Saturday 18th September 2010, doors open 8.00pm music starts at 08.40pm (ish)
CHRIS MORETON - LIVE
At The Hafod Hotel, Devil's Bridge
Chris has won several awards including winning the Edale Bluegrass Festival Guitar Player contest 5 years running.
He was the guitar tutor at “Sore Fingers Week” for the first 8 years of this event.
His
set includes songs and tunes on guitar, banjo and mandolin with some spontaneous waffle thrown in.
Chris is widely recognized as one of the U.K.'s leading exponents of the flat-picked guitar technique, ("Britain's
answer to Doc Watson" - Jim Couza), this and his talent to entertain has endeared Chris to Bluegrass audiences for many
years.
He has played at most of the UK Bluegrass Festivals and clubs plus one or two in the
USA. First with The Cats Cradle String Band, then with his own group The Jalapeño Pickers and in recent years as a
solo artiste.
CAROLINE AIKEN - LIVE At The Hafod
Hotel, Devil's Bridge - Support act - Jack Harris
Caroline Aiken
Caroline Aiken
Jack Harris
Thursday 29th July 2010, doors open 8.00pm music starts at 08.40pm (ish)
Rita Hosking and Sean Feider
Wild West Wales are very
pleased to announce that we have Rita Hosking as our next attraction Live At The Hafod. Rita is from California and is
touring Europe promoting her latest Grammy nominated album "Come Sunrise". Rita's songs have been lauded for
story and sense of place, and her performances praised for capturing the audience. Honors include "Best Country Album"
nomination by the 2010 Independent Music Awards, winner of the '08 Dave Carter Memorial Songwriting Contest at the Sisters
Folk Festival, finalist in the '09 Telluride Troubadour Contest, and others as well. She has played her songs for appreciative
listeners at the Strawberry Music Festival, Kate Wolf Music Festival, and many more. "There’s a grit to her songs
and sinewy toughness to her voice that weave their own spell," (Q Magazine.)
Kitchen tables, springs, loss, miners, mountains, culture clash, trailers, stray dogs, loggers,
hope, forest fires—Rita Hosking's country-folk music is this and more, and always fierce and lovely. Her delivery is,
to put it simply, intense. "From the first time I heard Rita sing, her voice gripped me and did not let go," (Joe
Craven.)
That voice, called a "soulful howl from the mountains" (California Bluegrass Association) is
calling attention around the country---"What? California girls don't sing like that!!?" But Rita, called "the
real thing" by CA acoustic music fans, will tell you about her upbringing in rural Shasta County, and the old-time band
of seasoned mountain characters that took her under their wings. "This California girl comes by her mountain-music sensibility
with true authenticity, with original songs deeply rooted in her family's frontier experience," (Dan Ruby, FestivalPreview.com.)
A descendant of Cornish miners who sang in the mines, Rita grew up with deep regard for folk music and the power of the voice.
