Ash Keys Music
Contemporary Folk Music Promotion Bristol UK
Ash Keys Music presents the best of Contemporary Folk Music in venues in the Bristol area. Concerts that are intimate but less formal, where you can have a drink while you listen and always with top quality support acts
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Ian King Band (inc brass section) Sat Feb 20th £9.00 Folk House, Park Street, BS1 5JG (support tbc) Doors 7.30 support from Rachel Dawick and The Roving Blades
Newsflash - A 12 peice choir will be joining Ian King on stage! Hotly tipped 'dub folk' ex dry stone waller from Yorkshire with recent deal with Fledgling, album produced by Adrian Sherwood featuring Skip Macdonald and 'the crispy horns' 'elegant, witty, daring and powerful. This is English folk music for the 21st century!' Shirley Collins. more info on Ian King Listen - www.myspace.com/iankingofengland video of Ian click here
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Chris Wood Sat 27th Feb (support) Mike Dawes & Amy Turk £12.00 Bristol Folk House, Park Street, Bristol BS1 5JG Doors 7.30pm tickets (see tab)
BBC award winning Chris Wood is an uncompromising songwriter whose music reveals his love for the unofficial history of the English speaking people. WIth gentle intelligence he weaves the tradition with his own contemporary parables. more info on Chris listen - www.myspace.com/englishacoustic collectivechriswood |
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Fri 19th March An Evening with Chumbawamba and O'Hooley/Tidow £16.00 at the Bristol Folk House, Park Street, Bristol BS1 5JG
Chumbawamba take to the stage once more to celebrate the release of their new album ABCDEFG. The theme of the album is music - that volatile stuff which both the band and their audience have shared for as long as they can remember. More info click here listen - www.myspace.com/acoustichumbawamba
Belinda O' Hooley is best known for her work as songwriter and piano player with The Unthanks. Now with lush harmonic duo with Heidi Tidow. LIsten-www.myspace.com/belindaohooleymusic more info click here
Dogan Mehmet + The Deerhunters / Blabbermouth (trio) Thursday 25th March7.30pm (tickets) £8.00 (call to reserve 07855 826 228) South Bank Club, Dean Lane, Southville, Bristol BS3 1DB.
Dogan Mehmet, along with his backing band the Deerhunters, creates an Anglo-Turkish, Gypsy-Punk style mix of traditions 
and strong acoustic grooves. A diverse mixture of Southern English and Turkish folk songs self-penned material more info....listen - www.myspace.com/doganmehmet.com
Also on the bill another Hobgoblin records great - Blabbermouth (aka Steve Thompson) http://www.blabbermouthmusic.com Blabbermouth combines smart, at times pithy,lyrics with tender folk arrangements.
Martin Simpson Sat April 3rd £12.00 (support - Gren Bartley) Bristol Folk House, Park Street, BS1 5 JG Doors 7.30
| Playing songs from his brilliant new album 'True Stories'. In the last 2 years Simpson has never been busier, more successful and more visible than ever before in his 37 year career listen www.myspace.com/martinsimpson1 more info click here |
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John Renbourn and Robin Williamson Monday 12th April £14.00 at the South Bank Club, Dean Lane, Southville, BS3 1DB (tickets see tab) support Lee Westwood and Phillipe Barnes also Mike Dawes and Amy Turk
ex-Pentangle leader John Renbourn and ex-Incredible String Band leader Robin Williamson cleverly billing themselves as the Impenetrable String Tangle.
Williamson's fascination for obscure early instruments likethe Celtic harp gives an authentic feeling to Renbourn's medieval melodies, read more... John's site www.john-renbourn.com/
Lou Brown / Lenny Savage double bill Thurs 29th April £8.00 South Bank Club, Dean Lane, Southville, BS3 1DB 7.30pm (on door/ call to reserve tickets 07855 826 228)
listen www.myspace.com/loubrownmusic There can't be many singer-songwriters who can draw inspiration from their love of 'The Sound of Music', the legend of Robert Johnson, and a former career in social work, but Lou Brown does just that read more...
While influenced by many genres from across the world, Lenny retains a sense of playful musical quirkiness that's somehow both very British and disarmingly all her own. listen www.myspace.com/lenny/savage
Sarah Class / Phil King Thurs 20th May £8.00 at the South Bank Club, Dean Lane, Southville, Bristol BS3 1DB (tickets on door / ring to reserve 07855 826 228) 2 Bristol based acts
Sarah Class "folk-infused acoustic pop...hauntingly ethereal and sensual" "one of Britain's brightest young musical stars" - HMV Reviews Magazine2010 Bristol Guitar Night, wed 19th May at The South Bank Club, Dean Lane, Southville, Bristol BS3 1DB- John Gom, Pino Forastiere, Stuart Ryan with Mike Dawes and AmyTurk
2010 Br
istol Guitar NightA Unique opportunity to see and hear three world class guitar players perform on one night
Jon Gomm Uk contemporary guitar virtuoso
Pino Forastiere Italian Guitar Legend
Stuart Ryan Guitar techniques magazine's acoustic guru
with special guests Mike Dawes and Amy Turk classical Harp+ Lapp tapping guitar = lucious nu-folk brilliance!
Sat 22 May - Eliza Carthy £15.00 CANCELLED DUE TO personal circumstances OF BAND MEMBER
| The Bristol Folk House, Park Street, BS1 5JG Doors 7.30 Eliza Carthy is winner of 2 Mercury Prize nominations and unnumerable other accolades in her 16 year career. Eliza has performed and recorded with a diverse array of artists from Paul Weller to The Wainwrights, Billy Bragg, Nick Cave to Joan Baez. Describing herself simply as a 'modern British musician' Eliza Carthy is only just beginning to reach the height of her musical powers. - Listen www.myspace.com/elizacarthy more info... |
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Sat 19th June - Lau - cost £12.00 at the Bristol Folk House, Park Street Bristol BS1 5JGsupport from Mamaloshn / Paul Bradley
The Bristol Folk House, Park Street, BS1 5JG. Doors 7.30 Winners of Best Group at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2008 and 2009. Lau have been described as a formindable union of three of the finest and most innovative exponents of modern traditional music in Scotland today. More on Lau... Listen - www.myspace.com/laumusic |
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past programmes....... Autumn/Winter 2009 at the South Bank Club, Dean Lane, Bristol, BS3 1DB (3rd Season)
--------------------------------------------------------------------- The Rocket Dogs 16th Dec £5.00! Bristol based blues legend and larger than life personality John Fenlon with all star line up with Eddy Denny, Lee McCrory and John Pearce more... --------------------------------------------------------------------- Martin Harley Mon 14th December 7.30 tickets £8.00 Support Mike Dawes & Amy Turk 'Though no stranger to Bristol, Martin Harley has built up an international reputation as an awesome guitarist and an exciting performer' (Kieth Clarke E. Post) Earlier this year opened for James Morrison at the Albert Hall and a recent session with Johnny Walker on Radio 2 More... --------------------------------------------------------------------- Support from James Hollingsworth and Diana Johnstone 6 years touring with Waterson Carthy can't be wrong, previously winner of young folk award and riding on the success of brilliant recent album and appearances in Michael Morpurgo's War Horse now in the West End more... ----------------------------------------------------------------------
previously..... Thursday 24th Sept 09 £10.00 support (Gren Bartley) Two great voices, infectious good humour impeccable musicianship more... --------------------------------------------------------------------- Rory Mcleod (supp.X-Panades) Sat17thOctober cost £14.00 doors 7.30 A one man soul band poet and storyteller. Singing his own unique upbeat dance stories more... --------------------------------------------------------------------- World Music Night- 19th Nov 7.30 3 Great Acts £10.00 1)Simon Kohli / Dhyan Singh Indian Classical. Sarod and Tabla player more... 2)George Papavgeris Anglo Greek Carthy endorsed songwriter of soulful and heartfelt proportions more... |
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