Live Album Recommendations - small venues

Subject: Live Album Recommendations
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Mar 23 - 11:55 PM

Hi all
I’m looking for recommendations for live folk albums in the vein of Rosemary Hardman’s Queen Of Hearts LP. Albums recorded in an intimate setting or smaller venue/ with audience participation would be great but ok without / female preferred singer. Prefer older albums. Barbara Dickson’s early live recordings are in a similar vein so anything like that really. Any suggestions?

Subject: RE: Live Album Recommendations - small venues
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Mar 23 - 03:09 PM

Nobody?

Subject: RE: Live Album Recommendations - small venues
From: Joe Offer
Date: 14 Mar 23 - 03:39 PM

My favorite live albums are the FifeSing albums from the Fife Traditional Singing Festival. They stopped making annual CDs a few years back, but they're all terrific if you can find them.

Here's a more recent one, done on Zoom:

https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=548112579162995

And here's their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/fifesing/

Subject: RE: Live Album Recommendations - small venues
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Mar 23 - 04:35 AM

Thanks Joe for your prompt reply. Just had a quick look at the Zoom video.This is great stuff! Thanks so much for sharing. Look forward to seeking out some of the CDs, if the singing on the discs is as first rate as what i just heard should be great.

Subject: RE: Live Album Recommendations - small venues
From: Reinhard
Date: 15 Mar 23 - 07:07 AM

The FifeSing CDs are still available from Springthyme Records as Old Songs & Bothy Ballads Volumes 1-8 from the FifeSing years 2003 up to 2011.

Subject: RE: Live Album Recommendations - small venues
From: Long Firm Freddie
Date: 15 Mar 23 - 11:29 AM

"Jon Boden / John Kirkpatrick / Martin Carthy / Eliza Carthy / Fay Hield / Sam Lee / Fran Foote / Nicola Kearey / Jack Sharp / Men Diamler / / Bella Hardy / Stew Simpson / Peta Webb & Ken Hall / Lisa Knapp / Spiro / Sam Sweeney / Rob Harbron

We set out to make a collection of live recordings - a snapshot of English folk music right now. We wanted to capture performances that were immediate and intimate. You feel like you're in the room with them, hearing a continuation of a tradition which is very much alive, and evolving.

We didn't know most of these people, being new to the folk scene. But we could see across the breadth of England, what a wide range of music and styles there were. When we approached the artists, most of them said yes without question, and trusted us with their art. We were welcomed into private and personal spaces, in down-time, and between gigs. Often we were done within the hour, then packed away in the boot of the car, and on to the next one. Of course there are people we don't know about, or couldn't get…There is always next time.

From a stone cottage in Edale, a London bank vault, a Bristol back room, to a Robin's Hood Bay garden at dusk, a Bedford kitchen, each artist was asked to think about what From Here meant to them - by way of place or geography, as a way of looking back to musical origins, or simply where they are at this very moment in time - 'here's what I am, this is where I'm from'. Then we just recorded them live, in situ, two stereo mics, no overdubs. Exactly as if you were right there."

Ian Carter and Nicola Kearey, Stick In The Wheel/From Here Records.
credits

From Here

LFF

Subject: RE: Live Album Recommendations - small venues
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Mar 23 - 01:19 AM

Thanks everyone for your suggestions! Much appreciated.