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The Imagined Village

Several years in the making, The Imagined Village is a collaboration between a varied group of musicians (with roots in many different types of music, from traditional folk to bhangra), brought together by Simon Emmerson, who wanted to explore their musical roots and identity as English musicians. read more...

The original group included Eliza Carthy, Billy Bragg, Benjamin Zephaniah, Chris Wood, Johnny Kalsi, Martin Carthy, Paul Weller, Sheila Chandra, Simon Emmerson, The Copper Family, The Gloworms, Tiger Moth, Trans-Global Underground and Tunng. Their first performance was at Womad in 2007, and they have been touring regularly since, including a performance on Jools Holland in 2009.

In the 2008 Radio 2 Folk Awards they won Best Traditional Track (Cold Haily Rainy Night), and were the winners of three Hancock Awards in 2008: Best Album, Best Original Song (Cold Haily Rainy Night) and Best Traditional Song (Tam Lyn Retold).

With the release of their second album Empire & Love in 2010, the band has shrunk (a little), making less use of occasional headline artists and turning more into a real band, comprising, in the main: Eliza Carthy, Martin Carthy, Chris Wood, Johnny Kalsi, Sheila Chandra, Simon Emmerson, Sheema Mukherjee, Ali Friend, Barney Morse Brown, Simon Richmond and Andy Gangadeen.

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The Imagined Village discography

Empire And Love - The Imagined Village Empire And Love 2010 1 review The Imagined Village - The Imagined Village The Imagined Village 2007 4 reviews The Imagined Village Ep - The Imagined Village The Imagined Village Ep 2007
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The Imagined Village blog entries

02 September 2011 Shrewsbury Folk Festival 2011 - The Headliners

26 February 2011 Norma Waterson Benefit Events

28 August 2010 Mass Morris Meet at London’s Southbank Centre

Players

Members of The Imagined Village listed on this website:

Eliza Carthy
Jackie Oates