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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 58

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Half term and festival time. I have dragged my sorry arse to the end of the week and cannot communicate how grateful I am for half term. This term has been full of all the usual […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 57

May 24, 2022 Keith Hargreaves 0
No words can suffice.. I received a call on Saturday telling that one of my students who had left the school not 5 years ago had been found dead. It was shocking thing to hear. The […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 55

May 17, 2022 Keith Hargreaves 3
Education way beyond the classroom and whisper it… perhaps more important   Throughout my life in education I have firmly believed that at least 50% of my job as an educator is to enable students to […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 54

May 10, 2022 Keith Hargreaves 0
God I’ve missed this…. So it happened this week. My last indoor gig was on the 19th March 2020 The Felice Brothers in Cambridge. It was small, intimate and alternately heartbreaking and raucously joyous. Everything live […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 53

May 4, 2022 Keith Hargreaves 1
It’s no wonder education is in a mess. This week a Govt. adviser on education and a Headteacher of a London school Katharine Birbalsingh said the following whilst giving evidence to an education committee “Just from […]

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At the remove of two hundred years, it is very hard, if not impossible, to fully comprehend the impact that the expansion of railroads throughout the world had in the 19th and early 20th Centuries. The […]
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Exquisite harmonies and faultless guitar work deliver songs of crystaline fragility. The Milk Carton Kids are back! A new album from the superb Milk Carton Kids is always something of a cause for celebration, here at […]
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Two years ago, the ceremony honouring the inductees of the inaugural class of the Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame (FARHoF) set the bar high indeed. Two thrilling and emotional evenings of music-making and camaraderie, memories […]

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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

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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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When his third album, ‘Trouble In Mind’ was released in 2008, Hayes Carll was an up and coming yet still relatively unknown alt-country singer-songwriter, who had built up a small, but dedicated, group of fans through […]
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Jordan Renzi “On Your Side”

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An evocative and wistful album of reflections on lost love and the life ahead. A good singer-songwriter record generally requires the artist to match their voice with a winning combination of perceptive, memorable lyrics, strong melodies, […]
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Video: Joe Ely “Musta Notta Gotta Lotta”

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For the retro slot this week we go back to 1986 and Joe Ely live, with David Grissom on guitar, and an incendiary live version of this classic.  Have a great Bank Holiday everyone, more videos […]

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