Dear Friends
Loads of amazing shows coming up over the next month, all unmissable in fact. Check out the extraordinary 2 shows we are running in support of Folk Against Fascism at The Southbank Centre and Cecil Sharp House, The Nought As Queer As Folk poster alone has caused quite the controversy, who knows what the concert will be like. Witness it for yourself below
Please also see below for info of
Songlines
Magazines launch of a Nest favourite, Jim Moray's New
album
NEW SHOWS ADDED
RECENTLY!!!!
* The ultimate Old Time String Band from
Portland Oregon - The Foghorn Stringband, play passing
clouds on 19th May
details here
: www.themagpiesnest.co.uk/gigs/foghorn-stringband
* at
a prelude to the London Guitar Festival at the South Bank , we present our
own night of exquisite guitar maestros on 13th May, also
at Passing Clouds
details
here
April 21st: NEC - PBS6 + Klak Tik -
mixing traditional music, hiphop + more
April
28th: Old Queen's Head - Hobopop Collective - Kirsty McGee
and Mat Martin
April 30th - May 9th :: Magpie's
National Tour - The Long Notes + Plaster of Paris
May
2nd: Southbank Centre - Folk Against Fascism - Dogan Mehmet
+ Boka Halat
May 3rd: Cecil Sharp House - Folk
Against Fascism - Nowt As Queer As Folk: Tom Robinson,
Roy Bailey, Gina Le Foux, Lou Killen, Jo Freya, Tim van Eyken, Belinda
O'Hooley, Heidi Tidow, Jim Causley, Sam Lee, Stu Simpson, Newcastle
Students + more
May 5th: NEC - Batram Brooks
Weatheral
May 13th: Passing Clouds - London Guitar
night - 4 virtuosos perform
May 13th: Cecil Sharp
House - Folk Rising - 1st showcase of current emerging talent:
Solaference, Emily Barker, Chris Sarjaent & Benedict Taylor and Steve
Elston
May 19th: Foghorn Stringband - Passing
Clouds
May 23rd: Arnold Circus 100 - Pavilion Brass
Band
May 26th: Old Queen's Head - Fernhill
+ The Gentle Good
May 26th: NEC - Joe
Penland and Jeff Warner
June 2nd: NEC -
Simorgh
PBS6 + Klak Tik
Apr
21 2010 - 8pm £8
New
Empowering Church, 1a Westgate Street, off Hackney Mare street
London Fields, E8 3RL (look for the bunting in the air)
London Fields, E8 3RL (look for the bunting in the air)
PBS6
The First London
Show for this unique gig featuring the Anglo- Australian- Asian multi
influenced beat machine that is PBS. A group of musicians bound by the
desire to create music and tell a story alone. Genre and geography
abandoned.
Welcome to PBS6, a brand new exciting project from Will
Lang, best known for his percussion in folk-fusion group Mabon. Lang has
recruited some of the finest musicians from the Folk and Hip-Hop worlds,
both from the UK and Australia, to explore and unravel histories,
identities and culture.
Klak Tik
On 14 June 2010
Klak Tik releases their debut album on Safety First Records via Cadiz/
Universal Music. Creating genre-dodging
alternative/orchestral/experimental folk, Klak Tik is the brainchild of 6
Day Riot co-founder Soren Bonke, a singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist
hailing from the outskirts of Copenhagen. Working together with a former
band-mate and a stray kiwi from their instrument-laden home in East
London, and being joined by various talented cohorts to form their 8-piece
live act, they expand upon sparse and tender folk tunes to produce
multi-layered, pseudo-orchestral pieces of music.
Kirsty McGee and Mat
Martin
Last Wednesday in April -
28th
Last Wednesday in April - 28th
The Old Queens
Head
Open Mic: 8 -
9pm
Price: £6 advance/£8
OTD
A
very welcome return to the Old Queen's Head by our friends from the
Hobopop Collective in Manchester.Kirsty describes herself as a maker of
delicate yet stubborn songs, as an instinctive traveller, and a human
scrapbook. Years spent as a hitchhiker and a period of homelessness have
enriched her knowledge of people and places, all whilst keeping her
moving.
After spending a while building tree houses
and bagging-out earth from tunnels at road protest camps Kirsty sold all
her possessions and hitched to Cornwall where she lived in a beach hut and
learnt to
fingerpick...
The Old Queens
Head
Open Mic: 8 -
9pm
Open Mic: 8 -
9pm
Open Mic: 8 -
9pm
Open Mic: 8 - 9pm
Price: £6 advance/£8
OTD
Price: £6 advance/£8
OTD
Price: £6 advance/£8 OTD
A very welcome return to the Old Queen's Head by our friends from the Hobopop Collective in Manchester.Kirsty describes herself as a maker of delicate yet stubborn songs, as an instinctive traveller, and a human scrapbook. Years spent as a hitchhiker and a period of homelessness have enriched her knowledge of people and places, all whilst keeping her moving.
After spending a while building tree houses and bagging-out earth from tunnels at road protest camps Kirsty sold all her possessions and hitched to Cornwall where she lived in a beach hut and learnt to fingerpick...
May 2nd : Club Periferique
Folk Against Fascism
Concert
Dogan Mehmet, Boka Halat, Tom
Paley, Thomas McCarthy
festivities from 12pm
concert _at_ 5PM Free
As the afternoon winds down,
settle down in the QEH's Front Room for Club
Périphérique, a concert featuring very fine artists from the edge
of folk, including Cypriot-British musician and singer Dogan Mehmet,
English/African/Asian band Boka Halat and Irish traveller singer Thomas
McCarthy.
The best part of this fantastic afternoon of fun and frolics is that it's all completely FREE!
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May 3rd : Nowt As Queer As Folk
1st Concert 2:30pm, 2nd Concert
7pm
Cecil Sharp House
2 Regents Park Road
Camden, London NW1 7AY
Roy Bailey, Tom Robinson, Lou
Killen, Gina Le Faux, Jo Freya, Tim van Eyken, Belinda O'Hooley &
Heidi Tidow, Jim Causley, Sam Lee, Alexis Joshua, Stu Simpson, Newcastle
Uni and Special Guests
Price: £10, £15, £20
Description:
The
closing chapter in a week of concerts held in support of ‘Folk Against
Fascism’, the organisation uniting folk artists and audiences to promote
the all-inclusive principles that the folk community stands for. This
concert will not only be a musical rumpus of frivolity and festivities but
a point of reflection and celebration of all the gay, lesbian, bisexual
and transgender artists performing today who have found voice through
British traditional song and songwriting and the road journeyed to reach
this point.
UK TOUR LAUNCH NIGHT!
UK TOUR : LONDON : FRIDAY FOLK _at_ PASSING CLOUDS, DALSTON
The Long Notes - Plaster of Paris - Zong Zing All Stars
Apr 30th 2010
Passing Clouds, 1 Richmond
Road, DALSTON£6 advance/£8 OTD
Buy Tickets: Here
Music Workshops _at_ Cecil Sharp House
The English Folk Dance and Song Society will be commencing another term of Singing, Banjo and Accordion workshops now in its third year of saturday mornings. An amazing opportunity to not only learn new instruments and songs but if you don't have your own instrument, EFDSS will lend you one. Term starts 17th April and more details can be found at www.efdss.org or by emailing info_at_efdss_dot_org
Jim Moray's new album available for free,
exclusively with Songlines magazine
‘In Modern History’ is the highly
anticipated 4th album by award-winning folk musician Jim Moray and is
available for free, exclusively with the June issue of Songlines magazine
(#68). The album includes guest appearances from the Orchestra of Opera
North and Eliza Carthy. The issue also includes details of the winners of
the Songlines Music Awards 2010 and comes with the regular Songlines
15-track compilation CD featuring the best new album releases and a
playlist celebrating the life of Charlie Gillett.
To pre-order for
just £4.95 (UK only, including P&P), click here:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003DPSUME/ref=nosim?tag=wwwsonglinesc-21
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