Since we were doing a longer tour rather than gigs scattered here and there with spaces in between, we thought it might be a nice idea to write a kind of tour diary. Unfortunately we only thought of this once we got home so apologies if we have anyone’s name wrong or if we’ve missed anyone out – our memories are useless!
We started out in Biddulph, Staffordshire. It was our 23rd birthday, so after a morning of unwrapping presents at home we set off in some typical rainy April weather armed with an elaborately decorated cake and a car so full we could barely move. We got to the pub in good time (quite a big place with geese outside) so after a leisurely sound check, a delicious meal from Eric, the organiser, and some time to read and knit in the B&B around the corner, we were nicely relaxed ready for the gig. We had a good sized crowd who even sang us happy birthday – thanks Biddulph!
Birthday cake!
The next day we crossed the border into Scotland to play at the Denholm Folk Club. The weather was clearer and so we had a pleasant drive through some beautiful scenery. When we got to the Auld Cross Keys, the venue for that night, we were particularly pleased to find that our first Scottish gig of the tour had a tartan carpet. We stayed with Mac and Sharon and their wonderfully exuberant flat coat retriever that night, and even got a taste of Macs 30 year old Balvenie Whisky. We were enjoying Scotland very much already!
We left the next morning to get back down to Cumbria for a gig in Cockermouth. We arrived early and so had a good look round the town and its antique shops where we narrowly avoided buying another banjo. The venue, the Kirkgate Centre, was a lovely small-medium sized theatre and we had another good turnout. The B&B we stayed in had some photos from the big floods they had in Cockermouth in 2009. We were amazed at how high the water had got and also how good the town looks now 3 years on.
On the 21st we set out again back up to Scotland. We were due to play at the Craigmore Bowling Club on the Isle of Bute the next day and the people who were putting us up for that night had kindly offered to have us stay the night before too. After getting the ferry from Wemyss Bay to Rothesay we were met by Paul the promoter, who took us to where we were staying. We were welcomed into a beautiful big house overlooking the sea by Debbie and Elaine, where they and a group of people run a vegan cheese and jewellery business. We spent the evening eating pizza (featuring the aforementioned vegan cheese – it tasted like real cheese!), talking about dobro slides and picks with Paul, and trying out Stuart’s (one of the others who lived there) lovely handmade violins.
The morning of the 22nd they directed us to Ettrick Bay where we spent a lovely sunny morning skimming stones. Afterwards we drove around the island, went for a very brief stroll to look at some highland cows, and also saw a sheep chasing an oyster catcher through field. In the afternoon we went on the local radio station where we gave a brief interview, played a couple of songs, made a fuss of the presenters dog, and got fed tunnocks tea cakes. The gig at the bowling club was great fun. We had another good crowd and were supported by Paul, Debbie and Elaine’s band Rise (not forgetting the fourth member Gerry).
Charlotte in action
After saying our goodbyes on Bute, we got the ferry back to the mainland and started the drive up to Dingwall (just North of Inverness) for the first of two gigs put on by Rob Ellen. We took the scenic route up the A82 which sent us past Loch Lomond, Glencoe, Ben Nevis, Loch Ness and many other beautiful places.
The view from the car window
The Teaposy was a lovely venue full of lots of quirky ornaments, pretty tea cups and a community knitting scarf – it suited us well! Our favourite thing though, had to be the ceramic horse with a bizarre but very endearing expression. We took a photo with it, although Charlotte’s face is possibly stranger than the horse’s! We were chatting to Lewis who worked there about his brother Matheu Watson who is a brilliant Scottish folk musician. He gave us a CD which to us seemed very appropriate and lovely music for driving through the highlands again up to Ullapool the next day.
The horse!
We got to Ullapool mid-morning so had a plenty of time to look around. It’s a pretty little town with some stunning views of both sea and mountains. We were staying and playing at the Argyll Hotel (more tartan carpets!) which had a lovely cosy fire and served wonderful seafood, had a large whisky menu and more surprisingly, proper cider. The show went well and was greatly improved for us by the presence of dogs Todd and Dash. One lady in the audience, on hearing us mention our greyhound/whippet/dogs in general obsession, left just before the end to bring her whippet to show us. Unfortunately it was raining so it refused to leave the house – typical whippet! While we were in Ullapool we recorded an interview and session for Rob Ellen’s Medicine Show which went out on the local radio as well as on UKCountryRadio.com.
Ullapool
On the 25th we had a night off. We spent part of the day looking around the Glen Ord whisky distillery which was very interesting and we sampled (and bought) some of their wonderful whisky. Before we left the house on Wednesday I had quickly booked us somewhere to stay on late rooms just aiming for whatever was cheapest and roughly midway between Ullapool and Crail. We couldn’t believe our luck when we turned up at Ballindarroch Country House, a beautiful old hunting lodge on the shore of Loch Ness. After a brief tour of the communal rooms downstairs – living room with a fire going and hand painted 30’s wall paper, pool room with more hand painted wall paper, grand dining room again with original wallpaper, and well equipped kitchen (it was self-catering) – we were shown to a lovely bedroom with a big bay window overlooking the garden and woods beyond and also a rather grand bathroom down the corridor.The owner of the house then gave us some directions for a lovely walk down through open woodland to Loch Ness, and look what we saw! No photoshop, honest…
It’s real!
The next day we were in Crail, a pretty little fishing village in Fife. It was a miserable wet day when we arrived and not the best kind of weather for looking round, but we did find some lovely local pottery and both fell in love with some little jugs! We had also called in for a quick tour of the Dalwhinnie distillery on the way there where they gave everyone a free whisky glass and some chocolate!
Dalwhinnie
The show was in the lovely old town hall and plenty of people braved the rain to come and watch. Thanks to Tony and Isabel from the club for putting us up for the night. The following morning was sunny so we were able to see Crail in a better light, it was beautiful and we were glad we had the chance to go there.
Crail
On the 27th we had a gig at the Carlisle Folk and Blues Club, our second time there. We were staying with our friend Danny Hart (a fellow bluegrass player) who was compering that night as well as playing support as half of Hadrian’s Union with Stew Simpson, and so we couldn’t resist getting him up for a few songs at the end to sing and play some fiddle, guitar and mandolin. Danny plays everything!
The final night of the tour was at the Milton Rooms in Malton, North Yorkshire. It was a sold out show so a great end to the tour. We were given a feast of lovely cheeses, bread, and fruit in the biggest ‘dressing room’ we’d ever seen. The 8 sofas didn’t even come close to filling it! At the end of the night we drove back to our grandparents in Knaresborough for a much needed rest after a very enjoyable tour.
The enormous dressing room.
Thanks so much to everyone who came to see us, put on a gig, fed us, gave us a bed to sleep in etc.
See you all next time!
Charlotte and Laura
NEW WEBSITE!
If you have come to this page looking for The Carrivick Sisters website, then pease go to www.thecarrivicksisters.com – we have moved! This is now just a blog/news page.
Also in recent news, to celebrate the launch of the new website we made a new video of James Taylor’s Sweet Baby James.
Recent Awards
We’ve been doing quite well with awards lately. Those of you on Facebook will already know that at the start of this year we were very pleased to be nominated FATEA‘s Band/Duo of the Year 2011. More recently, Charlotte has had cause to celebrate after returning from FOAOTMAD‘s Old Time Festival in Gainsborough having won not one but two of the competitions! She got first place in both banjo and fiddle (yes, Charlotte does play fiddle too!). Here she is looking happy/confused with here prizes:
Merry Christmas!
At the beginning of this month we asked everyone on our mailing list and Facebook page to suggest a song we could cover for a Christmas video. We had a lot of suggestions and this is what was picked out at random. We hope you enjoy it!
If the video below doesn’t display properly on your computer you can view it on YouTube.
The audio is available to download free here: Santa Claus is Coming to Town - Audio
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Bath Bluegrass School Launched
Since moving to Bath last month, we have set up the Bath Bluegrass School along with Banjo player John Breese. The school offers private tuition in Bluegrass Banjo (John), Mandolin, Guitar and Clawhammer Banjo (Charlotte), and Fiddle and Dobro (Laura). We are also able to put on workshops for schools, festivals etc tailored to your specific needs on various bluegrass related topic either individually or as a group. The website is nearly finished (still a few more videos to come) so please feel free to have a browse (or book a lesson!) and we are also on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
‘From the Fields’ out now!
Our latest album ‘From the Fields’ is officially released today! You can now buy hard copies from our mechandise page, download the whole thing or individual tracks from shops such as Amazon and iTunes, stream the entire album on Spotify… the list goes on! Although we are yet to have any details on a launch party, we are working on it and there will be one! If you’d like to be kept in the loop on things such as the launch party and everything else going on with us, the best thing to do is join our mailing list or ‘Like’ us on Facebook.
” …their already formidable multi-instrumental skills and songwriting maturing at such a steep curve they’ll soon be orbiting far beyond anyone else.” – Q Magazine ****
” Carrivick Sisters are pick of the crop.” – The Telegraph
“…very dextrous… a duo of rich promise” – The Irish Times ***
“Somewhere in Kentucky, there’s a duo singing folk songs in a Devon accent. It’s part of a celestial vocal exchange program, as that would be the only logical reason that The Carrivick Sisters keep turning in album after album of bluegrass blood harmonies to die for.” – FATEA Magazine
“…jaw-droppingly talented…” – Flyinshoes
From the Fields Reviews
We’re starting to get some reviews of the new album through now and it seems the reviewers are as pleased with it as we are! We’ll keep updating this post whenever anything else comes in, but here’s what we have so far:
From Q Magazine
Although just 21, The Carrivick Sisters are already on album four, From the Fields (self-released ****) is a huge step up for the Devon twins, their already formidable multi-instrumental skills and songwriting maturing at such a steep curve they’ll soon be orbiting far beyond anyone else.
Q rating system explained:
5* – CLASSIC. Buy this now! Essential for any collection
4* – EXCELLENT. Rest assured, satisfaction is guaranteed.
3* GOOD. Good within its field, but perhaps not for everyone.
2* FAIR. For die-hard fans only, and even they might be disappointed.
1* POOR. Move along, there’s nothing of interest here.
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From The Telegraph
Carrivick Sisters are pick of the crop
Carrivick Sisters and Boden & Spiers offer up some of the delights of British folk music.
The Carrivick Sisters – identical twins from South Devon – play a variety of bluegrass instruments (essentially guitar, mandolin, banjo, dobro and fiddle). Although they are still only 21, From The Fields is their fifth CD – and very enjoyable it is too.
West Country place names might not have the glitz of America (Route 66 works in a way that Road A303 just doesn’t) but there are plenty of local sins and sinners to inspire the music of the Carrivicks. Charlotte Dymond, for example, is a jaunty and effective banjo-led murder ballad set in Bodmin.
Flowers With Jamie shows off the sparkling harmonies that prompted Ralph McTell to describe the sisters as “one of the best young duos I’ve ever heard”.
They are also helped by having top-class music people involved in the album. Joe Rusby, brother of Kate, does a great job as producer, John Breese plays fine banjo and BJ Cole adds his pedal steel guitar panache to four songs, helping to light up When The Birds Start To Sing and You’ll Miss Her When She’s Gone.
There is also a fine instrumental – The Mouse, The Bird And The Sausage – inspired by a Brothers Grimm tale.
A little more experienced than the Carrivick Sisters are Spiers & Boden – John Spiers and Jon Boden – illustrated by the release of an impressive album called The Works which celebrates their 10 years in music… for the full article with reviews of Spiers and Boden and Kayla Kavanagh go to the link at the top of this review.
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From Rock ‘N’ Reel
4 Stars
Despite only being in their early twenties, British bluegrassers The Carrivick Sisters have already released three albums but it’s on this, their fourth, that they truly come of age. Comparisons to Alison Krauss & Union Station would not be out of place, for they are that good, swapping lead vocals and playing Dobro, mandolin and the rest like hardened veterans, but it’s the English folk influences they bring to their music that give them a unique sound.
‘Song Of The Night’ is the perfect blend of English folk and American instrumentation, while the murder ballad ‘Charlotte Dymond’, the heartbreaking ‘Flowers with Jamie’ and the folk instrumental ‘The mouse, The Bird And The Sausage’ (named after a favourite Brothers Grimm tale) are all from the top drawer. Their harmonies (showcased on the a cappella ‘ From The Fields’) are impeccable, the Dobro luscious and the fiddle by turns furious and folky.
There’s a sweet, rich warmth to the music that you can luxuriate in but it’s never cloying or overwhelming, and despite the darkness of some of the material, the overriding feel is of vibrant optimism, and so it should be with music of this calibre.
- Jeremy Searle
From Northern Sky
http://www.allanwilkinson.co.uk/node/1645
From Americana UK
http://www.americana-uk.com/cd-reviews/item/carrivick-sisters?category_id=175
Prodigious Devon twins’ fourth
Though only 21 years of age, Devon twins Charlotte and Laura Carrivick have been Glastonbury regulars for some five years already, and are up to their fourth album in ‘From the Fields’. Bluegrass is a major touchstone for them, but their songwriting, vocals and delivery are definitely rooted in a more austere traditional English folk idiom. The harmonies on ‘From the Field’ are as sublime as can be, and perfectly natural throughout, achieving an other-worldly unison, as one supposes only the insanely telepathic, or twin siblings, can actually achieve.
Influenced by their rural surroundings and the fables of the areas history, sin, injustice and retribution feature heavily in the narratives (‘Flowers with Jamie’, ‘Charlotte Dymond’, ‘From the Fields’), as the body count increases. Conversely then, ‘Today is a Good Day’ then features the kind of sanguinity and light only possible in an explosion at a Prozac factory, though it seems to be more of a stern talking to in the face of impending wretchedness than a shot of saccharine. The wonderfully swaying ‘Song of the Night’ has traces of the McGarrigles about it and equally cements their already growing reputation as masterful songwriters.
Each sister is an immeasurably talented multi-instrumentalist, handling guitar, banjo, mandolin, dobro, fiddle and percussion duties all themselves, with a couple of friends guesting on bass, melodean, and welcome appearances from the legendary BJ Cole spicing up a couple of tunes with his pedal steel skills. Played entirely on authentic period acoustic instruments, the sisters’ dexterous musicianship is never in question on these very sparely recorded songs, in fact Charlotte’s guitar playing on ‘Today is a Good Day’ is simply breathtaking.
The Carrivick Sisters are not steering their music down particularly innovative roads just yet, but can’t fail to impress with their deft musicianship, and beautifully warm intertwining vocals. With youth and searing talent on their side they have the chops in every department to become much more than a sideline ‘genre’ act.
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From FATEA
http://www.fatea-records.co.uk/magazine/releases.html
Somewhere in Kentucky, there’s a duo singing folk songs in a Devon accent. It’s part of a celestial vocal exchange program, as that would be the only logical reason that The Carrivick Sisters keep turning in album after album of bluegrass blood harmonies to die for. In fairness there’s a fair amount of death in the songs as well, such is the nature of folk music. “From The Fields” is an album that’ll gladden the heart of anyone who gives it a listen. How can you not like an album that features a track, “The Mouse, The Bird & The Sausage”? Indulge your eardrums with a luxurious treat.
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From Folk Radio
www.folkradio.co.uk
by Alex on 29 June, 2011
On first listen to The Carrivick Sisters new album From the Fields you could easily be fooled into assuming they hail from America. They are in fact from South Devon and their music is inspired by the landscape and stories they have experienced in the South West. The Carrivick Sisters are twins Laura and Charlotte Carrivick and these 21 year olds have acheived a lot in a very short space of time, releasing their first CD, My Own Two Feet in 2006, Better Than 6 Cakes in 2007 and Jupiter’s Corner in 2009.
They began busking in 2006 before turning professional after leaving school in 2007. Fate played its hand when they won the South West Busker’s and Street Entertainer’s Competition in 2007 which landed them a spot at Glastonbury Festival. Laura also went on to achieve 2nd place at the RockyGrass Fiddle Contest in America and they were both finalists in the 2010 BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Awards.
The musicianship on From the Fields is incredible and also has a great depth spirit and character. Between them they play guitar, mandolin, banjo, dobro and fiddle. They also have a number of guest musicians joing them to provide a richer sound:
John Breese (Banjo)
BJ Cole (Pedal Steel)
Eleanor Cross (Double Bass)
Matt Crum (Melodeon)
David Kosky (Guitar)
All except one of the ten songs and one instrumental are written by The Carrivick Sisters which is pretty amazing as they all have that timeless quality which you more often find in older folk songs. One such track Charlotte Dymond tells the well known tale of the servant girl, Charlotte Dymond, who was based at Penhale Farm, on the edge of Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. Her jealous lover Matthew Weeks later murdered her, he was later hung after her body was discovered.
I tried to hide it
Tried to save my own skin
But the mistress turned against me
With all her kith and kin
I know that I must Suffer
For this dreadful sin
Now the gallows await me
Hell’s gate says welcome in
Not all songs are based on folklore or the past. The wonderful If I had Time offers a shared sentiment of many who would love to leave their fast paced lives:
If I had time
I’d always travel the backroads
Going slow so I could see the view
If I had time
I’d meet the minds behind the faces
In the places I pass through
The songmanship is very mature and connected to the land and its people in a folkloric sense, they cover all angles of mankind that you’d expect in folk songs: love, loss and murder.
The one instrumental The Mouse, The Bird and The Sausage, inspired by a story from ‘Household Tales’ by Brothers Grimm has a crossover feel contrasting British and American folk in places, making you wonder what else they are capable of. These two young women have a long and fruitful career ahead of them and they will be appearing at many festivals this year so keep an eye out for them!
The album was produced by Joe Rusby (Kate Rusby’s brother) at Pure Record Studios and will be released in August 2011 but you can hear it on Folk Radio UK.
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FromFlyinshoes
Earlier in the year I was enthusing about Larkin Poe, the jaw-droppingly talented Lovell Sisters from Knoxville. Well, what do you know? Six months later along comes an album from the jaw-droppingly talented Carrivick Sisters (twins, I believe – is that a trump card against the Lovells?), and this time the girls are from our side of the pond, from South Devon, in fact. The headline is that this is fantastic work and I’d urge anyone to get hold of the album or take the chance to see them play – folk festivals, clubs and pubs across the country through the summer, including the big one at Cambridge.
Marrying English folksong to bluegrass instrumentation and style in a quite sublime manner, these girls write the songs, arrange them, sing them , play everything from fiddle to banjo, dobro to mandolin, and then sweetly give thanks and credit to producer Joe Rusby, for “doing just about everything”. He has indeed done a wonderful job, because the sound is great throughout – whether it’s the sparse sound of banjo and vocal on Charlotte Dymond , their very own English murder ballad, or the more expansively arranged When The Birds Start To Sing, a sweet song of romantic longing that features the great BJ Cole on pedal steel. These girls have a huge range of qualities at their disposal: a likely stage favourite is going to be the brilliantly light-hearted Today Is A Good Day . The girls sing close harmony, almost Andrews Sisters style, against a tune being picked as fast and light as Doc Watson at his best, and the whole thing bubbles along with a huge, contagious smile. It’s a song about optimism being determined to succeed over mundane realities, even if just for one day, and I guess there’s a kind of light self-mockery when the chorus breaks into a yodel each time round – ” And the sun will shine though the sky is grey/ And the birds will sing Yodel-ay-ee-ee-tee” .
Laura and Charlotte are just 21 (heck, they look younger but that probably says more about my age) and have been playing professionally for four years already, releasing three cds along the way. I’ll be fascinated to hear those albums at some point, but this new album is music of full maturity, capable of standing shoulder to shoulder with pretty much any album I’ve heard in the last few years. Of all the things that they do so well here, I reckon I’d pick out their singing as the absolute highlight. They share lead vocal duties and harmonise in turn with each other; it’s pretty much a given that siblings seem to have a headstart when it comes to harmonising and these two do nothing to undermine that notion. However, it’s the warmth, richness and Englishness of their voices, set against those bluegrass arrangements, that works so well. Charlotte’s voice, in particular, carries an authority and assuredness that seems incredible in such a young performer.
It’s quite remarkable to me how closely they mirror all the qualities that I enjoyed so much in Larkin Poe’s work, and in particular the way both sets of sisters are possibly at a perfect moment where their skill is fully mature and yet the spark of fresh, youthful enthusiasm is still burning at its brightest. The bonus with the Carrivick Sisters is that they’ve made Devon sound like the very heartland of bluegrass.
John Davy
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From Beat Surrender
http://www.beat-surrender.com/2011/07/27/the-carrivick-sisters-from-the-fields/
From The Fields is the new album from South Devon duo The Carrivick Sisters, a heady combination of traditional bluegrass instrumentation with a splash of pedal steel and a folk sensibility taking inspiration from the sites and sounds of the south western corner of England all wrapped up and delivered with pure sibling harmonising by twins Laura and Charlotte Carrivick.
At 21 years old The Carrivick Sisters are already experienced live performers having played across the UK, mainland Europe and in Canada, From the Fields is their fourth album following My Own Two Feet (2006), Better Than 6 Cakes (2007) and Jupiter’s Corner (2009), they started performing as a duo in 2006, honing their skills busking and playing live until turning professional in 2007 after leaving school.
The sisters are a extremely talented pair, the album features all original songs and they play guitar, mandolin, banjo, dobro, fiddle and glockenspiel on the recording, additional support is provided by BJ Cole (Pedal Steel), Eleanor Cross (Double Bass) with guest appearances from John Breese (banjo), Matt Crum (melodeon) and David Kosky (guitar), production is handled by Joe Rusby (the brother of Barnsley Nightingale Kate), they are currently on tour in England with dates booked through to November with a number of festival appearances including Moseley Folk and an appearance at a favourite watering hole of mine The Pack O’ Cards in Combe Martin (check the gig page for dates).
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From AllGigs.co.uk
http://www.allgigs.co.uk/view/review/5837/From_The_Fields_The_Carrivick_Sisters_Album_Review.html
“From The Fields” is a mainly positive and fruitful selection that might irk the misery-purists out there, but gawp at the jolly sleeve picture of the sisters skipping barefoot through the salty sea and you find yourself yearning to be there, sharing an ice-cream, cider and a plate of seafood. Unfortunately, I’ll have to stick with daydreaming and play this top album. Again.
Extra musicians have been drafted in to colour in the palette a little bit more, one of them being the mercurial BJ Cole who should really have been knighted for making such a wonderful sound with the pedal-steel for many decades. He appears in his usual understated yet prominent style on two tracks, “You’ll Miss Her When You’re Gone” and “When the Birds Start To Sing”, although to say these songs are better than the jolly opener, “Garden Girl”, or the acapella charms of the title-track, is churlish.
The Carrivick Sisters have a slight air of familiarity about their pretty sound – ah yes, that would be the knob-tweaking courtesy of Kate Rusby’s brother, Joe. He lends an accomplished balance to the dozen lullabies, that generally tell tales of the Great War, the murderous story of a 19th century Bodmin teenager called Charlotte and sinful trysts in fields. Who said the West Country was boring?
The Carrivick Sisters hail from Devon and From The Fields is their fourth release. Playing guitars, mandolin, banjo and fiddle between them they veer from English folk to old time Americana across this album. They harmonise well and when they are joined on two songs by the esteemed B.J. Cole on pedal steel they achieve a sound that is not too short of sublime. Both appear to be accomplished players with some fine guitar and fiddle playing in particular featuring. Writing in a traditional field they have a fine grasp of what makes the music tick with some of the songs seeming almost to be plot summaries from the pen of Thomas Hardy. This is most to the fore on Flowers With Jamie and the spinechilling Charlotte Dymond while the title song is an acappella telling of a lovers’ tryst that ends in tragedy. With an excellent instrumental The Mouse, The Bird & The Sausage (named after a Brothers Grimm tale) included this is an impressive album that belies the sisters’ relative youth. They come to Scotland in September appearing in Edinburgh.
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From The Irish Times
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/theticket/2011/0819/1224302655256.html
JOE BREEN
From the Fields Self-released ***
Some people take a lifetime to make an album. Not so the Carrivick sisters, Laura and Charlotte. From the Fields is the fourth album by these precocious Devon twins, and they are still only 21. Their favoured genre is supposedly country/bluegrass, but this collection of self-penned songs also leans into the English folk tradition. The twins employ a range of instruments, including fiddle, dobro, mandolin, banjo and guitar, and very dexterous they are, too, as evidenced by Charlotte’s nimble guitar picking on the (overly) feelgood Today Is a Good Day. More ominous and much better is the grim tale of Charlotte Dymond, or the equally dark title track. The low-key production of Joe Rusby (Kate’s brother) emphasises the natural clarity and warmth of their singing and sharp musicianship. While some songs are a little twee, this is a duo of rich promise. See thecarrivicksisters.com.
Download tracks: Charlotte Dymond, From the Fields
