The Summer is A-Coming and Winter's Gone Away, Topic Records News

The summer is a-coming in, and winter’s gone away-o   Throughout the summer months, there’s plenty of our favourite folk music to enjoy at concerts and festivals across the land. Eliza Carthy and the Wayward Band start their festival programme at the Yorkshire Festival in Leeds on July 2nd, continuing with the following appearances: 31st July - Cambridge Folk Festival 19th August - FolkEast, Glenham 27th August - Tønder Festival (Official), Denmark 28th August - Purbeck Valley Folk Festival 29th August - Shrewsbury Folk Festival Martin Simpson has some festival solo shows and these select duo appearances with Dom Flemons, ‘The American Songster’: 17th July - Larmer Tree Festival SALISBURY 23rd July - The Village Pump Folk Festival WESTBURY 24th July - Folk by the Oak @ Hatfield House HATFIELD 31st July - Sidmouth FolkWeek SIDMOUTH Our friends at Fledg’ling Records will shortly be releasing Ever Popular Favourites - an infectious selection of songs recorded by Mr. Simpson and Mr. Flemons on tour in the autumn of last year. Six of the best!   Each month our special offers are a great way of filling the gaps in your music collection, or to give as splendid gifts for friends. The Topic special offers for July are six classic albums from the Topic catalogue at the very special price of only £6 each:        TSCD 298  JUNE TABOR ~ Airs and Graces TSCD 452   MARTIN CARTHY ~ Right Of Passage TSCD 475  WATERSON:CARTHY TSCD 517 DAVE SWARBRICK ~ Rags, Reels & Airs TSCD 563  The WATERSONS ~ FROST AND FIRE TSCD 567  MARTIN SIMPSON ~ Prodigal Son With accompaniment from Martin Carthy and Diz Disley, Rags, Reels & Airs is by the master fiddle-player Dave Swarbrick, who sadly recently passed away. Topic is proud to have arguably Dave’s finest album in its catalogue - the perfect example of the nature of folk music moving with the times, Dave’s modern techniques and ideas applied to traditional instrumental styles.   Our good friends at Fledg’ling Records have a very exciting release due in August, four previously unissued recordings by the wonderful Anne Briggs. ‘Four Songs’ will be released as a vinyl EP, with rare photos, three BBC recordings from the radio series ‘Folk-Song Cellar’, plus one song privately recorded by one of Anne’s oldest friends. Anne herself has been very excited about the project: “…the results couldn't have been better. Nice the way it came about too, with lost recordings and old friends caring for them for decades.” An Anne Briggs ‘lost classic’ is one of the albums on special offer this month from Fledg’ling; Sing A Song For You, recorded in 1973 with Steve Ashley’s band Ragged Robin, was intended to be the follow-up to Anne’s CBS album ‘The Time Has Come’, but remained unreleased until Fledg’ling issued it on CD in 1996. As with the other three great Fledg’ling titles here, it is now on sale at the special price of only £6 each:     FLED 3008  ANNE BRIGGS ~ Sing A Song For You FLED 3023  SHIRLEY COLLINS ~ Adieu To Old England FLED 3024  HELEN WATSON ~ Doffing FLED 3051  DAVY GRAHAM ~ Hat The TOPIC tote bag - perfect for the festival season (and avid record collectors). A black tote bag with the classic Topic accordion player logo on one side and a 1967 Topic flyer design on the other.   With best wishes from all at Topic

Four Lincolnshire Gigs Worth Checking Out in July (2016)

Sat 09 July (8pm) - The Plough, Holbeach St Johns 

PE12 8RF:

Jazz on a Summer’s Eve, featuring Patsy Mays (vocals & flugelbone), Andy Moran (trumpet), Steve Rodda (guitar), Mike Robinson (bass) and Ian Tait (drums)

 

Sun 17 July (4pm) – The Swan, Moulton PE12 6QB: 

Crossing the Tracks – 7-piece country/folk/blues/rock band (www.crossingthetracks.co.uk)

Thur 28 July (8pm) – Arts Coritani, Swineshead, 

Boston PE20 3LH: 

Crossing the Tracks – 7-piece country/folk/blues/rock band (www.crossingthetracks.co.uk)

 

Sat 30 July (9pm) - The Horse & Groom, Holbeach PE12 7ED: 

101 Proof – country rock/Americana (www.101proof.net)

New Tricks - Older Musicians Workshops in Lincoln UK!

New Tricks, Older Musicians, Workshops, at Lincoln Drill Hall.

DH Lawrence & The Vaudeville Skiffle Show - Black Rain - Out Now!

DH Lawrence & The Vaudeville Skiffle Show Featured Video       OUT NOW ...! ‘Black Rain’ – A contemporary musical/art collaboration between DH Lawrence & The Vaudeville Show and Eugenie Lee Pain is a topic that has touched everyone at some time in their life. Each individual’s experience of pain is unique. Yet many have tried to express pain in words and medics have even tried to express pain by numbers. Some argue that both physical pain and psychological pain, hurt and suffering can only be truly expressed through art. ‘Black Rain’ is a video/audio collaboration between dark folk troubadours DH Lawrence & the Vaudeville Skiffle Show and visual artist Eugenie Lee. Eugenie Lee is a Korean born (Australian domiciled) visual artist whose works focus on the human body and mind, and in particular chronic pain. Drawing from the complex relationships between the biological, psychological, and social factors of illness, Lee’s presents her narratives through paintings, sculptures, and installations and juxtaposes beauty and suffering exquisitely. DH Lawrence & The Vaudeville Skiffle Show hail from the dark valleys of Lawrence’s Nottinghamshire, and draw their influences from the local folklore. They write story songs that ‘will make you laugh dance and cry’ (Rocking Magpie). Blending folksy home grown Americana with a touch of Skiffle, their debut full length CD Sons & Lovers has been described as ‘an unlikely blend of attitude and Americana’ (No Depression). Struck by the exquisite beauty of Lee’s art and the futility of attempting to describe pain through words or numbers alone, they set about writing a soundtrack that would strike at the heart of pain through music words and art … The video ‘Black Rain’ is the outcome of that collaboration, combining Lee’s art installations, sculpture and film with Skiffle Show’s musical composition and narrative. You’d be unwise to expect an easy listening experience, as cello, fiddle and saw, collide with electric guitar, banjo and pulsing bass… whilst the words strike quite literally, at your heartstrings. Much like pain … ‘Black Rain’ is an experience that is perhaps best felt, internalised and combined with your own unique kaleidoscope of reality. PLAY IT LOUD!   Featured Video Black Rain     Watch Now     Music   Vaudeville Show A Needle & A Christ & A Soul Gone God Knows Where Diane   MORE MUSIC     Upcoming Shows     Wednesday, July 6 Nice 'N' Sleazy  •  Glasgow, SCT, UK  •  8:00pm Get the Details   Thursday, September 15 Hand and Heart  •  Nottingham, UK  •  8:00pm Get the Details   Sunday, October 9 Dixies Arms  •  Bagthorpe, NTT, UK  •  3:00pm Get the Details     MORE SHOWS   Press   "Sepia tinted ... unlikely blend of attitude and Americana" — Lee Zimmerman, No Depression, Mar 25, 2016

King King announce UK Tour Pre-Sale-It's Today!

Tour Pre-sale! A heads-up that Wednesday is the day that the tour goes on pre-sale for our Planet Rock Presents tour. We've also got those cheeky lads Broken Witt Rebels as a noisy support! Planet Rock will be running a 48 hour ticket presale for the tour starting at 9am on Wed 22nd June before they go on general sale on Friday. Tickets cost £20, head to Planet Rock Tickets to get yours!   See you soon! Alan, Lindsay, Wayne & Bob King King Manhaton Records

Lincoln Folk, Roots & World Music Festival, Lincoln Drill Hall July 31st 2016.

Lincoln Folk, Roots & World Music Festival 

Lincoln Drill Hall - 31st July 2016 from 2 pm.

With Lindisfarne headlining a lineup of household names and emerging artists, this will most definitely be a festival to remember and one not to miss!

Lindisfarne 

The unforgettable 70s folk-rock pioneers return to form with a classic six-piece line up of long-time members, fronted by original founder-member Rod Clements on vocals, mandolin, fiddle, guitars; Dave Hull-Denholm, vocal, guitars; Steve Daggett, vocal, keyboards, guitars; Charlie Harcourt, guitar, vocal; Ian Thomson, bass, vocal and Paul Thompson (ex-Roxy Music) drums.

With a repertoire of incredible songs like “Meet Me On The Corner”, “Fog On The Tyne”, “Lady Eleanor” and “Run For Home” and a reputation for live performance second to none, Lindisfarne’s power to galvanise festival and concert audiences remains undimmed and is guaranteed to get the crowd on its feet and singing along.

The festival line-up also includes...

Julie Felix

There are those who just have to play and sing; to whom there can be no question of quitting; to whom their work is not a job but a calling…..... Julie Felix is one such musician!

Gilmore & Roberts

Combine award-winning songwriting with astounding musicianship and their trademark harmonies to create a powerful wall of sound that just has to be heard!

Polly and the Billets Doux

Their energy-filled live performances and genre-defying quartet boast a genius blend of Folk, Pop, Rock N’ Roll, Soul, Country, Blues and even Gospel!

Said The Maiden

Three friends who discovered a mutual love of folk music and sing traditional songs from around the UK and America, often in three part acapella harmony!

The Life And Times Of The Brothers Hogg

The Lincolnshire-based acoustic/roots band, drawing on traditional and modern folk, new country and Americana

TICKETS from 01522 873894

ONCE EARLY BIRD OFFER ENDS, ADVANCE TICKET: £25
& ON THE DAY TICKET: £30 (sold from midnight on 30 July.

www.lincolndrillhall.com

Keith Luckey is at The Victoria, Union Road, Lincoln on Saturday 11 June.

Keith Luckey is at The Victoria, Union Road, Lincoln on Saturday 11 June.

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