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Friday 5 March |
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Grand Ceilidh
7.30pm - Lincoln Drill Hall - Tickets: £8 (£6 Concessions)
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Back for the fourth year, the Grand Ceilidh returns to bring a spring to your step! The Drill Hall ceilidhs are a great way to try English social dancing on a big scale. The dances are ‘called’ and no previous experience is necessary. The evening is suitable for all ages – friends, families and colleagues! The band is an all-star line up who have appeared at festivals throughout Europe and North America. Musicians Liam Robinson and Tim Walker will be joined by Roger Watson (New Victory Band, Chequered Roots, Boka Halat) and Gareth Kiddier (The Bismarks, English Contra Band) collectively known as English Compass. The Grand Ceilidh is part of a series of dances that happen every month in Lincoln. If you’d like to join us, contact liam@minimorris.co.uk for more details!
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Saturday 6 March |
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Waterson:Carthy
7.30pm - Westgate Junior School - Tickets: £12 (£10 Concessions)
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For more than 30 years Norma Waterson and Martin Carthy have been at the forefront of the English folk scene.They perform fantastic traditional songs and music in a way only they know how.
Martin Carthy is a much loved and enormously influential figure in English folk music and has been for over 40 years. He has appeared and recorded solo, as a duo with fiddler Dave Swarbrick, and as part of bands The Watersons, Steeleye Span, Brass Monkey and Blue Murder. Awarded the MBE in 1998, Martin has been the subject of various TV documentaries and has received a spectrum of BBC Folk Awards including ‘Folk Singer of the Year’.
Norma Waterson, is one of the country’s finest, most emotive singers with her wonderfully compassionate voice and another BBC Folk Award recipient. Norma is a founder member of groundbreaking harmony group ('the Folk Beatles') The Watersons, and a fellow member of Blue Murder. Norma has also been awarded the MBE, and was the first folk artist to be nominated for a Mercury Music Prize when she famously very nearly pipped Pulp to first place.
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Sunday 7 October |
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Folk Jam Session
3pm - The Dog & Bone - FREE
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Come join Alex and Eve at the multi award winning Dog and Bone for their monthly folk jam session.
Bring an instrument and join in or just have a drink and soak up the atmosphere in one of Lincoln's most lively and welcoming pubs.
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Tiny Tin Lady
7.30pm - Bishop Greaves Theatre, Bishop Grosseteste University College - Tickets: £7 (£5 Concessions)
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Tiny Tin Lady have been together since 2004 and, in five years, have become one of the most talked about bands on the acoustic scene, stunning audiences everywhere with their blend of brilliant, original songs, superb musicianship and spine-tingling harmonies.
They toured with Fairport Convention in 2007 and have also toured with Jah Wobble, Midge Ure and The Dylan Project. Their debut album, “The Sound of Requiem” received great reviews with Mojo calling it “A triumph for talent over fake X-factor garbage” and The Daily Telegraph predicting “A bright, rosy, future”.
“Tiny Tin Lady are a unique blend of roots honesty and rock sensibilities not to be missed”. – MOJO
Plus support from local act James Cook and his band in the Bishop Bar from 6.30pm.
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Monday 8 March |
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Spiers and Boden
8pm - Lincoln Drill Hall - Tickets: £12 (£10 Concessions)
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Described by The Guardian as “the finest instrumental duo on the traditional scene” and twice winners of the BBC Radio 2 folk award for Best Duo, Spiers & Boden make a quick and very welcome return to the Drill Hall after their superb concert last year. The duo have made the genre of spontaneous, punky English folk very much their own. Loud, proud, and with just a few acoustic instruments, they create a multitude of textures upon which they present traditional stories and dance music which have taken them on to the main stages of many major festivals.
"Dynamics, drive and passion" BBC Radio 2 folk website. Plus support from Whalebone.
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| Lincoln Drill Hall is working with the Minimorris Company and other event organisers to help promote the amazing variety of folk and traditional activities that take place in and around Lincoln. If you would like to receive a copy of the new monthly Lincoln Folk News listing, please email LFN@minimorris.co.uk |
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