TWO NEWS ITEMS RE FOLK IN
TENTERDEN
TENTERDEN FOLK FESTIVAL
2010
Thursday
30th September to Sunday
3rd October
The plans for Tenterden Folk Festival
2010 are already taking shape and there are several exiting changes and
developments.
The first major development is that this
year’s festival will start on Thursday evening and also for the first time,
there will be events during the day on Friday, as well as the usual evening
events, making it four days of folk song, music and dance. On Thursday
evening we will be presenting a special show in conjunction with The Sinden
Theatre at Homewood School. WALTZERS & WONDERS: THE WAKES IS IN
TOWN features nine of Derbyshire’s finest folk performers: Ian
Carter, Keith Kendrick, Sylvia
Needham,
Sarah Matthews, Doug Eunson, Michelle Short, John Adams, Alan Squires
and Howard Mitchell. The show is a musical journey
through a fair and made a big impression at a number of large folk festivals
lasts year. For more details of the show and the performers visit the shows
home page at www.ramcompany.co.uk.
Plans are also well advanced to relocate
the craft fair and parts of the music fair and street stalls into several
large marquees on the Recreation Ground on Saturday and Sunday. This
will enable us to expand the number and variety of stalls and to use the Town
Hall for other festival events such as workshops, concerts or a dance.
The music showcases, previously known as “the Woolpack Stage”, will also
relocate into one of these marquees. We will still be using
the Tenterden Junior School hall for the stalls selling musical
instruments, CDs, and similar items.
Festival events will again be held
throughout the town including The Tenterden Club, St.
Mildred’s Parish Church, the Church Hall and of course the main
town centre public houses as well as the streets and coach park.
Hopefully the newly paved area outside the Town Hall will also improve the
festival facilities.
Many of the guests have already been
booked and will include Alchemy, Barron Brady, Capella, Pete Castle, Karen and
Colin Cater, The Claque, Roy Clinging, Cross O’th Hands, Paul and Liz
Davenport, Doug Euson and Sarah Matthews, Roy Harris, Keith Kendrick, Dick Miles, Sylvia Needham, Mike
Nicholson, George Papavgeris, The Ram Company, The Ram
Company Ceilidh Band with caller Ian Carter, Mike Silver, Barrie and Ingrid
Temple, Steve Turner and the Ticklish Allsorts Show as well as festival
regulars such as John Barden, Peter Collins, Les Elvin, Bo
Foaks, Bob Kenward, Marsh
Warblers, Adrian O’, Roger
Resch, Chris Roche, Andy Smythe, Spare Parts Concertina Band,
The Travelling Folk and Malcolm
Ward,
Booking:
To buy your
tickets, book your craft fair, street stall or music fair pitch or if you
would like to be otherwise involved in the Festival contact us
now.
Festival
information:
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NORAH RENDELL AND BRIAN MILLER ARE
JOINED BY ADRIAN O FOR A SPECIAL NIGHT OF IRISH MUSIC AND STORIES IN
TENTERDEN
Tenterden Folk
Club joins forces with Folk at The Drum, with support from the White Lion, to
present A
special night of Irish music and STORIES with Nora Rendell & Brian Miller and Adrian
O. This very special event takes place in the Saddlery
at The White Lion Hotel in Tenterden High Street at 8.00 p.m. Saturday 13th February
2010.
Vancouver singer and flute player Norah Rendell and
Minnesotan guitarist Brian Miller met while living in the southwest
of Ireland and studying Irish
traditional music at its source. Their performances clicked from the
start and Ireland’s Munster Express wrote
that their music “brings sunlight into your heart and sets your feet a
dancing.” Since returning to North America, their debut album, “Wait
There Pretty One”, has earned Norah a nomination for Canadian Traditional
Singer of the Year and they are fast becoming known as two of the best young
interpreters of traditional music this side of the Atlantic.
Norah has
performed at venues and festivals around the globe,
including England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany, and North America as lead vocalist
with Limerick band, The Outside
Track. Fred Silver of the Stornoway Gazette wrote, “Her singing
left me goose-pimpled all over – a sure sign of a gutsy, emotional delivery
laced with meaning and pathos”. In 2005, Norah was awarded a grant from
the Canada Council for Performing Arts to study traditional flute and singing
at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance in Limerick. Since returning to North America, Norah has been featured on CBC’s Canada
Live, North by Northwest and BBC Radio Nan
Gaidheal.
Brian is also an
accomplished singer and flute player and began playing Irish music at high
school in Bemidji, Minnesota. He has been a highly
visible character in the Twin Cities Irish music scene since 1998, while often
sneaking away to his other adopted home of Cork, Ireland. As a member of
a number of far-flung groups and duos including Bua, The Tommie Cunniffe Trio,
The Doon Ceili Band and 5 Mile Chase, Brian has performed throughout the US,
Canada and Ireland. In Ireland he has been featured
on TG4, RTE television and RTE radio. The Irish Times called his guitar
accompaniment “superb”. Irish music critic Earle Hitchner wrote that
Brian’s guitar backing “flexes not just muscle but a fully complementary
style.”
Nora and Brian are
joined by Tenterden Folk Festival regular Adrian O. Adrian is a popular Irish singer and renowned
storyteller and is in great demand in folk clubs in festival
in England and at
home in Ireland and also frequently
visits New
Zealand.
Tickets for this
unique event are £7.00 on the door or £6.00 in advance from TFF or
FATD.
Further
information from
T: David 01797
320518
Coming
soon:
Friday 19th March
2010:
Tenterden Folk
Club, with support from the White Lion, presents Tom
Lewis plus support
The White Lion
Saddlery, High Street, Tenterden at 8.00 p.m.
Tickets £7.00 on
the door or £6.00 in advance from Tenterden Folk
Festival
Tuesday 29th June
2010
Tenterden Folk
Club, with support from the White Lion, presents David
Jones plus support
The White Lion
Saddlery, High Street, Tenterden at 8.00 p.m.
Tickets £7.00 on
the door or £6.00 in advance from Tenterden Folk
Festival
Alan
Castle
Folk Spots
Tenterden Folk
Festival