This brand new offering from the intensely versatile Swan-Dyer partnership is the product of their latest obsession – contra dance music. Don’t be sidetracked by its primarily dance-based rationale, but treat it as a pure – and purely enjoyable – listening experience.
Twelve Months and A Day is the best possible advertisement for the delights in store from this entertaining duo – you can hear why they continue to be such a draw at folk clubs and festival stages alike.
Folk Radio UK talks to Gordon Jones, founding member and guitarist of the band Silly Wizard, about Ulverston’s Furness Tradition which takes place from Friday 12th and Sunday 14th July.
Vicki Swan & Jonny Dyer are well known interpreters of old folk style ballads and uplifting music. They have just released their new Christmas Single – Essex Wassail
Three remarkable musicians will perform at Halsway Manor on Saturday 3 November. In concert: two leading Uilleann Pipers John McSherry and Steve Turner will be joined by Vicki Swan playing the traditional Swedish Nyckelharpa.
Some great gigs coming up that are worth getting a ticket for if you can over the next week, including: Nancy Kerr and James Fagan, Goodnight Lenin and The Old Dance School, Martin Carthy, Ade Edmondson and the Bad Shepherds, Annabelle Chvostek, Dave Swarbrick, Vicki Swan And Jonny Dyer and more
