Tenterden Folk Festival 2004
Friday 1st to Sunday 3rd
October
Tenterden
Folk Festival – The Kentish connections
One of
the best known barn dance bands on the Kentish folk scene for many years has
been Jezreels. The band, which was formed
in the 1980’s has been playing ever since and will be playing for the English
barn dance at Tenterden Folk Festival.
The line up will comprise four musicians who are all well known in their
own right; Steve
Moreham on fiddle and vocals, former Fiddlers Dram member Chris' Taylor on
melodeon, banjo, guitar and harmonica, Doug Hudson on electro-acoustic
vocals and guitar and Mike Peters on bass and vocals. Doug also calls the dances. Their powerful musical attack is complemented
by Doug’s individual
calling style which never fails to get people up and dancing. Steve also played fiddle on the “Keys of
Canterbury” CD which was launched at one of the early Tenterden Folk Festivals.
Jezreels are the resident
band for Kentish Evenings at Leeds Castle where they have played
to royalty and have played for the British Grand Prix, the Kazakhstan Ambassador and at many
corporate functions. They have also
played in the British Embassy in Brussels and in festivals in Hungary, France and Belgium. Between dances, the band provides a strong
song base to entertain so that an evening with Jezreels is a night of non-stop
entertainment.
This year’s
English Barn Dance takes place in Tenterden Leisure Centre on Saturday 2nd
October. Tenterden Folk Day Trust will be providing the real ale bar and food
will be available from the Leisure Centre.
We are also pleased to have Ian Kearey on this year’s guest list. Ian now lives in Sussex but was a founder member
and the bass, and sometime guitar player, for The Oyster Band (as they were
then known) in their Canterbury days. He appeared on all The Oyster Band albums
until 'Wide Blue Yonder'. Ian has more
recently worked as producer with Michelle Shocked and Sheffield band Boot Fare,
while recording and playing live with, among others, John Fahey, Texas fiddler
Erik Hokkanen, Billy Bragg and Leon Rosselson, Sandra Kerr, Ivor Cutler, Anne
Lister and singer/songwriters Heidi Berry, Pete Astor and Caroline Trettine –
not to mention street-corner busking in LA with Ry Cooder. He is a member of
The Sussex Pistols who have played Tenterden on several occasions, and also
plays for country dancing with Used Notes alongside Dan Quinn, Chris Taylor
from Jezreels and Jim Younger. Ian has
been a constant on albums by Bristol poetry/rock legends The Blue Aeroplanes,
and in 1987 released a guitar/vocal album, 'Siamese Boyfriends' with Aeroplanes
leader Gerard Langley, which was described in the NME as 'joining up the dots
between Martin Carthy and Ry Cooder – brilliantly'. A solo album, Preaching to the Convertible,
received very good reviews on its release in 2001, and a new album of
instrumentals is in production. His latest project is a piece for a concept
album of a James Joyce set of poems.
Ian’s repertoire includes traditional and self-penned guitar tunes,
traditional songs from the USA and UK, plus songs by himself
and other people that he just feels like doing.
As well as plating solo at Tenterden Folk Festival, Ian will also be in
charge of music and sound for Shirley Collins’ talk on “America over the
Water”.
The latest details of the Festival and the full guest list will be
posted on our web site at www.folkspots.btinternet.co.uk
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News and press release – 27th March 2004
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