TWICKENHAM: Twickfolk @ The Cabbage Patch Pub

Sunday 9th November, 2014

7:45pm

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DICK GAUGHAN was brought up immersed in the musical traditions and culture of the Gaels, both Scots and Irish, which naturally, therefore, provide the foundation for everything he does.
He has been a professional musician and singer since January 1970 (2014 is his 67th year on the planet), has been playing guitar since the age of seven and made his first solo album in 1971 (No More Forever). Working in the broad milieu of folk music Dick has recorded extensively in many countries and in various combinations with other musicians and has also worked extensively as a session musician in a wide variety of musical styles.
Dick Gaughan was an early member of the Boys of the Lough and is on their first album. He was with the now-legendary Scottish folk-rock band, Five Hand Reel, making three albums with them in the 1970’s. In the 1990’s he founded and produced the short-lived but quite extraordinary ensemble Clan Alba. According to a critics poll in fRoots, he recorded the best album of the
1980's (Handful of Earth: Topic)
Well known for his forthright and long-time consistently held, oft-expressed political views Dick gives voice to an uncompromising solidarity with the flotsam and jetsam of tunnel-vision global capitalism: the victims, the helpless, the wronged, the fighters, the brawny working-class bravehearts who made capitalism work (after a fashion).
In more recent years Dick has composed and arranged music for films and television dramas and his 90-minute orchestral work, Timewaves, was performed as the closing concert at the 2004 Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow. He also had a commissioned orchestral work performed at Celtic Connections in January 2007 called Treaty 300 (three hundred years since the Act of Union between England and Scotland).
Dick has collaborated successfully over the past year or two with Canadian reggae act The Jason Wilson Band (feat. Dave Swarbrick and Pee Wee Ellis) while, at the same time, performing with his own 7-piece band (feat The Bevvy Sisters) for the occasional gig.
In December 2009 Dick was honoured by being inducted into the Scots Trad Music Hall of Fame. Then, less than two months later in London, he received a Lifetime (not yet!) Achievement Award at BBC Radio 2's annual Folk Awards ceremony. Dick is the only performer to have been so honoured by his musical peers both north and south of the Border.

JIM PAGE is an American singer and guitar player, a song writer and story teller. He was born in California in 1949.
He got his start in the bars and coffee houses of the lower Bay Area in 60s. The music and artistic experimentation of those days made a big impression, and have stayed with him ever since.
On New Year's Day of 1970 he headed to New York City, arrived with a broken fleece lined jacked and 34 cents in his pocket, borrowed a guitar and started hitting the clubs of Greenwich Village. But the scene had changed and he headed to Seattle.
Once in Seattle Jim took the whole town to be his stage. In 1974, after being threatened with arrest, Jim took on the Seattle City Government to legalise street performing. It was a landmark case and Seattle is now open for buskers of all styles.
In 1975 Jim recorded his first album of original music, a vinyl LP called “A Shot Of The Usual,” released on his own label. Two other albums followed in rapid succession.
In 1977 Jim journeyed to the UK for the Cambridge Folk Festival. He was off and running and spent the next 6 years almost constantly on the road. He recorded two albums for a Swedish label called Nacksving and one for WEA Ireland. It was in Ireland that Christy Moore first heard Jim’s song “Hiroshima Nagasaki Russian Roulette,” and made it a permanent part of his repertoire. To date, Jim’s songs have been covered by The Doobie Brothers, Christy Moore, The Moving Hearts, Dick Gaughan, Roy Bailey, David Soul, and Michael Hedges.
Jim returned to the States in ’83 and began re-establishing himself as a solo artiste and a player in the Northwest music scene. Fast forward to the 21st century and Jim is busy with multiple projects in simultaneous array – constant solo performance, plus various ensemble configurations, leading to more albums.
Jim continues to write and to perform and to experiment with form and ensemble, and his songs continue to be pertinent and expressive of our times. To quote the late Utah Phillips: “If you’re ever going to get the message, this is the messenger to get it from.” And Christy Moore: “Every now and again I encounter a singer who gives me a glimmer of hope. Jim Page carries the light.”

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