"Steve will be doing a full days concertina song accompanimeent workshop (for all systems of concertina)
at the Gleanings Concert Series.
Hope Village Hall, Minsterley, Shropshire.
Tel: 01743 891412 for further details.
This will take place from 10.00am - 5.00pm pm with lunch and coffee breaks
for an inclusive fee of £60.
There will also be an evening concert from 8.00pm admission fee £6
Reviews:
The Whirligig of Time The Tradition Bearers LTCD1103
Brief résumé; apprenticeship on Manchester folk scene; member of Canny Fettle for roughly a decade then eleven years as a highly regarded pro on the folk scene with four acclaimed albums for Fellside. Drifted away from folk music in early nineties developing his own music retail business, returned to performing about four years ago.
His initial festival audiences were probably those who remembered him. Steve had always been a highly regarded performer, but this was no nostalgic retrospective; the returned Turner was performing in a more powerful, authoritative and commanding way and this very fine album validates this claim.
The opener confirms his intense interest in Napoleonic songs; and comparing the version of Isle of St. Helena here with his take on the same song on his 1979 debut album demonstrates the greater majesty of the mature Turner. Ballads were always his metier and there are some fine authoritative performances here; Sir Colvin, Young Waters, Bonnie George Campbell and possibly the best of a magnificent bunch, The Rambling Beauty sung to moody guitar played by Martin Carthy. It is a brave man that invites the folk scene's finest - Kerr & Fagan, Miranda Sykes, Ollie Knight etc. - on to his album. It is a very talented man who can use them in the way that Steve does here to enhance his very considerable talents.
Steve thinks that this is, by some way, his best album; he is not the only one.
www.thetraditionbearers.com
Vic Smith fRoots November 2008
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Steve Turner @ The Tiger, Long
Eaton (October 2nd 2005) "As it happens, I used
to think that Steve Turner was among the few acts
with that magic 'something' that I prize. I had expected
him to take his place alongside Martin Carthy, Peter
Bellamy, Nic Jones and the rest. I had not expected
him to dissappear for 13 years. Would he still be
good?
[...] Well, I thought he was better
than ever. His weaving, rolling, rhythmic, fantastic
accompaniments on the 'single action dustbin' were magic
to the ears. His material went from Ry Cooder to Handel
via some great Napoleon ballads and, just to show his
versatility, a couple of banjo tunes [...]
The audience were rapt, as well might
be. I hope that Steve's CD will appear soon and will
be followed by many others. [...]
He is a huge talent [...]
"
Dai Male
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A shining example of the music the British folk scene is
capable of producing.
Folk Roots
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Steve Turner has been turning into one of this country's
finest male singers and performers of folk-song [...] with
him you can truly say that he has shown all the qualities
of a great singer and interpreter of folk song.
Swing 51, National Folk Magazine
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This is one of my all time favourite records.
This album is so well constructed [...] the changing pace and the brilliance
of the arrangements keep me glued.
The Broadsheet, Scotland on BRAIDING
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