From: Sue Cavendish [suecavendish_at_blueyonder_dot_co_dot_uk]
Sent: 07 April 2010 12:20
Subject: NetRhythms Out & About

Hello Everyone - Happy New Year & Welcome back to NetRhythms

It's our "live" music round up of tours again - and for those reading this on a grey London day we are adding some Summer Festival News!
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LEADENHALL MARKET AMERICANA FESTIVAL July 5th to 10th Leadenhall Market, Gracechurch Street, London EC3V 1LR 5-9 July Lunchtimes 12.30-2pm - Evenings 5.30-7pm - Free entry! Saturday July 10th - 12.30-10pm - Adult tickets just £20, U16s only £5 From the USA: The legendary Al Perkins, The Orbitsuns, Elizabeth Cook and Tim Carroll, Rod Picott and Amanda Shires, Eric Brace and Peter Cooper, Last Train Home, Danny White, Suzi Ragsdale, Sara Petite, Phil Lee - From the UK: Andrea Glass, Bex Marshall, Elizabeth McGovern, The Nelson Brothers, Two Fingers of Firewater All artistes appearing on the main festival day will also be playing selected short lunchtime and evening sets acting as a taster to the main festival day on Saturday July 10th. Tickets are now on sale for Saturday 10th July www.wegottickets.com
SIDMOUTH FOLK WEEK - July 30th - August 6th Bellowhead, Show of Hands, Eliza Carthy & Saul Rose, Scottish Gaelic singer Julie Fowlis, Heidi Talbot with John McCusker and Boo Hewerdine, Breabach, Andy Cutting has announced that June Tabor will be one of his guests at the Andy Cutting and Friends concert, and his debut solo CD (ten years in the making!) will be launched at the concert. Martin Simpson, Pete Coe, Jim Moray, Jackie Oates & Belinda O’Hooley, Faustus, Nancy Kerr & James Fagan, Jon Boden and Sam Carter. Other recently-booked festival artists include solo appearances from Oysterband’s John Jones and Ray "Chopper" Cooper, Alistair Anderson, Coope Boyes and Simpson, Hannah James & Sam Sweeney, Rachael McShane, Spiro and more! The full list is on the website. Ticket for main events available from June 1st www.sidmouthfolkweek.co.uk
CO-OPERATIVE CAMBRIDGE FOLK FESTIVAL - July 29th - August 1st Kris Kristofferson, Natalie Merchant, Seasick Steve, Pink Martini, The Imagined Village, Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, Seth Lakeman, Sharon Shannon & Imelda May, Rokia Traoré, Show of Hands, The Unusual Suspects, Kathy Mattea, The Unthanks, Salsa Celtica, Dervish, Julie Fowlis, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Boban & Marko Markovic Orchestra, Gretchen Peters, L?nasa, The Holmes Brothers, Stornoway, Harper Simon, The Burns Unit, Jackie Oates, Breabach, Ezio, Brian McNeill, Lissie, C.W. Stoneking, Spiro, Joe Pug, Port Isaac's Fisherman's Friends, The Quebe Sisters Band, Mama Rosin, James Findlay, The Muckle Loons, The Committee Band, Hekety, Cocos Lovers, The Musical Mystery Tour, Tyde, Adam Brown & Alan MacLeod. Full details
www.cambridgefolkfestival.co.uk/

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Folk coming your way out on the Proud Highway Tour LISTINGS from April 2010 - last dates, current and upcoming tours www.netrhythms.co.uk/listings.html
* JOAN ARMATRADING * GEOFF ACHISON & THE SOULDIGGERS (Australia) * STEVE ASHLEY * LES BARKER * BELLOWHEAD * SUZY BOGGUSS (USA) * MARCUS BONFANTI * PAUL BRADY support Sarah Siskind * BRASS MONKEY (with Martin Carthy and John Kirkpatrick) * BREABACH * ELIZA CARTHY * ANNY CELSI with Nelson Bragg (USA) * KARL CULLEY * DADDY (Will Kimbrough & Tommy Womack) (USA) * MARYBETH D'AMICO (USA) * THE DEMON BARBERS * CARA DILLON * KRIS DREVER * STACEY EARLE & MARK STUART (USA) * FIDDLERS' BID * BENNY GALLAGHER * GANDALF MURPHY & The SLAMBOVIAN CIRCUS of DREAMS (USA) * THE GROANBOX (USA/Canada) * NICK HARPER solo * BRYN HAWORTH * BOO HEWERDINE * RAY WYLIE HUBBARD (USA) * IAN KING * JACKIE LEVEN * SETH LAKEMAN * LANDERMASON * LAU: Kris Drever, Martin Green, Aidan O'Rourke * LITTLE JOHNNY ENGLAND * LOUISIANA RED & MICHAEL MESSER * SARAH McQUAID * MAWKIN:CAUSLEY * SIMON MAYOR & HILARY JAMES/ SIMON MAYOR & The MANDOLINQUENTS * MEGSON * NATALIE MERCHANT (USA) * MY SWEET PATOOTIE (Canada) * DREW NELSON (USA) * PBS6 * GRETCHEN PETERS (USA) * PO'GIRL (Canada) * CHUCK PROPHET (USA) * JOHN RENBOURN & ROBIN WILLIAMSON * KIM RICHEY * KATE RUSBY BAND * SHOW OF HANDS * MARTIN SIMPSON * JOHN SMITH * SOCIETY * SOUTHERN TENANT FOLK UNION * MARTIN STEPHENSON * DAVE SWARBRICK solo * DAVE SWARBRICK & MARTIN CARTHY * TAKE THREE GIRLS: 'In The Round' Performance from Sara Petite (US) & Ange Boxall (AUS) * SEAN TAYLOR (blues) * STEVE TILSTON * KATHRYN TICKELL * AMY WADGE * WATERSON CARTHY * ALLISON WILLIAMS & CHANCE McCOY (USA) * CHRIS WOOD
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MUSICIANS' LISTINGS
We ONLY list Tours (not individual gigs) of those artists whose albums we have reviewed - even then there's no guarantee that we will be able to list them. We apologise if you have been left out.
Love, Sue

Sue Cavendish
www.NetRhythms.com

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PS NEWS from CMU DAILY 7th April 2010
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>COMMONS PASS DIGITAL ECONOMY BILL ON SECOND READING The Digital Economy Bill last night passed its second reading in the House Of Commons, despite the Liberal Democrats and a number of other MPs from all sides calling for the controversial legislation to be postponed until after the General Election. The Bill, of course, includes the copyright section which will introduce a three-strikes system for targeting individual file-sharers, and will give the courts the right to block access to infringing websites.
Tory culture spokesman Jeremy Hunt was also critical of the fact the government had let such an important bit of legislation slip right to the end of the parliamentary diary. According to The Guardian, he told the Commons during the DEB debate: "[This bill] could have been massively improved if there had been more scrutiny at the committee stage ... why is it debate on such a critically important bill has been left to the last minute?"
However, as expected, he said that the Tories would support most of the Bill, letting it become law before the General Election via the so called wash-up, and therefore with minimum debate in the lower house of parliament. He told the Commons: "There are parts of the bill that we will reluctantly let through. Digital piracy is a very real problem for our creative industries ... We do accept that action needs to be taken to ensure the internet is a functioning marketplace and that copyright infringers do not get away with their actions scot free".
The Bill was subsequently passed. It will now go through a mini-committee stage today, and have a third reading in the Commons within the week. The Tories are expected to insist certain parts of the Bill are cut, in particular those covering ITV regional news provision (always the bit the Conservatives have most disliked), but the copyright section is likely to remain as is, except perhaps for the previously reported collecting society clause, though that's the one bit of the Bill the music industry wasn't so keen on.
All that said, Hunt added that if his party form the next government, they would use "every parliamentary means at our disposal" to remove any aspects of the DEB that proved to have "unintended consequences". With regards three-strikes, he said that a Tory government would ensure "proper safeguards" were in place before any such system actually went live.
Labour culture man Ben Bradshaw again argued that the Bill had, in fact, been subject to much scrutiny, albeit in the House Of Lords. His Labour colleagues, meanwhile, said the more controversial areas - such as three-strikes - would be subject to more consultation with regards how they will work if Labour were to form the next government too.
Although increasingly conceding defeat on this issue, those who oppose the copyright section of the DEB continue to speak out. The head of the UK Pirate Party, Andrew Robinson, told CMU: "The government are still sticking to the ridiculous idea that writing letters will change attitudes to sharing online. The public will ignore the letters in exactly the same way MPs have ignored thousands of requests for proper debate. It's absolutely scandalous that the massive file-sharing communities have not just been ignored, but actively demonised. MPs need to be reminded that file-sharers have votes too". <