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1. Free KentFolk app
From: J.B.W.Webber <J.B.W.Webber_at_kent_dot_ac_dot_uk>
Date: 6 April 2014 10:38:35 GMT+01:00
Subject: Never miss another great gig - free
KentFolk App
Never miss another great gig - free KentFolk App
Download this free App to get music and live gig events and calendars on
your smart phone and tablet.
Folk, Irish, Blues, Jazz, Cajun, Old-Time, Bluegrass, Trad English,
Scottish, Classical.
KentFolk
now offers a simple App for most mobile devices, including the iPhone and
iPad, Android, and a range of other devices..
This App includes Gig Event and Calendar pages, Music News pages, pages
with information on Sessions, Open Stages etc, as well as photos and videos
of past events. KentFolk has been recording Kentish gigs since 2000. 122
gigs were upload to the KentFolk Google/Facebook calendar in February, and
168 in March. Venues included from major county ones to the smallest
micro-pubs - quality of music is the main concern. Its easy to upload your
own gig to the calendar.
I believe this App should work for most mobile devices, but this is still
being confirmed, so if you have an Android or some other smart phone /
tablet, I would appreciate it if you could see if it works for you.
The simplest way to get the KentFolk App is just to point your mobile's
browser at www.KentFolk.com and say yes to installing the App. Else use the
QR reader.
Have fun - Dr. Beau Webber
PS. I have now put a simple Donate button on the top of KentFolk. If you
find the KentFolk Website, App and Calendar useful, please click on it,
even £1, to help repay my time and outgoings building and updating the
KentFolk Website, Calendar, News and App.
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2. Gleaned from Facebook
Post
by Paul Dengate 09-04-14
Is there any interest in a page or group to keep tabs on
trad folk events in the Hastings area? Music, song, dance, sessions or
concerts? Thinking traditional or traditional influenced (knowing how
recent some session tunes can be). Could also perhaps reminisce on past
events, folk clubs, people, etc. I'll set it up if there are sufficient
people with a similar interest. I shall take a "like" as an interest
registered.
if you're not already friends with Paul but like this idea -
send him a Friend request!
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3. Gleaning from Arts Professional
A new position statement setting out how Arts Council
England (ACE) intends to meet the specific needs and aspirations of rural
communities explains the principles that it will take into account in its
advocacy, development work and funding for rural areas. Rejecting the need
for a specific rural strategy or investment programme, ACE says it wants to
see "rural communities benefiting appropriately from the totality of our
support".
Partnerships are seen as
crucial to this and ACE will continue to work with Defra to take account of
"rural proofing", and more specifically to see how the European
Agricultural Fund for Rural Development and other funding programmes can
support the cultural sector in rural areas. Local authorities are
recognised as a key strategic and delivery partner, but whilst ACE will
"engage strategically with local authorities in rural areas in order to
sustain and extend cultural opportunity", it makes no commitment to "make
good" local government funding cuts for arts and culture. Efforts are
ongoing to lever investment from Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs), and
to broker partnerships between the arts and cultural sector and LEPs. This
is seen as a major opportunity which "rural arts organisations and their
partners should actively exploit? if we are to see the creative economy in
rural areas make its contribution to national recovery". Other partnerships
involve joint audience development activity, such as those with the
National Trust, the Canal & River Trust and Forestry Commission
England. The value of strategic organisations such as the National Rural
Touring Forum is acknowledged, as is Voluntary Arts for its role in
community-based cultural activity and its importance to rural cultural
infrastructure.
Comments on the position
statement are being invited and these, together with the outcomes of the
independent review of rural proofing currently being undertaken by Lord
Cameron of Dillington, will contribute to a revised version that will
underpin ACE's approach to working with rural communities until 2017/18.
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