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We are thrilled to bring one of Yorkshire's foremost experimental musicians, Bridget Hayden, to Bishops' House backed by the Apparitions. Their new album on Basin Rock is sure to top our folk album of the year lists, forget folk, ANY album of the year.

The reinterpreted traditional folk songs that make up Bridget Hayden and The Apparitions 'Cold Blows the Rain' are wrapped in mist and drizzle, the crawling drone of low heavy clouds on flat-top moors, the sound of the dark Calder Valley floor and sun starved hills around Todmorden, West Yorkshire where she lives.

"Backed by her Apparations and recorded in in an ?Odmorden hall, she takes on stone cold classics like Black Water Side, (She Moved) Through The Fayre and The Unquiet Grave and makes them even more haunting and melancholy than usual, her rich and keening voice backed by sparse, droning instrumentation from fiddles, banjos and harmonium, the whole thing deeply evocative and very much a product of the wyrd world of Calderdale. Cold Blows The Rain is a powerful, personal gem." (Lee Fisher at Narc)

As if that wasn't enough there will be solo sets from Sam McLoughlin of Folklore Tapes / Sam and the Plants. and dbh, who together form the Apparitions.

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Norton Lees Lane,

Sheffield,

South Yorkshire,

England,

S8 9BE.