I Am Your Autopilot, Dan Haywood's New Hawks, The Winter Journey, Sally Murray
plus We Mythical Kings DJs
Friday 18th July 2008, 8pm
The Carlton Club, 113 Carlton Road, Whalley Range, Manchester M16 8BE
Not before time, Hedge welcomes the opportunity to present a special night curated by our good friends at the wonderful Timbreland label.
Timbreland is run by Pete, Helene and Raz from Starless and Bible Black and was responsible for the first release from Hedge favourite Nancy Elizabeth Cunliffe, Wheel Turning King (from back in the heady days when she was still using her full name!) - they have been involved with many of the artists who have played Hedge over the last two years or so, and continue to provide a home to some great new music from the North West.
I AM YOUR AUTOPILOT
The three main studio dudes Ben, Graeme and Jasper will be joined by an additional three players and added visuals to make their performance a one-off cosmic multi-dimensional mix of choral folk and Kraftwerk style mechanics.
DAN HAYWOOD’S NEW HAWKS
Dan Haywood is an intrepid ornithologist, songwriter and country guitarist based in Lancashire. His expressive voice is genuinely idiosyncratic and his band are all part of the New Hawks sound - guitars, drums, violin, cello, bongos and gongs. While there are elements of folk rock, this is no laid back excursion to rural life but an inconstant tempo of almost vaudevillian drama as the words draw us in and the volume swoops up, then down and then up again.
THE WINTER JOURNEY
The husband and wife duo of Anthony Braithwaite and Suzy Mangion (from Manchester band George). Expect some gorgeous acoustic music, perfect male-female harmonies, tap dancing, innocent vandalism and the odd tiff – all part of their entertaining live show. Their album will be freshly available on the night before going into the shops.
SALLY MURRAY
Sally is a solo singer and songwriter with an amazing voice that reminds us of an early Polly Harvey but with a guitar sound that has more in common with Bert Jansch. Her debut EP will be released just before the show.
with The Accidental, John Smith, Bone-Box and Aidan Smith plus many more...
Saturday 2nd August 2008, 1pm til midnight
St. Margaret's Church, Whalley Road, Manchester M16 8AE
Hedge are hosting our very own mini-festival in this wonderful church in Whalley Range. An all-day feast of folk and acoustic music on two stages, with food and drink including bar and BBQ run by Jam Street and tea and cakes by The Art of Tea...
We're over the moon with the line-up, with past Hedge favourites and one or two acts we've been trying to get down to Hedge for ages:
The Accidental, John Smith, Bone-Box, Down The Tiny Steps, John Fairhurst, Sara Lowes, Aidan Smith, Oli Moore, Table, Paper Wives, The Hang Project, Dean McPhee plus more to be announced...
Plus a huge cast of DJs treating you to all manner of aural delights throughout the day, children's entertainment (bring the kids!) and all round good summertime vibes.
It'll all kick off with the BBQ and DJs at 1pm and the music will carry on through til midnight.
A limited number of advance tickets are currently available priced at £13.
SAT 28TH JUNE!!! MINDTRAIN THIS MONTH PROUDLY PRESENTS...
BEHAR'S Inspiration comes from traditional Bosnian folk music (Sevdah) - often described as ‘The Balkan Blues’. Behar are a newly formed group in the North-West and aim to bring this amazing music to new audiences. their music is passionate, soulful and poetic with stories to tell through unusual rhythms and beautiful eastern harmonies.
imagine Broadcast scoring the BBC ghost stories for christmas and you may be somewhere close to the splendour of DAVID A JAYCOCK...
all the way from Rio de Janeiro JOHANNE RUSSELL brings sunshine psych folk and Tropicalia tapped directly into the Gal Costa / Secos e Molhados / Os Mutantes source!
weather permitting we'll be having a barbecue early doors, CHEAP bevvies, tropicalia djs, nudie 70's czech flicks...all on your doorstep!! (if you live in west didsbury...)
THE FAMILY ELAN at the Art Of Tea, didsbury,tuesday 10th june. dramatic, sensual, hypnotic & hauntingly beautiful devotional songs of autumn leaves and nights of fire and wine.
Elan derives much inspiration from devotional and folk music traditions. The tanbur playing of the Kurdish Sufi mystic Ostad Elahi and Âshyq songs of the Azerbaijani sâz master Edalat Nasibov spring immediately to mind, alongside the rawer, more percussive sounds of the Yayla musicians of the Eastern Black Sea region – who fashion reed instruments from young pine saplings - like Hasan Yïldïrïm (who plays the violin like a drum) and Hayri Dev. The music of the Rebetes of early twentieth century Greece is an obvious benchmark, alongside more recent European folk revivalists like the Hungarian band Muzsikás. Other signposts might include the bouzouki inventions of Anne Briggs and the musical tapestries of the Incredible String Band. There is also a ‘pop’ sensibility lurking in there somewhere, though it is nigh on impossible to pin down in the conventional sense.
The Family Elan is Chris Hladowski - bouzouki, vocals, guitar, baglamas, fiddle, gimbri, clarinet, thigh slapping, and an unknown Chinese Lute – and Hanna Tuulikki - metal flute, wooden flute, wooden recorder, plastic recorder, voice. Both players have been involved in critical groups such as A Hawk And A Hacksaw, Scatter, Nalle and One Ensemble, they release their debut album on Chicago’s Locust Records in late 2007.
YAY MINDTRAIN IS BACK MOFO'S!! AT OUR NEW HOME - DIDSBURY'S BEST KEPT SECRET THE ALBERT CLUB IN WEST DIDSBURY. From Lancaster in England’s North West, fresh from supporting A Hawk and A Hacksaw,with whom they share much in common -The Balkanics Band promise a night of HIGH ENERGY Eastern European folk music. their style encompasses traditional Balkan, Klezmer and Breton folk,bringing to mind latter day acts like Taraf de Haïdouks and Musziskas, always played with an eye on the dancefloor, as this music never truly comes alive without reciprocal MOVEMENT from the audience.this will be hot, sweaty and intense, and will bring out the whirling dervish in you! http://www. myspace. com/thebalkanicsband &&& Purveyors of wine stained gallic noir et rouge duende -SR GENTS & Indodeltajazzraga guitar polymath mr JOHN FAIRHURST!!! PLUS mini festival of experimental movies from the likes of stan brakhage, maya deren, jan lenica, harry smith, shuji terayama,vera chytilova etc & psychedelic vinyl delights from the four corners of the globe &&& beer starting at only a pound a pint!! 8pm - 1am £5v ONLY 100 TICKETS BE EARLY!!!
Thursday May 22nd 2008 ...at The Tudor House Hotel, Wigan Entry: FREE ~ 8pm
Music: Benjamin Wetherill "Enchanting...Odd, kind-of-folk songs, with a dash of his own take on the blues, intermingled with touching versions of George Formby numbers played on the ukulele..." Nude Magazine "Bonkers, totally individual..." Artrocker
Mary Hampton "a woman who appears to have spent much of her life attempting to imitate the shimmer of wind-chimes. The effect is mesmerizing" (The Guardian) "bewildering... spine-thrilling attic folk" (Time Out London)
Poetry: Darren Thomas Pete Crompton Michael Wilson Gordon Zola
Film: Tim Fielding
Art: A selection of art by local artists will be displayed.
Formally 'The People Under The Stairs', and now called ‘Wonderful Arty Types Show’ and in association with Imploding Acoustic Inevitable, this is a new night in a new location! An eclectic mix of music, poetry, film and art all under one roof for free.
This is an unmissable show! After the rave reviews of Sam Amidon's last show in Manchester, where, in league with Red Deer Club, we arranged for Sam to play at the Unitarian Chapel with a string quartet, we couldn't wait for the opportunity to bring him back. Since that time, his album All is Well has been critically lauded and the media have finally caught on to the New Yorker's immense talent.
Incredibly, the opportunity that has arisen includes a touring party from Sam's Icelandic label, Bedroom Community. Sam will be performing with a six-piece band, including legendary producer and Bedroom Community chief, Valgeir Sigurðsson.
And if that isn't enough for you, Valgeir will also be performing tracks from his own album, Ekvílibríum, a critically lauded masterpiece of electronica-laced folk.
To cap it all, the night will be kicked off by support from Manchester's own acoustic-electronica maestro, Denis Jones; having waited two years to play in this wonderful venue, he will be playing his fourth show here inside two months, after support for Jack Rose, Phosphorescent and Chris Corsano.
come and move to our horse song like Ian at Eurocultured Festival Wakefield Street on Sun 25th May were under the Thirsty Scholar at 5pm Lots of Bottom love
what? the folk! gets under way at Odd Bar in the northern quarter on sunday 11th May then each first sunday of the month thereafter. From 8pm, Entry is FREE so get there early. jambone x
Solid Earth and what? the folk present: beats, roots and leaves, an eight hour charity session of musical goodness at Manchester’s best pub in nearly the countryside: Jackson’s Boat
