New website for Time Gentlemen Please!
TGP has recently launched it’s own website with full Autumn tour dates
Check it out!
Author: Damien B
Niamh Parsons – A life of singing songs
Niamh Parsons has come to be known as one of the most distinctive voices in Irish music. Her voice has drawn comparisons to such venerated singers as Dolores Keane, June Tabor and Sandy Denny.… Read more
Pete Morton – Talkin’ Farmers Boy Blues
I first discovered folk music through the songs of Buffy St Marie. The first of her songs I heard was ‘Now that the buffalo’s gone’ and then ‘The Universal soldier’.… Read more
Steve Tilston – ‘All For Poor Jack’
Having had my 1st novel, ‘All For Poor Jack,’ published last year, one of the most frequent questions I get asked is how different writing a book must be from writing a song.… Read more
John Richards – The UK Folk Club Network
A week or so John contacted me asking if I would be interested in helping set up a discussion to look at ways to raise the profile and support the UK folk club scene.… Read more
Fay Hield – Royal Traditions
Well where to begin with Royal Traditions… Jon and I moved to Sheffield and loved the session/dancing/singaround scene, which is frankly brilliant with great singers from Crucible hosting various song and tune sessions and a long-term singers club at Raise the Roof providing great places to go and sing. … Read more
Pleasant Surprises By Ben Griffith @BenTheBarberian
Hello again.
In my last post I told the tale of how I unexpectedly and very rapidly got involved in folk music.… Read more
Tanisha Allman: 12 Year Old Champion #Clog Dancer
A while ago we posted some video of Fiona & Tiny Taylor’s workshops at the Lancashire Wallopers Weekend. At that weekend they met up with Tanisha Allman who is the current overall Fylde Folk Festival Clog Champion, and she’s only 12!… Read more
Roy Bailey – BBC RADIO 2 FOLK AWARDS
All social action has two kinds of results, those purposely pursued and those unintended. So what then is the purpose of the Folk Awards and what are its unintended consequences?… Read more
Tiny & Fi’s Clog Workshop videos
Fiona and Tiny Taylor spent last Saturday and Sunday teaching at the Lancashire Wallopers Weekend of Clog. Their category was for advanced dancers and they decided to run a workshop on ‘Layering of Rhythms’ including some of the steps from ‘Time Gentlemen Please!’… Read more
‘Redlightitus’ By Bryony Griffith
Bryony & Will are currently recording their debut duo album in Newcastle.
You’d think that living in the same house, Will and I would be able to find plenty of time to practise, but actually it’s very rare that we’re both in before about half nine at night, by which time it seems a little unfair to inflict melodeon, fiddle and 48 verse murder ballads on the neighbours in our little terrace.… Read more
Damien O’Kane – From Coleraine to Cawthorne
Folk music has always been a huge part of my life from growing up in Coleraine, listening to LPs and tapes of The Fureys, The Dubliners, Planxty, De Dannan, Paul Brady, The Bothy Band…the list goes on.… Read more
A crash course in #folk festivalling by Ben Griffith @BenTheBarberian
So how did all this folking around suddenly happen to a young pop music graduate? The answer is: Very quickly!
One fateful day in 2004, less than a week before the Towersey village festival, I received a phone call my from sister, Bryony.… Read more
Animated Magazine Article on ‘Time Gentlemen Please!’
A few months ago Damien Barber and Bobak Walker (Artistic Director and Choregrapher of TGP) were invited by The Foundation for Community Dance to write an article on their experiences creating ‘Time Gentlemen Please!’… Read more
Top Ten moments of BBC Radio 2 #folkawards
1. Dancing to The Levellers!
2. (Ben) Talking to Jeremy Vine and getting a call out on his show http://ow.ly/3TjQz (6m 35s)
3.… Read more
Mike harding – Bitten By The Bug
After more than fifteen years off the road folk comedian Mike Harding, once dubbed ” the grandfather of Alternative Comedy” is taking to the road again on a twenty night tour of small theatres, village halls and arts centres.… Read more
#Traditions within traditions at The Straw Bear
By Bryony Griffith
On the weekend following Plough Monday, The Whittlesea Straw Bear Festival takes place. Basically, it involves a man dressed in a straw outfit, led by his keeper, dancing around the streets and pubs of Whittlesey.… Read more
New Year’s Eve with Mike Wilson and #Bellowhead
These days I tend to shy away from the masses on New Year’s Eve preferring small numbers of good friends, a medium number of hot caffeinated drinks and infinite amounts of cheese, cold-meats and pickles.… Read more
