Dear Mailing List,  I’m setting off this weekend for Great Malvern and the Big Chill Festival. Robyn Hitchcock and I are bringing our ‘double-act’ on Sunday afternoon at 1700 to the White Rabbit Lounge there. If any Mailing-Listers are present, please say hello!  Meanwhile, you can all see the miniature version of the show we […]

A NEW YORK CELEBRATION OF KATE MCGARRIGLE AT TOWN HALL MAY 12 AND 13. A U.S. TOUR WITH JOE AND ROBYN HITCHCOCK MARCH 9-19 “LIVE AND DIRECT FROM 1967” “A GOOD READ” ON RADIO 4, MARCH 8 JOE TALKS TANGO AT THE TABERNACLE AT “5 X 15” ON FEBRUARY 28 “LUCKY 13” ENTERS ITS FINAL […]

Greetings, Mailing List More Nick Drake concerts coming up. Following the January shows and the BBC’s broadcast of the Barbican show this past spring, we’re doing 6 more shows, 2 in Italy and 4 in Britain. The lineup and dates for the UK are: Vashti Bunyan, Green Gartside, Robyn Hitchcock, Scott Matthews, Karine Polwart, Teddy […]

My (very) occasional newsletters are usually upbeat reports of visits to exotic festivals or great concerts. This will be more somber, focusing instead on lives that touched mine – and many of yours – and which reached their end during these past months. * * * Kate McGarrigle grew up in the Laurentians outside Montreal. […]

Three concerts in the coming months will celebrate the legacy of Joe Boyd’s 1960s Witchseason Productions: (all curated by Joe Boyd) May 16 in Birmingham Town Hall – "Way To Blue", the music of Nick Drake. A bit more than a tribute concert, Way To Blue will feature performances by Martha Wainwright, Graham Coxon, Beth […]

“I am still dabbling in the music business as a partner with my old friends and colleagues Catherine Steinmann and Guy Morris in Carthage, a music publishing company. We will send out info from time to time on our composers’ live shows and other news events. If you’d like to opt out of these newsletters […]

It’s been a while since my last newsletter, but I hope to take up the slack with colourful tales of far-away places. There’s plenty to report so sit back – this may take a while. As some of you may recall, I have expressed my fatigue with ‘mixed salad’ world music festivals. I prefer local […]

Dear Mailing List, (These news letters seem to get longer and longer. But enough of you say you enjoy them, so I’m not going to edit too severely.) Plenty of travel and music to report since my last newsletter. The journeys began at the end of September when I went back to my hometown of […]

Dear Mailing List, Here’s my rentrée letter – a French expression coined when everyone went on holiday at the same time and returned together for back-to-work/school. A Fairport Convention record I once produced was finished about this time of year and duly entitled “What We Did On Our Holidays”. My summer was eventful. Musical highlights […]

Dear Mailing List, The big events since my last letter have been the tour of America and the Syd Barrett tribute concert in London. Let’s start with the latter. (If you have no interest in Pink Floyd, skip the next thirteen paragraphs.) Following Syd’s death last summer, Bryn Ormrod from the Barbican Theatre asked me […]