Roots

With all the trials and tribulations of migrating the site to better premises we missed a wrap up of Strat and Lyndal performing at Live and Local.

I have put the two videos I did of Strat and Lyndal at the folk club up on YouTube.

You can watch them below the fold. Read more »»

Friday October 5th, 8pm
Emerald Lounge, Clifton Hill Hotel, Queens Parade, Clifton Hill.

“Blackwood” Warm, engaging, laid-back, cosmopolitan, rhythmic, lyrical … compulsive! ‘Blackwood’ make sweet yet powerful music on harp, guitar, whistles, fiddle, mandolin, cuatro and percussion, and with well-crafted songs and fine vocal harmonies they bring you ‘a superb bunch of songs that start out somewhere deep in the wide world of tradition and end up right in the moment…talented gits’ (Enda Kenny). Kwela jive from South Africa, Venezuelan joropos, and ancient Irish harp melodies, all in the same half hour! Read more »»