Topic Records - Summers Coming

one summer’s evening, and the kids ran free… June 2016 marks the return to the stage of Simpson.Cutting.Kerr for a series of UK concert dates throughout the month. Martin Simpson, Andy Cutting and Nancy Kerr have been far from inactive since their last live outing in September 2015, with Martin continuing his very busy schedule of solo dates plus a tour with Martin Taylor, Andy recording and touring with Sam Sweeney and Rob Harbron as Leveret, (also picking up the BBC Folk Award for Musician of the Year in April), and Nancy Kerr collaborating with the Melrose Quartet, James Fagan and the Sweet Visitor Band. You can experience the infectious joy of three of the world’s finest musicians playing for the love of the music at 11 UK locations, starting at the Portsoy Festival on June 4th and ending in Salisbury on June 23rd. Full details of all tour dates: Simpson.Cutting.Kerr on tour The deluxe edition (CD and DVD) of SimpsonŸ.CuttingŸ.Kerr’s Murmurs is available from Topic at the very special price of £10, and copies of their two limited edition 7” vinyl singles are still available from the Topic online shop. Click on the sleeve images for more information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . “…every song was a performed brilliantly and had a memorable story behind it. Please, please, please come back again soon.” Andy Nelmes reviewing Martin & Eliza’s May 2016 gig at the Wiltshire Music Centre. Martin & Eliza Carthy have been touring the UK during May, and still have several concerts to play in June. Click the link to see where they are playing: Dad & Daughter on tour   June 2016 special offers Peerless vocalist Christine Collister’s two wonderful albums for Topic are on offer during June at the very special price of only £6 each:     TSCD1001 CHRISTINE COLLISTER ~ AN EQUAL LOVE TSCD1002  CHRISTINE COLLISTER ~ INTO THE LIGHT   Our very good friends at Fledg’ling Records have recently reissued two sublime early 1970s albums by the mercurial jazz multi-instrumentalist John Surman. Westering Home and Morning Glory were originally released by Island Records, and became significant pointers towards his later work for the ECM label.   FLED 3093  JOHN SURMAN ~ Westering Home FLED 3101  JOHN SURMAN ~ Morning Glory Fledg’ling also have some special offers available from their eclectic catalogue, two groundbreaking albums from Chris McGregor’s Brotherhood of Breath, and a lovely collection of live and demo recordings from Shirley & Dolly Collins, each at the special price of only £6 each.   FLED 3057  SHIRLEY & DOLLY COLLINS ~ Snapshots FLED 3062  CHRIS McGREGOR'S BROTHERHOOD OF BREATH FLED 3063  The BROTHERHOOD OF BREATH ~ Brotherhood Dr. Reg Hall recently launched the latest two volumes in our VOICE of the PEOPLE series at the Irish Traditional Music Association in Dublin. His complete talk is now available to view online: https://youtu.be/zL1n-g4oloM