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Newsletter 12th November 2006 |
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In
this issue: Ø
Silent Auction for
Anna Esslemont and the Aplastic Anaemia
Trust Ø
Fairport Convention (Acoustic) – 18 November (Lewes
– Spyboy event) Ø
Tommy Emmanuel – 28 November (Chequer Mead) - SOLD
OUT Ø
John Tams & Barry Coope – 11 December (Chequer
Mead) Ø
Acoustic Strawbs – 19 January (Chequer
Mead) Ø
Beth Nielsen Chapman 27 January (Chequer Mead) – SOLD OUT |
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shows including sound
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samples for Tommy Emmanuel, John Tams and Edwina Hayes playing
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In
this issue I’d firstly like to draw your attention to a silent auction that is going on at
the moment to help a charitable trust and a fine young fiddler player,
Anna Esslemont (from the
band Uiscedwr) who needs all the
help she can get just now. Anna has been battling with the rare illness Aplastic Anaemia over the last year
and will shortly be having a bone marrow transplant. This will mean her
taking a break from performing until around June 2007.
To
take a look at some of the great items up for auction, log on to our good
friend Bob Perry’s Spyboy
website and scroll down to Sunday 17 December, which is Final Bids
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A
reminder
too that Spyboy promote great shows in Hailsham, Lewes and other venues in
the south. The acoustic version of Fairport Convention (featuring Simon
Nicol, Ric Sanders, Chris Leslie and Gerry Conway) visit Lewes Town Hall
next Saturday, 18 November – tickets still available at the time of
writing – telephone 01323 841414. Visit the Spyboy website for more
details. |
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Tuesday |
SOLD
OUT Tickets for Tommy
Emmanuel's concert on 28th November are now sold out but if you’re
keen to come along, it may be worth checking for any single tickets or
cancellations at the Chequer Mead Box office on 01342 302000. You could also try
Jingles Music
Store at 4 Railway Approach, East Grinstead, (01342
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Monday
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Winner
of a hat trick of awards in the 2006
BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, including Folk Singer of the Year;
Album of the Year; and Best Traditional Song, John Tams returns to East Grinstead
with his colleague of many years, the widely respected singer and keyboard
player Barry Coope.
John
is considered by many to be one of our finest English songwriters. His
warm, tender-hearted and distinctive vocals are among the most expressive
and soulful in English music. He will be remembered by many as Daniel
Hagman in the ITV Sharpe series - a role he played for five years
alongside Sean Bean. He also co-wrote the music for the
series. Earlier
this tear, he was musical director of the BBC Radio Ballads, an
updating of Ewan MacColl's 1957 Radio Ballads series. A year in the
making, John Tams assembled a team of professional musicians drawn mostly
from the current folk music scene, as were the musicians in the original
Ballads. The six-part series was transmitted during February, March and
April 2006. John
has released three solo albums to date, 'Unity' (2001), 'Home' (2002) and
most recently, 'The Reckoning' (2005); all of which have met with
well-deserved critical acclaim. Barry
Coope combines
his exquisite versatility as a singer with a deeply passionate mastery of
time and harmony as an accompanist.
The collaboration of these two extraordinary talents, who also
happen to be great friends, is a recipe for a wonderful evening of
entertainment with a fine mixture of traditional and original
songs. "They
confound expectations. Rich,
diverse, contemporary and utterly compelling. It simply does not get any better
than this" Support
for the show is provided by Edwina Hayes, a Dublin-born singer/songwriter
now residing in East Yorkshire, who has been a regular performer on both
the London and Nashville Acoustic scene since
1999.. |
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Friday
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The
Classic Rock Society recently presented
Dave Cousins with the Lifetime Achievement Award. Thirty
years on from their huge album chart successes, 'Grave New World' and
'Bursting at the Seams', the Strawbs now tour three times a year with an
acoustic line-up - Dave Cousins on guitar, dulcimer, banjo and vocals,
Dave Lambert on guitar and vocals, plus 70s band member Chas Cronk on
guitar, bass and vocals.
The
Strawbs have enjoyed major success on both sides of the Atlantic. In the
early 1970s, as well as the hit albums, their hit singles ‘Part of the
Union’ and ‘Lay Down’ topped the charts. From the mid-1970s they spent
more time in the States and Canada where their albums charted for five
years as they toured, among others, with Santana, The Eagles, Peter
Frampton, Blue Oyster Cult, Joe Walsh, King Crimson, and Frank Zappa.
Acoustic
Strawbs have recently toured Italy to critical acclaim and played three
nights at the Edinburgh Festival at the prestigious Music Hall in the
Scotsman Assembly Rooms. Acoustic
Strawbs play classic Strawbs songs with the integrity and musicianship for
which the band has been always been
recognised. |
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Saturday
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SOLD
OUT BETH
NIELSEN CHAPMAN
Tickets for Beth
Nielsen Chapman's concert on 27th January are now sold out
(cancellations only). The
concert on is a charity
fund-raising event, which will coincide with an auction of an
electro-acoustic guitar (sponsored by Hobgoblin Music in Crawley)
- signed by a number of well-known musicians, including people like Ralph
McTell, Gretchen Peters, Dougie MacLean, Bob Fox, Dave Kelly, Al Stewart
and Steve Knightley. |
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For
your future diaries.. |
Future
dates in the 2007 Acoustic Sussex programme: Ø
9
February 2007, Keith James – Songs of
Nick Drake (see
website) Ø
26
February 2007, Anais
Mitchell (see
website) Ø
12
March 2007, Thea Gilmore (see
website) Ø
26
March 2007, Richard
Durrant (see
website) Ø
30
April 2007, Charlie Dore
(see
website) Ø
4
June 2007, Vin Garbutt (see
website) More
information on all up-and-coming artists can be found on our website: www.acousticsussex.org.uk. You
can also find us on MySpace (with samples from some of the artists
appearing) at: www.myspace.com/acoustic_sussex.
If you know anyone who you think may enjoy our events, please forward this
email to them. |
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