For some time Lara Natural Music has had its own online store which is provided by TradMusic. However, it is increasingly expected that albums are available on iTunes and we have therefore arranged to have all seven of our albums available on iTunes.

Charlie Boston on iTunes

Ced Thorose on iTunes

Olde Boston Tea Party on iTunes

We are proud to announce the release of two new albums recorded in Nashville in June by producer, Mark Moseley.  Bluestack Mountain Girl is Leanne Thorose’s debut album and features a stellar cast of Nashville musicians. With the same production team, Charlie Boston and Ced Thorose latest joint album, Out on the Ridge, is also released. We have already released tracks from both albums on the Hotdisc, the most influential media company promoting country music throughout Europe and Australia. All five tracks so far released on the Hotdisc have entered the top ten and received wide support from the DJs.  See the link to the chart – www.hotdisc.net/charts1.htm.

The Olde Boston Tea Party lead the way in another new musical initiative, this time at Haselbury Mill near Crewkerne, TA18 7NY.

New proprietor, Roger Bastable, is keen to establish Haselbury Mill as a music venue with sessions on the second Sunday of every month starting at 8.00 pm.

The first event will take place on Sunday 13th November when The Olde Boston Tea Party will be sharing the stage with swing jazz guitarist, Dick Madelin and his band. Entry is free and there will be an opportunity for other musicians to turn up with an instrument and join in.

The Olde Boston Tea Party establish a new bluegrass venue in Lower Godney, near Glastonbury

On 31st December 2009, the Sheppey Inn on the Somerset Levels in Lower Godney (around 3 miles from Glastonbury) closed down and remained closed for over a year.

However, it has now been bought by Mark and Liz Hey, who intend to establish the Sheppey Inn as one of the West Country’s leading musical venues.  On the recommendation of impresario, Ken Kutch, they have chosen The Olde Boston Tea Party to celebrate its opening on Saturday 29th October starting at 9.00pm.

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The Olde Boston Tea Party played their first gig at the famous Rifleman’s Arms in Glastonbury on Friday 15th July and has been invited to play there regularly in the future. Check the gig schedule for future dates.

On 20 June 2011 Charlie Boston, Ced Thorose and Leanne Thorose fly to Nashville, Tennessee to make two new albums.

Charlie and Ced’s album will be a collaboration featuring Ced’s latest dobro instrumentals and some new songs by Charlie.

Leanne, Ced’s daughter, is fast emerging as a shining light in the British and Irish scene. (more…)

The Olde Boston Tea Party had the honour of being invited by Councillor Bryan Chalker to open the Bath Americana Festival, playing at St Mark’s School on 18th May 2011. (more…)

“Back across the water” is the fourth album of original songs written by Charlie Boston in a musical genre which embraces folk and bluegrass. It has been an eight year wait for this album, performed with Charlie’s current band, “The Olde Boston Tea Party”, but it has been well worthwhile.

Charlie has always been an innovator and with this new album he has attempted to show how American bluegrass music originated with British and Irish folk music. With this in mind he has chosen to introduce British and Celtic themes and instruments into what many might regard as the property of Kentucky. So we find a guest appearance by Will Flewett playing Uilleann pipes alongside Charlie’s long-time partner the wonderful Ced Thorose (Dobro), David Hatfield (bass/bass vocals), Jeremy Cozens (mandolin/tenor vocals), Chris Comac (banjo), Nick Pynn (fiddle) and Mark Fletcher (drums) with Charlie taking lead on vocals and picking guitar.

The thirteen songs are so well crafted and so beautifully performed that I believe Charlie has indeed brought bluegrass “Back Across The Water”.

– Pete Smith, The Advertiser

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We released Back across the water a new album by The Olde Boston Tea Party with songs written by Charlie Boston and featuring some of the finest acoustic and bluegrass musicians based in the UK.

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