Check Out Scotland’s Mànran’s Easter Weekend Online Concert

Scottish Supergroup Manran mark what should have been their own festival weekend with an online concert.

Manran will be going live worldwide again on Saturday 3rd April from 7pm BST. This is Easter Saturday and a night where the band were looking forward to welcoming 2,000 fans to Fort William in the Highlands of Scotland for their own festival again, but not even third time lucky has managed to get them under that marquee this Easter weekend. 

So, instead, sit back and join them from the comfort of your own living room, with a large house measure of course.

Mànran Live Tickets, Sat 3 Apr 2021 at 19:00 | Eventbrite

In the meantime check them out on YouTube...

MÀNRAN (manran.co.uk)

@ManranOfficial

John Prine Live LP Featuring Roger Waters, Jim James Planned for Fall

John Prine Live LP Featuring Roger Waters, Jim James Planned for Fall

John Prine and Friends, recorded at Newport Folk Festival 2017, also features Justin Vernon, Margo Price, Nathaniel Rateliff, Lucius

Recorded during the 2017 Newport Folk Festival, John Prine and Friends is the first-ever release of this celebrated and unique performance. Joining John on stage during this once-in-a-lifetime set were some of our very dear friends including (in order of appearance) Justin Vernon, Jim James, Margo Price, Nathaniel Rateliff, Lucius, and Roger Waters.

Offered exclusively through Newport Folk, John Prine and Friends has been mixed from the original multi-tracks and mastered specifically for this vinyl release. This limited edition 2-record set will be pressed on premium 180-gram vinyl and housed in a deluxe Stoughton old-style tip-on gatefold jacket. Each pre-order includes an instant digital download of the entire recording.

Proceeds from the sale support the Newport Festivals Foundation’s ongoing initiatives to aid musicians in need and music programs across the country.

Limited to 3 per customer. Attempting to purchase more may lead to cancellation of your order.

Pre-orders start Tuesday, March 23rd at 11 a.m. ET. and come with an instant digital download.

The album features Vernon on “Bruised Orange (Chain of Sorrow),” James on “All the Best,” Price on “In Spite of Ourselves,” Rateliff on “Sam Stone,” Waters and Lucius on “Hello in There” and the full group on the show-closing “Paradise.”

John Prine | Official Site

John Prine | Facebook

@JohnPrineMusic

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/