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It’s another bumper issue full of fascinating stuff. Our main feature this time is about Grace Notes and their 20th anniversary of singing together – a delightful piece by Nigel Schofield, both talking to “the girls” and describing their history and their CD covers.
There’s quite a bit of sad news too. Obituaries of Johnny Silvo and Alex Eaton by Jo Stead and Trevor Charnock, and then the sad news that Wall of Sound is closing. Add to that a folky tale of woe and misfortunes from Duncan McFarland.
Back on the lighter side there's a festival first, a smashing interview with O'Hooley & Tidow, a look back at 50 years of folk at the Grove and a classic recording; and a look forward to sweeping improvements and recharging the whole folk network. A call to action if ever there was!
Lots of juicy reviews of CDs and live events, not all of which are fully flattering! What your local folk club has been doing and will be doing over the next few months, and the all-encompassing central pull-out section that is Filofolk with all the information about clubs and events. It’s all there in the Winter issue of Tykes’ News 2011.
Every issue contains: Editorial News, Performer News, Club News, Letters, Filofolk, Articles, regular ones and one-offs, Previews, Live & book reviews, CD Reviews.......why not treat yourself and subscribe now!
O'Hooley & Tidow
You know peoples names. O’Hooley & Tidow, those names crept in and out of my inner eye without me getting round to finding a place in my ear. So it is by the snake like route of things that I”m sat in my nice warm studio and over the rolling wooden hill of the desk are the two women whose names I have invoked already. So, it’s a radio interview.
Read more in the spring edition.......
Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick
Prince Heathen - Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick - gets a blast on the old Dansette
Reviewing the CD reissue, Folk Roots simply said, “One of the best folk albums anyone has ever done .” Melody Maker’s original 1969 review piled on the superlatives, “Exceeding already high expectations...astonishingly good...a benchmark in folk recording .”
The album was first released on Fontana in 1969 and marked the end of a long partnership between its two players...
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Malton Celebrates
Fed up with winter and longing for spring? Then here’s what you can do! Put on your dance shoes and come dancing at the 1st ever Cajun & Zydeco Festival in the North of England!
The Festival will be held in the picturesque market town of Malton from March 9 till 11.
The beans get spilled and Cogent Cajun facts abound.
Read more in the spring edition.......
Grace Notes 20th
"Some boys with warm beds and cold hearts
Can make you feel nothing at all"
Those words by Kirsty MacColl were the first that Grace Notes sang in public. It’s twenty years since the combined voices of Helen, Maggie and Lynda sang Don’t Come The Cowboy at a Bacca Pipes theme night. They have some exciting plans to celebrate two decades of musical partnership. I met up with them as the first of these came to fruition.
Read more in the spring edition.......
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