From: Vic Smith [tinvic_at_globalnet_dot_co_dot_uk]
Sent: 26 May 2012 21:05
Subject: NINE ITEMS OF FOLK MUSIC NEWS FROM LEWES FOR JUNE
NINE ITEMS OF FOLK MUSIC NEWS FROM LEWES FOR JUNE
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 .
Our programme up until the end of the eleven month season at the end of
July:-
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
June 7th * Free Admission * OPEN NIGHT
One of the few occasions during the year that we operate without guest
artists, giving our many regular supporters more of a chance to show
their skills. Performers new to our venture will be made particularly
welcome
June 14th * £7.00 * GORDON TYRRALL
Gordon performs in a radically different and exciting manner. He is a
masterly guitarist and flautist, a great singer who puts his fascinating
repertoire over in a warm and engaging manner.
June 21st * £6.00 * MATT QUINN
This summer will be very significant for Matt. He will have graduated
from the Newcastle Traditional Music degree course before embarking on a
professional musical career marked by the release of a debut solo album.
June 28th * £7.00 * JIM CAUSLEY
Jim is rapidly fulfilling his early promise as being one of the bright
young hopes of the folk scene. A compelling singer and accordionist, he
draws much of his repertoire from his native Devon.
July 5th * £7.00 * SHIRLEY COLLINS? BIRTHDAY PARTY
Now here is something really special! Shirley will be presenting a
shortened version of her latest multi-media show and introducing friends
who include some of the best known names on the folk scene.
July 12th * £7.00 * HECTOR GILCHRIST
Hector Gilchrist sings in a sensitive and easy style that does justice
to his great voice accompanied by thoughtful guitar work. His first
appearance for us.
July 19th * £7.00 * JIM & LYNETTE ELDON
A very welcome return for the Brid fiddler and his clog-dancing champion
wife. Jim & Lynette?s straightforward performances are a delight.
July 26th * free admission * GRAND END-OF-SEASON OPEN NIGHT
Well, we?ve done it! Yet another 11 month season of the best that can be
offered week after week. Come & help us celebrate.
Our Future Guests will include:-
* Rattle On The Stovepipe (Sept 6th)
* Sisters Unlimited (September 13th)
* Jeff Warner (October 4th)
* Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick (October 11th)
* Chris Foster (October 18th)
* Alice Gerrard & Beverly Smith (October 25th)
* Bob Walser (November 15th)
* Alistair Roberts (November 29th)
And in 2013 * Sara Grey & Kieron Means * Brigitte Kloareg & Yann-Fa?ch
Perrocches * Rosie Stewart & R?is?n White * Askew Sisters
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 plus THE SEVEN
CHAMPIONS***
Others appearing or leading workshops include: Pip Barnes * Iris Bishop
* Charlotte & Spong * Will Duke & Dan Quinn * Noel Dumbrell * Carrie
Elkin & Danny Schmidt * Linda Game * Gary Holder * Bob Lewis * Bing Lyle
* Terry Masterson * Jan Mulreany & Lizi Storey * Steve & Diane Nevill *
Elle Osborne * Peppers Ghost Magic Lantern Show * Matt Quinn * Stuart
Reed * Denise & Stuart Savage * Derek Seed * Vic & Tina Smith * So Last
Century String Band * Spare Parts * Sussex Harmony
The dance teams taking part will be: The Knots of May * Oyster Girls *
Seven Champions Molly Dancers * Mythago * Black Dragon * Marlings Morris
* Broadwood Morris * Magog * Sompting Morris (2 sides) * Ditchling
Morris Brighton Morris * Cuckoo?s Nest * Rampant Rooster * Long Man
Morris * Sun Oak Clog
Tickets go on sale (from the festival website and from Union Music Store
in Lewes) from June 1st and we are planning to have out free 16 page
programme printed by then with complete listings of events (around 30 of
them) and biographies of participants.
Look out for updates at
www.lewesfolkfest.org
and
uk.myspace.com/lewesfolkfestival
The complete programme of 28 events is listed at this Myspace site.
For more details:-
Phone 01273 478124
Email folk_at_brighton_dot_co_dot_uk
On June 8th, we will be taking delivery from our printers of our free
16-page programme for LEWES FOLK FESTIVAL giving full details of the
programme, biographies on guest artists etc. To obtain a copy of this
just send an SAE to Vic Smith at the address below.
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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:-
Denise & Stuart Savage - "Our Captain Cried" - (May 31st)
Gordon Tyrrall - "Jessie" - (June 14th)
Matt Quinn - "Us Poor Fellows" - (June 21st)
Jim Causley - "On Yonder's Hill" - (June 28th)
Hector Gilchrist - "Rambler from Clare" - (July 12th)
Jim Eldon - "Lady of York" - (July 19th)
Rattle On The Stovepipe - "Eight More Miles To Louisville" - (September 6th)
Sisters Unlimited - "My Better Years" - (September 13th)
Jeff Warner - "Come Take a Trip In My Airship" - (October 4th)
Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick - "Foggy Dew" - (October 11th)
(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
June.
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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 255 covers the months of
June & July. 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.
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
issues are now on-line and are listed here with the contents:-
ISSUE No. 254 April - May 2012
Page 1 Rude Mechanicals Shoreham (Weds), Wildwood Promotions. Steve
Knightley at Framfield, Singing for Beginners Workshop in Lewes.
Page 2 Spyboy Presentations
Page 3 Lewes Saturday Folk Club, Folk at the Royal Oak, Lewes (Thurs).
Page 4 Twagger Band in Ditchling, Elsie's (Sats), Sussex Folk
Association. Folk On The Coast Bognor (Fris). Eastbourne Folk Club
(Weds), Brighton Cellarfolk (Tues).
Page 5 Climax Ceilidh Band in Lewes, Hobgoblin Music, The Banjo Whisperer.
Page 6 Seaford Folk Club (Fris), Sangboc Folk Club (Mons), Vince's
Violins, Croydon Folk Club (Mons), St. Mary's Ashford events
Page 7 Greyshott Folk Club (Sats), Brighton Acoustic Session (Mons),
Chichester Pickers, GBH Ceilidhs Godalming, Lewes Folk Festival,
Amberley Acoustic Music Club
Page 8 Piggies Open Mic Uckfield (Tues), Sandra's Party, Horsham Folk
Club, Mid-Sussex Chorus & Harmony Night (Mons) Advertising rates & copy
date. .
Page 9 Dave Toye's Open Mic Cowfold (Tues), Guitar Freq Steyning,
Electric Voices Guildford, Beacon folk club (Mons) Willows Folk Club
Arundel (Weds),
Page 10 Fee Calls Ceilidhs, White Horse Bodle Street Green (Mons), Six
Bells Chiddingly (Tues), Tonbridge Folk Club (Mons), 50 years of
Chichester folk club, Evershed Arts Folk Club Billingshurst.
Page 11 Tenterden Folk Festival, CD Reviews.
Page 12a Wickham Festival.
Page 12b Union Music Store.
ISSUE No. 255 June - July 2012
Page 1 Fee Calls Ceilidhs, Vince's Violins, Chichester Pickers (Thurs),
Union Music Store Presentations, Will Kaufman in Lewes.
Page 2 Spyboy Presentations, Beacon Folk Club Tunbridge Wells (Mons),
Dave Toye & Friends Cowfold (Tues), Martin Simpson at Electric Theatre
Guildford, Celebration of the life of Maria Cunningham, Wildwood
Promotions Brighton.
Page 3 Lewes Saturday Folk Club, Folk at the Royal Oak, Lewes (Thurs).
Page 4 Seaford Folk Club (Fris), Folk On The Coast Bognor (Fris),
Tonbridge Folk Club (Mons), Brighton Singers Club (Weds), White Horse
Bodle Street Green (Mons).
Page 5 Amberley Acoustic Music Club, Greyshott Folk Club (Sats), Amy
Harrison & The Second Hand String Band, Village Folk, Telscombe Thurs),
Brighton Acoustic Session (Mons)
Page 6 Tenterden Folk Festival, CD reviews
Page 7 Uckfield Festival, CD reviews.
Page 8 CD reviews.
Page 9 Evershed Arts Billingshurst (Sats), Rude Mechanicals Shoreham
(Weds) Sangboc Folk Club Day of Folk, Six Bells Chiddingly (Tues), Folk
By The Water Shoreham.
Page 10 So Last Century String Band, Elsies (Sats), Croydon Folk Club
(Mons), Eastbourne Folk Club (Weds), Willows Folk Club Arundel (Weds),
Brighton Cellarfolk ((Tues).
Page 11 Piggies Open Mic (Tues), Hampden Arms South Heighton (Weds), Mid
Sussex Harmony Night (Mons), Horsham Folk Club (Suns).
Page 12 Lewes Folk Festival, Stanford Folk Club Reunion, Hobgoblin Music.
Page 13 Shirley Collins' "America Over The Water" in Sevenoaks.
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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 -
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
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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 videos area 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:-
GORDON TYRRALL on June 14th
MATT QUINN on June 21st
JIM CAUSLEY on June 28th
HECTOR CHRISTIE on July 12th
JIM ELDON on July 19th
RATTLE ON THE STOVEPIPE on September 6th
JEFF WARNER on October 4th
MARTIN CARTHY & DAVE SWARBRICK on October 11th
CHRIS FOSTER on October 18th
ALICE GERRARD & BEVERLY SMITH on October 25th
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
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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:-
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