Hi,
So August is Broadstairs Folk Week :
www.broadstairsfolkweek.org.uk
- a full and varied program - hope to see you there !
Eliza Carthy has been sold out for some time I am afraid ... but there is plenty more on offer ....
If you see a gig coming up by The Mountain Firework Company, go for it - they are great fun with some excellent lyrics and exquisite fiddle - and they are local!
Also some great twin-fiddle from Sky Hook, some with a Cap-Breton flavour, fronting for the most enjoyable Cara Dillon and lads. Yet another sell-out concert.
Not part of the official festival, Goosebumps (swing and jive) gave a show that was just that, would have had me dancing if there had been room in Harpers to wave a wine glass. Expect a similar turn-out for other non-festival gigs by Fling.
But a great festival, with many excellent acts.
Wrotham Arms have near non-stop music throughout the festival, with the Woodshed sessions to chill out to in the afternoon - and I hear that they have been very well supported.
Lots of photos to come .... even some HD video ...
OK, here are some short videos - hosted on You Tube :
Happy Trails & TangleFoot Appalachian Dancers - 1 - HD
Happy Trails - music of the Americas, old and new,
with
Kay and Pauline from Tanglefoot Appalachian dancers,
in the Bradstow Mill pub, Broadstairs - 2008-08-15
And if you feel a let-down when the Folk Week ends, why not come along to the Blues Review in the Pavillion on the Saturday :
Y 2008
M Aug
D 16
G Broadstairs Blues Review | Broken Biscuit | 706 Union Avenue | Blues Abuse
V Pavillion | Broadstairs
t 7:30 'til Late
i £8 in advance | £10 on door
And now we have Faversham Hop Festival.
This kicks off with a Celtic session in the Bear on the Friday evening (8'ish onwards), and Goosebumps (Swing/Jive) in the Ship, Ospringe Rd., Faversham,
ME13 8TL
.
Don't miss the
Trommelfluit Concert -
Top quality Belgian group -
2 pm
Arden Theatre,
Faversham.
New Players needed for Traditional Music sessions
There are many traditional sessions, open stages and sing-arounds in Kent these days, with the traditional sessions covering styles from English to Celtic to French/Breton/Eastern European to Renaissance ....
However while some of the young people's open stages are doing well, there is a worry that there are a lack of new people, particularly young people, particularly fiddlers, at the traditional sessions.
Please see the plea for new players, in the Sessions section below :
Sessions
......| A plea for new players at traditional sessions - particularly younger players.txt
If you are interested in coming along, but would like to practice some tunes first, I have put, in the Sessions news section, a pointer to finding out
what tunes are played at the different sessions:
......| What tunes do they play at the different sessions.txt
I have also put there info on gig-reports, from the sessions, with photos and down-loadable .mp3 music.
Lab-Tool: Build-a-Page : Build an Html Web Page with photos.
The first of the KentFolk text- and web-tools offered for general use, in conjunction with Lab-Tools :
For more info., see :
www.lab-tools.com/software/Build-a-Page/
Selling individual MP3 tracks, and complete Digital Albums, over the web :
For some time KentFolk has been using PayPal to sell local musician's CDs.
A new technology that I have wanted for some time, is now in place: - KentFolk can now sell individual MP3 tracks, either directly from the KentFolk web pages, with payment by CC or PayPal, or via the highly respected eFolkMusic www.eFolkMusic.org, in the States.
If you are a musician, group or band that would like to sell your tracks over the web, and of course this is particularly good for both CDs that have all sold out, as well as new tracks that are not yet on a CD, then please email me : Beau@KentFolk.com
I am limited in my time available to "turn the handle" on these, and it is very time-consuming, but will do what I can. As a preliminary offering, the 2003 Deal LifeBoat House shanty recording were the first available on the web - both in the form of a few individual tracks, and the complete recording - all net profit to the NLRI, after the CC/PayPal deductions.
"The LifeBoat Men come ...."
13 sea shanties recorded by KentFolk during the 2003 Deal Maritime Festival, at a live concert by Shanty Crew, Bosun's Call and the Deal Hoodeners, in the LifeBoat House, Deal on the 7th of September, 2003. - all net money to the RNLI!
"The LifeBoat Men come ...."
13 sea shanties recorded by KentFolk during the 2003 Deal Maritime Festival, at a live concert by Shanty Crew, Bosun's Call and the Deal Hoodeners, in the LifeBoat House, Deal on the 7th of September, 2003. - all net money to the RNLI!
"Reasons to Rhyme"
Two tracks from members of the Deal Folk Club : CD: "Reasons to Rhyme" - "He Rode the Waves" and "Mother Nature",
with Sue Watson singing and Stuart Maclean on the guitar.
"The Rattlaz : Songs of Peace & Protest"
England is still experiencing hard times and the crow is still well and truly fixed to the cradle. Deportees are still with us in the form of migrant workers ... The voice in all these songs is the voice of compassion and understanding, the voice of hope and determination. We ignore this voice at our peril.
Originally produced as a Concert for the Folkestone Literary Festival, 2006. Chris Tophill : Accordion / Piano / Mandolin / Vocals. Kevin Richards : Djembe / Percussion / Guitar / Vocals. Jack Pound : 6 & 12 String Guitars / Banjo / Harmoonica / Vocals.
"Relig Oran : Tracks From The Dark Side"
These three lads - all deeply experienced in Traditional Celtic and European music - are creating a genre of their own - I am using the term "Euro-Celt" to describe the music they are writing and playing. It looks back to our roots when the Celts were pan-Europe, and makes a strong statement for the present when the Tribes of Europe are re-finding what they have in common.
Gordon Jackson - Andy Renshaw - Martin Sutcliffe
"Martin Long : The Climbing Boy" "Martin Young : Botany Bay" Martin is a lad who has been around on the Faversham Folk scene for longer than I have known it, variously as Martin Long, and Martin Young.
Martin is I feel very much in the old troubadour mold, in that the music can not let him rest, it very much defines who he is.
The songs he sings, sometimes intensely personal, sometimes with local Kentish references, are mostly self-penned, usually both the tunes and the lyrics.
The Climbing Boy: Title Track: Often small boys were taken in by Chimney sweeps and in return for a home were forced to climb chimneys and scour them out as they ascended. Rochester has an annual Sweeps Festival.
Botany Bay: Title Track: is a double reference - to both the Botany Bay in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - it was the site of a landing by James Cook - and also to the Botany Bay near Broadstairs in Kent - see cover photograph.
"Happy Trails : White Sands" Choice Americana in harmony from a group of musicians who have been giving Kent top quality music for many years - Blues, Cajun, Appalachian, Country and now Americana from the South.
13 songs where this Kentish band - Happy Trails - take an honest and affectionate view into what they have seen and heard on some of their many visits to the Southern States.
Multi-level directories of News :
Do keep sending me news and items for both the calendar and this news section -
Please see the info at the bottom of the news pages for guidance as to
good formats to send me news items for these pages,
and for event listings for the calendars.
cheers, Beau.
