Homegrown festival 2014

16, 17 & 18 October 2014 Bury, Greater Manchester A festival of finest English folk

Box office 0161 761 2216 Book online homegrownfolk.co.uk

Lucy Ward

Welcome

Festival Offer

Book for any four different Homegrown festival events together and we’ll give you 20% off the ticket price.

Taking place alongside the festival is the English Folk Expo, a music industry event that will bring delegates to Bury from all over the world to experience the finest English folk. www.englishfolkexpo.com

festival of English folk music returns to Bury, Greater Manchester, this October for three days of great music at venues across the town.

Now in its third year, Homegrown features thirteen concerts across the weekend of 16-18 October. Highlights include popular Devon folk stars Show of Hands, Cornish singing legends Fisherman’s Friends, a special concert by Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band, a rare appearance by BBC 6Music’s Tom Robinson and a performance by chart-topping folk-pop duo Nizlopi.

We look forward to welcoming you to Homegrown for an entertaining and enlightening weekend of English folk.

Homegrown is organised by Bury Metropolitan Arts Association, a registered charity (no 701879).

We gratefully acknowledge the support of our funders and sponsors.

Thursday 16 October

Friday 17 October Harp and a Monkey

Spiro

Leveret

Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker

7.30pm

The Met £14

Spiro use folk friendly instruments and the odd traditional tune, but there is also an affinity with contemporary classical and dance music. Their music is sweeping, majestic and cinematic – essentially English and beautifully brilliant.

Leveret is the new trio from Andy Cutting, Sam Sweeney and Rob Harbron, three of England’s foremost acoustic musicians. They join forces to play traditional and new compositions with style, virtuosity and humour.

Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker combine classically trained musicianship with Josienne’s jewel-like voice to produce ageless stories of love and loss. Nominees for the 2014 BBC Radio 2 Horizon Award, their new album, Fire and Fortune, was released in July.

Harp and a Monkey The Willows 8pm

The Met £12

Harp and a Monkey are electro-folk-storytellers imbued with a deep Lancashire sensibility that shines through in their beautifully crafted vignettes of northern life, love and remembrance. Their latest album All Life is Here was released this spring.

Fronted by singer Jade Rhiannon, supported by rich vocal harmonies and sensitive acoustic musicianship The Willows draw inspiration from British and American folk traditions. Their album Beneath Our Humble Soil was nominated for Best Debut in the Spiral Earth Awards 2014.

Spiro

Keston Cobblers’ Club Lucy Ward 8.30pm

The Met / Standing £10

With beautiful harmonies, oom-pah tuba, and a mishmash of accordion, guitar, banjo, piano, harmonica and mandolin, Keston Cobblers’ Club make music that will make you dance until your shoes wear out.

Folk Singer of the Year award nominee Lucy Ward is one of the hottest singers on the UK folk scene. “Britfolk’s most vibrant and forthright new young talent” Mojo

Fisherman’s Friends

Fisherman’s Friends The Will Pound Band The Hut People 7.30pm

Castle Armoury Drill Hall £20

Fisherman’s Friends are singers from Port Isaac who have delighted visitors and locals there for more than fifteen years, meshing their voices in a rousing and joyful set of shanties and Cornish folk songs. Every member of this unique group are or have been fishermen, lifeboat men and coastguards, and learnt their powerful brand of Cornish harmony singing at the local Methodist chapel.

They have skyrocketed from singing in their local pub to playing the main stage at Glastonbury.

“Master of the mouth harp” (Uncut) Will Pound is in demand as a live performer and session musician, in his award-winning duo with

‘banjo wizard’ Dan Walsh and on The Hillsborough Single, which featured Sir Paul McCartney, Mel C and Beverly Knight. Twice nominated for Musician of the Year at the BBC Folk Awards, with The Will Pound Band he tours with Chris Sarjeant, Henry Webster and John Parker playing a mix of jazz, bluegrass, blues, rock and funk rhythms.

Faustus

Lisa Knapp Band Blair Dunlop Band

8pm

The Met £16

Faustus brings to the stage Saul Rose, Benji Kirkpatrick and Paul Sartin, three of the leading English players of their generation.

Lisa Knapp won Best Original Song for Two Ravens at the 2014 Radio 2 Folk Awards. “Songs that twist, turn and constantly surprise” The Guardian.

In their surprisingly engaging and often hilarious show, The Hut People perform a high-octane blend of folk from around the world embellished with foot stomping accordion, a mind-boggling array of percussion and a bit of dancing for good measure.

Blair Dunlop crafts deep and meaningful songs that connect with people on an emotional level.

His new album, House of Jacks, was released in May.

Saturday 18 October Lucy Ward

Family Folk Show with

Megson 11am

The Met £8

An organic, interactive and fun folk concert for big and little music connoisseurs.

Award-winning folk duo Megson blend their infectious mix of heavenly vocals and lush harmonies into a gentle, interactive concert specially for pre-school children, featuring children’s folk songs old and new from their When I was a Lad album. For all ages. Duration 45 mins.

“The most original duo on the British folk scene.”

The Guardian

Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band with Lucy Ward John Spiers 2pm

Castle Armoury Drill Hall £15

Lucy Ward

Known on the folk scene for their appearances with The Unthanks, for this special Homegrown concert Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band will perform brass arrangements of English traditional tunes and a selection of rousing brass band favourites as well as a very special collaboration with Lucy Ward. One of the hottest performers on the UK folk scene, in 2014 Lucy became one of the youngest people ever to be nominated for the BBC Folk Singer of the Year award.

John Spiers is a squeezebox master best-known for his work with Bellowhead and his duo with Jon Boden.

John Spiers

Melrose Quartet Luke Daniels Trio

Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman

1.30pm

The Met £14

In Melrose Quartet multiple Folk Award winners Nancy Kerr and James Fagan join forces with Sheffield duo Richard and Jess Arrowsmith. The band have a bold take on English songs and tunes with four-part harmony singing combined with twin fiddles, melodeon and bouzouki.

Show of Hands

Show of Hands

Philip Henry and Hannah Martin The Old Dance School 7.30pm

Luke Daniels is a musician and singer-songwriter whose work explores life, love, doubt and faith. Previous winner of BBC Young Tradition Award, Luke comes to Homegrown with his new album, What’s Here What’s Gone.

Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman are two of the British folk scene’s most accomplished performers.

Melrose Quartet

Castle Armoury Drill Hall £20

Show Of Hands are one of England’s most successful acoustic roots duos – Steve Knightley and Phil Beer. Their widespread appeal is based on the combined power of Steve’s original songs, the quality of their vocals and harmonies, and their multiinstrumental virtuosity. With performances featuring guitars, mandocello, fiddle, cuatro, viola and concertina, the duo have built up a huge following which has seen them sell out the Royal Albert Hall three times, headline festivals from Glastonbury to WOMAD and play across the world from Europe to America, Australia and India.

Philip Henry and Hannah Martin won Best Duo at the 2014 BBC Folk Awards.

Inventive, mournful, haunting and compelling, each of their songs is a fresh journey of discovery – twisting, curling melodies and eclectic rhythms around perceptive lyrics.

The Old Dance School’s ear-bending contemporary folk features duelling fiddles, soaring brass and irresistible grooves. Their provocative songs and cinematic sound has won them acclaim throughout the country.

Nizlopi

Cocos Lovers Fabian Holland 8pm

The Met / Standing £14

Best known as the underground act that topped the UK and Irish charts with The JCB song in 2005, Nizlopi have a reputation for unforgettable live shows.

John Parker (double bass/beat box) and Luke Concannon (vocals/guitar), have made folk hip-hop their own private genre and when they perform live, they are a positive force like no other.

Winter Mountain blend melodic folk songs and heartfelt lyrics to create sixtiesstyle harmony pop reminiscent of Simon and Garfunkel or Crosby, Stills and Nash.

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BBC radio presenter and songwriter Tom Robinson has released 15 albums of music and presented shows for all the main BBC radio networks over the course of his thirty-year career.

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Fabian Holland is a singer, guitarist and songwriter. Following his self-titled debut he began exploring new sounds with percussionist Fred Claridge to create distinctive material in his own unique style. “We can’t wait to hear more!”

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Cocos Lovers seamlessly channel influences from Africa, the US Deep South and corners of the globe, while staying faithful to their Kentish roots. The band have earned a reputation for fantastic live performances and have toured the UK and Europe supporting Mumford and Sons and Stealing Sheep.

The Met £12

Teesside trio The Young’uns beguile with their irrepressible humour, bold vocals and sublime a cappella harmonies.

BBC Radio 2 Folk Singer of the Year Bella Hardy pairs up with Canadian singer-songwriter Cara Luft to perform new material created as part of a UK/Canada songwriting exchange.

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By Phone from 0161 761 2216 Online via homegrownfolk.co.uk

Bookings online or by phone include a one-off transaction fee of £2.50.

There is no transaction fee for bookings in person.

In person from The Met Tue-Fri Noon-7pm Saturday 11am-5pm

We are unable to offer refunds. Ticket exchange may be possible, but fees apply.

Festival Offer

Book for any four different Homegrown festival events together and we’ll give you 20% off the ticket price.

Bury’s Army Reserve drill hall, the Castle Armoury has been converted into a 700 seat venue for Homegrown.

7.30pm 2 Spiro / Leveret / Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker 8.00pm 2 Harp and a Monkey / The Willows

The Met

Friday 17 October

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Market Street, Bury BL9 0BW

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Bury’s music venue, The Met is noted nationally for its folk music programme.

The Clarence

Silver Street, Bury BL9 0EX

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The Clarence is a new real ale pub opening in Bury this October.

Timetable

Thursday 16 October

7.30pm 1 Fisherman’s Friends / The Will Pound Band / The Hut People 8.00pm 2 Faustus / Lisa Knapp Band / Blair Dunlop Band 8.30pm 2 Keston Cobblers’ Club / Lucy Ward

Saturday 18 October

11.00am 2 Family Folk Show with Megson 1.30pm 2 Melrose Quartet / Luke Daniels Trio / Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman 2.00pm 1 Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band with Lucy Ward / John Spiers 4.00pm 2 Tom Robinson 7.30pm 1 Show of Hands / Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin / The Old Dance School 8.00pm 2 Nizlopi / Cocos Lovers / Fabian Holland 8.00pm 2 The Young’uns / Bella Hardy & Cara Luft SOLD OUT 8.00pm 3 Tom Robinson / Winter Mountain SOLD OUT