
p s y c h f o l k & b e y o n d . . .
sunday 10th June 2012 : 1-10pm
folk house, park street, bristol bs1 5jg
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You can still get the album - see foot of page
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An all-dayer to celebrate the point where all sorts of English folk music (and one emigrant American living in Wales) meets what Lord Buckley referred to as The Far-Goneasphere.
The clichés about our folk music suggest that if it’s not 97-verse traditional ballads about our murderous aristocracy then it’s all “jolly milkmaids, foaming nutbrown ale and illegal shagging” (to quote somebody whose name eludes us). Others would have it as some sort of Wicker Man kingdom of haunted pastoral pagan pholklore shading into eccentric steampunk with banjos. Well, it’s some of all that and none of that, but there are increasing numbers of musicians and songwriters beyond the mainstream currently taking inspiration from the themes, tunes and musical strangenesses of our roots and making something timelessly new but still distinctly local out of them. So the idea arose to put as many as we could assemble into a building for a day and see what would happen. Hence… weirdlore. We have …
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 telling the bees
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 jonny kearney & lucy farrell
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 rapunzel & sedayne
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 mary hampton cotillion
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 sproatly smith
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 pamela wyn shannon
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 sharron kraus
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 boxcar aldous huxley
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 algernon & the hawk
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 kate & corwen
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 corncrow
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 hobby horses
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 three cane whale
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 katie rose
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 jeanette leech
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(click the artist pics for links)
workshops : dancers : odd goings on
 Out on 11th June: Weirdlore, the album
Presented by FMS in association with fRoots

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