This just in from London Folk Festival:A Must For Music Fans: London Folk Festival Returns to Cecil Sharp House, Camden
Just a few days until the return of acclaimed ‘London Folk Festival’, to Cecil Sharp House, Camden for a day-long celebration of folk music on Satuday 7th September. It will be an impressive showcase of the current resurgence of top-quality folk and roots music that is happening around the UK.
This event takes place annually and is now in its sixth year. It is hosted by ‘Folk on Monday’, and features the best of the national and local folk scene, alongside workshops, singarounds and much more.
Festivalgoers will be able to participate in workshops, including spoons-playing, Folk Singing, Gaelic/Scots song and Step Dancing.
South London folk club ‘The Goose is Out’ will be hosting an early-morning festival folk club Come along early on the day if you want to share a couple of tunes, songs or just to listen.
The festival line-up will include some of the very best and rousing established and new talents in the current British folk revival scene.
Musical acts this year include Lady Maisery, Jim Moray and Lucy Ward
In an English folk scene currently bursting with bold and innovative music, Lady Maisery shine brightly. In 2016 The Guardian described theirs as “some of the most exquisite, thrilling vocal harmony work in the English folk scene”. With their unique approach to harmony singing, intelligent and thoughtful arrangements of both traditional repertoire and original compositions, multi-instrumentalists and singers Hazel Askew, Hannah James and Rowan Rheingans harness and celebrate their united voice.
Jim Moray is amongst England’s finest interpreters of traditional song. His relentlessly innovative recordings can truly be said to have changed the sound of folk music since the early 2000s, and he has won fans and admirers far outside of the folk scene without ever betraying his traditional roots.
A five-time BBC Folk Award winner, his songs have been featured in a season finale of Grey’s Anatomy, he has appeared on-screen singing a specially composed song for Dr Who spin-off Class as aliens attack the earth, and he has presented documentaries on traditional music for BBC Radio 3.
Lucy Ward is an impressive, original songwriter whose unique delivery and breath-taking voice has enchanted audiences the world over. Her music never fails to get to the heart of the human condition with her expressive, unflinching writing style and warm personality that radiates from the stage.
Having come up through the folk tradition, Ward’s music has a sense of rooted belonging. She is BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winner and is the youngest person ever to be nominated for the prestigious BBC Folk Singer of the Year.
Other artists performing throughout the day include outstanding Scottish bands, Salt House and Tannara, London based vocal quartet The Norfolk Broads, up-and-coming folk singer Georgia Lewis and her trio, and acclaimed duo Dipper Malkin. The full lineup is available via the festival’s website at londonfolkfestival.co.uk
‘The London Folk Festival’ takes place on Saturday 7th September. Doors open at 10:30am and events start at 10:45. The venue is family-friendly and fully accessible, has an onsite café and real-ale bar.
Ticket Booking and full details:
Tickets for the London Folk Festival can be purchased online via the festival website at http://www.londonfolkfestival.co.uk . Advance tickets are £35 + booking fee, and tickets on the day (subject to availability) are £40
