done". The current line-up features
Anna on fiddle and vocals and co-founder Cormac Byrne (of Seth Lakeman
band fame), on bodhran and percussion. Joined for this tour by James
Hickman on guitar and Nick Waldock on bass, the result is the most
thrilling modern folk music you’re ever likely to hear and promises a
night you won’t forget. "An
album of joy, defiance, solidity and triumph" fRoots ”Folk
has hopefully matured into a broad enough church to accommodate Uiscedwr's
divine eccentricity" Daily
Telegraph "Technically
brilliant, musically versatile, highly enjoyable" Songlines |
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Monday at
Chequer
Mead Support:
Joe Topping
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Whenever you hear two superb
vocalists sing together, it's a great experience, but when they are
related it's becomes something else. Here we have mother (Chris While) and
daughter (Kellie While) - two of Kellie is known for fronting
two of the country's most successful folk/roots bands, the Albion Band and
e2K, as well as being a prolific writer and great guitarist. Chris is
known for her work with Julie Matthews as well as for performing with the
Albion Band and St Agnes Fountain. “As
an accomplished, much-borrowed songwriter, Chris has ample material of her
own to record. For her second album with her daughter Kellie, she prefers
the work of others, including Richard Thompson and Ron Sexsmith. Each song
remains a showcase for the delicate, complementary powers of expression of
two expert vocalists, truly living up to the “more like sisters”
description of one admirer, Ralph McTell.” |
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Friday at
The
Ravenswood Support: Max
Gilkes £12 (£15
door) 8.00pm |
One of the most acclaimed and
evocative artists of her generation, Dar Williams crafts tunes that
resonate with passion and integrity. Her growth as a person over her
15-year career has gone hand-in-hand with her evolution as an artist.
Raised in Throughout her career Williams
has eschewed clichéd and superficial expression in favour of digging
deeper. To quote Dar herself, her motivation as an artist is to
“Experience meaning without fooling myself. There
are these moments where everything feels connected, and I think my art is
about trying to find the stories that make us feel connected. That’s the
verve of my life. It’s what keeps things
interesting.”. Dar’s most recent album,
Promised Land, features 12 songs that showcase her wide range of stories
and social themes on songs including "It's Alright," "The Easy Way," and
"Buzzer." Dar also does a cover of "Midnight Radio" from the acclaimed
rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch, as well as a cover of the
Fountains of Wayne song "Troubled Times." Lending support on the album are
such renowned artists as Suzanne Vega, Marshall Crenshaw, and Gary Louris
(of the Jayhawks). |
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Monday at
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Ravenswood Support: Lucy Ward |
Jez Lowe has built an enviable
reputation as a songwriter and performer in the world of acoustic music,
and as a recognised musical ambassador for his native North East England,
with more than a dozen albums and countless live performances around the
world over the last twenty years. Among many who have recorded their own
versions of Lowe's songs, are Fairport Convention, The Dubliners, The
Tannahill Weavers and Cherish The Ladies. In 2006 Jez participated in the
hugely successful BBC Radio Ballads, for which he composed 23 new songs,
many of which are already finding their way into the repertoires of his
peers, He was nominated for 'Folksinger of the year' in the 2008 BBC Radio
2 Folk Awards. 2009 has already seen him launching again into a
hectic world tour that took in For this show, Jez performs
with his renowned band, The Bad Pennies, who have been playing for a
decade and a half around the folk festivals, clubs and concert stages of
the world, with performances described as "acoustic simplicity coupled
with electric vitality". |
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Friday at
Chequer
Mead Support:
Jonny
Kearney & Lucy Farrell
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2009 represents an exciting and
adventurous time for the Mercury nominated Geordie band formerly known as
Rachel Unthank & The Winterset. Having established themselves as the
most innovative and critically acclaimed English folk band in modern
history, with admirers as disparate as Radiohead, Robert Wyatt, Ben Folds
and Nick Hornby, The Unthanks are ready to risk it all with another
audacious step sideways. While the abbreviated name
reflects the long-established reality that the band is co-fronted by
Rachel and her sister Becky Unthank, the real development sees an extended
line-up that includes string quartet, brass, percussion, tuned percussion,
bass, and The Unthank's producer Adrian McNally (taking on piano
responsibilities from Stef Conner who returns to a
PHD). Known for their timeless,
unsentimental and quietly subversive tales of loss, fear, booze, brawls,
abuse and sorrow, the new album ‘Here's The Tender Coming’, as the name
suggests, is a calmer, melancholic, warmer affair than the bleakness of
its predecessor; The Bairns (nominated for the Uncut Music Prize and
Mercury Music Prize as one of the top ten British albums of 2008).
Forging links between folk
worlds old, new and other, The Unthanks are the inheritors, curators and
distorters of Tyneside’s traditions. Don't miss the next chapter.
“Music
as tough as it is gentle, as ancient as it is modern, and as coldly
desolate as it is achingly intimate.. a sensationally graceful sound that
can be epic and subdued, dreamy and specific, as well as supernaturally
ancient and defiantly modern”. Paul Morley, Observer Music
Magazine |
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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... |
2010 dates are currently being
finalised but provisional bookings include: Ø
Eliza
Gilkyson Ø
Jim
Moray Ø
Kate
Walsh Ø
Ruth
Notman Ø
Emily
Smith Ø
Guy Davis
…and more besides More
information 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
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