Beyond the collection of
folkies, organizer Steve Lurie said several festival events were designed with Seeger in mind.
The Australian
folkies - the first group ever to get to No 1 in the UK with their first three singles - will appear at the city's showpiece Symphony Hall on Friday October 4, and tickets go on sale tomorrow.
The event, which sprang from the ashes of Holmfirth Folk Festival in 2005, has grown into an extremely popular community based festival drawing in a large local audience in addition to the usual '
folkies''.
The former
folkies move further into Sonic Youth territory on tunes like Cut My Teeth and Song & Dance.
"I spent the '90s saying 'folk music's not about frocks and hair!', and then Devendra Banhart comes along," laughs Eliza of the hairy American songwriter who has inspired a new breed of '
folkies' such as Laura Marling and Mumford And Sons.
Almost 50 years since Bob Dylan scandalised the audience at America's Newport Folk Festival by appearing on stage strumming an electric guitar,
folkies are finally taking their revenge.
Starting out as a guitarist in the legendary
folkies Fairport Convention in the '60s, he's been musically active formore than 40 years now.
The Burns Unit (they're Scots, geddit) boasts credible
folkies Karine Polwart, King Creosote, Emma Pollock and more as they wend their way through a surprising set that's been dubbed 'indie pop meets carnival rock'.
Sunday also offers the chance to catch the young London-based
folkies, Noah & the Whale, at Hall 2 in the Sage.
AN APPEAL is going out for Saltburn residents willing to provide bed and breakfast for
folkies flooding into the town''s annual folk festival this weekend.
Moya Brennan @Coliseum Theatre, Aberdare(Friday) LEAD singer of the haunting, ethereal and, darewesay it, legendary Irish
folkies Clannad, who'snow gone solo.
This is like a stripped back home recording of songs that perhaps didn't suit the band and might even appeal to a few
folkies out there.