From: Hugh
Crabtree [Hugh_at_Farmex_dot_com]
Sent: 18
April 2015 09:55
Subject: FEAST
OF FIDDLES 2015
Greetings!
Well
the 2015 Spring Tour is over and thank you so much to all of you who came out
to see the band again this year. Very much appreciated.
We had a fantastic time and we think perhaps the content and structure of the
show this time was the best so far in the 22 years we have been doing it! Plans
are already afoot for the 2016 Spring Tour and it's looking like the dates will
be April
3rd - 17th 2016 so you are the first to know and keep an eye on the website
for the gig nearest you.
We thoroughly enjoyed our first proper London gig at The Union Chapel - which
is a fabulous venue with really helpful and professional staff. We hope to
repeat that next year. We will also be trying really hard to answer the South
Coast Call and perhaps try to find somewhere Poole / Bournemouth way. If any of
you have any ideas in that regard please let us know.
There's a bit a talk about the Great British Folk Festival in December at
Butlins, Skegness. Really good event that we've done once before and well worth
a look as it's a lot of excellent music in comfortable surroundings....not a
tent in sight!
So, a big, big thank you again for your continued support and we hope to see
you on the road somewhere before too long.
Whilst emailing, another plug for our Fine Finnish Fiddling Friends FRIGG! Get
to see this excellent band if you possibly can well worth it.
All the very best,
Feast of Fiddles
FRIGG (Finland)
FIZZING FINNISH FIDDLE SEPTET TUNE UP FOR FIFTH UK
VISIT
Thurs 30 Apr - Tues 5 May'15
Hot fiddles from cool Scandinavia
Thurs 30 Apr'15 BRECON Theatr Brycheiniog www.brycheiniog.co.uk 01874 611622
Fri 1 May BUXTON Opera House www.buxtonoperahouse.org.uk 0845 127 2190
Sat 2 May GATESHEAD Sage, Fiddles on Fire www.sagegateshead.com 0191 443 4661
Sun 3 May HEREFORD Courtyard www.courtyard.org.uk 01432 340555
Mon 4 May BURY ST EDMUNDS The Apex www.theapex.co.uk 01284 758000
Tues
5 May SOUTHAMPTON Turner Sims Concert Hall www.turnersims.co.uk
023 8059 5151
Antti J?rvel? double bass
Einar Olav Larsen fiddle
Alina J?rvel? fiddle
Tero Hyv?luoma fiddle
Tommi Asplund fiddle
Tuomas Logren guitar
Petri Prauda mandolin, cittern
Songlines'
Top Of The World choice
Folklandia's
Folk Album of the Year 2012
?You can
put me down as a fan'
Simon Nicol, Fairport Convention
?high-energy, full force fiddle attack to pastoral chamber-folk ? a thrilling performance from start to Finnish and the audience Lapped it up!' Peter Cowley, Fatea Magazine
?Embracing
everything from Nashville to Nordkapp, Salzburg to Stornoway, this Helsinki
septet manages to sound like a polka band, a rock group, or a Riverdance
ensemble, while remaining purely acoustic and firmly string-powered. Four
fiddles, an upright bass, guitars and mandos: that's all there is, but Frigg
fill the air, live or on CD.' Alex Monaghan, Folkworld
Reeling
from their UK debut year - they dazzled Celtic Connections, The
Scots Fiddle Festival, The Sage Gateshead, Bury Met, Bury St Edmunds Apex,
Wiltshire Music Centre, Cambridge Folk Festival? - this young
international fiddle septet return for more. Featuring the premier talents of a
young generation of folk musicians, Frigg has developed a blend of their own
called Nordgrass, a mix of Nordic folk and American bluegrass. A
hair-raising, voice-losing, heart-burstingly beautiful gig full of traditional
Finnish tunes with Norwegian detours. Energy, fun, humour and interaction are
Frigg's most important virtues on any gig. Powerfolk and perfect! Cd Polka V
www.frigg.fi
Possibly the most exciting, uplifting, gut-wrenching
& hip-twitching band in the Northern Hemisphere. Don't miss this blizzard
of jigs, reels & bluegrass inventions
Shetland www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xm1a35mJt4
Cambridge http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWEqDuMBkfo