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We peppered our year with a load of gigs, as usual. We saw most of our favourites such as The Furrow Collective, Leveret, Jim Moray etc, but also some people we hadn't seen before. Emily and Hazel Askew, for example, were a revelation. We hadn't heard that sort of mesmerising interweaving of two instruments since Chris Wood and Andy Cutting.
Another really memorable concert was 'Spell Songs', which was a 'putting to music' of Robert MacFarlane's 'spells' about words being lost from the English language. The artist Jackie Morris painted some pictures live on stage. A concert to treasure.
When we went to Rowan Rheingans's solo concert, we didn't know what to expect at all, but her performance of a story about her grandmother in Germany during the War, 'Dispatches On The Red Dress', part narration, part song, part dance, enveloped us completely. We bumped into Shirley and Hannah there, a complete, but wonderful, coincidence.
And then of course there was Richard Thompson's 70th Birthday bash in the Albert Hall!
The Event Secretary's filing system. Lots of gigs booked up!
The Askew Sisters. The first time we've seen them. Wonderful! Check them out here.
Lost Words Spell Songs concert. Songs from Robert MacFarlane's Lost Words.
Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham. Great musicians, and very funny!
Quite a few classical concerts this year, at the Corn Exchange. Nice and loud at the front!
Katriona Gilmore and Jamie Roberts at Hitchin Folk Club.
Trish Clowes's launch of her new CD "Ninety Degrees Gravity". Fab.
Malcolm and Mike - Mystery Train. Great picture!
We had our own dressing room!
Mystery Train at the Girton College 150th Anniversary. Proper lights, proper stage, all very enjoyable!
Mystery Train at the Girton College 150th Anniversary again
Sam Sweeney at the Cambridge Folk Festival.
Ralph McTell. Just him and a guitar keeping us entertained for an hour.
Graham Nash at the Folk Festival. Very emotional when he did "Teach Your Children"
Nancy Kerr and James Fagan at the Folk Festival were very good...
... and they had Maddy Prior on stage too - dancing like it was 1974!
Kate with our friend Martin at the Cambridge Folk festival.
McGoldrick, McCusker and Doyle. Always superb.
Mr Thompson of course. Again at the Cambridge Folk festival.
Donal Lunny enjoying himself...
Rowan Rheingans' show "Dispatches On The Red Dress" was a bit of a revelation. Songs, stories, dancing....
Lucy Farrell from the Furrow Collective.
Martin Simpson at Stapleford Granary. The first time we'd been there. Nice venue.
Mike's friend Dave invited him to play with Bridestone at a local beer festival. Slightly daunting, but it all worked out well!
Leveret at the Stapleford Granary again. As mesmerising as usual...
Andy Irvine at King's Place (just about to come on). As good as ever.
Bella Hardy at King's Place. What a great voice she has!
Alasdair Roberts at the Blue Moon. The first time we'd seen him solo. Excellent.
Marcus du Sautoy at 'Bach The Universe And Everything', with Phil and Katie.
Alice Roberts talking about her life in archaeology, at the Corn Exchange. She's so good!
Martin Carthy and Richard Thompson at Richard Thompson's 70th Birthday gig.
Richard Thompson, Dave Mattacks and Ashley Hutchings.
Richard Thompson and Loudon Wainwright.
Kate Rusby, Marry Waterson, David Gilmour, Maddy Prior, Richard Thompson, Dave Mattacks, Marc Ellington, Teddy, Kami and Linda Thompson, James Walbourne, Simon Nicol, Danny Thompson, Ashley Hutchings, Olivia Chaney, Loudon Wainwright and a few I've missed...
Richard and Teddy Thompson with Maddy Prior.
Kate Rusby at Christmas. She made her band dress up as a Christmas dinner!
Kate Rusby at Christmas. The offical start of Christmas, according to David.
And she received a gold star award from EFDSS. Long overdue IMHO.
Ewan McLennan at King's Place
Andy Irvine!
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