From: Vic Smith [tinvic_at_globalnet_dot_co_dot_uk]
Sent: 29 April 2010 16:37
Subject: NINE ITEMS OF FOLK MUSIC NEWS FROM LEWES FOR MAY

NINE ITEMS OF FOLK MUSIC NEWS FROM LEWES FOR MAY

1] 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. Watch this circular and elsewhere for updates on the guests/programme etc. If you would like to receive an email of the programme for the festival (as it stands at the moment) please email folk_at_brighton and the .doc file of the programme will be sent to you The programme is reaching its final shape and the following artosts 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 www.lewesfolkfest.org/LFFindex.php is being developed as plans become finalised. We are delighted that Shirley Collins has agreed to become the festival’s patron. Advance tickets will go on sale from June 1st.
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2] FOLK AT THE ROYAL OAK
Station Street, Lewes
Enquiries: - (01273) 478124 or 881316
Email tinvic_at_globalnet_dot_co_dot_uk_dot_
Here is the programme for the rest of our season up until the end of July:-
April 29th * £6.00 * ROGER WATSON & MUSA M’BOOB The English singer and melodeon player and the Gambian master drummer who work together brilliantly in Boka Halat bring as their exhilarating music
May 6th * £6.00 * ÉAMONN Ó BRÓITHE & CREENA MULCHRONE Éamonn is an outstanding exponent of the uillean pipes and Creena is the wonderfully talented young Irish singer who has been gracing our club lately
May 13th * £6.00 * PAUL BURGESS
One of England finest fiddle players (Old Swan Band, English Country Dance band etc.) is also a talented singer
May 20th * £6.00 * JEFF WARNER
Singer, musician on banjo and concertina, folklorist , Jeff’s performances are musically satisfying as well as being entertaining
May 27th * £6.00 * DEBBY McCLATCHY
The first visit of this expert entertainer who performs with wit and imagination. While she plays a variety of acoustic instruments, when touring she just takes banjo and maybe a fiddle
June 3rd * £8.00 * BLACK UMFOLOSI 5 (from ZIMBABWE) An amazing coup for us! We bring you one of Africa's outstanding vocal harmony groups singing in Shona and English ***ADVANCE TICKETS - PHONE OR EMAIL***
June 10th * £6.00 * PETA WEBB & KEN HALL Peta & Ken's artistic ability and warm, informative approach and their visible enthusiasm for singing have deservedly won many friends and admirers.
June 17th * £6.00 * CHRIS FOSTER
Thoughtful, passionate, intelligent, nerve-jangling performances of English traditional songs and ballads. One of the folk revival's greats.
June 24th * £6.00 * KEITH KENDRICK & SYLVIA NEEDHAM Making their first appearance for us, they bring entertaining performances of traditional songs and ballads of both land and sea.
July 1st * £6.00 * BAYOU SECO
From Silver City, New Mexico, Ken and Jeannie present a vibrant, stunning range of the rural musics of the southern states of the USA
July 8th * £6.00 * REG MEUROSS
The remarkable singer/songwriter who last played here to a capacity crowd in the company of Hank Wangford.
July 15th * £6.00 * THE OTHER BAND
Perennial local favourites, Marilyn, Iris and Gary perform their catholic repertoire to the highest musical standards
July 22nd * £6.00 * KAREN RYAN, PETE QUINN & BRONA McVITTIE Three members of the superb band, "The London Lasses" bring us the Irish tradition in song and music on fiddle, harp and piano.
July 29th * Free Admission * END OF SEASON OPEN NIGHT All performers welcome - particularly those who have not performed for us before.

Our Future Guests will include:-
SPIDER JOHN KOERNER * JOHN CONOLLY * THE CLAQUE * JOHN KIRKPATRICK * DANA & SUSAN ROBINSON



Our websites are at
www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~tinvic/
and
www.myspace.com/royaloakfolklewes

Those of you who arrange listings are politely requested to include all of the above.

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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 www.myspace.com/royaloakfolklewes
Currently on our MYSPACE we have the following tracks by coming guests:- Roger Watson [with Musa M'Boob] "Gulliver" - (April 29th)
Jeff Warner - "Come Take A Trip In My Airship" - (May 20th)Mat Green & Andy Turner - "Quicksteps" - (March 4th)
Debby McClatchy - "Charlie Poole's Ramble" - (May 27th)
Black Umfolosi - "Summertime" - (June 3rd)
Peta Webb & Ken Hall - "Yodel It Over Again" - (June 10th)
Chris Foster - "Lord Bateman" - (June 17th)
Bayou Seco - "Lazy Heart" - (July 1st)
The Other Band - "Dark Eyes" - (July 15th)
Spider John Koerner - "The Danville Girl" - (September 2nd)
The Claque - "The Devil's Questions" - (September 30th)
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:-
ROGER WATSON & MUSA M'BOOB April 29th
JEFF WARNER May 20th
BLACK UMFOLOSI June 3rd
CHRIS FOSTER June 17th
BAYOU SECO July 1st
SPIDER JOHN KOERNER September 2nd
JOHN CONOLLY September 16th
THE CLAQUE September 30th
JOHN KIRKPATRICK October 7th
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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 May 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 243 covers the months of April & May. 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 June/July is April 30th is on us now. 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 current issue is number 242 covers the months of April and May and is now available.
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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 are listed here with the content of each page:-
ISSUE No. 242 APRIL - MAY 2010
Page 1(3815kb) Barber, Taylor & Reed Open House Brighton, Twagger Band Eastbourne, Meltdown Ceilidhs Haywards Heath, Northern Harmony Chichester, Folk Camps.
Page 2 (337kb) Spyboy Presentations.
Page 3 (937kb) Lewes Saturday folk club, Folk at the Royal Oak, Lewes (Thurs), Copy dates and contact details.
Page 4 (1601kb) Seaford Folk Club (Fris), Croydon Folk Club (Mons), Folk On the Coast Bognor (Fris), SEFAN meeting, White Horse Folk Club Bodle St. Green (Mons).
Page 5 (1565kb) Blakewood The Blue Coconut (Thurs),Acoustic Sussex presentations.
Page 6 (449kb) Tonbridge Folk Club (Mons), Hat Music Films, The Ceremony Of May, Horsham Folk Club (Suns).
Page 7 (1419kb) Electric Voices presentations.
Page 8 (1361kb) Amberley folk club (Tues), Brighton Acoustic Session the Nelson (Mons), Bluegrass & Old Timey sessions, Andy Franks obit. Piggies Open Mic Uckfield (Tues).
Page 9 (1231kb) (385kb) Mid Sussex Folk Singers (Weds), Rude Mechanicals (Weds), Lamb Folk Club Eastbourne (Weds), Fee Calls Ceilidhs, Crawley Folk Festival, Brighton folk & blues club (Fris).
Page 10 (2784kb) Barry Murphy banjos, Beacon Tunbridge Wells, (Mons), Garry's Live Music Club Coolham, Vince's fiddles, Six bells Chiddingly (Tues)
Page 11 (3495kb) Bellingham All Acoustic Festival, Broadstairs Folk Week, Hobgoblin Music
Page 12 (1094 kb) Songs of the South Downs Lands, Komedia Brighton, Kate's Kitchen Band, Gigar Box guitars, Elsie's (Sats), Sussex Folk Association.
Page 13 (3412kb) (385kb) Tenterden Folk Festival, CD & DVD reviews. Page 14 (1019kb) Willows Arundel (Weds), CD & DVD reviews
Page 15 (2991kb) Lewes Folk Festival, Tenterden Folk Club, CD & DVD reviews Page 16 (2830kb) St. George's Day Orchards Shopping Centre, Haywards Heath. **********
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:-

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
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 -
www.lewessaturdayfolkclub.org/. This will work in parallel with the old name 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 ~~~~~ May 30th - June 27th - July 25th ~~~~~
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 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
www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~tinvic/pistols.htm and they have a MYSPACE profile as well at www.myspace.com/thesussexpistols __________________________________________

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

LEWES FOLK FESTIVAL WEBSITE:-
lewesfolkfest.org/

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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