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Six - and seven - string wizardry coming to The Rogue!
Wednesday October 15, 2014

Friday October 31st 8pm

Alvin Youngblood Hart 

& Corey Harris USA

St. James Hall, 3214 West 10th Avenue

Tickets $28 ($24 members)

An evening of True Blues songs and stories

from the Deep South

Radio Waves
 

English guitarist Martin Simpson, who plays at The Rogue onSunday November 16th, said in a recent newspaper interview that folk music is becoming like an Olympic event. People are playing better, and faster and more skillful than ever before. The bar has been raised as we learn from the past, hone our skills, and head into the future armed with a legacy of songs and tunes, and new layers of song to build on the tradition and take it further.

Ian Anderson, editor of UK magazine, fRoots, remarks in his latest editorial that he is being inundated with new CDs. Suddenly the supply has increased, but, more importantly, so has the quality of the music and the performances. These are exciting times in the outer fringes of the music scene, I tell you!

On The Edge On Folk this week tune in to hear some of these newly recorded marvels, including the new Bellowhead double CD, Revival; Sting's folk opera, The Last Ship; a remarkable collaborative collection of songs about the first Elizabethan era,The Elizabethan Session; Manchester's amazing new folk band,Harp & A Monkey; Welsh trad. / modern singer 9bach; Vancouver's Chinese ensemble, Red Chamber; Cameroon singer Kareyce Fotso; some classic Salif Keita from the early 90s; Ougenweide with some German folk rock from the 80s; a lesser-known Stan Rogers song; and English singer Naomi Bedford in her new role as left wing agitator!  

All this plus concert previews and much more on CiTR fm 101.9this Saturday from 8am to noon and streamed live onwww.citr.ca (podcasts available too!)

For the rest of the week, tune in to Radio Rogue on our website. I've put new music from all these on the playlist, which is now around 5 days long!