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Tuesday 22 May 2012:  If it’s Tuesday…it must be Cajun! The legendary Savoy Family Cajun Band swept North Yorkshire off its feet when it debuted at The Band Room last July and will return to a hero’s welcome in May. The Eunice, Louisiana-based outfit - the greatest traditional Cajun band in the world – will again feature the full stellar line-up of Marc Savoy (accordion), wife Ann (guitar), and sons Joel (fiddle/guitar) and Wilson (piano/fiddle), each one of them a superstar of the genre. The Savoy family have played at Presidential inaugurations, the Newport Folk Festival, the JFK Center in Washington DC, the QEH in London, at festivals all over North America and around the world...So it was kind of inevitable they would one day play The Band Room…and return before you could say: “OK Allons danser...Laissez les bon temps rouler!” Friday 1 June 2012:  We thought she was a bit special when she was here touring her classic folk opera Hadestown in October 2010 (see her referencing The Band Room at a later show on YouTube but Anais Mitchell has since gone from strength to strength – and her new album Young Man In America seals her pre-eminence as the most engaging and startlingly original artist currently working in new American folk. Influenced by GILLIAN WELCH, JONI MITCHELL, CYNDI LAUPER, RICKIE LEE JONES, BOB DYLAN, LEONARD COHEN and VELVET UNDERGROUND, Mitchell has worked with BON IVER, ANI DIFRANCO and BEN KNOX MILLER (THE LOW ANTHEM) as well as the great MICHAEL CHORNEY and will return to Farndale to a heroine’s welcome, fortified by reviews hailing her as ‘an Americana princess’ who’s ‘wildly ambitious’, ‘fearlessly emotive’ and ‘girlishly sprite...’
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Hi there and welcome to The Band Room on the North York Moors - variously described as 'The greatest small venue on Earth' (The Handsome Family), 'The Shed that Rocks' (The Guardian), 'England's tiniest major venue' (The Yorkshire Post) and 'a corrugated iron shed in the middle of nowhere' (We said that). It's all true... Four years after her show here in 2006 Cerys Matthews reminisced on BBC Radio 6: "It's a very special place"...Willy Mason said: "Wow - this is great!"...Louisiana Cajun legend Marc Savoy declared: "The Band Room was my favourite show!"...while Howe Gelb revealed, exclusively: "It's got a great vibe...and werewolves too..." You can read reviews of some of our shows here in The Guardian and The Press and see videos - lo-fi, naturally - of some of them here on
Built for the Farndale Silver Band in the 1920s this 100-capacity wooden room 35 miles north of York has got to be one of the best 'intimate' gigs in the whole of England, with its crystalline-pure acoustics, magical atmosphere and unpretentious homespun vibe (we don't sell alcohol - but you're welcome to bring your own). Shows are few and sometimes far between while we wait for our principal targets to become available - so we try to make every show count. There are no ordinary acts, no perfunctory gigs, no fillers. We have no spring or autumn schedule to cobble together. Life's too short. Everyone who plays here has released at least one critically-acclaimed CD and before we book anyone we always ask the same question: are they good enough to play here? If the triple and quadruple encores are anything to go by, the acts respond with what can't be far short of career-best performances. Indeed, many big Alt.country | Americana | Folk | Rock | Roots stars have fallen in love with The Band Room and called their shows here the highlight of their European tours. The best way to experience the gig is to make a weekend of it. There are great places to stay in Farndale, aka 'Daffodil Valley' by virtue of the 'lentern lilies' which carpet the valley floor in a sea of yellow each spring, or on the nearby moors - in farmhouse B&Bs, country inns or 200-year old self-catering sandstone cottages, many of which are listed here on our accommodation page... The Band Room feels privileged to support The Abbotson Trust for Music Therapy. 50p of every ticket sold goes to this Kirkbymoorside-based trust, which provides funding for innovation and research into the healing potential of music therapy for children and adults with special needs.  |
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