NINE ITEMS OF FOLK MUSIC NEWS FROM LEWES FOR FEBRUARY
1] FOLK AT THE
ROYAL
OAK
Station
Street, Lewes
Enquiries: - (01273)
478124 or 881316
Email tinvic_at_globalnet_dot_co_dot_uk.
Every Thursday 8.pm
PROMPT START
Here is our programme for the coming
months:-
Feb 4th * £6.00 * MARTYN WYNDHAM READ & IRIS BISHOP
One of the finest voices on the folk scene in the company of one of the most talented and sensitive accompanists.
Feb 11th * £6.00 * JEZ LOWE
'One of the best writers to come out of England' Richard Thompson. 'One of our best songwriters' Mike Harding, BBC Radio 2
Feb 18th * £6.00 * CHRIS BARTRAM, NEIL BROOKES & TONY WEATHERALL
A new trio from Shropshire that combines the excellent singing of Chris with the a pair of the finest exponents of English dance music on fiddle and melodeon
February 25th * £6.00 * PETA WEBB & KEN HALL
Two great singers whose voices combine wonderfully well. Their repertoire of songs come from England, Ireland and
America and they are noted experts on traditional singing.
March 4th * £6.00 * ANDY TURNER & MAT GREEN
A welcome return for this talented pair. Andy sings and plays melodeon and anglo-concertina. Mat dances morris jigs and plays fiddle. Their playing really creates sparks of excitement.
March 11th * £7.00 * TIM VAN EYKEN
Following his great success at the National Theatre and the West End in "War Horse", Tim returns to solo performing and this will be one of his first gigs since doing so. Ex-Waterson:Carthy
March 18th * £10.00 * MARTIN CARTHY, NORMA WATERSON & CHRIS PARKINSON
>>>ADVANCE TICKET ONLY<<< This tremendous trio provided one of our best nights ever when they visited last year. These three have been amongst the top names on the folk scene for decades now.
March 25th * £6.00 * JIM McFARLAND
One of Ireland's top singers of traditional songs is making a short English tour from his home in Derry. Jim has a great voice, many excellent songs and he decorates his singing in a beautiful way
Later in 2010, our guests will include:-
* ROSIE DAVIS, JOE LOCKER & BOB WINQUIST
(replacing the band weather cancellation evening) * CHRIS
COE & JOHN ADAMS * JOHN KIRKPATRICK * JEFF WARNER * BAYOU SECO * DEBBIE
McCLATCHY
Our websites are at and
http://www.myspace.com/royaloakfolklewes
Those of you who arrange listings are politely requested to include all of the above.
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2] LEWES FOLK
FESTIVAL 7 -10th OCTOBER 2010.
The two Lewes folk clubs are combining their
efforts to promote this festival, largely based in their own clubrooms and other
venues in the town. At the moment this is still in the early
planning stages but watch this circular and elsewhere for updates on the
guests/programme etc. At the moment the following artists have agreed to appear:
- SHIRLEY COLLINS, JOHN KIRKPATRICK, CHRIS COE, JOHN ADAMS, PETE COE.
SUE COE, CHRIS PARTINGTON, THE COPPER FAMILY, BOB LEWIS, PEPPERS’ GHOST
and a notable number of display dance teams have also indicated their
willingness to participate. The website at http://www.lewesfolkfest.org/LFFindex.php
will gradually be developed as plans become finalised.
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3] FOLK AT THE ROYAL OAK ON
"MYSPACE"
Our MYSPACE profile enables us
to provide sample tracks of coming guests as well as show photos and biographies
of coming guests. It is at http://www.myspace.com/royaloakfolklewes
Currently on our MYSPACE we have the
following tracks by coming guests:-
Martyn Wyndham Read & Iris
Bishop - "The Foggy Dew" - (February 4th)
Chris Bartram, Neil Brookes &
Tony Weatherall - "Barleycorn" - (February 18th)
Tony Weatherall [as part of
Bartram. Brookes & Weatherall]- "The Woolsack - Oh What A Row - Reel" -
(February 18th)
Mat Green & Andy Turner - "Quicksteps" - (March 4th)
Tim Van Eyken - "Barleycorn" - (March 11th)
Chris Parkinson [with Martin
Carthy & Norma Waterson] - "Scotch Measure/Mount Hills" - (March
18th)
Norma Waterson [with Martin Carthy & Chris Parkinson] - "Sheepcrook
& Black Dog" - (March 18th)
Martin Carthy [with Norma Waterson &
Chris Parkinson] - "Georgie" - (March 18th)
Jim MacFarland - "Reynardine" -
(March 25th)
Rosie Davis [with Joe Locker & Bob Winquist] - "My Blue
Heart" - (April 15th)
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:-
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MARTYN WYNDHAM READ & IRIS BISHOP February 4th
JEZ
LOWE February 11th
TIM VAN EYKEN March 11th
MARTIN CARTHY March 18th
NORMA WATERSON
March 18th
JIM MacFARLAND March 25th
ROSIE DAVIS
JOE LOCKER & BOB WINQUIST April 15th
JEFF WARNER May
20th
CHRIS FOSTER June 17th
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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 http://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 February 2010 .
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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 241 covers the months of February and March.
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. 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 April/May issue is February 26th. However, it should be mentioned for future issues 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
Or
VIC SMITH 01273 478124 tinvic_at_globalnet_dot_co_dot_uk
The next
issue will be number 242 and will cover the months of April and May and will be
available from Mid-March.
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6] THE FOLK DIARY ON
LINE
THE
FOLK DIARY is available on-line at
http://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 issue is now
on-line and are listed here with the content of each
page:-
Page
1(640kb)
Beacon Tonbridge Wells (Mons), Vinces Fiddles, Six Bells Chiddingly (Tues),
Nanci Griffiths at De La Warr Pavilion Bexhill.
Page
2 (938kb) Pokey Lefarge at the Blue Coconut Pulborough, Grub's
Music Bar East Grinstead, White Horse Bodle St. Green (Mons), GBH Ceilidhs
Godalming (Sats), Elsie's (Sats), Folk On The Coast Bognor (Fris).
Page
3 (861kb) Lewes Saturday folk club, Folk at the
Royal
Oak, Lewes
(Thurs), Copy dates and contact details.
Page
4 (1601kb) Amberley Folk Club (Tues), Brighton Acoustic sessions at The Nelson
(Mons), Kate's Kitchen Band,
Brighton Cellarfolk (Tues), Piggie's Open Mic
sessions Uckfield (Tues).
Page
5 (1688kb) Hobgoblin Music, The Hawth Crawley, Gary's Live
Music Club Coolham (Sats).
Page
6 (449kb) The Blue Coconut Pulborough, Mid-Sussex Folk Singers
Ashurst (Weds) Rude Mechanicals Shoreham (Weds), Fee Calls Ceilidhs, Lamb folk
club Eastbourne (Weds), Brighton Folk & Blues Club Open House (Fris).
Page
7 (1667kb) Meltdown Ceilidhs Haywards Heath (Sats),
Sussex Folk Association, Acoustic
Sussex.
Page
8 (474kb) Seaford Folk Club (Fris), Brighton Singers Club The
Pond (Weds), Tonbridge Folk Club (Mons), The Sussex Song & Ale, Croydon Folk
Club (Mons), Barry Murphy's banjos.
Page
9 (1339kb) (385kb) Blue Coconut Pulborough, Horsham Folk Club
(Suns), Jolly Brewer Brighton (Suns), Electric Voices
Guildford area.
Page
10 (1241kb) Willows Arundel (Weds), CD reviews by Jim Marshall
and Vic Smith
Page
11 (938kb) Folk Music in Tenterden (Fris), CD reviews by Jim
Marshall and Vic Smith
Page
12 (942 kb) Spyboy Presentations
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7]
LEWES WORKSHOPS AT THE ELEPHANT & CASTLE
The workshops last a full Saturday
or Sunday and the tutor performs at the
club in the evening. The programme
for 2010 will be:-
20 Feb STEVE TURNER
Concertinas for song accompaniment
27 Feb COOPE BOYES & SIMPSON Vocal
harmony
27 Feb GEORGINA BOYES Folklore seminar (pm)
27 March BEN PALEY
Fiddle
17 April SHIRLEY COLLINS Trad song masterclass
18 April SHIRLEY
COLLINS Trad song masterclass
24 April ISSEY EMENEY Melodeon
22 May JOE
PENLAND North Carolina song & society
5 June MIKE O'CONNOR & BARBARA
GRIGGS Cornish tunes from source manuscripts
6 June MIKE O'CONNOR Songwriting
in the tradition
10 July KAREN TWEED O'Carolan's music (any instrument)
18
Sept MOOR MUSIC Dartmoor music (any instrument)
9 Oct JOHN ADAMS Village
Music Project (any instrument)
10 Oct CHRIS COE Ballad forum
31 Oct MARTIN
CARTHY Guitar
13 Nov FRANKIE ARMSTRONG Singing & vocal techniques
20
Nov TIM LAYCOCK Concertina (all systems)
The website for more details
is
http://www.lewesarmsfolkclub.org/LAFC/workshps.html
or contact Valmai
Goodyear on (01273) 476757 or email ValmaiGoodyear_at_aol_dot_com
The Lewes Saturday
Folk Club has a new domain name - http://www.lewessaturdayfolkclub.org/.
This will work in parallel with the old name http://www.lewesarmsfolkclub.org/ for
the time being but they hope to phase it out so please change your
bookmarks.
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8] MONTHLY SESSION IN LEWES
There are very enjoyable Sunday afternoon sessions in the bar of the Royal Oak in Station Street in Lewes. These will be on the last Sunday of the month from 3.30 – 5.30pm. Dates for the next sessions are
~~~~~ February 28th – March 28th ~~~~~
They will be run by Vic & Tina Smith.
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9]
OTHER REGULAR SESSIONS IN THE LEWES/BRIGHTON AREA
Bryan Creer has
taken on the task of detailing these, and they are posted at
http://www.lewesarmsfolkclub.org/LAFC/Sessions.php
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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...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 2010 are
being snapped up quickly. They performed once again for the largest and most
prestigious dance in our area, the BRIGHTON MIDWINTER CEILIDH at the Corn
Exchange in Brighton on December 20th. As
usual, the 500 plus tickets sold out very 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 http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~tinvic/pistols.htm
and they have a MYSPACE profile as well at http://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:-
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~tinvic
http://www.myspace.com/royaloakfolklewes
SUSSEX FOLK GUIDE WEBSITE:-
http://whatson.brighton.co.uk/folk
LEWES FOLK FESTIVAL WEBSITE:-
http://lewesfolkfest.org/
SUSSEX PISTOLS BARN DANCE
BAND WEBSITE:-
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~tinvic/pistols.htm
COMPOUND
SOUNDS WEBSITE
http://www.compoundsounds.com
http://www.myspace.com/jalisherrifokonteh
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