Gigs · Bude
Thursday 28 January 2027 · Doors 18:30
The Olive Tree, Bude
Jim Birmingham, Annown, Tony Wade is on Thursday 28 January 2027 at The Olive Tree, Bude, with doors at 18:30. Entry is free, booked through the official seller.
Bude is overflowing with folk talent and energy. Come and celebrate these multi-skilled local musicians who pen original songs with fun, fervour and folkish finesse! Jim Birmingham: Jim Birmingham has been writing songs since 1969, working hard at his craft to get it right and one day he reckons , he will, he’s had songs played on Radio 1, (Newsbeat) and Radio 4 (Loose ends) and numerous local stations, he’s performed them on national telly (Channel 4’s The Big Breakfast-Mel and Sue in the afternoon) and recorded at the legendary Abbey Road studios. In the 90’s he toured extensively with cockney duo Chas and Dave . He writes the songs that nobody else could be bothered to. Annown: Acclaimed Cornish alternative folk duo Annown have won plaudits from the likes of Tom Robinson, (BBC Radio 6), Blues and Folk Radio, Rewind Radio,The Cornwall Folk Festival, (where they have played 5 times), the Fatea showcase and many more festivals and radio stations. They have racked up literally hundreds of radio plays across the country, including daily plays on Wreckers Radio. Songs from their six original albums are being covered by several other local bands and singing groups. These style...
Jim Birmingham Annown Tony Wade
Thu 28 Jan 2027Doors 18:00
St Mary Le Strand · London
Enjoy an exceptional concert by candlelight in the beautiful setting of St Mary Le Strand
From £22.27including booking fee
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Bishops' House · Sheffield
The duo of Scottish folk musician Alasdair Roberts and Norwegian experimental musician Fredrik Rasten fuses their respective work with traditional music, folk song and microtonal minimalism. Their first encounter was in the septet Alasdair Roberts & Völvur, which released the LP The Old Fabled River on Drag City Records in 2021.The record combined Roberts’s compositions with versions of Scottish and Norwegian traditional songs. On Seven Weathers, their forthcoming double album for Drag City Records, Roberts and Rasten focus on traditional Scottish narrative ballads, typically of long duration, where slowly evolving musical materials build up throughout the strophic verse-structure to emphasise the storytelling. They choose ballads with care, favouring time-transcending narrative themes that both bear witness to the day and age of their origin and are relevant to our times, be that politically, culturally or ethically. Both sing and play a variety of acoustic and electronic instruments, Roberts’s clear and unadorned vocal delivery blending with Rasten’s sensibilities of just intonation tuning and timbral qualities of sound. Seven Weathers is scheduled for release in January 2...
From £17.60including booking fee
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