NEW - BATH FOLK CLUB!!!! At long last, well, after 25 years anyway, Bath has a great folk club again, presenting the best in traditional and roots music from the UK and beyond. Check it out at www.bathfolkclub.org.uk
CD SHOP: www.fellside.com Fellside are a great folk label, with a wealth of British Isles performers old and new in their comprehensive catalogue.
BOOKINGS AND OTHER INFORMATION: www.emergingmusic.co.uk Our exclusive UK agents, Ken and Sue Bradburn, make up Emerging Music.
For
information about the duo or bookings, please contact them:
Emerging Music
Sarahs Cottage
Waytown
Horns Cross
Bideford
Devon
EX39 5DW
England
Phone: +44 (0) 01237 451933
Fax: +44 (0) 1237 451931
e-mail for Ken Bradburn: ken@emerging.demon.co.uk
e-mail for Sue Bradburn: sue@emerging.demon.co.uk
OUR INSTRUMENTS
Nancy's fiddles and viola were made by TIM PHILLIPS of Newtown, Wales: www.timsviolins.co.uk
James plays guitar-bouzoukis crafted by STEFAN SOBELL of Hexham, England, (www.sobellinstruments.com) and GRAHAM MCDONALD of Canberra, Australia (www.mcdonaldstrings.com).
VINCE HOCKEY in Southampton is another English luthier who will build you an excellent Martin-like guitar-bouzouki and can provide good value single strings for guitars/bouzoukis/citterns etc... His e-mail is vincehockey@onetel.net.uk
MUSIC
KERR FAGAN HARBRON: Our exciting new collaboration with Robert Harbron, booking now for 2008 and with a new CD "Station House" in the pressing plant. Contact James Fagan directly for details and bookings. www.kerrfaganharbron.co.uk
SANDRA KERR : Nancy's mother Sandra is a well-known British folk singer and songwriter, coming to prominence in the 1960s through her involvement with Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger's The Critics' Group. Nancy and James colloborate with Sandra in two projects: Scalene (vocal and instrumental trio, CD "Scalene" available on the Fellside label) and "Bagpuss". Sandra helped set up and is the core song tutor on the first and only Folk and Traditional Music Degree course at Newcastle University - see www.ncl.ac.uk/sacs/undergrad/degrees/
For information about Sandra's music or "Scalene" e-mail Sandra at sandra.kerr@songsharers.net
BAGPUSS - THE SONGS AND MUSIC
"Bagpuss, Dear Bagpuss, Old Fat Furry Catpuss" - did you know that Sandra Kerr and John Faulkner composed and performed all the music for the classic BBC kids' show Bagpuss? Sandra was the voice of Madeleine the Ragdoll, and several of the mice, while John was Gabriel the Toad. Now you can re-live those classic songs, like "The Bony King of Nowhere" and "A Friend of Mine, A Porcupine", in a great kids' show for all ages. Join original cast members Sandra and John as well as Nancy Kerr (playing Emily) and James Fagan (Yaffle the Woodpecker). An interactive and often hilarious performance, with loads of chances to join in, "Bagpuss" is a wonderful nostalgic show suitable for all ages.
"A truly lovely lovely show" Kim Headley Broadstairs festival.
For tour dates and bookings see www.cromulentmusic.co.uk
THE FAGANS: Nancy and James also play with Australian family singers The Fagans. James's parents Bob and Margaret and his sister Kate make up the rest of the Sydney-based group. The Fagans appear regularly around the Australian festival circuit and in 2004 will be touring in the UK. For information on the music and CDs by THE FAGANS, including the latest CD "Turning Fine", e-mail Margaret Fagan at: fagansmusic@yahoo.com.au
KATE FAGAN www.katefagan.com - Australian singer-songwriter and poet of rare skill. She toured in the UK in June-August 2007. Her debut CD "Diamond Wheel" is amazing - check her website to hear some of it and perhaps buy a copy.
ROB HARBRON (www.robertharbron.co.uk) is a charming renaissance Cumbrian who defines English concertina playing for us, and can seemingly do anything he turns his hand to - he designed our website, he produced our CD "Strands of Gold" and he is one of the extraordinary English Acoustic Collective. See www.englishacousticcollective.org.uk He also plays with fiddle player Emma Reid (see below.)
ROB HARBRON AND EMMA REID www.emmareid.se/en/robandemma.html - Beautiful acoustic music. You must hear them.
ALAN BURTON is an exceptional Uillean piper and very experienced professional reed maker - Check out his website: www.reedshaman.co.uk. We are lucky enough to have him playing on three of our CDs, Strands of Gold, Steely Water and Between the Dark and Light. Alan's piping can also be heard on the CDs of FIANNA, the Hungarian-Anglo-Irish group of master musicians: their CDs and gig list are at www.fianna.hu
TIM VAN EYKEN: Melodeon on our recordings Between the Dark and Light and Songlinks was played by this sublime musican and singer. He is currently starring as The Songman in the National Theatre's debut production of "Warhorse" and tours as "Van Eyken".
JOHN SPIERS AND JON BODEN are a crankingly good English duo as well as part of Bellowhead, and you have no doubt already found them at: www.spiersandboden.com
JON FLETCHER: One of Britain's best acoustic guitarists and a great songwriter to boot. www.jonfletcher.co.uk
MARGARET WALTERS: For UK orders for the new CD "Power in a Song" by Australian traditional singer Margaret Walters, featuring Nancy and James on several arrangements, please e-mail Duncan McFarlane: duncan.mcfarlane@ntlworld.com
OTHER THINGS
SPIRAL EARTH: A great new resource site with news for UK Folk, Folk-Rock and Roots music, album reviews, artist profiles and festivals.
PHOTOGRAPHY
RIK WALTON has taken many of our photos. Check out his excellent work at: www.rikwalton.com. Another live music photographer who knows his stuff is KEITH KITSON - see his photos at: www.keithkitson.com/folk.
TRADITIONAL MUSIC RESOURCES
TRADMUSIC.COM - This is a wonderful website filled with info about the music, artists and happenings in the traditional music world: www.tradmusic.com.
Northumbrian fiddle music and Northwestern 3/2 hornpipes:
Northumbrian Pipers' Society: www.nspipes.co.uk
Cheshire Rounds: users.powernet.co.uk/mkmarina/tunebook/tunebook.html
Pete Loud's Collection of north-eastern Fiddle tunes: members.aol.com/DrAJDoyle/music/horn02.html
Great books on the subject include John Playford's Dancing Master, John of the Greeny Cheshire Way by John Offord (published by the Friends of Folk Music) and Bruce and Stokoe's Northumbrian Minstrelsy.
FOLKWORKS, based at The Sage Gateshead, run great educational programmes in tradional music and also promote many concerts and projects that we have taken part in over the years. For further info go to www.thesagegateshead.org/folkworks/index.aspx