SHORT SHARP SHANTIES ON TOUR with Jackie
Oates, Jeff Warner, Keith Kendrick, Tom and Barbara Brown, Doug Bailey

Following the consistently excellent reviews of the three CDs which form part of the
Short Sharp Shanties project, the ‘crew’ which launched the series is taking to
the road for a few special concert dates this Autumn.

But this is no ordinary set of bellowing shanties: the performers bring a variety of
styles, instruments and presentations to what promises to be a richly varied
selection of material from the huge range that Cecil Sharp collected from John
Short of Watchet in 1914.

Performances are:
OCTOBER.
 
Sun.7 - Tenterden Folk Festival;
Mon.8 – Hanger Farm Arts Centre, Totton, Hants;
Fri.12 – Kilmersdon Village Hall, Somerset;
Sat.13 – St.Issey Village Hall, Cormwall;
Sun.14 – Plough Arts Centre, Torrington, Devon;
 
NOVEMBER.
Sun.18 – QUAD, Derby;
Mon.19 –  Nettlebed Village Hall, Oxon.

Contact doug.bailey@wildgoose.co.uk  or Tom Brown
at  tomandbarbara.brown@virgin.net

‘a fine piece of work’ – Roy Palmer, ED&S
‘some of the best renditions I have heard ‘– Mary Humphreys, Mardles
‘massive variety of arrangement and delivery’ – Jim Lawton, Tykes News
‘as bracing as a force 6 out of Finisterre’ – Raymond Greenoaken, Stirrings