From: Vic & Tina Smith [tinvic_at_globalnet_dot_co_dot_uk]
Sent: 04 August 2008 13:58
Subject: TEN ITEMS OF FOLK MUSIC NEWS FROM SUSSEX
1] FOLK AT THE ROYAL OAK
Station Street, Lewes
Enquiries:- (01273) 478124 or 881316
Email tinvic_at_globalnet_dot_co_dot_uk_dot_
Every Thursday 8.pm PROMPT START
We owe a big “thank you” to all those who have supported us during another successful 11-month season at The Royal Oak, our nineteenth since moving to that pub. We are closed during August then after the summer break we have a strong programme lined up for the rest of the year:-
Sept 4th * £5.00 * STANLEY ROBERTSON, LIAM FARRELL, JOE WHELAN, REG HALL, SAM LEE.
We have an assembly of favourite and talented singers & musicians from Scotland, England and Ireland to help us celebrate the 60th birthday of Will Duke, our much loved and very talented resident singer and musician
Sept 11th *£5.00 * BAJALY SUSO
We are delighted to be able to present another outstanding kora playing and singing jali from The Gambia.
Sept 18th *£5.00 * DAVE SEALEY
The wonderful entertainer who was once one half of Cosmotheka. Music Hall
at its liveliest and best
Sept 25th *£5.00 * STEVE TURNER
Steve is an outstanding singer and musician on mandolin & concertina who has
returned to performing in recent years.
Oct 2nd * £5.00 * MANDY MURRAY
The all-Ireland champion concertina player who is also a remarkable singer.
This replaces the advertised appearance in July that Mandy was forced to
cancel.
Oct 9th * £6.00 * BRUCE MOLSKY
Alone or with fellow musicians; guitar, fiddle, or banjo in hand, Bruce
Molsky has been exploring traditional music from an astonishingly broad
range of cultures over the past two decades
Oct 16th * £5.00 * PETE COE
A multi-instrumentalist on melodeon, dulcimer, banjo and bouzouki, Pete is a
lovely singer of both traditional and written songs with a particular
affinity with ballads.
Oct 23rd * £5.00 * PETE MORTON
One of the outstanding English songwriters and a mesmeric character in front
of an audience. His songs and performances are a joy
Oct 30th * £5.00 * RON TAYLOR & JEFF GILLETT
Ron, once of The Songwainers in a great singer and Jeff’s guitar
accompaniments support beautifully. Their recent album, “Both Shine As One”,
is a delight.
Nov 6th * £5.00 * JEZ LOWE
A man who written so many outstanding songs and one who performs them with
great panache, style and relish.
Nov 13th * £6.00 * RORY McLEOD
Ex-circus clown and fire eater. A one man soulband, poet and storyteller,
singing his own unique upbeat dance stories. A modern travelling troubadour
using tap shoes, acappella, harmonica, guitar, trombone, spoons, finger
cymbals, bandorea, djembe and various percussion instruments!
Nov 20th * £6.00 * MARTIN CARTHY
The outstanding singer and guitarist of the folk revival, Martin has been a
top attraction for four decades now.
Nov 27th * £5.00 * JIGJAW
The superb line-up of Janet Russell, Rosie Davis, Kerry Fletcher and Frances
Watt bring their unique combination of song, music and dance.
Dec 4th * free * LEWES LATE NIGHT SHOPPING OPEN NIGHT
Dec 11th * £5.00 * PEPPER’S GHOST CHRISTMAS SHOW
Songs, music, monologues and poems augment the wonderful Victorian Christmas
magic Lantern show with Alan & Rene Marriott, Charlotte Oliver, Richard
Spong & Roger Brasier.
Dec 18th * free * CHRISTMAS PARTY NIGHT
Our annual song and dance bash is always one of our most popular events.
Other attractions during 2009 will include:-
SULTANS OF SWING * MAGGIE HOLLAND * TONY HALL * JIM & LYNETTE ELDON * JEFF
DAVIS * ZOOX * JIM BAINBRIDGE * THE ASKEW SISTERS
Our websites are at
www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~tinvic
and
www.myspace.com/royaloakfolklewes
Those of you with listings/ gig guides etc. are asked kindly to include
these dates amongst them.
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2] THE TWO LEWES FOLK CLUBS An Announcement
It is certainly unusual these days, but the town of Lewes has TWO folk clubs
that operate independently at pubs within a couple of hundred yards of one
another.
* One on THURSDAYS at the Royal Oak in Station Street, Lewes
* One on SATURDAYS at the Lewes Arms in Mount Place, Lewes
The clubs work closely in harmony (musically and socially!) with one another
but both have seen confusion arriving when artists/agents/listing
magazines/email circulars etc. have announced a gig as being at "LEWES FOLK
CLUB".
Could we ask that when you are announcing a date at either of these ventures
that you announce them as being at either
FOLK AT THE ROYAL OAK, LEWES
or
LEWES ARMS FOLK CLUB, LEWES
Vic Smith
Folk at the Royal Oak
Valmai Goodyear
Lewes Arms Folk Club
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3] FOLK AT THE ROYAL OAK ON "MYSPACE"
Our MYSPACE profile enables us to profile 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:-
Stanley Robertson - "Auld Beggar Man" - (September 4th)
Joe Whelan, Liam Farrell & Reg Hall - "Paul Brock's / Mary MacNamara's -
(September 4th)
Bajaly Suso - "Ansumana Bojang" - (September 11th)
Steve Turner - "The Isle of St. Helena" - (September 25th)
Mandy Murray - "Drogheda Lassies/The Game of Love" - (October 2nd)
Bruce Molsky - "Wolves A-Howling" - (October 9th)
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:-
STEVE TURNER September 25th
BRUCE MOLSKY - October 9th
PETE COE - October 16th
PETE MORTON October 23rd
JEZ LOWE - November 6th
RORY McLEOD November 13th
MARTIN CARTHY - November 20th
SULTANS OF SQUEEZE January 8th
JIM ELDON March 12th
TONY HALL June 11th
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4] FOLK AT THE ROYAL OAK ON "YOUTUBE"
There are two photo-montage videos of artists that have appeared at the
Royal Oak in past years posted on “Youtube”.
The first one features singers and musicians who have played at The Royal
Oak between 2002 and 2006. You can see it at:-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnHcbITBoJ0
It is accompanied by the following music:-
a] Foul Weather Call/From Night Till Morn
b] Monkey Hornpipe/Stepdance
c] Hunt The Squirrel/Four Hand Reel
This is played by Dan Quinn & Will Duke, two of the resident performers at
the Royal Oak, and taken from their album “Wild Boys” available from:-
homepage.ntlworld.com/rebe.cleveland/hebeweb.htm
The second one is a montage of some of the best performances at the Royal
Oak during 2007. You can see it at:-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmQLe_Fz2UA
It is accompanied by the following music:-
a] The High Low Schottische / Untitled Schottische
b] The Bird on Nellie's Hat / Hopscotch Schottische
It was played by Will Duke, one of the resident performers at the Royal Oak,
and taken from his 2008 album “Out of the Box ” available from Will by
emailing him at willlawrenceduke_at_hotmail_dot_com
.And whilst we are mentioning Youtube we’d like to mention a couple of
video clips that we took in The Gambia earlier this year of a two-year old
musician! If these don’t make you smile then nothing will. It is at:-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5pW91FthfU
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5] 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 August 2008.
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6] THE FOLK DIARY
Most of the listings on the Sussex Folk Guide website are taken from the
paper magazine, THE FOLK DIARY. Issue no 232 covers the months of August &
September and this is now available. 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. As well there are four pages of reviews of
recent folk CDs. To obtain copies of this free magazine as it is published,
please send SAE's to Vic Smith at the address below. (Make sure that the SAE
stamp meets the new postal charges!)
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 October/November 2008 is on October 30th.
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7] 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 and, frankly, unless you are on broadband, the page
will take too long to download. The size of each page is given by each page
link and the content of each page is indicated. The following issue is now
on-line and is listed here with the content of each page:-
ISSUE No. 232 AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2008
Page 1 (1578kb) Euro-Ceilidh Hassocks, White Horse Bodle Street Green (Mons)
Acoustic Sussex
Page 2 (1166kb) Chiddingly Festival, Komedia Brighton
Page 3 (706kb) Lewes Arms Lewes (Sats), Royal Oak Lewes (Thurs) -
Advertising rates and copy dates
Page 4 (871kb) Rude Mechanicals Shoreham (Weds), Fee call Ceilidhs, Sussex
Folk Association, Brighton Acoustic session (Mons). RSCDS Brighton, Beacon
Tunbridge Wells (Mons), Seaford Live '08
Page 5 (759kb) Mainly Ceilidh Dance Club Horsham (Fris), Meltdown Ceilidhs
(Sats), Six Bells Chiddingly (Tues), Soiree, Croydon folk club (Mons),
Lammas Festival Eastbourne, Amberley Folk Club (Tues)
Page 6 (621kb) Horsham Folk Club (Suns), CD Reviews
Page 7 (602kb) Julie Roberts & Leonie Mansell, Willows folk club Arundel
(Weds) CD Reviews
Page 8 (1785kb) Seaford Folk Club (Fris), Ram Club Claygate (Fris), Mid
Sussex Folk Singers (Weds), Nick Hennessay, Sprinning Jenny Band
Page 9 (865kb) Brighton Cellarfolk (Tues), Footlights (Sats), Tenterden Folk
Festival
Page 10 (1463kb) Brighton Early Music Festival, Barry Murpht banjos, Deal
Maritime Festival
Page 11 (922kb) Piggies Open Mike (Tues), Brighton Singers Club (Weds &
Suns), Eastbourne Folk Club (Weds), Hobgoblin Music, Eclipse Folk & Blues
Hove,
Page 12 (3101kb) Electric Voices Guildford
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8] INSTRUMENTAL & VOCAL WORKSHOPS IN LEWES
LEWES ARMS FOLK CLUB WORKSHOPS 2008
The workshops last a full Saturday or Sunday and the tutor performs at the
club in the evening.
20th Sept - Mary Humphreys & Anahata - Fenland tunes (any instrument)
18th Oct - John Kirkpatrick - Modes (any instrument)
25th Oct - Coope Boyes & Simpson - Vocal harmony
25th Oct - Georgina Boyes - Seminar on Wassails, Carols & Winter Customs
(pm)
22nd Nov - Roy Clinging & Neil Brookes - Cheshire tunes (any instrument)
6th Dec - Paul Hutchinson - Accordion
6th Dec - Paul Sartin - Fiddle
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 two workshops on 25th October will represent the 100th day workshop
that Valmai has organised in Lewes. Well done, that woman!
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9] REGULAR SESSIONS IN THE LEWES/BRIGHTON AREA
Bryan Creer has taken on the task of detailing these, but has made changes
to the way this is presented. Here is what he says:-
I have given free rein to my inner geek and written a new version of the
Sessions page that works out the date of the next of each session (except
for the weekly ones where it seemed a bit pointless). This was inspired by
the uselessness of "Fortnightly counting from 3rd October 2006".
I think it probably works almost all of the time (maybe). Would you
like to change any references you make to it to
www.lewesarmsfolkclub.org/LAFC/Sessions.php
Cheers
Bryan
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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10] SHIRLEY COLLINS NEWS
The great contribution that Shirley has made has been recognised in a number
of ways in the last couple of years. Firstly, Shirley was awarded an MBE in
the 2007 New Year's Honours List and then she was also awarded the Honorary
Degree Master of the University by the Open University for Notable
Contribution to Education and Culture and most recently Shirley has been
made President of The English Folk Dance & Song Society.
This has been followed by EMI releasing a double album of tracks from the
wonderful albums of the 60s and 70s that Shirley recorded for the Harvest
label; The Harvest Years was released last month on the Harvest label and is
already picking up rave reviews.
Shirley is continuing to present her show “America Over The Water” at
prestigious events and the next two events will be:-
Saturday August 16th
Bakewell Arts Festival,
Medway Centre,
Brookside,
Bakewell,
Derbyshire
7.30pm Tickets £7.50/£6.00
Box Office: 01629 815548
Email: bookings_at_bakewellfestival_dot_com
Website:-
www.bakewellfestival.com/saturday_16_august.html
Saturday September 6th
Festival Letteratura
20:45, Teatro Bibiena, € 8,00
Mantova,
Italy.
Website
www.festivaletteratura.it/2008/programma.php
and then click
on Scarica il programma di Sabato
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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 2008 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, yes, they also
have a MYSPACE profile as well at
www.myspace.com/thesussexpistols
VIC & TINA SMITH
Vic 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 WEBSITE:-
www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~tinvic
SUSSEX FOLK GUIDE WEBSITE:-
whatson.brighton.co.uk/folk
SUSSEX PISTOLS BARN DANCE BAND WEBSITE:-
www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~tinvic/pistols.htm
COMPOUND SOUNDS WEBSITE
www.compoundsounds.com
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