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Dec  6th    (Sunday):    Carrie Elkin & Danny Schmidt (usa)
Dec 12th    (Saturday): Flossie Malavialle
Dec 20th    (Sunday):   Pamela Wyn Shannon (usa)
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Jan 30th     (Saturday): Madison Violet (can)
Feb 20th    (Saturday):  Claude Bourbon

More to be added when confirmed. Only 30  seats available at each event.

Dec 20th: Pamela Wyn Shannon Suggested Donation £10

"Pamela's performing style is enchanting: she has an attractive singing voice, sensitive and responsive, seductively sweet-toned...Pamela's voice is brilliantly complemented by her well-developed guitar playing, which is at the same time deftly intricate and hauntingly full-toned. She also has an acute ear for colouristic arrangement, conjuring some rich and uncannily persuasive chamber-folk tapestries... All told, this is a very special, seriously beautiful album, which also has the measure of a personal artistic statement: one of considerable power, originality and vision. Serendipity's a wonderful thing, and all's well with the world after all…" - fRoots Magazine, U.K.
"A MOST BEAUTIFUL ALBUM! (PAMELA'S) SINGING IS GENTLE AND SENSITIVE, AND (SHE) CREATES A LOVELY AND SLIGHTLY STRANGE
ATMOSPHERE - BUT ALSO, OCCASIONALLY A VERY UNSETTLING ONE - THE LAST VERSE OF 'COLD BLOWS THE WIND' MADE ME SHIVER." - SHIRLEY COLLINS
Amazing. Don't miss this. Pamela should have played the festival in May but couldn't make it. NOT TO BE MISSED.

PAMELA WYN SHANNON

Jan 30th  Madison Violet (can) Suggested Donation £10

Madison Violet (aka Madviolet) are a Toronto based duo, consisting of Lisa MacIsaac (vocals, guitar, fiddle, mandolin) and Brenley MacEachern (vocals, guitar, banjo, harmonica). Together, they've been touring the globe non-stop for 9 years, from Antigonish to Australia, Geneva to Grenada. Collectively they've racked up a fan following who love their shows because of their way to make people feel like they're sitting at a campfire, roasting marshmallows with their friends.
Demand will be high for this. Book early
See them live in the BBC Scotland studio here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mtntq

Feb 20th: Claude Bourbon  Suggested Donation  £10

Born in France in the early 60's, Claude Bourbon grew up in Switzerland, where he was classically trained for many years. This finger picking guitarist has performed and studied all over the world; he has crafted an unbelievable fusion of classical and jazz, with ethereal Eastern influences, Spanish and Latin elements with strains of Western folk.

Now based in the UK, some of this guitarists' influences allow us a fascinating insight into this remarkable musician; Paco De Lucia: Deep Purple's Richie Blackmore; Joaquin Rodrigo; JJ Cale, Monty Python; JS Bach and Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks…. One reviewer even noted that although "Claude's roots were in blues, that is like saying Leonardo da Vinci was a painter". Intrigued?

Claude's inimitable style incorporates all five digits on each hand dancing independently but in unison, plucking, picking and strumming at such speed and precision that his fingers often seem to melt into a blur. Thousands of people in the UK, Europe and USA have enjoyed listening to this virtuoso and for the
majority of his audience it is an experience that compels them to return again and again to hear and watch him play, as his fingers lightly dance over the strings of his guitar and create a unique sound that is 'Claude'.

Starting to play guitar at the age of 15, it was the strains of an instrumental version of 'House of the Rising Sun' seeping from a neighbour's garage that ignited the fire in Claude's soul. He then studied classical
guitar for a period, but soon realised that his feeling was more for improvisation than written music, "…as the music is a tool to express yourself…". Absolutely Stunning