Club scene gets going
THE local club scene gets into gear this week, starting tomorrow night at Sedgefield Cricket Club, when The Young Uns are top of the bill. On Saturday choose between nu-folk duo Blackheart at Sadberge...
View ArticleMemory lane
MEETING legendary Tyneside singer and musician Jim Irvine at South Shields folk club last Sunday caused me to wander down memory lane. It’s 40 years ago since I first met Jim, then organiser of the...
View ArticleFolk Rising concert
THERE’S plenty of good stuff happening this week to encourage us to brave the wildest of weather, starting tonight, when there’s a chance to get the scoop on the folk stars of tomorrow at Gateshead’s...
View ArticleOld and new names
SOME old favourites and some new names will be in the region’s folk venues in the week ahead. Tonight we’re really spoiled for choice, with George Welch at Blaydon’s Tynefolk, Scots balladeer Tich...
View ArticleBBC Folk Awards
AS WE sat in the jam-packed Royal Concert Hall, in Glasgow, last week for the annual BBC Folk Awards ceremony, it was hard not to feel that folk music was the most important thing in the world.
View ArticleFolk around the region
IT is a busy and varied week for North-East folk fans, starting tonight with Kieran Halpin at Darlington’s Copper Beech.
View ArticleGretchen or Richard
GATESHEAD’S Sage presents us with something of a conundrum this weekend.
View ArticleProper Music
PROPER Music is the UK’s leading CD distribution company and it has focused on getting specialist music, including folk, country and jazz, out to record shops and festival outlets.
View ArticleLocal acts
THERE is a wide variery of live music in the week ahead, featuring the best in local acts as well as some national names.
View ArticleSpring Thing
DARLINGTON’S annual Spring Thing folkgathering happens this weekend at The Dolphin Centre, with a preliminary concert at The Copper Beech tonight with Steve Hicks and Lynn Goulburn. Then there’s a...
View ArticleWorth venturing out
LET’S not talk about snow and cold weather, let’s look ahead to a week of fine folk music that it will be worth venturing out to hear. Tonight is a busy one, for a start. Darlington’s own folk...
View ArticleFest of fiddles
DURHAM’S Gala Theatre steps up to the mark next Tuesday night with a truly remarkable concert as part of the Feast of Fiddles tour. This star-studded gathering of instrumentalists get together every...
View ArticleFarewell to Graeme Miles
THE folk scene bade a fond farewell to Teesside songwriter Graeme Miles earlier this week. He’d been a towering figure on the local scene since the early 1960s, and nationally too, his songs had made...
View ArticleTop names in the area
SOME of the UK’s current top names are in the area in the week ahead, along with all the regular first class local performers doing their thing around the region’s folk clubs.
View ArticlePlenty to choose from
AS ever, there’s plenty to choose from for folk fans at local venues this week. Tonight we can pick between Scots songstress Isla St Clair, at South Shields Customs House, and The Fureys with Davey...
View ArticleFolk radio
THERE seems to be a swarm of folk radio currently hitting the local airwaves, mostly on small community radio stations, but also available via the internet.
View ArticleFolk 21
I WAS at last weekend’s Folk 21 conference in Wolverhampton, when club organisers and concert promoters from across the West Midlands gathered to forge contacts. Five lucky folk acts were given the...
View ArticleStruggling folk singer
I HAD an insight into how others view folk music when I watched an early morning TV feature on a forthcoming Hollywood movie called Inside Llewen Davis. It’s about a struggling folk singer in New...
View ArticleBedale Acoustic Music Festival
LAST weekend’s Bedale Acoustic Music Festival seems to have been a roaring success, and one which it’s hoped can be added to the list of unmissable annual folk events in the area from now on.
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