Gigs / Events

Friday 11 - The Alistair Anderson Band, Cheltenham Folk Festival, playing traditional material
Sat 12 - The Alistair Anderson Band, Wiltshire Music Centre – Bradford on Avon – performance of Steel Skies in Concert www.wiltshiremusic.org.uk
Sunday 13 - The Alistair Anderson Band, Cheltenham Folk Festival - performance of Steel Skies in Concert
Friday 18 8:00pm - Alistair Anderson solo concert, Appleby Magna, Sir John Moore Foundation Leics DE12 7AH 01530 273629
Saturday 12 7:30pm - Alistair Anderson solo concert, Long Clawson Village Hall Leics LE14 4NA 01664 822391
Sunday 20 7:30pm - Alistair Anderson solo concert Countesthorpe Village Hall Leics LE8 5TB 0116 277 6259/1570

Friday 11 - Alistair Anderson solo appearance, Morpeth Town Hall – fundraising concert for Morpeth Gathering
19 -20 - Lewes Sussex – Workshop weekend looking at the music of Steel Skies – open to any melodic instrument. We will work on arranging the interweaving harmonies of Steel Skies for whatever instruments we have leading up to an informal performance. www.lewessaturdayfolkclub.org
24 – 27 - Concertina Weekend in Proitzer Mühle, Germany – intensive weekend of concertina masterclasses. www.concertinas.de

Mon. 4 – Tue 5 - masterclasses and lunchtime concert – University of Limerick, Eire
Fri 8 - Alistair Anderson solo appearance, Cleeve Prior Memorial Village Hall, Worcs ,
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Sat 9 Alistair Anderson solo appearance, Bransford, The Fold Eco Café, Worcs, WR6 5JB
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Sun 10 - Alistair Anderson solo appearance – Anstey, Jubilee Hall, Leics LE7 7AY
Wed 27 – May 10 - Musical Holiday USA – New Orleans Heritage Festival, Cajun country and San Francisco

1-10 - Musical Holiday USA including visiting New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and a trip to Cajun Country - sat in with the Savoy Family Band at a great crawfish boil and dance party.
sat 7 - Concert with Richard Thompson at McCabes, Santa Monica Ca. fantastic night - jammed to the rafters for this fund-raiser for victims of the Japan earthquake and tsunami.
Fri 13- Talk on founding of The Sage Gateshead with Tony Pender West Woodburn
Sat 14 - Young Northumbrian Musicians Day, Northumberland
Sat 21 - Alistair Anderson solo appearance, Harbottle, Northumberland, fundraising concert

Sat 4 - The Alistair Anderson Band, Smailholm Village Hall, near Kelso, performance of Steel Skies in Concert
Sunday 5 11.00 and 12.30 - The Alistair Anderson Band, Seaton Delaval Hall, performance of Steel Skies in Concert
Wed 8 – lecture /recital – History of Northumbrian Music – Whittingham Historical Society, Whittingham Village Hall, Northumberland
June 16 – July 7 Holiday in Turkey

Fri 15 – Sun 17 Rothbury Festival – although Alistair has handed on his role as chairman of the festival to the next generation he will be in the thick of the sessions.
Mon - 18 Durham Gala Theatre - opening for Richard Thompson concert - we had such fun in LA Richard asked me to join him again in Durham.
Saturday 30 – Sunday 31, Alistair Anderson solo appearance, Warwick Folk Festival

Wed 3 - Fri 5 Sidmouth Festival - web site
Sat 6 Cragside, Northumberland - music for Contemporary Dance piece
Mon 8 – Sat 13 - Folkworks Youth Summer School and Durham Gathering – Durham Folkworks and sage web site
Sat 27 - Sunderland Folk Festival - St Peter's Riverside, Sunderland - web site

Sat 24 - Northumberland Hall, Alnwick - concert for Alnwick Food Festival - web site

Sat 12 – Cecil Sharp House London – Centenary Celebration EFDSS also featuring John Kirkpatrick and Eliza Carthy.
Fri 25 - Bodmin Folk Club web site

Sat 10 - Kings Place London Hall 1 - Airplay - folk/jazz collaboration with Annie Whitehead, trombone, web site, Jennifer Maidman, electric guitar, Chris Stout, fiddle, Roy Dodds, percussion. web site This concert also features the amazing banjo and harmonica duo Dan Walsh and Will Pound web site
Alistair is curating 4 concerts at Kings Place under the title Roots and Branches - Thur 8 Emily Smith Band and Chris Stout & Catriona Mackay. Fri 9 Hall 1 The Boys of the Lough, Hall 2 Emily Potman trio plus Christi Andropolis. Sat 10 Alistair & Annie - Airplay see above
Tue 13 – Talk on composition – Alnwick Music Society
Mon 31 - First Footing - a celebration of the turn of the year, with Sophy Ball, George Unthank, Kat Davidson and the Kingsmen Rapper Sword Dancers- The Sage Gateshead Hall 2

Fri March 9 – Solo concert - Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St Hilda's College, Oxford, OX4 1DY
Fri March 31 – Concert for Dancing England Rapper Tournament at Cecil Sharp House, London NW1 7AY
Sat 13 October –Concert for International Concertina Association – Sedgefield, Co Durham web site
Fri 4 November – Concert with Dan Walsh (amazing banjo) Reeth Memorial Hall N Yorkshire

March - West Country Concertina Players 30th anniversary weekend Kilve, Somerset

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