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Celtarabia at Hebden Folk Roots Festival

Terrific road trip for Celtarabia last night, Saturday night headliner at Hebden Folk Roots Festival.

Q and Lou

Chill

Mandi

We played a storming two hour set of full on transglobal dance music, fusion dub, tribal dervish, medieval with attitude music and songs to a fabulous packed house who danced all night long up at the legendary Hebden Bridge Trades Club. What a blast, grooves galore and superb fun.

Rich took this gallery of photos, click on an image to see the full photo and scroll through…

Q and Lou

Mandi

It was him

Encore

Chill

Mandi

Lou and Caprice

Mandi

Celtarabia

Q and Lou

Caprice

Photographs © Richard Duffy-Howard

Quentin Budworth – Hurdy Gurdy, Amanda Lowe – Hammer Dulcimer, Mark Chillington – Drums, Lou Duffy-Howard – Bass.

Tritor opened the show with a great set of medieval songs and tunes and joined us on stage for Bear Dance. Brilliant night, see you next time!

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May 14, 2017May 14, 2017 by Loudhailer UK Categories: CeltarabiaTags: Amanda Lowe, Celtarabia, folk, Hammer Dulcimer, Hebden Bridge, Hebden Folk Roots, Hurdy Gurdy, Lou Duffy-Howard, Mark Chillington, Music photography, Quentin Budworth, Trades Club 2 Comments

Celtarabia at Beulah

Oh my, Celtarabia at the Beulah Gathering at Lime Tree Farm – we had such a terrific time.

After chilling by the stones for the afternoon we played an hour and a half set of full on high energy dance tunes and songs at the end of the evening. A glorious sunny weekend and cosmic theme brought good vibes in abundance. There were amazing costumes and dancing both on and off the stage. What a splendid afternoon and storming evening!

Rich’s photo gallery captures Celtarabia’s festival fun – click on a circle to see the full picture and scroll through…

Dr Q

Mandi and Lou

Q and Chill

Mandi Violin

Q Pipes

Q and Lou

chill

Festival Organiser Sarah

Celtarabia

Celtarabia play a wild fusion of Arabic, Andalucian, Celtic, Medieval music and contemporary beats designed to get bodies dancing. Some of this country’s finest world dance musicians play the wildest cross-over music being made in England today, featuring hurdy-gurdy, hammered dulcimer, drums, bass, vocals.

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Quentin Budworth – Hurdy Gurdy
Amanda Lowe – Hammer Dulcimer
Mark Chillington – Drums
Lou Duffy-Howard – Dub n Slide Bass
Richard Duffy-Howard – Cool Photographs
The Audience – Fab dancing
Everyone – Loadsa Fun!

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July 24, 2016July 24, 2016 by Loudhailer UK Categories: CeltarabiaTags: Amanda Lowe, Beulah festival, Beulah gathering, Celtarabia, Festival band, Hammer Dulcimer, Hurdy Gurdy, Lime Tree Farm, Lou Duffy-Howard, Mark Chillington, Music photography, Quentin Budworth, Yorkshire festivals Leave a comment

Celtarabia at Hull Folk Festival 2016

Another storming Celtarabia gig – this time headlining Saturday night at the Hull Folk and Maritime Festival. Such a terrific end to a glorious day at Hull Marina with an awesome audience who danced the high energy dance all the way through the set, from the first turn of the Gurdy to the last kick of the drum. It’s been a brilliant weekend – big smiles all round – as Rich’s photographs show.

HFF Celtarabia and Mark Pollard — Master of Ceremonies Mark Pollard on the mic

Thanks to everyone who made it such a brilliant night, let’s hear it for Hull Folk! Here’s Rich’s gallery, click on an image and scroll along…

Celtarabia

Celtarabia play a wild fusion of Arabic, Andalucian, Celtic, Medieval music and contemporary beats designed to get bodies dancing. Some of this country’s finest world dance musicians play the wildest cross-over music being made in England today. Featuring Hurdy-Gurdy, Hammered Dulcimer, Vocals, Bass Guitar and plenty of dancing.”

Here we are…look out for the mischievous fox!

Quentin Budworth – Hurdy Gurdy
Amanda Lowe – Hammer Dulcimer
Alan Raw – Drums
Lou Duffy-Howard – Dub n Slide Bass
Richard Duffy-Howard – Cool Photographs
The Audience – Fab dancing
Everyone – Loadsa Fun!

Even more photos here…

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July 19, 2016July 20, 2016 by Loudhailer UK Categories: CeltarabiaTags: alan raw, Amanda Lowe, Celtarabia, Hammer Dulcimer, hull, Hull Folk and Maritime, Hull Folk Festival, Hurdy Gurdy, Lou Duffy-Howard, Quentin Budworth Leave a comment

Synchronised Posing

Celtarabia Dr Q and Lou synchronised posing. Ha ha!

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Lou Stingray

Dr Q

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Celtarabia @ BFF 2016 Team Photo take 3

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June 22, 2016June 23, 2016 by Loudhailer UK Categories: CeltarabiaTags: Celtarabia, Fretless Bass, Hurdy Gurdy, Lou Duffy-Howard, Music Man Stingray Bass, Quentin Budworth Leave a comment

Celtarabia at Beverley Folk Festival

We had a storming gig at Beverley Folk Festival last night. Rich took these photos, you can see what fun we had. Just click on an image and scroll along.

Amanda

Amanda and Quentin

Dr Q

Q and Lou

Q and Lou

Alan in green

Amanda

alan

Lou Stingray

Celtarabia play a wild fusion of Arabic, Andalucian, Celtic, Medieval music and contemporary beats designed to get bodies dancing. Some of this country’s finest world dance musicians play the wildest cross-over music being made in England today. Featuring Hurdy-Gurdy, Hammered Dulcimer, Vocals, Bass Guitar and plenty of dancing.”

Gallery of backstage and soundcheck shenanigans….

Lou and Mandi

Backstage, out with the glitter

Backstage Yurt

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June 20, 2016June 20, 2016 by Loudhailer UK Categories: CeltarabiaTags: Beverley Folk Festival, Celtarabia, East Yorkshire, Folk Music, Hammer Dulcimer, Hurdy Gurdy, world music Leave a comment

Celtarabia Yuletide

Celtarabia at Kardomah94 December 5th 2015 – we had a blast! You can see from the photos what a great time everyone had. Thanks to Mal Scott and the Kardomah94 crew, to Matt Lund for a great sound and John Cox and Dave Hughes for opening the show.

Quentin Budworth – hurdy gurdy

Amanda Lowe – hammer dulcimer

Lou Duffy-Howard – bass

Alan Raw – drums

Celtarabia K94 49 — Alan Raw, Amanda Lowe, Lou Duffy-Howard, Quentin Budworth

Rich took this ace set of photos. Click on an image to see the full picture and scroll along…

Lou Duffy-Howard – bass

Celtarabia

Celtarabia – soundcheck

Shape lesson

Celtarabia

Quentin Budworth – hurdy gurdy

Celtarabia

Alan Raw – drums

Celtarabia

Amanda Lowe – hammer dulcimer

Celtarabia

Doctor Q – soundcheck

Celtarabia

John Cox and Dave Hughes opened the show

Celtarabia online

December 6, 2015December 6, 2015 by Loudhailer UK Categories: CeltarabiaTags: alan raw, Amanda Lowe, Celtarabia, hull, Kardomah94, Lou Duffy-Howard, Music photography, musicman stingray, photography, Quentin Budworth

Celtarabia at Cornucopia 2015

Celtarabia had a fantastic headline slot at the wonderful Cornucopia Festival this weekend. What a gig! People and Trolls danced like mad things to the medieval, arabo-andalusian and eastern european tunes. Fantastic sound and lights – thank you to the Cornucopia team. It was so much fun. You can see that by Rich’s photos that we had a ball!

Quentin Budworth – hurdy gurdy, kaossilator
Amanda Lowe – hammer dulcimer, vocals
Alan Raw – drums
Lou Duffy-Howard – bass

Click on an image to see the full picture and scroll on…

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September 27, 2015September 27, 2015 by Loudhailer UK Categories: CeltarabiaTags: alan raw, Amanda Lowe, Celtarabia, Cornucopia Festival, Hammer Dulcimer, Hurdy Gurdy, Lou Duffy-Howard, Music photography, musicman stingray bass, photography, Quentin Budworth

It’s always a party with Celtarabia

It’s always a party with Celtarabia. We had a ball at Armstrongs in Beverley.

Quentin Budworth – Hurdy Gurdy
Amanda Lowe – Hammer Dulcimer
Lou Duffy-Howard – Dub n Slide Musicman Bass
Mark Chillington – Drums

Rich took these photographs, click and scroll on…

Celtarabia

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June 5, 2015 by Loudhailer UK Categories: CeltarabiaTags: Celtarabia, dancing music, Fretless Bass, Fusion music, Hammer Dulcimer, hull, Hurdy Gurdy, musicman stingray, party music, world music

Celtarabia rocked the Kardomah!

There was a Celtarabia multimedia wild fusion dance trance party down at Hull’s Kardomah94 on Friday night. I absolutely love playing my bass with such a great bunch of friends and superb musicians. Led by hurdy gurdy maestro Quentin Budworth, and the dulcimer dudess, Amanda Lowe, we had a super high energy home town party gig to a packed house and a backdrop of the Armenian classic surreal film, The Colour of Pomegranates and Georges Méliès’ seminal science fiction movie, Le Voyage Dans la Lun.

Celtarabia’s wild fusion of Arabic, Andalucian, Celtic, Medieval music and contemporary beats is just fantastic feel good music. We always have a ball on stage, great fun! The set creeps in with the atmospheric sounds of Quentin’s gurdy drone and Mandi’s sparkling dulcimer and from the moment Alan and I pile in with some huge dub grooves the dancing starts. It was brilliant when Steve, our didge master stepped up on stage, and then after a set of beautiful dulcimer melodies, violinist Chris joined us for some gurdy led tunes and stomping tribal beats to take it through to the end of the night.

A big shout out to everyone who came and danced the night away. We loved the fabulous atmosphere and groovy dancing right from the first beat.

Thanks to Matt Lund and Mikey Scott for getting us a great sound both on and off the stage, it was ace to look out and see them boogying away at the mixing desk. Thanks to our opening performer, and impromptu guest violinist, Christopher Heron and his remarkable violin and guitar loop station tunes.

Celtarabia at Kardomah94:
Quentin Budworth – hurdy gurdy, cittern and kaossilator
Amanda Lowe – hammer dulcimer and vocals
Lou Duffy-Howard – bass guitar and backing vocals
Alan Raw – drums
Steve Wright – didgeridoo
Chris Heron – guest violin

Photographs – Rich Duffy-Howard. Click on an image to see the full picture and scroll on…

Soundcheck

Mandi and Lou

Soundcheck Lou

Steve

Alan

Celtarabia at Kardomah94 Q, Lou and Chris

Chris Heron

Keep on scrolling….Mandi and I did a lot of leaning back…

Celtarabia at Kardomah94 Mandi, Steve and Al

Rich & Lou’s Loudhailer website

February 22, 2015March 24, 2015 by Loudhailer UK Categories: CeltarabiaTags: alan raw, Amanda Lowe, Celtarabia, Chris Heron, hull, Hull Culture, Kardomah 94, Lou Duffy-Howard, Louise Duffy-Howard, photography, Quentin Budworth, world music

Loudhailer Acoustic September 2014 plus…

Well, it’s been a mega musical weekend! Rich and I kicked off by playing a cool acoustic set as part of a really ace line up at reGOCnition festival on Friday night, and closed the weekend with a storming Loudhailer Electric Co. outing on the main stage at Hull Folk Festival this afternoon. Yesterday was a blast with Celtarabia. We stormed the main stage in the afternoon and then played at a lovely Steam Punk wedding in the evening.

Have a look at the gallery of some of Rich’s photos – click and scroll on…

I was sorry to miss the last ever Loudhailer Acoustic at Willerby before we move to our new venue, The Back Room in Cottingham, but Rich held the fort, aided and abetted by Jeff and Karl. There was a great turn out of players and audience (and cake).

It was cool that Dexter opened the show and Effie brought the curtain down and here she is playing the last ever chord at Loudhailer Acoustic in Willerby MC Hall. Thanks to everyone, it’s been brilliant!

Next up we’re putting on Sally Barker and Vicki Genfan at The Backroom on Saturday night – it’s sold out and we’re really looking forward to it. The following weekend Rich & I are playing at Cornucopia Festival at Burton Constable Hall and looking forward to the 4ourth4loor films being screened in the film tent there too. And then… Loudhailer Night Moves…that’s gotta be a title of something! come and join us, first Thursday of every month, so, October 2nd, Loudhailer Acoustic at The Back Room, Cottingham.

What went on this time? Click on a photo and scroll along to see the full picture and captions…