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Under their banner Forward with Scotland’s Past, Battlefield Band have been performing on the international scene for more than three decades, inspired by their rich heritage of Celtic music and fired by the strength of the modern Scottish cultural scene.
The band, who pioneered the integration of bagpipes
with fiddle, keyboards, guitar and voice, mix the old songs and tunes
with new self-penned material, playing them on a unique fusion of
ancient and modern instruments: bagpipes, synthesizers, fiddles,
guitars, cittern, bass, whistles, and bouzouki.
Founded by a group of friends in 1969 and named after the ‘Battlefield’
area of Glasgow, Battlefield Band now perform throughout the world,
playing to audiences in Europe, Australia, Asia, the Middle East &
Canada, as well as more than 60 cities annually in the United States.
Their music is played regularly on National Public
Radio’s Thistle and Shamrock program, and they are frequent guests on
Minnesota Public Radio’s A Prairie Home Companion.
http://www.battlefieldband.co.uk/
Listen to the Battlefield Band
Saturday, April 17th at 7:30 PM: Tunbridge Town Hall
“(Mark Erelli) embodies many of the best qualities of the folk-populist lineage that began with Woody Guthrie, and is carried today by Bruce Springsteen and others. His voice, a beautiful combination of wine and whiskey, is as intimately conversational as a fireside chat. And, by exploring some of the big themes of American life--family, redemption, war and love, among others--and by describing how those themes affect a single life, he makes topical songs personal.”
— Sing Out!
“...While the music sounds like something you've heard before, Erelli takes things up a notch with first-rate songwriting and a flexible voice that alternately contains shades of Dylan, Springsteen, Neil Young and Ryan Adams. The end result is a fantastic record that, 10 years into his career, gives every indication that Erelli is in it for the long haul.”
— The Daily News
“("Hope Dies Last" is) a somber, fingerpicked acoustic song, and Erelli sings as if his heart is about to break as he ticks off a list of global woes: suicide bombings, trapped coalminers, deceitful electioneering. "Nothing much has changed here," he sighs. Then his wife hugs him tightly on her way out the door, and his lament dissolves in a moment of pure, deep-seated joy.
It's Erelli at his best, a condition he exhibits throughout "Delivered."”
— Hartford Courant, Eric Danton
TICKETS WILL NOT BE MAILED AND ARE AVAILABLE AT THE
EVENT'S TICKET COUNTER. PLEASE HAVE YOUR CONFIRMATION E-MAIL READY.
THANK YOU.
Advance Tickets via PayPal or at The South Royalton
Market, the Three Bean Cafe in Randolph and Seasoned Books and Bakery in
Rochester.p>
Also, via mail to
MountainFolk, 25 Clarksville Road, Tunbridge, VT 05077.
Info. # is 802/431-3433 and e-mail to
folkbloke@hotmail.com.