From: SEFAN [admin_at_sefan_dot_org_dot_uk]
Sent: 05 April 2009 17:01
Subject: SEFAN 2009-04-05_02 EVENTS (4 posts)

1. Concertina sessions for Gosport & Fareham Easter Festival 10 - 12 April HANTS
2. NEW** French & European Music session (with dancing) Good Companions pub, Brighton, starts this Wednesday.  April 8th SUSSEX
3.  Eliza Carthy  Gulbenkian Theatre, Canterbury Saturday 18 April KENT
4. FLASH COMPANY - A Handkerchief Show at Cecil Sharp House 30 April - 28 June LONDON
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1.
Date: 3 April 2009 12:50:39 BDT
Subject: Concertina sessions for Gosport & Fareham Easter Festival 10 - 12 April

The Spare Parts Concertina Band (Bryan Creer, Suzanne Higgins and I) will be running concertina part-playing sessions again at the Gosport and Fareham Easter Festival http://www.gosportfestival.co.uk/ this year. The sessions are free - you don't need to show a festival season ticket to get in, although there are a lot of splendid-looking events that might well interest you anyway. All concertina systems are welcome, and so are recording devices.
 
You'll be able to download our three-part arrangements of the tunes from our website http://www.sparepartsband.co.uk/  in midis and .pdfs in the next day or so, but if your excitement is so great that you can't wait that long I can send them to you by email or post on request.
 
Here's our timetable:
 
Friday 10th April 5.15.- 7.00 pm
Lysses House Hotel, High Street, Fareham http://www.lysses.co.uk/
Gussondall Bay, Mist-Covered Mountains of Home, Wals voor Polle
 
Saturday 11th. April 5.15 - 7.00 pm
Ashcroft Arts Centre, Osborn Road, Fareham http://www3.hants.gov.uk/ashcroft
Galloway Girth, Jouissance vous donneray, Whinshields Hornpipe
 
Sunday 12th. April 5.15 - 7.00 pm
Lysses House Hotel, High Street, Fareham http://www.lysses.co.uk/
Any or all of:
Gussondall Bay, Mist-Covered Mountains of Home, Wals voor Polle,
Galloway Girth, Jouissance vous donneray, Whinshields Hornpipe
 
Tootle  pip,
 
Valmai
 
Valmai Goodyear
20, St. John's Terrace, Lewes, BN7 2DL

01273 476757

Lewes Saturday Folk Club, Elephant & Castle, White Hill, Lewes BN7 2DJ
www.lewesarmsfolkclub.org
Residents: Bryan Creer, Dave Earl, Sandra Goddard, Valmai Goodyear, Suzanne Higgins, Steve & Diane Nevill, George Oakley, Robert O'Mahony, Denise & Stuart Savage, Derek Seed
 
Valmai Goodyear
20, St. John's Terrace, Lewes, BN7 2DL

01273 476757

Lewes Saturday Folk Club, Elephant & Castle, White Hill, Lewes BN7 2DJ
www.lewesarmsfolkclub.org
Residents: Bryan Creer, Dave Earl, Sandra Goddard, Valmai Goodyear, Suzanne Higgins, Steve & Diane Nevill, George Oakley, Robert O'Mahony, Denise & Stuart Savage, 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.sparepartsband.co.uk/ 
  
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2.
From: Dansez Français <dansezfrancais_at_btinternet_dot_com>
Date: 5 April 2009 12:58:56 BDT
Subject: French & European Music session (with dancing) Good Companions pub, Brighton, starts this wednesday 8th

Hello all
You are welcome to come to this new session, which we are running as well as the Dansez Français dances Bals à Samedi. New musicians welcome, dancers too!

See the attached poster, which gives dates and details, and the Good Companions pub (postcode BN1 3TE) can be found at the following map reference.

http://maps.google.com/maps?client=safari&rls=en&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=good+companions+pub+brighton&fb=1&split=1&view=text&latlng=8741378568364608865

Jan Mulreany & Lizi Storey
Dansez-Français?
Bals à samedi, Patcham, Brighton


Patcham dances 2009:  25 April: GIGCB;  30 May - Aftyernoon workshop - Bourrees- from basic to better! and then a Bal with Phil Martin's Drohne; and finally the Bastille Bal 11 July... then a break til September.
Dansez Français à Shoreham: Friday 3 July - 7pm. "How to do Breton" Workshop followed by Fest Noz/Bal Folk at 8pm ; Saturday 12 September - 7pm. "How to do Bourrees" Workshop & Bal Folk at 8pm. The Ropetackle. Details on  DF webpage soon!

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3.
Date: 2 April 2009 12:49:28 BDT
Subject: Eliza Carthy - Gulbenkian

Eliza Carthy
Saturday 18 April 7.45pm
Gulbenkian Theatre, Canterbury
“Eliza Carthy is one of the figureheads of the English folk revival … compelling” Evening Standard.
Eliza Carthy, winner of two Nationwide Mercury Prize nominations and innumerable other accolades over a fifteen year career, will be performing on the Gulbenkian stage on Saturday 18 April.
Eliza has performed and recorded with a diverse array of artists from Paul Weller to The Wainwrights, Nick Cave to Joan Baez.
Accompanied by Willie Molleson on drums, Emma Smith on double bass and Phil Alexander on keyboards / piano accordion. Eliza will showcase original material from her new album Dreams of Breathing Underwater. Powerful, vital and exuberant rhythms, absorbed from her travels around the globe, characterize this highly original, self-penned music
Eliza has more than most, revitalised folk music and captured the most hardened of dissenters with intelligent, charismatic and boundary-crossing performance.
Tickets £17
Booking Office 01227 769075
On line bookings www.gulbenkiantheatre.co.uk
Ends.

 
Frances Moran
Marketing Manager
Gulbenkian Theatre
University of Kent
Canterbury
CT2 7NB
 
01227 827956

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4.
Subject: EFDSS Press Release - Flash Company: A Handkerchief Show at Cecil Sharp House
Date: 2 April 2009 17:32:05 BDT

Flash Company
A Handkerchief Show at Cecil Sharp House
30 April – 28 June 2009
Private View: 29 April 2009, 6pm – 8pm
Open: 10 – 6pm, Tuesday – Saturday
Admission free
www.efdss.org


Featuring work from over forty artists including; 
Billy Childish, Alan Kane, Cathy Lomax, Matt Stokes and Bishi.

Continuing our visual arts programme under the curation of artist-in-residence Matthew Cowan, the English Folk Dance and Song Society is pleased to present Flash Company: A Handkerchief Show at Cecil Sharp House.
 
This exhibition is a group show of new work by a diverse range of contemporary artists from the UK, Portugal, Australia, New Zealand, U.S.A and Japan taking as a starting point a humble white handkerchief. Artists working in a wide range of media have been invited to take part, and all have been sent a single handkerchief with which to work. The resulting works will be hung at 
Cecil Sharp House, the home of the English Folk Dance and Song Society.

 

Looking beyond their prime role in the dancing kit of Morris dancers, handkerchiefs have a rich history in the framework of society. From high fashion to perfect manners and sexual politics, the handkerchief has played its part as an essential accessory. The show takes its name from the folk song of the same name, a jaunty tale of handkerchiefs and ruin.

 

The finished works will be hung in Cecil Sharp House throughout May and June, and entry to the show is free.
 
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Penny Allen  -    General Manager
Anthony John Allen - Chair of the Board

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