Your comprehensive guide to folk events in Coventry and Warwickshire.
Coronavirus and folk events – you guessed it, there aren’t any!
Well that’s not quite true. Enterprising and savvy club organisers and artists are turning to the web to set up new alternative platforms. Thus sometimes involves streaming live performances or simply watching video recordings of artists performing in their own homes.
We’ll announce online folk events in the CV postcode area as and when we hear about them.
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Judy brings a powerful voice, a great-unaccompanied style and a deep respect for tradition to her performances of a huge repertoire of (mostly) American songs and ballads.
Judy’s singing is marked by a command of narrative that pulls the audience in to really understand what the song is about. Her style and presentation are “a credit to the sources”. Folks come away from a Judy Cook concert with fresh insight into old songs and the warm feeling of having joined with others in plenty of choruses and harmonies. They take with them musical memories: the flirtatious charm of a young maid’s teasing love song, the gripping story of a classic ballad, the exhilaration of a rousing gospel, the silly delight of an animal song, and many more.
Judy lifts the spirit and entertains us with programs drawn from her vast and varied repertoire of traditional songs and ballads from the English speaking world – American songs from North Carolina’s Outer Banks to the Southern Appalachian Mountains; from the Ozarks up to New Hampshire, Maine and eastern Canada; and across the Atlantic to songs from England and Scotland. These she presents along with her personal memories and research in a straight-forward unaccompanied style.
Judy’s command of narrative style and deep respect for traditions have earned admiration on both sides of the Atlantic. We find ourselves captured by the timelessness of these old songs; delighted with Judy’s ability to discover the best of them, and her skillful use of phrasing and understanding to take us inside the songs, sharing the joys, sorrows, concerns and delights of the unknown poets who wrote them so many years ago and the real people who have been singing them since. You can’t help but have a wonderful time.
Part of Rob’s ‘Always Heading Home’ tour – http://robhalligan.co.uk/main/
Support slot by Hatstand
Your hosts: Willow & Tool Band.
Jug collection – please give generously.
So, what is it that makes this internationally touring duo so irresistible? Could it be Karens German accent tinged with an oatcake-induced North Staffordshire dialect? Or Pauls besotted gaze whenever she takes to the microphone? Or is it simply the exquisitely performed music and the happy, warm feeling everyone seems to get at their shows…
With their unique onstage-chemistry and their widely praised harmonies, the Anglo-German duo Paul Walker & Karen Pfeiffer entertain and engage their audiences – in a very likable, humorous style. Combining their own beautifully written songs with a fine choice of folk favourites, Pauls vocal and individual guitar style blended with Karens voice, clear and yet so powerful, leaves audiences mesmerised:
I have never seen our audience so spellbound! – exclaimed a promoter recently. Karen adds with alto and tenor recorders, Irish flute and whistle – and not to mention the odd German joke – to this fantastically entertaining night.
A memorable evening of great music and fun awaits. Definitely a night not to be missed!