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Thread #137923   Message #3157829
Posted By: Tootler
20-May-11 - 07:52 PM
Thread Name: Folk Music @ The Proms 2011
Subject: RE: Folk Music @ The Proms 2011
You'll only get the Lads, Brian.

Pat has more or less stopped singing since she had her fall. It affected her memory very badly and I suspect that undermined her confidence. I have only seen her once or twice at the Welly since then and she has only sung the once.

I was talking to Ken the other day and it sounds as if the idea is pretty much what DMcG described. Taking songs that Percy Grainger collected presenting them in their folk form and then performing Grainger's treatment of them. The orchestra is the Northern Sinfonia and some of their members are quite sympathetic to folk, having worked with Alistair Anderson so should be a good night.

AFAIK, the Kathryn Tickell band is Peter Tickell, Fiddle; Julian Sutton, Melodeon and Ian Stevenson Guitar - and Kathryn herself, of course but I wouldn't take that as gospel. It's just that last line up I knew of.

I must make a note so I don't miss it.