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Stephen Wilson, Jr. grew up with his father, the junior followed the senior into the boxing ring as a child before deviating from his father's path to become a scientist and eventually finding his home in songwriting.
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Stephen Wilson Jr. - "Stand By Me" (USA)
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Guy Clark doesn't just write songs, he crafts them with the kind of hands-on care and respect that a master carpenter (one of his favorite comparisons) would bring to a piece of rare hardwood. Clarks works slowly and with uncompromising dedication to detail... he has produced an impressive range of timeless jewels...
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Guy Clark - Magnolia Wind (USA)
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A great storyteller and eccentric lyricist, Warren Zevon created some of the most haunting songs of his time and was respected and celebrated by everyone from Bob Dylan to Bruce Springsteen. Zevon grew up in California and studied classical music before moving to New York at the age of 16, where he worked as a folk singer, studio musician and songwriter for The Turtles and later toured as bandleader for The Everly Brothers. His solo career was unsuccessful, however, and he lived on the outskirts of Barcelona, performing in an Irish bar, before being brought back to Los Angeles by Jackson Browne, who produced and promoted his self-titled second album in 1976.
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Warren Zevon - Keep Me in Your Heart (USA)
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He has played blues, bluegrass and country. His companions include George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Jerry Garcia, Willie Nelson, Vince Gill and Linda Ronstadt. Bromberg is a virtuoso guitarist, but plays the violin just as passionately. When he had had enough of being a musician, he opened a workshop in Delaware and started making violins.
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David Bromberg Band - Midnight On The Water (A Texas Waltz) (USA)
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Tam-Lin Reel/Glasgow Reel is associated with Davey Arthur who used to play with the Fureys. It is probably based around a traditional melody as the style of flipping between strings is reminiscent of many fiddle tunes.
TAM LIN is a 16th century ballad from the Scottish Borders, it tells the story of Jenny, a girl who defies social expectations to turn a bad situation good, pursue an unconventional love, and then perform a daring rescue of her beloved from the fairy world.
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PeakFiddler - Tam Lin /Glasgow Reel (UK)
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For 50 years, the cult band from Dublin ensured that melodies and songs from the Emerald Isle also became popular on the European mainland and in the USA. The Dubliners not only conveyed the fun of drinking through their songs, but often also political content. With their music, the Irish folk band influenced a number of colleagues around the globe. Under the title “The Dubliners Encore”, violinist John Sheahan and Phil Coulter, the group's original record producer and current musical director of the upcoming concerts, are bringing the music of the global pioneers of Irish folk back to life on stage.
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The Dubliners - The Musical Priest / The Blackthorn Stick (Ireland)
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A set of 12 instrumentals – ten originals, two covers – radiantly played by Cape Town-based pianist-composer Kyle Shepherd, double bassist Shane Cooper and drummer Jonno Sweetman, ... This one, then, is a cause for rejoicing, not the least thanks to a sublime cover of Massive Attack’s ‘Teardrop’ that finds the trio improvising over those gorgeous rolling chords. The rhythms of West Africa are here, too, oh-so-subtly woven into ‘For Oumou Sangaré’, a glistening paean to the Malian diva that reinforces her status as a pan-African icon.
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The Kyle Shepherd Trio - For Oumou Sangaré (South Africa)