The Medicine Show (with Rob Ellen)

Carrie Elkin & Danny Schmidt UK Tour 2009

CARRIE ELKIN www.carrieelkin.com http://houseconcerthub.ning.com/profile/CarrieElkin : A troubadour in the most classic fashion, Carrie Elkin has ridden a Gypsy breeze of serendipity for the last ten years, landing for a time in Cleveland, Athens, Taos, Steamboat Springs, Colorado Springs and Boston, finally coming to settle in Austin, TX in the summer of 2007. It’s exactly this sort of openness to the people and places that pass through her life, and to the opportunities that might emerge in every new and particular circumstance, that grew to become the central theme of her brilliant new album “The Jeopardy of Circumstance”. The album features two other stalwarts of the Austin scene, her best friend Danny Schmidt and long-time friend and colleague Colin Brooks of The Band of Heathens. While already making quite a buzz around the Austin scene with her highly spirited and spontaneous performances, Elkin spends the majority of her time on the road still, touring nationally and in the UK and Europe.

DANNY SCHMIDT: Austin, TX-based singer/songwriter, Danny Schmidt www.dannyschmidt.com has been building an enthusiastic (nearly cult-like) following while simultaneously inspiring the admiration of his fellow artists and critical acclaim from industry professionals. He is an authentic timeless troubadour in the tradition of Townes Van Zandt, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and Dave Carter, who delivers his craft with a quiet power, a level of complexity and an underlying humanity that is truly rare in this age of sound bite marketeering. It's his songwriting which won him the prestigous Kerrville New Folk award, but it's his intense live performances that leave listeners with a sense that each of his songs is necessary, plain and simple. His guitar work is effortless and sparkling, his arrangements are fresh and unpredictable, his voice ageless. Stylistically and musically, Danny’s writing spans an impressively diverse reach, from deeply-rooted Appalachian mountain gospel to haunted English balladry, from syncopated Piedmont country blues to vagabond 60’s protest folk-stumpery. He tackles universal themes of love, loss and longing . . . restless discontent and grateful joy. And he captures both the sorrow and the beauty inherent in our everyday lives with the wisdom of a perceptive, compassionate elder and with the innocent awe and tenderness of a child.



In the words of Sing Out Magazine: "He is perhaps the best new songwriter we've heard in the last 15 years." And in the words of Texas Monthly: "With seductive simplicity, his music simply demands your attention."





Danny and Carrie sing "Company Of Friends"

Danny Schmidt & Carrie Elkin Tour Schedule 2009

Please find listings for the above tour, please add to any gig guides and listing you think appropriate.

Danny Schmidt www.dannyschmidt.com
Carrie Elkin www.carrieelkin.com


Thursday 26 November 2009
Venue RADIO SHOW House of Mercy London
Venue website www.houseofmercy.net
Note House of Mercy radio broadcast weekly on:-
www.totalrock.com London
www.taintradio.org North Carolina
www.radioseagull.com Holland
www.radiofreephoenix .com Arizona

Thursday 26 November 2009
Venue Prince Albert, (Thanksgiving)
Trafalgar St, Brighton
Postcode BN1 4ED
Venue website http://www.thegildedpalaceofsin.com
Venue/box office tel:
Other ticket outlet www.WeGotTickest.com
Doors 8pm
£ £6.50 adv /£7 door

Friday 27 November 2009
Venue Miss Peapods,
Penryn, Cornwall
Postcode TR10 8FG
Venue website www.misspeapod.co.uk/
Venue/box office tel: 01326 374424
Other ticket outlet
Doors 6.30pm
£ TBC

Saturday 28 November 2009
Venue Topsham Wine Celler
Ferry Rd, Topsham, Exeter
Postcode EX3 0HY
Venue website www.pebblebed.co.uk
Venue/box office tel: 07814 788348
Other ticket outlet
Doors 6.30pm
£ £17.50 (includes tapas/wine)


Sunday 29 November 2009
Venue The Beacon Hotel, Beacon Folk Club
Tunbridge Wells
Postcode TN3 9JH
Venue website www.the-beacon.co.uk
Venue/box office tel: 01892 524252
Other ticket outlet
Doors 8pm


Monday 30 November 2009
Venue London House Concert
Postcode Private
Venue website
Venue/box office tel:
Other ticket outlet by invite only
Doors

Tuesday 1 December 2009
Venue The Six Bells Chiddingly, Sussex
Postcode BN8 6HE
Venue website www.6bellsfolk.co.uk
Venue/box office tel: 01825 873337
Other ticket outlet
Doors 7.30 pm

Wednesday 2 December 2009
Venue The Kitchen Garden Cafe,
17 York Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham,
Postcode B14 7SA
Venue website http://www.kitchengardencafe.co.uk/
Venue/box office tel: 0121 443 4725
Other ticket outlet
Doors 7.30 pm

Thursday 3 December 2009
Venue Lauries Bar
34 King Street,Glasgow, Scotland
Postcode G1 5QT
Venue website www.lauriesacousticmusicbar.co.uk
Venue/box office tel: 0141 5527123
Other ticket outlet
Doors 7.30pm
£ £10

Friday 4 December 2009
Venue The Cluny 2
Lime Street Newcastle, Tyne on Wear
Postcode NE1 2PQ
Venue website www.jumpinhot.com
Venue/box office tel: 01912304474
Other ticket outlet ticketweb
Doors 7.30pm
£10
Note 24th Anniversary gig -Headline will be Peter Molinari

Saturday 5 December 2009
Venue Belper Music & Arts @The Kings Head Belper
Postcode DE56 1FF
Venue website www.belpermusicandarts.co.uk
Venue/box office tel: 01773 825525
Other ticket outlet None
Doors 8pm


Sunday 6 December 2009
Venue Barnsley House Concert
Wombwell, Barnsley, Yorkshire
Postcode S73 8ES
Venue website www.wombwellfolk.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
Venue/box office tel: by invite only
Other ticket outlet None
Doors 8pm
£ suggested donation £10

Monday 7 December 2009
Venue David A Connolly House Concert Linford House , Lichfield
Postcode WS13 7EU
Venue website
Venue/box office tel: By invite only
Other ticket outlet
£ suggested donation £10

Tuesday 8 December 2009
Venue Amberley Folk Club @ The Black Horse
Amberley
Postcode BN18 9NL
Venue website http://www.amberleyfolkclub.com/index.php
Venue/box office tel 07787 570207
Other ticket outlet None
Doors 7.30pm
£ £7

Wednesday 9 December 2009
Venue St Bonaventura Social Club
Bristol Avon
Postcode BS7 8HP
Venue website http://www.crhmusic.com/
Venue/box office tel: 0145 255 0575
Other ticket outlet
Doors 7.30pm
£ £10adv

Thursday 10 December 2009
Venue Taylor John's House Coventry
Postcode CV1 4LY.
Venue website http://www.thetinangel.co.uk
Venue/box office tel: 024 76559958
Other ticket outlet
Doors 7.30pm
£ £8 adv / £10 door

Friday 11 December 2009
Venue The Old Courthouse
Thirsk, Yorkshire
Postcode YO7 1QS
Venue website www.inthedock.net
Venue/box office tel: 01845 595911
Other ticket outlet
Doors 7.30pm
£ £10

Saturday 12 December 2009
Venue Private House Concert (venue TBC - might be in a formal venue)
Chippin, Lancs Lancashire
Postcode
Venue website
Venue/box office tel: By invite only
Other ticket outlet
Doors

Sunday 13 December 2009
Venue The Green Note
London
Postcode NW1 7AN
Venue website www.greennote.co.uk
Doors 7pm
Venue/box office tel 020 7485 9899
Other ticket outlet None
£ £9 adv.

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Malcolm Holcombe Strathpeffer Show in January

Malcolm Holcombe in Concert The Coffee Shop Strathpaffer 21st January 8pm Tickets £8 www.malcolmholcombe.com Sure. There are the inevitable comparisons to Tom Waits, but that's mostly due to Malcolm Holcombe's dark blue minstrelsy, delivered in a burned up voice and from a fate that'd have him be quiet. Certainly, both artists are poets, one quite famous, one not so much. But Holcombe is, if we can remove it from the parlance of down playing for the moment, what Waits will never be thanks to the homogenization of the big label / MTV / big box super store: a regional bard and hero. Holcombe's very song-making essence is the soil, rock, river, tree, and mountain of Weaverville, North Carolina, a mountain town sitting in the shadow of Asheville, and surely influenced by the insurgent / revolutionary goings on at Black Mountain College, late by Holcombe's boyhood. And not unlike fellow North Carolinian and dark horse brother Tom House, Holcombe has carved out a voice of the place from whence he comes. A musical landscape where all themes lead to home. (In this same way, as his uniqueness is rooted and revealed through traditional structure, Holcombe is brothers in arms with a duo of Texas' best known troubled troubadours, Steve Earle and Townes Van Zandt, but his delivery is more akin in respects to that of Vic Chesnutt.) All of which is a long way to say that Not Forgotten is glorious in its sublime earthiness. It rattles, moans, shivers and soothes. It is stories told in fragments of prose and poetry, accompanied by warm guitar, scratchy-scratchy vocals with stuttering pregnant pauses and line breaks in unusually effective and affecting places. Take the oddly named "Animated Sanctuary," for example, which is all at once tender, off kilter, and lovely. The title song, "Not Forgotten," decries the singer's protagonist as a mother or a father, but humbly and movingly makes mention of itself as "just a little one, not forgotten." Nature reigns supreme in imagery, from the multiple fertile references to gardens, seed, blooming flowers, birds, all breadcrumbs back to love, to brotherhood, and to the all important physical and esoteric home. He plays for us at The Coffee Shop Strathpeffer January 21st and will be recorded for future broadcast on The Nevis Radio Medicine Show Coffee Shop Cromarty Buildings Strathpeffer Ross-shire Scotland IV14 9dg 01997 421500 Malcolm Holcombe performs "For the Mission Baby" at WNRN in Charlottesville, Virginia

Tokyo Rosenthal at the Arglly Hotel Ullapool and on the Medicine Show

Tokyo Rosenthal Ullapool at The Argyll Hotel 20th November. http://houseconcerthub.ning.com/profile/TokyoRosenthal Here are some of the reviews. "Rosenthal can draw you into his lyrics much the same way that James Taylor and Don Henley can". "Take Jackson Brownes personal confessions and wrap them in Kris Kristofferson’s world weary tales of broken relationships and you have an idea of what to expect from Tokyo Rosenthal." "This is Americana with real teeth in the lyrics" Find more music like this on The House Concert European Hub (& Acoustic Music Club Network) This level of acclaim wasn't an overnight trip. Hardly, as “Toke” has spanned the music scene for three decades. But it's most recently that recognition has finally reached hit home, through the recording of his CD, "One Score And Ten". Always writing and always gigging, his musical journey continues. He is on tour in support of the new album "Love Won Out" He joins me on The Nevis radio Medicine Show Wednessday 11 November. and plays The Nevis Radio Medicine Show session 18th November Ullapool at The Argyll Hotel 20th November. Listen again to more Medicine Shows here. Health and Happiness From The Highlands Of Scotland Listen again to some broadcasts, sessions and concerts here… Continue

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We had such a great couple of days with Nels Andrews and Ana Egge, part 2 of the Monday Night Medicine Show Concert was broadcast On Nevis Radio you can listen to that now below. Naomi Sommers on The Nevis Radio Medicine Show 10pm GMT Naomi Sommers Monday Night Medicine Show at The Riverside Tavern Conon Bridge (Dingwall) Monday 26th October, was broadcast on the nevis radio medicine Show October 28th 2009 http://houseconcerthub.ning.com/profile/NaomiSommers http://www.naomisommers.com You can listen again to a fantastic night with a full house for Naomi, who Americana UK discribe as the new Nanci. Naomi is a singer/songwriter in the folk and bluegrass style. She grew up in New England, in a family of musicians, making records and playing with my family band. (Her father Phil Rosenthal is a bluegrass musician and runs a small, home record label, American Melody.) She has released a new album this year, called Gentle As The Sun, to wide spread aclaim and universal glowing reviews, recorded in Nashville, produced by Jim Rooney (John Prine, Iris Dement) Its been one of the Medicine Show albums of this year. Enjoy Rob Ellen www.themedicineshow.eu Go to folder - FileFactory.com The Medicine Show is a "Pass The Hat Prodution" for Nevis Radio, Loch Broom FM, Nevis Radio On Line, UKCountryradio.com and AFcollective Radio, made possible only by your donations. Please help keep the wheels on The Medicine Show rolling

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