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Since January 2002
Roots Around the World has presented
ARTISTS:

Taiko to Tabla (Japan/UK)

Boka Halat (Chile/Gambia/India/UK)

Papa Noel & Adan Pedroso
(Congo/Cuba)

Nuzha (Palestine/Algeria/Morocco)

Los Bajeros de la Montana
(Colombia)

Gesuino Deiana & Ravi
(Sardinia/UK)

Toto la Momposina (Colombia)

Kevin Brown & Moussa Kouyate (UK/Senegal)

Boka Halat Ceilidh Band
(Caribbean/Chile/Gambia/UK)

La Volée d'Castors (Quebec)

The Bisserov Sisters
& their Daughters (Bulgaria)

Guy Davis (USA)

Eliza Gilkyson &
Jeff Plankenhorn (USA)

Carol Laula (Scotland)

Lucie Skeaping &
the Burning Bush (Israel/UK)

Adel Salameh, Eduardo Niebla & Naziha Azzouz
(Palestine/Spain/Algeria)

Luar Na Lubre (Galicia)

Conjunto Sabroso
(Brazil/Colombia/Cuba/UK)

Faire Winds (England/Ireland/USA)

Kekele (Congo)

Hank Wangford & the Lost Cowboys (UK)

Keith Frank & the Soileau
Zydeco Band (USA)

Tom Ball & Kenny Sultan (USA)

Baka Beyond (Cameroon/France/UK)

Yat-Kha (Tuva)

Shichiseikai (Japan)

Asere (Cuba)

Ticklin' the Pickle (UK)

Quimantu (Chile/Ecuador/England)

Aaron Monteverde (Gibraltar)

Salsa Celtica (Scotland/Venezuela)

Big Bill Morganfield (USA)

Gordon Giltrap (England)

Tad Walters (USA)

Vera Bila & Kale (Czech Republic)

Black Umfolosi (Zimbabwe)

Carolina Herrera (Colombia)

Yussef & My 5.0 (UK)

Kate Rusby & Band
(England/Scotland)

Sam Mangwana (Congo)

Ana Sofia Varela (Portugal)

Aly Bain & Phil Cunningham (Scotland)

Tomorrow's Warriors (England)

Timothy O'Grady's 'I Could Read the Sky' featuring: Timothy O'Grady. Karan Casey, Martin Hayes, Dennis Cahill, Iarla O'Lionaird, and Mairtain O'Connor

The Gathering (USA)

Andrea Quintarelli Quartet (Italy)

Warsaw Village Band (Poland)

Mose Fan Fan's Somo Somo (Congo)

Martins4 ( England, Scotland, Spain)

Big Bill Morganfield & Ian Siegal (USA, England)

Chris Jagger's Atcha Band (England)

La Boum! (Scotland, Uganda)

Eduardo Niebla & Thyagi de Souza (Spain/Brazil)

Carolina Herrera (Colombia)

Romano Drom (Hungary)

Vera Bila & Kale (Czech Republic)

Eliza Gilkyson & Jeff Plankenhorn (USA)

Tukriyatu (Brazil/India)

Capercaillie (Scotland/Ireland)

Steintryggur (Iceland)

Teada (Ireland)

Deirdre Cartwright (UK)

Joana Amendoeira (Portugal)

Bollywood Brass Band (UK)

Ernie Payne (USA)

Abdullah Chhadeh with Nara (Syria, Lebanon, UK)

Kissmet (UK)

Richard Thompson (UK)

Dan Phelps (USA)

Ian Siegal (England)

Yo Yo Mundi & Sciopero (Italy)

Ben Waters (England)

Chumbawamba Acoustic (England)

Dochas (Scotland)

Nuru Kane & Bayfall Gnawa (France, Morocco, Senegal)

Michael Jerome Browne (Canada)

Samba Mapangala & Orchestra Virunga (Bas-Congo)

Connie Lush & Blues Shouter (UK)

Last Night's Fun (England and Ireland)

Harry Manx (Canada)

Jeff Lang (Australia)

Tengir -Too (Kyrgyzstan)

Fat Freddy (Portugal)

Carmen Souza (Cape Verde)

Ray Bonneville (Canada)

Simpatico Flamenco (Spain/UK)

Flamenco Express (Spain)

Nine Below Zero (UK)

The Hamsters (Essex)

Slaid Cleaves (USA)

The Deborah Bonham Band (UK)

Bonga (Angola)

•

THE CELTIC FOOTPRINT

featuring:

Dylan Fowler & Gill Stevens (Wales)

Bagas Degol (Cornwall)

The Chris Stout Quintet (Scotland)

Altan (Ireland)

•

Show of Hands (UK)

The Ben Waters Band (UK)

Doug MacLeod (USA)

Athena (Greece/UK)

Go Lem System (Argentina/Spain)

Julie Fowlis (Scotland)

Matt Schofield Trio (England)

Wizz Jones & Simeon (England)

•

THE AFRICAN FOOTPRINT

featuring:

Papa Noel & Adan Pedroso (Congo/Cuba)

Doug & Rise (UK/Zimbabwe)

Etran Finatawa (Niger)

Nuru Kane & Bayefall Gnawa (Algeria/France/Senegal)

•

Eliza Gilkyson & Robert McEntee (USA)

 

 

 

 

Roots Around the World's

NATIONAL TOURS in 2004

SHICHISEIKAI (Japanese monks from Kyoto)

LA VOLEE D'CASTORS (Quebec)

 

NATIONAL TOURS in 2005

BIG BILL MORGANFIELD (USA)

GUY DAVIS (USA)

ELIZA GILKYSON (USA)

STEINTRYGGUR (Iceland)

 

NATIONAL TOURS in 2006

ELIZA GILKYSON (USA)

 

 


Event listings

Folk on the Coast

(Bognor Regis)

Every Tuesday:

Chichester Folk Song Club

From 8 pm at The Four Chesnuts (sic)

234 Oving Road, Chichester.


A thriving club that meets in the Skittle Alley of the pub.
Friendly atmosphere and excellent beers.

For what's coming up visit:

Chichester Folk Club

Every Wednesday:

The Famous WILLOWS FOLK CLUB , has moved to Arundel Football Club,

Mill Road, Arundel.

8.00pm, doors open 7.30pm

Contact tel: 07790 511054

Email: chris@willowfolkclub.org

For what's coming up visit:

www.willowsfolkclub.org

 

THE FOX GOES FREE   in Charlton, apart from being our local pub with great beers and excellent food (bit pricey sometimes !), stages an excellent selection of free music every Wednesday night usually starting around 9pm.
THE FOUNTAIN in Rowlands Castle is run by Van Morrison's former guitarist Herbie Armstrong, regularly stages live music on a Tuesday and Friday evening. With Herbie's connections in the music business you never know who might turn up, Mick Hucknall was spotted singing there recently.
FOOTLIGHTS is a monthly music event in West Chiltington Village Hall, Advance tickets available from: 01798 812661. Bar from 7.30pm

footlights@freeuk.com

www.footlights.freeuk.com

www.footlights.freeuk.com email footlights@freeuk.com or telephone 01798 812661


In late October The Third Floor Arts Centre opened in Portsmouth, it's situated above the Central Library in Guildhall Square and will go a little way to compensate for the closure of Portsmouth Arts Centre.

Box-office: 02392 837373.

FOLK AT THE ROYAL OAK, LEWES EAST SUSSEX.
Thursdays at 8.00 pm
Contact tinvic@globalnet.co.uk
Website http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~tinvic

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SUSSEX FOLK GUIDE WEBSITE UPDATED
The Sussex Folk Guide Website has been updated with listings of many
folk song and dance events in and around Sussex between now and the end of May. There are around 100 folk song and dance events listed on the site. You can find it at http://whatson.brighton.co.uk/folk
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INSTRUMENTAL & VOCAL WORKSHOPS IN LEWES
The Saturday daytime instrumental workshops in Lewes organised by Valmai
Goodyear - valmaigoodyear@aol.com - go from strength to strength. The next
is a long series of attractive learning opportunites will be:-


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"Folk On Friday"

8:30pm every Friday at the Regnum Club (in the club's Richmond Room).

South Street, Chichester.

It's an acoustic session of Old Time, Vintage Country, Folk and Roots. The club's been going a year, but only moved into Chichester from out-of-town towards the end of last year. You can best get acces via South Pallant Car Park, and ring the porter's bell.