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Greg Greenland - Our live sound engineer and an accomplished singer/songwriter/musician
Malarchy & DJ Darkeye - Trans - European Travelling Roots
The Panjandrums - The Panjandrums incorporate instruments, rhythms and dance from across the Arabic, Moorish and Indian world to produce an eclectic fusion of sound and movement. Including Simon Leach on all kinds of things & Ali Cross on bass.
Limbo - A group of six musicians, all committed
to music that is improvised, open-ended and spontaneous.
Limbo believe that the experimental musicians of the
'70's-
Can, Miles Davis and others- opened up a territory that
is still largely unexplored: a zone of uncertainty where
freedom of expression is everything. (Featuring
EastPole's old accordion player, Joe Evans, playing
fretless bass.
Eirlys Rhiannon & Rowan Armes - Eirlys' music defies easy genre definitions - blending hints of blues, folk, rock and pop. Often accompanied by Rowan's violin, piano and harmony vocals. But the songs are the key: carefully crafted emotional and musical anecdotes.
Lorraine Ayensu - A wonderful mix of soulful ballads with some of the funkiest playing
The Message - featuring the compositions of singer/songwriter Andrew McLean, serve up a meaningful concoction of Blues, Jazz and Folk. Featuring Ian Popperwell on sax and flute.
Fromage En Feu - High
octane klezmer and gypsy street party sounds played with
style! , soulful waltzes, fiery tangos and oompah mayhem.
Pedlars of fine music from the Balkans,
Eastern a Cappella: the Eastern European choir - Haunting and
evocative harmonies of Georgia and the Balkans -
fantastic songs brought powerfully to life, tingling your
spine and raising the roof. Including EastPole's Jude
Williams.
Estradasphere
Andy Sheppard
John Martyn
Steve Lawson
Wibutee
Anouar Brahem,
Blowzabella
Zephyrus
Courtney Pine
Natacha Atlas
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venues & what's ons: Venue Magazine - Bristol & Bath area listings weekly Ents24 - what's-on guide Mr. Wolf's Noodle Bar - St. Stephen's Street, Bristol BS1 1JX (city centre) Bristol's best central live music venue - with a wonderful crowd to play to! Invention TV - Great central Bath venue Kuumba - a home to Afrikan Caribbean Arts |
culturebase.net - The international artist database
Middle-Eastern musical instruments
Sax on the web - Saxophone resources
Glossary of Folk Musical Instruments & Styles from Around the World
the KlezmerShack - Klezmer music resources
Izvor - The Resource for Eastern European Music
Zemerl - Jewish Song Lyrics
Galbeno - Gypsy Romani music, and language school
Musician's Tech: Live - Web resources about live soun
Harmony Central® - The #1 Online Community For Musicians
Sound On Sound online - Recording musician's magazine - masses of resources
Prorec.com - recording resources
CHAS WHITAKER Arabic Drummer
Freecycle.org - A global site with local areas for recycling your unwanted stuff within your community.
Oneworld.net - promoting human rights awareness and fighting poverty worldwide
Indymedia UK - is a network of individuals, independent and alternative media activists and organisations, offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage of important social and political issues.
Survival International - The movement for tribal
peoples
A Sociological Tour Through Cyberspace - "I am most interested in the potential of this cyberspace medium to inform and to generate discourse, to enhance information literacy, and to truly be a "theater of ideas."
Applied and Interactive Theatre Guide - a resource for those who use theatre techniques for other or more than arts or entertainment purposes. Including Boal's 'Theatre of the oppressed', drama therapy and psychodrama
LETS Link UK - Local Exchange Trading and Complementary Currencies Development Agency
The Greenbank Chocolate Box - The campaign for a sustainable and appropriate development on the old Elizabeth Shaw chocolate factory site (in Greenbank Bristol UK).