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Jeff Warner

from CDBABY With warmth, humor and understated scholarship, Jeff Warner connects 21st century audiences with the music and everyday lives of 19th century people. He presents musical traditions from the Outer Banks fishing villages of North Carolina, to the lumber camps of the Adirondack Mountains. His songs have “the stamp of authority and real experience” (Tykes News, Yorkshire, UK). His songs, rich in local history and a sense of place, bring us the latest news from the distant past.

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Celebrity Chimp

Celebrity Chimp was originally a banjo and drums duo. Andy McKay, composer on Kris Drever’s award nominated album Black Water and Tom Smith, Manchester drumming ace, are Celebrity Chimp. The pair played the open mics of the London music scene relentlessly until they found their spiritual home at the Hobgoblin on White Lion St, N1. They now take up residency monthly to delight a growing crowd of pink dancing ‘Chimps’, where Derek and Clive-esque verbal sniping comes to intersperse and tangle with the tunes.

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Gren Bartley

Gren Bartley from Straford-upon-Avon in England (1982) - www.grenbartley.co.uk Gren Bartley sits quite comfortably between English and American folk music and he has become an impressive songwriter with "a depth and insight of someone twice his age". He has toured all over the UK and is quickly building a core of fans wherever he goes. Catch him now... quick. His music is both contemporary and heavily rooted in old blues and folk songs.

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Sara Grey

Sara Grey plays a distinctive style of banjo, and sings ballads and other folk songs. She uses a 5 string banjo, and is considered to be one of the leading exponents of the clawhammer style of picking.
She grew up in New Hampshire, but has lived all over, including the UK. While living in North Carolina, she discovered a love of mountain ‘folk’ music, and she was heavily influenced by the ‘old timers’ playing their traditional banjo music.

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Lonnie Donegan

Lonnie Donegan MBE (29 April 1931

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Bela Fleck & The Flecktones

Béla Fleck and Victor Wooten formed Béla Fleck and the Flecktones in 1988, along with keyboardist and harmonica player Howard Levy and Wooten's percussionist brother Roy "Future Man" Wooten, who played synthesizer-based percussion. Levy left the group in 1992, making the band a trio until Saxophonist Jeff Coffin joined the group onstage part-time in 1997, eventually becoming a permanent member.

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Dana Immanuel

Dana had a very good education which somewhat passed her by as nothing is as much fun as playing a guitar. Via an unconventional route of occasional employment and the odd band, she somehow found herself busking on the London Underground and this sorry excuse for a day job honed her performance skills down to a fine point. Early childhood trauma left Dana with a propensity to play the banjo, and the massive amounts of spare time that a career in busking affords allowed her to indulge and nurture her dirty habit.

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The Provincial Archive

The Provincial Archive is an indie-folk project based in Edmonton, AB. With a penchant for arrangement and an ever-growing collection of instruments, The Provincial Archive writes music to document the details of all our unsung stories. Their sophomore effort, Maybe We Could Be Holy (Forthcoming, 2010), takes its cues from the far-reaching corners of pop traditions. It is a dense counterpoint to the sparse production of their debut material (Nameless Places, 2009) and an artistic departure from a group of musicians eager for growth.

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Ana Egge

Ana Egge, born in 1977 in Estevan, Saskatchewan and raised in Ambrose, North Dakota, is an American folk singer/songwriter. In 1994 (at age 17), she moved from New Mexico to Austin, Texas and recorded a demo tape. Since then, she has released three full-length albums. She has toured with Shawn Colvin, and performed in the Lilith Fair in 1999. Her most recent album, Out Past the Lights, contains The Flood, a song she co-wrote with Colvin.

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