See brilliant new young talent and have a wonderful time at the 2011 Furness Tradition Festival
8 – 10 July at Ulverston, South Cumbria
We have a host of excellent young musicians for you at this year’s festival:
Tyde are three brilliant players with a musical maturity way beyond their years.
Dynamic, fresh and quite brilliantly played, their music draws on influences from every corner of the British Isles and beyond.
Finalists in the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Awards, Tyde captured the hearts of the live and broadcast audience with mesmerising performances and infectious personalities.
Gavin Davenport is a singer, writer and performer of folk music within the English tradition. He has performed for the last fifteen years in various guises with acclaimed projects including Crucible, Hekety, GloryStrokes and The Grinder’s Misfortune Society as well as guesting with acts from Folk Award nominee James Raynard to Taffy Thomas and Bellowhead. He was a performer on BBC Radio 3′s feature piece “England In Ribbons” and more recently sang alongside Jon Boden and Fay Hield during December’s “A Folk Song a Day”.
Gavin plays guitar, cittern, mandolin, Anglo concertina and clawhammer banjo as well as performing unaccompanied. His repertoire includes a number of traditional ballads, some of which are seldom heard elsewhere.
Katriona Gilmore and Jamie Roberts. A bold young guitar/fiddle duo who give us original material sparkling with harmonies, fiery fiddle and driving lap-tapping guitar. Their trademark harmonies combine with considerable songwriting talent to make a truly distinctive sound. At only 24 , the BBC Radio 2 Horizon Award 2010 nominees still sound fresh and innovative, yet deeply rooted in the English tradition.http://www.gilmoreroberts.co.uk/
Ross Couper and Tom Oakes have now been confirmed for the festival. Fiddler Ross also plays with the Peatbog Faeries and Young Folk Award winners Bodega. Guitarist and flautist Tom has worked with the Auvo Quartet, Luke Daniels and Damien Barber. Together, their music draws on Scottish and Irish tradition.
Dan Walsh and Will Pound are two of the most exciting and unique young musicians on today’s music scene. Respectively as ‘one of the most original harmonica players in Britain’ and ‘the UK’s top Clawhammer banjo player’, the two have joined forces to create a highly entertaining and astonishing eclectic music experience.
Prepare to be astonished by stunning vocals, frailing banjo wizardry and sounds you didn’t think were possible on harmonica. This duo is destined for great things, with their ability to encompass an amazing array of musical genres with ease, energy and excellence.
Will is currently appearing on our TV screens in Goldie’s band preparing to perform at Buckingham Palace! http://www.walshandpound.co.uk
Enjoy Dancing? We have plenty for both dancers and watchers
Alex Fisher A community dance artist specializing in traditional clog and step dance, Alex is a trained dancer and teacher and is based in the North West of England. As a performer, she has a wide repertoire of step dance styles and rhythms based on material collected in many parts of Britain. She is passionate about passing on the skills of step dance as well as an awareness of their context and social history. Alex has spent many years developing material and teaching strategies so that all sections of the community can learn and celebrated this unique dance heritage. Her work in primary schools has been particularly successful and she has inspired many youngsters as well as their teachers. http://www.clogdance.co.uk/
Betty Lupton’s Ladle Laikers. A ladies side who perform a wide range of English dances inspired by various morris traditions. Some of the dances come from the north west of England, the Cheshire and the Lancashire Plain. These usually take the name of the town of their origin. So they have dances called, Failsworth, Lostock and Abram. Also included in the repertoire are some new dances written by the team based on traditional figures and style. These have generally been given local names, hence Hookstone Hey and Skipton Road. They use a variety of “implements” to accompany the different dances; short decorated sticks, hankies, garlands and shakers.
Leap To Your Feet. Appalachian Dancers and Musicians from Bolton perform the traditional dance and music of the Southern Appalachian Mountains of America – also known as Appalachian Clogging.The dances incorporate the various traditions of several European and African Countries. The dancers wear “tap” shoes to add a percussive sound to the music. Appalachian Dancing evolved from the “Clog” dancing common in England and Ireland and taken to the Appalachian mountains of America by the early settlers. The style was developed into a driving, toe-tapping dance form with distinctive music and showy steps. http://www.leaptoyourfeet.co.uk/
Furness Morris Our local Morris team who dance in the Cotswold style.
For more information check out our web site www.furnesstradition.org.uk