fernhill

fernhill confirmed for Beyond the Border festival 2012 in the grounds of beautiful St Donats Castle in the Vale of Glamorgan. http://www.beyondtheborder.com/festival/

“All the gardens of spring and summer were blooming in the tall tales beyond the border…” Dylan Thomas

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fernhill at the bbc in glasgow during celtic connections

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"We often forget that we are nature. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves."

Andy Goldsworthy (via asoulman)

(Source: green-home, via journalofanobody)

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GothamAcme: Howard's Top Albums of the Year

cerimatho:

gothamacme:5. King Creosote and Jon Hopkins - Diamond Mind and Fernhill - Canu Rhydd

“Diamond Mind” is a melancholy documentary of life in a Scottish fishing village. Jon Hopkins supplies the found sound and lovely fiddle and piano arrangements that evoke Fife’s windswept isolation in winter. Kenny Anderson’s keening tenor narrates the everyday lives of fisherman at sea and the families they leave behind on the coast.

Each song is it’s own tale — the sailor who dreams of the ocean when he’s on land and pines for home when he’s away; a middle-aged man’s reflections on mortality after “finding silver in my sideburns;” a woman who arrives in church soaked from a summer rainstorm. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej8vMh28SJY

One day, two summers ago, I left London at dawn, trained to Mold, Wales, and walked six miles from the train station there to a little field to see Fernhill perform at a Welsh folk festival. The trip was worth every step — Julie Murphy has a voice that calls across oceans and her bandmates bathe her every word in trumpet, fiddle, guitar, and flute. On “Canu Rhydd” Murphy sings a mixture of traditional and original songs in both English and Welsh. It’s music worth traveling for — but you won’t have to.

http://fernhill.bandcamp.com/

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‘canu rhydd’ albums in stock…

” a very beautiful album” verity sharp late junction

**** songlines

http://fernhill.bandcamp.com/album/canu-rhydd

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Excited to announce we will be performing in the beautiful Mitchell Library, Glasgow on Fri 27th January as part of Celtic Connections 2012

http://www.celticconnections.com/

http://www.celticconnections.com/whatson/event/118631-Julie%2DFowlis%2D%22Heisgeir%22%2Dand%2DFernhill

flying to quebec on thursday to perform in the celtic harmonies international music festival among the colours of fall…

http://www.celticharmonies.ca/home_e.php

a wee south wales tourette continues…

swansea chattery fri 30 september

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/thechattery/giglist.htm

cardiff chapter arts centre sat 1 october

http://www.chapter.org/theatre/index.html

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Very much looking forward to performing in gorgeous st Ives, cornwall on the 15th september with martin carthy and dave swarbrick

http://www.stivesseptemberfestival.co.uk/content/carthy-swarbrick

fRoots 36 : click on image
There’s a special FREE download compilation album with the current issue of froots magazine : 15 tracks, including exclusives and previews, from Snakefarm, Nidi D’Arac, June Tabor & Oysterband, R.U.T.A., Sam Amidon, Fatoumata Diawara, Martha Mavroidi, Fernhill, Katie Howson, Christi Andropolis, Kristi Stassinopoulou & Stathis Kalyviotis, Naomi Bedford, Timbila, Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin and Imperial Tiger Orchestra. The download includes booklet and label artwork and sleeve notes for those who want to burn to CD.