14th Aeolian Hall, 795 Dundas St., London, ON 8:00 pm (Doors - 7:00)
Tickets: $20 Advance $22 Door
Available at The Aeolian Box Office, Village Idiot, L'Atelier Grigorian,
Chapters North. and web
Presented by: Aeolian Hall Performing Arts Centre and Acoustic Muse Concerts

18th Houseconcert, Grey Highlands Ontario mapleviewstudio@yahoo.ca

20th - 22nd Summerfolk Festival, Owen Sound, Ontario

SEPTEMBER

3rd Cottingham and Middleton Village Hall, (Northants)
- 01536 770059

4th Wallingford Bunkfest
- 07743 330494

5th Folk on the Moor, Devon
- 01752 708770

6th Thorngate Halls, Gosport, Hants (with Shep Woolley)
- 023 9251 0012

7th St Neots Folk Club
- 01234 376278

8th Dorking Folk Club
- 01306 888530

9th Fisher Theatre, Bungay, Suffolk - May be in Church but please call the Theatre box office for tickets
- 01986 897130

10th Song Loft, Stony Stratford
- 01908 611074 / 07826846937

11th Donyatt Village Hall, Nr Illminster - 01460 52912

12th Swanage Festival Dorset
- 01202 690856

14th South Yorkshire Folk, Sheffield - 07703 298164

16th Huntingdon Hall, Worcester
- 01905 611427

17th Bromley Cross, Lancs
- 01204 853235

Tour must end on 17th September, sorry.

Artisan 5-Year Reunion Tour

1st July to 17th September 2010

Book your tickets now by contacting the individual venues

Jacey's Tour Blog Here

Randon Play RANDOM PLAY
NEW CD for the Reunion Tour - 10 new Brian Bedford songs plus a bonus poem. The new CD will be ready for shipping by 23rd July, and it's at a bargain price, too. Just £10 for 10 songs plus £1.50 postage to anywhere in the known universe.

Available to order now on our album page here: http://.www.artisan-harmony.com/albums.htm

When Lunenburg Festival in Nova Scotia invited Artisan to reunite to perform at their 25th Anniversary Festival from 6th - 8th August 2010 it was just too good an offer to turn down. Lunenburg has always been one of our favourite places to play since our first appearance there in 1995. So we said YES PLEASE! And now Owen Sound Summerfolk Festival in Ontario - another of our favourites - has confirmed us for 20th - 22nd August. (It will be Brian's Birthday on 7th August while we're at Lunenburg and Jacey and Brian's 39th Wedding anniversary on 21st August while we're at Summerfolk.)

It will be five years since Artisan's retirement concert in 2005, so we're already rehearsing some old songs and learning some new. We've been overwhelmed by the fantastic response so far. Thank you, bookers. UK Tour Dates: July 1st to August 1st and then again from 1st to 17th September. Canadian Tour Dates: 5th August to 22nd August.

Many people have asked us why we're not touring in the USA when we're going to be flying across the Atlantic for Canadian festivals... well, it's like this... Read on at your peril... American work permits are really difficult and expensive to get. They can take months for the applications to churn their way through the government system. A couple of times in the past our work permits have only been dislodged from the log-jam by the direct intervention of two different (and wonderful) State Senators. When permits finally do come through we still have to arrange and attend an interview at the US Embassy in London (a 400 mile round trip, an 8.00 a.m. apointment - you work out the logistics). It's all a hair-tearingly frustrating exercise and because we only have an eight day window available for gigs between confirmed Canadian dates, we're just not sure it justifies the time or money. We do thank all the American venues who have been interested in having us play - unfortunately they stretch from Chicago to Virginia and the logistics just can't be made to work in an 8-day window. We're especially sorry that we were unable to accept the gig at Bethlehem Musikfest.

So that's why - and we're really sorry because we've made some Amazing friends in the USA and would love to play there again. Maybe we'll have to do a separate reunion tour to the USA another time.

Artisan laugh So how's it going? We're busy rehearsing and loving it, working on new songs as well as old ones. We're recording for a new CD to be called 'Random Play'.

We had some new promo photos taken. Aargh! We all hate having our photo taken and invariably when we see the results each one of us will say (of the same pic.), 'How come you two look great when I look dreadful?' Now, let's see... spectacles on or off for the camera?

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