Continuing on from yesterday's post, here are a few more tunes from albums I got this Christmas.

    

                 


The Alvin Lee album is a great live double album released originally in 1974. Sadly Alvin passed away last year, but left us a great legacy of musical recordings, both solo and as the main man with Ten Years After.

Paul Heaton and Jaqui Abbott formally released albums as The Beautiful South, this latest album is packed full of super pop songs, Paul Heaton is truly one of the great British songwriters.

The Eve Folk Recordings features song classic folk protest songs from the sixties, the original version of  "The war drags on" by Mick Softley along side Donovan's version and also Mick Sofley's version of "The Bells of Rhymney"

Mrs Ackroyd Superstar is a reissue of some classic british folk humour from poet Les Barker featuring a string of folk artists, including Vin Garbutt, Pete Morton and Mike Harding. I couldn't find a track actually featured on the album on-line so have included a more recent Les Barker recording from 2012.

Sadly I neglected my blog somewhat last year, so I will try to be more attentive this year !!

I will start by posting a few tunes from some of the CDs I got for Christmas..........  It would be great to hear what anyone else got, music wise.

            

Will pop back tomorrow and add a few more

It's been almost a week since the Gate to Southwell folk festival,

 so I thought it time to post a few pics along with a taste of some of the music I enjoyed.

The weather was mixed, with Friday being a lovely sunny day,

Saturday it started out fine but then we had heavy rain and the site soon became a bit of a bog,

 but once the rain had finished out came the trusty volunteers with the bales of straw and with a bit of help from children and adults alike the site was soon easy to negotiate once again.

On the Sunday again we had mixed weather sunny most of the time though there was a pretty heavet thunderstorm mid afternoon.

As always with this great festival there was lots of great music to enjoy both and off site. My first set was in the beautiful Southwell Minster where I saw the Mischa Macpherson Trio, winners of this years BBC Radio Two Young Folk Award. Despite Mischa having the remnants of a bad cold a nice set of songs and tunes.

Later back on site it was Marquee 2 for me for most of the rest of the day. First up The Dovetail Trio once again 3 very talented young singers and musicians.

Next up was Caladh Nua (pronounced Coll-ah Noo-Ah) five accomplished musicians ans singers from Ireland. Playing a wide variety of instruments.

Around 3-30 in the afternoon onto the stage came festival favourite Martin Joseph who having not long arrived at the site was soon up and playing. Having recently put together an album of Bruce Springsteen covers, Martin played a full set from the album.

Next it was time for a break and some food, plenty to choose from as always.

I will continue posting another day. Hope you have enjoyed the music so far.