Come and celebrate the New Year with a great Irish session on 8th January.
All the best,
Peta & Ken
Friday 8th January
2010
Irish Night with Karen Ryan (fiddle) and Pete Quinn (piano) , of the London Lasses, with Maureen Linane (accordion).
With special guest Thomas MacCarthy singing the songs of his Traveller family.
CD Review : Until the
arrival of The London Lasses & Pete Quinn, Irish traditional music as played
in Hammersmith,
"Track Across the Deep" (2003)
acknowledges the sense of distance from the native musical and personal roots,
even down to the choice of the CD title. This is clearly a band with purpose and
clarity of vision. The music is strong and full of personality, the opening
blast of the Bohola Jig recalling another great London Irish band Le Chéile from
the mid-70s. Hearing Pete Quinn’s deft piano accompaniment recalls Reg Hall’s
approach and style and one is left in no doubt that this is a London-Irish
outfit playing predominantly London-Irish based music.
fRoots http://www.londonlasses.net/
Friday 19th February
Bartram, Brookes & Wetherall
a rare chance to hear these
three together, singing and playing a selection of English songs and dance tunes. Chris
'Yorkie' Bartram has long been recognised as one of the finest singers “notâ€ð on
the folk-club scene, being far happier in an informal setting. And although Neil
Brookes (fiddle) and Tony Weatherall(melodeon) have been playing regularly
together for some time, you are more likely to hear them in a session somewhere
rather than on a concert stage.
CD
REVIEWS:
Chris Bartram: Yorkie -Traditional Songs From
There
can't be more than a handful of people in the country who can sing the old songs
in a way which is utterly convincing - Chris is one of
them….Rod Stradling:
Musical Traditions.
The Whitchurch Hornpipe: Neil Brookes and Tony Weatherall (Wildgoose Records)
Neil on fiddle and Tony on melodeon have produced as interesting and exciting performances of English dance tunes as you are likely to hear anywhere. In fact, the whole album could be held up as a model of the way that English dance music should be played - plain functional music that also makes exciting listening when played with this zest….
Vic Smith: Folk roots
More
info: tonyweatherall_at_btinternet_dot_com
with special guest ROBIN GILLAN who sings to his own fiddle / banjo / squeezebox/ accompaniment, switching from Davie Stewart to Roscoe Holcomb songs with equal conviction.
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Diary dates :
Friday 26th March
Jim MacFarland sings the songs of his native County Derry. A passionate yet subtle singer with a great relish for his songs.
Friday 9th March
Janet Russell
May 7th-9th Keith Summers Festival
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