MANFOLK TO RISE AGAIN IN OCTOBER 2022

Rediscover one of life’s simplest joys – the sharing of live music in the glow of a campfire. Every summer, The Nest Collective gathers audiences in beautiful green spaces within cities to hear extraordinary music by artists from all over the world. In collaboration with The Nest Collective, English Folk Expo presents a July series of Campfire Clubs in Salford, Greater Manchester.  Find more details HERE.

NO SUCH THING AS SILLY LOVE SONGS

The Brian Wilson-penned 1966 Beach Boys’ hit “God Only Knows” is McCartney’s favorite song, and “Silly Love Songs” has subtle references to it, sonically, with the multi-vocal parts and a horn section.
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POETRY AND MUSIC a force of nature

With sometimes as many as four great instrumentaliss on the stage the music delivered tonight was brilliantly but tenderly played. No showmanship, no one-upmanship. Duende, like Jools Holland, conducted all this almost invisibly. He seemed to be a character comfortable working amongst this musical excellence, sure in the knowledge that his writing and performing fit in perfectly.

THE PERFECT STORM

Since re-energising our recorded  portfolio, Colin is now creating a radio comedy series called Open Mic which brings together a number of characters created from our songs or who are drawn on other performers and audience members we met during those years..
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I spy JOSEPHINE BAKER, a musician on a  special mission

Drawing on a plethora of new historical material and rigorous research, including previously undisclosed letters and journals, Lewis upends the conventional story of Josephine Baker, explaining why she fully deserves her unique place in the French Panthéon. 
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WOODY´S EDUCATION CENTRE LEGACY& Phil Ochs´ Fellowship

The Woody Guthrie prize has been awarded over the past few years to luminaries like Springsteen, Joan Baez, (left) . John Mellencamp, Kris Kristofferson, Mavis Staples and Pete Seeger. “We hope that the Woody Guthrie Prize will shed an inspirational light on those who have decided to use their talents for the common good rather than for personal gain,” says Woody Guthrie’s daughter Nora. “With his dry wit, Woody always preferred to call himself a ‘commonist.’ His quote from John Steinbeck’s character, Tom Joad, says it pretty simply: ‘Wherever children are hungry and cry, wherever people ain’t free, wherever men are fightin’ for their rights, that’s where I’m gonna be.’

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However, there has been validation of a kind for Phil Ochs. Join us tomorrow when we visit the Woody Guthrie Centre to learn more

COWBOY JACK AND HANK AND ME

As the album faded I could almost see the shades dropping from people´s eyes, And the raggle taggle wanderers lost boys looking for a home in the night instead found a home forever in the past, present and future of music that creates and celebrates perpetuity. .

BOSSA NOVA IN THE CAVES

The album Getz/Gilberto spent 96 weeks in the US charts and 'The Girl from Ipanema' would become the world's second most played song behind the Beatles' 'Yesterday'.

… she walks these hills in a LONG BLACK VEIL

In much the same way as Waterloo Sunset, written by Ray Davis of The Kinks, Long Black Veil is a ninety minute cinema epic written as a three minute song: a dime store-novel in three verses and a chorus.