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winners of the BBC Radio 2 "Good
Tradition" and "Best Group" Folk
Awards, hey!
For The Big Session Festival 2012, please go to www.bigsessionfestival.com
.........where we're delighted to say that the new Oysterband & June Tabor album RAGGED KINGDOM has really taken off. Apart from being in the UK national album chart for the first couple of weeks (not a sensation we've been familiar with recently), awards and nominations are rolling in:
2011 Folk Album Of The Year in Mojo
BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards: nominations in 3 categories (Best Album, Best Group, Best Traditional Track) plus a separate nomination for June Tabor as Folk Singer Of The Year. Winners will be announced live on Radio 2 on Wed 8th Feb 2012.
It's taken 21 years to make the follow-up to Freedom & Rain - a mad sort of idea, but dare we say we think it was worth the wait? ----
You can hear a track from the album on
The Widget below - click on "Songs". It's a
grand romantic Irish epic about the Napoleonic Wars,
called "Bonny Bunch Of Roses". There's also a filmed
interview with John Jones and June Tabor about the
making of the album - click on "Video".
Warm thanks to everyone to came to the Ragged KIngdom UK Tour - 13 of the 18 shows sold out. So we're putting in a couple more Oysters/June specials in UK in the new year: Chichester Festival Theatre on Tue 07 Feb and London Union Chapel on Thu 19 April. More details at Tour Dates.
And Oysterband had a total blast in Germany and Austria in December - your enthusiasm was astonishing! Not to mention the hospitality... We'll be back as soon as we can.
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Introducing........THE WIDGET
- brought to you by the fine folks at ReverbNation, ever on the lookout for ways to help bands promote their music online.
It's a cunning little device, including songs, videos, reviews, contacts to buy tickets, gig-list, map, and more. It's designed to be easily copied, shared, posted and passed on, as you'll see if you hit the "Share" button below.
So you can put it on your own website or blog or social networking page and convert your friends to Oystermusic. When they say "What's the band like, then?" you now have a snappy answer!
And best of all, the widget is "live". So when we change the songs or add new live dates, that automatically updates every copy of the widget that has been posted anywhere else - how smart is that?
It's all in there - go on, have a play with it........
For The Big Session Festival 2012, please go to www.bigsessionfestival.com
photo Chris Puddephatt
WELCOME to Oysterband's official website.....
.........where we're delighted to say that the new Oysterband & June Tabor album RAGGED KINGDOM has really taken off. Apart from being in the UK national album chart for the first couple of weeks (not a sensation we've been familiar with recently), awards and nominations are rolling in:
| 2011
Album Of The Year in the fROOTS Critics'
Poll |
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2011 Folk Album Of The Year in Mojo
BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards: nominations in 3 categories (Best Album, Best Group, Best Traditional Track) plus a separate nomination for June Tabor as Folk Singer Of The Year. Winners will be announced live on Radio 2 on Wed 8th Feb 2012.
It's taken 21 years to make the follow-up to Freedom & Rain - a mad sort of idea, but dare we say we think it was worth the wait? ----
"Glorious" The Independent
"Spectacular...magnificent... ***** "
Mojo
"...enough emotional power
to fuel a circuit of the sun...a masterpiece." Songlines
"...works so magnificently, it even overshadows the magical memories of their previous collaboration" fROOTS
" ...a new maturity and emotional depth... ***** " The Guardian
"...sublime performances. Pretty much perfect... ***** " R2
"...an instant classic. *****" New York Daily News
plus
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music-arts/jim-farber-best-music-2011-adele-glen-campbell-40-cds-download-article-1.994321
and
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/ten-must-download-songs-2011-ipod-kayne-jay-z-adele-jessie-article-1.996478
"...works so magnificently, it even overshadows the magical memories of their previous collaboration" fROOTS
" ...a new maturity and emotional depth... ***** " The Guardian
"...sublime performances. Pretty much perfect... ***** " R2
"...an instant classic. *****" New York Daily News
plus
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music-arts/jim-farber-best-music-2011-adele-glen-campbell-40-cds-download-article-1.994321
and
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/ten-must-download-songs-2011-ipod-kayne-jay-z-adele-jessie-article-1.996478
Warm thanks to everyone to came to the Ragged KIngdom UK Tour - 13 of the 18 shows sold out. So we're putting in a couple more Oysters/June specials in UK in the new year: Chichester Festival Theatre on Tue 07 Feb and London Union Chapel on Thu 19 April. More details at Tour Dates.
And Oysterband had a total blast in Germany and Austria in December - your enthusiasm was astonishing! Not to mention the hospitality... We'll be back as soon as we can.
A remarkable addition to
the September show at Queen Elizabeth Hall was a
gorgeous, slow-moving, multi-layered triple-screen film
backcloth put together by award-winning film-maker
Judith Burrows for the occasion, full of "images of the
English countryside and of decay" (as The Guardian put
it).
We've just made a rather beautiful T-shirt, using Judith's images:
We've just made a rather beautiful T-shirt, using Judith's images:
with (at the moment)
tour dates on the back. The edition will be limited
to 500, and it'll be available on shows and
from our online shop
for as long as those stocks last.
Introducing........THE WIDGET
- brought to you by the fine folks at ReverbNation, ever on the lookout for ways to help bands promote their music online.
It's a cunning little device, including songs, videos, reviews, contacts to buy tickets, gig-list, map, and more. It's designed to be easily copied, shared, posted and passed on, as you'll see if you hit the "Share" button below.
So you can put it on your own website or blog or social networking page and convert your friends to Oystermusic. When they say "What's the band like, then?" you now have a snappy answer!
And best of all, the widget is "live". So when we change the songs or add new live dates, that automatically updates every copy of the widget that has been posted anywhere else - how smart is that?
It's all in there - go on, have a play with it........
THE BIG SESSION FESTIVAL ---- 2012 and the future
After six wonderful years at De Montfort Hall, Leicester, Oysterband are very pleased to announce that we've teamed up with experienced festival organisers MRS CASEY MUSIC.
CATTON HALL near Walton-upon-Trent, with stunning flat green spaces, easy access and the idyllic peaceful surroundings of a country house by the river, will host the 2012 festival from 15 - 17 June.
During this period of change we've become very aware of the good reputation The Big Session has for the creativity of its programming and the warmth and informailty of its atmosphere. We promise we'll do our utmost to keep it special. We realise some will be questioning the move to a greenfield site - all we can say is, as greenfield sites go, this one's a corker!
Artists booked so far include:
Oysterband (of course!) - playing two sets, one chosen by fans (we'll tell you soon how you can vote), and one with June Tabor
Show Of Hands - Eddi Reader - Martin Simpson Band - The Leisure Society - Chumbawamba - Treacherous Orchestra - Jesca Hoop - Scott Matthews - Chris Wood - Kami Thompson - Roddy Woomble - Jon Boden & The Remnant Kings - Kris Drever - Dizraeli & The Small Gods - State Of The Union Songwriters' Circle - Johnny Kearney & Lucy Farrell - Walsh & Pound -
Merry Hell - Fay Hield & The Hurricane Party - Lucy Ward - Richard Warren - Paper Aeroplanes - Chris Tye - The Magic Tombolinos - and our old pal DJ Pete Lawrence
......mixing, we hope, the new, the venerable, the familiar and the unexpected in interesting proportions. More names soon. And for the first time, we'll have a full Sunday evening programme, and no rush to leave the campsite.
A weekend adult ticket (16yrs+) is £87 + booking fee. To buy, go to www.bigsessionfestival.com where you'll also find details of day tickets, child rates, camping and everything else we can give answers for.
See you there!
