Katie Spencer Interviewed by Alan Ritson on Lincoln City Radio Tuesday 23 March, 2021 at 7pm.

Tune in to Fine Folk on Lincoln City Radio 103.6FM (http://lincolncityradio.com) on Tuesday 23rd March at 7pm to listen to an interview with Alan Ritson speaking to Katie Spencer discussing the release of her forthcoming EP reimagining the music of John Martyn. 

Katie underlines the sense of space that surrounds her home by the sea in Hornsea, East Yorkshire.

Katie Spencer | Facebook   

https://www.katiespencer.net

@KRSpencerMusic

@RitsonAlan

News About the Joe Strummer Foundation Studio at The Soundhouse Project

Strummerville have announced that the latest phase of the SoundHouse Project partnership has seen a new studio build-out in their King George Hostel, along with additional funding and in-kind donations of music equipment over the course of 2021.

The SoundHouse Project is part of a dynamic programme at Single Homeless Project (SHP), The Opportunities Programme. This offers collaborative and creative ways for people experiencing homelessness to take an active part, to learn, share and grow through a range of social and cultural activities.

SoundHouse facilitates positive experiences for people improving confidence, self-worth, and
mental well-being. It identifies and supports individual projects and facilitates collaboration, it enables people to feel part of something, take on roles, responsibilities, and ownership. This helps to express and hear themselves, to identify their own and others’ strengths, and support each other’s growth.

The Joe Strummer Foundation Studio is a welcoming and inspiring space that will help support the Soundhouse Project in its mission and its residents to explore their creativity.

Find out more here…

Joe Strummer Foundation - EmpowermentThrough Music

KIng King's Alan Nimmo on Guitar Talk 24 March 2021 at 3pm CST

Coming To Guitar Talk with Jimmy Warren. www.guitartalkofficial.com on 24 March,2021, King King Guitar Hero Alan Nimmo telling it just like it is.

Not to be missed! 

King King | Official Website | Music

(4) Jimmy Warren - YouTube

@KingKingUK

Bruce Lindsay Presents 'Two Bold Singermen and the English Folk Revival' YouTube Friday 19 March 2021 – 7pm

Bruce Lindsay is live on YouTube on Friday 19 March at 7pm presenting an enthralling hour’s exploration into traditional English folk music, told through the lives of Norfolk’s own legendary folk-singers Harry Cox and Sam Larner on the year of the 50th anniversary of Harry’s death. An amazing journey of traditional song: how ‘Black Velvet Band’, ‘Wild Rover’ and many more influenced the evolution of folk music, politics and protest in the 20th and 21st centuries. 

The incredible achievements of Harry Cox and Sam Larner – farm worker and trawlerman - that found their way to Ewan McColl, Peggy Seeger, Bob Dylan, Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span and many more. 

Hear the songs and understand the fascinating history of centuries. With Bruce Lindsay, Maddy Leedham and Tom Harrison.

To keep up to date with folk events and groups you can sign up to –

www.home-stage.co.uk/folk-sign-up

Gravity Festival UK - 15, 16 and 17 October 2021

This year's Gravity Festival UK 15, 16 and 17 October 2021

Three days of the best UK Hard Melodic Rock Once again Hosted at The Station, Cannock

Links are now live so go and check out the day splits in the ticket links below.
https://ticket247.co.uk/Event/30782

Friday Headliners Midnite City  with special guests Devilfire

Saturday Co Headline day The Treatment  and Melodic Rock legends Praying Mantis

Sunday Headliners Hell’s Addiction re no stranger to the station stage and they will be armed with a brand-new album.

All compared by the incredible Pete K Mally

Tickets suppliers… 

Ticket247 will look after all the ticketing needs all tickets from 2020 valid,

Topic Records Announce the 20th Anniversary of Martin Simpson’s - The Bramble Briar

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the release of Martin Simpson’s ‘The Bramble Briar.’  A native of Scunthorpe in Lincolnshire, Martin Simpson had left to live out his American dream 12 years earlier, living in such diverse places as New Orleans, upstate New York and Santa Cruz, California.

Already recognised as one of the great acoustic guitarists of his generation when he left, he immersed himself in American music and honed his skills playing throughout the USA. This album heralded his return to the motherland with a bang. Universally lauded, it won the BBC Radio 2 Folk Award for The Best Album of The Year in 2002. Martin was also awarded the prize for Best Musician that year and again in 2004.

Available for just £7.99 from Propermusic.com 

Martin Simpson - The Bramble Briar(smarturl.it)

Watch Martin Simpson Discussing the 20^th Anniversary of the Bramble Briar

                 Topic Records – Traditional andcontemporary folk from the British Isles

Topic Records c/o Proper Music Distribution, 1-5 Applegarth Drive, Questor, Dartford

Kent, England DA1 1JD. United Kingdom.

See Iona Lane Live Online Wednesday 17 March, 2021 - 8pm GMT

Iona Lane is a young, upcoming folk singer and musician, whose emotive and well-crafted songs aredelivered with immense passion, and an understanding beyond her years for the stories she is telling. 

Having found herself fascinated by folklore and discovering untold folk stories from rural parts of the UK, where the natural environment, landscape, sustainability and community are so integral to people’s way of life, Iona has honed her song writing to create something really special. 

Iona’s emotive and well-crafted songs are delivered with immense passion and an understanding beyond her years. She is currently working towards recording her much-anticipated debut album (see the crowdfunder here), and this is the perfect chance to see her perform live and find out more about what she’s been working on.

Tickets £14, with options to pay a bit more or less depending on your circumstances.

Find out more

Iona Lane

Iona Lane | Facebook

@IonaLaneMusic         Source The Folk Forecast

Check Out This Great Video of Chris Farlowe and the Norman Beaker Band

Norman Beaker is a blues guitarist, vocalist, songwriter, band leader and record producer who has been involved in the British blues scene since the early 1970s.

Chris Farlowe, the surname appropriated from American jazz guitarist Tal Farlow, and was fronting a group called the Thunderbirds, as Chris Farlowe & the Thunderbirds. They built their reputation as a live act in England and Germany, and slowly switched from rock & roll to R&B during the early years of the '60s. And, guess what? In the tenty twenties he is stick rocking.

Chris Farlowe and the Norman Beaker Band - the guitar don't lie (live 2012)

Vocals: Chris Farlowe, Guitar: Norman Beaker, Bass: John Price, Keys: Dave Baldwin,

Drums: Steve Gibson and Sax: Kim Nishikawara.

Cameras: Thierry Miguet abd Edited by Thierry Miguet (wahwah.tv)

Filmed @ Kulturbesen Schramberg www.schramberger-kulturbesen.de

 http://www.chrisfarlowe.co.uk​

https://www.normanbeaker.com/

Check Out Folk Rockers the Julie July Band

The Julie July Band are a British Folk-Rock Band - Dreamy acoustic folk songs to driving progressive folk rock - inspired by Sandy Denny's work and the wider folk, rock and blues movement of the 60's and 70's.

Performing songs from the Sandy Denny songbook. Tracks from her time with The Strawbs, Fairport Convention, Fotheringay and her Solo Career plus tracks from the band’s new album Folk Rock Album 'Lady of the First Light' - From dreamy acoustic folk songs to driving progressive folk-rock with passing references to psychedelia and country

Their Album CD's & Downloads now available direct from Facebook on the Julie July Band Shop. Folk Rock Albums: "Lady of the First Light" and "Who Knows Where the Time Goes?". Here’s the link…

https://www.facebook.com/juliejulyband/shop/..

JulieJuly Band | Spotify

British Folk Rock - Julie July Band

@juliejulyband

Melbourne Based Theodore Kidd Has Released His Latest Single/Music Video, “Melburnian”,

Melbourne based Theodore Kidd has released his latest single/music video, “Melburnian”,
which is a song about where he is based at the moment - the city of Melbourne, Australia. Melbourne went through a pretty rough lockdown last year, and because of this, he wanted to show his support by dedicating this track to what he says is one of the most expressive and creative cities in the world.

'Melburnian' By Theodore Kidd - Written And Performed By: Theodore Kidd

Recorded And Mixed By: Bandags Mixed And Mastered By: Kyle Zephyr

Director/Videographer: Kyle Zephyr Video Editor: Theodore Kidd

Follow Theodore Kidd: Website: https://www.theodorekidd.com​

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/theodorekiddm...

 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theodorekidd...

 Soundcloud: https://www.soundcloud.com/theodoreki...​

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theokidd_​

Twitter: https://twitter.com/theodorekidd_