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Sent: 09 August 2016 14:47

Subject: New album news...

 

It's been busy! Out now The Angel's Share the new CD by Dana & Susan Robinson. Dana & Sue will be back in the UK in September to celebrate with UK fans.
And the new one from Canadian songwriter Stephen Fearing Every Soul's a Sailor is all done and due for a January release.
Steve Tilston & Jez Lowe have been in the studio recording their duo debut The Janus Game. Hoping for an early November release, including new songs especially written for this project. You may have heard some at festivals over the summer. They also recorded a duo version of Steve's Oil & Water for Towersey Festival The Album 2016 free download.
Clive Gregson & Liz Simcock head into the studio in September to start recording their debut album to be released next spring. Their successful tour last year inspired Clive to write new songs especially for the duo.
Young singer/guitarist Sunjay is also in the process of recording his next album, with a planned spring release.
Plus in Finland over the summer, Timo Alakotila and Karen Tweed started work on the next May Monday offering. Release details still to be confirmed.
We hope to have the opportunity to work with you on upcoming tours. Do get in touch.
best wishes
Lorraine

lorraine_at_differentstrings_dot_co_dot_uk | 07929 135744 | 0117 904 1870
 


 

New album tours...

DANA & SUSAN ROBINSON (USA)
UK Tour September 2016 & November 2017

Original - Traditional - Folk - Americana - Old-time
New Album The Angel's Share out now!


"It's all very summery, doesn't hit any nerves and there's not a note out of place." Acoustic
 
"?enviably simpatico husband-and-wife team, their fresh-faced, unadorned rootsy-folky-oldtime settings again proving less is more." fROOTS
 
"?their first musical priorities are beauty and simplicity and these are present in abundance." **** R2
 
"lovely stuff" Genevieve Tudor's Sunday Folk, BBC Radio Shropshire

 

booking in association with Oscar Music Agency

UK Tour November 2016, March/April, October/November 2017 & festivals other times considered... please ask
New album The Janus Game coming soon!
 

"The formidable duo?" Cornwall Folk Festival
 
"Absolutely fan-tabulous gig last night." The Ram Club

"They entertained a packed house at the Library Theatre in one of our best concerts ever." Chesterfield Folk Club

"A masterclass in songwriting from two of the folk world's finest." The Living Tradition

"They work so well together - 2 of our best songwriters & singers, understanding and enriching each other's songs. The audience loved them." Mike Harding


STEPHEN FEARING (Canada)
UK Tour 9-21 February 2017
celebrating new album Every Soul's A Sailor
Catch him solo and with Blackie & the Rodeo Kings at Shrewsbury Folk Festival this summer!

Promoter feedback:
"It was a fantastic evening... Stephen was on blistering form."

"Stephen Fearing.... is AMAZING!!! Just watching the gig and loving it!"

"Fearing delivers his reflections, recollections and observations with an enveloping lyricism and he has in the past quarter century become the complete artist." Penguin Eggs

"...nothing short of magnificent." Bob Chelmick, CKUA Radio, The Road Home
 

GREGSON & SIMCOCK
Clive Gregson & Liz Simcock new album

UK Tour 6-21 May & 7-22 October 2017 & festivals

The Songs of Gregson & Collister and more?


"We had a great night with Clive & Liz. The music was stunning and it was great to hear some songs that I have loved for years performed in the mill." Black Dyke Mills


SUNJAY
New album UK tour April (Scotland), May/June 2017


"Deft finger picking and sonorous vocals." Acoustic Magazine

"One of the UK's finest young blues stars." BBC Radio Scotland

"If you missed him, you missed a very rare treat. Witty, warm and a guitar whizz - and only 21!!" Beverley Folk Club

"Great gig... He was very personable from the moment he walked in the door... played an excellent set, with depth and variety." Twickfolk
 



Also Touring 2016/2017...

STEVE TILSTON

"Classy, thoughtful, folk? I suspect Lennon would have approved." **** The Guardian

"Classy work." *** The Observer

"Steve Tilston shows no sign of faulting on delivering class music that is at once timeless, intelligent and built to last." **** Northern Sky

"?one of the finest songsmiths and guitarists that the English folk scene has produced over the last 40 odd years." Folk Radio UK

CLIVE GREGSON
UK Touring until mid-November 2016

"One of Britain's most cultured singer-songwriters." The Times

"...a powerful and vital force in contemporary music." fROOTS 

"Marvellous voice?brilliant guitar playing." Dirty Linen

 

KRISTINA OLSEN (USA)
UK Tour November 2016
  
"...the results are stunning...playing slide guitar with a fury, finely crafted songs, personal and delivered with fire..." Folk Almanac

"Strong songs and guitar playing, great singing and intimate stories... after hearing it I'm in love with the lady." Acoustic Musician

"...wicked blues slide guitar...soon her storytelling becomes so wonderful, and her music so expressive, one realised that the untamed Olsen is more valuable than any slicker version could be." Boston Herald


HANNAH JAMES & TUULIKKI BARTOSIK 
(UK/Estonia/Sweden) January 2017 & festivals


"...a gem of an album that I think will be near on impossible to top in the accordion world. A wonderful celebration of accordions." FATEA

"Your music is connected to your souls and that's why it touches the audience. We never got bored. You did something totally different with your instruments. Your presence was obvious in music. There was love in the room, I felt the joy in the audience of you playing together." concert-goer

IAN SHERWOOD (Canada)
UK Tour April/May 2017

Promoter feedback:
"What a talent, what an accomplished raconteur, composer, performer, musician, entertainer and thoroughly good bloke!"

"He was fantastic at involving the audience, and I think he is the most popular music act we have had so far."

"I can't believe someone of this quality has come to our village hall? Ian earned his credibility not just for his musical craft but his ability to relate to the audience. We would have him back like a shot."



Different Strings Music Agency represents:

STEVE TILSTON TILSTON & LOWE * DANA & SUSAN ROBINSON
CLIVE GREGSON
  * GREGSON & SIMCOCK * 3BOXES * SUNJAY
STEPHEN FEARING
 * IAN SHERWOOD * BUDDY MONDLOCK * REBECCA PRONSKY 
KAREN TWEED
 MAY MONDAY * KRISTINA OLSEN
Also: MELISSA GREENER * HANNAH JAMES & TUULIKKI BARTOSIK

 
Particular tour dates as noted, but other times might also fit, so please do ask.
You may wish to know more, discuss options, request demos etc. and we'd love to hear from you. Simply reply to this email, or telephone 07929 135744 or 0117 9041870...
 


 

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