St Albans Folk Music organises pub music sessions, a monthly
concert series, ‘Folk at the Maltings’, and an annual 'New roots' competition
for young musicians. It is a part of the 'Folk at the Festival' Committee which
organises the St Albans Folk Festival.
Folk at the Maltings Online
The Maltings Theatre currently has no plans for live
music so we have organised a series of online concerts, in which young
performers who took part in New Roots 2020 support more experienced performers.
Tickets are now on sale.
Friday April 16, 8.00pm Iona Fyfe, who
has become one of Scotland’s finest young folk singers, rooted deeply in the
singing traditions of the North East of Scotland plus New Roots finalists Oisin Kisdon-Ireland and Callum
Granger of Borders
Friday
April 23, 8.00pm Watford Folk Club New Roots night. Pete Nutkins introduces four New Roots finalists, Lilian Grace, Callum McKellar, Cathy Bennett and Robbie
Sherratt. selected by his club.
Tickets: £10 for individuals, £15 for two people using the same
device, and £20 for three or more people using the same device. Concessions are
£8, £12 for two people sharing the same device and £15 for three or more.
Bookings online at http://www.ticketsource.co.uk/stalbansfolkmusic
or
by phone 0333 666 3366.
St
Albans Folk Festival 2021
This will take place from June 25-27 2021. Plans are now coming together for a mixture of live
and online events and there will definitely be further details shortly.
St Michael's Street folk evening
From 1988 to 2019, we held a popular event in St Michael’s
Street on the first Wednesday evening in July, with dancing in the street and
music everywhere. The 2020 event was cancelled because of the coronavirus
pandemic. We are keen to reinstate this event as soon as it is safe to do so, but
it may be several years before this is possible. It is clear now that we can’t
hold it in its usual form on July 7 2021, but we have a really exciting
alternative a few minutes walk away.
Wednesday July 7 2021 at 7.30pm Amazing
duo Belshazzar’s Feast
plus New Roots 2020 finalist Rakoczy in concert at the Roman Theatre,
Verulamium as part of the Roman Theatre Open Air Festival season.
Booking and further information here.
St Albans Folk Festival 2020
St Albans Folk Festival ran from September
25-27 and was mainly online. If you
missed the day of free music, you can still hear a great range of musicians and
singers in our online showcase performances on St Albans Folk Music’s YouTube channel
Further details including names of
performers are here.
New
Roots an event for young musicians who are under 25 and play or sing
folk, roots or traditional music.
New
Roots 2021 The closing date will be August 31 2021 and the final
will be on October 24. We hope it will be live at Trestle Arts Base. If
not, it will be online. For further details, click here.
New
Roots 2020 The final of New Roots 2020 was postponed to Sunday November
1 2020 from 11am to 5pm and was online. The music can be heard on
New Roots YouTube
channel. For further details, click here.
New Roots 21st anniversary celebration, Sunday June
28 2020
The first New Roots took place in 2000 and a 21st
anniversary event was held on Sunday June 28 2020, with performances by
some of the amazing singers and musicians who have taken part over the years.
This was an online event, with videos newly recorded by over 30 past New Roots
finalists. If you missed it, you can still hear it on New Roots YouTube channel
by following this link and make
a donation at https://www.gofundme.com/new-roots-21st-anniversary The proceeds will be shared between the
performers. The programme, which includes featured spots by Iona Fyfe, Hazel
Askew on behalf of the Askew Sisters, the Foxglove Trio and Katrina Gilmore and
Jamie Roberts is here.
Sessions Mainly traditional Irish,
English, Scottish and other traditional music. All welcome to listen or to
play. Mainly tunes, but singers welcome.
The sessions have been suspended until further notice. The Robin Hood
sessions are currently being replaced by sessions on Zoom. For details, email info@stalbansfolkmusic.org.uk
Weekly sessions at 8.30pm on Wednesdays are at the Robin Hood, 126 Victoria Street, St
Albans AL1 3TG.
Monthly sessions are at the Great
Northern, London Road at 6.00pm on Sundays, usually on the fourth Sunday of
the month.
Links to other
regular events in St Albans
Contact Alison
Macfarlane
Tel 01727 852111
Email: info@stalbansfolkmusic.org.uk