From: Sue Rule [pigsear_at_mac_dot_com]
Sent: 10 December 2007
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Season's Greetings from Pig's
Ear
Some
dates for your new diaries and calendars:
Wednesday 12th December
"Murder and Magic" 7.30 pm, Sittingbourne
Library, Central Avenue, Sittingbourne
Sue Rule is participating in a talk by local
authors - and providing the "Magic" bit of the equation. Watch this space for
news of the publication date of Part II of Sue's Shaihen Heritage trilogy.
Thursday 13th December Traveller's
Rest Folk Club.
8.00 pm The Rising Sun,
Twitton Lane, Twitton, Kent
Tuesday 18th
December The Punch & Judy
9.00 pm St
Stephen's Street, Tonbridge, TN9 2AB,
Wednesday 9th January The Man Of Kent
9.00 pm Rochester, Kent, ME1 1YN
Monday 14th January The Beacon
8.00
pm Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Wednesday 16th
January Eastbourne Folk Club
8.00 pm The
Lamb, High Street, Old Town Eastbourne, Sussex
...this is (one of the venues)
who booked us and then promptly set fire to their premises. They could have just
asked us not to come.... However, we're very please to be asked back, and trust
that the Lamb will be a little less roasted this time
round....
Saturday 19th January The
Reluctant Mariner
7.30 pm St John's URC
Church, Marsh Green, Edenbridge
Oh no it isn't! Oh yes it is...! Pig's Ear
celebrate the New Year with a concert at Marsh Green featuring a new dramatic
musical work in the pantomime/mumming tradition: "The Reluctant Mariner."
Proceeds of this concert go to Action Aid for Bangladesh, in conjunction with
the Church's 125th anniversary celebrations.
Monday 111h February The New Drum
8.30 pm Lavender Hill, Kent
Friday
14th March Moore or Less Folk Club
8.00 pm
The Three Sisters, Rainham, Kent
Friday
21st March The Punch & Judy Irish Week
9.00 pm The Punch & Judy, St Stephen's Street,
Kent
Saturday/Sunday 3rd/4th May Rochester
Sweeps Festival
We will once more be
hosting the City Wall Wine Bar stage in Rochester High Street on Saturday and
Sunday .
Monday 19th May Nellie's Folk
Club
8.00 pm The Ivy House, Tonbridge,
Kent
Friday/Saturday/Sunday 30th May-1st
June The Kentish Horse
The 2008 Pig's Ear Folk Ale at the Kentish Horse,
Cow Lane, Markbeech, Edenbridge, Kent
Guests: The Young Coppers, The Singing Loins, Wasps in the Woodshed; John Barden; Mark Lawson,
and many more friends and supporters of this magnificent weekend of music in the
Kent countryside. Sunshine guaranteed.... (that's put the mockers on it, for
sure....)
Weekend tickets now on sale: £20.00 in advance, £25.00 on the door;
includes camping. Contact Sue for a spot in the Open Mic
sessions.
The Pig's Ear Album
tour....
....well, not quite.
Most bands take one album and tour round different venues performing it. We're
going to pick one venue, and perform each of our different albums! Six albums;
six concerts, throughout 2008 (and possibly into 2009). Watch this space for
details of when and where.
DANGEROUS AGE
Saturday 15th
December, The Kentish Horse 9.00 pm
Sunday 30th December, The Ivy House,
Tonbridge. 9.00 pm
Saturday 26th January, Ryan's Bar, Southborough. 9.00
pm
Sunday 16th March, The Crow's Nest, East Grinstead. 9.00 pm
Sunday 23rd
March, The Ivy House, Tonbridge. 9.00 pm
Saturday 17th May, Ryan's Bar,
Southborough. 9.00 pm
Sunday 8th June, The Ivy House, Tonbridge. 9.00
pm
For festival information,
to contact Pig's Ear, buy CDs or books:
Grant & Sue Rule
tel (day)
01732 869901; (eve) 01732 864206
Fax: 01732
864996
www.pigs-sty.co.uk
e-mail pigsear_at_mac_dot_com_dot_
St Clare's Mill Hill,
Edenbridge, Kent TN8 5DQ
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