Dec/Jan
Diary
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Dec 6th PAMELA WYN
SHANNON £7adv/£8
Massachusetts-based
musician, Pamela Wyn Shannon's inventive and intricate guitar work has been
described as "a tiny chamber orchestra working in unison at the end of her
hands." The seeds for her intricate folk guitar playing and wistful, timeless
voice took root when she discovered artists such as Pentangle, Fairport
Convention, Nick Drake, the Incredible String band, and a wellspring of
traditional Irish folk music.
Her 2001 album, Nature's Bride released on her
own Girlhenge Records label was recorded to full studio polish and received
airplay on the NPR & BBC Radio.
Since 2003, Pamela has lived a largely
isolated pastoral life as a caretaker in various estates throughout New England
and the United Kingdom. With portable recording equipment, she produced
“Courting Autumn”, a rustic almanac of autumnal songs burnished with a
melancholy mood, wistful vocals, delicate hand-spun guitar playing, weather-worn
and windswept by plaintive string and recorder arrangements. Her "studios"
included an 18th century house museum, a 19th farmhouse and stable, tool sheds,
cow barns, sheep farms, a Colonial piggery, and various
privies!
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http://www.myspace.com/pamelawynshannon
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Dec
13th RICHARD DOBSON + Jim
Hunter £8adv/£9....
Called the "Hemingway of country music," by Nanci Griffith,
who covered his tune "The Ballad Of Robin Wintersmith", Richard Dobson is one of
Texas' most literate songsmiths. David Allen Coe recorded his song, ":Piece Of
Wood And Steel", while Guy Clark used the tune, "Old Friends", written with
Dobson and Suzanne Clark, as the title track of his 1988 album.
A native
of Tyler, Texas, Dobson dreamed of becoming a novelist from earliest memory.
Graduating from Georgetown University, in 1966, with a Bachelors of Science
degree in Spanish, he spent two years in the Peace Corps in Chile, writing two
novels -- Seasons And Companions and The Gulf Coast Boys -- and several articles
for the British fanzine, Omaha Rainbow.
His dreams of becoming a novelist
were curtailed, however, by music. Playing guitar and writing songs from the age
of nineteen, he became a regular of the late-1960s and early-1970s Texan
songwriter scene that included Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, Mickey Newbury and
honorary Texan, Jerry Jeff Walker.
Dobson's debut album, In Texas Last
December, financed with money earned by working on shrimp boats and oil riggers,
in 1976, included a tune, "Baby Ride Easy" that was later covered as a duet by
Carlene Carter and Dave Edmunds.
Continuing to record without much
commercial success, Dobson moved to Europe in the early-1990s. He recorded his
1999 album, Global Village Garage, in Germany. In 2003, Swiss label, Brambus,
re-issued his early recordings.
Dobson's first novel, The Gulf Coast
Boys, was published in 1998. ~ Craig Harris, All Music
Guide
Richard will be accompanied and supported at TwickFolk by the
acclaimed Scottish gutarist Jim Hunter
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http://www.myspace.com/richarddobsonmusic
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Dec 20th Seasonal
'Singers Night' £2musicians/£3
This will also be our Christmas party with an array of food
and snacks kindly provided by our hosts, The Cabbage Patch
pub.
All door proceeds will go to 'Crisis', the national charity
for homeless people.
http://www.crisis.org.uk/
All singers/musicians/audience welcome !
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Dec 27th Closed as usual
between Christmas and New
Year
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Jan
3rd "New Year" Singers Night:
£2musicians/£3
All musicians/performers
welcome!
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Jan
10th REBECCA HOLLWEG + Sue Graves
£7adv/£8
Rebecca is a
London-based singer and songwriter, the daughter of visual artists. She was
raised in West London and rural Somerset. Her second album 'ORANGE ROSES' was
released in March 2008 and subsequently several tracks have been played on BBC
Radio 2, and on other BBC stations round the UK. UNCUT has
given the album 4 stars and says 'Carole King could not have penned a
better pop song than 'These are my tears'.....Delightful and kooky'.
Media appearances include a previous session for BBC Radio 2's Janice
Long Show, Woman's Hour and Loose Ends on BBC Radio 4 plus Tom Robinson's BBC
6Music show. She lives in London with her bassplayer husband Andy Hamill and
their daughter Ruby. Rebecca has played at various
London venues including The South Bank Centre, Ronnie Scott's,
The Borderline and the 606 Club, as well as arts centres and venues round the
UK.
http://www.myspace.com/rebeccahollweg
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Sue Graves is our
ever-popular resident singer (and the lady who can usually be found relieving
you of your money at the door). She heard Rebecca's song 'Orange Roses' on Aled
Jones' Radio 2 show in the summer and immediately bought the album and learnt
the song. Her debut of 'Orange Roses' at TwickFolk in September was filmed for
YouTube and also coincided with Rebecca approaching us about a gig...so we
thought it would be entirely appropriate to invite her to do a full half-hour
solo set tonight!
Sue doesn't have a
MySpace site but you can watch her singing Orange Roses
at
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oyAmqD32og
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Jan
17th SAM CARTER and EWAN
McLENNAN £8adv/£9
Sam Carter is a precocious young singer and
guitarist from Rutland, East Midlands. Since moving to London in 2004 Sam has
studied guitar with Martin Simpson and supported Bellowhead on tour, which led
Bellowhead lead singer Jon Boden to hail him as ‘the finest
English-style finger-picking guitarist of his
generation’.
In addition to this, Sam is a former Emerging
Artist In Residence at the Southbank Centre, where he collaborated with a wealth
of talented musicians and artists including Nitin Sawhney and the London
Philharmonic Orchestra.
Sam went down exceptionally well when he supported
Martin Simpson at TwickFolk in Oct 2008 and has just been accorded a 'Horizon
Award' nomination in the 2010 BBC Folk Awards. Sam is an independent artist and
has two releases to date, both self-released - Here In The Ground EP (2008) and
Keepsakes (2009)
You can even watch video evidence of Sam's
TwickFolk appearance at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndC54BeEazM
http://www.myspace.com/samjohncarter
Ewan McLennan grew up in Edinburgh and the
influences of Scottish culture and Scottish traditional repertoire are clear
within his music today. Hesitantly picking up the guitar Ewan could be heard
repetitively playing and keenly admiring the early, more socially-aware songs of
the great Bob Dylan. This led, gradually, to a broad exploration of
English-language folksong, as well as a fascination in how radical ideas of a
social and political nature had been, and could be. expressed through music.
Ewan later studied music at Leeds University School of Music where
he found himself paying particular attention to the vast repertoire of
industrial folksong. Today, Ewan’s singing and playing covers
the broad range folk music has to offer; from traditional ballads sung
unaccompanied, to dance tunes or melancholic airs arranged for the guitar, and
his own contemporary songwriting, following firmly in the folk tradition. His
first CD has been well received and been played on Mike Harding's Radio 2
show.
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http://www.myspace.com/ewanmclennan
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Jan
24th Singers Night: £2musicians/£3
All musicians/performers
welcome!
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Jan
31st DIANA
JONES £10adv/£12
Adopted as an infant and raised in New York, Diana left home
at the age of 15 in search of her roots. Unlike most of her friends, Diana was
attracted to the music of Johnny Cash and Patsy Cline, as well as contemporary
artists Emmylou Harris and Dolly Parton. It wasn't until she was reunited with
her birth family and the music of the Eastern Tennessee hills some years later,
that she discovered why that music had always moved her. After establishing a
solid folk career in the late 90’s in the fertile Austin music scene, Diana
returned to the northeast seeking time to heal from the loss of her beloved
grandfather, Robert Lee Maranville, who as a young man performed with Chet
Atkins among others. It was during this time of healing and isolation, that
Diana started writing from a deeper place, and after some serious wood shedding,
she emerged with some of the most honest songs of her life. When Diana Jones
went in search of her birth family, she also found her voice - as a writer and a
singer.
Since her first appearance at TwickFolk in January 2008 Diana has
released her acclaimed second CD "Better Times Will Come" on Proper Records,
toured regularly around the UK, made triumphant appearances at festivals such as
Cambridge, appeared on 'Later with Jools Holland' on BBC2 and taken part in the
BBC's 'Folk America' concerts at the Barbican. She will be over again in
January predominantly for appearances at Celtic Connections in Glasgow but we're
delighted that she's been able to schedule a return visit to TwickFolk almost
two years to the day after she helped us celebrate the club's 25th
anniversary
http://www.myspace.com/dianajonesmusic
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Looking ahead to 2010
7th
Feb: SARAH McQUAID
14th
Feb: ROBBIE HECHT and JACK HARRIS
21st
Feb: JEZ LOWE
28th
Feb: ALAN PROSSER
7th
Mar: MARTYN JOSEPH
14th
Mar: BEN BEDFORD
21st
Mar: Special Guest (To Be Announced in the next newsletter
!)
28th
Mar: KRISTA DETOR