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Mark Radcliffe and Chris Lee with Kirsty Bromley22 January 2012 - 10:00amTonight saw in the first Bright Phoebus concert of the year over at The Greystones in Sheffield, a concert featuring writer, broadcaster and raconteur Mark Radcliffe along with fellow Family Mahone/Shirehorses guitar/mandolin player Chris Lee, with support from the young South Yorkshire-based singer Kirsty Bromley. Hosted by singer/guitarist Martin Simpson, who also...By: Allan Wilkinson |
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Miranda Sykes and Rex Preston6 January 2012 - 12:00amThe Wheelhouse once again provided the ideal setting for another acoustic music night with a difference as Miranda Sykes and Rex Preston chose to go it naked, musically speaking, for a couple of delightful sets at the popular Wombwell venue. With two voices and thirty strings between them, the duo alternated between double bass, guitar and ukulele stage left and mandolin and bouzouki stage...By: Allan Wilkinson |
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The Great British Folk Festival5 December 2011 - 9:18pmTURNED OUT NICE AGAIN The Second Great British Folk Festival by Allan Wilkinson On Sunday night, midway through his Centre Stage set, Martyn Joseph jumped off stage and wandered Elvis-like through the crowd, singing without the aid of a microphone, safety net or risk assessment possibly, in order to be united with the Skegness audience who had come along to see...By: Allan Wilkinson |
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Amelia Curran30 November 2011 - 12:00amWagon Wheel presented another memorable night at The Greystones tonight, featuring three diverse female singer-songwriters; two relatively local, both of whom prefer to perform under pseudonyms, Daughter of Frank and The Listeners respectively, whilst the headliner was none other than Newfoundland's Amelia Curran. I arrived relatively early enough in order to meet up with Amelia for a chat...By: Allan Wilkinson |
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Larkin Poe29 November 2011 - 12:00amLarkin Poe made a welcome return to London tonight with an appearance at the Slaughtered Lamb in the Islington area of the city. Approaching the end of their three week tour of Europe, the Georgia-based band led by siblings Rebecca and Megan Lovell were in playful mood once again as they delivered a superb set of songs from each of their four 'season' EPs of 2010, together with a preview of...By: Allan Wilkinson |
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JT Nero and Allison Russell25 November 2011 - 12:00amFor the first time in just a little under twelve months of Town Hall Live's impressive run of concerts, two returning musicians took to the stage tonight for another outstanding evening of music. Jeremy Lindsay was the first guest at the Kirton in Lindsey venue earlier in the year when he appeared with his band JT and The Clouds and more recently the delightful Po' Girl made an appearance...By: Allan Wilkinson |
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Mishaped Pearls19 November 2011 - 12:00amDoncaster's Minster Church of St George opened its doors tonight for a concert with a difference, featuring three diverse acts, including a male voice choir, an opera singer/classical guitarist and three members of the much discussed Mishaped Pearls. The concert, organised by fund-raiser Eileen Myles, whose successful events usually centre around the folk genre, under the banner of...By: Allan Wilkinson |
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Soundpost Singing Weekend7 November 2011 - 7:43amThe inaugural Soundpost Singing Weekend was held over the weekend of October 22nd – 23rd, and took place in the rural valleys around North West Sheffield - an area fast becoming a real hub of UK folk music. The increasingly excellent Greystones venue is nearby, and local residents now include many of the great and the good, and several of these folky luminaries were present over the...By: David Jennings |
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Diana Jones1 November 2011 - 12:00amAppearing in Sheffield for the very first time, Nashville-based Diana Jones played the third show of her current UK tour in the backroom of the Greystones tonight, before a healthily-sized audience, all eager to hear some of the new songs from her recently released HIGH ATMOSPHERE album. Trying out her newly acquired 1944 Gibson, notable for the absence of a truss rod due to the...By: Allan Wilkinson |
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Fearing and White25 October 2011 - 11:00pmIt really is testament to an artist's consummate professionalism when a sparse audience is rewarded with such an utterly superb performance. Some would just go through the motions or at least take the opportunity to rehearse; maybe try out a couple of new ideas, toss in a new half-written song and the like. Certainly not tonight though. The Greystones was indeed a little thin on the ground in...By: Allan Wilkinson |
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