Dear Everyone, After twenty-one years at the Lewes Arms, the Lewes Arms
Folk Club is moving to the Elephant & Castle, White Hill, Lewes BN7
2DJ
(www.elephantandcas Our first night there will be a singaround on the theme
of Great Escapes on Saturday 3rd.
January. We are moving because the new management of the Lewes
Arms has asked us for £50 to use the club-room on a Saturday night and £75
during the daytime when we run workshops because they want to use it as a
restaurant at weekends. We run to break even and give all door money to our
guest performers, paying for our advertising with a weekly raffle and occasional
night without a guest; the management were well aware of this when they asked us
for money, which they described as a peppercorn rent in comparison with the
amount of money they could be making out of the space we use: a room that holds
fifty people at a pinch. We have two more nights
at the Lewes Arms: 20
DEC
CHRISTMAS PARTY with UDIMORE HANDBELL RINGERS
(£4) The Captain of the ringers is Peter Collins and they're
all good solo perfomers too.Carol sheets provided; home-made mince pies served.
Bring a party piece or choose a carol. 27
DEC
MATT QUINN & DOGAN
MEHMET
(£4) Two fine young singers with fiddles, melodeon, mandola
& percussion, raised in Sussex, on vacation from the Newcastle University
traditional music degree course. It would be great to fill the place for our
final night and make it one to remember. Not only have we been at the Arms for twenty-one years,
but Vic and Tina Smith ran a superb club there before us; the best of
traditional music has been in the pub for the best part of forty years. My first
visit was to Scan Tester's 83rd. birthday party in September 1971.
This year alone we have run and weekly performances and fifteen all-day
workshops by excellent musicians including Alistair Anderson, Martin Carthy,
John Kirkpatrick, Paul Sartin and Coope Boyes &
Simpson. If you would like to protest to the owners, Fuller Smith
and Turner, in the hope of showing them that a lot of people value folk clubs
and that they will lose goodwill and money by evicting them from their pubs,
please email fullers_at_fullers_dot_ or write to Mr. Michael Turner, Executive Chairman, Fuller Smith
& Turner Plc, The Griffin Brewery, Chiswick Lane South, London W4
2QB. Best wishes, Valmai
20, St. John's Terrace, Lewes, BN7 2DL
01273
476757
Lewes Elephant Folk Music, Elephant & Castle, White Hill,
Lewes BN7 2DJ
www.lewesarmsfolkcl
Residents:
Bryan Creer, Dave Earl, Sandra Goddard, Valmai Goodyear, Suzanne Higgins, Steve
& Diane Nevill, George Oakley, Robert O'Mahony, Derek Seed
LEWES
ELEPHANT FOLK MUSIC WORKSHOPS 2009
The workshops last a full Saturday and the
tutor performs at the pub in the evening.
Booking forms can be printed from
the website about four months before the event.
28 Feb Brian Peters
Melodeon
1 Mar Brian Peters Ballad forum
28 Mar Tom McConville Fiddle
25 Apr Craig Morgan Robson 'Way through the Woods'
26 Apr Craig Morgan
Robson Vocal harmony
6 Jun Nancy Kerr Fiddle
James Fagan
Bouzouki
Robert Harbron Concertina
7 Jun Nancy Kerr & James Fagan
Vocal harmony
Robert Harbron Winter MS tunes
11 Jul Will Duke Scan
Tester's tunes
18 Jul Bonnie Shaljean Harp
12 Sept Tommy Peoples Fiddle
19 Sept Jeff Warner Song accompaniment
10. Oct Tim Edey Melodeon
14
Nov Vicki Swan Scottish smallpipes
21 Nov Tom & Barbara Brown Ballad
forum
5 Dec Billy Teare Storytelling
5 Dec Kathleen O'Sullivan Irish
song
SPARE PARTS CONCERTINA BAND
Bryan Creer, Suzanne Higgins,
Valmai Goodyear
http://www.sparepar