From: Vic & Tina Smith [tinvic_at_globalnet_dot_co_dot_uk]
Sent: 29 November 2008 16:48
Subject: TWELVE ITEMS OF FOLK MUSIC NEWS FROM SUSSEX FOR DECEMBER
TWELVE ITEMS OF FOLK MUSIC NEWS FROM SUSSEX FOR DECEMBER



1] FOLK AT THE ROYAL OAK
Station Street, Lewes
Enquiries:- (01273) 478124 or 881316
Email tinvic_at_globalnet_dot_co_dot_uk_dot_
Every Thursday 8.pm PROMPT START
Here is our programme from the now until the middle of February.
Dec 4th * free * LEWES LATE NIGHT SHOPPING OPEN NIGHT We only have about two or three Open Nights a year; the last one was in July and starting promptly at 8pm and by limiting each performer or group of performers to two items each, we just managed to put the last performers - a five-piece group - on at 5 to 11. Phew! Free admission on this night.


Dec 11th * £5.00 * PEPPER'S GHOST CHRISTMAS SHOW Songs, music, monologues and poems augment the wonderful Victorian Christmas magic Lantern show with Alan & Rene Marriott, Charlotte Oliver, Richard Spong & Roger Brasier.
Dec 18th * free * CHRISTMAS PARTY NIGHT
Our annual song and dance bash is always one of our most popular events.
Dec 25th & Jan 1st * Closed



Jan 8th * £7.00 * THE SULTANS OF SQUEEZE

Two maestros of free reed instruments and England's finest folk singer. John Kirkpatrick and Chris Parkinson make their first appearance in the area. Unmissable!



Jan 15th * £5.00 * MAGGIE HOLLAND

Now based in Edinburgh, this is a rare southern appearance for this very talented singer of traditional songs plus songwriter, with banjo and guitar.


Jan 22nd * £5.00 * BILL PRINCE

The debut in Lewes of a very engaging singer with a crisp and adventurous guitar style. Traditional and own songs.



Jan 29th * £5.00 * "LISTEN & YOU SHALL HEAR" - THE LIFE & WORK OF LUCY BROADWOOD

As told, sung and played by Irene Shettle and Ralph Jordan.



Feb 5th * £6.00 * JEFF DAVIS

A very welcome return visit for one of America's finest performers of traditional songs and tunes on banjo, mandolo, guitar and fiddle.


Feb 12th * £5.00 * ZOOX

The enormously entertaining and talented trio of Linda Game, Becky Menday and Jo May



Our Future Guests will include:-

DAVE SWARBRICK * MARTIN CARTHY, NORMA WATERSON & CHRIS PARKINSON * JIM & LYNETTE ELDON * LEON ROSSELSON * JIM BAINBRIDGE * THE ASKEW SISTERS * CHRIS FOSTER * CON FADA O'DRISCEOIL * TONY HALL * JERRY EPSTEIN & RALPH BODINGTON * SHEPHEARD, SPIERS * WATSON * DICK GAUGHAN


Our websites are

www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~tinvic

and
www.myspace.com/royaloakfolklewes
Those of you with listings/ gig guides etc. are asked kindly to include these dates amongst them.

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2] FOLK AT THE ROYAL OAK ON "MYSPACE"
Our MYSPACE profile enables us to profile sample tracks of coming guests as well as show photos and biographies of coming guests. It is at www.myspace.com/royaloakfolklewes
Currently on our MYSPACE we have the following tracks by coming guests:-


Sultans of Squeeze [John Kirkpatrick & Chris Parkinson] - "Gentlemen of High Renown" - (January 8th)
Maggie Holland - "A Proper Sort of Gardener" - (January 15th) Bill Prince - "Once I Courted A Damsel" - (January 22nd)
Jeff Davis - "Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy" - (February 5th)
Zoox - "Draggin' The Bow" - (February 12th)
Norma Waterson - "Sheepcrook And Black Dog" - (March 5th)



After each gig the songs will drop off to be replaced with another by an upcoming guest.
In addition there are videos by each of the following coming guest artists:-
SULTANS OF SQUEEZE - January 8th
ZOOX - February 12th

NORMA WATERSON & MARTIN CARTHY - March 5th

Then

DAVE SWARBRICK - March 19th
JIM ELDON - March 12th

DAVE SWARBRICK - March 19th

LEON ROSSELSON - March 26th

THE ASKEW SISTERS - April 16th
CHRIS FOSTER - April 23rd
TONY HALL - June 11th
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3] FOLK AT THE ROYAL OAK ON "YOUTUBE"
There are two photo-montage videos of artists that have appeared at the Royal Oak in past years posted on "Youtube".


The first one features singers and musicians who have played at The Royal Oak between 2002 and 2006. You can see it at:-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnHcbITBoJ0
It is accompanied by the following music:-
a] Foul Weather Call/From Night Till Morn
b] Monkey Hornpipe/Stepdance
c] Hunt The Squirrel/Four Hand Reel
This is played by Dan Quinn & Will Duke, two of the resident performers at the Royal Oak, and taken from their album "Wild Boys" available from:- homepage.ntlworld.com/rebe.cleveland/hebeweb.htm

The second one is a montage of some of the best performances at the Royal Oak during 2007. You can see it at:-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmQLe_Fz2UA
It is accompanied by the following music:-
a] The High Low Schottische / Untitled Schottische
b] The Bird on Nellie's Hat / Hopscotch Schottische
It is played by Will Duke, one of the resident performers at the Royal Oak, and taken from his 2008 album "Out of the Box " available from Will by emailing him at willlawrenceduke_at_hotmail_dot_com

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4] SUSSEX FOLK GUIDE WEBSITE - UPDATED
For all the listings of folk music, song club, dances, festivals in and around Sussex, have a look at whatson.brighton.co.uk/folk This site all always kept updated with the latest events and those currently listed cover all the dates up until the end of 2008.
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5] THE FOLK DIARY
Most of the listings on the Sussex Folk Guide website are taken from the paper magazine, THE FOLK DIARY. Issue no 234 covers the months of December and January and this is now available. They are packed with adverts for various folk festivals, folk music record companies, specialist shops, instrument makers and other services as well as details of all the folk song and dance events in our area. As well there are pages of reviews of recent folk CDs. To obtain copies of this free magazine as it is published, please send SAE's to Vic Smith at the address below.
It is also the address to send album review copies to. Potential advertisers are also asked to contact Vic for a statement of our advertising rates.

The copy date for the February/March issue is December 31st. However, it should be mentioned that once the available space has been filled, no more adverts can be accepted even if they are received BEFORE the copy date. With this in mind, it is worth contacting the editors before the copy date to state your intentions and reserve advertising space even if you have not got final details or you copy prepared.

Please contact

JIM MARSHALL 01273 559750 jimars_at_globalnet_dot_co_dot_uk

VIC SMITH 01273 478124 tinvic_at_globalnet_dot_co_dot_uk
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6] THE FOLK DIARY ON LINE
THE FOLK DIARY is available on-line at
www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~tinvic/fd.htm You will need Adobe ACROBAT READER to read the pages. The size of each page is given by each page link and the content of each page is indicated. The following issues are now
on-line and is listed here with the content of each page:-

ISSUE No. 233 OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 2008
Page 1 (937kb) Electric Voices Guildford area, Rude Mechanicals Shoreham (Weds), Spyboy Autumn presentations, Knots of May dancers
Page 2 (388kb) Piggies Open Mic Uckfield (Tues), Croydon Folk Club (Mons), Lamb Folk Club Eastbourne (Weds), The Sussex Pistols dance band, Uiscedwr Big Band in Hailsham
Page 3 (892kb) Lewes Arms Lewes (Sats), Royal Oak Lewes (Thurs) - Advertising rates and copy dates
Page 4 (695kb) Brighton Acoustic Session (Mons), Fee Calls Ceilidhs, Sussex Folk Association, Almond Greenway, Barry Murphy banjos, The Drift Ceilidh, Jim Marshall's button badges.
Page 5 (1582kb) Komedia events Brighton, Brighton Folk & Blues club (Fris), Hobgoblin music.
Page 6 (410kb) Melodeon for sale, Elsies Cowden Pound (Sats), White Horse Bodle Street Green (Mons), Acoustic mini festival East Grinstead, Six Bells Chiddingly (Tues), Brighton Singers Club (Weds & Suns) GBH Ceilidhs Godalming, Brighton Cellarfolk (Tues)
Page 7 (3108kb) Willows folk club Arundel (Weds), CD Reviews
Page 8 (2618kb) Horsham Folk Club (Weds), Julis Felix at The Willows Arundel, CD Reviews
Page 9 (2988kb) Hawth Crawley events, CD Reviews
Page 10 (1826kb) Seaford Folk Club (Fris), Beacon folk club Tunbridge Wells (Mons), Spinning Jenny Band, Meltdown Ceilidhs Haywards Heath Page 11 (1825kb) Folk at Hemingways Brighton (Mons), The Great Feelgood Company, Chanctonbury Ring Morris, Vince's fiddles, Acoustic Sussex presentations
Page 12 (39kb) Roots Around The World presentations

ISSUE No. 234 DECEMBER 2008 - JANUARY 2009
Page 1 (913kb) Zoox gigs, Barber and Taylor at the Good Companions see ** below, The Rude Mechanicals (Weds). Brighton Folk & Blues Club (Fris) see *** below, Tacet Ensemble/ Spiers and Boden "Junctions" tour
Page 2 (1409kb) Piggies Open Mic Uckfied (Tues), Greg Harper, Lamb Eastbourne (Weds), Hobgoblin Music, Spyboy presentations
Page 3 (1201kb) Komedia Brighton, Royal Oak Lewes (Thurs) - Advertising rates and copy dates
Page 4 (2498kb) Willows Arundel (Weds), CD Reviews
Page 5 (1346kb) Brighton Acoustic sessions (Mon), Horsham Folk Club (Suns), CD Reviews
Page 6 (410kb) Brighton Folk, CD Reviews.
Page 7 (622kb) SEFAN Strategic conference, Taverners' Christmas Party, Barry Murphy banjos, Richard Thompson at Brighton Dome, Maypoles to Mistletoe at Hawth Crawley
Page 8 (832kb) Fee Calls Ceilidhs, Elsie's (Sats), Beacon Tunbridge Wells (Mons), Six Bells Chiddingly (Tues), Brighton Singers Club (Suns & Weds), Meltdown Ceilidhs Haywards Heath (Sats) Brighton Cellarfolk (Tues) Page 9 (1984kb) Croydon Folk Club (Mons), Sussex Folk Association, Acoustic Sussex
Page 10 (1395kb) Seaford Folk Club (Fris), Dansez Francais, Mid-Sussex Folk Singers, Spinning Jenny Dance Band.
Page 11 (1288kb) Twagger Band, Jolly Brewer Brighton (Thurs), Vince's fiddles, Electric Voices (Guildford area), White Horse Bodle Street Green (Mons)
Page 12 (657kb) Lewes Arms Lewes (Sats)

** Since going to press this gig has been cancelled - see
www.myspace.com/barberandtaylor for possible alternative venue. *** Since going to press this club has left the Good Companions. The December 5th gig with Ben Paley and Tab Hunter will take place at Circus Circus at Preston Circus, Brighton. Details of a new home for the club will be announced at their website at
www.eclipsefolkandbluesclub.piczo.com/


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7] INSTRUMENTAL & VOCAL WORKSHOPS IN LEWES
LEWES ARMS FOLK CLUB WORKSHOPS 2008/9
The workshops last a full Saturday or Sunday and the tutor performs at the club in the evening. The last two workshops for 2008 will be:-

6th Dec - Paul Hutchinson - Accordion
6th Dec - Paul Sartin - Fiddle

Then the full programme for 2009 is as follows:-

28th Feb Brian Peters Melodeon

1st. March Brian Peters Ballad forum

28th. March Tom McConville Fiddle

25th. April Craig Morgan Robson Way through the Woods
26th. April Craig Morgan Robson Vocal harmony

6th. June Kerr /Fagan /Harbron Fiddle /Bouzouki /Concertina
7th. June Kerr Fagan /Harbron Vocal harmony/Winter MS tunes
11th. July Will Duke Scan Tester's tunes

18th. July Bonnie Shaljean Harp

12th. Sept Tommy Peoples Fiddle

19th. Sept Jeff Warner Song accompaniment

10th. Oct Tim Edey Melodeon

14th. Nov Vicki Swan Scottish smallpipes

21st. Nov Tom & Barbara Brown Ballad forum

5th. Dec Billy Teare Storytelling

5th. Dec Kathleen O'Sullivan Irish song


The website for more details is
www.lewesarmsfolkclub.org/LAFC/workshps.html or contact Valmai Goodyear on (01273) 476757 or email ValmaiGoodyear_at_aol_dot_com



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8] REGULAR SESSIONS IN THE LEWES/BRIGHTON AREA
Bryan Creer has taken on the task of detailing these, but has made changes to the way this is presented. Here is what he says:-
I have given free rein to my inner geek and written a new version of the Sessions page that works out the date of the next of each session (except for the weekly ones where it seemed a bit pointless). This was inspired by the uselessness of "Fortnightly counting from 3rd October 2006". I think it probably works almost all of the time (maybe). Would you like to change any references you make to it to
www.lewesarmsfolkclub.org/LAFC/Sessions.php
Cheers
Bryan
Have a look and if there are any you think that Bryan has missed - contact him on Bryancreer_at_aol_dot_com
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9] THE BRIGHTON WINTER CEILIDH

The tickets are on sale early for this hugely popular event.

Winter Ceilidh

Corn Exchange

Brighton

Saturday 20 December

7pm (doors 6.15pm)

With

THE SUSSEX PISTOLS

and caller Vic Smith

Despite its huge size, this event always sells out quickly, so if you intend buying tickets get on quickly to
www.brightondome.org/events.aspx?eid=2999 for further details and tickets.

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10] SUSSEX All-day SINGAROUND Saturday 17th. January 2009
This annual event runs from11.00 a.m. - 11.00 p.m. It takes place at The Royal Oak, High Street, Barcombe (near Lewes) East Sussex BN8 5BA. Free admission - good pub food on sale all day. First an hour of informal tunes while people arrive. Then the singing starts, finishing with a good hour of glorious choruses. Ballads & the occasional instrumental party piece will be very welcome too. And for those who want to make a weekend of it, this is followed by

ENGLISH TUNES SESSION Sunday 18th. January 2009 noon - 3.00 p.m. The Lewes Arms, Mount Place, Lewes, East Sussex BN7 1YH
Free admission - good pub food on sale.

Details of both events from Valmai Goodyear on (01273) 476757 or email ValmaiGoodyear_at_aol_dot_com

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11] THE COPPER FAMILY HOUSE CONCERT.

Jon Dudley has emailed me to say that they are having another Copper Family house concert on Tues. 13th January. They will have the delightful Blue Blokes 3 as guests. That is Ian Anderson, Ben Mandelson & Lu Edmonds. If you saw them at their first booking ever at the Royal Oak earlier in the year, you will realise how wonderful they are. They have asked Vic to MC the evening, which he is delighted to do and "could I tell those who ought to know about it so that they can get in first." He adds:-
"This time we're suggesting a 'voluntary' £7.00 donation. There will be a free glass of Harveys or a glass of red or white wine, subsequent ones at £1 a throw. Strictly not-for-profit. All proceeds to artists."

If you don't have Jon & Jill's email it is:

Jon Dudley

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12] BRIGHTON FOLK & BLUES CLUB MOVES

This club has been forced to leave its home at The Good Companions. The December meeting on Friday 5th December will now be at

CIRCUS CIRCUS

Stanford Circus

Brighton.

For details of the club's new permanent home as and when it is arranged, please phone 01273 736514 or look at their website at
www.brightonfolkandbluesclub.co.uk



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...And if you are ever looking for a good barn dance band, look no further than THE SUSSEX PISTOLS - though you should get in quickly - available dates for 2009 are being snapped up quickly.
Contact Tina on 01273 478124 or email her at tinasmith226_at_yahoo_dot_co_dot_uk to book the band. The band's website is at
www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~tinvic/pistols.htm and they have a MYSPACE profile as well at www.myspace.com/thesussexpistols

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VIC & TINA SMITH
26 Ferrers Road
LEWES
East Sussex
BN7 1PZ
England

Tel & Fax:- 01273 478124
Email:-
tinvic_at_globalnet_dot_co_dot_uk
folk_at_brighton_dot_co_dot_uk

ROYAL OAK WEBSITES:-
www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~tinvic

www.myspace.com/royaloakfolklewes

SUSSEX FOLK GUIDE WEBSITE:-
whatson.brighton.co.uk/folk

SUSSEX PISTOLS BARN DANCE BAND WEBSITE:-
www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~tinvic/pistols.htm

COMPOUND SOUNDS WEBSITE
www.compoundsounds.com

www.myspace.com/jalisherrifokonteh
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