Our 2011 Schedule
In 2010 we started the Grateful Fred Roots and Acoustic Nights and each night has been on different night of the week. We’ve had a Thursday, a Friday and a Sunday.
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But for 2011 we decided that it would be a good thing is we could make the Grateful Fred Nights a definite night each month.
So we have decided on the 1st Thursday of each month. So if you are thinking to yourself, “when on earth is the next Grateful Fred Night?” you will now know it will be on the 1st Thursday of every month. Easy!!
At the moment we are still firming up artists for later in the year, however, here are the performers appearing at Grateful Fred’s so far…
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| Thursday 3rd February 2011 |
| The Carrivick Sisters |
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| 2010 BBC 2 Young Folk Award Finalists |
| “I am very impressed by The Carrivick Sisters, one of the best young duos I’ve ever heard. The girls sing and play as one and their work is characterised by great musicality. They are not only very talented instrumentalists and singers but they write really good songs as well.” Ralph McTell |
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| Thursday 3rd March 2011 |
| Michael Chapman |
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| “Chapman’s expansive guitar work creates a filmic soundtrack of the American South-west that’s as compelling as anything Ry Cooder might muster” Q Magazine |
| “His beautiful folk-blues guitar gives the whole affair a wonderful, faded-at-the-edges feel. As for the voice, think of JJ Cale gargling gravel with a wry undercurrent to leaven the pain.” Mojo Magazine |
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| Thursday 7th April 2011 |
| Carrie Elkin accompanied by Paul Cataldo |
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| “With the vocal fire of Patti Griffin and the lyrical rawness of Rickie Lee Jones, Carrie Elkin’s songs are, at once, intimate yet universal, naked yet richly adorned. Her voice is simply revelatory” – Folkwax |
| “What a wonderful album this is. I’m thinking Patti Griffin, Nanci Griffith and Iris DeMent. It’s spellbinding from the opening track to Gospel Song at the end. Questions About Angels made the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end” – Bob Harris BBC Radio |
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| Thursday 12 th May 2011 |
| Joanna Chapman Smith |
| From Canada: |
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| “Slinky voiced with a hint of East European klezmer music” Q **** |
| “A musical soundscape that is a rich, lush journey from Canada to Europe, and makes you want to hitch up your skirt and break out in high-stepping dance with the gypsies. She embraces a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural background of stylings and presents it in such a delicious way that I just can’t get enough.” Tim Stough |
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| Danny Schmidt | ||||||||
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| Thursday September 1st: |
| The Toy Hearts |
| UK, Europe and American Touring band |
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| Tickets £6.50 |
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| The Toy Hearts are one of the hottest acts emerging out of the burgeoning acoustic scene. The band is fronted by sisters Hannah and Sophia Johnson, who bring both a feminine, and British perspective, to an essentially American music. However, they keep one foot in the traditional camp by employing their father Stewart on banjo and dobro, while non family members on double bass and fiddle complete the 5 piece line up. Their reputation as an exciting and dynamic live act has developed along with their songwriting prowess, culminating in the national release of ‘Femme Fatale’ in October 2010, which was recorded in Nashville earlier that year. The album marks this band as one to watch, demonstrating the Birmingham based trio’s songwriting abilities, as the album moves from hot-club swing, to country love song, to bluegrass instrumental. The Toy Hearts have toured through the UK, the USA and Europe and can count new rockabilly Queen ‘Imelda May,’ and veteran broadcaster Bob Harris amongst their fans. |
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| Thursday October 6th 2011 |
| The Sarah MacDougall Band |
| From Canada |
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Tickets £6.50
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| Half Canadian, half Swedish but entirely brilliant! Sarah was an immediate hit when she toured the UK in 2009 and further cemented her reputation with a highly acclaimed national tour last year. |
| She has an astonishing voice and writes extraordinary songs that will have your emotionson tenterhooks. A unique talent who returns to the UK armed with two brilliant musicians and a brand new CD. |
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| Thursday 3rd November |
| Josh Harty |
| From the USA |
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| The third generation of musicians out of the Dakotas, Josh Harty is never far from his roots but always inventing new ways to honor the old. His latest solo project, “A Long List of Lies” (Magnolia Recording Co.) shows it and has garnered a fast following |
| The eleven tracks are as authentic as American music gets. Maybe that’s why “A Long List of Lies” debuted at number 8 on the European Americana chart. |
| “Harty has a warm, intimate performance style. You can ease into his songs from the first note and his voice has that perfect combination of resignation and hope. The songs are all downbeat, even mournful, and Harty’s performances are utterly convincing, whether on the doom-laden “Whiskey & Morphine”, the more upbeat tune (but downbeat lyrics) of “Sweet Solution”. . . Jeremy Searle, Americana UK, 2011. |
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Thursday 1st December 2011 |
Romi Mayes |
From Canada |
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| If Keith Richards, Joan Jett and Ray Charles could somehow spawn a love child, it’d be Romi Mayes (suitably pronounced RAW-ME). Hailing from Winnipeg, Canada, and renowned as one of the hardest working independent musicians touring the globe today, Mayes has chipped away at the rock and roll stone over the past couple of decades, and now, this Juno nominated, CFMA nominated, four time WCMA award winner, has done it again. Her latest and fifth full length album, ‘Lucky Tonight’ stamps one more victory in this bad ass guitar playin lady’s discography. Featuring guitar demon Jay Nowicki of the well known rockin blues band ‘The Perpetrators’, Mayes chose to record a rare electric duo album. Not unique enough for ya?
Inspired by what another Winnipeg raised artist, Neil Young, did with his 1973 release ‘Time Fades Away’, Mayes and Nowicki recorded an album of all unreleased and unrecorded brand new songs live and in one take at a sold out concert in Winnipeg in the middle of winter.
All brand new tunes. “Romi and Jay are an absolute force of an electric blues duo. The end result is an album that’s carefully balanced between grinding, grooving roadhouse rhythms, heartfelt guitar solos, and Romi’s aching, yearning voice and lyrics” says Uptown Magazine’s John Kendle. |
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