My friend Rowan, who is studying folk music and fiddle-playing in Sweden at the moment, has made some really really beautiful recordings recently. You can listen to them here.
This evening I will likely be making a couple of small saw and banjo appearances with Yo Zushi and Curtis Eller at the 12 Bar club.
On sunday I took advantage of being left all alone, and played my own fiddle and banjo until my hand hurt... (the other week, in a daring whirl of DIY, I replaced the fingerboard on my fiddle, and it plays much more evenly and very lovely now. Well, very lovely for me).
In the morning I had been distressed by a TV show about British folk music, and the advertisements in between. -It's nice that British "traditional" music of many kinds has such a public face at the moment, and there are lots of people around who I think are good, like Rachel Unthank, Alasdair Roberts, Jackie Oates... but aside from them Radio 2 in particular seems most intent on promoting horrible, blandest common denominator, TV friendly, almost nashville equivalent rot... naming no names. It's inevitable, I guess... End of rant.-
Does anyone know if anything similar to this amazing site exists for British or European films?
6 comments:
Oh name names!
Thanks for the comment about our recordings. We're going to add some faster ones soon, realising they all start very slowly. A CD will wing itself to you when it is finished.
love to the mews!
Well, one of them rhymes with Peth Sakeman...
Can't wait for the CD. I really love what you're doing.
x
(but he's more Bon Jovi than Nashville...)
Oh, god. Sweaty Peth. Not good.
Come to the workshop in June! It'll be great, we are planning it now. Its a full day of workshops with a concert and dance in the evening. And it'll be almost midsummer and gorgeous.
See you there!
P.S jealous you get to see lovely Clive Palmer with my lovely dad!
Oh, I do plan to come. And I'm really happy Helm suggested the concert.
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