Hello and welcome to this week’s Newsletter.
A big week as we head into the Falmouth Shanty Festival this weekend. The forecast is distinctly variable as I write this so let’s hope it turns out fine. The official opening ceremony is on Events Square at 6.30 p.m. but before that there’s a “Breton Bash in the Square from 1.00 till 6.30.
The Groups Festival Parade is back again this year, scheduled for Saturday 18th June, starting at The Prince of Wales Pier before moving through Falmouth and finishing at Events Square. Should be a great spectacle as the groups make their way through the town en masse. Everyone is welcome to come along, throng the town and cheer on the groups.
From start to finish there’s lots on from beginning to the end (in Events Square at 5.30 on Sunday 19th June – details of the full programme is on line at Sea-Shanty-Performance-Schedule-2022-3.pdf (falmouthseashanty.co.uk)
There’s also a good-looking Arts & Crafts Market located on Church Street Car Park with a great array of traders offering their products and services. A wide range of products it is too, from beads and jewellery to clothes to wildlife, assorted alcoholic offerings and much more. The Craft Fair is open from 10am – 6pm on Friday and Saturday and from 10am – 5pm on Sunday. I’m also told the Archbishop of Canterbury has promised to appear on one of the charity stalls.
And on Sunday night, to round it all off, there’s Dreamers at the Victoria as always!
The Golowan Festival in Penzance also starts this weekend, running for two weeks up to the ‘Mazey’ weekend with Mazey Day on Saturday 25th June and Quay Fair Day Sunday 26th June. Hopefully more about that next week.
The next Cornish Zoom Folk Club is on Saturday 25th June too so there’s plenty of music and entertainment to look forward to before June has run its course
Two on-line events to tell you about this week:-
· A new episode on the Folk on Foot websiter launches this Friday with Jamie Webster’s personal guide to Liverpool (Folk On Foot) Jamie was the first artist to top the newly created Official Folk Album Chart with his debut LP, We Get By. He’s also Liverpool FC’s semi-official musician – after a video of him playing Allez Allez Allez, his reworking of Italo disco classic L’Estate Sta Finendo, went viral in 2018, the song became the soundtrack to the team’s recent European success. In Madrid, on the afternoon of the 2019 Champions League final, Webster performed it to 50,000 people.
· And on Tuesday 21 June, 8pm, there’s Intarsia, an emerging duo of performers from diverse backgrounds. Jo May and Sarah Matthews have worked together since 2018, combining voice, violin, viola, octave fiddle, tenor guitar, balafon and a whole range of other percussion instruments. Their debut album Sistere was released in October 2020, and this gig is part of their belated album launch tour!(Intarsia | Online Gig | Live to Your Living Room)
That’s enough for this week.
All the best
Nigel