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From: ValmaiGoodyear_at_aol_dot_com

Date: 28 May 2008 18:31:23 BDT

Subject: Lewes Arms folk club, June

31 MAY MUSIC HALL NIGHT (£4)

Master of Ceremonies: KENNETH HOBBS (Lieutenant-Major, First Foot & Mouth, Retd)

Impresario: DON MORGAN (Captain, The King’s Own, but not for keeps) (01444 443280)

We respectfully request you to let Mr. Morgan know your choice of song in advance so that a balanced programme of delights may be prepared. Please dress suitably for the occasion if possible.

7 JUNE Lewes Arms workshop no. 93

CLOUDSTREET: VOCAL HARMONY

10.45 a.m. - 4.45 p. m. Places £25

From Australia, Nicole Murray and John Thompson (www.cloudstreet.org/) offer hot harmonies with spellbindingly precise delivery & accompaniment on guitar, flute, fiddle, whistle & concertina.This workshop will cover warm-ups for body & voice, useful singing techniques, part singing, improvisation, & harmony development.

IN THE EVENING CLOUDSTREET PERFORM AT THE LEWES ARMS (£6)

Advance tickets & booking forms available from the club & the website.

14 JUNE TUNES SESSION with DOCTOR'S ORDERS (www.folknet.co.uk/cliffbaylis/index.html) (£3)

Bring instruments to join in: singers welcome too. Cliff Baylis & Jenny Huggett play English, American, Finnish & Swedish tunes on guitar, mandolin, mandola, concertina & fiddle; Cliff also sings.

21 JUNE MIRIAM BACKHOUSE (http://www.motherearthmusic.co.uk/artists.php#Miriam) (£5)

A fine singer & songwriter with guitar, once a Lewes resident, now visiting from South Africa.

28 JUNE ALAN & CAROL PRIOR (£5)

Scottish songs superbly delivered; these two were guests at the Inishowen singing festival last year.

5 JULY Lewes Arms workshop no. 94

WILL DUKE: TUNES OF SCAN TESTER (any instrument)

10.45 a.m. - 4.45 p. m. Places £25

All profits after expenses go to the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, Cecil Sharp House.

Scan Tester (1887-1972) was an Anglo concertina player from Sussex with a vast repertoire of social dance & popular tunes. The workshop is aimed at proficient musicians on any instrument, who can learn & play tunes by ear. Will Duke will simply play tunes at you & encourage you to join in, playing the same tune half a dozen times. Participants can record tunes on the day on their own equipment.

IN THE EVENING WILL DUKE PERFORMS AT THE LEWES ARMS (£5)

Advance tickets & booking forms are available from the club & the website. There is also a printable form for ordering Will's new CD 'Out of the Box'.

TREVOR ARMS TUNES SESSION, SUNDAY 1^ST. JUNE, 3.30 - 5.30 p.m.

The Trevor Arms, Glynde, East Sussex BN8 6SS (next to Glynde railway station)

Meic Goodyear leads on fiddle. A lesser-known side to his character is shown here: http://rozsouth.zenfolio.com/p907809640/ (best viewed as a slideshow). Note the Neptuning fork.

CONCERTINAS ANONYMOUS

LEWES ARMS CLUB-ROOM, MONDAY 2^nd. JUNE, 8.00 - 11.00 PM

This is Bryan Creer's regular free session for concertina players of all systems and abilities on the first Monday of the month. What happens depends largely on who turns up, but there's usually some part-playing at some stage and a few session tunes get severely beaten up.

JOHN HARVEY TUNES SESSION, TUESDAY 3^rd.. JUNE, 8.00 - 11.00 PM

John Harvey Tavern, Bear Yard, Lewes BN7 2AN (opposite Harveys Brewery in Cliffe High Street)

If you'd like to lead one of these sessions, which are always on the first Tuesday of the month, let me know. Alan Day will lead in October.

LEWES FAVOURITES ENGLISH TUNES PRACTICE SESSION, LEWES ARMS CLUB-ROOM, WEDNESDAY 18th. JUNE, 8.00 - 11.00 PM

This is the monthly free practice for anyone wanting to practice tunes popular in local English sessions on any instrument. Andy Warburton has compiled two unbound supplements, one of a further 33 trendy tunes and another with a small selection of Scan Tester’s material; both are available to people coming to the practice sessions for the not unreasonable sum of £30p, but limited to one copy per person. They can also be downloaded from the Lewes Arms Folk Club website.

Tootle pip,

Valmai

Valmai Goodyear
20, St. John's Terrace, Lewes, BN7 2DL

01273 476757

Lewes Arms Folk Club, Mount Place, Lewes, East Sussex BN7 1YH
http://www.lewesarmsfolkclub.org/
Residents: Bryan Creer, Dave Earl, Sandra Goddard, Valmai Goodyear, Suzanne Higgins, Steve & Diane Nevill, George Oakley, Robert O'Mahony, Derek Seed

LEWES ARMS FOLK CLUB WORKSHOPS 2008
The workshops last a full Saturday and the tutor performs at the club in the evening.
Booking forms can be printed from the website about four months before the event.

15th March     Alistair Anderson     Northumbrian music (any instrument)
19th April     Martin Carthy     Guitar & song
7th June     Cloudstreet     Vocal harmony
5th. July     Will Duke     Scan Tester's tunes
19th July     Mick West     Scottish song
19th July     Frank McLaughlin     Scottish music for guitar
6th Sept Marian Button Ballad forum
20th Sept     Mary Humphreys & Anahata     Fenland tunes (any instrument)
18th Oct     Coope Boyes & Simpson     Vocal harmony
18th Oct     Georgina Boyes     Seminar: Wassails, Carols & Winter Customs (pm)
25th Oct     John Kirkpatrick     Modes (any instrument)
22nd Nov     Roy Clinging & Neil Brookes     Cheshire tunes (any instrument)
6th Dec     Paul Hutchinson     Accordion
6th Dec     Paul Sartin     Fiddle
                Belshazzar's Feast (evening)

SPARE PARTS CONCERTINA BAND
Bryan Creer, Suzanne Higgins, Valmai Goodyear
http://www.sparepartsband.co.uk/

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