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ANDY CUTTING --   'MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR'  AT  2008 BBC FOLK AWARDS

Very well deserved.  His contribution to Apples was magnificent. He continues to perform with June, alongside Mark Emerson and Tim Harries. Did you know that in 2001, Andy, Mark and Tim made a CD together as '1651' , called Cast A Bell. Contact taborinfo@yahoo.co.uk to find out more about it. You can get it by mail order from us

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TABOR WINS AGAIN!

http://www.foodfestival.co.uk/2007awards.html    (and scroll down the page)

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Scotland on Sunday invited June to contribute her 'Changing Tracks' to their regular feature. Have a look at what June came up with.....

http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/music/Changing-tracks.3544128.jp

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A P P L E S   -     JUNE'S LATEST ALBUM WAS RELEASED IN THE UK on 26th MARCH 2007

Topic Records TSCD 568    Buy a signed copy from June by mail order

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BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2006

'At the Wood's Heart'  is one amongst four albums of  2005 nominated for the Album of the Year award.

Bill Caddick's song The Cloud Factory, one of the songs on ATWH,  is nominated for an award in the Best Original Song category.

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Album released October 2005 

At the Wood's Heart

Topic Records TSCD 557

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Daughters of Albion

The 'Daughters of Albion' concert at the Barbican on 3rd February was filmed by BBC4. The transmission date is 3rd March 2006, but look for confirmation of this on the bbc4 webpages

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An essential purchase...

4 CD Boxed Set 'Always'  TSFCD4003

"The superb...boxed set 'Always' has a great many breathtaking tracks" The Financial Times

"A timely celebration of one of Britain’s finest voices"   Observer Music Monthly Magazine

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Seeds of Peace - Passendale Suite 2 : double - CD set

Artists involved : June Tabor; Bram Vermeulen; Willem Vermandere; Patrick Riguelle; Coope, Boyes and Simpson; Koen de Cauter; Thomas Friz; Une Anche Passe; Vredesconcerten Strijkkwartet

First performed on the 24th August 2002 at Tyne Cot cemetery, Seeds of Peace (Children of the Great War) is a suite of songs and instrumental music specially created for the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Passchendaele Peace Concerts. Arranged and directed by Laurent Audemard of the French brass and wind ensemble Une Anche Passe, the suite commemorates Flanders as the battlefield of choice for warring Western European nations over the past 500 years. The music ranges from childrens' song of the C17th to work by Jacques Brel and material specially commissioned for the peace concerts of today. Seeds of Peace offers a compelling evocation of the pain and futility of war, performed by a remarkable ensemble of 21 singers and musicians from across Europe.

The last performance of this was at Dranouter Festival in August 2004. While all the performers involved were in one place, the opportunity was taken to record the suite at  VRT Radio studios in Brussels. This resulting 2 - CD set is now available. Please contact taborinfo@yahoo.co.uk  if you would like to acquire a copy.

CD one:   1. Le Prince d'Orange - Patrick Riguelle  2. Auprès de ma Blonde -Tutti  3. The Lowlands of Holland - June Tabor         4. Shule Agra - June Tabor, Coope Boyes & Simpson  5. Flanders - Jim Boyes  6. De Flamingant ne me traitez - Koen de Cauter  7. Ik was erbij - Bram Vermeulen  8. The Rhyme of No Man's - Land Coope Boyes & Simpson  9. Brief an einen Soldaten - June Tabor & Thomas Friz   10. De Vluchteling - Willem Vermandere   11. La Chanson de Craonne - Patrick Riguelle   12. Happed in Mist / The Flo'ers o' the Forest - June Tabor / June Tabor, Coope Boyes & Simpson   13. The Bloody fields of Flanders - Lester Simpson   14. Mendinghem / Klagelied des Schottischen Schäfer - Lester Simpson & Thomas Friz   15. Cimetière allemand - Duits Kerkhof - Willem Vermandere   16. Down upon the dugout floor - Coope Boyes & Simpson. Total time: 62:16

CD two:  1. Dozinghem - Lester Simpson & Olle Geris   2. Jaurès - Patrick Riguelle   3. Johnnie - Bram Vermeulen   4. Standing in Line - June Tabor & Coope Boyes & Simpson   5. Mein Michel - Thomas Friz   6. Vladslo - Willem Vermandere   7. Mai 40 - Patrick Riguelle   8. Eigen God eerst - Willem Vermandere   9. No Man's Land (The Green Fields Of France) - June Tabor   10. Mourir pour des idées - Koen de Cauter   11. Der Graben - Thomas Friz   12. Das Dornenwald vor Olyka - Thomas Friz   13. Tyne Cot at Night / I want to go home - Coope Boyes & Simpson   14. La Guerre Denis Fournier & Arne van Dongen   15. De Helden / oorlog aan den oorlog - Bram Vermeulen / tutti. Total time: 63:28

Peace Concerts Passendale / Vredesconcerten Passendale, VP06, ©2005.

NB. Song lyrics and translations are not included in the booklet, but the booklet (from us) is in English and has copious notes on the songs and their backgrounds.

http://www.coopeboyesandsimpson.co.uk/peace_concerts_10th_anniversary.htm

Just around a month after the Dranouter performance, Bram Vermeulen, the great Dutch singer, died at the end of a holiday in Italy, aged 57.

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Sunday Times Article

On 30th May 2004, The Sunday Times ran a feature on JT by Mark Espiner.

Read it at

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/live_reviews/article432796.ece

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In Concert on 'BBC4 Sessions'

June was filmed in-concert by BBC4 TV on the 24th April, 2004,  at LSO St. Lukes in London. BBC4 edited the concert down to a one hour programme first transmitted in June '04 as part of their 'BBC4 Sessions' series,

There's some information on the BBC website, including a set list.

BBC4 SESSIONS

Keep an eye out for probable re-transmissions. Maybe even on BBC2 eventually...

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Oysterband

Oysterband's 'Big Session, Volume One' includes performances by June.  Read all about it at http://www.oysterband.co.uk/

 

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Double winner at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2004

June was thrilled to receive the 'Singer of the Year' award in recognition of the quality of her work,  in particular on the album 'An Echo of Hooves'.

She was also presented the award for 'Best Traditional Track' - Hughie Graeme (from An Echo of Hooves)

The awards ceremony took place in London on Monday 9th February 2004, and was subsequently broadcast on BBC Radio2 on Wednesday 11th Feb., and was shown a few days later on BBC4. Stephen Fry presented June with the main award, and concluded his remarkable address thus :-

"It is an extraordinary piece of work by any standards. It's emotionally complex, it has tracks in it which are fantastically sad and anguished. The penultimate track, The Cruel Mother, I would urge you to listen to. It has a version of the great English Ballad of Sir Patrick Spens. You've already heard one number from it, Hughie Graeme, and as I'm sure you all know, in 1388 there was a battle fought between the English and the Scots called The Battle of Otterburn, which is celebrated in this album too. I believe, though I'm not a musician enough to know it, that the Cruel Mother is composed in the Lydian mode......how often can you say that in an award ceremony?...... Our winner rejoices in a name that means 'drum', rather amusingly - I don't know if that's a coincidence.  I would urge you to buy her album An Echo of Hooves, if you don't already have it.  It is my very great honour to present the Folk Singer of the Year Award to June Tabor"

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