Folkworks Durham Gathering
Thursday 12 - Saturday 14 August
Folkworks Durham Gathering celebrates the richness of traditional music, song and dance in a three day festival with concerts at Gala, outdoor music on Saturday plus a few musical surprises and busking performances.
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Breabach, Mairearad Green & Anna Massie
Folkworks Durham Gathering
Thursday 12 Aug, 7.30pm
A strong Scottish start to this year’s festival. Breabach are one of the most inventive and diverse bands to emerge from the Scottish folk scene in recent years with their foot-stomping reels and heartwarming songs. Mairearad and Anna are a delightful duo of piano-accordion with guitar and fiddle; Simon is an acknowledged concertina virtuoso and Carly Blain, a captivating fiddler from the Borders who also plays with the Monster Ceilidh Band and The House Sisters.
£12 (£10 conc)
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Folkworks Youth Ensembles
Folkworks Durham Gathering
Friday 13 Aug, 5.00pm
Three youth ensembles of startling quality: Folkestra, the Sage Gateshead’s Youth Folk ensemble took the BBC Proms by storm in 2008; the Folkworks MORE band have been working to produce an exciting pan-European fusion of traditional music; and the Seriously Advanced Band are some of the hottest musicians from the Youth Summer School working in a dynamic and powerful unit.
£6 (£4 conc)
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MORE European Concert
Folkworks Durham Gathering
Saturday 14 Aug, 5.30pm
This year’s Folkworks Summer Schools have strong European theme with musicians from France, Turkey, Greece and Finland - all partner countries in the MORE (Music Orality Culture Roots) project. This hour long tea-time concert includes Sakis Paliogiannis, a singer and dancer from Greece; Neva Ozgen, player of the Kemence or Turkish Fiddle and Esko Jarvella, fiddler from the famous JPP family and member of bands Baltic Crossing and Frigg.
£6 (£4 conc)
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Music of Northumbria & Beyond
Folkworks Durham Gathering
Saturday 14 Aug, 7.30pm
A celebration of the music of Northumberland and the North East, with some guests from further afield. Tom McConville is a virtuoso fiddle player immersed in the music of Gateshead’s legendary fiddler, James Hill; Mike Tickell and Kat Davidson are renowned singers with wide regional repertoires; Shona Kipling plays original and traditional music on piano accordion; Emma Reid is equally versed in Swedish and Northumbrian fiddle styles and Brian Finnegan is the ex-Flook whistle and flute player extraordinaire, from Northern Ireland.
£12 (£10 conc)
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