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Maybe Someday, 2006

January 2006

21st: Robin & Bina Williamson - Village Hall, Llanhenneck Caerleon.

28th: Robin & Bina Williamson - Songs and Stories for Midwinter Celtic Connections Festival, Glasgow.

February 2006

4th: The Mystic, the Barbican, London with Vashti Bunyan, Bert Jansch, Adem & King Creosote

Set list included:

Bright Morning Stars
You Get Brighter
Air
Swift as the Wind
Hedgehog Song

4th: Robin Williamson - Bardic Mysteries Workshop, Silver Branch Bardic Network at 'Openings' Bath

11th: Robin & Bina Williamson - "Songs for Candlemas" Literary Institute, Queens Square, Bath

18th: Robin & Bina Williamson - "Songs for Candlemas" Emerson College, Forest Row, East Sussex

April 2006

5th: Robin Williamson & John Renbourn, Huntington Hall, Worchester

6th: Robin Williamson & John Renbourn, Alexanders, Chester

7th: Robin Williamson & John Renbourn, The Guildhall, Lichfield

8th: Robin Williamson & John Renbourn, The Memorial Hall, Sheffield

10th: Robin Williamson & John Renbourn, City Varieties Music Hall, Leeds

11th: Robin Williamson & John Renbourn, The Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal,

12th: Robin Williamson & John Renbourn, The Sage, Gateshead

13th: Robin Williamson & John Renbourn, Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

14th: Robin Williamson & John Renbourn, The Bein Inn, Glenfarg,

15th: Robin Williamson & John Renbourn, The Tunnels, Aberdeen.

17th: Mike Heron - Sala Clamores (Madrid)

18th: Mike Heron - Cafe del Teatre (Lleida)

19th: Mike Heron - Sala Bikini (Barcelona)

20th: Mike Heron - Sala Matadero (Huesca)

21st: Robin Williamson & John Renbourn, The Arts Centre, Norwich

22nd: Robin Williamson & John Renbourn, Forest Arts Centre, New Milton,

26th: Robin Williamson & John Renbourn, Bush Hall, Uxbridge Road, London W12.

28th: Robin Williamson & John Renbourn, The Arts Centre, Stamford

29th: Robin Williamson -Long House Concert Dark Age re-enactment concert Outlore, Bridgefield.

May 2006

3rd: Robin Williamson & John Renbourn, West End Centre, Aldershot.

4th: Robin Williamson & John Renbourn, Princess Hall, Burnham on Sea

13th: Robin & Bina Williamson Songs & Stories for Spring, Wheaton Ashton Festival Stafford.

16th: Spirit of Fire Concert. Sainty James Church Picadilly, London.

20th: Robin & Bina Williamson Songs & Stories for Spring, Brighton Unitarian Church.

27th: Robin & Bina Williamson Songs & Stories for Spring, The Met, Market Street, Bury.

June 2006

2nd-4th: Robin Williamson - Bardic Mysteries Workshop Hazelwood House, Hazelwood House, Kingsbridge, Devon.

3rd: Robin and Bina Williamson - "Songs and Stories for Midsummer" Hazelwood House, Hazelwood House, Kingsbridge, Devon.

10th-11th: Robin Williamson - Gallneukirchen, Austria.

Set list (10th):

Planxty Irwin (harp)
Wheel of Fortune (harp)
Freeborn Man of the Travelling People (guitar)
Ivy, Ivy (guitar)
Lord Bateman (guitar)(incomplete)
Back in the 1960s (harp)
Bonny Bunch of Roses (harp)
Cupid's Garden (guitar)
Lammas (guitar)
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Jordan is a Hard Road to Travel (guitar)
To God in God's Absence (harp)
No Sleep Blues (guitar)
Political Lies (harp)
Verses at Ellesmere (harp)
Painting Box (harp)
Carrickfergus (guitar)
Twelve Gates to the City (harp)
The Parting Glass (harp)
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Big Ted (guitar)
Don't Let your Deal Go Down (guitar)
The Lights of Sweet St Anne's (guitar)

(Thank you to Noel Plumridge)

15th: Robin Williamson - Storytelling Gigs Matlock

16th: Robin Williamson - Storytelling Gigs Solihull (Daytime)

19th: Robin Williamson - Storytelling Gigs Loughborough

19th: Incredible String Band: Telford's Warehouse, Chester.

Set list

You Get Brighter
Chinese White
Hedgehog Song
Cosmic Boy
Swift as The Wind
Maker of Islands
Spirit Beautiful
Water Song
Douglas Traherne Harding
Painting Box
A Handful of Dust
You Know What You Could Be
A Very Cellular Song (Encore)

20th: Incredible String Band: Sunrise Celebration.

20th: Robin Williamson - Storytelling Gigs Wednesbury

21st: Robin Williamson - Storytelling Gigs Mac Cafe Birmingham

Set listing:

The Blackbird (harp) tune
The Fair (harp)
The Road the Gypsies Go (harp)
Fin MacCool & the Burly Stranger (story)
Geordie Gordon (harp)
Trad Recruited Soldier Song (guitar)
Herring Song (guitar)
Story about Woman & King & Children w/ gold hair & Hen-Wife & Green
Bird (story)
Back in Paris (guitar)
Lammas (guitar)
Sing Ivy, Sing Ivy (guitar)
Tune and diddling on Hardanger
Raggle Taggle Gypsies (harp)
How Eve was created (story)
War of the Trees (story) (harp)
Pacheco (harp)

30th: Robin & Bina Williamson - Maltings Art Centre, Berwick

July 2006

1st: Robin & Bina Williamson - Song & stories for Midsummer, Chantrey Museum, Morpeth.

8th: Robin & Bina Williamson - Song & stories for Midsummer, Tabernacle Theatre, Machynlleth, Powys.

10th: Incredible String Band - San Paolo d'Argon (Bergamo) Chiostro Abbazia Benedittina...Andar per Musica'06

19th - 23rd: "Veil Between Two Worlds" Irish vacation tour - by Celtic Ways includes 3 Robin Williamson performances
along with several ancient sites visits, stories, music, traditional and castle accommodation and meals do all 4 days or just part of it. http://celticways.com/bards/robinwilliamson

20th: Robin & Bina Williamson - Song & stories for Summer, Markree Castle Chapel, Collooney, Co Sligo.

Set list:

Blackbird & other tunes
Wheel Of Fortune
Painting Box
Oh Good Ale
A story about the Devil and Lawyers
Song About Nothing
Adam & Eve
No Sleep Blues
Lights Of Sweet St. Anne
A story about Napoleon
Bonny Bunch Of Roses
A story about Conal Croppy, Crawhy
Don't Let Your Deal Go Down
To God In God's Absence
Londonderry
Banks Of Red Roses, Cunla and other tunes
Maya
Greatest Friend
Political Lies

21st: Robin Williamson - Song & stories for Summer, Tin Tean Ceol, near Tralee

22nd: Robin Williamson - Song & stories for Summer, St James, Dingle.

Set list:

Blackbird & other tunes
The Fair
Jordan Is A Hard Road
Painting Box
Ask My Father
My Father
Facing West From California Shores
Lammas
Talisien
Verses Of Ellesmere
How Does Your Garden Grow
Satisfied Mind
Tunes, including Cunla
The Road The Gypsies Go
Fare Thee Well Sweet Malley
May Flaharty's Drake
Hunch Backed Prince
James Brown
Encore was an unknown song to me that had a line "Fare Thee Well Craigy Hill"

29th: Robin & Bina Williamson - Song & stories for Midsummer, Wharf Theatre, Tavistock.

August 2006

12th: Robin Williamson - private function, Darmstadt, Germany.

19th: Robin & Bina Williamson - private function, Bleddfa, Wales.

September 2006

2nd: Incredible String Band - Mosley Park Folk Festival, Birmingham.

September 2006

3rd: Robin Williamson with John Renbourn, Moseley Festival Birmingham.

16th: Robin & Bina Williamson: Songs & Stories for Autumn. Windsor Art Centre, Old Court, St Leonard's Road, Windsor.

23rd: Robin & Bina Williamson: Songs & Stories for Autumn. Friend's Meeting House, Ashgate Road, Chesterfield.

27th: Robin Williamson. The Maze, North Sherwood Street, Nottingham.

29th: Robin Williamson. Old Down Acoustic Club, Kings Arms, Litton.

30th: Robin & Bina Williamson: Storytelling Festival. Grasmere, Lake District.

November 2006

10^th: Robin Williamson – St Oswalds Hall, Durham

11^th: Robin Williamson – Milngavie, Glasgow

12^th: Robin Williamson – Bein Inn, Glenfarg near Perth

25^th: Robin Williamson – Adderbury near Banbury

December 2006

2^nd: Robin & Bina Williamson – Songs and Stories for Midwinter, Stourbridge

8-10^th: Robin Williamson - Bardic Mysteries Workshop, Hazelwood House, Loddiswell, Devon.

9^th: Robin & Bina Williamson – Songs and Stories for Midwinter, Hazelwood House, Loddiswell, Devon.

16^th: Robin & Bina Williamson – Songs and Stories for Midwinter, Nympsfield Village Hall.

21^st: Robin Williamson – Solstice Concert, Tigers Nest.

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