From: Vic Smith [tinvic_at_globalnet_dot_co_dot_uk]
Sent: 29 February 2012 17:26
Subject: NINE ITEMS OF FOLK MUSIC NEWS FROM LEWES FOR MARCH

NINE ITEMS OF FOLK MUSIC NEWS FROM LEWES FOR MARCH

1] FOLK AT THE ROYAL OAK

3 Station Street, Lewes BN7 2DA
Enquiries: - (01273) 478124 or 881316
Email tinvic_at_globalnet_dot_co_dot_uk_dot_

Our programme for the next three months up until the end of May:-
Mar 01st * £7.00 * CHRIS BARTRAM, NEIL BROOKES & TONY WEATHERALL English traditional song & dance music at its finest. Neil?s fiddle and Tony?s melodeon generate real excitement and Chris?s singing is wonderfully easy on the ear.

Mar 08th * £7.00 * NAOMI BEDFORD & PAUL SIMMONDS ?Her voice is so striking...that your attention gets quickly nailed to the floor ... you?re on such a high at the end that you instantly hit play again, several times. It?s easy to get besotted with.? - fRoots

Mar 15th * £7.00 * JUDY COOK
Yet another touring American, Judy lifts the spirit and entertains with splendid traditional ballads and songs from a huge and varied Anglo-American repertoire.

Mar 22nd * free admission * TUNE & SONG SESSION Will Duke & Dan Quinn lead an evening where English dance tunes are interspersed with songs. Come and join in the tunes or offer some songs or just listen!

Mar 29th * £7.00 * PETA WEBB, KEN HALL & SIMON HINDLEY Peta & Ken remarkable singers who draw their repertoire from songs learned from British traditional singers and from early American country music and Simon?s lovely guitar playing makes a great accompaniment to this.

Mar 29th * £7.00 * PETA WEBB, KEN HALL & SIMON HINDLEY Two remarkable singers who draw their repertoire from songs learned from British traditional singers and from early American country music with some lovely accompaniments from Simon?s guitar.

Apl 05th * £7.00 * JEFF WESLEY
Retired farm worker from Northamptonshire whose mellifluous voice is able to project all that is worthy about English traditional song.

Apl 12th * £8.00 * ANDY IRVINE
A man that has played with so many fine top groups Planxty, Sweeney?s Men, Mosaic, Patrick Street. A rare chance to see him in an intimate venue.
Apl 19th * £7.00 * JIM MacFARLAND & JERRY O?REILLY Two of Ireland?s finest singers come over for a short tour. They feature a range of the very best in the Irish repertoire from the pastoral to the political.

Apl 26th * £7.00 * MIKE GULSTON & BLANCHE ROWEN Two excellent singers who draw their material from English, Welsh and French sources. Mike is a talented multi-instrumentalist on a range of string instruments.

May 03rd * £6.00 * MANDY MURRAY, BEN PALEY & JIM BURCH A really memorable evening in prospect with the most vibrant local musicians in Irish music and song with Mandy on concertina, Ben on fiddle and Jim on guitar.
May 10th * £7.00 * ROSIE DAVIS, JOE LOCKER & BOB WINQUIST An English woman, a New Yorker and a Canadian combine to bring us the very best in bluegrass, old timey and early country music on fiddle, banjo, bass and guitar.
May 17th * £8.00 * JOHN KIRKPATRICK
One of the most talented and popular performers that we are able to present at the Royal Oak, John is a master of a range of free reed instruments and the outstanding singer of English traditional songs.

May 24th * £7.00 * BAYOU SECO TRIO
We are delighted to be able to welcome back Ken and Jeanie from Silver City, New Mexico bringing us their superb range of music and song from the south east of the USA. On this tour they are joined by their godson, fiddler Tom?s Wentz.

May 31st * £6.00 * DENISE & STUART SAVAGE An evening with these two great local favourites who are able to present a varied evening that is both interesting and delightful

Our Future Guests will include:-
* Gordon Tyrrall (June 14th)
* Matt Quinn [Album Launch night] (June 21st)
* Jim Causley (June 28th)
* Jim & Lynette Eldon (July 19th)
* Rattle On The Stovepipe (Sept 6th)
* Sisters Unlimited (September 13th)
* Jeff Warner (October 4th)
* Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick (October 11th)

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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2) LEWES FOLK FESTIVAL OCTOBER 11th 14th 2012 The headline acts will be:- ***MARTIN CARTHY & DAVE SWARBRICK***
***FAUSTUS***
***THE YOUNG COPPERS***
***LES BARKER***
***MARTYN WYNDHAM READ?S full ?DOWN THE LAWSON TRACK? show with SHIRLEY COLLINS*** ***Dance to THE NEW SLIDE with caller ALEX CUMMING & THE SEVEN CHAMPIONS***

Look out for updates at
www.lewesfolkfest.org
Phone 01273 478124
Email folk_at_brighton_dot_co_dot_uk

Meanwhile, there are nearly 200 photos of nearly all the 2011 festival events at
www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.303675429648863.96007.100000192240957 &type=1&l=e0a37f741b


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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:-
Bartram, Brookes & Weatherall - "John Barleycorn" - (March 1st) Naomi Bedford - "Lord Thomas & Fair Ellandor". - (March 8th)
Judy Cook - "Drowsy Sleepers" - (March 15th)
Peta Webb & Ken Hall - "Yodel It Over Again" - (March 29th)
Jeff Wesley - "Unquiet Grave" - (April 5th)
Andy Irvine - "Gladiators" - (April 12th)
Jim MacFarland [with Jerry O'Reilly] - "Reynardine" - (April 19th) Jerry O'Reilly [with Jim MacFarland] - "Father Murphy" - (April 19th) John Kirkpatrick - "Welcome To Hell" - (May 17th)
Bayou Seco - "Lazy Heart" - (May 24th)

(After each gig the tracks will drop off to be replaced with another by an upcoming guest.)
There are also two photo montage videos of some of the best nights at the Royal Oak. One covering the club evenings during 2007 and the other between 2002 and 2006.
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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 there are over 100 events currently listed covering all the dates up until the end of March.
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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 253 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 delivery of issue 253 has now passed. The copy date for the Apl/May issue (no. 254) is February 29th so you are probably too late!
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
Advertising space is always sold on a first come first saved basis, so if you would like to advertise, please contact one of us to reserve your space.
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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 following issue is now on-line and are listed here with the contents:-
ISSUE No. 253 February - March 2012
Page 1 Brighton Acoustic Session (Mons), Croydon Folk Club (Mons), Nanci Griffith at De la Warr Pavilion Bexhill.
Page 2 Spyboy Presentations, Union Music Store Presentations
Page 3 Lewes Saturday Folk Club, Folk at the Royal Oak, Lewes (Thurs). Page 4 Hobgoblin Music, Lewes Folk Festival, Folk Diary copy dates & advertising rates, Henfield Dance with Unreel Band.
Page 5 Sandra's Party, Fee Calls Ceilidhs, The Six Bells Folk & Blues Club Chiddingly (Tues), Vince's fiddles, Brighton Singers' Club (Weds), Tonbridge Folk Club (Mons), Cross Currents Hawth Crawley.
Page 6 Seaford Folk Club (Fris), Sangboc Folk Club (Mons), Rude Mechanicals (Weds), Burgess Hill Fair Trade Festival
Page 7 Piggies' Open Mic Uckfield (Tues), Hampden Arms South Heighton (Weds), Horsham Folk Club (Suns), Hat Music Films, White Horse Bodle St. Green (Mons), Mid- Sussex Chorus & Harmony Night (Mons)
Page 8 Tenterden Folk Festival. New CD releases.
Page 9 Willows Folk Club Arundel (Weds), Electric Voices Presentations, CD Reviews
Page 10 Greyshott Folk Club (Sats), GBH Ceilidhs, Amberley Folk Club (Tues), Acoustic Music in Yapton (Suns), Meltdown Ceilidhs
Page 11 Sussex Folk Association, Elsies' Cowden Pound (Sats), Folk On The Coast Bognor (Fris),Chichester Pickers (Thurs), Brighton Cellarfolk (Tues), Lamb Folk Club Eastbourne (Weds).
Page 12 Wirral Folk On The Coast Festival.
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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.
Forthcoming workshops in 2012 -
3 Mar FAY HIELD English song
3 Mar ROB HARBRON Concertina
3 Mar SAM SWEENEY English fiddle music
28 Apr CLOUDSTREET Vocal harmony
19 May HALEY STEVENS Singing For Beginners
26 May JIGJAW Song for dancing
30 Jun ANNE NEILSON/GORDEANNA McCULLOCH Ballads
14 Jul BRENDAN POWER Irish harmonica
21 Jul WILSON FAMILY Mining & Graeme Miles songs
15 Sep CRAIG MORGAN ROBSON Vocal harmony
16 Sep CRAIG MORGAN ROBSON Ballads
20 Oct CHRIS SHERBURN Irish concertina
20 Oct DENNY BARTLEY Irish song/guitar
17 Nov ANDY CUTTING Melodeon
24 Nov JEZ LOWE Songwriting in the tradition
1 Dec KATIE & JOHN HOWSON East Anglian tunes for any instrument ********
8] REGULAR SESSIONS IN THE LEWES/BRIGHTON AREA
Bryan Creer has taken on the task of detailing these, and they are posted at
www.lewessaturdayfolkclub.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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9] VIDEO PAGES ON THE FOLK AT THE ROYAL OAK WEBSITE
The Folk at the Royal Oak website now has a page devoted to YouTube and Facebook videos. It is at
www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~tinvic/videos.htm The page is divided into five pages, the first showing videos of guest artists who will be appearing at the Royal Oak, and the other four showing videos of some performances on past nights at the Royal Oak. The videos currently being shown on the ?Coming Guests? page are as follows:-

CHRIS BARTRAM, NEIL BROOKES & TONY WEATHERALL on March 1st
NAOMI BEDFORD on March 8th
JUDY COOK on March 15th
ANDY IRVINE on April 12th
JOHN KIRKPATRICK on May 17th
BAYOU SECO on May 24th
GORDON TYRRALL on June 14th
MATT QUINN on June 21st
JIM ELDON on July 15th
JEFF WARNER on October 4th
MARTIN CARTHY & DAVE SWARBRICK on October 11th
In addition there are now four pages of videos of appearances at the Royal Oak including Chris Foster. Jez Lowe, Bartram Brookes & Weatherall, Martyn Wyndham-Read & Iris Bishop, Mike Gulston, Tim Van Eyken, Carthy Waterson & Parkinson, Mandy Murray, Davis Locker & Winquist, Black Umfolosi 5, John Kirkpatrick, The Long Hill Ramblers, The Twagger Band, Maggie Boyle, Linda Game, Edel Fox, The Savoy Family Band, Matt Quinn Jeanie Harris & Dan Quinn, Bing Lyle, Derrick Hughes, Tina Smith, Derrick Hughes, Cathal McConnell & Duncan Wood, Ian Chisholm, Terry Masterson, Noel Dumbrell, Dan Quinn, Danny Meeney, Mike Ainscough, Derrick Hughes. Debby McClatchy, Henry Sparks, Marilyn Bennett, Dave Andrews, Sheila Bentham, Jim Ward, Roger Brasier, Annie Winter, Rattlebag, Jan Creaye, Hannah James, Rowan Rheingans, Lady Maisery, Zoox, Brigitte Kloareg & Yann-Fa?ch Perroches, Keith Wheele, Brighton Morris Men, Vic Smith, Rattle On The Stovepipe, Sandra Goddard, George Smith. Rattle On The Stovepipe, Valmai Goodyear & Bryan Creer, Murray Shelmerdine, Jeff Davis.
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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 2012 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 __________________________________________

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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