Upcoming live music

Steve shares a wealth of experience...

Steve Tilston ran his very first one-day guitar and song-writing workshop in his hometown of Hebden Bridge back in May. It was a huge success and due to popular demand, he’s decided to run another, this time in his second home, Bristol.

Aimed at developing and experienced guitar players and aspiring songwriters, the workshop will start at 10.00 a.m. and run throughout the day finishing around 6.00 p.m. The sessions will be relaxed and informal, but provide opportunities to work on specific aspects of both guitar and songwriting. Steve will share his approach, drawing on his extensive back catalogue and wide ranging musical influences. The day will wind down with a relaxed open-mic-style-session, to give everyone an opportunity (not compulsory!) to showcase their talents.

After the workshop, there will be an option to share an evening meal together somewhere nearby (details TBC).

The price is just £150 for the day –

To reserve a place/further enquiries  mail@stevetilston.com Steve or contact him via the form on his website http://www.stevetilston.com/contact/
A deposit of £50 (non returnable) will be required and sent to:
Steve Tilston, PO Box 100, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire HX7 9AB
 
You cannot book through the Bristol Folk House, as this separate from the workshops  run each term.

Steve’s looking forward to seeing you in Bristol!

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Boo Hewerdine met Eddi Reader after his band The Bible split in the late eighties and ever since Boo Hewerdine and Eddi Reader (formerly of Fairground Attraction)  have been on an incredible musical adventure. In 2014 Eddi Reader released her tenth studio album (Vagabond) and the Boo produced classic Songs Of Robert Burns was re-mastered and re-issued.

He says "I'm looking forward to singing songs from throughout my writing career and also new songs from “My Name In The Brackets”, this will be the first opportunity for fans to hear the new material and buy a CD"

Peace has been a recurring theme of the powerful and distinctive singing and songwriting of the English a cappella trio Barry Coope, Jim Boyes and Lester Simpson.  Haunting and irreverent, the words and music of In Flanders Fields catch the indestructible spirit that defied one of the greatest human tragedies of the twentieth century.  Bringing together eye-witness accounts, contemporary poetry and songs specially commissioned for the town of Passchendaele’s Peace Concerts, In Flanders Fields takes its name from the poem written by John McCrae who was killed on the Western Front in the First World War.  Coope Boyes and Simpson have established a justifiable following for the quality of their singing, the subtlety of their harmonies and the sharpness of their observations.  Not afraid to prick the bubble of the pompous they are able to convey their message with cutting precision tempered by humour when necessary. With superb a cappella singing and evocative songs, this internationally acclaimed trio hauntingly bring home the humour and courage of those who took part in the War to end all Wars.

“The incomparable Coope Boyes and Simpson,” Mark Radcliffe

 “It was, in turn, sad, funny, ironic, whimsical, horrific, poignant – tears of sorrow were immediately replaced by tears of laughter.” Folk on Tap

“As passionate a tour de force of unaccompanied singing as you can imagine.” MOJO

“Coope Boyes & Simpson are currently our most inspiring vocal harmony group. Few can compete live with their voices, whether singing an unaccompanied traditional song or one of their own.”
Colin Irwin, BBC Radio2

If you’re a big music fan, you’ve probably already caught Kris Drever as part of
the acclaimed group Lau, perhaps on that trio’s recent TV performances on
Later…With Jools Holland (BBC 2 TV), Edinburgh’s Hogmanay (BBC 1 TV News),
BBC Folk Awards (BBC Red Button TV / iPlayer), or on stage during their
sold‐out London mini‐festival Welcome To Lau‐Land or at a gig on their national UK tour of 2012. You may well also have seen and heard Éamonn Coyne with the equally captivating and critically lauded Treacherous Orchestra (whose album Origins’ came out last year) or with Salsa Celtica.

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