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RED SHIFT RADIO Presenter Terry Earl Taylor says 'My fourth show goes out tonight, Monday, 9pm, on Red Shift Radio and you'll hear Martin Carthy about 9.35 ish, and if any Dabbers have broadcast quality material, send it along to me...' The Rocky Top Radio Show on www.redshiftradio.co.uk HUNGRY HORSE This THURSDAY night - 23rd Sept - and the following Two Thursdays - 30th Sept & 7th October - at the HUNGRY HORSE FOLK CLUB, The Rake, Little Stanney, CH2 4HS are SINGERS & MUSICIANS nights starting at 8-00pm. Performers and audience most welcome. Free admission. Next guest night - Thursday 14th October Sees the return to the club of BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards winners - the absolutely superb "CHRIS WHILE & JULIE MATTHEWS" With VOCAL POINT as support. It all starts at 8-15pm. NB: Tickets are flying out at present. Please ring Angie urgently (0151-678-9902) to reserve your tickets - £10-00 each. www.hungryhorseacoustic.com & www.wirralfolkonthecoast.com BIDDULPH UP IN ARMS Weds September 29th - Rachel Harrington/Rod Clements and Angie Palmer (Biddulph Arms) Weds October 6th - Megson w/ Flaxenby (Biddulph Arms) Sun October 24th Spiers and Boden (Leopard, Burslem) Weds October 20th - Roy Bailey/John Kirkpatrick and David Ferrard (Biddulph Arms) Fri October 29th - The Queensberry Rules - "The place that brought us up" - Celebrating 100 years since the Federation of Stoke-on-Trent - an evening of songs about the Potteries with some specially written for the project. (The Leopard, Burslem) Information about the shows can be obtained from - Eric Cox - 01782 514896 Craig Pickering - 01782 523277 Email - biddulphupinarms@hotmail.co.uk DABBERS SESSION Thursday 7th October Riflemans Arms Hames Hall Street Nantwich 8pm FREE inc fine music and chip butties ! I can't be there this time but I know a lot of folks who willl be ! PHIL HARE 6th October 2010 Jolly Folk and Roots Club, Jolly Sailor, Ffordd Penrhwylfa, Prestatyn, Clwyd, LL19 8BP. 8th October 2010 The Ship Victory, 47 George Street, Chester, CH1 3EQ. Fund raiser evening for the Angela Gildea Trust and possibly new CD (Everyone's A Hard Man Now) launch night! 13th October 2010 Marple Social & Forces Club, Lime Kiln Lane, Marple, Stockport SK6 6BX. 14th October 2010 Lymm Folk Club, Lymm Rugby Club, Crouchley Lane, Lymm, Cheshire, WA13 0AT. Phil can booked through lynne@amandalynnemusic.com tel 077 900 82523 Phil's new CD is something really very special. I won't leak any secrets at this stage but……it is monumental. ROMPING DONKEY I have set up a session in the Romping Donkey for alternate Mondays, starting at around 8.15pm. The landlady has agreed to lay on a few sandwiches for the musicians. If it is a success, I plan on running is every other week. I hope you can make it. Can you pass the work around your musician circle please. If I can get a good number to the first session, then the chances of a reasonable turnout at subsequent events will be that much greater. Cheers ANDY ANDERSON Guitar and Banjo Tutor Two Chords More Tel: 07508 292217 A little change for one Month only! In Middlewich BIG LOCK FOLK CLUB OCTOBER SESSION Changes to 10th October!! WHY?? Because we have a special guest From Ireland: Donal O Connor This will be an exclusive evening for regular Big Lock Session guests and friends Tickets - during the evening THERE WILL BE a collection to cover Donals travelling expenses and to cover the cost of a bed for the night at a local hotel! RSVP - I would appreciate it very much if you could let me know in advance if you will be coming. Session musicians and friends welcome as always! Please forward this to anyone you know who'd like to come! Donals' myspace have a listen to some of his songs on the myspace link below; http://www.myspace.com/donaloconnor Liz 01606 834969 www.inanyevent.org.uk lizrosenfield@inanyevent.org WORDS AND MUSIC FESTIVAL Nantwich Mark Radcliffe and The Big Figures WORDS AND MUSIC NANTWICH inconjunction with Scrumptillious Cakes and Catering present the legendary radio and TV presenter/writer/musician MARK RADCLIFFE in an all new show. "Cupcakes And Outtakes" at the Crown Ballroom, will open Words And Music 2010, and is very definitely set to be a show of two halves. Mark will open proceedings with a world preview of sections from his forthcoming book "Reeling In The Years", which is to be published in Spring 2011. During and immediately after the reading, locallybased company Scrumptillious Cupcakes will be on hand to enhance theproceedings with the uniquely delicious ware for which their fame is rapidly spreading! Then after cupcakes have been duly savoured by all, a brief interval been taken - and, one anticipates, beer been consumed - Mark will take to the stage for the second half of the show, "Blues and Booze" with his new band The Big Figures, who promise to rock the proverbial joint with a bracing blast of bluesy rock, described as being in the manner of Dr Feelgood (from whose erstwhile drummer they take their name). Truly a unique opening for this year's festival. Book early to avoid disappointment. 7.30 pm Thursday 7th October The Crown Hotel Tickets £10 - Fyfe Dangerfield Words and Music Festival Nantwich is proud to present FYFE DANGERFIELD, whose debut solo album "Fly Yellow Moon" shot into the top 10 this year on the back of the runaway success of his cover of Billy Joel's "She's Always A Woman", as featured on the successful John Lewis TV advertising campaign. Born in the Midlands, a hugely versatile and original musician with a classical music background, Fyfe first came to international attention as singer and songwriter with indie rock band The Guillemots. He will be performing aspecial Words And Music Festival set at the Crown Ballroom on Friday 8th October. 7.30 pm Friday 8th October The Crown Hotel Tickets £12.50 - Poets at the Players Theatre with Paul Farley, Danny Chivers and Tracey Browne Words and Music Festival Nantwichpresents a trio of poets to entertain and delight. PAUL FARLEY is an award winning English poet, who has been a significant presence in UK writing since his debut collection "The Boy From The Chemist Is Here To See You' was nominated for a Whitbread prize in 1998. The collection also gained him the coveted Somerset Maugham Award. In 1999 he won the Sunday Times Young Writer Of The Year award, and his second collection "The Ice Age" won the Whitbread Prize in 2002. His latest collection "Tramp In Flames" was published in 2006, and he was recently named as one of the Poetry Book Society's Next Generation Poets. DANNY CHIVERS is a fast rising eco-themed performance poet from Oxford with a razor wit and an impassioned yet self deprecating mode of delivery. His roof-raising appearances at the first Words And Music Festival in 2008 have ensured regular requests for a return visit and we are thrilled to welcome him back to the Words And Music Festival. TRACEY BROWNE is an emerging Cambridge born singer/songwriter who has been gigging constantly throughout Europe and the UK this summer and is currently recording her debut album. 2.30pm Saturday 9th October Nantwich Players Theatre Tickets £7.50 - Nantwich Food Festival was packed out with queues so buy now at www.wordsandmusic.com Warm regards Lynne www.amandalynnemusic.com Martin Simpson + Support MARTIN SIMPSON, one of folk music's most accomplished and acclaimed guitarists, will be performing a solo show at Malbank Studio Theatre on Saturday 9th October. Martin has twice won the Artist of The Year award at BBC Radio 2's Folk Awards, and is known both for his enduring solo work (vocal and instrumental) and for many ground-breaking collaborations, which range from famous recordings with folk singer June Tabor to innovative instrumental music made collaboration with musicians from all across the globe. Be prepared to be dazzled by a a simply amazing musician whose eclectic approach and vision transcends genres. 7.30 pm Saturday 9th October Malbank Studio Theatre Tickets £12.50 - An Afternoon with Joolz Co-Promotion by Axis Arts Centre, Crewe and Words & Music Festival Nantwich Acclaimed performance poet and novelist JOOLZ DENBY, with acoustic guitar accompaniments by Mik Davis, performing and in discussion with the audience 2.00 pm Sunday 10th The Crown Hotel Tickets £7.50 Thea Gilmore + Support Sponsored by Whole Earth Foods, THEA GILMORE, one of the UK's most talented and revered singer/songwriters - not to mention a Nantwich resident and a co-organiser of Words And Music Fest - will play the closing set of the festival on Sunday night at the Crown Ballroom. Thea's tenth album 'Murphy's Heart" will be released in September and she will break off a major UK tour to be around town for festival weekend and to close proceedings on what is sure to be highly charged note. More details of the show to follow. 7.30 pm Sunday 10th October The Crown Hotel Tickets £12.50 -