After last week's early evening warm up show at The Station in Birmingham, Dave Sharp's Hard Folk tour is underway.

2006 is the year of Hard Folk. With events such as the BBC's Folk Britannia season raising awareness of the quality and real breadth of musicianship that lives under the banner of British folk, Dave Sharp is taking his quite unique variant of the genre direct to the general British public.

Steering clear of the mainstream club venues which are the realm of the NME kids and rave clubbers, the Hard Folk tour will bring Sharp to new audiences in the British local and to confirmed music lovers at summer festivals. Most shows are free entry (check www.davesharp.org  for details).

This is the most intensive period of touring Dave has undertaken for many years, very possibly since the demise of The Alarm in 1991, and we hope that fans old & new will take the opportunity to catch a show or two along the way. As those who have seen Dave play solo acoustic will know, no two shows are the same!

The tour kicks off in Doncaster on Wednesday April 5th and will run throughout 2006. Further shows are being added all the time and will be announced via this list. Shows confirmed at time of writing:

April 2006
Wed 5 Doncaster, The Leopard
Thu 6 Stourbridge, Katie Fitzgeralds
Fri 7 New Radnor, The Eagle Hotel
Sat 8 Llandeilo, Angel Inn
Sun 9 Walsall, Wharf Bar
Wed 12 Edinburgh, Village Inn
Thu 13 Inverness, Hootananny
Fri 14 Easter-West-Fest, Caledonian Hotel,Ullapool
Sat 15 Easter-West-Fest, Ferry Boat Inn,Ullapool
Wed 19 Oakham, Grain Store Brewery
Sat 22 Chipping Norton, Rose And Crown

May 2006
Thu 4 Bristol, Undercover Club
Fri 19 Decaturville, Mash #1, The Attic,Glasgow
Sat 20 Decaturville, Mash #1, The Attic,Glasgow (band show)
Sat/Sun 27/28 Strummercamp, Manchester Rugby Club,

June 2006
Sat 3 Kings Heath, Birmingham, The Station

July 2006
Sat 1 Coventry, Craven Arms

August 2006
Sun 20 Hartford, Huntingdon, The Lord Protector
Fri 25 Greenbelt Festival, The Performance Café,
Sun 27 Solfest, Silloth, Cumbria

September 2006
Sun 10 Stroud Fringe Festival, Cornhill Market,Stroud
Tue 26 Swindon, The Beehive Public House

October 2006
Sun 1 Kidderminster, Boars Head Taphouse

Full details and updates at www.davesharp.org