Kings Place Festival [UK]

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Friday 10 September 2010
KINGS PLACE FESTIVAL
Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9AG
www.kingsplace.co.uk

RED ORANGE presents
“Folk Made In The UK”

For this series of Festival concerts, Red Orange audience and arts development have chosen three different approaches to folk music from the UK: interpretations of traditional English tunes and songs; happy, non-stop, danceable Gaelic folk/roots/world music; and new folk adventures based on international explorations.

All three are rare London appearances. Opening the evening are acclaimed north Devon fiddle/viola duo Nick Wyke and Becki Driscoll. They are followed by the cheerful, high-energy, Newcastle-based Monster Ceilidh Band, on only its second performance in London. And closing the night is multi-instrumentalist and musical explorer Andrew Cronshaw, with the unforgettably poignant sound of Tigran Aleksanyan‘s duduk.

Friday 10 September 10 7.30pm
Nick Wyke and Becki Driscoll
£4.50 in advance. Book now here

Nick Wyke and Becki Driscoll are highly respected musicians and composers. They first collaborated as a fiddle duo on a busking trip around Spain and Portugal. Since then, they have made a strong impact on the British folk scene and received national and international acclaim.

Their passion for English traditional music and the violin has led to the development of their unique style. Becki’s melodic, emotive violin and viola blend with Nick’s driving fiddle chords and powerful vocals to create a rich, captivating sound.

Nick has lived in North Devon for as long as he can remember! He plays fiddle, guitar, bass and just about anything with strings on. After training with Wren Music as a community musician, Nick began to explore the traditional fiddle-music of the area, particularly the tunes of William Andrew of Dartmoor. He now works for Wren part-time and plays for musicians like Jim Moray, Jackie Oates and Lauren McCormick. Nick writes many of the arrangements for the duo and is usually found happily chugging away on the chords.

Becki started playing folk and traditional music in her home town of Bridport with ceilidh band Sundance and went on to study community music in Liverpool. Since moving back to the South West she has been working for Wren Music, running music workshops throughout Devon. She composes many of the new tunes for the duo, drawing on her interest and knowledge of traditional English and Western European music for inspiration. Her other work includes playing with The Angel Brothers, accompanying Mick Groves from the Spinners and playing fiddle for a Country and Western show at Butlins, Minehead!

“Lovely, inventive playing” fRoots
“Passionate musicality and distinctive presence” The Living Tradition
“A superb advert for English music” The Folk Mag

Friday 10 September 10 8.45pm
Monster Ceilidh Band
£4.50 in advance. Book now here

This is a Ceilidh with a difference! Dance to outrageously foot-stomping tunes from a Newcastle-based four-piece who mix quirky tunes with beats and attitude. Elegant traditional playing and raucous rave-like rhythms are guaranteed to ignite the dance floor – this band entertains and electrifies everywhere it plays.

“The coolest ceilidh band around” Kathryn Tickell
“Grab your dancing shoes (and glowsticks) and look out for the next Monster Ceilidh near you” fRoots

Friday 10 September 10 10pm
Andrew Cronshaw and Tigran Aleksanyan
£4.50 in advance. Book now here

Andrew Cronshaw is one of only two artists ever to have been nominated in both the BBC Folk Awards and BBC Awards for World Music, for his last album Ochre. For this show he plays a deep-chiming electrified chord zither, marovantele (his unique hybrid of Finnish kantele and Madagascan marovany), the huge breathy Slovak flute fujara, the seductive Chinese ba-wu and more. His partnership with Tigran Aleksanyan, Armenian master of his country’s exquisitely soft-toned reed instrument, the duduk, creates a mesmerising duo.

“This man is an English original. He paints unusual sound pictures with the melodies we love and brings out totally unexpected aspects of them” The Folk Diary
“In a just world, a man with the talents of Andrew Cronshaw would be a household name. Cronshaw is a musician/producer of rare quality. Don’t worry about categorising this album as folk, classical, world or any other kind of music – just file under Essential” Mel McClellan, BBC

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Due to the hall limited capacity, booking well in advance is much recommended.
Book now to avoid disappointment.