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Friday 11th July


HANNAH RICKARD with


RORY OGDEN, KIERAN SZIFRIS and MARK CARROLL

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Tickets £14

What a privilege and delight to be welcoming the delightful and multi-talented Hannah Rickard to the Club for the very first time.

The truly delightful, endlessly talented and constantly in-demand HANNAH RICKARD brings her latest project to Moira, and we cannot wait!

This is the first time she has appeared at The National Forest Folk Club and it is long overdue, and brings with it a RETURN visit from KIERAN SZIFRIS, this time as her new-found collaborator.

Hannah's back story is one which gives a good insight into what you can expect in this upcoming concert. Her wonderfully golden voice has been prominent in the folk scene for some time and includes, for instance, working with Club favourite Kathryn Tickell. Here's a gorgeous example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-mOYvDLerE
Given her love of country and bluegrass music she also delved into that vibrant genre with considerable success, her guitar and fiddle skills adding to her impressive vocal contributions beautifully in Hannah Rickard and The Relatives. 

So impressive, in fact, that FRANCIS ROSSI of rock legends STATUS QUO chose to make an album with Hannah in 2019 which they co-wrote. Rossi has long been a fan of country music and, having worked with Hannah on Status Quo's acoustic tour, called "Aquostic", immediately realised she was the one he needed to realise that ambition. Her voice and fiddle were the missing links, and how right he was! The album went straight to No. 1 in the country charts! Here they are with one of the tracks called "Waiting For Jesus":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weh7ZUZbiPE&list=RDweh7ZUZbiPE&start_radio=1

Now she has teamed up with Kieran Szifris to combine all of these influences and interests with evocative, intricate arrangements that push the boundaries of folk and roots music while staying deeply connected to its storytelling traditions. Their performances weave together melody, harmony, and rhythm in a way that resonates with audiences across genres. This is unsurprising given Kieran's background in traditional ceilidh music with The Monster Ceilidh Band, and also his work in the ever-popular Kathryn Tickell and The Darkening. He brings a multi-instrumentalist dimension to this duo, on mandolin, octave mandolin, flute and who knows what else! 
Appearing with them will be Mark Carroll on cello and Rory Ogden on guitar and vocals, all of which will add up to a truly accomplished, wide ranging evening of music, and that is why we're so delighted to have been able to get them booked to appear in Moira. There will be busy times ahead for this multi-talented combo, and this is our chance to catch them now!


Friday 5th September

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Tickets £18

Oh yes! They are marauding their way back to Moira!


Saturday 11th October


MARTIN CARTHY

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Tickets £18

A very special occasion and one that we are so looking forward to. The legend comes to Moira once again, and he will have a new album out!

Lifetime Achievement Award – BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2014


For more than 50 years Martin Carthy has been one of folk music's greatest innovators, one of its best loved, most enthusiastic and, at times, most quietly controversial of figures. His skill, stage presence and natural charm have won him many admirers, not only from within the folk scene, but also far beyond it.
Trailblazing musical partnerships with, amongst others, Steeleye Span, Dave Swarbrick and his award-winning wife (Norma Waterson) and daughter Eliza Carthy have resulted in more than 40 albums, but Martin has only recorded 10 solo albums, of which the much anticipated Waiting for Angels (Topic TSCD527) was the latest. Whether in the folk clubs like ours (which he continues to champion), on the concert stage or making TV appearances (he was the subject of the acclaimed `Originals' music documentary strand on BBC 2) - there are few roles that Martin Carthy hasn't played.

He's a ballad singer, a ground-breaking acoustic and electric-guitarist and an authoritative interpreter of newly composed material. He always prefers to follow an insatiable musical curiosity rather than cash in on his unrivalled position. Perhaps, most significant of all, are his settings of traditional songs with guitar, which have influenced a generation of artists, including Bob Dylan and Paul Simon, on both sides of the Atlantic.


`Arguably the greatest English folk song performer, writer, collector and editor of them all' Q Magazine




‘Carthy is a master of the ballad of substance, songs that tell stories, whether they are traditional, his own or from contemporary writers.’ The Telegraph


Friday 7th November

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Tickets £14

We are so pleased to have these lovely guys back in Moira.