2003

Celtic Connections, Glasgow with Blue Murder

Celtic Connections, Glasgow – BBC Radio Scotland Travelling Folk

Blue Murder – Nominated for Best Group, BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards

  Workshops: Hampshire Sing Out Weekend for Traditional Arts Project

2002

Peace Concerts Passendale – Seeds of Peace

Peace Concerts Tenth Anniversary commemoration.  Outdoor concert at Tyne Cott, Passendale Coope Boyes & Simpson with  June Tabor, Willem Vermandere, Une Anche Passe, Koen De Cauter, Patrick Riguelle, Bram Vermeulen and Thomas Friz

Blue Murder – Holmfirth Folk Festival concert to launch No One Stands Alone

  Holmfirth Folk Festival

  Gooik Feestival 2002 , Belgium – Invited back to represent English song for this Festival of traditional song and music across Europe .  Live concert broadcast for Radio Klara, Flemish Radio 3.

  Cambridge Folk Festival – Main Stage with Coope Boyes & Simpson and Blue Murder

BBC Radio 4 – Televised concert with Blue Murder at Cambridge

  Coope Boyes & Simpson tracks sampled for Chumbawamba album, Readymades

  Twenty-four Seven (NMCD20) – Coope Boyes & Simpson’s sixth solo album

  Some Desperate Glory – Performance at Her Majesty’s Theatre, Haymarket, London in aid of the Thiepval Memorial Trust presented by The Wilfred Owen Association, Directed by Tim Supple, with readings by Jim Broadbent, Michelle Butterly, Chewetel Ejifor, Susannah Harker, Tony Haygarth, Saeed Jaffrey, Jane Lapotaire, Michael Pennington & Samuel West   Songs and Music by Coope Boyes & Simpson.

  Tour of Harvest Home with Fi Fraser, Jo Freya & Georgina Boyes

  Blue Murder, No One Stands Alone    - Top Ten BBC Radio 2 Folk Albums

  Tour of The Christmas Truce with Ray Hearne, Janet Russell and the Roses and Thorns Choir

  Tour of new production of Fire & Sleet & Candlelight with Fi Fraser, Jo Freya and Georgina Boyes

  Workshops and concerts at Kessel , Belgium , The Baring Gould Festival, Devon

Festivals: Winchester , Holmfirth, Walton on the Naze, Deal Maritime, Merkelbeek, The Netherlands , Stovaria , Belgium , Stainsby, Cambridge , Leamington ,

2001

Hearts of Coal – New words and music production about coal mining with Coope Boyes & Simpson, Ray Hearne, Georgina Boyes and The Rolling Stock Company, Wath-upon-Dearne, Rotherham

‘No Tyrant Dread’ – Songs of the struggle for human rights at Worden Arts Centre and Aarschot , Belgium

‘Open Harmony’ workshops and song commission for Sidmouth International Festival of Folk Arts

Blue Murder with Norma Waterson, Mike Waterson, Martin Carthy, Eliza Carthy & Coope Boyes & Simpson – Arena Concert for Sidmouth International Festival of Folk Arts

In Flanders Fields performance at Whitby Folk Week

Tour in Belgium and the Netherlands

Tour of The Christmas Truce with Piet Chielens and Wak Maar Proper

Tour of The Christmas Truce with Ray Hearne, Janet Russell and the Roses and Thorns Choir

Tour of A Garland of Carols with Fi Fraser, Jo Freya and Georgina Boyes in England

A Garland of Carols tour with Barry Coope , Jim Boyes, Fi Fraser, Jo Freya and Georgina Boyes in Flanders .  Live concert broadcast for Radio Klara – Flemish Radio 3.

Festivals including Jack in the Green, Hastings, Ashbourne, Brampton Live, Whitby , Sidmouth, Broadstairs, Towersey, Raise Your Banners

2000

Tour of the Netherlands

Session for Andy Kershaw programme, BBC Radio 1

No Masters feature, Late Junction, BBC Radio 3

Blue Murder – Waterson Carthy, Mike Waterson and Coope Boyes & Simpson re-formed band for Beverley Folk Festival

The Belgian Girl: Passendale – Peace Concerts Passendale

Coope Boyes & Simpson with “Belgian Girls” - Herlinde Ghekiere, Kathleijne Janssen and Annemie Ponseele and narrators Piet and Wim Chielens.  See First World War Section of website and www.peaceconcerts.passendale.go.to

“War and Peace in Children’s Literature” - Concert for international conference in Ieper, Belgium

Concert for Festival of Voice, Abati ar Releg, Plounéour-Ménez, Brittany – www.abbayedurelec.com

Songs of Rebellion, Pentrich Parish Church, Derbys – Concert to mark Pentrich Revolution

Where You Belong, Belper – Outdoor performance of Belper Song Cycle as part of the town’s Millennium celebrations.

Release of One (No Masters NMCD16) – Lester Simpson’s first solo album

No Masters 10th Birthday Concert, Belper – John Tams & Friends, Coope Boyes & Simpson, Fraser Sisters and Ray Hearne

Vocal Chords Acappella Concert Tour of New England with Tenores di Bitti, Ulali and The Silver Leaf Gospel Singers - Performances in Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and Rhode Island.  See Tours section of the website

In Flanders Fields - Netley Abbey, Southampton.  See First World War Section of website.

Words and music performances: In Search of England with The Rolling Stock Company and Garland of Carols with Fi Fraser, Jo Freya and Georgina Boyes

Harmony workshops: FolkBeat, Derby, Yorkshire Dales Workshops

Festivals: Sidmouth International Festival of Folk Arts, Folk Festival at Stainsby, Cleethorpes, Lincoln, Beverley, Four Fools at Chorley; Tamworth Folk Moot

1999

Rochester Sweeps Festival – Acoustic concert in Rochester Cathedral

Tour of Belgium

Concert for Cambridge Festival of Voice

Where You Belong: A Song Cycle for Belper (NMCD15) – Millennium commission by Belper Town Council of songs reflecting the past, present and future of the people of Belper.

Where You Belong: A Song Cycle for Belper – Live concert performance in The River Gardens, Belper to launch the album.

The Christmas Truce 1914 / Kerstbestand (NMCD14) – Third joint production with Peace Concerts Passendale, www.peaceconcerts.passendale.go.to

What We Sing (NMCD50) – Mix of rare, re-mastered, favourite and newly recorded tracks.

Passchendaele Suite – First English tour with Panta Rhei.  Performances in Chatham, London, Huddersfield and Norwich.  See First World War section of website.

Flemish launch of The Christmas Truce 1914 / Kerstbestand – concerts in Antwerp and Diksmuide

Words and music performances: The Turn of the Tale with The Rolling Stock Company, Garland of Carols with Fi Fraser, Jo Freya and Georgina Boyes

Harmony workshops:  Various choirs in Flanders, BBC Radio 2 in Sheffield Week,

Festivals: The National Folk Festival, Sutton Bonnington;

1998 - A Garland of Carols - Fourth album

Kerstbestand - Commissioned songs and live performance in St Maarten’s Cathedral, Ieper, Flanders and at Dixmuide with Herbert Flack and Wak Maar Proper

The Underground War - Music for Channel Four one hour documentary

Falling Slowly - (Track) selected for World Music Network’s Rough Guide to English Roots Music

The Big Sing - Week long series of workshops on harmony singing, Calver, Derbyshire - Concert with Black Umfolosi

ETNIA Festival - Concert tour of Portugal

In Search of England - The National Folk Festival. Performance celebrating Centenary of the Folk-Song Society

Tour of Belgium

Hindsight - Third album

Tour of the Netherlands 

1997 - Folk Festival Dranouter - Main Stage with Passchendaele Suite

BBC Radio 4 - Christmas Eve - Specially recorded two hour feature of Christmas songs and music with Arthur Smith

Sidmouth International Festival of Folk Arts - Arena and Main Stage concerts. Performance of The Turn of the Tale, documentary with music at Pavilion Theatre.

Stimmen, Voices, Voix - Vocal Arts Festival, Lörrach, Germany - Feature Concert

Make It Mend It (Track) selected for English Panorama Cambridge University Press

Zwolle Folk Festival - The Netherlands

Passchendaele Suite Live performance, Sint-Maartenskerk, Kortrijk, Belgium

Edinburgh Folk Festival - Concerts and live broadcasts for BBC Radio Scotland and BBC Radio Ulster

Passchendaele Suite - Coope, Boyes & Simpson and Panta Rhei - Album of the Year,

Gandalf (Belgium), Critics Choice Folk Roots, New Internationalist

Grote Boodschaap - Live concert and interviews, BRT Radio 1, Belgium.

Feestival 2002, Gooik, Belgium - Concerts and recording for BRT Radio 3, Belgium

Jerusalem Revisited (Track) selected for One Voice World Music Network Rough Guide to Vocal Music.

1996 - We're Here Because We're Here - Coope, Boyes & Simpson, Willem Vermandere and Norbert Detaeye - Album of the Year, Gandalf (Belgium)

Vocal Chords International Festival - Concerts at Newcastle Playhouse and at the Barbican, London.

Skagen Folk Festival - Live concerts and broadcasts for Danish Radio

Live performance and interviews Tonight, Yorkshire Television.

Terminus Passchendaele - Belgian Touring Association Award, features on Flemish Television and Radio

Dranouter Folk Festival - Concert Tent

Falling Slowly - Second album, Critics Choice in Folk Roots, Gandalf and New Folk Sounds (Netherlands)

The End of the World - Three hour words and music production about the poetry and music of the Great War broadcast live on BRT Radio 3, Belgium.

1995 - Coal Not Dole - Vocal of the Year, Review of Folk & Country Albums 1994, Q

Funny Old World - Album of the Year, Review of Folk & Country 1994, Q

Brugges Festival - Live concert also recorded by BRT Radio 1, Belgium. Top Ten Critics Choice, live performance of the Year, Gandalf (Belgium).

Cambridge Folk Festival - Main Stage concert

Sidmouth International Festival of Folk Arts - Live performance of We're Here Because We're Here.

In Search of England - Workshops leading to music documentary performance. BBC Radio 2 - Live concerts

BBC Radio 2 - Harvest Home Adapted for broadcast on BBC Radio 2 with Coope, Boyes and Simpson and Waterson-Carthy - one hour feature.

BBC Radio 4 - Kaleidoscope - Live performance and interviews

1994 - Live appearance and interview of Kaleidoscope, BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 2 - Live concert broadcast to mark opening of David Hockney Gallery, Bradford

Jerusalem Revisited chosen for Folk Roots first on-cover album

Buxton Arts Festival - Granada Foundation Fringe Award for live concert and songwriting

BBC Radio 1 - Kershaw Comes Home - Performance and commissioned songs and music for Andy Kershaw series

Sidmouth International Festival of Folk Arts - Harvest Home - Workshops leading to music documentary performance. Live concerts also recorded for BBC Radio 2

We're Here Because We're Here - Commissioned songs and live concert in Passendale Church, Flanders with Willem Vermandere and Norbert Detaeye. Broadcasts for Belgian Radio One, Netherlands Radio and Belgian television

Belfast Arts Festival - Live concerts and broadcasts for BBC Radio Ulster and BBC Radio Five Live

Funny Old World - Debut solo album Critics Choice in Folk Roots

1993 - Sidmouth International Festival of Folk Arts - Live concerts and broadcasts for BBC Radio 2

Concerts for BBC Radio 2 Folk on Two and Arts Programme