Swarb's News and Gigs
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New Swarb CD –
‘raison d’être’ on Shirty Records – Click on the Talking Elephant logo to buy
online, and see more Swarb CDs and downloads.
The new album – A
message from Swarb
“It has taken all of 8 years for me to
complete this cd and I don't think it can be
repeated. There are 4 EFDSS 'Gold Badge' holders involved, the highest accolade
of the English Folk Song and Dance Society: Beryl Marriott, Martin Carthy, John Kirkpatrick and myself
have all had the honour of being awarded it.
The opening track of my very first solo album 'Rags,
Reels and Airs': 'Spanish Ladies Medley', has been revisited with The Jason
Wilson Band, a group of highly talented Canadian musicians. I have researched
and arranged English music previously unrecorded from 1680 to 1745. And then,
to ice the cake, along with a couple of my own compositions there are two
tracks featuring the glorious playing of the great Beryl Marriott.
So, with the help of 14 of the best players I know, I
offer to you.. 'raison
d'être'.”
The album will be released on Swarb’s own label, Shirty Records. Dave’s wife, Jill, has
designed the label logo and the CD has the serial number Shirty1. Copies will
be available from June 1st and can be purchased on-line. Track list below.
1 Spanish Ladies/Geese on the
Bog/Leather Away the Wattle O/ Freedom for
2 The Fair Haired Child
3 Granny’s Delight / The Man Tiger
4 Andy’s Waltz
5 Buttock Beef/
The Rising Sun/ The Northern Frisk
6 Ravenscroft’s Fancy
7 Sweet Alban
8 Carpenters
Morris/Frank and Easie/ Easter Thursday/Mrs. Savage’s Whim.
9 Thomas and
Sally
10 A Jigg
called Longtime/Running Footmans Jig/ The Brown Joak
11 We Brought the Summer With Us
Musicians with Swarb on the album are:
Michael Burnham, Martin Carthy, John Kirkpatrick, Beryl Marriott, Kevin Dempsey, Maartin Allcock, Simon Mayor, Jude Rees, and The Jason Wilson Band
(Jason Wilson, Marcus Ali, Iain Green, Andrew Stewart, Bobby Hsu & R. J. Satchithananthan)
Swarb at Celtic Connections 2010
Swarb played the
prestigious Celtic Connections Festival in January 2010 with the Jason Wilson Band.
They might seem unlikely bedfellows, but Swarb’s guest
appearance on Canadian reggae star Wilson’s last album, The Peacemaker’s Chauffeur, and their forthcoming duo release The Lion Rampant, bridge surprisingly
few degrees of separation. Wilson’s cousin was in UB40 with Ali and Robin
Campbell, sons of the seminal folk balladeer Ian Campbell, whose band Swarb joined in his pre-Fairport days. The Celtic
Connection’s also included Dick Gaughan.
The Jason Wilson Band
R J Satchithananthan, Marcus
Ali, Jason Wilson, Iain Green, Andrew Stewart - Photo by Jason Hendriks
Swarb Solo
(Web links in white)
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AUGUST |
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Thurs. 12th |
The Green Note,
106 Parkway, London, NW1 7AN 0207 485 9899 |
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OCTOBER |
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Tues. 5th |
Stratford on
Avon Music Festival 01789 207100 |
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Wed. 20th |
The Brindley, Runcorn 0151 907 8360 |
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JANUARY 2011 |
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Tues. 11th |
Medway Folk
Cellar, Chatham 01634 338 338 |
Dave Swarbrick & Martin Carthy
Swarb's Biography
At long last, Swarb has
decided to commission his long awaited Biography. He has given the substantial,
but very exciting task, to his partner and confidante Jill Swarbrick-Banks.
Jill has already written the near complete history of her decade so
far with Swarb, which records first
hand his Daily Telegraph obituary episode, emphysemic
years and bi-lateral lung transplant, their life together
and the very many anecdotes of course. And so, it was Swarb's
natural inclination to ask Jill to write his life story, warts and all!
Jill obviously has a massive task ahead of her,
accumulating information of every type concerning Swarb.
So a request!
If anyone has any information, memories, anecdotes,
photographs, films, rare facts...scandals, nice stuff, in fact anything at all
on Dave Swarbrick, Jill would be immensely grateful
to receive it! Please don't forget to add your name, a contact address and / or
telephone number, possible date of event, text or photograph...and any
background info. to back it up please. Everything will be totally
confidential. Jill & Swarb would be extremely
grateful! Please make contact here in the first instance.
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