David Rotheray with Bella Hardy, Jim Causley
Thursday 12th August - Fruit, Hull
Friday 13th August - The Cluny, Newcastle
Saturday 14th August - Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
Sunday 15th August - Thekla, Bristol
Monday 16th August - The Troubadour Club, London
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"Roy Bailey is one of England’s finest and best folksingers [and his] remarkable rapport with his audience has won him many devoted fans over many years on the folk circuits of the world” John McAuslan, Director, Brunswick Festival, Australia Some of the biggest names in folk collaborate with the Red Skies string ensemble and Sheffield Young Singers to bring you an evening of folk music, featuring festive songs both traditional and contemporary. 
Up and coming vocalist Rosie Doonan, from Wakefield, supports Jim Moray, who has been described as the saviour of English Folk music as he applies his own twist and reinvents classics from the time when songs were recorded on wax cylinders. 
A ground-breaking five-piece band incorporating trumpet and trombone as well as squeezeboxes, mouth organ, percussion and guitar, Brass Monkey had a short but glittering career in the mid-'80s. A decade later the almost-original lineup of Martin Carthy, John Kirkpatrick, Howard Evans, Richard Cheetham and Martin Brinsford reunited to make Sound & Rumour, which heralded the start of the second phase of their career. 
Hammered dulcimer virtuoso Maclaine Colston and melodeon legend Saul Rose release their debut album Sand & Soil on April 6th 2009 on Get Real Records. These two great friends of fourteen years formed their duo in ‘996 while in Eliza Carthy & The Kings of Calicutt. 
The Press Release announces Matachin, is the much anticipated 2nd album form Bellowhead. Set to hit the shops on 22nd September this is a magnificently murky and rum sodden collection of 11 traditional and original songs from an 11 piece band who defy easy categorisation.GondwanaSound: other content and links
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