Benefit gig for Windmill Hill City Farm
Friday 25th September 8-late
Fiddlers, Willway St, Bedminster, Bristol Bs3
Tickets available from www.fiddlers.co.uk
£6/£7
Hazel Winter and John Parish; Hazel will be kicking off proceedings performing songs from her latest album Situation Normal Then and poems from her Bleak Blog series, ( including “ I’m scared of the pig on the city farm”) with guest musicians John Parish and Gina Griffin
Los Yanquis; stormingly soulful county
Shane; fabulous country blues

SAVE THE FARM ….save the pig…
Situation Normal Then
New album Situation Normal Then is now available on iTunes etc.
CDs can also be posted from Hazel’s living room in exchange for a voluntary donation to the Hazel Winter Pension Disaster Fund.
Cheques should be made out to H Winter and posted to PO Box 1050 Bristol BS99 1FT
New Album. 2009
Thirty years after they stood up together and performed Blowing In The Wind at the Elvet Methodist Church harvest supper in Durham, Hazel Winter is reunited with sister Trish for her third solo album Situation Normal Then.
Other musicians were co-opted from Trish’s band of Northumbrian folksters "Horseplay", regulars from Durham’s weekly Dun Cow pub folk sessions plus Bristol based fiddler Gina Griffin and banjo player Joff Lowson. Instruments include Northumbrian pipes, mandolin, wooden flute, Medieval side drum and that traditional North Eastern heritage instrument, the Didgeridoo. The songs were recorded over 2 separate weekends 18 months apart; one was produced by Adrian Utley and the other by Hazel Winter.
By the end of the recordings Hazel had remembered that not only had Trish elbowed her way to the front of the queue when the Breast Fairy visited the Winter household but that she had got Distinction for Grade 8 flute at around the same time Hazel got Unclassified for Maths O Level.
There was hissy fitting, slamming down of phones and Hazel remembering why she had bothered to move to the other end of the country 25 years ago anyway.
Siberia. 2007
Hazel recently took a
break from recording her third album to travel to Siberia accompanying
her cousin who was undertaking research for an Ethno musicology dissertation
looking at Shamanism. They flew from Moscow into Krasnoyarsk where
Emma looked at museum archives and Hazel gained mealtime–related
skills of surreptitiously scraping offal into her handbag. They then
hired two blokes from down the pub to drive them to the Tuva Region
to try and meet some Shamans. Hazel’s
daily fear of death courtesy of Siberian roads/driving/absence of
seatbelts/minus 20 degree temperatures /rape and dismemberment by everyone
they met, was balanced by cousin Emma’s daily fear that she might
be unable to wash and blow dry her hair. They finally ended up in Kyzyl
near the Mongolian border where they met up with the fantastic Alash
musicians [www.alashensemble.com] and saw them in concert.
They were introduced via the instrument maker, to some Shamans and attended
a ritual out in the mountains. Film footage of the ceremony will
be avalable for download soon.
Sleepwalking Video online

The video for 'Sleepwalking', taken from Death Row
Bride, is now online. Directed by Hazel Grian, it's in the Media section of the site.