Saturday 14th April 2012

Fairfield Halls, Park Lane, Croydon Surrey

DREADZONE plus support. Festival favourites, Dreadzone bring their eclectic fusion of dub, reggae, electronica, folk and rock on tour to celebrate the special edition reissue of their "Second Light" album. Dreadzone DREADZONE plus support

Famed for their stunning live performances and firm festival favourites, Dreadzone - whose music is an eclectic fusion of dub, reggae, electronica, folk and rock - are coming to STAND! on Saturday 14th April 2012 as they celebrate the special edition reissue of their acclaimed "Second Light" album.

DREADZONE

Dreadzone's groundbreaking 1995 album 'Second Light' is to be released on 5th March 2012 by EMI as a two disc special edition featuring previously unreleased live concert material from Glastonbury 1995.

Electro-dub pioneers Dreadzone formed in 1993 when ex-Big Audio Dynamite drummer Greg Roberts teamed up with Tim Bran, with the duo soon joined by bassist Leo Williams and keyboardist Dan Donovan, also formerly of Big Audio Dynamite, completing the group's fi

Tuesday, 14th February 2012

The Alban Arena, Civic Centre, AL1 3LD

Hailed as the originators of British folk-rock music, Fairport Convention is celebrating its forty-fifth anniversary as one of the most entertaining bands on the live music scene. Fairport Convention This year's Winter Tour will feature songs from Fairport's most recent studio album, the critically acclaimed Festival Bell

But the band has a vast repertoire to draw on and this concert will include favourites chosen by audiences as well as the new material

There will also be an opening set from gifted singer-songwriter Kieron Goss

Fairport Convention features Simon Nicol on guitar and lead vocals, Dave Pegg on bass and backing vocals, Chris Leslie on fiddle, mandolin, bouzouki and lead vocals, Ric Sanders on violin and Gerry Conway on drums and percussion

The band has won a coveted BBC Lifetime Achievement Award and Radio 2 listeners voted Fairport's groundbreaking album Liege & Lief 'The Most Influential Folk Album of All Time'

Whether you are a long-time fan or a newcomer to their music an evening

Friday, 17th February 2012

Ginglik, 1 Shepherds Bush Green, Shepherds Bush, W12 8PH

Bringing you the best of the Gypsies from the Mediterranean with strong Balkan flavour. Expect the balls and the brass from the Balkans, surf-rock Mediterranean guitar lines, massive bass-lines and a whole heap of electronics, scratching and beats. Gypsy Fever, Radio Zastava, DJ Soumankai, DJ Shefitza BalKanKan - madness on the dance floor with bands and DJs from around Europe! Let's call it a late Valentine and celebrate it in style, bring your date down to the dance floor! Don't have one? Then you really can't miss this one! Mash up of all things Balkan and Gypsy, it will turn your heads and have you begging for more!

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Gypsy Fever (UK)

A slightly manic six-piece London based Ethno/Rock/Gypsy fusion band

They draw inspiration from their diverse musical backgrounds - Rock, Jazz, Folk, Gypsy, Swing and Funk to create a unique sound all of their own

Drawing from their multi-ethnic roots (Serbian, Hungarian, English, Croatian and Italian) they mix Balkan Gypsy

Tuesday, 14th February 2012

The Alban Arena, Civic Centre, AL1 3LD

Hailed as the originators of British folk-rock music, Fairport Convention is celebrating its forty-fifth anniversary as one of the most entertaining bands on the live music scene. Fairport Convention This year's Winter Tour will feature songs from Fairport's most recent studio album, the critically acclaimed Festival Bell

But the band has a vast repertoire to draw on and this concert will include favourites chosen by audiences as well as the new material

There will also be an opening set from gifted singer-songwriter Kieron Goss

Fairport Convention features Simon Nicol on guitar and lead vocals, Dave Pegg on bass and backing vocals, Chris Leslie on fiddle, mandolin, bouzouki and lead vocals, Ric Sanders on violin and Gerry Conway on drums and percussion

The band has won a coveted BBC Lifetime Achievement Award and Radio 2 listeners voted Fairport's groundbreaking album Liege & Lief 'The Most Influential Folk Album of All Time'

Whether you are a long-time fan or a newcomer to their music an evening

Tuesday 28th February 2012

The Social, 5 Little Portland Street, Oxford Circus

Forever changing, consistently unique yet, always somehow the same, the Band Of Holy Joy began life as gutter chansoniers using junk shop instruments to propagate a brute romantic madly literate form of dispossessed urban folk music. Band Of Holy Joy, Jack Roberts, Fraser, The Beth Steel Forever changing, consistently unique yet, always somehow the same, the Band Of Holy Joy began life as gutter chansoniers using junk shop instruments to propagate a brute romantic madly literate form of dispossessed urban folk music.

Since then the band have scaled a few heights fallen down in one or two gutters, broken up, glued themselves together, toured the world, released a fair few albums for the likes of Rough Trade and fully explored other media by presenting two audio visual song plays.

These days the junk shop instruments of old are long gone, and guitars, violins and visuals very much to the fore. But the band continues to write about the same outsider concerns with the same measure of spirit and care and ma

Saturday 23rd June 2012

The Palais Hepburn Springs, Decadent old ballroom with art deco touches in the heart of mi

Harry Manx is a musician who blends blues, folk music, and Hindustani classical music

Harry Manx is a musician who blends blues, folk music, and Hindustani classical music. He was born in the Isle of Man, British Isles, where he spent his childhood, and now lives on Saltspring Island, British Columbia, Canada.

He plays the slide guitar, harmonica, six-string banjo, Mohan veena and Ellis stomp box. He studied for five years in India with Vishwa Mohan Bhatt.

Saturday 5th May 2012

The Palais Hepburn Springs, Decadent old ballroom with art deco touches in the heart of mi

Three couples, Chris Wilson and Sarah Carroll, Tiffany Eckhardt and Dave Steel, Jeff Raglus and Vicki Gaye Philipp will perform

Three couples from the Surfcoast area, variously members of bands such as Crown of Thorns, The Junes, The Black Sorrows and Weddings Parties Anything, each with their own dazzling set of unique music but all linked by the shared strands of blues based folk, rock and country.

" These shows have a special magic that can only be due to the unique chemistry of a musical couple. "

Chris Wilson and Sarah Carroll

Chris is one of our finest vocalists and harmonica players. Fronted the "Crown of Thorns" and has performed with anyone who's anyone in the Australian music scene. Chris's stage presence, killer voice and raw talent will leave you enthralled. Sarah Carroll. Singer, songwriter and guitarist. A country/pop bandleader in her own right, Sarah has just released her third studio album "Home and Heart". Sarah's character, humour and passion shine through in every performan

Saturday 21st April 2012

The Palais Hepburn Springs, Decadent old ballroom with art deco touches in the heart of mi

Join Tim and the band as they bring you a show rich in the art of gentle, beautiful songs.

With a live show that is breezy and nostalgic, characterised by skilful instrumental restraint and gentle sailing melodies, Tim Guy will play the Palais this April following the release of his fourth album.

A true drifter, he has roots across Eastern Australia, Papua New Guinea and more recently New Zealand, and will visit scattered venues up the eastern seaboard with his distinctive sound and his band in tow, telling stories through melody, harmony and a craftsman's way with words.

With a collaboration-rich history, Tim's previous albums include 2004's alt-country release Blazey, and 2007's low-fi gem Hummabyes, which were both received to high acclaim on the NZ music scene and featured many prominent guest musicians - notably Bic Runga, who went on to produce Blazey on her own label. The much celebrated radio-friendly album Big World was released in 2010 and accompanied by a multi-city European tour.

As

Saturday 7th April 2012

The Palais Hepburn Springs, Decadent old ballroom with art deco touches in the heart of mi

Emmy Bryce

Melbourne born singer / songwriter Emmy Bryce is a welcomed fresh face to the folk/pop world. She boasts an amazingly quirky upbeat persona and soulful nature that flows throughout her music. Her songs are a blend of catchy pop melodies and ideas mixed with beautiful acoustic instruments and vocals. Her influences include Angie Hart, Jewel, Regina Spektor, Coldplay, Billy Joel and anything off Broadway!.

No matter how noisy the venue, when Em starts to sing, silence takes over. People stop to listen. Her voice is angelic, pure, and soulful. She has total control of her instrument and she passionately tells her story with each note, with each facial expression. Performing live is where Emmy excels; the audience is never left disappointed and always left wanting more. She is a rare find..

Kate Vigo

With her next musical mission Kate Vigo continues her cosmic journey through and outside of genres, calling upon her uncanny non-linear perception of time that allows her to see everything th

Saturday 31st March 2012

The Palais Hepburn Springs, Decadent old ballroom with art deco touches in the heart of mi

Her sensual, athletic voice knows no boundaries, nor does the subject matter of her stories. Kristina Olsen is one of the most entertaining and compelling performers on the

international folk circuit. A superb multi-instrumentalist (acoustic guitar, steelbody slide guitar, saxophone, concertina and piano) as well as an award-winning songwriter with a big bluesy voice, Kristina has audiences around the world coming back for more. Her mix of powerful songs ranging from sassy bottleneck blues to lilting ballads to swing jazz to raunch and roll (as well as her hilarious storytelling) makes for a diverse and satisfying musical experience, on stage and on disc.

Born in San Francisco and raised in Haight-Asbury during the 1960's, Kristina's

approach to music and life was formed by that environment of vital cultural

expression, social activism and diverse musical influences. She now calls Venice

Beach, Los Angeles home but rarely sees it from touring ten months a year.

Her 11th recording 'Quiet Blue' hit th

Wednesday 14th March 2012

Zigfrid von Underbelly, 11 Hoxton Square, London

Folk & Dagger at The Underbelly FB Event: http://www.facebook.com/events/136676189785309/ Phillious Williams, Meg Cavanaugh, Daniel Pattison, Light Falls Forward, Plus Special Guests For sweetened undercurrents and a vocal as naive as Feist with the depth of Dark Dark Dark. For a real composer, leaving room (so much perfect r oom!) and warming up and decorating his sparse chords with his syrup vocal. Delicate but not too polite, Daniel Pattison is more like the more artistic moments of Imogen Heap. For unexpected, lilting, softly jazz-inspired love songs to comb the beach to. Meg Cavanaugh channels the deep voice of Erykah Badu glueing together her free piano-led letters. And the cracked antique, down and out Tom Waits-likened, swelling sounds of being drunk and broken up but wise and full of grace in your best shoes and vest. Phillious Williams churns up the blues and tango into a catchy serenade...

~ Phillious Williams ~

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~

Friday, 6th April 2012

The Irish Cultural Centre, Blacks Road, Hammersmith, W6 9DT

Beoga return to the Irish Cultural Centre for another lively stint on our stage. These guys are the most enigmatic bunch you'll ever see. Not to be missed. Support by the ever gorgeous Long Notes! Beoga, The Long Notes Beoga (Lively in Irish) are based in County Antrim, in the north of Ireland

The bedrock of their sound lies firmly within the Irish tradition

However, they are not afraid to incorporate other genres' nuances into their music

From bluesy riffs to Astor Piazzola-style jazz, to a raunchy New Orleans jamboree vibe, their music always returns to a wonderfully bouncy Irish sound

The result is traditional, with a huge sense of fun and adventure and it all works - wonderfully well

The Wall Street Journal describes them as "the most exciting new traditional band to emerge from Ireland this century." Irish Music Magazine writes, "Beoga are at the forefront of the new Irish wave."

http://www.beogamusic.com/

The Long Notes

With a distinctive folk, roots and celtic music sound, The Long Notes' ens

Wednesday 2nd May 2012

Half Moon Putney, 93 Lower Richmond Road

The legendary Folk Rock Band, now reformed, nominated for the Best Live Act Award, featuring the soulful voice and hard-hitting songs of John Tams, set alongside unique English brass and a dynamic rock rhythm section. Home Service Home Service was also born out of a desire to work with a brass section, an idea which emerged when trumpet player Howard Evans joined the Albion Band to work on Bill Bryden's original production of "Lark Rise" at the National Theatre. During its relatively short life in the mid-eighties, Home Service produced three albums (all still available from Fledg'ling Records), headlined at major festivals including Cambridge, Cropredy and Dranouter. They toured extensively, but were probably seen and heard by the greatest number of people when they provided music for the National Theatre's highly acclaimed production of "The Mysteries". This epic trilogy adapted by poet Tony Harrison, ran for many years at the National and Lyceum Theatres, was filmed for television and reprised for the M

Tuesday, 14th February 2012

The Alban Arena, Civic Centre, AL1 3LD

Hailed as the originators of British folk-rock music, Fairport Convention is celebrating its forty-fifth anniversary as one of the most entertaining bands on the live music scene. Fairport Convention This year's Winter Tour will feature songs from Fairport's most recent studio album, the critically acclaimed Festival Bell

But the band has a vast repertoire to draw on and this concert will include favourites chosen by audiences as well as the new material

There will also be an opening set from gifted singer-songwriter Kieron Goss

Fairport Convention features Simon Nicol on guitar and lead vocals, Dave Pegg on bass and backing vocals, Chris Leslie on fiddle, mandolin, bouzouki and lead vocals, Ric Sanders on violin and Gerry Conway on drums and percussion

The band has won a coveted BBC Lifetime Achievement Award and Radio 2 listeners voted Fairport's groundbreaking album Liege & Lief 'The Most Influential Folk Album of All Time'

Whether you are a long-time fan or a newcomer to their music an evening

Friday 3rd February 2012

Hootananny Brixton, 95 Effra Road, Brixton

Royal Gala: huge brass hooks, big bass-lines, dirty, raw vocals and infectious rhythms;Ta Mere, explosive vaudeville gypsy romany and swing; The Effras: rock with a tinge of country and folk; Leisure All Stars:dubstep, dancehall, funky house mash-up Royal Gala, Ta Mere, The Effras, Leisure All Stars Superhoot presents Royal Gala, huge brass hooks, big bass-lines, dirty, raw, soulful vocals and infectious rhythms. A genre defying cocktail of dirty funk, ska, reggae/Dub, breakbeat, balkan beat, latin and brass laden orchestral grooves + Ta Mere, explosive vaudeville gypsy romany and swing, rock the festivals + The Effras, rock with a tinge of country and folk, with songs about steam engines, lost rivers and living in SE19 + Leisure All Stars (mixed bizness), dubstep, dancehall, funky house mash-up

Saturday, 4th February 2012

The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ

New era for The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts. Exhibition highlights include The First Moderns: Art Nouveau from Nature to Abstraction, There Is Here: Photographs by Avi Gupter and Japan: Kingdom of Characters, all opening on February 4th. Avi Gupter, Japan. Kingdom of Characters, The First Moderns The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts announces a strategic initiative that will see its world renowned collections, exhibitions and building undergo a series of exciting developments over the next four years

The first phase of this development begins with the transformation of the west end of Norman Foster's landmark building

On 4 February 2012 the centre's doors will open to reveal a new exhibition programme, a post-graduate study centre, a sculpture garden and a new, superbly designed restaurant and bar

The west end of the building, including the restaurant will be open until 8pm daily

Exhibition Highlights include:

The First Moderns: Art Nouveau, Nature to Abstraction

4 February 2012 - 4 December 2

Saturday 4th February 2012

The White Lion, 232 Streatham High Road, London

Cane Hill Drive Thru plays ambient rock, with acoustic/folk music from Chase The Day and Inti Rowland Cane Hill Drive Thru, Chase The Day, Inti Rowland Cane Hill Drive Thru are a 4 piece from Croydon, and they play heavy rock with a touch of ambience. They've been playing for a year now, released their first E.P 'Lions' in august 2011, and are currently recording the new one.

http://www.facebook.com/canehilldrivethru

Chase The Day plays pop-infused choruses with fingerstyle guitars and the melancholia of Cohen, all via the Seattle grunge sound.

http://soundcloud.com/chasetheday

Inti Rowland is a London based singer/songwriter now touring his new e.p. 'eyes of a starling' alongside violinist Megan Jenkins.

http://intirowland.tumblr.com/

Every gig at the White Lion raises funds for Music4Children (www.music4children.org), a charity that has broken the records for the World's Highest Gig on Mt. Everest, and the World's Longest Gig in London. Music4Children has raised enough money to build an orpha

Tuesday 27th March 2012

The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, London

The rapidly-rising young English alt-folk duo have toured their haunting and spellbinding self-penned and traditional songs across the UK at the Bellowhead, The Unthanks and Lanterns On The Lake, and play here from their incredible debut album Kite. Jonny Kearney & Lucy Farrell, Jonny Kearney, Lucy Farrell The rapidly-rising young English alt-folk duo have toured their haunting and spellbinding self-penned and traditional songs across the UK at the Bellowhead, The Unthanks and Lanterns On The Lake, and play here from their incredible debut album Kite.

Delicate, haunting and heartbreaking are just a few of the words that have been used to describe Jonny and Lucy's music. After meeting at Newcastle University 6 years ago, they formed an unlikely alliance - unlikely because Jonny with his bittersweet kitchen-sink dramas, shows sympathy with American storytellers like Dylan and Tom Waits, while Lucy's traditional folkie upbringing and vocal style couldn't be more English.

Just as likely to appeal to fans

Tuesday, 14th February 2012

The Alban Arena, Civic Centre, AL1 3LD

Hailed as the originators of British folk-rock music, Fairport Convention is celebrating its forty-fifth anniversary as one of the most entertaining bands on the live music scene. Fairport Convention This year's Winter Tour will feature songs from Fairport's most recent studio album, the critically acclaimed Festival Bell

But the band has a vast repertoire to draw on and this concert will include favourites chosen by audiences as well as the new material

There will also be an opening set from gifted singer-songwriter Kieron Goss

Fairport Convention features Simon Nicol on guitar and lead vocals, Dave Pegg on bass and backing vocals, Chris Leslie on fiddle, mandolin, bouzouki and lead vocals, Ric Sanders on violin and Gerry Conway on drums and percussion

The band has won a coveted BBC Lifetime Achievement Award and Radio 2 listeners voted Fairport's groundbreaking album Liege & Lief 'The Most Influential Folk Album of All Time'

Whether you are a long-time fan or a newcomer to their music an evening

Thursday 16th February 2012

Hackney Attic, Hackney Picturehouse 270 Mare Street, England

Cool as Folk presents another 3 young artists that are sure to impress at the Hackney Attic Sam Lee, Gwendolen Chatfield, Zuzana Novak Sam Lee is hailed as "The rising star of traditional English folksong" and we wouldn't argue with that. His timeless sound is utterly enthralling and guaranteed to put shivers down your spine. Sam will be joined on the bill by a couple of musical gems from his Nest Collective starting with Zuzana Novak, Anglo-Czech mbira queen, whose atmospheric music from Zimbabwe is as hypnotic as it is beautiful. Nest up is Gwendolen Chatfield; an accordion wielding folktress armed with an enchanting voice and dark, powerful songs, backed up by fiddle, dobro and mandolin.