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EVENT
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A
full programme for the weekend is now available, with details
of concerts, workshops, times & prices. Click on the image
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Special
Guests
This event will
showcase some of the best & most respected musicians in Scotland,
including
Tich Frier, Mike Whellans, Allan MacDonald, George Duff, Chloe Matharu
& Michael Marra. It will be a great opportunity for
Battlefield Band to perform with, and introduce you to some of their
favourite musicians so it should be a fantastic weekend. We'll update
this page with videos & information on all the artists appearing
very soon...
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Chloe
Matharu
A nineteen year old folk singer from Edinburgh
with cultural roots in Scotland, Wales and
India, Chloe was lucky enough to have grown
up surrounded by the wealth of traditional
music in her home country and also her mother’s
county of Pembrokeshire. As a child, she
was always fascinated by the endless number
of folk stories she was told and her interest
in performing traditional music started
with singing unaccompanied folk ballads
- hooked by the combination of story and
music. From a young age Chloe has found
pleasure in singing: performing in choirs,
playing in bands during the Edinburgh Fringe
and while at school won a place to perform
at the Radio 2 Cambridge Folk Festival with
its Youth Band.
Chloe
has recently recorded her debut album, Next
Market Day which will be released later
this year.
Hear
a track below or find out more about Chloe
at www.chloematharu.com |
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"There's
a plaintiveness and restraint to Chloe
Matharu's singing that owes more to classic
traditional singers like Anne Briggs than
it does to the poppier inflections of
many of her young folk contemporaries.
And there's a refreshingly unaffected,
intimate and pastoral quality to many
of the arrangements on her debut album
too."
Karine Polwart
"...a
voice as pure as the young Sandy Denny
or Scottish enigma Shelagh McDonald or
Joni Mitchell on her impossibly innocent
first album...more than enough to put
folk-music aficionados on high alert."
John
Sakamoto
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