This tune set has been going down quite well this tour, so we thought we’d make a video for you all. Andro is a traditional french dance and we found it on the internet somewhere, the second tune Lang Stayed Away is a northumbrian hornpipe and we first heard it played by Nancy Kerr & James Fagan.Hope you like it!
A few weeks back we had the pleasure of performing a few songs for the amazingly talented Adrian Edmondson. He’s got a show on ITV called ‘Ade in Britain’ and is currently filming the 2nd series. Ade moves around county to county in a caravan investigating local foods, recipes and cultures. When he came to Essex, he asked us to perform some local music for him near sounthend pier! Here’s a pic of all of us together! It was very cold!
With a few weeks till we go on tour, we thought you guys would appreciate a video of what we do – hope you like it.
On the 21st of April, we’ll be putting together a special show with special guests live in concert at The Weston Auditorium in Hatfield.
In this special event we’ll collaborate with mercury prize nominee Eliza Carthy and devonshire folk singer Jim Causley. Supporting are Hannah James & Sam Sweeney – one of the finest young duos around – this promises to be an exciting evening of music and song.
We’re all really excited to be performing our new collaborations with Eliza and Jim at The Weston. It’s a brand new venue with a gorgeous acoustic and will make a beautiful setting for what looks to be a great night of music. There’ll be a few surprises for the audience too, and of course were delighted that Sam Sweeney and Hannah James can join us as support- we’ve got a huge amount of respect for what they do. Overall it should be an amazing night of folk music from some of the best musicians in the country.
Tickets from £8 can be booked by calling 01707 281127 or visiting http://www.ticketline.co.uk/mawkin.
We are now taking signed pre-orders for ‘Crow’ follow this link to order yours now http://mawkin.bandcamp.com/
After many months of writing, recording, editing, producing, mastering, designing, and deliberating we are delighted to announce we are now taking pre-orders of our forthcoming album ‘Crow’ – and to say thankyou to you we are offering an exclusive immediate download of the full album to those who pre-order our album. All that for only £12 – get them while they’re fresh!
We had a really great time yesterday filming for a brand new documentary that Jools Holland is putting together. James, Nick and Dave were asked to play an acoustic version of ‘The Bad Girls Lament’- one of the new songs from our forthcoming album ‘Crow’ that features the gorgeous vocals of Eliza Carthy.
Here is a pic of us all together when we wrapped up filming..
From Right to Left - Nick Cooke, James Delarre, Eliza Carthy, Jools Holland and David Delarre
‘Easter Thursday’ – Trad. Arr Mawkin taken from the album ‘Crow’
New album ‘Crow’ out 21/04/2012
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Our very own Dave Delarre has picked up his digital quill and will be writing a lot of nonsense over on the UK Folk Music website -
http://www.ukfolkmusic.co.uk/blog
Expect ramblings, musings, poetry, novellas, philosophical musings or maybe just the occasional rant about the price of guitar strings. Who knows!?
Be sure to leave him a comment though so he thinks at least one person has read it.
Ho! Ho! Ho! Seasons greetings to you all! We’d like to say a big thank you for your support in 2011. We’ve just finished recording our next album that’s due for release in April 2012, hope to see you at some of the dates in April and May. Have a great Christmas and new year!
all the best from Dave, James, Danny, Nick and Lee.
