From: Sarah Allen / FLOOK [sarah_at_flook_dot_co_dot_uk]
Sent: 27 June 2006 11:25
Subject: FLOOK NEWS : Summer Update

FLOOK NEWS

Welcome to Flook News. Here's a quick reminder of our upcoming summer appearances. We start with a concert on Saturday in Kings Lynn, then there are further UK dates through the summer, and also gigs in Canada, France, Spain and Ireland. You will find all our tour dates are regularly updated at: www.flook.co.uk/tourdates.html
We have recently updated our From the Road pages with some new pictures from USA and Canada, and also plenty from our recent trip to Mexico: www.flook.co.uk/road.html

Don't forget to look out for us on MySpace at:
www.myspace.com/2flutes

See you along the way,
Sarah, Brian, Ed and John Joe


DATES FOR THE DIARY

Saturday 1st July
UK
Kings Lynn
Arts Centre
www.kingslynnarts.co.uk/

Sunday 2nd July
UK
Crawley Folk Festival
www.hawth.co.uk/whatson_folk.php3

Friday 7th, Saturday 8th July
CANADA
Winnipeg Folk Festival
www.winnipegfolkfestival.ca/

Monday 10th - Tuesday 11th July
CANADA
Quebec Festival d’Ete
www.infofestival.com/

Saturday 15th July
FRANCE
Saint Chartier Festival
www.saintchartier.org/flash.htm

Sunday 16th July
BRITTANY, FRANCE
Batz-sur-Mer
lasession.free.fr

Saturday 22nd July
UK
Brampton Live
Cumbria
www.bramptonlive.net/

Sunday 6th August
UK
Wickham Festival
www.wickhamfestival.co.uk/

Thursday 10th August
UK
Sidmouth Folk Festival
www.sidmouthfolkweek.co.uk/

Friday 11th August
UK
Fairport's Cropredy Convention
www.fairportconvention.com/crop/cropmenu.htm

Saturday 12th August
UK
Snape Maltings
www.snapemaltings.co.uk/

Monday 14th - Friday 18th August
UK
Ed and Brian teaching at The Burwell Bash www.burwellbash.info/
Saturday 19th August
IRELAND
The World Fleadh
www.theworldfleadh.com/

Saturday 26th August
FRANCE
Bourg de Péage
www.festival-celtique.com

Saturday 2nd September
IRELAND
Gig N The Bann
Portglenone, Co Antrim
www.gignthebann.com/

Friday 8th September
UK
Bromyard Folk Festival
www.bromyard-folk-festival.org.uk/

Saturday 9th September
SPAIN
Orejo (Cantabria)
Festival de la Cornamusa

Sunday 1st October
IRELAND
Belfast
Openhouse Festival
at The Black Box
with Crooked Still (www.crookedstill.com) Doors 8pm www.openhousefestival.com/ __________________________________
MAIL ORDER

Haven (CD) 2005
In the pantheon of Irish/English folk groups they don’t come much more revered than Flook. Irish Post, November 2005

Haven swings with a blazing intensity that captures their kinetic live performances. The Observer, November 2005

The flute/guitar/bodhran combo keep racking up the superlatives. Breathtaking tunes with the unmistakable Flook feelgood signature. BBC, November 2005

BUY NOW: www.baka.co.uk/shop/pages/albums/haven.htm
OR FROM USA OR CANADA:
www.towerrecords.com/product.aspx?pfid=3375830

Rubai (CD) (www.flook.co.uk/rubai.html) 2002 Rubai was nominated as Best Album in the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2003
an extraordinarily good record
fRoots

head and shoulders above the rest... Magnificent.
The Irish Times

one of the essential albums of 2002
Songlines

BUY NOW: www.baka.co.uk/shop/pages/albums/rubai.htm
OR FROM USA OR CANADA:
www.towerrecords.com/product.aspx?pfid=2790862


Flatfish (CD) 1999
Flatfish is, quite simply, one of the most stunning contemporary Celtic albums you'll hear this or any other year.
Songlines

No frills, no studio gloss, just simple unadorned pleasure from start to finish
The Rough Guide to Irish Music

a cornucopia of sublime musicianship. Rating: * * * * * The Scotsman
BUY NOW: www.baka.co.uk/shop/pages/albums/flatfish.htm

Flook! Live! (CD) 1997
There is a certain instinctive magic about the interaction between the flutes that has nothing to do with studied technique or painstaking arrangements”
Folk Roots, March 1997

“The tunes are mostly new, the pace effortless, the standard of playing quite brilliant...the ultimate modern flute album.” The Irish Times, May 1997

a sound of marvellous vitality and quicksilver loveliness The Scotsman, January 1997
BUY NOW: www.baka.co.uk/shop/system/index.html
(We have located a few copies of this CD, and this link will become active in the next few days)
Also available (by post only):
Brian Finnegan Mad for Trad Tin Whistle Tutorial (CD-ROM) - £28
If you can pay by sterling cheque, and would rather order any of these titles, or albums from previous bands we have played in, by post, then you can print out an order form from this link:
www.flook.co.uk/ordercd.htm

And don't forget, you can now download Flook MP3s, either individual tracks or complete albums, from Tradtunes www.tradtunes.com
Haven, Rubai, Flatfish and Flook! Live! all available.

All Flook albums are now available from iTunes UK

www.flook.co.uk/

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