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Gretchen Peters - Paradiso, Amsterdam - 28 March 2013

For a lot of reasons, the biggest being on the wrong continent,  this was the only show of Gretchen Peters’ European Tour I was able to make.  Even this modest achievement was almost scotched due to some miscommunication by the venue on show times but thanks to an attentive headliner and twitter disaster was averted.

Making up the band for the tour are Barry Walsh (keyboards, glockenspiel, accordion) and Christine Bougie (electric guitar, lap steel, drum) who provided…

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Added by RP N10 on March 28, 2013 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Posts from the songwriting front line - some insights into Gretchen Peters' latest batch of songs

Life is pretty busy between work, family, gigs, listening to music and general stuff so it's not often I get beyond the selected blogs and the live discussions here on the ND site.

 

The other day, on account of being laid up with a heavy cold, I had a rummage through the blogs and came across Gretchen Peters post Woman On The Wheel where she provides some background to this song…

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Added by RP N10 on November 13, 2011 at 11:11am — No Comments

Starting out on a Fantastic Expedition - a new music magazine

Amidst all the doom and gloom surrounding the future of paid-for music writing it’s good to see that the specialist fanzine segment is managing to produce good writing in niche areas.  I was reminded of this by the arrival of the latest edition of UK based magazine “Fantastic Expedition” produced by Jason Smith in Hertfordshire, just North of London.

 

“Fantastic Expedition” is into…

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Added by RP N10 on January 1, 2011 at 9:30am — No Comments

Keeping It In The Family Pt 3 - The Sibling Acts

At the same time as we’ve had a thread about husband/wife/partner musical teams and now the can-they-can’t-they musical breeding discussion kicked off earlier this week, I’ve been casting my mind back over the shows I’ve been to during 2010 and a sense that I’d seen a lot of sibling acts.  I’ve also been giving some thought to what it is makes these groups a little bit special.

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Added by RP N10 on December 30, 2010 at 4:00pm — 4 Comments

The Mountains & The Trees - Ashburner Club, Hackney, London - 24 May 2010

The night of 24 May I finally got to see The Mountains & The Trees at the second attempt. The show formed part of a folk night at an abandoned pub in Lower Clapton and had the intimacy of a house concert which in a way it was as the pub is the hosts' home.



After a song from the organiser and a set from Otto who performed Brazilian (and at least one Argentinian) folk songs, it was time for TM&TT's first London show.



Jon and Jill started out with 3 songs from the… Continue

Added by RP N10 on May 29, 2010 at 3:58pm — No Comments

British Library launches new traditional and world music collections online - free

I'm just re-posting a Press Release from the British Library on the basis that this looked like it might be of interest to people here:



Rowdy pub sessions in England and Yanggona ceremonial chants in Fiji

•Rare, unpublished and out-of-print recordings launched online

•28,000 recordings – that’s 2000 hours

•Listen to music from every continent in the world on your laptop

•Earliest recording from the collection made in 1898

•Music clips range from the lament of… Continue

Added by RP N10 on September 4, 2009 at 9:01am — No Comments

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