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Sounds from the Shed

AUK’s Keith Hargreaves’s weekly education column, with the help of some good, bad and ugly americana

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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 101

June 23, 2023 Keith Hargreaves 3
Your listening treat is here! Some lovely feedback about last week’s show on CRMK (Tuesdays 7-9pm) and the Mixcloud linked below. Many thanks. Some of you had issues with the playback on the link returning to […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 99

June 7, 2023 Keith Hargreaves 0
Refreshed by a festival. Ready for the final push. So back to school with A levels and GCSE’s in full swing and the gallop towards the final furlong begins. Leavers events, mountains of reports, exam panics, […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 98

May 24, 2023 Keith Hargreaves 0
Always have a plan. I am forever telling my daughters and the students in school that if you have nothing else… have a plan. Be it simply how to get out of meeting someone you don’t […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 97

May 17, 2023 Keith Hargreaves 2
As Spring brings new shoots, so opportunities present themselves. If you’re new to this parish, I am retiring from full-time teaching in July and am looking to do lots of the things I really want to […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 95

May 10, 2023 Keith Hargreaves 0
Reflections and moving on So this week the Yr11s and Yr 13s have gone on study leave as the exams jostle for position in their inevitable social calendars. The whole leaver’s parties, hoodies and associated organised […]

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Album cover artwork for "Cosmic American Music" by The Tabasco Birds
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Tabasco Birds “Cosmic American Music”

April 16, 2026 0
Country music influenced by Gram Parsons, but altogether livelier and rougher around the edges. Cosmic American Music is the debut of Tabasco Birds, an eight-piece from North Texas. Six of the eight members attended Dallas Art […]
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Julian Taylor hits the UK running

April 16, 2026 0
Some late news for all you Julian Taylor fans out there in particular for the UK based readership of Americana UK – one of our favourite artists of recent years, Julian Taylor, should by the time […]
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Track Premiere: Todd Albright “Frankie”

April 16, 2026 0
Todd Albright has a dedication to the 12-string acoustic blues that he doesn’t actually own a 6-string guitar.  It’s a music that he was drawn to in his mid-teens, being first introduced to finger style blues […]

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Interview: Thomas Ådland, of Thomas & The Angry Hearts, on Language, Love and Identity

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Two days before I heard them fill Martin’s Bar in Lillestrøm, I watched Thomas & The Angry Hearts make music in a wooden house surrounded by trees. In that studio, sound was built patiently: a harmony […]
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Interview: The Breath’s Stuart McCallum and Ríoghnach Connolly on collaborating with the Paraorchestra

April 7, 2026 0
How to achieve true musical Symbiosis. The Breath are guitarist Stuart McCallum and singer Ríoghnach Connolly, and they ensure that the song is always at the centre of their alt-folk sound. That sound is rich, reflecting […]
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Interview: Cynthia Marchant on the Ozarks, fast cars and the passing of time

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In 2022, with her second studio album, Flesh and Bone, Cynthia Marchant explored spiritual truth and depth, and the magic of connecting with self and others in the many stages of life. Three years later, she’s […]

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