The Chouse is a former church that has been converted into a private home and for many years a post Woody Guthrie Folk Festival tradition has been Don Conoscenti’s concert in these wonderful surroundings. With people still around after the […]
Waking up in our motel room in Henryetta, OK early on Saturday morning, the day of Woody Guthrie’s centenary, we could hear someone playing guitar. Husband followed the sounds and found Grant Peeples, in the reception area, rehearsing for his […]
Michael Fracasso sang ‘I’m going back to Oklahoma…’ and that’s exactly what thousands of people did to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Woody Guthrie’s birth. This annual festival is free apart from the opening night concert at the historic Crystal […]
Please make welcome, Mr Otis Gibbs from Wanamaker, Indiana’ said Mr Otis Gibbs as he made a return to this venue and opened his show on America’s Independence Day. He said that he had celebrated this popular holiday by having […]
I’m used to seeing the stage for a Low Anthem show strewn with all manner of instruments but a couple of tins of paint? No, me neither! The indie-folk group, a quintet in its current incarnation, was making a welcome […]
Anaïs Mitchell’s latest album YOUNG MAN IN AMERICA has been receiving great press on both sides of the Atlantic and I’m sure that it will be a shoo-in for many ‘best of year’ lists come December. Meanwhile, she’s touring it, […]
I first started going to live gigs in my early teens. I was underage. I lied about my date of birth so that I could become a member of Friars, a music club based in Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire. Life membership […]
Nearing the end of a UK tour Kevin Welch pitched up at TwickFolk declaring that although he loved England, it had done nothing but ‘rain every God damn day’ since he started his run of dates over here. Dressed casually […]
In 1977 I travelled to the U.S. to stay with a pen friend who lived in Downey, California and little did I know then that Downey was the home of what was to become one of the seminal bands of […]
It’s been six or seven years since Dave Alvin last toured the UK so this was a highly anticipated show by yours truly and it more than lived up to expectations! Alvin’s website says ‘there are two types of folk […]
