Major new folkies

Subject: Major new folkies
From: copo25
Date: 02 Jun 06 - 12:38 PM

Hello,
This is my first thread on mudcat. I've been viewing and using the site for a while but have only now copped on and registered.
So, here's the question: Can u list your top 5 new (or just in general) folk artists on the scene?
Cheers

Subject: RE: Major new folkies
From: Susan of DT
Date: 02 Jun 06 - 12:40 PM

Welcome. What area of folk music are you interested in? It is easier to give lists in a subarea than the whole mixed bag that is loosely called folk music.

Subject: RE: Major new folkies
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 02 Jun 06 - 12:41 PM

Welcome capo25! Hope you have a good experience here! May I ask where you are located so we can better answer your question?

Subject: RE: Major new folkies
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 02 Jun 06 - 12:42 PM

That should have been copo25 of course.

Dang ... ;o)

Subject: RE: Major new folkies
From: copo25
Date: 02 Jun 06 - 12:47 PM

Irish traditional is my main background. And old time bluegrass stuff is infectious too (doc watson and pete seeger stuff).
Of the newer crowd, i like flook, kate rusby, at first light (uileann piper john mcsherry's group) and danu etc

Subject: RE: Major new folkies
From: copo25
Date: 02 Jun 06 - 12:49 PM

Wow, u folks (get it?;) are quick. Im from dublin, ireland (as opposed to the american dublins, of which there are quite a few, i think.

Subject: RE: Major new folk's
From: Beer
Date: 02 Jun 06 - 01:52 PM

Welcome Copo25. I reside in Quebec Canada.
There are so many good "folks" out there it is hard to pick a few. But here are a couple that I enjoy.
Dar Williams
John Prine
Guy Clarke
Jerry Jeff Walker
Eric Bogle
Jimmy Dale Gilmore
Isla Grant
Mary Black
Harry Martin
John Williamson
Patty Griffin
Fread Eaglesmith
Bill Garrett and Sue Lothrop
David Francey
David Massengill
The Fables
Penny Lang
Tom Russell
To name a few and once more welcome
Beer

Subject: RE: Major new folkies
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 02 Jun 06 - 01:54 PM

My top 5 UK "new folkies" then (in no order):

Spiers & Boden
Jim Causley
Mawkin
Karine Polwart
Vicki Swan & Jonny Dyer
(with Isambarde just missing out in 6th position)

If we cast the net wider, then:
Spiers & Boden
Nancy Kerr & James Fagan (aussie-Brit collaboration)
Cloudstreet (aussie)
Jim Causley
Elizabeth LaPrelle (US)
(with the aussies Kate Burke & Ruth Hazleton in 6th position)

Subject: RE: Major new folkies
From: Scoville
Date: 02 Jun 06 - 02:30 PM

In no particular order:

Ruthie Foster
Slaid Cleaves
Laura Love
Gillian Welch (folk? Well, as much as some others, I guess)
any of a number of great young Cajun bands

Subject: RE: Major new folkies
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 02 Jun 06 - 02:38 PM

Some Northumbrians I enjoy almost always

Jez Lowe
Judy Dinning
Kathryn Tickell
The Hush
Bob Fox

Subject: RE: Major new folkies
From: MuddleC
Date: 02 Jun 06 - 09:09 PM

Where's Kate Rusby??????????????
and Eliza C??????????????

--I'm telling on you to Mike Harding !

Subject: RE: Major new folkies
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Jun 06 - 09:37 PM

How "new" do they need to be?

Jim Malcolm (singer with Old Blind Dogs)
Shooglenifty
Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh (Maureen Macauley) Danu's singer has a great new album out

Subject: RE: Major new folkies
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Jun 06 - 09:40 PM

Eliza Carthy
Pauline Scanlon

Subject: RE: Major new folkies
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 03 Jun 06 - 04:18 AM

not very new apparently....

Subject: RE: Major new folkies
From: r.padgett
Date: 03 Jun 06 - 07:28 AM

Well no one has mentioned El Greko himself as major newcomer himself!

Subject: RE: Major new folkies
From: GUEST,Texas Guest
Date: 03 Jun 06 - 09:17 AM

Here are some of my "major new folkies" who have not been mentioned
above; and, consistent with what has appeared above - they are not all
"major," and they are not all "new":
Bill Staines
James Keelaghan
Chuck Pyle
Albert and Gage
Brendan Nolan
..................to name a few. Cheers.

Subject: RE: Major new folkies
From: ranger1
Date: 03 Jun 06 - 10:05 AM

My tastes change according to my mood, so here are a few favorites of the moment (in no particular order):
Jed Marum
Connie Dover
Gaelic Storm
El Greko
Eileen Ivers

Subject: RE: Major new folkies
From: number 6
Date: 03 Jun 06 - 04:17 PM

Beer .... I'm surprised you didn't mention Lennie Gallant in you list.

Lennie Gallant is a brilliant artist worth some accolades here in the Mudcat. He is from Rustico Prince Edaward Island.

sIx

Subject: RE: Major new folkies
From: number 6
Date: 03 Jun 06 - 04:36 PM

For those that might be interested ...


Lenny Gallant

sIx

Subject: RE: Major new folkies
From: Santa
Date: 03 Jun 06 - 04:36 PM

Uiscedur
Witches of Elswick
Cloudstreet
Emily Smith
Jim Moray (though I haven't seen him myself, no-one creating that much fuss should be neglected)
Abbe Lathe
Rachel Unthank is getting a lot of good press and bookings
Benji Fitzgerald

and of those that have been around a little longer: sometimes it is a little difficult to be sure just how long some artists have been performing before crossing my own or your own personal horizons.

Karine Polwart
Trio Threlfall
Spiers and Boden
Tim van Eyken

Methinks Kate and Eliza don't count as "new" nowadays.
New Scorpion Band are not to be missed, however "new" they are!

Subject: RE: Major new folkies
From: Beer
Date: 03 Jun 06 - 06:53 PM

Damn it "6" I did forget him, and not to far from where I was born. Also forgot to mention Brendan Nolan a great fellow with personality to booth. Copa 25 you would also like Brendan. He is from Ireland living in Florida.
Beer

Subject: RE: Major new folkies
From: GUEST,Fruitbowlsdad_uk
Date: 03 Jun 06 - 07:15 PM

New :- not OLD or Established

Look no further than JOE TOPPING & JOE WRIGHT.

Other Great NEW artists are ELBOW JANE, brilliant Songs / Performance / Musicallity.

Subject: RE: Major new folkies
From: number 6
Date: 03 Jun 06 - 10:33 PM

Beer ... I will definately look into Brendan Nolan. I appreciate you list BTW. I'm always interested in hearing new artists. Appreciating art is appreciating discovery.

Anyway ... here are some more artists you might be interested in copo.


Jim White

Debbie Adshade

Jill Barber

sIx

Subject: RE: Major new folkies
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 04 Jun 06 - 04:17 AM

422
Duncan MacFarland
Demon Barbers

Dare I say The Rainbow Chasers?

Subject: RE: Major new folkies
From: JennyO
Date: 04 Jun 06 - 07:46 AM

The following are not necessarily new (mostly not actually), but these are some I like.

Mudcatters

Chanteyranger and Radriano
Charley Noble (Charlie Ipcar)
El Greko (George Papavgeris)
Cloudstreet (Aussies who spend a lot of time in the UK)

More Aussies that have performed at my folk club in Sydney

Chloe Hall (excellent singer/songwriter from Melbourne)
The Wheeze and Suck Band
Paul Hemphill
Jason and Chloe Roweth
Triantan (singers of Irish and Scottish songs in Gaelic and English)
Lyrebird (new up and coming duo)

A few others in no particular order

Gordon Bok
James Fagan and Nancy Kerr
Bob Brozman
Seamus Begley

Subject: RE: Major new folkies
From: JennyO
Date: 04 Jun 06 - 07:50 AM

Oh yes, and Martin Pearson - a very funny man. I was reminded of him when I saw the thread "What recording cracks you up?"

Subject: RE: Major new folkies
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Jun 06 - 08:19 AM

singer-songwriter Landon Pigg

Subject: RE: Major new folkies
From: open mike
Date: 04 Jun 06 - 11:33 PM

Tim O'Brien
Greg Brown
Emmy Lou Harris
John Prine
Tom Paxton

neither of these folks are new

but they all have come out with new material

and keep producing more

Subject: RE: Major new folkies
From: Tootler
Date: 05 Jun 06 - 12:56 PM

Not necessarily new, but here's my selection FWIW

Kathryn Tickell,
422
Magpie Lane
Boys of the Lough
Pauline Cato

Geoff

Subject: RE: Major new folkies
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 05 Jun 06 - 02:25 PM

Antje Duvekot
Amy Speace
Jan Smith
Kris Delmhorst
Erik Balkey
Terence Martin

Not necessarily "new", but they are rising on the scene.

Subject: RE: Major new folkies
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Jun 06 - 04:01 PM

Isambarde
Mulberry Blue
Jim Causley
Faustus
Treebeard