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Thursday 29 February 2024

Don't Miss Thank Folk For Fridays at the Ivy Pub in Sleaford Lincolnshire On Friday 1 March, 2024.

Don't Miss Thank Folk For Fridays at the Ivy Pub in Sleaford Lincolnshire On Friday 1 March, 2024.

Don't forget 'Thank Folkers' on Friday March 1. Dave, Hillbilly & Jock McLelland to open at 7pm as normal and this months guests will get you singing along. Keith Luckey from Peterborough, Nigel Creasey & Teri the busiest duo in Lincolnshire and Cabin Fever are a fantastic collective of musicians from the Lincolnshire wolds. All making the journey to Sleaford Town.

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Monday 26 February 2024

Lucky Town UK Acoustic Duo Based In Peterborough UK

Lucky Town UK Acoustic Duo Based In Peterborough UK

‘Lucky Town UK’ are Kev Towning and Keith Luckey both of whom, way back in the early
seventies, were members of Peterborough based band Butch.

Over the years they have both played in various bands playing a range of genres based in Peterborough, Norfolk and Lincolnshire.

The two old friends have recently reunited as a duo playing a range of songs and styles from Americana to Blues to Pop.

Check The Out...

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Thursday 22 February 2024

Martin Simpson – Skydancers The new album - out 12 April 2024 on Topic Records

Martin Simpson – Skydancers The new album - out 12 April 2024 on Topic Records


Topic Record report that Martin Simpson is not a man to sit still for very long.  Undoubtedly one of the hardest-touring musicians on the UK folk/roots circuit, he also averages a brand-new studio album almost every two years. ‘Skydancers,’ his 12th full length solo record for Topic since 1992, comes hot on the heels of last year's guest-packed collaboration with the American producer/guitarist, Thomm Jutz, ‘Nothing But Green Willow: The Songs of Mary Sands and Jane Gentry.’
 
Recorded by Tom Wright and Andy Bell in Simpson's hometown of Sheffield, ‘Skydancers’ collects new, Simpson-penned originals alongside 18th century broadside ballads and reverent reworkings from the songbooks of, amongst others, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Woody Guthrie, Nancy Kerr, June Tabor and Craig Johnson.
 
Skydancers' title track, commissioned by TV presenter and naturalist, Chris Packham, highlights the plight of the endangered Hen Harrier – ornithology, a keen interest of Simpson's.  Elsewhere he narrates the life and times of Billy Waters, a black, peg-legged man who became famous busking in London in the nineteenth century.  'Roger's Cascade' is a very personal, jaunty, 5-string banjo homage to master instrument craftsman, Roger Bucknall

Simpson is joined on ‘Skydancers’ by American pedal steel maestro, Greg Leisz, Andy Cutting on diatonic accordion, Louis Campbell on acoustic and electric guitar, Liz Hanks on cello, Ben Nicholls on string bass and a bevy of accompanying singers.
 
‘Skydancers’ will be available as a double CD, vinyl album and to download/stream.  Those pre-ordering from Propermusic.com (only) will also receive a limited edition ‘Skydancers’ guitar pick and signed postcard. 
 

Tracklisting : 

 

CD1 & Vinyl
1. Skydancers     
2. New Harmony 
3. Alan Tyne Of Harrow   
4. Tom Sherman's Barroom         
5. Lowlands/Billy Waters 
6. Roger's Cascade
7. Fragile Water  
8. Cherry Tree Carol        
9. Deportee        
10. Donal Og        

CD2 Only
1. Leaves Of Life (Live)
2. Yew Piney Mountains (Live)     
3. Buckets Of Rain (Live)  
4. Donal Og (Live)
5. Ridgeway (Live)
6. In The Pines (Live)       
7. Flash Company
8. Cactus Tree  

Pre-order Skydancers

 

Monday 19 February 2024

Tuesday 13 February 2024

Tickets For The Richard Thompson Full Band Ship To Shore 2024 UK Tour Are On Sale Now!

Tickets for the Richard Thompson full band Ship To Shore 2024 UK Tourare on sale now! Full dates below...

MAY
25 Corn Exchange, Cambridge
26 Bristol Beacon
27 York Barbican
29 Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow
30 The Glasshouse International, Gateshead
31 Aviva Studios, Manchester
JUNE
01 Victoria Hall, Stoke
03 Symphony Hall, Birmingham
04 New Theatre, Cardiff
05 Guildhall, Portsmouth
06 Brighton Dome
08 Royal Albert Hall, London