bluecrow music for the best in blues, country, folk, R and B, jazz and all other genres of indie, rock and roots music.
Here are The Norman Beaker upcoming tour dates .
https://www.normanbeaker.com/gigs/
And don't forget their annual local Xmas show at the Spinning Top Stockport on Wed 20th Dec
and the night after at the same venue, they will be sharing a jam Blues extravagana to celebrate the life of John Price, who sadly passed away in April, many of his friends and fellow musicians will be there. It will be a great night.
Check Out Stamford Record Fair on Saturday 2 December, 2023.
Stone Valley Festival Is Back! Stone Valley Festival Midlands is back at Thoresby Park, Newark on the 21st-23rd June 2024! The best in Ska, Punk, Indie, Pop Punk & Rock over 3 days! Tickets selling fast with headliners and many more acts still to come!
Liz Stringer, Arguably Australia's Finest Female Singer-Songwriter and Guitarist Touring Dates plus festival dates 26th January – July, 2024
 A venerated guitarist and vocalist, her notoriously powerful live performances and melodically rich, story-based songs have earned her a unique place among the most important Australian songwriters of the modern era. Liz Stringer has performed all over Australia and the world for her own musical projects aswell as being a session musician for countless acts, most recently including performing with Midnight Oil for their final ever tour in Australia, North America, Europe, UK and New Zealand. 2019 saw the release of collaborative project Dyson Stringer Cloher's self-titled debut album through Melbourne's Milk records to wide media acclaim and a sold-out headline tour and Stringer was honoured at Woodford Folk Festival as an 'emerging legend of Australian song' with a performance of selections from her back catalogue by her musical peers. Lizs' sixth studio album - First Time Really Feeling - was released in April 2021. This ten-song collection documents a recent personal reckoning and metamorphosis Liz experienced while living in North America just prior to the pandemic. Recorded at Toronto’s Union Sound Company and produced by Chris Stringer, known for his work with Timber Timbre and the Rheostatics, this is regarded as Stringer’s seminal work to-date and her most searingly personal: a musical time-capsule of love, loss and legacy, profound change and her recent path to self-acceptance. Between rock stylings, knee-buckling ballads and a world-class lyrical and story-telling prowess, Liz writes affectingly from a range of perspectives. Any fan will testify to the strength of her live performances, and this album is arranged much like one of her iconic shows such is the power and intent of her arresting vocal delivery.The album has been nominated for two AIR awards including Best Independent Album, APRA song of the year, Music Victoria award for best Solo Act and debuted at no. 14 on the ARIA charts the week of release. Emotional, unflinching,expansive and revealing - this album is unmistakably Australian music at its finest, and is, without question, Liz Stringer at her best. |
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For Live touring dates: January - July 2024 plus festival appearances please contact: gail@laughingdogmusic.co.uk |
Peterborough
Jazz Club delighted to have teamed up with Landmark Theatres to relaunch the Jazz Club at the Studio Theatre, The Key Theatre. The first two concerts of the
new season will be :
Friday,
26th January 2024. Music Starts 7.45pm. Tickets: £15
Dave
O’Higgins Quintet featuring Martin Shaw
The
opening concert of the new season at the Club features the classic front line
of saxophone and trumpet, with two of the finest jazz musicians on the scene. Dave
O’Higgins has established himself as one of the leading saxophonists of his
generation, a dazzling post-bop player with superb technique and a highly
developed harmonic sense. He has recorded 24 albums as leader, has been
nominated multiple times in the British Jazz Awards, and is a highly regarded jazz educator. Dave
also wrote and produced the last Matt Bianco album “Gravity”. Martin Shaw is widely regarded as one of the
leading jazz trumpeters in Europe, with his powerful yet wonderfully melodic
fluent playing. As well as playing in
many of the top jazz outfits, both in the UK and abroad, he has toured and
featured in the bands of Sting, Jamiroquai and Natalie Cole. Martin is
currently Professor of Jazz Trumpet at the Royal College of Music, London.
Dave
O’Higgins and Martin Shaw have a long musical association, dating back to the
1990’s and the quintet will be playing a selection of great jazz tunes and
standards, old and new, backed by a superb rhythm section.
“O’Higgins plays with quite exceptional fluency and his fund
of ideas never runs out.”
THE OBSERVER
“Martin
Shaw….one of Europe’s top trumpeters” Jazz Times
Dave O'Higgins (daveohiggins.com)
Friday,
16th February 2023 Music
starts: 7.45pm
Alan
Barnes & Karen Sharp Quintet
Alan Barnes (alto & baritone saxophone), Karen Sharp (tenor & baritone saxophone), Colin
Alan
Barnes is one of Britain’s most distinguished and versatile saxophonists and is
a prolific international performer, composer, arranger and bandleader. He is a
multi-instrumentalist, best known for his alto and baritone sax playing, where
he combines a formidable virtuosity with a musical expression and spirit that
have few peers. Alan has received over 25 top British Jazz Awards over many
years and has recorded 30 albums as leader or co-leader. His special
musicianship and warm rapport with the audience have made him uniquely popular
in British jazz. Karen Sharp has been an important figure on the UK Jazz scene
since 2000. She is admired for her melodic, full-toned playing, winning best
tenor saxophonist on many occasions at the British Jazz Awards and also
appearing in the list for rising star baritone sax in the USA Downbeat Critics
poll. Karen currently leads her own quartet and also appears as guest soloist
with visiting USA stars such as Scott Hamilton and Warren Vache, as well as
guesting with many of the top UK bands and has recorded 7 highly acclaimed
albums as leader.
Together
with the brilliant rhythm section backing Alan and Karen, this concert will be
top quality straight ahead jazz of the highest calibre.
“Barnes
is a legend in the British jazz community” John Fordham, The Guardian
“Sharp
loves melody, as reflected in her relaxed and natural phrasing” USA Downbeat
Magazin
We are grateful for the support of Landmark Theatres to Peterborough Jazz Club
Welcome to the website of British JazzArtist Alan Barnes (alanbarnesjazz.com)
Peterborough
Jazz Club Facebook
Dale Storr headlines Town Hall Live at Kirton In Lindsey this Friday, the 20th October 2023
'If there is a better New Orleans style pianist than the outrageously talented Dale Storr, please
Average White Band announce farewell tour for spring 2024! Tickets From… http://ow.ly/fN9z50OujzF
Average White
Band website
JOHN DOUGLAS (Trashcan Sinatras) -
Solo album tour
 John Douglas Scotland's Reveal Records is pleased to announce that the debut solo album from one of Scotland’s finest songwriters - John Douglas (Trashcan Sinatras) - will be released worldwide on October 6th. At long last, fans and newcomers alike are treated to an intimate snapshot of the talent, charisma and depth of this celebrated Scottish indie songsmith. With this release comes the start of a new chapter in John Douglas' creative life as he simultaneously looks back at a lifetime of musical adventures and accolades and moves forwards.The album 'John Douglas' features new recordings of some of John's favourite Traschcan Sinatras material, alongside new songs he has written and his own rendition of the Prefab Sprout classic ‘We Let The Stars Go’. The eleven songs on this record were performed solo, recorded live at Kyoti Studio in Glasgow (with no overdubs) by producer Mark Freegard, who also mixed and mastered the album. John Douglas explains, “I’ve often been encouraged by friends over the years to make a solo album, but the timing or inclination didn’t flow. Last year - out of nowhere - everything suddenly felt right and the process was quick and natural. Mark just set the mics up and I played my songs. No other musicians or overdubs. Me and my guitar. That way, I became the songs and they became me. The finished record, though varied in song styles, has a mood to it… it’s warm, thoughtful and quiet.. as I generally aspire to be. Hailing from Irvine on Scotland’s west coast, John has a rich history, making music with Trashcan Sinatras for over thirty years. Apart from his role as a songwriter (and guitarist) there, John has been playing live gigs across the UK and Ireland as part of his partner Eddi Reader’s band. He has also been performing solo sets at shows with musical friends, such as Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub), Jill Jackson and James Grant (Love & Money). Whilst visiting Irvine recently, John was invited to guest with Martin McAloon (Prefab Sprout), the two artists having first met in 1990 during Trashcan Sinatras' ‘Jordan - The Comeback’ tour with Prefab Sprout. Get in touch if you would like to book a date for a live performance. For live touring dates mid March - mid April & May
2024 please contact: gail@laughingdogmusic.co.uk |
Videos of Keith Luckey at the Thank Folk Festival Held at Sleaford, Lincolnshire, UK on 23rd September 2023
