New for 2012
_Album releases, tours and seasonal delights for 2012 include :
Winter
Gerry Diver's The Speech Project - a ground breaking new album featuring new musical compositions, based on the speech patterns of seminal Irish musicians, both living and long gone. Feb release + March tour
Spring
Seth Lakeman - Tales from the Barrel House - an independently released album from one of the stars of the folk scene, this new album was recorded down a West Country copper mine.
Feb + March tour, April album release
The Voice of the People - 4 new albums to be added in April 2012 to the acclaimed 20 volume ongoing series of traditional British music originally released by Topic Records in 1998 ; the UK equivalent of the Harry Smith or Alan Lomax anthologies.
Summer
Fay Hield and The Hurricane Party - 'Ofeo' - the 2nd album from dazzling traditional singer from Yorkshire, in the company of The Hurricane Party, a stellar band including Jon Boden, Andy Cutting and Martin Simpson.
May album release, October tour
BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards :
Glass Ceiling PR is delighted to represent the following winners of BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2012:
Folk Singer of the Year - June Tabor
Best Album - June Tabor with Oysterband - 'Ragged Kingdom' - Topic Records
Best Traditional Track - 'Bonny, Bonny Roses' - June Tabor - 'Ragged Kingdom'
Best Group - June Tabor with Oysterband
Winter
Gerry Diver's The Speech Project - a ground breaking new album featuring new musical compositions, based on the speech patterns of seminal Irish musicians, both living and long gone. Feb release + March tour
Spring
Seth Lakeman - Tales from the Barrel House - an independently released album from one of the stars of the folk scene, this new album was recorded down a West Country copper mine.
Feb + March tour, April album release
The Voice of the People - 4 new albums to be added in April 2012 to the acclaimed 20 volume ongoing series of traditional British music originally released by Topic Records in 1998 ; the UK equivalent of the Harry Smith or Alan Lomax anthologies.
Summer
Fay Hield and The Hurricane Party - 'Ofeo' - the 2nd album from dazzling traditional singer from Yorkshire, in the company of The Hurricane Party, a stellar band including Jon Boden, Andy Cutting and Martin Simpson.
May album release, October tour
BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards :
Glass Ceiling PR is delighted to represent the following winners of BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2012:
Folk Singer of the Year - June Tabor
Best Album - June Tabor with Oysterband - 'Ragged Kingdom' - Topic Records
Best Traditional Track - 'Bonny, Bonny Roses' - June Tabor - 'Ragged Kingdom'
Best Group - June Tabor with Oysterband
