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Elizabeth.
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02 Nov 2004 at 11:15 |
More programme details of what's on this festival
10-14 November. It looks like it's going to be a cracker!!
Transatlantic Connections
Third Celebration of Hamish Henderson brings Folk Stars from Ireland, Scotland, England, the US and Canada to Edinburgh.
Carrying Stream, a Festival in honour of the late folklorist and poet Hamish Henderson, goes into its thirds year. Organised by Edinburgh Folk Club, a star-studded programme is planned for the 'long weekend' of 10-14 November. The annual lecture puts the accent on this year's gathering: Dr Margaret Bennett addresses Henderson's influence on transatlantic folklore studies on Saturday, 13 November (12.30 p.m., Supper Room, Assembly Rooms). On Saturday afternoon American banjo and Old Time specialist sara Gray and her son Kieron Means offer a workshop on the way ballads have crossed the big pond. The same evening, they will open a concert that connects our shores with North America: David Francey is a celebrated singer-songwriter, Scottish-born, but based in Ontario, and Irish banjo virtuoso Éamonn Coyne and his Band put the finishing touches on the night.
The Festival opens on Wednesday, 10 November, with Malinky's last gig at Edinburgh Folk Club - at least in the present line-up with Karine Polwart and Leo McCann. On Thursday, Hamish Henderson's birthday, there is a 'Homage to Hamish' (6 p.m.) at the Scottish Poetry Library, including the launch of a new Hamish Henderson CD. Singer Nancy Nicolson and storyteller Claire Mulholland mingle in the company of poets Tessa Ransford, Ken Cockburn and Tom Hubbard.
The Friday night concert, like all the concerts in the Pleasance Cabaret Bar, brings together Irish, English and Scottish exponents of folk music. Celine Donoghue and Keith Easdale from Glasgow will open the gig; English folk legend Dave Burland follows, before Irish all stars Cran (Ronan Browne, Séan Corcoran and Desi Wilkinson) make a rare return visit to Edinburgh.
On Sunday afternoon (2 p.m.) the action shifts to the Filmhouse in Lothan Road, where film maker Tim Neat introduces 'The Summer Walkers' about the vanishing way of the Highland travelling people, co-scripted with Hamish Henderson. Tom O'Leary and Andy May will frame the film with appropriate songs and tunes.
The concluding Ceilidh House Night at the Pleasance on Sunday will be hosted by the Glasgow wizard with words, Adam McNaughtan, and Gaelic and Scots singer Margaret Bennett, with the Anna Massie Band and James Graham and James Ross as additio9nal guests.
Singing and Music Sessions in Sandy Bell?s (Thursday), the T`ass (Friday) and the Royal Oak (TMSA Edinburgh & Lothians Branch runs the Dougal Carnegie Memorial Session from 3 p.m.) round off a jam-packed four days of the finest folk and traditional music in town.
Tickets are available from Edinburgh Folk Club (efc@albafolk.co.uk) and at Coda Music (on the Mound). Full programme details at:
http:// www.carryingstream.org.uk. |
JAJ
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08 Nov 2004 at 11:20 |
Thought I'd bring this one back to the top, as it's this week. The EFC people are so quiet and unassuming, especially Paddy :-), and might be too shy to push themselves forward (scared of a backlash from "The West") . :-)
Please support this weekend. It should be great.
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Elizabeth.
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08 Nov 2004 at 11:31 |
And come and say hello the the Foot Stompin' crew who will as always be in the foyer manning a CD stand!
This is an excellent weekend of music and it's always heartening to see the droves of young people coming through the doors with fiddles slung on their backs. |
JAJ
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08 Nov 2004 at 11:37 |
Are you not getting this mixed up with Fiddle 2004, Elizabeth? :-)
I didn't realise you had a stall at "The Carrying Stream". |
Elizabeth.
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08 Nov 2004 at 12:17 |
Doh!!!
Thanks John - the stall will be at the Fiddle Fest NOT the Carrying Stream! |
JAJ
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13 Nov 2004 at 15:28 |
In the interest of fairness :-), I thought I'd bring this one back up. There seems to have been a lack of good press coverage for this festival which is a shame as the line up is excellent.
The opening concert would have benefitted from a bigger audience attendance but the quality of the music was excellent. Celine Donaghue, who appeared with Keith Easdale, is an excellent all round musician and singer who excels on tenor banjo and fiddle. Dave Burland has always been one of my very favourite performers and I was extremely impressed by the Irish band Cran who are relative strangers to these shores. Check them out, if ever get the chance. They are appearing in Laurie's, King Street, Glasgow tonight.
http://www.iol.ie/~cran> |
Simon T
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14 Nov 2004 at 13:00 |
| Celine Donaghue is an amzing musician who does not get enough press. I like to hear more of her. |
Onny
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14 Nov 2004 at 13:03 |
| Maybe she could change her name to Celine Dionaghue and go for the Irish/ Country & Western/ MOR marketplace |
righton
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14 Nov 2004 at 13:22 |
| I went along yesterday around midday and it was dead. There wasn't even a ticket table. How can they call this a festival when there was nothing going on? |
Onny
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14 Nov 2004 at 13:46 |
I've tried visiting the website on and off since Elizabeth mentioned it (above) with no success.
Putting a space between the '//' and the 'www' was bad enough but the full stop after the 'uk' was a deal breaker. Even the correct URL is calling a 404 error. |
JAJ
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14 Nov 2004 at 13:50 |
The correct address is as below but it is impossible to access most of the time. Like now. I've have managed to get into it, in occasion. Honestly. :-)
http://www.carryingstream.org.uk/>
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Onny
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14 Nov 2004 at 18:30 |
| see the little close tag (>) which appeared; that's another thing which ruins any chance of calling the correct page |
JAJ
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15 Nov 2004 at 10:24 |
Actually, there was a fairly respectable audience for the final night, although there should have been more. Also, the "Dougal Carnegie Memorial singaround" in the Royal Oak was very well attended.
The final concert was extremely enjoyable and there was an exceptionally "warm feel" about the whole proceedings. It was a fine opening set from Margaret Bennett and Sandy Stanage. You felt that you had been invited into her living room. We then had a superb performance from James Graham(this years YTA winner) with James Ross on keyboards. Adam McNaughtan was his usual inimitable self and achieved what many might regard as the impossible- laughter and participation from an Edinburgh audience :=).
Anna Massie and band finished off the night, They were brilliant but more is written about that elsewhere.
Musically speaking, The Carrying Stream Festival was an excellent weekend and there wasn't a bad performance. It's just unfortunate that it didn't attract the audience it deserved. Unfortunately, the press coverage was poor. However, I'm particulary disappointed at the many regulars of the Edinburgh Folk club who were conspicuous by their absence. They, if nobody else, would have been aware of this festival for months. |
Elizabeth.
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15 Nov 2004 at 10:55 |
I thoroughly enjoyed last night's concert and thought all who entertained us were excellent. A fitting finish to this wee festival when Adam and Margaret led the audience in the singing of Hamish's Freedom come all ye.
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