Saturday 27th March, Union Chapel, Aly Bain & Phil Cunningham
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We are please to announce that, following the success of our sell-out gig at the Union Chapel with Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick last September, we are returning to this magical venue with its excellent acoustics to welcome Aly Bain and Phil Cunnigham.
With Aly on fiddle and Phil on accordion, this duo needs little introduction as one of the UK's finest acts. Both acclaimed musicians in their own right, they bring more than the sum of their parts to this evening of folk music. In February 2005 they won the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards – BEST DUO Award. The duo have also been nominated in the -Scottish Trad Music Awards 2006 for the Live Act of the Year sponsored by Greentrax Recordings.
"They are simply the best traditional musicans you are ever likely to hear." Mike Russell, The Glasgow Herald.
For tickets go to www.wegottickets.com/event/65750
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Next Gig - 12th February Martin Simpson
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Born in 1953 in Scunthorpe, Martin became a professional musician in 1971. Like his friend Martin Carthy, he still plays the British folk club circuit as eagerly as the grandest music rooms that the world of music can offer.
In 1975 Barbara Dickson recommended Martin to Bill Leader who went to see him perform, which led to Martin's first solo album, Golden Vanity, (1976). Within the year, he was supporting Steeleye Span and then accompanied June Tabor for 10 years, producing three influential albums, A Cut Above (1980), Abyssinians (1983) and Aqaba (1988). Martin moved to the US in 1987 but continued to play for June on An Echo of Hooves (2003) and in her television special in the 2004 BBC4 Sessions concert performance series.
He cites Harry Cox, Blind Willie Johnson, Big Joe Williams, Percy Webb and Blind Willie McTell as influences and incorporates songs by Bob Dylan, Bob Franke, John B Spencer, John Tams and Richard Thompson in his repertoire, not to mention his own compositions on albums such as Bootleg USA (1999) and Righteousness & Humidity (2003). In The Bramble Briar (2001), he concentrated on British story-telling of traditional kinds.
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The Kalamazoo Klub was started thirteen years ago by two local musicians, Paul Alcantara and Guy Simpson. They had been playing in folk and acoustic clubs in London and the South East for years and decided that North London needed a music venue that would bring top quality, live acoustic artists to the area from all genres of music.
The Kalamazoo Klub has, in the years since, attracted some of the most famous names in acoustic music, from Bert Jansch who was the first artist to appear, Martin Carthy, Robin Williamson and John Kirkpatrick through to more diverse artists from the worlds of folk, celtic music, Blues, flamenco, Country and even Chinese classical music.
The Kalamazoo Klub is held
every second Friday of the month
The King's Head Crouch End London N8
Image by Jon Rogers
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