Bristol Folkhouse Music
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Gilmore and Roberts
2012 UK Songwriting Contest, Acoustic/Folk category - WINNER ('Doctor James')
2012 Fatea Awards 'Song of The Year' - WINNER ('Doctor James')
2012 fRoots Critics Poll, Album of the Year - Runner Up
Twice-nominated at BBC Folk Awards, contemporary folk/acoustic duo Gilmore & Roberts combine award-winning songwriting with astounding lap-tapping guitar, fiery fiddle and their trademark harmonies, creating a powerful wall of sound. Their third album The Innocent Left, recorded in London with producer Julian Simmons (Guillemots, Ed Sheeran, Albert Lee), explores many and varied topics but remains consistently bound by Gilmore & Roberts' passion for stories.From the steady groove of the intriguing 'Doctor James' to the relentless pounding of 'Scarecrow', and 'Silver Screen's wistful introspection, the album encompasses elements of folk, bluegrass and rock while maintaining the Yorkshire-based pair's own distinctive stylings, assisted by several carefully chosen guest musicians. Ben Nicholls (Seth Lakeman band) on double bass and Tom Chapman (Urban Folk Quartet) on cajon and drums comprise the rhythm section across the album, backed up by piano from Will Foster (The Fratellis). Prodigious Georgia-based band Larkin Poe (sisters Rebecca and Megan Lovell) guest on several tracks, featuring heavily on the slow-burning 'Shuffle & Deal'.
O’HOOLEY & TIDOW
‘Stunning and delightfully unconventional; the best band of Cambridge Folk Festival.’ Guardian‘Striking and refreshingly ambitious.’ Observer
‘Plaintive, inviting, disquieting, mysterious, harmonic, austere, beautiful, oblique and sing-a-long.’ MOJO
Since the 2012 release of their second album The Fragile (**** Guardian, Mojo, Songlines, Uncut), Yorkshire duo Belinda O’Hooley (Unthanks, Nic Jones Trio) and Heidi Tidow have become a must-see act for their ‘stunning and delightfully unconventional’ (Guardian), emotionally charged performances. This earned them a nomination for ‘Best Duo’ in the 2013 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, with The Guardian hailing them as ‘The Best Act of Cambridge Folk Festival’. As well as high praise for their beautiful, interweaving harmonies and sublime musicality, they are acknowledged as one of the strongest songwriting partnerships on the contemporary folk scene. New album The Hum, produced by Mercury-nominated Gerry Diver, reveals the pulsing undercurrent of optimism, grit and mettle in migrating people, the oppressed, and the disenfranchised. Both lyrically and musically, Belinda and Heidi’s powerful, thought provoking and deeply moving performances are infused with an honesty and empathy that will disarm even the hardest of heart.
Kris Dollimore
Kris Dollimore has played with many international bands and artists including The Godfathers, The Damned, Dee Dee Ramone and Johnny Thunders. He’s also a member of Del Amitri. As a solo artist Kris has toured the length and breadth of the UK & Europe, has released three critically acclaimed solo albums to date and will release a widely anticipated new album in 2014.
Whilst Kris is known for his blues playing, his work is admired not only by blues fans, but also fans of acoustic and folk music. Kris’s has chosen a field where his playing is at its most exposed. A man, a guitar and a voice. No room for error and nowhere to hide. With a largely acoustic repertoire, precision playing is expected and delivered by Dollimore, earning him a hard core following of loyal fans and admirers including Johnny Depp, David Bowie and Chrissie Hynde.
Do not miss this gig!
If you get the chance to catch Kris live, do whatever you have to, to be there
New Crawdaddy Blues Club
Definitely the man to see
Moore or Less Folk Club
Slide guitar and a voice full of so much passion
Maverick Magazine
What a great talent
Bottleneck Blues Club
Best Original British Blues Song
Nomination British Blues Awards
Phil King
"Supremely talented Bristol-based singer, Phil King. He has a voice to die for." -Time Out, London, October 2008"Bristol based singer-songwriter, Phil King, has a lot to give, a great vocalist and lyricist with excellent compositions and variety, he’ s a man that should really get much more attention." - For Folks Sake
Kettle of fish
An evening of quirky, mellifluous, humorous a cappella singing.
Have you ever heard 5 men singing Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Paolo Conte, David Bowie and Ian Dury in one night?If the answer is yes, then you must be familiar with Bristol’s own a capella combo, Kettle Of Fish.
Looking for an opportunity to arrange and sing the more unusual songs of the popular idiom, David Yapp enlisted his singing friends Adam Barber (co arranger), Neil Bett, John Drowley and Jorge Sved. Having added many new arrangements during their musical evolution, their repertoire now ranges from the well-known and well-loved to the comical and the undiscovered gems, the witty and the moving, the sublime and most definitely the ridiculous. Elvis Presley, Ivor Cutler, Ben Folds, The Bee Gees, Icelandic Folk Singers, Michel Legrand, Seal and other lesser known artists form the strangest line-up that would ever be seen at Glastonbury but will quite probably all make appearances at a Kettle Of Fish gig.
The 5 men will at times be joined by their female accomplices, The Shoal Sisters, for the slightly more epic numbers.
At times strangely beautiful, at other times beautifully strange and often just silly, this is a night of a capella wonders.
Bristol Folk Festival
Tickets available from the BFF website
Bristol Folk Festival is one of the UK’s best known and loved May-Day-Weekend Festivals. Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th May 2014 will be moving to a new home at two of the best and most respected venues in Bristol: St George’s and Bristol Folk House – placed almost next door to each other.The Folk House Main Hall will play host to some of the biggest acts of the Folk Festival including Martha Tilston.
More information about the 2014 Bristol Folk Festival, including this years headliners, full line up, running times, workshops and much, much more will be available soon.
In the mean time, to read about past Bristol Folk Festivals and see examples of previous years line-ups please visit Bristol Folk Festival 2011 and Bristol Folk Festival 2012 pages.
You can find out information on Where to Stay and How to get here along with lots more the BFF website, which will be updated regularly until the festival.
Multi BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards winners SPIERS AND BODEN
Peter Knight`s GIGSPANNER
The Lucy Ward Band including Belinda O’Hooley and Heidi Tidow (keys and vox), Joy Gravestock (orchestral fiddler), Sam Pegg (bassist) and Steve Maclachlan from The Willows on percussion.
Jim Moray
Martha Tilston
Sam Sweeney & Hannah James
Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker
The Hut People
Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin
Beth Porter
The Bookshop Band
Fabian Holland
FolkLaw
The Willows
Paper Aeroplanes
Matthew & Me
The Black Feathers
Baxter Rhodes
Bad Cardigan
Gaz Brookfield
The Cadbury Sisters
Ninebarrow
Cole Stacey & Joseph O’Keefe – India Electric Co
Bristol Folk Festival
We are very pleased to announce the addition of the Celtic crackerjack Roddy Woomble to the Bristol Folk Festival 2014 line-up!Roddy Woomble has already built quite the reputation during his solo career. Having worked with the likes of Andy Cutting, Kate Rusby, Karine Polwart and producer John McCusker, his debut album My Secret Is My Silence spent several weeks at no.1 in the UK Folk Charts.
The Scottish singer-songwriter is of course famed for his acclaimed work with indie-rock collective Idlewild, with whom he released 17 charting singles and 6 charting albums - two of which went silver, and one of which, The Remote Part, went gold.
In the past decade, he has done an exceptional amount for the folk scene. Besides collaborating with countless top musicians, both on the the live circuit and in the studio, he has fostered numerous projects that have brought singers, bands, poets and writers together to celebrate the quality and value of traditional British music. Needless to say, we are really rather excited to welcome him to BFF in May for what is shaping up to be the folk music event of the year!
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