Cambridge Folk Festival & The Unthanks
On my programme tonight you can hear highlights from last weekend's Cambridge Folk Festival.
There's music from Bellowhead, The Waterson Family and Martin Simpson amongst others as well as backstage interviews with Paul Brady, Eddi Reader and Buffy Sainte-Marie.
You MUST go and have a look at the online coverage here as well - it really is terrific.
You can see videos of loads of the artists performing on the main stage, tons of photos and a great piece featuring Jon Boden performing a secret session.
On to other matters.
So far I've only got a pre-release pressing but the forthcoming CD from (formerly known as Rachel Unthank & The Winterset).
It's called 'Here's The Tender Coming' and it came in the postie's bag last week, just before I left home to go to Cambridge Folk Festival.
So far I've only listened to it through once but I am mightily impressed: the album contains a great version of 'Annachie Gordon' and a terrific version of a song I remember winning a songwriting competition many years back called 'The Testimony of Patience Kershaw', based on evidence given to a group of commissioners who were looking at the condition of women working in the mines.
sings a lovely version of this song - but I also really like what The Unthanks have done with it.
They've also made a great fist of a song I first heard sung by Dave Burland 'Here's The Tender Coming' - here it is sung slowly and mournfully - the voices of the two sisters adding to the melancholy of the song.
I'll try and play you a track from it on my programme next week.
A great CD - it must be good because my four-year-old grandson Felix listened to Annachie Gordon while he was playing with his cars on the floor and said "That's good."
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