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Sark Folk Festival 2014 | ||
3rd - 5th Jul 2014 Isle of Sark, Sark, GY10, United Kingdom |
Tickets are SOLD OUT |
Sark Folk Festival have announced the first acts for this year’s festival. The acts announced include an impressive mix of folk legends, award winning song-writers and some of the most hotly tipped new acts on the folk scene. The winner of this year’s BBC Folk Awards Lifetime Achievement Award, Martin Carthy will be appearing at the festival. Returning to the festival is another BBC Folk Award winner, Lucy Ward, and her band. Other acts announced are Gilmore & Roberts, Padraig Lalor, the Ryan O’Reilly Band and CC Smugglers.
Tickets for this year’s festival sold out within minutes of going on sale. The festival, which is run entirely by volunteers, was recently short-listed for the 2013 Guernsey Press Ambassador of the Year award. This year’s event takes place on the Isle of Sark on 4-6 July 2014.
Martin Carthy
“Martin Carthy's work has immeasurably enriched the British folk heritage.” BBC website
Sometimes called the godfather of British folk, for more than 40 years Martin Carthy has been one of folk music's greatest innovators, one of its best loved, most enthusiastic and, at times, most quietly controversial of figures. Along with trailblazing musical partnerships with Steeleye Span, Dave Swarbrick and The Imagined Village among others, and collaborations with his award-winning wife Norma Waterson and daughter Eliza Carthy, perhaps most significant of all are his settings of traditional songs with guitar which have influenced a generation of artists, including Bob Dylan and Paul Simon, on both sides of the Atlantic.
Martin was appointed an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 1998 and, at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, has received awards for Folk Singer of the Year (2002 & 2005), Best Traditional Track (2005) Best Duo (2007, with Dave Swarbrick) and Best Traditional Track (2008), along with his incredible Lifetime Achievement Award last month. A real-life legend who they are honoured to have in Sark this year.
Lucy Ward
Lucy Ward returns to Sark this year for her second performance. Derby-based Lucy fell in love with folk at the age of 14 and is one of the most exciting things to happen to British folk music in a long time. A BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award finalist in 2009 and winner of the BBC Radio 2 Folk Award for Best Newcomer in 2011, Lucy has gone from strength to strength, playing at festivals all over the UK to great acclaim. Both her highly acclaimed albums 'Adelphi Has To Fly', released in 2011 and 2013's 'Single Flame' showcase the quality of her self-penned songs and her incredible ability to tell stories from past and present, her anger at social injustice and her quirky take on life, interspersed by fantastic and loving interpretations of traditional songs. As well as all of this, Lucy is a wonderful performer, pulling the audience in with the humour and warmth of her personality.
Gilmore & Roberts
Gilmore & Roberts also return for their second appearance at the Sark Folk Festival. Katriona Gilmore and Jamie Roberts combine their award-winning songwriting with astounding lap-tapping guitar, fiery fiddle and their trademark harmonies, creating a powerful wall of sound. Gilmore & Roberts met while studying at Leeds College of Music and began working together in 2006. Since then, the duo have been nominated for the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in 2013 and won both the 2012 UK Songwriting Contest (Acoustic/ Folk Category) and the 2012 Fatea Awards ‘Song of the Year’ for their song ‘Dr James’. Gilmore & Roberts have also toured with folk rock legends Fairport Convention and have completed several headline tours in their own right as well as performing at some of Britain's largest acoustic festivals. Both are familiar faces to festival-goers nationwide from their previous projects – Gilmore with indie folk sensations Tiny Tin Lady, singer Rosie Doonan and more recently The Albion Band, and Roberts with young English traditionalists Kerfuffle.
Sark Folk Festival Isle of Sark, Channel Islands, UK between Friday 4 July - Sunday 6 July 2014
Winner of the Best Festival Award 2013: Sark Folk Festival
Shortlisted for Guernsey Press Ambassador of the Year Award 2013