Don’t just sit back and listen – get involved with our series WOrkshops & TALKS of immersive, instructive and enlightening workshops Lau-Land Emerging Music Stage (Sat and Sun) sat 30 sun 31 As part of Lau-Land we invite talented up-and-coming artists to perform to new farmer glitch presents: synth building Kris Drever of Lau. You will learn about folk revivals – good for the music contemporary arrangements. The workshop audiences prior to the main concerts, so come workshop with aidan taylor Kris’s approach to backing traditional or damaging to traditions? will include practical aspects of repertoire early to experience some superb free music. meeting room 1, 2pm – 4pm, £15 music of Scotland and Ireland. Suitable for terrace, 12.30pm – 2pm, free learning, and ways of familiarising ourselves See website for details. incl. bf intermediate to advanced guitar players. A host of musicians and journalists discuss with songs one may encounter. Ever wanted to build your own the pros and cons of waves of popularity Synth? Here is your chance. Spend fiddle workshop with aidan o’rourke in folk music. Is it great that more people old-time fiddle tunes & techniques with an afternoon building the meeting room 2, 4pm – 5.30pm, £12.50 than ever listen to traditional music, or rayna gellert P aT iS Swashbuckler Synth Kit with Aidan incl. bf has the genre been watered down and meeting room 2, 4.30pm – 6pm, £12.50 Ro RR n: “ oB Ha Taylor. The workshop is suitable for An opportunity to learn from Lau’s fiddler commercialised to a damaging degree? incl. bf WHiSPERinG” B both beginners and enthusiasts and BBC Radio 2 Folk Musician of the Followed by a Q & A. With: John Kirkpatrick, With deep roots in American traditional of DIY electronics. All equipment Year 2014. Aidan will teach some tunes Kris Drever (Lau), Ian Anderson (fROOTS), music, Rayna is a shining example of why and parts are supplied to take and focus on tone, phrasing and Sam Lee, Ceri Rhys Matthews (Fernhill) and Old-Time music is so popular today. Her a dazzling weekend “There’s a home your very own noise- bowing. Suitable for intermediate to Rod Stradling (Musical Traditions). Chaired album Old Light is an absolute Lau tour- of multifarious small corner of this machine! Farmer Glitch is a advanced fiddle players. by Aidan O’Rourke. van favourite. Aimed at intermediate to musical world of ours founding member of Hacker advanced fiddlers. music and actiVities that will be forever Farm; a collective that produce are you washed in the blood? song collecting with sam lee – Lau-Land” audio-visual products, performances gospel traditions in the american south meeting room 1, 4.30pm – 6pm, £12.50 playing english dance music with john 29 31 maY 2015 FoLk Radio and installations using found materials and terrace, 3pm – 4.30pm, free incl. bf kirkpatrick (suitable for any instrument) our supporters new technologies. Aidan Taylor has a long Ahead of their performance on Sunday, Sam Lee presents a rough guide on how boardroom, 4.30pm – 6pm, £12.50 incl. bf colston Hall history working with homemade instruments two of the leading lights of American music to approach the subtle and vital art of John Kirkpatrick is the undisputed king of and electronics. He is constantly active in music will discuss and perform traditional song collecting. Learn the basic necessary English squeezebox, his career includes numerous musical projects which include gospel music styles from the southern skills and techniques to go into the field work with Steeleye Span and Brass Monkey sun kil moon electronics and improvisation. Appalachians and beyond. With and record people. Sam will discuss as well as being named Folk Musician Rayna Gellert and Jeff Keith. his work researching, collecting and of the year at the 2010 BBC Folk Awards. english fiddle workshop with sam sweeney repatriating songs from the Gypsy and Come and learn from the best. tinariwen (bellowhead) talk to instrument inventors Traveller community across the UK and omar souleYman meeting room 2, 2pm – 3.30pm, £12.50 terrace, 4.30pm – 6pm, free the wonderful wealth of culture still extant incl. bf What drives people to invent their own across the British Isles. He will workshop To book or for more information: BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards Best Musician instruments in a quest for new sounds? methods of collection, sharing stories “Lau are one of 0844 887 1500 • www.colstonhall.org lau • plaid Nominee 2013, 2014 & 2015 hosts an A panel of some of the most remarkable of the fascinating people met along his intimate fiddle workshop. Suitable for minds in modern music discuss their travels and how the organisation, ‘The Song the most intriguing aidan moffat advanced fiddle players. approaches and answer your questions. Collectors Collective’, formed in 2012, and adventurous live With: Bruno Zamborlin (Mogees), Richard J seeks to conserve this material and keep it and Bill wells guitar workshop with kris drever Birkin, Farmer Glitch (Hacker Farm), Tom Bugs available for generations to come. He will bands in Britain” sam lee adem boardroom, 2pm – 3.30pm, £12.50 incl. bf (Bugbrand), Ziggy Campbell & Simon Kirby also talk on the experiences of taking these Folk Radio • A chance for guitar players to work with (Found Collective) and Martin Green (Lau). songs and stories and turning them into spiro • luke aBBott TO BOOK OR FOR MORE INFORMATION: 0844 887 1500 / WWW.COLSTONHALL.ORG “Lau are a remarkable band – the most musically adventurous trio in British folk exquisite and hypnotic, fri 29 sat 30 sun 31

musicianship at its best.” songlines present lau’s best of the world THE GUARDIAN aidan moffat omar souleyman song share and bill wells / tinariwen / lau / CONCERT / adem awesome tapes the lantern, doors 2pm, £10.75 incl. bf doors 7.30pm, £12.50 incl. bf from africa Making a welcome return to Colston Hall LUKE ABBOTT Sun Kil Moon Having met while working on Arab Strap’s doors 7pm, £22.50 incl. bf, £16.50 is Mercury-nominated artist Sam Lee, ‘Monday at the Hug & Pint,’ Arab Strap founder students incl. bf, over 16s described as “the most cogent force of Aidan Moffat and jazz virtuoso Bill Wells vowed his generation in British folk music” by The to make an album together. The result was The Björk connections continue (see Plaid, Observer. During this daytime performance, ‘Everything’s Getting Older,’ an album of rare Fri 29 May) as Syrian techno giant Omar Sam will be joined by prolific instrumental beauty and intelligence that picked up the Souleyman (who worked with the Icelandic and virtuoso musician John Kirkpatrick, inaugural Scottish Album of the Year. “Wells icon on 2011’s The Crystalline Series) raises “magical” (Folk Radio) singer-songwriter and Moffat have created a stunning album” the roof with his “hookah bar synths, guitar- Julie Murphy and Ceri Rhys Matthews to share highlights from their repertoires. HUGH METCALFE PLAID enthused Drowned in Sound. Their follow up, hero electric saz runs and blazing digitized SPIRO ‘The Most Important Place in the World,’ sees hand percussion” (Rolling Stone). On the Moffat speaking, snarling and singing candid same night, Mali’s Tinariwen will perform stories of domesticity and devilry to exquisite their “distinctive desert blues” (The Quietus) jazz inflected melodies. following their relocation to California’s Joshua ft. neil halstead Welcome to Lau-Land lau-lab improvisers plaid / luke abbott Tree. “Time in the Mojave hasn’t removed spiro / rayna gellert sun kil moon orchestra / kayla painter Joining them is Adem, who’s folksy, poetic the Sahara from them, though – this music the lantern, doors 7pm, £12.90 incl. bf, doors 8pm, £21.50 incl. bf, music is not only a thing of beauty but a visual still moves like a sandstorm,” says Pitchfork. over 14s over 16s Take a trip into the dazzling sonic universe of the UK’s terrace, performance 7.30pm, free the lantern, doors 8pm, finish 1am, wonder, incorporating a homespun and Joining them are the band of the hour, “best live band” (The Guardian), Lau. Over three nights the £13.44 incl. bf, over 18s contemporary acoustic sensibility. Scotland’s contemporary folk trio Lau, who “This is soulful music, passionate music Excellent, astonishing, magical, As part of Lau-Land we have invited will prove why the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards and I love it,” says Peter Gabriel of the remarkable: just some of the BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winners will present a multifarious musicians from a variety of backgrounds, “Creators of thoughtful, refined electronica have named them Best Group four times. much-loved quintet, while Mark Radcliffe superlatives thrown the way of mix-up of artists that inspire and excite them, from San traditional musicians and experimental for 25 years” (The Guardian), Warp Records’ calls them “one of the most imaginative adored singer-songwriter Mark musical inventors to come and collaborate Plaid visit The Lantern following the release acoustic groups around”. Influences as Kozelek for Benji, his 2014 AIDAN MOFFAT Franciscan folk-rockers to roots music pioneers. Expect and work with hugely inspiring musician and of their 10th album, Reachy Prints. It’s wide as folk, dance and classical converge album under the name Sun an immersive and free wheeling experience – learn new artist Hugh Metcalfe. The spirit in the Lau-Lab “another artful and aerial treasure” (Clash) to “cinematic, breathtaking and beautiful” Kil Moon. His live rendition is one of experimentation and unpredictable from the “dedicated tech geeks” (Pitchfork), (Songlines) effect as Spiro perform. Fiddle of the work was even better, skills, participate in discussions and interact with bespoke results. This will culminate in a performance who have collaborated with artists from player and former member of Uncle Earl, according to The Guardian, installations from Scottish art heroes Found and Somerset’s by the Lau-Lab improvisers orchestra. You Björk to London Sinfonietta. Joining them in Rayna Gellert, joins Spiro in The Lantern to who described his recent are warmly invited to come and witness the The Lantern is Norfolk’s Luke Abbott, whose play music from her first vocal album, Old show as “a truly extraordinary own Farmer Glitch, alongside headline performances results of these musical experiments, entry is brand of electronica “is at turns subtle and Light: Songs from my Childhood and Other gig”. The “startling and from Omar Souleyman, Tinariwen, Sun Kil Moon free and this event will be followed directly soothing, intense and challenging” (Mojo). Gone Worlds. brilliant” (Uncut) performer is by Plaid and Luke Abbott, so come early joined by Slowdive/Mojave 3’s and Plaid. Welcome to Lau-Land! and make a night of it. LAU Neil Halstead.