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		Photo: Tim Parkinson						Photo: Tim Parkinson

Chris & Siobhan are also on MySpace, so please look there for more links!

Top Links

• FoF Promotions: representing Abbie Lathe & The Lovelies, Ken Nicol & Phil Cool, Katie Doherty, and ourselves. Visit the FoF Promotions site for information on all these acts.
• Friends of Folk: organisers of some great folk gigs in the north-west of England. Check out their page for information about forthcoming and previous concerts.
• Maddy Prior: the official website. The place to go for everything about Maddy!
• Stones Barn: details of the short courses run by Maddy Prior at Stones Barn in beautiful north Cumbria. Highly recommended - we are Stones Barn Addicts. Amongst the tempting things on offer are some wonderful singing courses, suitable for all levels of experience and all levels of confidence! As well as learning a lot, you'll also have fun, eat lots of tasty food (!), and meet some really great people.
• Abbie Lathe: superb singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist and truly inspirational singing teacher. Abbie teaches on many of Maddy Prior's singing courses at Stones Barn.
• Whapweasel: wonderful "English dance band"; line-up includes Rick Kemp of Steeleye. We'd describe them as Folk meets Madness!
• Shirley Collins: the official site, containing loads of information about the lovely Shirley.
• John Tams: the official site, run by Tam & Sally, for all you ever wanted to know about the brilliant singer, songwriter, actor etc.... (writer of 'Snow Falls' on our Tomorrow's Sun album).
• Peter Knight: official website of the Steeleye fiddle supremo.
• Dave Swarbrick: for all the latest on the great Swarb!
• Judy Dyble: the ex-Fairport singer's fab website; also pay her a visit on MySpace.
• Talkawhile: totally addictive place to talk about music - especially anything associated with Fairport, Steeleye etc etc...

Festivals, folk clubs etc:

• Bothy Folk Club: long-established folk club in Southport, Merseyside. It's an excellent, friendly club, which is well worth a visit if you are in the area on a Sunday evening. You can usually catch us there, as we're on the team of residents at the club. There's also a Bothy MySpace page, which Siobhan looks after.
• Saddleworth Folk Festival: great festival near Oldham.
• Spanfest: Steeleye Span's own festival, held at beautiful Kentwell Hall, Suffolk.
• Foc's'le Folk Club: in Southampton, Hampshire (Fridays).
• Topic Folk Club: in Bradford, West Yorkshire (Thursdays).
• Gregson Lane Folk Club: in Lancashire (alternate Thursdays).

More Musicians:

• Barry Wake: brilliant songwriter/guitarist from Southampton, and occasional collaborator with us in the trio Nelsons Wake. As a duo, we perform quite a few of Barry's songs.
• Brian Heywood: ex-member of The Cluster of Nuts Band; now involved in a variety of musical projects.
• Donna Whitlock: multi-talented percussionist and artist.
• MoonDance: ceilidh band based in the south of England, featuring our old Cluster of Nuts cohorts.
• Arnie Cottrell: singer, guitarist and mandolin player 'par excellence' and a former colleague from The New St George and Midnight Flyers.
• George Wilson: highly entertaining and talented Hampshire-based Geordie singer-guitarist.
• Silverwheel: "folk rock with fire..."; brilliant band.
• Pete Rimmer: has a new CD Donovan Songs (Chris recorded and produced it and we're both on it). Pete's interpretation of 13 great songs by Donovan. Pete is also a member of Gallimaufry.
• Duodecimo: Manchester-based "a capella chamber choir"
• Southern Lights: "ladies traditional style dance team", based in Southampton.

Folk Music Resources/Online Radio Stations:

• fRoots: "the essential worldwide roots music guide"; long-established magazine. (Siobhan is responsible for compiling the reviews index on their web site.)
• Dirty Linen: American magazine, covering roots/traditional/folk/world music (with good coverage of British Acts).
• Folk NorthWest: loads of information about all things folk-related in the north-west of England, with lots of useful links.
• Folk Images: folk resource with emphasis on the north-west of England.
• Folk On Tap: excellent folk magazine, covering the Southern Counties Folk Federation (SCoFF) area, but always a good read wherever you are based!
• EntsWeb: Directory of entertainment, music and leisure.
• CD Baby: great US-based site for buying CDs (including ours!) - and for selling your own albums.
• Abicat: UK-based site for buying folkie CDs - and for selling your own albums.
• FolkCast: a 'must-hear' podcast with a monthly show presented by Ken Nicol and Phil "Widds" Widdows.
• The Online Folk Festival: US-based online radio station - "freeform Internet folk radio for the masses!"
• Harris Radio: an Internet radio station, based in Brooklyn, New York; plays music from unsigned artists and independent labels, including acoustic/folk music. Aims to offer "Intelligent Music for Intelligent Minds".

Miscellaneous:

• Nidd Art: watercolour paintings, mainly of North Yorkshire, by Peter Nelson (Chris's dad).

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