Forum 28 in conjunction with Furness Tradition
Present Folk at the Forum
Second season begins January 2005
Regular fortnightly folk events featuring a wide programme of national artists and local support guests.

Pete Morton and Roger Wilson http:www.petemorton.com http://www.littlebackroom.com/
A special double bill night with these two great performers
Tuesday 25th January 7.30pm Tickets £6.00
Pete Morton -“a compelling singer, a master of pithy lyrics…one of the most convincing singer songwriters on either side of the Atlantic” (Dirty Linen). Add to this his powerful performance and an ability to interpret traditional song with great feeling and relevance.
Roger Wilson is a master guitarist, fiddle player and singer – interpreter of traditional and contemporary material and a songwriter – in short – brilliant!
Roger and Pete are old pals – they both hail from Leicester and played and toured together in “Urban Folk”
Martin Carthy http://www.watersoncarthy.com/
Tuesday 8th February 7.30pm Tickets £6.00
Martin is universally regarded as one of the finest singers and interpreters of the traditional music of the British Isles as well as a highly influential, innovative and much imitated guitar player. In his forty years of performing and refining this music Martin has been part of Steeleye Span, The Albion Country Band, Brass Monkey and The Watersons. He was awarded an MBE for his services to English traditional music.
Fairport Convention
Tuesday 8th March (Main Auditorium)
The longest running and most well-known British folk rock band. They invented it – it’s no surprise that they are the best!
Chris Newman and Máire Ní Chathasaigh http://www.irishharper.com/
Tuesday 22nd March 7.30pm, Grasmere Room, Tickets £6.00
Described as the most influential Irish harper today, Máire Ní Chathasaigh, was named Traditional Musician of the Year 2001. In partnership with English guitar wizard Chris Newman, her ‘warm and expressive voice’ is complemented by his ‘subversively witty introductions’. Their breathtaking musicianship tests the limits of Irish and Scots music with touches of calypso, bluegrass and 40s-style swing. Here’s a great quote - “This harp player has reinvented the traditional harp. She and Chris Newman, are indescribable, as his guitar virtuousity joins her musical genius.”
Jeff Davis
Tuesday 5th April 7.30pm , Grasmere Room, Tickets £6.00
Fiddle, banjo, guitar, mandolin (for starters!). Jeff Davis plays more instruments than he can carry and carries more than he has time to play! He sings and plays traditional songs and tunes from Southern Appalachia, New England, etc., often in the style of the musicians from whom folklorists collected the material. One of the world's greatest performing experts on North American traditional folk music. Brian Peters will be accompanying Jeff at this concert.

Box Office: 01229 820000. Forum 28, Duke Street, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, LA14 1HH. forum28@barrowbc.gov.uk

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