From: ValmaiGoodyear_at_aol_dot_com

Date: 28 July 2009 09:20:00 BDT

Subject: Lewes Saturday Folk Club in August

LEWES SATURDAY FOLK CLUB

(THE ROOM IN THE ELEPHANT)

New website address  www.lewessaturdayfolkclub.org

Elephant & Castle, White Hill, Lewes BN7 2DJ

AUG 1            TUNES SESSION led by Bryan Creer     (£3 including raffle tickets)

                        Bring instruments to join in mainly English tunes led by Bryan on concertina & fiddle. Singers welcome too.

AUG 8            'INSURRECTION'    Come-All-Ye with Denise & Stuart Savage   (£3 including raffle tickets)

AUG 15          'GOODIES & BADDIES'     Come-All-Ye with Sandra Goddard  (£3 including raffle tickets)

AUG 22          'TOUGH LUCK!'       Come-All-Ye with Derek Seed          (£3 including raffle tickets)   

AUG 29          Come-All-Ye with Diane & Steve Nevill       (£3 including raffle tickets)

SEP 5              SONG & DANCE NIGHT    (£3)

                        Bring songs to perform, instruments to join the band & feet for dancing in our fine big room.

SEP 12             Lewes Elephant Folk Music Workshop No. 116       

                        TOMMY PEOPLES FIDDLE WORKSHOP

                        10.45 a.m. - 4.45.p.m.             Places £40 (sold out but we're keeping a waiting list)

                        Tommy Peoples (http://homepage.tinet.ie/~logo/tommy.htm) is a living legend, the greatest  exponent of the driving Donegal style of fiddling. A founding member of the Bothy Band, his 1999                         solo CD  The Quiet Glen earned him his country's highest accolade as ‘Musician of the Year’, the first person to be so honoured by the Irish Government. 

                        The workshop will cover ornamentation, bowing, & some unusual tunes.

                        IN THE EVENING  TOMMY PEOPLES PERFORMS AT THE ELEPHANT & CASTLE

                        (£9;  advance tickets available from the club or its website www.lewessaturdayfolkclub.org

SEP 19              Lewes Elephant Folk Music Workshop No. 117

                        JEFF WARNER: SONG ACCOMPANIMENT for any instrument

                        10.45 a.m.- 4.45 p.m. Places £25

                        A fine singer of American traditional songs, Jeff (www.jeffwarner.com) accompanies himself on guitar, 5-string banjo & English concertina. He presents music from North Carolina to New England                    with warmth, humour & understated scholarship. He's also a great teacher with a deep understanding of the origins on the music & how to perform it for today's listeners.

                        The workshop will cover choice of instruments & styles, chords, voicings, scales, harmonies, how to accompany or be accompanied, playing with others, & performance tips. Styles & ideas used    on                         Jeff's main instruments are transferrable to others. We won't be discussing guitar open tunings or banjo bluegrass picking. MP3s & music will be sent ahead for sample songs. Recording devices                            welcome.

                        IN THE EVENING JEFF WARNER PERFORMS AT THE ELEPHANT & CASTLE

                        (£5; advance tickets available from the club or its website www.lewessaturdayfolkclub.org

 

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

01273 476757

Lewes Saturday Folk Club, Elephant & Castle, White Hill, Lewes BN7 2DJ
http://www.lewessaturdayfolkclub.org/ 
Residents: Bryan Creer, Dave Earl, Sandra Goddard, Valmai Goodyear, Suzanne Higgins, Steve & Diane Nevill, George Oakley, Robert O'Mahony, Denise & Stuart Savage, Derek Seed

LEWES ELEPHANT FOLK MUSIC WORKSHOPS 2009
The workshops last a full Saturday and the tutor performs at the pub in the evening.
Booking forms can be printed from the website about four months before the event.

28 Feb Brian Peters Melodeon
1 Mar Brian Peters Ballad forum
28 Mar Tom McConville Fiddle
25 Apr Craig Morgan Robson 'Way through the Woods'
26 Apr Craig Morgan Robson Vocal harmony
6 Jun Nancy Kerr Fiddle
James Fagan Bouzouki
Robert Harbron Concertina
7 Jun Nancy Kerr & James Fagan Vocal harmony
Robert Harbron Winter MS tunes
11 Jul Will Duke Scan Tester's tunes
18 Jul Bonnie Shaljean Harp
12 Sept Tommy Peoples Fiddle
19 Sept Jeff Warner Song accompaniment
10. Oct Tim Edey Melodeon
14 Nov Vicki Swan Scottish smallpipes
21 Nov Tom & Barbara Brown Ballad forum
5 Dec Billy Teare Storytelling
5 Dec Kathleen O'Sullivan Irish song


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