Chumbawamba recorded at the Black Country Museum Chainmakers Festival on September 13th 2008. Chumbawamba is a British band with a career spanning almost 30 years. They have an irreverent attitude and a constantly changing style. This song is a comentary on the information age and Social Media
We had Gene Shay in Philadelphia with the folk show on Sunday nights. In England they have a national folk show every Wednesday that used to be presented by Mike Harding. Mike Harding has been a stand-up comic, photographer, traveler, filmmaker, playwright, and musician. Harding composed the music scores for Danger Mouse and Count Duckula for Cosgrove Hall. This video is Mike Harding singing his song Bomber Moon an anti-war song in tribute to his father, who was killed while flying as a navigator in a Lancaster Bomber during the Second World War.
You can listen to Mike’s show from the listen again link on the Web
I found selection of YouTube videos shot at the Philly Folk Fest. Some of them go back to the late 1980’s. The videos include performances from: Richard Thompson, Chris Smither, Michael Cooney, Tom Rush, Tom Paxton, David Bromberg, John Prine and many others. The videos were shot from the audience and the quality is generally good, when you consider they were shot with a hand held camera from the audience. Please see the samples below
Click Hear to see the full list.
Sample w David Bromberg
Sample w/ John Prine
Martin Simpson is a British folk singer, guitarist and songwriter. He is regarded by many as one of the most skilled folk guitarists currently playing on the British and American folk scene.
He has been nominated 23 times in the 11 years of the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, including nine times consecutively as Artist of The Year, which he has won twice. His album Prodigal Son was named album of the year in 2008 and a song from that album, “Never Any Good” was named best original song of the year.
Ralph McTell is an English singer-songwriter and acoustic guitar player who has been an influential figure on the UK folk music scene since the 1960s.
Bagpipes with attitude. Drums with a Scottish accent. A blazing rock band and a show so hot it carries its own health warning. The Red Hot Chilli Pipers have been rocking the world from New York to Beijing with musicianship of the highest order and a passion for pipes that will leave you breathless.
If the Philly Folk Fest wants to update there image and attract a younger audience, maybe they should replace their Piper with these guys.
Julie Fowlis (born 1979) is a Scottish folk singer and multi-instrumentalist who sings primarily in Scottish Gaelic.
Show of Hands is an English acoustic roots and folk duo comprising singer-songwriter Steve Knightley and multi-instrumentalist Phil Beer. In recent years they have been accompanied on tour and in the studio by jazz double-bassist Miranda Sykes.
This song was written by Steve Knightley in response to a comment made by the Junior British Culture Minister Kim Howells in 2001. The comment was, that listening to three folk singers in a pub in Somerset was his idea of hell. Click hear for the BBC article about the Comment.
Blackmore’s Night is an English-American Renaissance-themed folk rock group led by Ritchie Blackmore (acoustic and electric guitar) and Candice Night (lead vocals, lyricist and multi-instrumentalist). I first heard this while listening to Celtic Heartbeat on BBC Wales. The program is hosted by Frank Hennessy.
