• For concert dates and performances please see the Tour
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Latest News below.....including Songwriting Workshop, Hon President of Glosfolk, and Paul Burgess getting married!
August 2008 - Thanks for all the support at recent
concerts in May/June/July and at the Wimborne and Priddy Folk Festivals...great
to see you! Much Ado About Nothing tour by The Festival Players (with
music written by Johnny Coppin) is going well - for last tour dates
in August see - www.thefestivalplayers.co.uk
Mike Silver's new album "How Many Rivers" is now out
- co-produced by Johnny Coppin and Mick Dolan contact - www.mikesilver.co.uk
A 1976 BBC recording of Johnny singing "Joseph Baker" at Sidmouth
Festival was played on BBC Radio 2 - Mike Harding programme
on Wed 5 March 2008 - this was the track voted for by the public in
this month's Folk Vault. Other tracks includes Martin Simpson, Pete
Seeger, Ani de Franco etc....listen again for 7 days online bbc.co.uk/radio2/mikeharding
Out
now - The new CD
Breaking the Silence
with Mike Silver
The CD Launch concert will be at Bristol Folk House, Park Street on
Thursday 6 September 8pm
also The Gloucestershire Collection (Forest & Vale.../English
Morning) a 34 track 78 minute CD is now in stock!
LATEST NEWS - 10th August
* It was an honour to be elected as the Hon. President of Glosfolk Š an organisation working very hard to promote folk music in its many forms here in Gloucestershire. - see www.glosfolk.org.uk
* Great news that Paul Burgess is getting married to Jane Hutton on 17th September! Please send any good wishes direct to Paul and Jane at 36 Dowty Road, Cheltenham GL51 7Q or Email- pburgess@blueyonder.co.uk
*Songwriting Workshop .I have been asked to consider running a songwriting workshop- and IÕm wondering if you are interested in taking part? It would be over a weekend - you would have to find your own accommodation - but food and drink in the daytime would be included in the price. So what ever your experience, you may like to take this opportunity to work with me on any or your ideas, lyrics, unfinished songs etc Please email me at johnny@johnnycoppin.co.uk or telephone 0845 6441447 Š letÕs hope we can get the minimum number we need
* I'm sure you'll be pleased to know that the Folk for MS concert at Wantage in June raised £1500 for the charity - money that will soon be helping people with Multiple Sclerosis.. The concert featured Doug Eunson and Sarah Matthews, The Tindall Family, Tinker's Oak, and myself.many thanks to everyone who supported this event.
* In July I saw the wonderful musical play ArthurÕs Plough
- about the famous organic Fordhall Farm in Shropshire - originally
run by Arthur Hollins, and now by his son Ben and daughter Charlotte.
The play was written and directed by Chris Eldon Lee, with great actors
and an excellent choir. My song "On A Hill in Shropshire" (from Force
of the River) was featured alongside songs by Chris E Lee and Mary
Keith, and one by Steve Ashley.
*I do hope you can make it to one of my concerts near you!
