Award-winning fiddle player and singer Tom McConville is internationally renowned for his fiery, heart-stopping performances.
Blending traditional music from his home town of Newcastle with Irish, American and Scottish influences, he creates a sound that has jazz, folk, bluegrass and classical influence. His live performances are a roller coaster of musical delights; fast rhythmic dance tunes through beautiful slow airs and of course great singing – all presented with his inimitable sense of humour and style.
Tom will be joined on stage by virtuoso guitarist Andy Watt from...
If you want to witness superb singing and masterful guitar-playing, voices in harmony and hands in tempo, then you absolutely must see Mike Silver and Johnny Coppin in concert! Mike and Johnny have combined their roots and acoustic music talents to create a unique duo in which guitar and keyboard skills provide the musical context for beautifully crafted songs that touch the heart and lift the soul.
Johnny Coppin: “One of the finest voices” Q Magazine
Mike Silver: “Hidden gem, now the secret is out” Bob Harris (BBC Radio 2)
Black Voices, a Birmingham-based performance ensemble renowned for its rich, powerful harmonies and stunning arrangements, are coming to Exeter on Saturday 8 June to do a concert and public workshop supported by St Thomas Gospel Choir.
Black Voices was founded and is led by its musical director Carol Pemberton. Since 1987, she has steered Black Voices in becoming a unique performance ensemble, focused on promoting singing the black oral tradition (SBOT). The group, inspired by Sweet Honey in the Rock, and Take Six, has forged its own dynamic way of distilling and re-presenting...
Surging with hot, raw energy, the seemingly unstoppable machinery of Morris Offspring, driven by the mighty sounds of folk powerhouse Faustus, has created a rare jewel! This tenth anniversary outing for Morris Offspring brings a brand new generation of outstanding young dancers into the spotlight. Add Faustus’s compelling rhythms to the cauldron and this is an explosive mix – an exhilarating, joyful and captivating spectacle.
Tue 2 Apr, £12 (£10)
For more info or to buy tickets please visit: http://www.exeterphoenix.org.uk/events/morris-offspring-with-faustus/
Fairport Convention, the band credited with inventing folk-rock, will appear at Exeter Corn Exchange on Friday 8th March.
Fairport were formed in 1967 and previous and past members read like a who’s who of British folk music with names such as Richard Thompson, Sandy Denny, Dave Swarbrick and Ashley Hutchings all having been part of the band.
The present line-up includes original band member Simon Nicol on guitar and lead vocals. Dave Pegg, who has been part of the band for 34 unbroken years, is on bass and backing vocals and Ric Saunders who joined the band in 1985 plays...
Wednesday April 17th, 2013 7.30pm £10 in advance online or from the Barnfield Theatre, £12 on the door
GILMORE & ROBERTS
2013 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards Duo nominees Katriona Gilmore & Jamie Roberts combine astounding lap-tapping guitar, fiery fiddle and their trademark harmonies with considerable songwriting talent to make a truly distinctive sound.
Their excellent début album Shadows & Half Light in was followed by Up From The Deep, which scored them a Hancock Award for ‘Best Original Song’ (Fleetwood Fair). In 2012 Gilmore & Roberts released their...
After our successful Exeter debut with The Mastersons from the USA at The Barnfield Theatre last October, we are excited to announce our first three gigs this year at the same venue - a venue we believe to be ideally suited to acoustic music.
The gigs are:
JAZZ MORLEY
Saturday March 16th, 2013 7.30pm £8 in advance, £9 on the door
Jazz Morley is a young performer making her mark the old fashioned way, ever keen to play live, meet new audiences and carve out her career by touring. Jazz is in Exeter on her Spring 2013 tour with a brand new single - “No One...
Sun 27 Apr 2014 | 8pm | £10 (£8) | Seated Krystle Warren is a singer-songwriter from Kansas City, Missouri, currently touring the world with Rufus Wainwright, blessed not only with a voice that slides effortlessly from smoky depths to gilded heights, but also the ability to craft intoxicating songs of love and its loss, and to convey them to an audience with warmth and wit. On her last solo UK dates she was backed by Bluegrass virtuosi, The Wagon Tales review, but the November jaunt will feature her voice and guitar unadorned – and with a vocal approach that has been likened to those of...
Emily Portman Emily Portman is a singer, writer and concertina player originating from Glastonbury and hailed ‘one of the new British folk scene’s most beguiling presences’ (Uncut). Her BBC Folk award-winning album Hatchling is described as ‘Marvelous’ (The Observer) ‘Eerily magnificent’ (fROOTS) and ‘One of the year’s most distinctive folk releases’ (Songlines). With her debut album The Glamoury also gaining her two BBC Folk Award nominations, Emily is fast gaining a reputation for her ‘remarkable and original’ songwriting (The Observer)....
