It is the biggest free folk festival in Britain; a super fun long weekend by the sea with music taking over the whole of the town.

I will be playing at 11.55am on Sunday 30th June and be joined by at least two other brilliant musicians and maybe more if i am lucky.

We just cycled from Bath to Oxford gigging on the way with stop offs in Bristol and Swindon – pure unadulterated joy.

More please…. http://www.pedalfolk.co.uk

Occasionally a promoter asks if I want to do a gig that is quite a bit in the future…

…top prize this year goes to The Music Box who run a lovely monthly night in Shoreditch.

They just booked me to play in January 2014. Lovely, I should have written a few new songs by then!

So unless you already have plans, might I suggest that you put 8th January 2014 in your diary.

Paper Dress Vintage, 114-116 Curtain Road, London, EC2A 3AH

There has recently been a flurry of interest in my track ‘Hackney Gentrification Song’ with local publications N16 Magazine, Dalston TV and Hackney Post all giving it virtual shout outs.

It has also come to the attention of the film crew making ESTATE, a non-fiction feature film about a Hackney estate which is soon to be bulldozed. You can find out more about the film here and have a look at the ‘behind the scenes’ section of the site which uses my song.

http://estatefilm.co.uk/

You get five points if you can spot me in the picture to the left. They have kindly said they will post a copy to my Gran which should tickle her pink!

…anyways, here are the gig details again in case you missed them:

I will be playing with Tim Graham and Katie Stone Lonergan on Sunday 21st April at Cafe 1071 at 3pm.

Cafe 1071, 45 Oxford Castle, Oxford, OX1 1AY

http://folk-arts-oxford.co.uk/

So Pedal Folk, the cycling music tour I am doing late April is now all sorted and we will be ending our two wheeled jaunt by performing at Folk Weekend Oxford which I am super excited about.

I will be playing with Tim Graham and Katie Stone Lonergan on Sunday 21st April at Cafe 1071 at 3pm. There may be bubbly to celebrate the end of the tour.

Cafe 1071, 45 Oxford Castle, Oxford, OX1 1AY

From a wood-engraving by Clare Leighton, courtesy of the artist’s Estate

On 5th April at Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre Pub in Walthamstow, I am putting on a show called ‘I’ll Be Good To The Land; A History Of Land Rights And Protest In Folk Song And Story’ as part of the Community Food Growers Network spring events series.

I will be joined on the evening by many friends and a special guest called Hugh Lupton as we unpick the people’s history of this fair isle.

Hugh is one of the most brilliant and widely respected story tellers in the country. You can catch a sneaky peak of him below on youtube.

Matthew, aka Song, By Toad, was the first blogger to say something nice about my music on the world wide web and part of the inspiration for me to (perhaps foolishly?!) keep dedicating ridiculous amounts of time to making music.

His blog continues to be a cornerstone of the uk independent music scene and you would do well to point your eyes and ears in his direction here – http://songbytoad.com/

I was chuffed to pieces that he played my song Mariams Cake in his most recent podcast on mixcloud. Have a listen below if you fancy…

Toadcast #261 – The Suncast by Song, By Toad on Mixcloud

Thanks to a certain Miss Candy Parfitt for coming over last week and doing an excellent sing, adding to the lovely droney violin and accordion goodness of Basia Bartz and Caitlin Roberts.

Half a million people have watched the youtube trailer… I wish they had asked me first and possibly even licensed the damn song!

http://youtu.be/JMPm_ydl0AI

I am just dropping them a line now to say hello and see if they have anything to say for themselves…

#confused #showmethemoney