From: Vic & Tina Smith [tinvic_at_globalnet_dot_co_dot_uk]
Sent: 30 May 2009 15:10
Subject: SEVEN ITEMS OF FOLK MUSIC NEWS FROM LEWES FOR JUNE

SEVEN ITEMS OF FOLK MUSIC NEWS FROM LEWES FOR JUNE



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
Here is our programme for the Thursdays leading up to our summer break during the month of August. This includes what is probably our most adventurous booking ever with the Magnolia Sisters on July 16th:-


June 4th * £6.00 * TIM LAYCOCK

Tim is a folksinger, songwriter and actor. He has performed with Magic Lantern, The Albion Band and The Mellstock Band, and played concertina in five productions at The National Theatre.


June 11th * £5.00 * TONY HALL

The master of playing distinctive, quintessentially English style two-row melodeon, a great singer and a naturally very funny man.


June 18th * £5.00 * DUCK SOUP

A fascinating and different way of interpreting traditional song and dance tunes with some instruments that you would not expect to hear in a folk club with Adam Bushell, Ian Kearey & Dan Quinn



June 25th * £6.00 * THE NEW DEAL STRING BAND

One of the legendary figures of the revival of interest in Old Timey music, Tom Paley, is joined by his son Ben and long-time associate, Joe Locker


July 2nd * £5.00 * GORDON TYRRALL

Gordon has been deeply involved in traditional music since the 1970s as a mesmeric singer, an outstanding guitarist and an immaculate flute player.


July 9th * £7.00 * LEON ROSSELSON & ROBB JOHNSON - "THE LIBERTY TREE"
Not an ordinary club night, Leon and Robb's show on Tom Paine will take the entire evening. Part of the "Thomas Paine & Lewes Festival".



July 16th * £7.00 * THE MAGNOLIA SISTERS

An amazing coup for us as we present the leading female Cajun band from Louisiana - Ann Savoy, Jane Vidrine, Anya Burgess, and Lisa Reed.


July 23rd * £6.00 * JERRY EPSTEIN & RALPH BODINGTON

Jerry has been involved in traditional music for 40 years and was director of the New York Eisteddfod. Ralph is a superb performer of banjo tunes and ballads from the old-time Southern mountain culture.



July 30th * Free Admission * GRAND END-OF-SEASON OPEN NIGHT

All welcome, particularly performers who have not been at the Royal Oak before - then we are closed for the month of August



CLOSED DURING THE MONTH OF AUGUST - THEN WE START THE NEW SEASON WITH A BANG WITH AN EVENING WITH THE COPPER FAMILY ON SEPTEMBER 3rd.



Our Future Guests will also include:-

SHEPHEARD, SPIERS & WATSON * MICHAEL MARRA *DAVE RUCH * DICK GAUGHAN * RATTLE ON THE STOVEPIPE * CARL JONES & BEVERLY SMITH * LEN GRAHAM * JEFF WESLEY * PETE MORTON, MAGGIE BOYLE & CHRIS PARKINSON * SARA GREY & KEIRON MEANS

Our websites are at

www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~tinvic and

www.myspace.com/royaloakfolklewes



Those of you who arrange listings are politely requested to include all of the above.

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2] 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:-
Tim Laycock - "Daddy Fox" - (June 4th)
Tony Hall - "Jimmy Shand's March/Miss Elspeth Campbell" - (June 11th) Duck Soup - "Jeanette & Jeanotte/Jor Yates' Polka" - (June 18th) The New Deal String Band - "Penney's Farm" - (June 25th)
Gordon Tyrrall - "Jessie" (July 2nd)
Shepheard, Spiers & Watson - "Jock Hawk's Adventures in Glasgow" - (September 17th)
Michael Marra - "Hermless" - (September 24th)
Beverley Smith & Carl Jones - "Carter's Blues" - (October 1st) Jeff Wesley - "Young and Growing" - (October 8th)
Dave Ruch - "Cabbage Head" - (October 22nd)

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:-

TONY HALL - June 11th
DUCK SOUP - May 18th
THE NEW DEAL STRING BAND - June 25th
GORDON TYRRALL - July 2nd
THE MAGNOLIA SISTERS - July 16th
MICHAEL MARRA - September 24th
BEVERLY SMITH & CARL JONES - October 1st
DAVE RUCH - October 22nd
LEN GRAHAM - October 29th
DICK GAUGHAN - November 19th



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3] 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 June 2009.
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4] THE FOLK DIARY
Most of the listings on the Sussex Folk Guide website are taken from the paper magazine, THE FOLK DIARY. Issue no 237 covers the months of June and July 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 and several pages of reviews of CDs and books. To obtain copies of this free magazine as it is published, please send SAE's to Vic Smith at the address below.
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 will be June 30th for the August/September issue. However, it should be mentioned that once the available space has been filled, no more adverts can be accepted even if they are received BEFORE the copy date. With this in mind, it is worth contacting the editors before the copy date to state your intentions and reserve advertising space even if you have not got final details or you copy prepared.

Please contact

JIM MARSHALL 01273 559750 jimars_at_globalnet_dot_co_dot_uk

Or

VIC SMITH 01273 478124 tinvic_at_globalnet_dot_co_dot_uk
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5] 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. 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 are listed here with the content of each page:-



ISSUE No. 236 APRIL - MAY 2009
Page 1 (2002kb) Greg Harper album, Pig's Ear Kentish Folk Ale 2009, Crawley Folk Festival
Page 2 (1687kb) Piggies Open Mic Uckfield (Tues) Lamb Eastbourne (Weds), Sussex Folk Association, The Mick Jagger Centre, Spyboy presentations Page 3 (812kb) Lewes Saturday Club, Royal Oak Lewes (Thurs) - Advertising rates and copy dates
Page 4 (1420kb)Horsham Folk Club (Suns), Acoustic Sussex.
Page 5 (488 kb) Gary's Acoustic Music Club, Kate Rusby at the Hawth, Crawley, Electric Voices
Page 6 (410kb) Seaford Folk Club (Fris), Hove Folk Club (Fris), Mid-Sussex Folk Singers (Weds), G P Music Promotions (Crawley) .
Page 7 (969kb) Harmony Glen dates, Brighton Folk & Blues Club (Fris), Royal Oak Lewes Sunday Session, Royal Oak Lewes Irish Month in May, Hobgoblin Music
Page 8 (1670kb) Barry Murphy banjos, Vince's fiddles, Willows folk club Arundel (Weds),North Brighton Singarounds (Weds & Suns), White Horse Bodle St. Green (Mons), Meltdown Ceilidhs
Page 9 (399 kb) Littlehampton Folk & Roots Festival.
Page 10 (817 kb) Brighton Acoustic Session (Mons), Elsie's (Sats), Rude Mechanicals (Weds), Duck Baker concert Hurstpierpoint, Beacon Tunbridge Wells (Mons), Six Bells Chiddingly (Tues), Brighton Cellarfolk (Tues) Page 11 (1696 kb) Tenterden Folk Festival, CD Reviews
Page 12 (1883 kb) Folk In The Orchards Haywards Heath



ISSUE No. 237 JUNE - JULY 2009
Page 1 (3070kb) White Horse Bodle St. Green (Mons), Brighton Acoustic Session (Mons), Sevenoaks, Festival, The Kinraid Band at Brighton Festival Page 2 (423kb) Piggies Open Mic Uckfield (Tues), Sussex Folk Association, Eastbourne Folk Club (Weds), Brighton Folk & Blues Club (Fris), Spyboy Presentations
Page 3 (881kb) Lewes Saturday Club, Royal Oak Lewes (Thurs) - Advertising rates and copy dates
Page 4 (3759kb)Willows Folk Club Arundel (Weds), CD Reviews
Page 5 (2028kb) Tenterden Folk Festival, CD reviews
Page 6 (970kb) Electric Voices presentations Guildford area, Fee Calls Ceilidhs, Elsies (Sats), Barber & Taylor at The Open House, Six Bells Chiddingly (Tues), Cellarfolk Brighton (Tues), Village Harmony concert. Page 7 (573kb) Crawley Folk Festival.
Page 8 (184kb) Barry Murphy banjos, Vince's fiddles,North Brighton Singarounds (Weds & Suns), Roots Around The World, Uckfield Festival Page 9 (1213kb) Stokes Bay Festival, CD reviews.
Page 10 (4696kb) Amberley Folk Club (Tues), Shoreham Folk Day, Croydon Folk Club (Mons) CD reviews)
Page 11 (1858 kb) Hove Folk Club (Fris), Hobgoblin Records, Robin & Bina Williamson concert in Lewes
Page 12 (1064 kb) Seaford Folk Club (Fris), Luca Music Lessons, Mid-Sussex Folk Singers (Weds), The Rude Mechanicals Shoreham (Weds), Vin Garbutt at Croydon Folk Club, Pig's Ear Kentish Ale
Page 13 (2716kb) Mick Jagger Centre, Gary's Live Music Club Coolham, Acoustic Sussex.
Page 14 (674 kb) Beacon Tunbridge Wells (Mons), Crawley Ceilidh Experience 2009, CD & Book reviews
Page 15 (737 kb) Horsham Folk Club (Suns), Summer Ceilidhs Rottingdean, Leon Rosselson & Robb Johnson in "The Liberty Tree" Royal Oak Lewes Page 16 (1081 kb) Gryphon at the QEH South Bank



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6] LEWES WORKSHOPS AT THE ELEPHANT & CASTLE
The workshops last a full Saturday or Sunday and the tutor performs at the club in the evening. The programme for the remainder of 2009 will be:-


6th. June Kerr /Fagan /Harbron Fiddle /Bouzouki /Concertina
7th. June Kerr Fagan /Harbron Vocal harmony/Winter MS tunes
11th. July Will Duke Scan Tester's tunes

18th. July Bonnie Shaljean Harp

12th. Sept Tommy Peoples Fiddle

19th. Sept Jeff Warner Song accompaniment

10th. Oct Tim Edey Melodeon

14th. Nov Vicki Swan Scottish smallpipes

21st. Nov Tom & Barbara Brown Ballad forum

5th. Dec Billy Teare Storytelling

5th. Dec Kathleen O'Sullivan Irish song


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



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7] MONTHLY SESSION IN LEWES

After a gap of several years, Sunday afternoon tune and song sessions have returned to the bar of the Royal Oak in Station Street in Lewes. These will be on the last Sunday of the month from 3.30 - 5.30pm. Dates for the next sessions are

***** 31st May - 28th June - 26th July *****

They will be run by Vic & Tina Smith.

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8] OTHER 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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...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 2009 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 they have a MYSPACE profile as well at www.myspace.com/thesussexpistols

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VIC & TINA 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 WEBSITES:-
www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~tinvic

www.myspace.com/royaloakfolklewes

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

www.myspace.com/jalisherrifokonteh
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