Saturday: 5pm - 7pm    |    Elvet Methodist Hall    |    Eliza Carthy & Aidan Curran    |   The Young Uns    |    Fidola

Eliza Carthy and Aidan Curran

Eliza Carthy is winner of 2 Mercury Prize nominations and innumerable other accolades.

Over a 15 year career Eliza has performed and recorded with a diverse array of artists from Paul Weller to The Wainwrights, Nick Cave to Joan Baez. A truly inventive and innovative singer and fiddle player, Eliza is a gifted musical conceptualist confirming her position as arguably the most impressive and engaging performer of a generation. Eliza is also the winner of an unrivalled 7 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. In 2003 she became the first traditional English musician to be nominated a BBC Radio 3 Award for World Music. Yorkshire-born and now based in Hexhamshire, Eliza Carthy grew up immersed in a world of traditional music. She divides her time between touring and recording with her legendary parents, Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson and numerous pioneering solo and band projects.

Joining Eliza is Aidan Curran, a Canadian born singer and guitar player. Aidan has a background in Bluegrass and Blues and is a founder member of the Park Bench Social Club. He has been a member of a number of bands all with terrific live reputations and it is this experience that makes him such a confident and exciting player, much in demand for his instrumental virtuosity and amazing voice.

The Young Uns

The Young 'Uns are a Hartlepool based folk and maritime trio, recognised locally, nationally and internationally. Their singing is powerful and full of life, able to impress and move whoever comes in to contact with them. As a testament to this, in the relatively short time that the band has been together, they have made significant waves in the folk world, performing at many events and festivals including the Bae Daip International Maritime Festival in Holland. Indeed, reading their tour date list on the website can turn in to somewhat of a marathon session! In January 2007, they founded the now renowned Pot House Folk Club on the Headland in Hartlepool which regularly attracts many people from all over the region and continues to flourish as word gets out about this incredible trio.  

Fidola

 Fidola are a duo from England and Sweden who met whilst studying traditional music at Bollnas Folkhogskola in Bollnas, Sweden. They are interested in combining different cultures' music in their repertoire whilst keeping and appreciating their differences. Both are influenced heavily by the teachers that they have studied with over the years, such as Ian Carr, Catriona Macdonald, Jonas Bandin and Olof Misgeld to name but a few. Having only formed in September 2007, Fidola have achieved a large amount in their time together including appearances at Viljandi Folk Festival in Estonia, Beverley Folk Festival in Yorkshire, The Living Tradition Summer School in Scotland, concerts and arts festivals in Halden, Norway, Folkmusikens Hus Rattvik, Sweden, and at The Sage Gateshead in Tyne and Wear.