On the final podcast of 2010 we talk to Carolina Chocolate Drops, C.W. Stoneking, Ian Smith from Creative Scotland as well as the rather fantastic Jolly Boys.
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- The Co-operative Cambridge Folk Festival
- The Cambridge Folk Festival is one of the premier music events in Europe and one of the longest running and most famous folk festivals in the world. It has become hugely popular and a regular sell out attracting ten thousand people, many of whom return year after year. The Festival is renowned for its eclectic mix of music and a wide definition of what might be considered folk. The best traditional folk artists from the UK and Ireland rub shoulders with more contemporary acts, the finest American country, blues and roots artists, acclaimed singer songwriters and even the odd pop star. Bluegrass, gospel, cajun, zydeco, jazz, world, klezmer and a ceilidh are also regular features. The line up has reflected the many changes in the music scene from the 60s to the present and is always a hotbed mix of the old and the new. The list of performers who have appeared reads like a who’s who and the Festival has been a launching pad for many now well known artists.
I really enjoyed this years festival fo me the highlight of the whole week was the "quebe sisters" ...How good were they !!!..When i was little my mum used play Andrews Sisters records all the flippin time and i heard "dont sit under the apple tree" so many times i did'nt want to sit under the apple tree i wanted to take a flippin big axe to it and hack it to bits , since then the mere suggestion of a 3 part harmony group is enough to make me break out in boils and run screaming for the door !!.. When the three girls took the stage i feared the worst and ran for the exit leaving a trail of folding chairs , picnic blankets, cucumber sandwiches and assorted plastic cutlery scattered in my wake ...then amid the ensuing fracas the girls started singing and hallelujah , there were no boils and no attacks of the screaming abdabs ,,,praise the lord i am cured !!...i actually loved them ..and their fiddle playing was a delight too !! ... now for the real test ... pass me that Andrews sisters album !!!
ReplyDeleteMy second favourite at this years festival was was "seasick steve" ..."is he folk" ? you may ask ; hes lived on the streets ,experienced hard times and now tells stories and writes songs about those experiences ...hes just about as "folk" as you can get !!!! ..it was impossible not to be touched by his humility and his gratfulness to everyone for "keeping him in a job" as he brilliantly played his weird array of cobbled together one ,two and three stringed instruments , accompanied just by his buddy on drums ... it was truely inspirational . I am off now to make a banjo out of an old dog dish some clingfilm , a toilet brush and a couple of elastic bands .. i am sure it will sound just like the real thing !!!!
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