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Performing Groups 2011
For our festival 2011 we have invited some special groups, we even have guests present from Great Britain. We are very pleased to present them to you. We are almost sure that the combination of groups with maritime folk music, shanties and celtic music will guarantee a day full of nice music to listen to, but also nice songs to sing along with.
So enjoy your day in a cosy atmosphere, culture, beautiful scenery and good food and drinks!
(Appingedam, Holland)
Armstrong’s Patent is an enthusiastic group of men specialised in singing shanties & sea songs. They sing the working songs, sea songs and forebitters mostly a cappella with a precentor (the shantyman) .
Their songs date from the days of glory of the sailing ships like clippers, whalers and packet ships. Every branch of navigation by sail had its own special songs.
Armstrong's Patent succeeds quite well in portraying the sailor of the last century not only when they perform on stage but also on their music discs.
Meer informatie: www.armstrongspatent.nl
(Holland)
Now something QUITE different, BEITHAR !!! A group of men dressed in medieval outfit and producing celtic music as a very primitive sound in the woods of Nijverdal. It will be a special experience to all of you.
Beithar was founded in 2006. Three bagpipe players, till then playing together in an other band, decided to form a music group together. To complete the group they asked two enthusiastic Surda-drum players to joint hem. That was the moment Beithar was a fact.
Nowadays Beithar has four musicians: Jan, Tahir, Rob and Rene. At the moment they are looking for another drummer.
Because of their fierce, emotional sound Beithar mostly perfoms in the open air and in large halls during festivals and parties.
You’ll imagine yourself in a scottish athmosphere when you hear the sounds of bagpipes and drums. The diversity and variation of whipped up and quiet rhythms characterize the original music of Beithar.
More information: www.beithar.nl
(Zwolle, Holland)
Blue Dew is a group of musicians that play intensively the irish folk music and amerian bluegrass. It is just the mix of these music styles that give them their typical own style, which is appreciated by many folk lovers for the natural, harmonical three and four voices singing and a very prominent and divers use of irish and bluegrass music instruments.
Marius Klein, Pim Leutholff and John Beumer who were the bluegrass trio ‘The Bright Side of Life’ since the late eighties, changed their bandname in Blue Dew in 2001. In 1998 Wendy van Zomeren was added to the group as a violin player.
In the years of 1998-2006 Blue Dew is not only playing bluegrass and irish folk music, but they also have their own festival: The Blue Dew Festival. Next to this they are working on connecting folk musicians to folk organizations, and they published some newsletters. This comes to an end when Blue Dew dedicates himself to theatre performances, in which scene, story and music are combined. This turns out to be very successful.
When Blue Dew performs on festivals they make a choice of music out of their theatre repertoire. Especially for the Lullaby Festival Sijtze Malda will accompany Blue Dew on the accordion and bodhran.
We can assure you you will love it !
More information on www.bluedew.nl
(Portsmouth, Engeland)
Chris Ricketts & Mark Willshire
We met Chris Ricketts and Mark Wilshire at the Bie Daip 2010 Festival in Appingedam in Holland. They told us they came straight from the Vegasack Festival in Bremen, where they performed themselves. When we told them about our festival the two men instantly agreed to come to the Lullaby Festival as well. So now we can say:
We Proudly Present Our First International Artists !
Chris en Mark make music that is touchingly beautiful in all its simplicity. They make very basic maritime folk music, only accompanied by a guitar. Lovely simple traditional music in this modern world.
Both men were born and grew up in the harbour town of Portsmouth (England). That is where they got their affection for the maritime folk musik. They sing the old songs in a fantastic new way.
More information on the boys website: www.rickettsandwillshire.com
(IJmuiden, Holland)
Nelson’s Blood
In 2010 they were our first guests. They were very enthusiastic and the public was very excited. We are so glad they return to our festival this summer.
Nelson’s Blood was founded on the 22nd of March 1998.
Nine singers, with musical support from Hein Zonneveld, sing mostly traditional worksongs like the shanty.
As all countries with maritim traditions have their own shanties, Nelson’s Blood sings mainly in English and French.
Since the start in 1998 they built up a great reputation as well in Holland as abroad. They performed in great national and international shanty festivals.
For more information www.nelsonsblood.nl
(Zwolle, Holland)
The men of Shantycrew Buitenboord were also present at the first Lullaby Festival in 2010. Just like us they liked it very much.
We were a bit anxious to ask them to come again, because of the approaxing holliday time, but then their E-mail came: “We can’t wait to come down to Nijverdal again.”
Well, such an offer we cannot refuse. So Shantycrew Buitenboord will be in on it again.
Shantycrew Buitenboord was founded in September 2002 in the town of Zwolle.
The group exists of six singers and one musician who plays the accordion or the guitar. They sing original shanties, drinking and pub songs, of which they sing a lot without music accompaniment.
We are acquainted with this group from our fellow festival Bie Daip in Appingedam and we are very happy to show them to you.
For more information see their website www.shantycrewbuitenboord.nl
THE OPEN STAGE
What the Open Stage will offer us this year, is still a bit of a surprise. In the eastern part of Holland an open stage - where singers and musicians from the public spontaneously offer to give a short performance – is still somewhat unknown. But, last year a few men from the audience stood up and said: “We would like to perform, but not at this moment. We would like to make good preparations first, but we will gladly come and sing in 2011.
So now we can present them to you: Quint
Four men (Klaas, Jan, Jaap en Jan) and one woman (Gea) from Giethoorn (Holland) sing and accompany themselves on an accordion, a contrabass and a harmonica. They all participated before in other shanty groups like the Laplanders, the Waterlanders and the Groot Blokzijls Piratenkoor. Some of them play music in the accordion group VLEP. Today they sing lovely dutch folk songs from the region of Giethoorn, but also a few irish folk songs. It will be a surprise what they will bring us.
We use the name LULLABY in the meaning of a rhythmic song to be able to perform some activities in a better way.
A lullaby originally is a rhythmic la-la-la or lu-lu-lu song, a song without words, sung in a specific rhythm with a specific purpose, such as cradling babies to sleep.
It is also used in the way of a heya-heya-heya song, for encouraging some working activities on ships, like the bringing in of the sails or the fishing nets or during the mending of the fishing nets (this is not scientifically proven).
Shanties are, just like lullabies, often working songs, with which the precentor (the shantyman) starts to sing and the working men sing the refrain.
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