Special guest - Thea Gilmore
The special guest will be singer/songwriter Thea Gilmore talking about her brand new album. There will also be music from The Fisherman's Friends and Emmylou Harris.
The special guest will be singer/songwriter Thea Gilmore talking about her brand new album. There will also be music from The Fisherman's Friends, Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell, Leveret, Barrule, ѿý Folk Award winners The Young 'Uns and blues from Chris Smither. There's also a preview of upcoming events with the weekly gig guide.
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Music Played
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Barrule
The King of the Sea
- Easy On The Records.
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Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell
The Traveling Kind
- Nonesuch.
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The Young’uns
The Drift From The Land
- Hereteu Records.
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The Fisherman's Friends
Santiana
- Own Label.
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Thea Gilmore
Coming Back To You
- Fulfill.
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Thea Gilmore
Inch By Inch (Featuring Joan Baez)
- Fulfill.
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Leveret
Its A Square Word/Cossack Square
- Haystack Records.
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Gavin Davenport
Castle By The Sea
- Haystack Records.
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Chris Smither
Hold On
- Signature Sounds.
This week's gig guide
There are far too many regular events to mention - so for full list of all dance clubs and sessions, see
Friday May 15th-Tuesday 26th May - BATH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL inc Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita, Hugh Masakela, Emily Portman & Sam Sweeney, Jennifer Crook etc
Friday 15th May-Sunday 17th May - WOOD FESTIVAL- Tunng, Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker, Spiro, Duotone etc.. at Braziers Park nr Wallingford, Oxon – tickets gigantic.com/wood-festival
Saturday 16th May
The Magnificent
AK47s– Stroud
Subscription Rooms
French dancing, with Venn, and The Daisy
Road Trio at Horsley
Village Hall, Horsley, nr Nailsworth 8pm £10 BYO Drinks Hall open from 5pm
Info: Peter 0780 0727 570
Ceilidh/barn dance at Rodmarton
village Hall between Stroud and Cirencester in aid of Minchinhampton Rugby
Club. Music by Baily’s Beads
Barn dance with Life of Riley, with Penny
Plowden calling at Over Farm Gloucester 7.30pm Info: 07925 999942
James Bell
(Oxford s/s) + support Troubshort & Turnipseed – Wychwood FC -
The Swan, Shipton
Road, Ascott -u- Wychwood, Oxon.
Sunday 17th May
Ralph McTell – Roses Theatre,
Tewkesbury
Sarah McQuaid – Forest Folk Club,
at new venue The Royal Oak, Whitecroft, nr Lydney 8pm
Hattie Briggs
Trio - Nailsworth
Festival
Singaround at Dursley Ac
Music Night – at 13 Five Acres, GL11 4JP
See
dursleyamn.org.uk
Kathryn Roberts
& Sean Lakeman – The
Fleece Inn, Bretforton nr Evesham
Monday 18th May
Cheltenham Ukulele Club meets every Monday at the Exmouth Arms, Bath Road, Cheltenham
Tuesday 19th May
Leveret (Sam Sweeney, Andy Cutting, Rob
Harbron etc) at Ruskin Mill, Old Bristol Road, Nailsworth GL6 0LA 7.30pm Info: 01453 837537
Paul Burgess – guest at The
White Hart Inn, Winchcombe 8pm
Folk at Frampton
on
Severn Village hall
Fingerstyle
Collective - Don Alder (Can), Dan LaVoie (US), Stuart Masters UK – Chapel Arts in Bath
Celtic Fiddle Festival
(trio) –
Swindon Arts Centre
Wednesday 20th May
Bella Hardy – Roses Theatre,
Tewkesbury
Tir Na Nog
(Irish duo)
- Market House, Minchinhampton 8pm Tickets £10 in
adv. £12 on the night. 01453 886879
Singers Club, Stroud. Traditional
Songs. Wednesday 8.30 -11pm, Little Vic, Queen Victoria Pub, Gloucester St ,
Stroud Free admission
White Horse Folk
Club (ev
1st and 3rd Wed) St Michaels Church Room, Vicarage Lane. Highworth. SN6
7AD
Chris & Kellie While + support Louise Jordan- Red Lion Folk
Club, Vicarage Rd, Kings Heath, Brum 7.45pm
Thursday 21st May
Johnny Coppin
& Paul Burgess – St
Laurence’s Church, The Shambles in Stroud 7.30pm tickets 01453 760900
Minchinhampton Folk Club, The Café Lounge,
Baptist Church, Tetbury Street, Minchinhampton
Friday 22nd May
Open Night- Cheltenham Folk
Club at The Beaufort Arms, London Rd
Dick Gaughan in concert at Huntingdon Hall, Crowngate,
Worcester WR1 3LD Info: 01905 611427
Lady Maisery- Wilts Music Centre, B
on Avon 01225 860100
Open House - Swindon FSC-
Ashford Rd Social Club 8.15pm
Friday 22nd May-Monday 25th May TALL SHIPS FESTIVAL at Gloucester Docks with many Glosfolk acts 10 – 4pm each day.
Friday 22nd May-Sunday 24th May GLOUCESTER SHANTY FESTIVAL Friday concert Tom Lewis plus The Portsmouth Shanty Men.. Info: Steve ruler@btinternet.com
Friday 22nd May-Sunday 24th May LECHLADE MUSIC FESTIVAL – Sunday headline is Status Quo /Saturday - Dr and the Medics -- weekend line-up includes s/s Louise Latham
Friday 22nd May-Monday 25th May CHIPPENHAM FOLK FESTIVAL….Nancy Kerr & James Fagan, The Young ‘Uns, Coppin/Silver, Melrose Quartet, Mick Ryan & Paul Downes, Tom McConville & David Newey, Mawkin, Simon Care Trio, Dovetail Trio, Brian Peters & Jeff Davis, Ninebarrow, Mrs Ackroyds Band -
Friday 22nd May – Sunday7th June BATH FRINGE inc Bruce Molsky, Baghdaddies, Cardboard Fox www.bathfringe.co.uk
Saturday 23rd May
Gavin Davenport - UTEA Wotton u
Edge 8pm
Anomaly play a mix of ac
songs at Queen Mathilda tavern, Avening 8pm
French Dancing
at Horsley V Hall- 7-11pm
Tom Paxton – St Georges in Bristol
Sunday 24th May
Blair Dunlop- The Convent,
South Woodchester nr Nailsworth 8.30pm
Gloucester
Shanty Festival..concert at Blackfriars ..with Exmouth Shanty Men, The 2
Anchors and many
more 7.30pm proceeds to Severn Area
Rescue Accociation - tickets from
Guildhall
Concert with violinist Michael Bochmann,
Shepherd’s Crook Folk Choir at Winchcombe Methodist Church. Children from Temple
Guiting and Isbourne Valley Schools will take part in singing games which were
done locally over 100 years ago. Michael Bochman and young violinists will be
playing dance tunes from Gloucestershire, Shepherd’s f/a Crook Folk Choir will
be singing local traditional songs. 4pm
Carmina - - Chapel Arts in Bath
Chris Smither (USA) at
Stourbridge Folk Festival (Katie Fitzgeralds)
Looking ahead…
Tuesday 26th May
The Young ’Uns (
ѿý Folk Award winners of “best group”)- The Convent, South Woodchester nr
Nailsworth 8.30pm
Rory McLeod- Bar of The
Roses Theatre, Tewkesbury
Eddie Reader – Salisbury
City Hall
Broadcast
- Sat 16 May 2015 17:30ѿý Radio Gloucestershire