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July 18-21 Castle Carrock Cumbria Winner best community arts initiative CASTLE CARROCK Please Dance www.musiconthemarr.com Find us on Be pithy and witty on #pleasedance 8.30 - R M Hubbert Welcome to our 10th anniverary Welcome, welcome, welcome to this, astonishingly, the 10th Music on the Marr. It astounds me this little festival is still around and kicking a whole decade after we thought we might put on a couple of bands in a wedding marquee. DAY ONE The years have flown by but we’ve always tried to stay true to those initial days. We rapidly expanded from one day to four and we’ve done our upmost to make the best use of all the Thursday 18th July venues available to us. But there was never any danger of us forgetting what first inspired us to see whether we could make this thing work. The love of music, good company and community have been guiding principles that have seen us through the tough times. Any time we may have been daunted by the task ahead, there’s the memory of RM Hubbert better known as ‘Hubby’ is a guitarist all those great nights, great gigs and smiling faces to sustain the effort. and (sometimes) singer from Scotland. He writes The festival is something of which all those who play a part are justly proud. It’s put together and run with music about love, death, friendship, mental illness love, care and attention. and occasionally a dog called D Bone. At last count more than 100 people give of their time freely and unfailingly to make sure each year is a On the Marr One of Glasgow’s more prolific artists with an success. astonishing guitar style described as “mesmeric” The feedback tells us how much artists, performers, visitors and villagers cherish what’s been built here. and “utterly captivating”, RM Hubbert has released So this is our 10th year and I think it will be our best ever – but then I say that every year. And every year it is. 6.45 - Hexham Morris Men music under a variety of guises since 1993 and Whether you live here or roundabouts, you’re visiting for the 10th time or the first, you are very welcome. his terrific recorded output has not gone unnoticed We hope you take away some very special memories from another year on the Marr. winning him many awards and sold out gigs. “Technically dazzling and deeply moving.” - Uncut Richard Johnstone Marquee Stage “Hubbert’s a hell of a guitarist.” - Daily Express Music in the Hat Concert 10.00 - The Baghdaddies Our big warm up event. Put what you can afford into the hat. If you can find £5 or more that would be great; it all goes to the performers and technical staff. The Love You Leave Behind Collective Roy Bailey was an icon of the music world and a true friend to Music on The Marr. 7.30 - The Huff Like so many we were heartbroken at the death of our patron last November. Throughout his long association with our festival he’d been an unstinting supporter and sounding board, able to offer decades of wisdom to our ambition to bring world class talent to a corner of rural Cumbria. That was Roy, champion of the underdog. We’d see another side of him when he picked up his guitar for a standing The Baghdaddies’ exuberant and rampant brand room only session in the main marquee. of world music is an exhilarating cocktail of Balkan Mobility not so good, the memory playing the occasional trick, but the warmth melodies, ska and Latin grooves; sizzling brass and sincerity flowed from the stage and right through an appreciatve and played with furious energy and theatrical humour, attentive audience. making them as unforgettable on stage as they are Sadly we’ll have no Roy this year. Not in person, anyway. But his spirit lives on “We’re in The Huff. We’re going to play piano, guitar when performing as wandering brass troubadours. and he’ll be with us with the Love You Leave Behind Collective. and more, and sing in hopeful harmony. We listen They take themselves incredibly seriously so you We’re delighted, but not surprised, that a host of folk music’s grandest names to David Bowie, Alt-J and Radiohead, who inspire don’t have to… A proper Newcastle institution, will be joining us to keep alive the songs the great man made his own. us to write our songs, mostly about the world these engaging musical goons last played at Music It promises to be the most fitting of tributes to a one-off man and from a young person’s perspective. Please come on the Marr in 2011; we are delighted to have them performer - don’t miss it. (Page 10) along; it might even be a laugh, or if not we’ll have back. to play to just our families.” From Daisy and Eve, “The band has a particular flair for the Balkans Young Music on the Marr graduates of MOM’s Young Musician’s Showcase and capture its frenetic energy and flamboyance Following on from the success of last year’s Young Music on the Marr event, we have again invited last year. wonderfully. There is also a fair share of klezmer, children from local schools to have an afternoon of music and performance at the festival. Young MoM jazz, ska and punk – an anarchic fusion where Ivo will take place on the afternoon of Wednesday 17th July from 12.00 - 2.30 giving our local young Papasov meets The Clash meets The Beat ” musicians and singers, from Castle Carrock, Hallbankgate, Great Corby and Warwick Bridge Primary — Songlines Magazine schools, the exciting opportunity to perform on the main stage to a large audience. 2 Find us on Be pithy and witty on #pleasedance Find us on Be pithy and witty on #pleasedance 3 piano and guitar arrangements and you’ve got Take a group of the hottest contemporary fiddle 8.30 - The Trials of Cato the award winning Blazin’ Fiddles on your hands. playersThe from Artisans’ the Highlands Market and Islands of Come and visit the Pennine Artisans and And they are Blazin’, in the past decade no other Scotland, mix with some wonderfully sympathetic friends in the hall - we’re in between the band has quite captured Scottish fiddle music’s piano and guitar arrangements and you’ve got the main music marquee and the Magnificent Tea variety, energy and sensitivity like Blazin’ Fiddles award winning Blazin’ Fiddles on your hands. And Emporium. There you’ll find 10 artist/makers have. Like rare single malts, each member of they are Blazin’, in the past decade no other band displaying their works - many of them new DAY TWO Blazin’ Fiddles draws the distinct flavour of music has quite captured Scottish fiddle music’s variety, to MoM. We have silver jewellery, ceramics, from their part of the Highlands and Islands. energy and sensitivity like Blazin’ Fiddles have. photography, glass, watercolours, felt, candles, Blending solo and ensemble sets, aged with the Like rare single malts, each member of Blazin’ festival gifts and prints….oh, and don’t forget Friday 19th July occasional insightful tale, they all come together in Fiddles draws the distinct flavour of music from the chocolates! We will also be the only point a fiery blend to excite your senses. From remote their part of the Highlands and Islands. Blending of sale for the Music on the Marr T-shirts and village halls to the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert solo and ensemble sets, aged with the occasional Hoodies, so make sure to stop by and say Hall, fiddlers Jenna Reid, Bruce MacGregor, insightful tale, they all come together in a fiery hello. We open our doors with wine and nibbles RuaMacmillan and Kristan Harvey are joined by blend to excite your senses. From remote village at 6pm on Friday 19th and will remain open Anna Massie on guitar/fiddle and Angus Lyon on halls to the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, A band that arrived fully formed and functioning during festival hours (8am - 10pm on Saturday piano to deliver a musically intoxicating evening fiddlers Jenna Reid, Bruce MacGregor, Rua from Beirut in the winter of 2016, have since torn a and Sunday). See you there! St Peter’s Church shape very much their own into the canvas of the for all. Macmillan and Kristan Harvey are joined by Anna UK folk scene. Massie on guitar/fiddle and Angus Lyon on piano Originally from North Wales and Yorkshire, whilst to deliver a musically intoxicating evening for all. 6.30 - The Geltsdale Singers living in Lebanon they spent a year boiling down Castle Carrock’s Natural Voice Network community the roots of their sound into a hybrid of traditional choir now 5 years old and learning to run, skip and influences that intrigued Lebanese audiences in jump. They will bring you gorgeous harmonies from the country’s biggest venues. Africa, Macedonia (maybe!) and a few songs in They moved back to the UK and spent a tireless their mother tongue. They may not always be pitch year performing up and down the country, leading perfect (not for want of trying) nor perfectly precise to BBC Radio 2’s Mark Radcliffe hailing them as in their timings but they do love what happens “one of the real discoveries on the folk circuit in when they share songs and sing together. If you recent times.” Their musical development in the are local and feel like joining in the fun and learning run up to their debut album proper – Hide and Hair some of their songs come along to The Watson – has been swift and sure.