From: Martin Snodin [martin_at_snodin_dot_com]
Sent: 06 March 2010 00:18
Subject: Acoustic Sussex Newsletter 2010-03-06

Newsletter               6 March 2010

 

Contact details
Tel. 01342 716975
or email:
info_at_acousticsussex_dot_org_dot_uk

Upcoming shows (updated)


Did you see ‘Swarb’ on Friday evening’s BBC ‘The One Show’? If not, you can catch it on BBC’s iPlayer service here

 

Ø     Monday 8 March
Click here for more details below

Dave Swarbrick
Support: Dana & Susan Robinson
PLEASE CHECK FOR LAST MINUTE AVAIABILITY*

Ravenswood, Sharpthorne

 

Ø     Tuesday 23 March
Click here for more details below

2010 BBC FOLK AWARDS BEST GROUP
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

 

Ø     Monday 26 April
Click here for more details below

Emily Smith
*SPECIAL OFFER – FREE TICKETS TO ANYONE ATTENDING DAVE SWARBRICK

Ravenswood, Sharpthorne

 

Ø     Wednesday 26 May
Bookings 01342 302000
Artist’s website

Gretchen Peters
(Changed from original date of 18th May)

Chequer Mead
East Grinstead

 

Ø     Monday 14 June
Bookings 01342 302000
Artist’s website

Eliza Carthy (band)

Chequer Mead
East Grinstead

 

Monday
8 March 2010
8pm
Dave Swarbrick

at The Ravenswood
Sharpthorne

www.theravenswood.co.uk

 

Support: Dana & Susan Robinson
ADVANCE TICKETS ONLY (£13)  SUBJECT TO LAST MINUTE AVAILABILITY – SPECIAL OFFER: TICKET INCLUDES FREE ENTRY TO EMILY SMITH ON 26 APRIL – see below 
Buy online via Acoustic Sussex website

or ‘book now, pay later’ on 01342 714810 / 716975

 

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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

Click here for News Release (PDF)

 


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

Monday
26
April 2010
8pm
Emily Smith

at The Ravenswood
Sharpthorne

www.theravenswood.co.uk

 

Support tbc

£11 advance only
(FREE IF ATTENDING DAVE SWARBRICK ON 8 MARCH – see above)
Buy online via Acoustic Sussex website

or ‘book now, pay later’ on 01342 714810

 

 

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Scots Singer of the Year 2008/9 Emily Smith has firmly established herself as a leading light in the folk scene. Since winning the 2002 BBC Young Traditional Musician of the Year Award, she has now released four critically acclaimed albums, toured extensively with her band on the international folk circuit and is recognised not only as one of Scotland’s finest interpreters of traditional song but also as a talented songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.

Her songwriting has not gone without recognition – She became the first ever winner from Scotland in the USA Songwriting Competition in 2005 after winning the folk section with her song ‘Edward of Morton’, another of her songs ‘Always a Smile,’ about the life of her Polish grandmother, was short listed in the final ten.

Alongside her solo career Smith has written, recorded and toured with artists from the folk scene and beyond including Eddi Reader, Beth Nielsen Chapman, Karine Polwart, John McCusker, David Scott and Phil Cunningham. She also appeared on the most recent series of BBC’s Transatlantic Sessions (Series 4).

“As far as I’m concerned she can walk on water” Mike Harding, Radio 2

“Smith could become to Scottish folk what Joni Mitchell is to its Californian cousin” Q Magazine

“Smith deserves to become yet another new folk celebrity” The Guardian

 


Emily Smith


Watch Emily Smith performing with the Darwin Song Project

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

For your future diaries...

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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     16 September – Show of Hands + Ella Edmondson

Ø     October (date tbc) Thea Gilmore

 

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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