Old Bakery Promotions

Bringing folk music to Lincoln

2008 – 2009 Season

in conjunction with Lincoln Drill Hall

For more information regarding promotional activities

 Contact: Alan Ritson on

01522 576057 or 07949035554

Email :

enquiries@theold-bakery.co.uk

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For ticket enquiries and venue information

Contact: Lincoln Drill Hall on

01522 873894

Email:

boxoffice@lincolndrillhall.com

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www.lincolndrillhall.com

All Concerts at Lincoln

Drill Hall

Free School Lane

Lincoln LN2 1EY

Thursday 23^rd October 2008

Tickets £10 and £8

CHRIS WOOD

With

supporting act

RUTH NOTMAN

Her album ‘Threads’ released in November 2007 received these reviews

A new voice in British Folk" The Independent - ALBUM OF THE WEEK"
"Fantastic, really special …….. I was just totally blown away." Kate Rusby
"Hard to see how she can fail." ****Mojo
"What sets Notman apart is the disarming beauty of her voice" ***** Rock n Reel

Chris Wood's new album

TRESPASSER

4 star review in Observer's Monthly Music review

5 stars in Maverick magazine

"My album of the year"

Billy Bragg - The Independent

KARINE POLWART

Thursday 27^th November 2008

Tickets £14 and £11

The bittersweet, cascading harmonies of “The Good Years” sets the tone for Karine Polwart’s new album This Earthly Spell (Hegri04).  And it’s been a good year indeed for The Scottish Borders based singer, who gave birth to her first child in 2007, and still managed to record enough material for not one but two new albums on her own label imprint Hegri Music. Following the fireside intimacy of Scottish traditional collection Fairest Floo’er (Hegri03, Dec 2007), This Earthly Spell reinforces Polwart’s reputation as a humane and perceptive songwriter who draws on indie and roots influences as much as folk traditions.

Most of the album was recorded just a few miles away from her Borders home at the beautiful Heriot-Toun visual arts studio which she and her live band, with producer Calum Malcolm, transformed into a unique and intimate recording environment.

It’s three years since Polwart scooped a trio of BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, including “Best Album” for her debut Faultlines and “Best Original Song”, an accolade she won for a second time in 2007.  In the meantime, she’s released two further solo albums, Scribbled in Chalk and Fairest Floo’er, and collaborated with the likes of Roddy Woomble and she shows no sign of slowing down:

KRIS DREVER / JOHN McCUSKER /

RODDY WOOMBLE

Sunday 8^th February 2009

Tickets £14

 Three of Scotland’s most successful young musicians unite for a special trio album of newly written, contemporary folk and live concert tour. Tour Support will be Boo Hewerdine and Heidi Talbot. 

As the old adage goes, if you want something done, ask someone busy. And if you want to hear some of the freshest, savviest, sweetest and most original songwriting around, look no further than three of the busiest musicians in Scotland, newly in cahoots as a trio: Kris Drever, John McCusker and Roddy Woomble.  

With their respectively distinguished pedigrees ranging freely across the folk and rock spectrum - and overlapping via several previous projects - each brings a wealth of diverse experience to the table, in a collaboration impelled primarily by that most magical of musical catalysts: pure enthusiasm.

Their album is due out on September 15th on Navigator records.

SPIERS and BODEN

Thursday 26^th March 2009

Tickets £14 and £11

Described by The Guardian as “the finest instrumental duo on the traditional scene” and twice winners of the BBC Radio 2 folk award for Best Duo, Spiers and Boden have made the genre of spontaneous, punky English folk very much their own stomping ground.  Loud, proud, and with just a few acoustic instruments, they create a multitude of textures upon which they present traditional stories and dance music which are as much at home on the main stage of Cambridge Folk Festival as they are in a lock-in at the local pub.

ELIZA CARTHY

Wednesday 29^th April 2009

Tickets £14 and £12

Eliza Carthy is winner of 2 Mercury Prize nominations and innumerable other accolades over a 15 year career Eliza has performed and recorded with a diverse array of artists from Paul Weller to The Wainwrights, Nick Cave to Joan Baez.

Accompanied by Willie Molleson on drums, Emma Smith on double bass and  Phil Alexander on keyboards / piano accordion  Eliza will showcase original material from her forthcoming album 'Dreams of Breathing Underwater' due for release via Topic Records in early 2008.

A truly inventive and innovative singer and fiddle-player, Eliza is a gifted musical conceptualist confirming her position as, arguably, the most impressive and engaging performer of a generation. Eliza is also the winner of an unrivalled seven BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.

Yorkshire-born and now Edinburgh-based, Eliza Carthy grew up immersed in the world of traditional music. She divides her time between touring and recording with her legendary parents, Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson.

Describing herself simply as a ‘modern British musician’, Eliza Carthy is only just beginning to reach the height of her musical powers. Though she’s just turned 30, during a 14-year career she has become one of the most dazzling and recognised folk musicians of a generation

‘Seriously impressive’ – Telegraph