From: "john Byng" <jbyng_at_btinternet_dot_com>

Date: 4 December 2008 22:49:32 GMT

Subject: What's on in and around Horsham

The Mainly Ceilidh Dance Club meets tonight  Friday 5 December at the Tythe Barn, Pondtail Road RH12 5EZ (near the junction with Haybarn Drive).  Bob and I need a good turnout this month to keep the project going so please do your best to het there.  £3.  Musicians Free.  No need for a partner – we swop around.  Please remember the rules: No Walking,  no holding on to the same partner all night,  no taking the michael out of Bob.  Read more about it at http://www.areyoudancing.com/events/events_detail.aspx?Eventid=10161 where you will also find other dance events.  Please note future events will be on the second Friday of the month.

The Horsham Folk Club programme is at www.horshamfolkclub.co.uk but here is an extract for the next two weeks:

Sunday 7^th December         Landermason folk/jazz duo

Fiona Lander and Paul Mason are a duo brimming with musical talent. They are coming down from Northumberland to play in Horsham for the first time and perform at Horsham Folk Club this Sunday. They play traditional, contemporary and original songs. Their brilliant and exhilarating playing and singing is influenced by jazz and other styles. Fiona sings superbly and plays piano, whistles, saxophones, clarinet, and recorder.

Paul sings and is an impressive guitar player. His first teacher was Dave Stewart of Eurythmics fame. Paul played guitar with a number of rock outfits in the North East before joining The Dumb Blondes and going on a national tour. An accident with a circular saw! put him out of action as a musician. His recovery as a guitarist was painful and slow, but he is back now in great form.

Landermason's fourth and latest CD, The Reason is a 14 track folk/jazz album of original songs and tunes which has received airplay on a number of radio programmes and received many very warm reviews. It can be sampled at www.landermason.com

Admission £6 (£4 for members; Under 18 free).

Sunday 14th December      Pig's Ear

Pig's Ear are a rollicking good, no-holds-barred family folk group - musically gifted and uninhibited. The Rule Family are Sue and Grant Rule and their eldest daughter, Lyndsey, along with uncle "bad influence", Keith.

Pig's Ear are well known throughout the South East of England through countless performances and their five albums. They sing contemporary folk songs and material from the traditions of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland... and anything that takes their fancy. They are not interested in attempts to pigeon-hole music into artificial 'genres'. They just know what they like and sing it, knowing that their audiences will love it too. They play and sing for the love of it. Beautiful, thoughtful or absurd - they do it all - unaccompanied, or in command of their army of instruments.www.pigs-sty.com

Admission is £6 (£4 for members; Under 18 free)