from the Festival Director - Sidmouth Folk week

Artists
musicianship, funky beats and loads of
energy. Featuring: Nick Wyke, (fiddle)
Matt Norman, (mandolin); Jon Dyer
(flute), Laurel Swift (double bass and
clogging) and Si Paull (percussion).
108, 483
Gavin Davenport is a fine young
singer, rapidly forging a reputation as an
interpreter of traditional song in the
Albion Band and as a soloist. He also
plays guitar, cittern, mandolin, Anglo
concertina and clawhammer banjo as
well as performing unaccompanied.
114, 228, 251, 330, 366, 411, 428, 511,
586, 678
Geordie Murison is a stalwart of
traditional song events throughout the
Scotland performing songs & ballads of
the North East in his inimitable style.
256, 354, 490, 505, 590, 789, 863
George Frampton is a long-time
Sidmouth regular and the host of the
lunchtime traditional sessions at the
Volunteer. 214, 324, 429, 529, 629, 729,
824
Gerry Cullen of The Voice Squad stays
on to join Donal Maguire and Sean
Corcoran to present traditional songs
from Co. Louth. 454
Gillebride MacMillan is a young
award-winning Gaelic singer from South
Uist. 653, 685
Gordon Potts is a Sidmouth veteran, a
member of The Committee Band and
Hammersmith Morris and an ever
popular ceilidh dance caller. 105, C217,
493, 579, 693, 730
Great Western Morris are a renowned
Exeter-based morris side who will be
starting the festivities by dancing in the
Market Square on Thursday. 001
Greg Cave with Nick Ellison mix
Greg’s contemporary songs with the
traditional and fiddle playing from Nick
Ellison. 790
Hannah Bright is a popular young
caller and MC at the festival. 355, 478,
575, 578, 793, 825
Hekety
play cutting edge English dance music
mixing traditional and self-penned
tunes, Featuring: Jess Arrowsmith
(fiddle), Richard Arrowsmith
(melodeons), Gavin Davenport (cittern
and guitar), Jo Veal (clarinet), Nigel
Holmes (bass guitar). 779, 868
Ian Anderson is editor of media
sponsors, fRoots magazine. (See False
Beards.) 456, 555, 655, 756
Jackie Oates, solo singer, fiddler and
member of the Imagined Village, sings
with a true nectar-sweet voice,
delivering her own songs and the darker
side of the tradition like ‘iron fists in a
gossamer gloves.’ 458, 554, 678
Jake Jones and Dan Eccles
perform the Appalachian flat-footing
dance style. They are part of the Ryburn
3 Step organisation. 222, 340, 352, 373,
448, C413, 606, 669, 678, 706, 747, 762,
833, 851
Janet Dowling is a storyteller bringing
us two ‘Talks & Tales’. 566, 767
Janet Russell is an accomplished
singer and songwriter as well an
accomplished vocal harmony workshop
leader. She performs this week with
Sisters Unlimited. 710
The Jason Wilson Band sees twotime
Juno-Award nominee and
Canadian Reggae Music Award winner
incorporating jazz, Scottish and English
folk influences over a reggae foundation.
Both Dick Gaughan and Dave Swarbrick
feature in the line-up. 778
Jeff Wesley is a singer from
Northamptonshire. A retired dairy farmer,
he has been singing all his life mainly
traditional songs variety of styles learned
from local singers. 256, 370, 417, 573,
690, 785, 863
Jerry O’Reilly is a Dublin-based
traditional singer and Irish set dancing
caller. This week he will be running a
series of workshops as well as
appearing at Traditional Nights Out and
presenting a talk on Classic Irish ballads.
256, 358, 370, 464, 486, 563, 590, 663,
764, 780, 838, 863
Jess Arrowsmith brings us a Can’t
Sing Won’t Sing workshop for
beginner/reluctant singers as well as
being a busy with Crucible Trio and
Hekety. 610
Jig Crew are a young Cotswold morris
collective making a name for themselves
throughout the folk world. 109,
222, 427, 442, 477, 527, 547, 570, 746,
754, 769, 833, 848, 856
Jim Moray 108, 428, 591, 691, 728, 844
Jim Moray’s Silent Disco is overseen
by folk progressive Jim Moray, whose
latest CD Skulk came out earlier this
year. Jim will also be MC-ing at the
Ham, Bulverton & Kennaway House. 373
Jo May is a percussionist with
knowledge of different traditions from
around the world, using instruments
such as the djembe, bodhran, darabuka
and congas. 512, 612, 712, 811, C817
Joe Aitken is a fine exponent of the
north-east bothy style in Scotland. In
2004, he was the winner of the
Macallan Porridge Bowl at the Champion
of Champions Bothy Ballad Competition
in Elgin and in 2010 the ‘Scots Singer of
the Year’ Scots Trad Music Awards. 256,
370, 505, 590, 772, 789, 863
John Doyle is one of the most
influential guitarists in Irish music today,
a founding member of Irish American
supergroup Solas, a Grammy nominee
and recently serving as band leader for
the Joan Baez band. 491
John Howson is a musician, singer,
researcher and designer. In 1984 he
founded the Veteran recording label that
is internationally recognised as the
leading specialist in the traditional music
and song of the British Isles. John, one
of the founders of the East Anglian
Traditional Music Trust and director of
the Veteran record label, will be MCing
some of the traditional events. 256, 454,
590, 654, 789
John Kirkpatrick is a highly skilled box
player and one of the most prolific
figures on the English folk scene,
performing solo, in duos, acoustic
groups and electric bands. He has
established an enviable reputation as an
instrumental virtuoso and session
musician, as well as a leading
interpreter of English folk music. 409,
452, 509, 609, 651, 684, 709, 784, 809,
C817
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