From: oysterband [oysters_at_oysterband_dot_co_dot_uk]

Sent: 16 December 2014 12:43

Subject: OYSTERNEWS - DECEMBER 2014

 

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Hi all

 

Thanks everyone for supporting us in 2014 - it's been an important year for us, settling two new members Al and Adrian into the band and extending the range of songs we write with our latest album Diamonds On The Water. The continuing stutter of the British economy and widespread fall in real wages are not making life in the entertainment world any smoother, but hey?we all soldier on, and we've had the pleasure of travelling widely again this year, and the honour of playing major festivals in Germany and Denmark as well as UK.

 

Next year, we're looking forward to appearing in UK in late March; Austria in May; Canada in July / August; and Denmark in July and October / November. Details of these tours will go up on the website at www.oysterband.co.uk ? as soon as the contracts are signed!

 

And on May 2nd, we're putting on a concise version of the Big Session again, at and with Buxton Opera House.  We'll have June Tabor, Blair Dunlop and others on board, and there will be music sessions this time as well as more formal concerts. Tickets are available from 08451 272 190 and buxtonoperahouse.org.uk and we expect them to go pretty fast.

 

More in the New Year. Meanwhile, however you celebrate Midwinter, have a good one, and may 2015 be kind to all of us.

 

(By the way, John's beard is the fake one in the photograph; the other whiskers are of course real. We were knitted by Donna of Square Roots Promotions for Gerry Colvin's www.knittedcharacterfolkfestival.co.uk - an unusual experience?)

All the best

 

John,  Alan,  Ian,  Dil,  Al,  Adrian  x

 

OYSTERBAND

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