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Any recommendations, folk festivals etc etc- live music.
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no idea about that area but i did wonder if there are any folkies on here
any recommendations? what sort of stuff do you like?
ive just found:
http://www.gilmoreroberts.co.uk/
I like jamaican folk music 😉
Ramsbottom festival always has a bias towards folk music, but you've just missed this year.
[url=http:// http://humblesoul.net/home.html ]Humble Soul[/url]
This label often puts on live events. Have seen Liz Green and the Miserable Rich, both great
+1 for the Puzzle.
Trades Club in Hebden is also worth a look, I know there is another folk night held at the Blue Pig aswell - name escapes me.
Hora,a long way off,but an absolutely belting weekend
http://holmfirthfestivaloffolk.co.uk/
Ian
Perfect. I can stay with the inlaws and its the month of my birthday as well. Ta.
As pointed out, you missed Rammy festival last weekend. Thea Gilmore and Seth Lakeman were both fantastic
You've got Dulcimer near you in Chorlton. Which should actually be renamed Waist-coaty McBeardies, as you appear to have to be a member of Mumford and Sons to be allowed in. Folk-tastic!
You've got Words and Music coming up in Nantwich in a couple of weeks.
[url= http://www.wordsandmusicfestival.com/ ]words and music[/url]
Fancied seeing Thea again but its sold out already
Trades in Hebden is great.
Steve Tilston puts on some really good folk nights there.
Beer's cheap too.
Long time till next summer, but Purbeck Folk festival is worth a ticket every time. You might even see the lesser spotted CTBM charging toward Corfe on your way there 🙂
I think you've just missed the Otley Folk Festival. It's on every year, but Otley is folk music central so you should be able to catch some just about any time, anywhere in town
[i]Just missed[/i] ironically on Sat evening I popped on my Highlands Sessions DVD which pissed off mrs hora abit but maybe Ramsbottom and Otley were calling to me what I'd been missing 😀
My friend Lucy is the lead singer in a new-ish folk band Pilgrim's Way. They list all their gigs here, which should be be a pretty good reference for venues with other similar bands:
http://www.pilgrims-way.net/gigs.html
just looked up one of my faves Martha Tilston and she is playing nr you:
http://www.hebdenbridge.co.uk/folkroots/
titusrider, her dad Steve runs the folk nights at the Trades, which is where I first saw her live.
She is indeed both amazing & great.
In fact, I'm goint to post this:
Because it's excellent. 🙂
Saw her in Bath and she did an unacompanied song, no mic, in front of me and my Gf's table - Beautiful (ps she has a new album on the way end of oct according to her website)
Also recommend Kathryn roberts and shaun lakeman on that hebden bridge festival
The New Inn at the foot of Clitheroe castle has open mic nights and regular folk nights as well a a superb selection of ales.
All the other pubs in Clitheroe are crap lager-lout dumps.
what sort of folk nights? do you mean gigs? sessions? great session in stockport at the crown on a sunday afternoon. if you want french music, once a month on a thursday in huddersfield at the kings head on the station platform.
Gilmore-roberts are great, loved their first album
O'Hooley & Tidow are on at The Trades on Sun 7th Oct. Should be a good night.
3 Stags heads in Wardlow (peak) on a Sunday afternoon is good (not sure how regular though)
Hora
Have a look at the below for what is coming up. This Friday it's Dave Swarbrick and Martyn Carthy. Folk legends playing in Grinton just a short walk from the Dales Bike Centre. I shall be there on Friday night and out over Harkerside Saturday.
For a village Reeth gets some pretty good folk acts (John Tams last weekend). It's worth making the trip.
www.reethmemorialhall.co.uk
Nice to know there seem to be quite a few folk fans. I just thought it was me, getting old. 😀
[i] This Friday it's Dave Swarbrick and Martyn Carthy[/i]
If you can then go - they're fantastic.
I went to see Swarbrick and Carthy on Sunday in Keswick. Massively disappointing unfortunately. I'm a big Dave Swarbrick fan, but he really should have retired years ago, after his big illness. Martin Carthy's hugely overrated, but because he's the 'grand old man' of British folk, he gets away with it. His wife and daughter are fantastic, though. Having said all that, Swarbrick has reputedly had money problems and I don't begrudge him the ticket price beacuse of all the pleasure I've had from his music over the last 40 years or so ....
"This Friday it's Dave Swarbrick and Martyn Carthy
If you can then go - they're fantastic."
I shall be there (again), Swarbrick is fantastic.
Binners you are getting old but so are the rest of us, I am past your level of winging about politics so suspect I'm older.
The Railway pub in Greenfield, Saddleworth has something on most Sunday afternoons, it's dead opposite the station too 🙂
November 4th is 'The Curragh Sons' who are Irish folk... that'll be a good afternoon. Beer's pretty good in there too as it's on the Ale train, so generally 3-4 hand pulls to choose from.
The Railway pub in Greenfield, Saddleworth has something on most Sunday afternoons, it's dead opposite the station too
If its chucking it down Sunday I may ask the hora's if they fancy a train journey with beer and pub food up the line to Hudds and back again......
A bit further south than you were considering, but the [url= http://www.brightphoebus.com/Greystones.html ]Bright Phoebus[/url] nights in Sheffield are phenomenal. Hosted generally by one of the following: Roy Bailey, Martin Simpson, Fay Heild, John Boden or Andy Cutting.
They only stretch as far as pork pies and pickled eggs for food in the Railway, but other pubs around there do food, or Uppermill down the road is full of Cafe's
Might be worth giving them a ring if you're planning on going (no website I can find) to see what's on.
What young child wouldn't jump up at the chance to spend Sunday watching his dad gorge on pickled eggs, while stroking his chin, listening to folk music, and guzzling warm ale all afternoon? Wacky Warehouse has got **** all on this dad! Can I have another pork pie?
And its a dream ticket for the missus too. Why not complete this vision of matrimonial nirvana and get her to drive?
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If she could drive I'd have died an alcoholic long ago..........
Genuine lol at binners there. Parenting masterclass.
Check out the "folk trains" that run from Sheffield / Manchester out into the peaks. Always good fun for the price of a normal train ticket & yer booze/grub money.