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Ian Carr (guitarist)
Ian Carr is an English guitarist and record producer from Cumbria, who has performed with Swåp and The Kate Rusby Band. He learned to play mouth organ at the age of three before going on to learn piano, piano accordion and rock guitar at the age of 13, since when he has developed his highly original style of accompaniment. He cites one of his many influences as Peerie Willie Johnson. Until the late 1990s, Carr was a part of The Kathryn Tickell Band. He plays a Collings acoustic guitar in both standard and dropped-D tunings."Swimming Upstream. Profile of Celtic guitarist Ian Carr". ''Acoustic Guitar'', October 2000, No. 94 Selected discography Solo *''Who He?'' - Ian Carr & The Various Artists (2013) Dalakollektivet Receords/ Reveal *''I Like Your Taste In Music'' -Ian Carr & The Various Artists (2020) Dalakollektivet Records With others *''Syncopace'' – Syncopace (1990) Black Crow Records CRO CD 226 *''Hootz!'' - Ian Carr and Simon Thoumire (1990) Black Crow Records CR ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celtic Music
Celtic music is a broad grouping of music genres that evolved out of the folk music traditions of the Celtic people of Northwestern Europe. It refers to both orally-transmitted traditional music and recorded music and the styles vary considerably to include everything from traditional music to a wide range of hybrids. Description and definition ''Celtic music'' means two things mainly. First, it is the music of the people that identify themselves as Celts. Secondly, it refers to whatever qualities may be unique to the music of the Celtic nations. Many notable Celtic musicians such as Alan Stivell and Paddy Moloney claim that the different Celtic music genres have a lot in common. These following melodic practices may be used widely across the different variants of Celtic Music: *It is common for the melodic line to move up and down the primary chords in many Celtic songs. There are a number of possible reasons for this: **''Melodic variation'' can be easily introduced. Mel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Cutting
Andy Cutting (born 18 March 1969) is an English folk musician and composer. He plays melodeon and is best known for writing and performing traditional English folk and his own original compositions which combine English and French traditions with wider influences. He is three times winner of the Folk Musician of the Year award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards and has appeared on around 50 albums, both as a solo artist and in collaboration with other musicians. He was born in Harrow, London and is married with three children. Career Starting playing the melodeon in his early teens, Cutting was invited to join a local ceilidh band, Happenstance, when he had been playing for only a few months. In 1988 he joined the influential and innovative band Blowzabella (which also featured Nigel Eaton, with whom Cutting has since collaborated). Cutting made one album (''Vanilla'') with Blowzabella before they broke up in 1990. Their repertoire, blending English traditional music with that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sleepless (Kate Rusby Album)
''Sleepless'' is an album by the English folk musician Kate Rusby, released in 1999. It was nominated for the Mercury Prize the same year. Critical reception ''The Washington Post'' wrote that Rusby "often creates ... ambience at the cost of blurring her melodies and stories; her vowels frequently flood the music until the consonants and rhythms are submerged in a tide of poignancy." Track listing #"The Cobbler's Daughter" (Kate Rusby/Traditional) #"I Wonder What is keeping my True Love This Night" (Traditional) #"The Fairest of all Yarrow" (Kate Rusby/Traditional) #"The Unquiet Grave" (Kate Rusby/Traditional) #"Sho Heen" (Kate Rusby) #"Sweet Bride" (Kate Rusby) #"All God's Angels" (Kate Rusby) #"The Wild Goose" (Traditional) #"The Duke and the Tinker" (Kate Rusby/Traditional) #"Our Town" (Iris DeMent) #"The Sleepless Sailor" (Kate Rusby) #"Cowsong" #"Botany Bay" (Kate Rusby/Traditional) Personnel * Kate Rusby - vocals, piano, guitar * Dave Burland - vocals * Ian Carr - guitar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hourglass (Kate Rusby Album)
''Hourglass'' is the debut studio album by English contemporary folk musician Kate Rusby, released on 1 March 1997 on Pure Records. Track listing #"Sir Eglamore" (Traditional; Rusby) - 4:14 #"As I Roved Out" (Traditional) - 3:45 #"Jolly Ploughboys" (Traditional) - 4:05 #"Annan Waters" (Traditional) - 5:23 #"Stananivy" (McCusker, Rusby) - "Jack and Jill" (Rusby; Traditional) - 3:06 #"A Rose in April" (Rusby) - 5:38 #"Radio Sweethearts" (Miller, McCusker) - 3:32 #" I Am Stretched on Your Grave" ( Frank O'Connor, Rusby) - 2:58 #"Old Man Time" (Rusby) - 3:48 #"Drowned Lovers" (Traditional) - 5:14 #"Bold Riley" (Traditional) - 4:37 Personnel Produced by John McCusker Engineered by Moray Munro Recorded at Temple Record Studio, Midlothian, Scotland Mastered by Andy Seward *Kate Rusby - vocals, piano, guitar (3, 6, 9) *Ian Carr - guitar (1, 5, 7, 10) *Andy Cutting - diatonic accordion *Donald Hay - percussion *Conrad Ivitsky - double bass *Alison Kinnaird - cello *John McCusker - fiddle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Bailey (folk Singer)
Roy Bailey, (20 October 1935 – 20 November 2018) was an English socialist folk singer. Colin Irwin (journalist), Colin Irwin from the music magazine ''Mojo (magazine), Mojo'' said Bailey represented "the very soul of folk's working class Ideal (ethics), ideals... a triumphal Homage (arts), homage to the grass roots folk scene as a radical alternative to the mainstream music industry." Biography Bailey began his musical career in a skiffle band in 1958, and later joined folk supergroup the Three City Four featuring Leon Rosselson, as a replacement for Martin Carthy. His first solo album was released in 1971. He performed a number of songs by the American singer-songwriter Si Kahn and was also renowned as a singer of children's songs, often using material written by his old partner Leon Rosselson. ''Oats & Beans & Kangaroos'' is an album of children's songs performed by Roy & Val Bailey with Leon Rosselson. Bailey worked with Robb Johnson and others on the award-winning ''Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Thoumire
Simon Thoumire is a Scottish musician and an English concertina virtuoso. Thoumire has played all over the world. A winner of the BBC Radio 2 Young Tradition Award in 1989, 2002 - Page 505 Thoumire has always been keen to explore different genres of music, releasing many records over the years delving into folk, , improvisation and composition (see discography). He has also pursued interests in the industry side of traditional music forming Foot Stompin' Records in 1997, Scottish Traditional Music Trust (2000) and |
Drop D Tuning
Drop D tuning is an alternative form of guitar tuning in which the lowest (sixth) string is tuned down from the usual E of standard tuning by one whole step to D. So where standard tuning is E2A2D3G3B3E4 (EADGBe), drop D is D2A2D3G3B3E4 (DADGBe). Drop D tuning, as well as other lowered altered tunings, are often used with the electric guitar in heavy metal music. It is also used in blues, country, folk (often with acoustic guitar), and classical guitar. Uses In drop D, the three open bass strings form a D5 power chord. Other fifth chords are made when barred with the index finger of the fretting hand shifted up the fretboard. Drop D tuning is frequently used in heavy metal and its various subgenres, as guitarists in these styles often need fast transitions between power chords. Drop D is also used in metal because it adds two lower semitones to the bass range of the rhythm guitar, which adds two more low-range power chords (Eb and D) and enables a heavier, deeper soun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peerie Willie Johnson
"Peerie" Willie Johnson (William Henry Johnson) (10 December 1920 in Yell, Shetland – 22 May 2007 in Lerwick, Shetland) was a Scottish folk guitarist and bassist. He was respected as an influential and innovative musician in the Shetland folk scene. Since 2005 there has been a "Peerie" Willie Guitar Festival" each year on the islands. "Peerie" is a Shetland dialect word, meaning "small" or "little". Early life and career Johnson was well known for a playing style described as "dum chuck" combining elements of American Western swing and jazz with traditional Shetland fiddling music. He was associated with the stylistically opposite fiddle player Dr Tom Anderson, and was an influence on Aly Bain (fiddle) and Martin Taylor (guitar). Johnson's childhood was plagued by ill health which interrupted his schooling; he left school without qualifications. However, he took up music after seeing a photograph of a ukulele-playing cowboy. Starting on the instrument, he soon switched to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cumbria
Cumbria ( ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in North West England, bordering Scotland. The county and Cumbria County Council, its local government, came into existence in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972. Cumbria's county town is Carlisle, in the north of the county. Other major settlements include Barrow-in-Furness, Kendal, Whitehaven and Workington. The administrative county of Cumbria consists of six districts ( Allerdale, Barrow-in-Furness, Carlisle, Copeland, Eden and South Lakeland) and, in 2019, had a population of 500,012. Cumbria is one of the most sparsely populated counties in England, with 73.4 people per km2 (190/sq mi). On 1 April 2023, the administrative county of Cumbria will be abolished and replaced with two new unitary authorities: Westmorland and Furness ( Barrow-in-Furness, Eden, South Lakeland) and Cumberland ( Allerdale, Carlisle, Copeland). Cumbria is the third largest ceremonial county in England by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guitarist
A guitarist (or a guitar player) is a person who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of guitar family instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar by singing or playing the harmonica, or both. Techniques The guitarist may employ any of several methods for sounding the guitar, including finger picking, depending on the type of strings used (either nylon or steel), and including strumming with the fingers, or a guitar pick made of bone, horn, plastic, metal, felt, leather, or paper, and melodic flatpicking and finger-picking. The guitarist may also employ various methods for selecting notes and chords, including fingering, thumbing, the barre (a finger lying across many or all strings at a particular fret), and guitar slides, usually made of glass or metal. These left- and right-hand techniques may be intermixed in performance. Notable guitarists Rock, metal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English People
The English people are an ethnic group and nation native to England, who speak the English language, a West Germanic language, and share a common history and culture. The English identity is of Anglo-Saxon origin, when they were known in Old English as the ('race or tribe of the Angles'). Their ethnonym is derived from the Angles, one of the Germanic peoples who migrated to Great Britain around the 5th century AD. The English largely descend from two main historical population groups the West Germanic tribes (the Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians) who settled in southern Britain following the withdrawal of the Romans, and the partially Romanised Celtic Britons already living there.Martiniano, R., Caffell, A., Holst, M. et al. Genomic signals of migration and continuity in Britain before the Anglo-Saxons. Nat Commun 7, 10326 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10326 Collectively known as the Anglo-Saxons, they founded what was to become the Kingdom of England by t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kris Drever
Kris Drever (born 31 October 1978) is a Scottish contemporary folk musician and songwriter who came to prominence in 2006 with the release of his debut solo album, ''Black Water''. Drever is the vocalist and guitarist of the folk trio Lau with Martin Green and Aidan O'Rourke. He has worked with other British folk contemporaries, including Kate Rusby, John McCusker, Ian Carr, Eddi Reader and Julie Fowlis. Career Drever was born in Kirkwall, Orkney, where he learned to play guitar and participated in the island's folk festival. In 1995 at age 17 he moved to Edinburgh, where he played at the Tron Ceilidh House several nights a week. He played the double bass for a time but returned to the guitar where his style – "a highly individual blend of rhythm and harmony, folk, jazz, rock and country inflections" – made him a sought after session musician. In late 2000 he began playing alongside Nuala Kennedy and Anna-Wendy Stevenson in a weekly session at Sandy Bell's pub in E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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