Issue 15 8/2000
FolkWorld Articles,
Live Reviews & Columns
Articles & Interviews (in English)
- "I wouldn't change a thing!"
40 years of Iain MacKintosh. Susanne Kalweit writes about the quite Scottish singer Iain MacKintosh. He has made during his 40 year long carreer as a musician lots of friends and fans of his songs. Find out more about the story of this fine Scotsman.
Scotland. Songs and stories.
- From Cobh to Malabar
Sean Laffey finds out all about the Cobh Maritime Song Festival. Like many towns in Ireland Cobh is coming to terms with its past and far from dwelling on the morbidity of emigration and naval skulduggery it is putting a cheerful face onto this new millennium. The waterfront is a jumble of riotously coloured three and four-storey Victorian properties, packed under cliffs above the bay where once liners and packet steamers would crowd the quaysides ready for the ultimate trip across the Western Ocean.
Ireland - a fine maritime festival
- Progressive Piping Pleasure
Xosé Manuel Budiņo - one of the new stars from Galicia. Galician Music is these days one of the most uprising music styles in the European folk music scene. FolkWorld has picked out already some of the best acts in former issues: Leilía, Berrgüetto and Carlos Núņez. Another definite top act of the Galician scene is a piper who is often described by the press as the successor of Carlos: Xosé Manuel Budiņo.
Galicia/Spain - Progressive Pipe music
- 2 minutes from Ireland to Spain
Expo Tops & Flops. Expo 2000 - a world-wide showcase with plenty of superlatives as controversial as they are: Hanover's Expo is the first World Exhibition taking place in Germany, and never before more countries have taken part in a world exhibition. At the same time, Expo 2000 seems to become the first big financial disaster of the new millennium, with only about half of the expected visitors. Michael & Christian Moll went to see Expo 2000, visiting there a high profile concert of the Galician Celts and finding out from the local music spies what the Irish music contingent during the first two EXPO months was like...
Germany, Expo 2000 and its folk music programme
- Delightful Danish Duo
Haugaard & Høirup amaze with their music. Harald Haugaard and Morten Alfred Høirup are well known faces in the Danish folk music market - Harald Haugaard is one of the finest young fiddlers in Denmark, he plays with the magic group Serras, as well as with Sorten Muld, etc.
Morten Alfred Høirup is an exceptional fine guitarist and singer. Since some time they joined forces - and the sound of the duo is amazing it is so fresh carrying the Danish tradition - their live appearance is breathtaking.
Win Haugaard & Høirup's CD
Denmark - Danish music for fiddle and guitar
- A second life
A new start of the legendary Dutch band Fungus. Eelco Schilder finds out about the reunion or more precisely the second life of this heroes: Germany had Ougenweide, Norway had Folque, France had Malicorne, Belgium RUM and Holland, We had Fungus. Now, after more than twenty years they are back! Not a reunion, more a second live, they say. Together with a few concerts they also released a double cd with a big part of their work from the seventies. Founded in 1972 they were the first Dutch group who mixed traditional Dutch material with rock music.
Netherlands - legendary band is back
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Live reports from Festivals & Concerts (in English)
- Sterren in Drenthe festival
Great music - but no audiance. Eelco Schilder finds out that to start a new great festival there is more to do book good bands...
Netherlands - new festival with problems
- Brilliant new festival
1. Folkwoods Festival in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Christian Moll finds out that already the first edition of the new European folk festival Folkwoods in Eindhoven in the Netherlands proofed that this will become a new major spot in the summer festival schedule. The organisation was brilliant, the festival site beautiful, the line up powerful - and even the weather (which was at quite a few festivals a major problem this summer) was excellent. All in all it was a wonderful weekend in the woods...
Netherlands - brilliant new festival
- Two beautiful festivals in the Rhine-Main-Region
Gaelfest 2000 and the Celtic & American Folk Music and Dance Festival. Andreas Moll visited two festivals in the Rhine-Main-Region in the middle of Germany.
Germany - two Irish influenced festivals
- The Jubilee: Rain, fun and very diverse roots music
10 years Tanz & Folk Fest in Rudolstadt (Germany). In the first of two reviews of Germanys biggest folk and world music festivals Christian Moll writes mostly about European music presented at this festival. The Tanz & Folk Fest in Rudolstadt is well know for its special atmosphere - a whole town bursting with music. More than 30 stages (most of them open air) are spread in such diverse places as the market square, the castle terrace on the hill, a park, a church, a cinema etc., all of them filled with music from all over the world. You can hear music from Canada to Japan, from Zimbabwe to Denmark, from Poland to India or from Italy to Hawaii. The focus of this review is the European section of the line up - you know that this music is our great love.
Germany - biggest German folk and world music festival
- Tanz & Folk Festival Rudolstadt
The place to be... In the second review of this great festival Anja Beinroth writes her impressions. There are two things I love about the annual Rudolstadt festival. The first is the atmosphere - seeing a whole town be taken over by the festival and swept up in its spirit, "folk fever" as the locals refer to it. Diving into the crowds, the great mix of ordinary people and extraordinary characters of all ages who have come from all over Germany and beyond, the friendly, peaceful way people interact...
Germany - biggest German folk and world music festival
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FolkWorld Columns (in English)
- The editors column
In this issue the editors write about three new festival in the Netherlands -two where successfull, the third was not...
FolkWorld's Editors' thoughts
Additional Features in the German version only
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Articles & Interviews, reports from festivals & concerts(in German)
- Es lebe der Zentralfriedhof
Austro-Folk 6: Das Ende vom Lied. In diesem dem vorerst letzen Teil unsererSerie über Folkmusik in Östereich macht Tom Keller wieder einen bunten Streifzug durch die Musikszene.
Austria - impressions of the folk music scene
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Verleihung des 10. Folkförderpreises
Im Rahmen des Tanz & Folk Festivals Rudolstadt fand die Verleihung statt. Dorthe Luebbert besuchte das Konzert, das in der Verleihnung des Preises gipfelte
Germany - the folk music award
FolkWorld columns (in German)
- Neue Scheiben aus Irland
Auch in dieser Ausgabe findet sich die von Axel Schuldes verfasste Kolumne. Viele Neuerscheinungen aus Irland werden vorgestellt.
Irland - CD-column
- Neues aus dem deutschen Norden
Die Neuigkeiten-Kolumne der LAG Folk Schleswig-Holstein.
Northern Germany - news
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