Dear egroup
Hope this is
of interest and you can make it.
75th Anniversary Celebration at Cecil
Sharp House
Friday 19th &
Saturday 20th October
Anniversary
Festival celebrating 75 years of the English Folk Dance and Song
Society
Cecil Sharp House, Camden Town
Featuring the best in New
and Old Folk from across the capital! Including
CUT A Shine:21st
Century Barn Dancing, London Bulgarian Choir, The Green Note Café, Folkadot,
Paul Sartin and Saul Rose, ‘Caribbean Music in Europe C.1900-50’ lecture, Balkan
Dancing, The Moon Music Orchestra, Mary Hampton, Gemma Tortella, Thralles
Rapper, Folk Landscapes Film Screening, Faustus and New Esperance Morris
side.
The EFDSS has reached the grand old age of 75 and to mark this
immense feat of longevity and showcase how the Society continues to be a dynamic
and ever changing centre for the folk arts, it has organised a most daring and
unusual party. The event will mix a vast range of entertainment, workshop, live
music, and dance, featuring classic specialities of the folk arts as they always
have been with nuggets of the tradition’s future. Some of the most exciting folk
musicians, promoters, film makers and dancers in the land will be
performing.
Festivities start at midday with an hour of fully participatory
house decorating. Music maestros Paul Sartin and Saul Rose will start the
celebrations off with the afternoon’s first concert, followed by a lecture on
recordings of Caribbean music in Europe c.1900-1950.
The ‘Folk
Landscapes’ hall is a dedicated screening of folk archive and art house folk
films, The Green Note Café and Folkadot will present their acoustic lounge and
an evening’s presentation of the not to be missed show ‘A Brief history of
Folk’.
There will be workshops in Balkan dancing, we will see displays
from the true British cut throat gymnastic sword dancing team ‘Thrales Rapper’.
There will be an all-evening open mic session open to all musician, singers,
dancers, poets and storytellers.
The Night’s concert will feature music from
Alternative folk stars Gemma Tortela and the A Line, London Bulgarian Choir,
Mary Hampton Band.
The jewel in the nights crown will be the Cut A
Shine 21st Century Barn Dance Crew who will have the crowds tearing the
floor up with their revolution of country dancing showing the adoring fans how
barn dances never were and should always be!
The EFDSS is a charity
registered in England and Wales.
Friday night features the
legendary singles Ceilidh Knees Up that has been whipping up a frenzy of
monthly country dances for several years and is famous for its raucous young
crowds. The ravishing all male Faustus will be making the music.
Cecil Sharp
House, 2 Regents Park Road, Camden Town, London NW1
Friday 8-11pm
£8/£6
Saturday 12am - 11pm £10/£8
Joint Tickets £15/£12
Tickets
available in advance or on the door
020 7485 2206
www.efdss.org <http://www.efdss.
sam_at_efdss_dot_org