Hello - Kali
spera - Yassou from back home in Blighty
Did you realise
the last emailout came to you from a Bougainvillia bedecked balcony
overlooking the Aegean, on the beautiful Greek island of Skopelos. Even
on me hols there are FitB deadlines to keep. Despite best intentions
though and trying to keep half an eye on things, it seems I've been
slacking because here we are with one of the most 'exciting, talented,
insert additional superlatives of choice here' bands coming tomorrow to
the Gulbenkian and I'm told just 50 tickets have been sold - double
gulp! You know what you have to do don't you lovely peeps.
I've just had to confess the figure to Joe Broughton and I felt very
embarassed and a lot like doubling it and hoping for the best!
What I don't understand is that last time they came in 2012 they sold out
the Barn pretty easily, and everyone raved about them, and since then
the awesome Dan Walsh - Banjo etc etc supremo has been enlisted, making
them even more brillianter than before.
So here we are
with what has become known as the Debs' nag/plea/beg/ask nicely email
in the hope that we can improve the situation considerably before
7.30pm tomorrow evening. I've told Joe how well it has been known
to work, so please don't let me down....
I heard a sad
thing recently. A wonderful band, good friends of ours had a local gig
pulled just two weeks before the date because advance sales were so
poor, the promoter couldn't risk going ahead and potentially losing a
lot of money. I know it's hard to commit sometimes as there can
be lots of demands on money, but it really does help to avoid that sort
of thing happening if it's possible to book early on. I know many
of you do and it's great to see the rest of the programme selling well,
all of us - promoter, agents, artists and venues are hugely grateful
for that.
Only 30 tickets
left for Blair Dunlop on the 1st July in the Kingston Barn supported by
Tom and Dulcima from Coco & the Butterfields.
Surprisingly few
(36) sold so far for beautiful Heidi Talbot along with John McCusker and
Innes White on guitar at St Gregorys, CCCU on 14th July. Heidi and John
are a heavenly combination. If you're a fan of crystal voiced
artists such as Cara Dillon and Julie Fowlis then Heidi will be right
up your misty heather clad mountainside. Here's a brief review from a
recent date on this tour at The Live Room, W Yorkshire.
"What a
sublime evening of music we were treated to on Friday from Heidi Talbot
and John McCusker, accompanied by Innes White and special guest, Adam
Holmes.
Yet another sell
out crowd were there to hear superb vocals and musicianship from the
quartet on the very first date of a 25 stop tour, promoting Heidi and
John's new EP, ?Love Is A Bridge Between Two Hearts'. Huge thanks to
them and to everyone who came along and made it another brilliant
night."
It's going to be
a beautiful concert, there's no doubt about that. Have a look at some
clips of Heidi & co on the website gig page HERE
A reminder of
the rest of the Summer dates.
Friday 22nd June
- Gulbenkian, Canterbury Full Price ?15.50, 12-25yrs ?8
Blair Dunlop - supported by Tom (Coco) and Dulcima from
Coco & the Butterfields
Sunday 1st July
- Kingston Barn, Online ?14, Offline ?15, Door ?16, 12-25yrs ?7
Heidi Talbot & John McCusker
Saturday 14th
July - St Gregory's Centre for Music, CCCU, Online ?16, Offline ?17,
Door ?18, 12-25yrs ?6
Arcelia - Folk in the Barn, Summer Garden Party
Sunday 15th July
- Edge of Beyond, Barham, Voluntary Contribution on the day ?15, Under
18s ?8
Mike McGoldrick, John McCusker, John Doyle
Saturday 18th
August - Gulbenkian, Full Price ?16.50, 12-25yrs ?8
We have shiny
new flyers just arrived for the Autumn Winter programme. They'll
be available at the Gulbenkian tomorrow. As ever please keep
spreading the word. It's lovely when people come up to me (which
happens regularly) and say 'we're so happy to have found you, we love
this music and had no idea you existed' But I think of all the
amazing gigs that they've missed over the years. Better late than never
though eh! Also the more of you there are the less often I'll
have to 'nag/beg/plead/ask nicely' 
It's good to be
back, can't wait to see Joe, Paloma, Tom and Dan - the UFQ at the
Gulbenkian tomorrow, hope to see (lots and lots of) you too.
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