A FINE UNDERTAKING
From ceilidh bandits to multi-awarded elder statesmen, it’s been a long road for Oysterband. The first of our trio of fRoots 33rd anniversary reappraisals of English folk icons is by Sarah Coxson.
 Oysterband (Photo: Judith Burrows)
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Here’s what’s in the current issue of fRoots, No. 348, June 2012
- THE EDITOR’S BOX
- Ian Anderson’s comment column. Read it here
- RANTING AND REELING
- Tim Chipping's new monthly column. Read it here
- THE ELUSIVE ETHNOMUSICOLOGIST
- Elizabeth Kinder's new monthly column. Read it here
- fROOTS PLAYLIST
- Recent stuff we like.
- CHARTS & LISTS
- Specialist and general roots music album sales and airplay charts. Sample them here
- REVIEWS
- Our key section reviewing all the latest CDs and more - loads bite the dust. No punches pulled! We’ve got some here for you to read now
- ROOTING ABOUT
- What's happening: packed pages of festivals, gigs, tours, radio, CDs and all kinds of roots-related stuff. The most you'll find anywhere…
- ROOT SALAD
- A cross-section of featurettes: English minimalists Three Cane Whale, US psych-folkists Stone Breath, Norwegian fiddler Ragnhild Furebotten, VWML librarian Malcolm Taylor, young English folk climbers Hannah James & Sam Sweeney, and Scottish musician and BBC presenter Mary Ann Kennedy answering the Rocket Launcher questions
- A FINE UNDERTAKING
- From ceilidh bandits to multi-awarded elder statesmen, it’s been a long road for Oysterband. The first of our trio of fRoots 33rd anniversary reappraisals of English folk icons is by Sarah Coxson.
- CEILIDH ROOTS
- An extract from The Oyster Band’s first cover interview, published in our January 1983 issue, when they’d just emerged from the Kent PTA ceilidh circuit as a song and dance band. Words & photos by Ian Anderson.
- THE TURKISH CAFÉ
- In this issue, we feature two bands reviving the cross-cultural café music from the turn of the last century, when rembetiko was being born. Nick Hobbs meets Turkey’s Cafe Aman Instanbul.
- THE GREEK CAFÉ
- The second of this issue’s bands reviving cross-cultural Café Aman music from the turn of the last century. Elisavet Sotiriadou meets Thessaloniki’s Loxandra.
- WELSH FOR SIX
- Eclecticism’s the name of the game for Cerys Matthews, both in her own music and the range she plays on her Sunday morning BBC 6Music show. Chris Conder gets all overcome with fandom.
- MOUNTAIN SOUL
- Meet Elizabeth LaPrelle, quite simply the best young Appalachian ballad singer to emerge in living memory. Sarah Coxson makes the introductions.
- THE GRIOT ANTIDOTE
- Suffering from griot fatigue? All kora’d out? Never fear, salvation is at hand in the shape of Diabel Cissokho. And he’s here in the UK too. Jamie Renton gets all ethusiastic again.
- BIFF!
- Our exclusive cartoon strip.
Plus dozens of pages of essential adverts.
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