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Richard Thompson- 15th July, 2010
Over the course of his career, Thompson has earned numerous awards and honors, including the Ivor Novello Award for songwriting, the Orville Gibson Award for guitarists, and a spot in the top 20 of Rolling Stone's 2004 list of all-time guitar greats. In February 2006, he was awarded a BBC Lifetime Achievement Folk Award.
Eliza Carthy Trio - 15th May, 2010
Eliza Carthy is winner of 2 Mercury Prize nominations and an unrivalled 7 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards over a 16 year career. Eliza has performed and recorded with a diverse array of artists from Paul Weller to The Wainwrights, Billy Bragg, Nick Cave to Joan Baez.
A truly inventive and innovative singer and fiddle-player, Eliza is a gifted musical conceptualist confirming her position as, arguably, the most impressive and engaging performer of a generation.
Joined by two extraordinarily gifted musicians, Barney Morse-Brown on cello and Phil Alexander on accordian, piano and tenor guitar.
Bob Rollett & Freya Goldmark - 22nd March, 2010
Sold out for the last 3 years running, Bob returns again this year to entertain you with a selection of humorous and thought-provoking poetry to touch your emotions.
Bob was runner-up in the 2004 Times/Naxos Voice of the Year competition and is a reader of audiobooks, broadcaster, poet and performer.
Live music provided by the prodigiously talented violinist, Freya Goldmark. Now aged thirteen, Freya has been playing violin since she was four. Freya has already toured the Far East, playing 14 concerts in Hong Kong, Penang, Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok and just returned from a tour to Russia.
Chris Wood - 6th March, 2010
Chris Wood is an uncompromising writer whose music reveals his love for the un-official history of the English speaking people. With gentle intelligence he weaves the tradition with his own contemporary parables, his writing has been said to share the same timeless quality as
Richard Thompson at his best.
In 2009, Chris was awarded 'Folk Singer of the Year' at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards . Chris's album 'Trespasser' was also named Album of the Year.
I think Chris Wood is an incredible artist.... he combines stories and music in such an original and completely melodic way. Laurie Anderson
Norma Waterson, Martin Carthy & Mike Waterson - 10th October, 2009
For more than 30 years Norma Waterson and Martin Carthy have been at the forefront of the English folk scene. Joined by the great Mike Waterson, this promises to be a night to remember.
Norma Waterson, is one of the country’s finest, most emotive singers with her wonderfully compassionate voice, and is another BBC Folk Award recipient. Norma has also been awarded the MBE, and was the first folk artist to be nominated for a Mercury Music Prize when she famously very nearly pipped Pulp to first place.
Martin Carthy was awarded the MBE for services to English Music and won Singer of the Year and Best Traditional Track at the BBC Radio 2 Awards, 2005. His work has influenced a generation of artists, including Bob Dylan and Paul Simon.
Martin Simpson & Danny Thompson - 4th July, 2009
2008 was a fantastic year for Martin Simpson. He began by playing to a spellbound audience at the Goldmark Gallery. He then released the most successful album of his career, won Best Album, Best Original Track and Best Musician at the prestigious BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards and played on BBC TV's Later with Jools Holland and the Folk Proms at the Royal Albert Hall. 2009 finds him at the height of his powers, being nominated again for Best Musician.
In his 40-plus years as a professional musician, acoustic bass player Danny Thompson has worked with the cream of the music industry, from Roy Orbison and Rod Stewart to Pentangle, Richard Thompson and John Martyn. Widely regarded as a genius by musicians and fans alike, his improvisatory style is utterly distinctive. Recently awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.
Paspatou - 18th April, 2009
Around the world in one evening in the company of Phileas Fogg’s musical maestros. Expect a dazzling exposition of world music played on a vast battalion of instruments including fiddle, keyboard, sax, flute, mandola, guitar, percussion and spare parts from the kitchen sink!
Paspatou are an acoustic band playing an eclectic mix of original world and folk music. Styles include Irish, Eastern European, African, Latin, Klezmer & Arabic. These four multi-instrumentalists have performed at many art centres around the UK and are a staple of the festival scene, delighting audiences at the Glastonbury Festival and headlining the Riverside Festival last year.
Graham Dale - Flutes, Saxophone, Percussion
Graham Starkie - Mandola, Bass
Miriam Forbes - Violin, Piano
Jay Goldmark - Guitar, Bass, Percussion
Bob Rollett & Freya Goldmark - 16th March, 2009
Sold out for a third year in a row, Bob was runner-up in the 2004 Times/Naxos Voice of the Year competition. Reader of audiobooks, broadcaster, poet and performer, Bob returns again this year to entertain you with a selection of humorous and thought-provoking poetry to touch your emotions.
Live music will be provided by the prodigiously talented violinist, Freya Goldmark. Now aged twelve, Freya has been playing violin since she was four. A music scholar at Oundle School, she travels to London once a week for lessons with Maciej Rakowski. Last year Freya toured the Far East playing 14 concerts in Hong Kong, Penang, Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok.
Kathryn Tickell & Peter Tickell - 28th February, 2009
We have a very special concert at the gallery at the end of February, Kathryn Tickell (Northumbrian pipes, voice and fiddle) and her brother Peter Tickell (fiddle and guitar). They rarely play small venues anymore and so we are quite excited to have been able to book them.
Kathryn Tickell is a composer and performer whose work is deeply connected to the landscape and people of Northumbria. She took up the Northumbrian smallpipes aged nine and by thirteen had won every competition going. Kathryn has recorded many albums, toured extensively throughout the world, presented a series of programmes for Radio 2. She has recorded with the Penguin Cafe Orchestra, The Chieftans, Beth Nielsen-Chapman, Andy Sheppard and many others. She has also contributed to four Sting albums, and performed on BBC's Later with Jools. In September 2001 she performed as part of the Last Night of the Proms celebrations, the first time the event had included traditional folk music and in 2005 she was awarded Musician of the Year at BBC2's Folk Awards. Kathryn (Northumbrian pipes, voice and fiddle) is joined by her brother Peter Tickell (fiddle and guitar) for a very special, intimate evening of music.
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Kathryn Tickell is to be awarded the prestigious Queen’s Medal for Music 2009. The annual award, presented to an individual who is judged to have had a major influence on the musical life of the nation, will be formally announced by Master of the Queen’s Music, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, at a ceremony at The Sage Gateshead on Monday 26th January.
Ralph McTell - 29th November, 2008
“Anyone who fingerpicks guitar wants to play like Ralph McTell, and no-one else can write songs of such warmth or sing them so well.”
Ralph is a consummate entertainer who has won The Ivor Novello Award and a BBC Lifetime Achievement Award for his songwriting. His songs are marked by astute observation and a wry take on the human condition.
Coope, Boyes & Simpson - 6th November, 2008
'As passionate a tour de force of unaccompanied singing as you can imagine.'
Their programme will include traditional works by Vaughan Williams as well as songs from their albums Private Peaceful and In Flanders Fields. The BBC simply listed all their albums as recommended listening.
Iain Ballamy & John Parricelli - 10th July, 2008
It will not escape the listener that these two are old friends. Ever since meeting in the legendary Loose Tubes orchestra of the 1980's Ballamy and Parricelli have worked together, touring worldwide as a duo and in larger ensembles and diverse settings including film scores, a fusion quartet (ACME), a trio featuring Norma Winstone MBE (who is without question one of the finest contemporary jazz voices) and most recently an Anglo Swedish Quintet which features Keith Jarrett's legendary Swedish bassist Palle Daniellsen.
They will perform original music as well as little heard works by composers including Kenny Wheeler, Tom Jobim and the Brazilian legend Hermeto Pascoal with whom Ballamy has toured and recorded.
Expect an evening of sophisticated excellence from two truly notable contemporary players.
Eliza Carthy & Saul Rose - 14th June, 2008
'Eliza Carthy is one of the figureheads of the English folk revival … compelling' - Evening Standard.
'A gloriously natural singer' - Q magazine
'Seriously impressive’ – Telegraph
Describing herself simply as a ‘modern British musician’, Eliza Carthy is only just beginning to reach the height of her musical powers. Though she’s just turned 30, during a 14-year career she has become one of the most dazzling and recognised folk musicians of a generation. She has revitalised and made folk music relevant to new audiences and has captured the most hardened of dissenters with intelligent, charismatic and boundary-crossing performance.
Saul Rose is rare gem of a musician. He has been playing melodeon for 21 years, has won 2 folk awards and been nominated for a Mercury music prize.
Peter and Martin Cropper - 23rd May, 2008
Peter Cropper is one of the UK’s most influential and innovative musicians. As leader of the internationally renowned Lindsay String Quartet for over 40 years, he has performed at the world’s leading chamber music centres and festivals.
Martin Cropper currently runs an education programme for string players in Sheffield funded by the National Foundation for Youth Music. Martin is Head of Strings at Oakham School in Rutland and also Head of Strings for the City of Sheffield Youth Orchestra.
John Renbourn & Robin Williamson - 20th April, 2008
Two luminary folk legends combine for a superb evening of music and storytelling.
John Renbourn, a founding member of 60’s band Pentangle, takes the listener into a rich musical landscape of warm vocals and witty asides about the history of the songs. At the core is a revolutionary guitar style that explores the instrument's potential in unusual and beautiful ways, created and performed by a consummate master.
Though best renowned as a founding member of The Incredible String Band, it's hard to think of anyone else on the contemporary music scene who can demonstrate such a dizzying range of accomplishments as Robin Williamson. Robin is a songwriter of undisputed stature, a distinctive interpreter of traditional song, a published poet and novelist and author of instructional works for the fiddle and penny whistle, a leading light in the recent revival of storytelling.
Bob Rollett & Freya Goldmark - 20th April, 2008
Runner-up in the 2004 Times/Naxos Voice of the Year competition, reader of audiobooks, broadcaster, poet and performer, Bob Rollett returns again this year to entertain you with a selection of humorous and thought-provoking poetry to touch your emotions.
Live music will be provided by Freya Goldmark. Now aged eleven, Freya has been playing violin since she was four. A music scholar at Oundle School, she travels to London once a week for lessons with Maciej Rakowski (Nicola Benedetti is another of Rakowski’s students). In June, Freya will tour Kwala Lumpur, Hong Kong and Bangkok with the Oundle Chamber Orchestra, where she will play Summer from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons.
Chris White & Melanie Reinhard - 29th November, 2007
Mature perfect touch and bow technique - always in the service of high musicality and sensitive tone production.
(Sudkurier, Germany)
Delicately and subtly Melanie Reinhard accompanied on the piano, so salient were the creative impulses she chose when she took over the lead melody onto the piano.
(Badische Zeitung)
Alexander Baillie - 28th June, 2007
'relaxed, warm and generous' - The New York Times
'Baillie is a wonderful storyteller...music so warm-heartedly communicated' - The Independent
'It is our great loss that we hear Alexander Baillie so rarely in this country' - The Independent
Alexander Baillie is internationally recognised as one of the finest cellists of his generation, both for his performances of the classic repertoire and for his championing of music by young composers. Expect Bach, Britten and something wacky.
Jay Goldmark & Friends - 26th June, 2007
A rare event: an intimate evening of the songs and music of leading local singer-songwriter, Jay Goldmark with friends.
Expect acoustic guitars, flute, violin, piano, bass, mandola and voices.
Martin Simpson - 6th June, 2007
“Simpson is one of the UK’s finest folk musicians" - The Guardian
“His solo shows are intense, eclectic, spellbinding and deeply moving" - The Sunday Times
“Martin Simpson plays with breathtaking musical clarity" - Los Angeles Times
Widely acknowledged as one of the finest acoustic finger-style guitar players in the world, his interpretations of traditional songs are masterpieces of storytelling.
Winner of three BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, he is a master of his craft.
John Etheridge & Christian Garrick - 28th June, 2006
Lauded by The Times, Superb interplay - Gorgeous stuff, the duo of John Etheridge and Chris Garrick has stunned audiences with its range, dynamism, flexibility and spirit of adventure. Covering ground from Reinhardt - Grappelli to modern multi-layered texturing these two musicians weave a colourful tapestry of brilliant sounds.
"One of the best guitarists in the world" Pat Metheny
John Etheridge has been at the top of the jazz and contemporary guitar world for 30 years. Formerly in the legendary jazz-fusion group Soft Machine, Etheridge later took over from the great Django Reinhardt in Stephane Grappelli's quartet. He has also played with Dizzy Gillespie, Yehudi Menuhin, Pat Metheny and Nigel Kennedy.
"The best young violinist in jazz today" Dave Gelly, The Observer
The brilliant Christian Garrick has already made a mark with his superb playing on this most demanding of instruments. His solo violin is heard on many film soundtracks including An Ideal Husband, Moulin Rouge, Chocolat and Tomorrow Never Dies. With Eastern European folk/gypsy band, Szapora, he has performed all over the world.
Iain Ballamy & Stian Carstensen- 1st December, 2006
The partnership between British saxophonist Iain Ballamy and Norwegian accordian player Stian Carstensen is a truly magical one. Their duo performances are highly memorable experiences and have captivated audiences throughout Europe. Combining thoughtful arrangements and lyrical melodies with a large dose of wit, their playing is both wonderfully intimate and thoroughly entertaining.
The Guardian - Delicious
The Observer - Ballamy is one of Europe's finest jazz saxophonists and Carstensen a multi-instrumentalist who is also an accordion virtuoso.
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