From: Martin Snodin [martin_at_snodin_dot_com]
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Subject: Acoustic Sussex Newsletter 2010-02-02

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Newsletter             2 February 2010

 

Contact details
Tel. 01342 716975
or email:
info_at_acousticsussex_dot_org_dot_uk

And the award goes to…

The 2010 BBC Folk Awards winners were announced at a star-studded ceremony in London on Monday and we’re delighted these include several artists and bands appearing in the Acoustic Sussex programme in coming months, such as Lau (23 March), Martin Simpson (1 April) and Show of Hands (16 September). Congratulations also to other winners such as Sam Carter, Cara Dillon and Dick Gaughan, all of whom have performed for us in the last few months. Click here for the full list of nominees and winners.

In the meantime, here’s a reminder of all our upcoming shows:

Ø     Thursday 11 February
Click here for more details below

Hounds of Love
The music of Kate Bush

Chequer Mead
East Grinstead

 

Visit our MySpace jukebox to watch video clips – now playing:


Hounds of Love
(Running Up That Hill)


Kate Walsh
(Don’t Break My Heart)

Ø     Saturday 27 February
Click here for more details below

Kate Walsh
Support: Jono Harrison

Chequer Mead
East Grinstead

 

Ø     Monday 8 March
Click here for more details below

Dave Swarbrick
Support: Dana & Susan Robinson

Ravenswood, Sharpthorne

 

Ø     Tuesday 23 March
Click here for more details below

Lau
Support: Matthew Ord

Chequer Mead
East Grinstead

 

Ø     Thursday 1 April
Click here for more details below

Martin Simpson
Support: Emily Slade

Chequer Mead
East Grinstead

 

Thursday
11 February 2010
8pm
Hounds of Love
The music of Kate Bush

at Chequer Mead
East Grinstead

www.chequermead.org.uk

£12 (£10 conc)  
Box Office 01342 302000

 

Click here for News Release (PDF)

 

 

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Kate Bush only toured once, in 1979. With the blessing and personal involvement of her of her former tour manager and Kate herself, Hounds of Love is the first time that a live interpretation of her music has been toured in the UK.

This is no pastiche or cabaret act. Fronted by the passionate and impressive Josie Mills, this dedicated band of musicians are bringing to life songs that deservedly appeal to generations of music lovers. The band's programme includes many of Kate's hit's including Wuthering Heights, Babooshka, The Big Sky, Wow and Running Up The Hill, amongst others. Without attempting to emulate the voice of Kate Bush, Josie finds the expression to communicate Kate's songs with impressive, passionate sympathy.

Watch the band on their dedicated YouTube Channel and read some of the comments from people who've seen the band live, eg.

"Just to hear the songs performed live would have been enough, but your vocal mastery and the bands performance was astounding."

"Saw you at Milton Keynes and was amazed! Kate herself would have been so proud."

 


Hounds of Love

 


Hounds of Love
(Running Up That Hill)

 

Saturday
27 February 2010
7.30pm
Kate Walsh
at Chequer Mead
East Grinstead

www.chequermead.org.uk

Support: Jono Harrison

£12 (£10 conc)  
Box Office 01342 302000

 

Click here for News Release (PDF)

 

 

 

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Two years ago, 26 year old Kate Walsh recorded her breakthrough album, Tim’s House, in her producer’s bedroom for £500. It became an iTunes sensation, knocking Take That from the No1 spot (the only independent artist ever to have achieved the top spot). The song Talk of the Town became Single of the Week in March 2007. Her career took a step up from that time and she is regularly now featured in the music press and radio.

A graduate of the Brighton Institute of Modern Music, pianist/guitarist Walsh has been likened to singers such as Joni Mitchell and Kate Bush.  She writes delicately fragile, confessional songs that make the listener feel like a close personal confidante as she bares her soul with sometimes shocking candour.

Musically, Walsh undoubtedly falls into the category of ‘singer-songwriter’ - but one who adores Debussy, studies cello, listens constantly to Classic FM (and little else), bemoans the demise of vinyl and CDs, is entertainingly scathing about the conventional music industry (”it’s fickle, selfish, impersonal and backstabbing”). And she has established her own cottage industry to do it her way.

Support is from the increasingly popular (and local to East Grinstead) singer-songwriter, Jono Harrison.

 


Kate Walsh


Read about Kate in the
Sunday Times Culture magazine published in November 2009

Monday
8 March 2010
8pm
Dave Swarbrick

at The Ravenswood
Sharpthorne

www.theravenswood.co.uk

 

Support: Dana & Susan Robinson
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or ‘book now, pay later’ on 01342 714810

 

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Dave Swarbrick first became a hero of the British folk scene as as young instrumental virtuoso in the Ian Campbell Folk Group. By 1967, he'd  teamed up with Martin Carthy has a duo. This remarkable pairing played an important part in the tremendous shake up given to British folk music.

When they split as a duo in 1969, 'Swarb' went off to join the finest line-up of the hugely influential Fairport Convention and his contribution to folk/rock music is legendary and well documented.

In 1984 Swarb left Fairport and, along with Kevin Dempsey, Chris Leslie and Martin Jenkins, formed Whippersnapper, a group renowned for its drive and acoustic prowess.

In 1993, Swarb moved to Australia and for the next three years he lived in the Blue Mountains. He returned to England in 1996 a period of ill health followed, with a celebrated moment in 1999 when the Daily Telegraph ran a very premature obituary while Dave was ill in hospital. With his usual good humour, he retorted, "It's not the first time I've died in Coventry."  Since that time, his health has continued to improved such that he was able to start performing again in 2008, both solo and with Martin Carthy, along with other collaborations and festival performances with Fairports at their annual Cropredy Festival.

"The intensity of Swarb's fiddling ensures that sparks fly, its very occasional wheeziness only adding to the essence of spontaneity and conveying the total conviction in his music-making" NetRhythms

Support is from Dana and Susan Robinson, described by Radio 2’s Mike Harding as “Authentic, rooted and fused with great music if the past”

“Outstanding” Froots

 


Dave Swarbrick


Dana & Susan Robinson

Tuesday
23 March 2010
8pm
Lau

at Chequer Mead
East Grinstead

www.chequermead.org.uk

Support: Matthew Ord

£15 (£12 conc)  
Box Office 01342 302000

 

Click here for News Release (PDF)

 

 

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Three times winners of Best Group at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards (including the 2010 awards announced on 1 February), Lau are a formidable trio of three of the finest and most innovative exponents of modern traditional music in Britain today. Their now infamous live shows are a must-see experience with an energy and musicianship that is spellbinding. The trio employ rising, epic song structures not usually associated with folk music; in fact, it's more akin to those on the leftfield of rock and jazz.

Highly regarded musicians in their own right, the combined talents of Kris Drever, Martin Green and Aidan O’Rourke make for a fantastic and all-conquering trio. It is no surprise they were once again triumphant at this year's BBC Folk Awards.

"Creative and genre bursting" **** The Scotsman

"Lau are so special’ **** The Guardian

 “…quite frankly the best band in the world right now” Channel 4 Music

Support for this show is from the brilliant guitarist and singer, Matthew Ord, described by Americana magazine as "stone cold classic genius… ridiculously talented”.

 


Lau


Matthew Ord

Thursday
1 April 2010
8pm
Martin Simpson

at Chequer Mead
East Grinstead

www.chequermead.org.uk

Support: Emily Slade

£15 (£12.50 conc)  
Box Office 01342 302000

 

Click here for News Release (PDF)

 

 

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There is no doubt that after 35 years as a professional musician Martin is, right now, better than ever. Widely acknowledged as one of the finest acoustic and slide guitar players in the world, his interpretations of traditional songs are masterpieces of storytelling. His solo shows are intense, eclectic, spellbinding and deeply moving.

There is no-one who has more successfully combined the diverse elements of British, Afro- American and old-timey music than Simpson. His 15 years living in the US were well spent. In addition his own songwriting he has produced some real gems, from the truck-stop epic, “Love Never Dies” to the profoundly moving “Never Any Good”.

His career includes collaborations on stage and record with June Tabor, Kelly Joe Phelps, Jackson Browne, Danú, Martin Carthy, Cara Dillon, David Lindley, Roy Bailey, Martin Taylor, David Hidalgo, Steve Miller, Dick Gaughan and many more.

Simpson is a very regular nominee in the BBC Folk Awards having received Musician of the Year in 2002 and 2005, album of the year in 2002 and, most recently, Best Traditional Track in the 2010 awards (in which he received an unprecedented 6 nominations in 5 of the categories).

Whether playing American old-time music, blues, a Dylan song or his own material, Martin Simpson is unpredictable, individual and a guitarist of immense subtlety.

Although it’s his guitar virtuosity that’s frequently lauded, it’s as an interpreter of song that Martin Simpson really scores. Simpson delivers narratives with colour and conviction. Fittingly be-gonged several times at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, Martin Simpson is taking his place, not just as a hero for guitar-besotted acolytes but as one of the national treasures of English traditional music." BBC Radio 2

 


Martin Simpson


Emily Slade

Don’t forget that as well as our own shows, the Acoustic Sussex website has a Regional Gig Guide and links to venues and clubs in the South East that offer folk, roots and acoustic music – and our MySpace site contains over 500 links to a variety of other MySpace ‘friends’ sites, including musicians, venues, magazines and lots more.

 


Regional Gig Guide

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Acoustic Sussex is grateful for the funding support provided in 2009 by the PRS for Music Foundation

Future 2010 dates in the Acoustic Sussex programme include:

Ø     26 April – Emily Smith + support (tbc)

Ø     16 September – Show of Hands + Ella Edmondsen

 

More information can be found on our website: www.acousticsussex.org.uk. You can also find us on MySpace (with samples from some of the artists appearing) at: www.myspace.com/acousticsussex. If you know anyone who you think may enjoy our events, please forward this email to them.

 


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