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LIVING
TRADITION SUMMER SCHOOLS - SUMMER 2009 ....

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I’m
really pleased to be heading off to ....Scotland.... again later this
summer.  I'll be teaching at the Living Tradition Summer Schools based at ....Dundee.. ..University..... 
It's a great and varied programme with top class tutors and promises to be both
stimulating and a lot of fun. ....

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I’ll
be teaching on the Guitar and Instrumental Week from 19^th – 24^th
July.  A great opportunity to learn direct from real master musicians.....

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Then
I’ll be Course Co-ordinator on the Arts and Crafts Week 26^th – 31^st
July.  For that week we will re-assemble
the team who worked together on the fantastic project in 2007 where we made a
giant mural scale wall piece on the theme of Migration.  This year we will be making another large
scale mixed media installation on the theme HOMECOMING.....

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Following
the Arts and Crafts week comes COMMON GROUND from 2^nd – 7^th
August.  This will be a very special week
with its unique blend of varied traditional arts activities and dialogues about
the role of traditional arts and culture in building a sustainable and humane
society for our children and grandchildren. 
And all this mixed together with lots of social activities.....

With an all in tuition fee of just £135 per week and full board accommodation
for £250 per week it represents great value.



Check out the courses on offer at www.livingtradition.org.uk....

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A track from the CD has also been included in the free cover mount CD on the New Year issue of fROOTS magazine.

You can hear clips of the CD and buy copies direct online via my website over at www.folkmusic.net/chrisfoster

OUTSIDERS – the new CHRIS FOSTER CD IS OUT NOW

and it's already attracting some very positive responses - thoughtful, passionate, intelligent, nerve-jangling performances...

- the CD arrived safe and sound and I already love it lots! Inspired idea to include Brother Can You Spare a Dime and I think Sir Aldingar is extraordinary, totally gripping all the way through.

...what a fantastic album Outsiders is - you're in great voice and singing brilliantly and the guitar/fiddle work is superb - fitting and not
overpowering.  I'm recording programmes for broadcast late May/early June - I'll put a track in - perhaps Song of the Olive Tree.  Bateman is wonderful - it sustains throughout.

and read more here...

http://froots.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3487&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15

http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=109840&messages=10

fROOTS magazine are going to do a feature and it's already starting to get played on radio in Iceland and the UK, including Mike Harding's show on BBC radio 2.

OUTSIDERS marks a significant development from my previous recorded work where the emphasis has been firmly on solo voice and guitar. This time I was aided and abetted on a selection of plucked, bowed and hit strings by Val Regan, fiddle & vocals; Trevor Lines, double bass, hammer dulcimer & bass hammer dulcimer; Bára Grímsdóttir, kantele & vocals; Ruth Angell, viola & fiddle; Laura Fiddaman, cello; Joe Broughton, mandolin and on harmonica by Fraser Speirs.

OUTSIDERS has 11 tracks drawn from traditional and current sources, ranging from classic big ballads such as The Cruel Mother via little known ballads and songs such as Sir Aldingar and The Man You Don't Meet Every Day to the very best of contemporary writing by the likes of Leon Rosselson – Song of the Olive Tree and Sally Goldsmith - Trespassers Will Be Celebrated. You can check out a few of the tracks here on my Myspace page.

The full track list is: Lord Bateman, Song of the Olive Tree, The False Bride, Cod Banging / Oscar Woods' Jig, Deportee - Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Woody Guthrie / Martin Hoffman), Sir Aldingar, Bedlam, The Man You Don't Meet Every Day, Brother Can You Spare a Dime? (Harburg & Gornay), The Cruel Mother and Trespassers Will Be Celebrated. The total playing time is slightly over 60 minutes

The CD is presented in a beautiful 3 fold digipak that includes a 20 page booklet with full lyrics and notes on all the songs.

SPECIAL OFFER
OUTSIDERS was be released on Thursday 1st of May.  The first batch of 100 priority copies bought direct from me are available on a first come first served basis. They are numbered, dated and signed for a special price of £15 sterling, $35US, 20 euro, 2,000 Icelandic Kronur including airmail postage and there are still a few left.
AND THERE'S MORE
The production of OUTSIDERS was part funded by money inherited from my parents Bill and Jean Foster. As a grateful tribute to them I will tithe 15% from the sale of each of the signed CDs to the Kebba Jarjou Memorial School at Wellingara in the Gambia. Bill & Jean supported this school project for a number of years and it was very dear to them. When they died the family organised a collection and the money was used to build a new classroom in 2003.

To order your copy of OUTSIDERS simply send an email with your contact details to:        < greenmanproductions@fsmail.net >