From: SEFAN [admin_at_sefan_dot_org_dot_uk]
Sent: 17 June 2009 11:41
Subject: SEFAN 2009-06-17_01. 1 x EVENT / 2 x misc.
1. Jigalots Ceilidh, 20th June,Teddington  20 June (PLUS charity appeal for instruments) 
2. Music notation web site - French / English tunes.
3. Help, leads (and bookings!) sought for Circulus tour.
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1.
From: Fiz Markham <fizmarkham_at_yahoo_dot_co_dot_uk>
Date: 16 June 2009 10:04:48 BDT
Subject: Jigalots Ceilidh, 20th June,Teddington


Ceilidh with The Jigalots  http://www.jigalots.co.uk/
Date:  Saturday 20 June 2009   Time: 19:30 - 22:30*
Venne: St Mary's Church Hall, Langham Road, Teddington, Middlesex TW11 9HF

 

Tickets £10 in advance (£5 under-16s)
From Barry Buttenshaw
Phone: 020-8977-4100 or Email: barryandcarol_at_hotmail_dot_co_dot_uk
or £12.50 at door
The ticket price includes a donation to help give music to Sierra Leone.
Bar

 

This is a good chance to hear the Jigalots - all other 2009 gigs are private.

 

Local choir, Cantanti Camerati, is running the ceilidh. Money raised is helping them to take music to Sierra Leone, a country recovering from civil war and where one of their members is Deputy High Commissioner. (More info – see http://www.cantanticamerati.org.uk )


Cantanti is also collecting second-hand (working) instruments and sheet music to send to the national school for music, which is extremely poorly equipped today.

 

Fiz Markham of the Jigalots sings with this choir, and has steered them to having an English ceilidh rather than a “PTA” barndance. There will be no long break for a ploughman’s on a paper plate! 

*It ends at 1030 to keep the neighbours happy and to allow you to get to the pub for last orders!

 


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2. Music notation site - French / English tunes.
GLEANED from Kerry Fletcher's round-up

Please could you let everyone know about my source for French and English tunes www.folkmusicnotes.wordpress.com, which includes the dots for about 200 tunes, with more being added every day. There's a particularly good selection of tunes played at the Chester Arms over the past twelve months, as well as lots of material from English Acoustic Collective Summer Schools.


Cheers, 

Matt

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3.
Kate Goodale is looking for promoters/venues for Circulus.
Also other psych, medieval, progressive folk to share billing.
Any bookings / ideas / offers of help etc to Kate please.

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Date: 15 June 2009 14:05:43 BDT
Subject: Circulus tour
 Dear Penny,

 

You  know me as tour producer of  the Asian Music Circuit - I came to your fantastic conference a while ago. I was wondering whether you could help me. I have recently offered to act as a tour producer/ booker for the medieval pixie rock band Circulus, since they are no longer working through Coda. Their long awaited third album is out on June 15th, with world wide distribution and marketing via Voiceprint.

 

Hopefully you have heard of the band, they are regularly played on BBC 6 Music’s Freak Zone with Stuart Maconie. Although Circulus may still only appeal to a niche audience, there are many people throughout the UK who appreciate their innovation and musicianship. The British Library have selected them to headline their Henry VIII celebration day on June 24th: A Night at the Library, 500 years since Henry's ascension.

 

Other upcoming shows include
Sat 27th June - Manchester, supporting Comus
Sat 8th Aug – Prog Fest, Leeds
Fri 4th Sept - Moseley Folk Festival, Birmingham
Sat 19th Sept – Wild in the Woods, Lake Windemere, Cumbria
Sat 26th Sept - Canterbury  (Twilight Folk Club? 1d)

 

My aim is to have them play with bands of the same ilk - psych, medieval, progressive folk - either pulling in local bands or bringing other acts with them.

 

Do you think you could send this round to the promoters/ venues of Sefan - I really think this band would go down very well. Or perhaps you have a few tips/ ideas on some venues that you think I should be contacting – any help would be great!

I have attached a photo of the band,  image removed. 1d. (sorry!)

 

Kind regards

 

Kate Goodale
Tour producer Asian Music Circuit

 

Circulus’ new album Thought Becomes Reality, released June 2009

 

‘British band Circulus have almost single handedly reinvented English Psychedelic Folk Rock for the 21st Century. This, their long awaited third album, brings you more of the bands Twisted Mushroom Pixie Rock. Circulus first made their mark on British music in 2005 with the release of The Lick on the Tip of an Envelope yet to be Sent which appeared in the top fifty albums of the year in Mojo, The Observer and NME. Circulus have heralded the recent acid folk craze - alongside other protagonists of the genre such as Espers and Tunng - yet their sound is totally unique coming across like a mixture of medieval English Folk, Fairport Convention and Ozric Tentacles! This new album takes the band into melodic pop territory with some beautiful multi-part harmonies alongside the usual bucolic mayhem!’              Richard Allen, Freak Emporium


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