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Good Luck - Home Service (pictured)

Good Luck - Lucy Ward (pictured)

Both have nominations in two categories

Lucy Ward plays a Spyboy show on Sunday 8th April

Home Service play for us on Friday 25th May

(see below)

PLEASE NOTE THIS SHOW HAS BEEN CANCELLED......

WITH REGRET IT HAS NOT BEEN POSSIBLE TO RE-STAGE IT IN 2012

Whilst Tex-Mex band Los Pacaminos is led by Paul Young one of the UK’s finest and best loved vocalists he is not the only luminary in this seven piece outfit.

Some of the best musicians in the business have teamed up to present an incendiary mix of Tex-Mex classics, Spanish songs and original material.

There’s Drew Barfield (Joe Jackson and Level 42), Melvyn Duffy, possibly the finest young pedal steel guitar player in Britain, Steve Greetham (from the Joan Armatrading band), Mark Pinder (Alison Moyet), Matt Irving, (Squeeze, Chris Rea, Jools Holland and Manfred Mann), and Jamie Moses who has worked with The Pretenders, Mike And The Mechanics, Chaka Khan, Gary Barlow, Mica Paris, Pete Townsend, Paul Rodgers, Curtis Stiegers, Dave Stewart and is now a regular member of the current Queen set-up.

Tex-Mex music is somewhere between the Mariachi and Norteno styles of Mexico and the country/blues sounds of South-Western America. You’ll have heard it from the likes of Ry Cooder, Flaco Jiminez, The Texas Tornadoes and Los Lobos.

It’s real foot stomping bar room stuff, guaranteed to get your pulse racing and your dancing shoes on........a real party atmosphere and a great night out!

Tequila fuelled Tex-Mex music from Los Pacaminos!

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Folk Singer of the Year & Best Original Track "Hollow Point" - BBC Folk Awards 2011

Folk Singer of the Year and Best Album

BBC Folk Awards 2009

"The finest and most original singer-songwriter to have emerged from the British folk scene since Richard Thompson" The Guardian

Folk Singer of the Year in the 2009 and 2011 BBC Folk Awards, Chris Wood writes traditional songs with a heart and soul rarely found in contemporary music.

Self-taught on guitar and violin, he is a always direct and unafraid to speak his mind and his song writing has been praised for its surgical clarity, as demonstrated in his award winning "Hollow Point" a chilling portrayal of the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes.

Recently Chris has worked alongside Martin and Eliza Carthy and others in The Imagined Village and he his all set to support Joan Armatrading on her fifty date tour of the UK this coming autumn.

Set to open the show is BBC Young Folk Award finalist, Ruth Notman whose debut album Threads received four star reviews in The Guardian and Mojo. Her new release The Life Of Lilly is receiving similar acclaim.

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Jacqui McShee and The Pentangle are legendary names in the folk world with the original group expanding the frontiers in the 1960s and '70s.

Since then, the band's evolving styles and line-ups have continued to make ground-breaking music and Jacqui’s unique voice has always been very much part of it.

Currently Jacqui is backed by Fairport Convention’s percussionist, Gerry Conway, together with two stalwarts from John Martyn’s old band, Alan Thompson on bass and Spencer Cozens (now with Joan Armatrading) on keyboards and Gary Foote (who is also part of Joan Armatrading’s band) on saxophone and flute.

On this occasion David Hughes of St Agnes Fountain will add support.

"Glorious stuff, deeply atmospheric and immaculately sung and played. The current line-up of Pentangle kicks up an absolute storm and Jacqui's voice is gorgeous." Tom Robinson, BBC 6 Music.

Take a look for yourself

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Martin Carthy, is one of the best-loved and respected figures in the folk music fraternity.

His pioneering ventures including the groundbreaking partnership with Dave Swarbrick and bands like Steeleye Span, together with his acknowledged influence on such luminaries as Bob Dylan and Paul Simon took him into the heart of the '70s folk explosion.

Awarded the MBE for services to English folk music in 1998, Martin Carthy has for the past four decades been regarded as one of the finest singers and interpreters of traditional music, as well as a highly influential and much-imitated guitarist, his drive and enthusiasm are undiminished and he continues to be one of folk music's great innovators.

Unlike Carthy, Lucy Ward (who warmed the hearts of everyone when she opened for Karine Polwart at the Hailsham Pavilion in October) is just setting out on her journey along the "folk path", but what a journey it is starting to be!

Already a BBC Young Folk Award Finalist, Lucy has now been nominated for two awards at the 2012 BBC Folk Awards, Best Traditional Track and the Horizon Award for Best Newcomer

Here Lucy Ward sings Mike Waterson's "A Stitch in Time"

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French based duo Ashley and Deborah Dow, known as Rag Mama Rag are set to deliver a barnstorming mix of 20's and 30's Mississippi Blues and East Coast Ragtime.

Playing everything from lapsteel and bottleneck guitar, to dobro, ukulele, washboard, harmonica, spoons and African drum, they'll soon have your feet tapping!

See Rag Mama Rag live playing their own composition "Ball and Chain"

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The Writing On The Wall is a collaboration between two eminent and respected traditionalists, Tony Benn, now in his eighty seventh year, is Britain’s longest serving MP.

Famously outspoken and often controversial, he spent 50 years in parliament, many of those on the front benches.

Roy Bailey also has a career stretching over 50 years - as a folk singer - and in that time he has appeared all over the world.

He has been described as one of folk music’s finest carriers of the people’s message and interpreters of both traditional and contemporary song

Voted as the “Best Live Act” at the BBC Folk Awards, Tony Benn and Roy Bailey present a performance of writings, speeches and songs taken from the words of Socialists, Radicals, Chartists, Suffragettes and Revolutionaries that illustrate nearly 1000 years of campaigning for justice, freedom and equality.

The Writing On The Wall makes compelling listening review here

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Despite being the daughter of Cleo Laine and John Dankworth, Jacqui Dankworth doesn’t confine herself to singing jazz, she is gracefully at ease in folk music, as well as being an imaginative interpreter of the blues.

She is without doubt one of our finest singers, regardless of category and has probably the most flexible and expressive voice of her generation.

Recent recordings have been made with Elvis Costello, Sting and Paul McCartney, and she has shared the stage with Courtney Pine at the Royal Festival Hall and a galaxy of stars at the celebrated Nick Drake tribute concert at the Barbican.

Jacqui comes to the Eastbourne Festival with a full song book, some of her own songs, some standards, and some you’ll have heard before by Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Stevie Wonder, James Taylor, Bonnie Raitt and Paul Simon.

Here's an interview with and live performance from Jacqui"

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Stacey Earle (sister of the legendary Steve Earle) and her husband Mark Stuart, journey from Nashville Tennessee to perform at the Eastbourne Festival.

Armed with clever acoustic guitar interplay, autobiographical songwriting, lovely harmonies, and humorous storytelling, Stacey and Mark draw from blues, country and rock music.

Eighteen years of touring and playing 170 concerts a year, have given them a knack for reaching out to the audience in an intimate style.....perfect for Upstairs Room at the Lamb!

"Are You Ready" for Stacey & Mark!!

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Albert Lee, is a musician's musician with an impeccable pedigree achieved over many years of touring and recording with amongst others, Emmylou Harris, Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton and Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings.

Some of the best known Rock 'n Roll & Country musicians go to make up Hogan's Heroes and they have been playing together for almost twenty years, taking in such illustrious events as The Prince's Trust Concert, the Glastonbury Festival and a few "Late Night" shows with Jools Holland.

Eric Clapton said of Albert Lee "He is undoubtedly one of the finest guitarists in the world"......why not come along and see for yourself!

A click gets you on the "Runaway Train"

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Phil Beer is well-known in acoustic circles as part of the duo Show of Hands, and has achieved legendary worldwide status with his exceptional guitar and fiddle playing.....

His instrumental wizardry is well documented and he has worked over the years with countless artists, most notably The Rolling Stones, Mike Oldfield, and Steve Harley.

For many years, he performed with the Albion Band and co-wrote plenty of their songs. He has also made numerous forays into film and television music and studio production.

A big warm welcome awaits Phil for what is sure to be a sell-out show at the Eastbourne Festival.

See Phil performing Bruce Springsteen's "Youngstown" here

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PLEASE NOTE THERE IS AN AFTERNOON WORKSHOP 3.30 - 5.30pm AND AN EVENING SHOW AT 7.30pm

From Durban in KwaZulu Natal, to the world's stage, ZULU is a company of young Zulu singers and dancers who rekindlle their culture and heritage and deliver a heady mix of African harmonies (traditional songs as well as Afro-Gospel) with drum-rhythms and high-energy, athletic dance.

"Ladysmith Black Mambazo with high kicks!"

Festival favourites, they hit national TV in the UK and in South Africa when performing for the first officially sanctioned Mandela Day at the British Museum in July 2010.

Individual members of ZULU have performed in the UK as part of The Mighty Zulu Nation and on the West End stage in The Lion King as well as in various bands and groups at home.

See Zulu - in the Jungle!

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A celebrated virtuoso of the flamenco guitar who has been voted into the top three guitarists in the world by US magazine Guitar Player, Juan Martín learned his art in the land of its origin, Andalucia in southern Spain.

Flamenco is immediately associated with Spain but it took many influences from places much further away to form the music that emerged in Andalucia some 200 years ago.

In keeping with this cosmopolitan spirit, Martin brings to the final night of the Eastbourne Festival, musicians and performers not only from his native Spain but from India, Greece, Ireland and the Lebanon, for his celebrated Musica Alhambra show.

Having performed alongside the likes of Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock, the great man played at Picasso’s 90th birthday, has appeared at all the world's major festivals, brought the Royal Albert Hall to its feet during a live BBC broadcast and was the first flamenco artist to record with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

The celebrated virtuoso is now based between his native Andalucia and London, although he spends much of his time touring the world and has recently played sell out concerts in New York, Toronto, Sydney and throughout Europe and Asia.

Juan Martin's Musica Alhambra listen here

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Co-founded way back in 1967 by Simon Nicol and Ashley Hutchings, Fairport Convention is the most celebrated folk-rock band of all time.

Such distinguished musicians as Sandy Denny, Richard Thompson, Dave Mattacks, Iain Matthews and Dave Swarbrick have all done their bit over the years with the band, which is now in the safe hands of Simon Nicol, Dave Pegg, (joined in 1969), Ric Sanders (joined in 1985), Chris Leslie (mid 90's), and the superb percussionist, Gerry Conway.

Fairport Convention are recipients of the coveted BBC Lifetime Achievement Award and their seminal album Liege & Lief was voted as the Best Folk Album of All Time in a recent BBC readers poll.

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Touted as, "the new Gods of Irish Music" by MOJO and “the best Irish band on the planet” by the New York Times, Lúnasa, are one of the hottest and most established Irish acts around today.

They are undoubtedly a powerhouse of a band that continues to earn a wide fan base wherever they tour.

Inspired by Ireland’s great 1970’s group, The Bothy Band, Lúnasa use melodic interweaving of wind and string instruments, pairing flutes, fiddle, whistle and pipes in often breathtaking arrangements.

The seeds were sown in 1996, when former Waterboy and Sharon Shannon bassist Trevor Hutchinson teamed up with guitarist Donogh Hennessy.

From such tiny acorn beginnings have grown mighty oaks.

Back home in Dublin, they drafted uillean piper John McSherry and flutist/piper Michael McGoldrick to record some shows, then hit the jackpot when they landed the supreme fiddle player Seán Smyth and Kevin Crawford, whose flute and whistle work took them to another level.

Their 1997 début became a world-wide best seller and the rest as they say is history! (they were even invited to play at the White House!).

Like many bands there have been personnel changes but Seán Smyth, Keven Crawford and Trevor Hutchinson are still there and for this current tour they will be joined by Paul Meehan on guitar and Cillian Vallely on Uilleann pipes and whistles.

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It was fitting that as Steven Spielberg's film adaptation of War Horse was released in UK cinemas, I should be pestering John Tams to come and play a show for us at the Hailsham Pavilion.

For it was John who wrote the songs for the internationally successful stage play and the War Horse production, which is now enjoying extended runs in the West End, Broadway and in Toronto, with tours planned for America and Europe.

So with that and everything else in his busy life how can John find time to front an eight-piece band, and not just any old band for this is the reunion of the classic band Home Service that has come about after last year’s discovery of some previously unheard live recordings.

The recordings, made at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 1986, exhibit a power and commitment that was never fully captured in the studio, so a live album release immediately became inevitable.

And with everyone truly inspired by the might of these recorded performances, Home Service is once again back in business and back on the road - although catching the band live is very much a rare privilege (it won’t come around to the Pavilion again!).

Re-live songs like “Walk My Way”,“Alright Jack” and ”Sorrow”, anthemic observations on the unfairness of Thatcherite Britain and its social inequalities.

The crushing irony is that they sound as potent now as they did then, thereby making this band’s work as relevant as ever.....

Home Service is John Tams - Guitar, Vocals : Graeme Taylor - Guitar, Vocals,

Roger Williams - Trombones : Andy Findon - Reeds.

Nominated - 2012 BBC Folk Awards - Best Group and Best Live Act.... Twenty- five years on!