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Featured Artist

Gerry Smyth

Passed down in the oral tradition and sung as working songs, sea shanties tell the compelling human stories of life on the water: hard labor, battling the elements, pining for distant loves and far-away homes. The music's rhythms are designed to galvanize the group effort of heaving, pushing, and pulling to weigh anchor, wind rope around a capstan, or set sail. Acclaimed shanty devotee Gerry Smyth presents the background to each shanty alongside musical notation. The lyrics are elaborated upon with explanations of terminology, context including historical facts and accounts of life at sea, and the characters, both fictional and nonfictional, that appear in the songs from the great age of sail to the last days of square-rig.

Featured Artist

The Southbound Attic Band

The Southbound Attic Band consists of Barry Jones, guitarist, singer-songwriter,and Ronnie Clark, bass and backing vocals. Their high energy live set is a combination of Americana, English and Celtic tinged folk rock. Their first full length CD, The Willows Suite (SAB2 2009) is a full musical suite of original songs, written by Barry, based around the book Wind In The Willows by Kenneth Grahame. The Willows Suite, which incorporates readings from the original text, followed by the song inspired by it, is also an hour long theatre piece which is suitable for all ages except the very young. To critical acclaim, the Southbound Attic Band performed The Willows Suite at Formby LittleTheatre for Formby Live 2010 and at the inaugural Liverpool Threshold Festival in 2011. Their second CD No More Tears (SAB3 2011) incorporated what have become their trademark songs, Howling at the Moon and Southbound Train as well as a tribute to their home city of Liverpool, City By The Bay, which featured as a you tube video http://youtu.be/eTMVeZXEwYAon a popular Liverpool Tourism Website. Their latest recording Living The Dream (SAB4 2012) which includes a song written by Ronnie Clark, followed the previous two by featuring in its own hour long edition of Radio Merseyside’s Folkscene programme with Stan Ambrose, and Radio Merseyside’s Billy Butler has also played music from the CD featuring Nostalgia Still Rules on his popular prime time show. In Americana-uk.com’s review Jeremy Searle described the CD as “Fine old school song-writing and playing... a hugely enjoyable listen.” FATEA webzine described it as “an album full of home truths delivered with a subtle wit and good honest humour.” And Tony Donaghey from LiverpoolBands.com said “great solid songwriting, every song had a proper tune - immediately hummable and often sing- a-longable.” The Southbound Attic Band are currently hosting a series of Acoustic Dustbowl events monthly at The View 2 Gallery, Mathew Street,Liverpool for Americana UK Promotions. CD’s are available from News From Nowhere, Bold St,Liverpool and Quicksilver Music, Market Street Southport or from Barry Jones

Featured Artist

Alison Diamond

Since graduating from Leeds College of Music Jazz degree course in the 80s I have gigged and recorded extensively in the UK and abroad, working in Europe, Scandinavia and the West Indies. I have enjoyed playing with original Pop bands and on the Jazz, Blues, Soul and Folk circuit in every type of venue, from huge festival stages to small clubs. I spent a couple of years with Ashley Hutchings of Fairport Convention and the Albion Band contributing tunes to the album A Batter Pudding for John Keats. In 2014 I recorded my first solo album Head Puzzle Parts which gave me a chance to bring together some of the fine musicians I have worked with over the years, a lot of them from the vibrant Manchester Jazz and Blues scene. The compositions are diverse with influences from Jazz, Blues, and Caribbean music. If you like the album artwork, you can buy a tee from my TeePublic shop.