From: Sue Cavendish
[suecavendish_at_blueyonder_dot_co_dot_uk]
Sent: 28 November 2008
00:52
Subject:
NetRhythms Christmas Music & December Tour Dates
Hello Everyone, welcome back to
NetRhythms
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The BEST
ALBUMS OF 2008
Every year we ask NetRhythms' readers to email us their
Top 10 Albums and/or gigs. DEL DAY of Ark PR and RadioReverb is first with his
choices at
http://www.netrhythms.co.uk
The 2008 Lists will go up this weekend. Already
received are the choices of TOM ROSE of Navigator + Reveal Records * DAVID
KIDMAN of NetRhythms * GABY GREEN of Fifth Element PR * JOHN DONNELLY of The
Luminaire and Kings Head, Kilburn * SIMON BEARDS of NetRhythms .... and * yours*
will be there too, won't they!
DEL DAY will be presenting his 'BEST OF YEAR
SPECIAL' on RadioReverb today Friday November 28th at 6 - approx 8pm. He'll be
joined 'round table style!' by Shaun from Gilded Palace of Sin, and Dillon and
Martin from 'Simple Folk' radio show. Listen (and check out repeat times)
at
http://www.radioreverb.com/index.php?id=listen
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And now a few big
nights out in London - with comfy seats!
Monday 1 December 2008, 7.30pm THE LADY: A
Tribute to Sandy Denny, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London
In the
30 years since her death, Sandy Denny has emerged as one of the UK's greatest
singer-songwriters. Guests including former colleagues (Dave Swarbrick, Jerry
Donahue, Martin Carthy) and young admirers re-interpret her songs in this
special tribute showcasing her work with Fairport Convention, Fotheringay and
her solo career.
http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/music/folk-world/productions/the-lady-a-tribute-to-sandy-43399
Saturday 6 December Queen Elizabeth Hall, JOHN
McCUSKER'S UNDER ONE SKY
Scottish fiddler and producer John McCusker presents
a big folk band performance of new music and song featuring
instrumental
arrangements, folk-rock ballads and a new Gaelic lament from Julie
Fowlis.
The line-up includes singers John Tams, Roddy Woomble, Jim Causley,
Iain MacDonald on bagpipes and flute, guitarist Ian Carr, accordionist
Andy Cutting, bassist Ewen Vernal, percussionist James Mackintosh, and Graham
Coxon. The young Anglo-Swedish fiddler Emma Reid also performs alongside
McCusker.
http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/music/productions/john-mccusker-s-under-one-sky-42961
Thursday 11 December TWISTED CHRISTMAS at the
Barbican, London
Jarvis Cocker, Patrick Wolf, Sandy Dillon, Daniel Knox,
Bonfire Madigan, The Inn Ringers, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Foy Vance, The Smoke
Fairies, Frank Sidebottom, Kathryn Williams + Neill MacColl, Lou Rhodes and the
New London Children's Choir
The Barbican Theatre, Barbican Centre, Silk
Street, EC2Y 8DS 0845 120 7550
http://www.barbican.org.uk
* ALBION CHRISTMAS BAND TOUR (Simon Care, Ashley
Hutchings, Simon Nicol & Kellie While) * MATT ANDERSEN Solo Acoustic Blues
(Canada) * STEVE ASHLEY * BARKER BAND * LES BARKER * PHIL
BEER * BELLOWHEAD * TOM BLISS * BILLY BRAGG support Otis
Gibbs * PETER BRUNTNELL, MICHAEL WESTON KING & JEB LOY NICHOLS *
COOPE BOYES & SIMPSON: ON ANGEL WINGS with Fi Fraser, Jo Freya and Georgina
Boyes * COOPE BOYES & SIMPSON: CHRISTMAS TOUR with Fi Fraser, Jo Freya
and Georgina Boyes * CARA DILLON * DREVER McCUSKER WOOMBLE *
THE DYLAN PROJECT * FAIRPORT CONVENTION WINTER TOUR support Ken Nicol
& Phil Cool * FAUSTUS BAND * JULIE FOWLIS * MARY GAUTHIER
& CARRIE RODRIGUEZ (USA) * HARPER (Australia/USA) Blues * BRYN
HAWORTH * BOO HEWERDINE * JOAN AS POLICE WOMAN (USA) * MARTYN
JOSEPH * LUCY KAPLANSKY (USA) * RAY LAMONTAGNE (USA) *
LANDERMASON * LE VENT DU NORD (Canada) * JACKIE LEVEN * THE
LONG NOTES * LOUISIANA RED (USA) & MICHAEL MESSER * JEZ
LOWE & The Bad Pennies/ Jez Lowe Solo/ Kate Bramley *
MANDOLINQUENTS * SIMON MAYOR & HILARY JAMES * JOHN McCUSKER'S
UNDER ONE SKY * JAMES McMURTRY & The Heartless Bastards support Jon
Dee Graham (USA) * REG MEUROSS * KEVIN MONTGOMERY solo (USA) *
NEW WORLD PIONEERS TOUR with Catherine MacLellan, Ryan LeBlanc and Old Man
Luedecke (Canada) * LINDE NIJLAND SINGS SANDY DENNY (Netherlands) *
JACKIE OATES * OYSTERBAND 30th Anniversary tour with special guests
* ANGIE PALMER * TOM PALMER * PAUL & FRED ACOUSTIC DUO - The
Guitarists of Little Feat (USA) * TOM PAXTON (USA) * PEGGY & PJ
(Dave Pegg & PJ Wright] * KARINE POLWART * KATE RUSBY BAND
* SEASICK STEVE (USA) * SHOW OF HANDS * MARTIN SIMPSON * ST
AGNES FOUNTAIN (David Hughes, Chris Leslie, Julie Matthews & Chris
While) * MARTIN STEPHENSON * DAVE SWARBRICK Lazarus dates with Kevin
Dempsey and Maartin Allcock * HANS THEESSINK (blues/solo) * RICHARD
THOMPSON * TEDDY THOMPSON * STEVE TILSTON * THE UKULELE
ORCHESTRA OF GREAT BRITAIN * RACHEL UNTHANK & THE WINTERSET *
UISCEDWR * KREG VIESSELMAN (USA) * AMY WADGE * MARTHA
WAINWRIGHT (USA) * WATERSON:CARTHY * BRIAN WILLOUGHBY AND CATHRYN
CRAIG * CHRIS WOOD
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Take care and
enjoy the music!
Love, Sue