Here is a little taster of Vidlin on Thursday night with Ryan Couper, Rory Ellis, Henrik Jansberg Band, Brother Mule and Le vent Du Nord. Your compere is Michael Coutts from the Festival committee.

There are tickets left for Clickimin on Saturday night where both Henrik Jansberg and Le Vent Du Nord are appearing along with The Chair, Hom Bru and Hanggai. After seeing both these bands last night I would reckon that the roof will be raised by the level of excitment that all these bands can create. Fully recommended.

More to come as the music is played. 

This, the second show in the series, features two of the rising acts in the folk music scene.

Orkney’s Lazyboy Chair recently won a prestigeous ‘Danny’ award at Celtic Connections and play high tempo foot stompin folk music.

Bodega met in 2004, formed the band in 2005 and won the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award in 2006!….

Bodega - www.footstompin.com/artists/bodega
Lazyboy Chair - www.myspace.com/lazyboychair
Shetland Folk Festival - www.shetlandfolkfestival.com

Check out the photos at www.craiggchapman.com

We’ll start the series of shows featuring live recordings from the 2007 festival with recordings of Crooked Still and Terrafolk at the Ollaberry Hall on the Friday night.

Both of these bands went down a storm at the festival. Joining me this year is Marvin Smith and we will be presenting shows hopefully in every two weeks, their is plenty of music to listen to as well.

I’d just like to take this opertunity to thank the Shetland Folk festival committee for putting on the best little festival in the world, all the artists for giving us permission to record them and a big thanks to all the soundmen who helped out espcially Gavin for lending me some much needed cables for my recorder.

Here are a selection of photos from Jarveye Sim’s Flickr site of Terrafolk in action at this years festival. Have had a search of Flickr and can’t really find any photos that match up to this collection.

Links

Crooked Still MySpace Site
Terrafolk MySpace Site
Rushad Eggleston MySpace Site

The 2007 Shetland Folk Festival starts on Friday the 4th May this year. Have a good one.

Mary Black - Stand Up from Full Tide
Cushtie
Troy MacGillivray - KNITTIN’ & DRINKIN’ from Eleven
Troy MacGillivray - DREAM AT DAWN from Eleven
Ray Bonneville - Tiptoe Spider from Roll It Down
Ray Bonneville - You Know What I Mean from Roll It Down
Jamiesons Big Pockets - Harry Hay
Sharon Shannon - The Penguin (Retour de Hirondelles & Tune For A Found Harmonium) from Live At Dolans

The following concerts are now sold out: Bressay (Friday), Ollaberry (Friday), Clickimin (Friday & Saturday), Bigton (Friday), Lerwick British Legion (Friday & Saturday), Aith (Saturday). All Festival Foys are also now sold out.

The program

The beer list

All the posters for this years festival

SOLD OUT VENUES - Bressay (Friday), Clickimin (Friday & Saturday), Bigton (Friday), Lerwick British Legion (Saturday).
All Festival Foys are also now sold out.The tracks in this weeks show are

The tracks in this weeks show areTerrafolk - When U Dance N’TAKA (2004)
TerraFolk - Liver Dance - Nori Veter Live at Queen’s Hall (2006)
Shine - la bikina
Lazy Boy Chair - Dragons Blood
Lazy Boy Chair - Folky Gibbon
Bodega - Bodega - 9-8s
Bodega - Bodega - Greenland
Sharon Shannon - Hogs & Heifers
Mary Black - Full Tide - Siul A Run

The 2007 Shetland Folk Festival starts on Friday the 4th May this year.

This show features the following tracks

The McDades - Pull The Anchor
The McDades - The Silver Platter
Bagdaddies - We Try
Bagdaddies - Sweet Girl
Crooked Still - New Railroad
Crooked Still - Come On In My Kitchen
A Cadiera Coixa - Polcas del gaitero errante
A Cadiera Coixa - Como quiere Lola
Four Men and a Dog - I’m Walkin’
Four Men and a Dog - The Kilfenora Sexy Jig
The Toy Hearts - If The Blues Come Calling
The Toy Hearts - Leave This Heart Alone

Full shownotes and links can be found at sffpodcast.blogspot.com

Elana James and the Continental Two recorded at the Bigton Hall on the Thursday night of the festival.

This was an excellent line up for the first night and was definitley the pick of the bunch. Elana and the boys really got stuck into the sessions on the Sunday and Monday nights of the festival which were amazing.

I think I can say for certain that they will most certainly be back in Shetland for the festival at some point.

Additional information

Elana’s website Elanas’s MySpace

Some concert highlights from the 2006 Shetland Folk Festival.

This podcast features the acoustic good time blues of Tom Ball and Kenny Sultan live at the Brae Hall on the Saturday night (30 April 2006) of the festival.

It was a beautiful night for a run up to Brae to see Tom and Kenny play and it was much appreciated that they were gracious enough to have a brief chat with me after their set.This is the first in a series of podcasts featuring some of the recordings I made at the 2006 Shetland Folk Festival.

I’d like to thank the sound man for recording this for me and Tom and Kenny giving me permission to release it. Also thanks must go out to the festival committee fro allowing me the access I had to the artists.

Additional information
Tom and Kenny have been bringing their unique blend of guitar and harmonica blues, rags and good time music to widely diverse audiences for more than 25 years. Their live performances include concerts, clubs and festivals all over the world, and they were the only musical act in America to play all four venues of the 1984 Olympic Games.

Together and separately they have worked on countless film scores, TV soundtracks, commercials and sessions. They’ve appeared on television internationally, were featured on the “Levi’s 501 Blues” commercials (which incidentally is banned from YouTube for copyright reasons, for shame ), have played for audiences of 300 million via Voice of America and are frequent guests of National Public Radio. Their eight duo albums have garnered much critical acclaim throughout the world, and their music from the film “Over The Edge” won the duo the prestigious Telly Award in 1994.

At home wherever they go, Tom and Kenny fit in at blues, folk, bluegrass and jazz festivals, and their extensive teaching backgrounds make them a natural choice for college campuses or venues which feature workshops. Because their music is a blend of American roots styles, they are regulars overseas, drawing rave reviews wherever they go.

Link to Kenny’s signiture Martin guitar

Link to a site dedicated to the Ashgrove the club that Tom and Kenny speak about in the interview.

Tom and Kenny’s own website