From: Vic Smith [tinvic_at_globalnet_dot_co_dot_uk]
Sent: 02 June 2011 17:38
Subject: ELEVEN ITEMS OF FOLK MUSIC NEWS FROM LEWES FOR JUNE
ELEVEN ITEMS OF FOLK MUSIC NEWS FROM LEWES FOR JUNE
1] LEWES FOLK FESTIVAL 6th 9th OCTOBER 2011
Those appearing include:-
SID KIPPER * THE BLACK UMFOLOSI 5 from Zimbabwe * CHRIS WOOD * THE GECKOES
with caller WILL HALL * SHIRLEY COLLINS * THE COPPER FAMILY * THE LONG HILL
RAMBLERS * THE TWAGGER BAND * ANDY TURNER
There will be workshops led by the following people:- SHIRLEY COLLINS song
BEN PALEY - fiddle, DAN STEWART - banjo, KERRY FLETCHER & ROSIE DAVIS
Southern English Step Dance SUSSEX HARMONY West Gallery Singing SPARE PARTS
- Sussex tunes & part-playing for any instrument
As well as a multimedia presentation on the life of the great Sussex
traditional singer, JOHNNY DOUGHTY, Once again there will be many dance teams
displaying on four sites in the Cliffe area of the town on Saturday as well as
singarounds, tune sessions.
The programme as it is finalised will appear on the website at
www.lewesfolkfest.org/
and tickets will be on sale from June 1st.
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2] FOLK AT THE ROYAL OAK
Station Street, Lewes
Enquiries: - (01273) 478124 or 881316
Email tinvic_at_globalnet_dot_co_dot_uk_dot_
We have a very strong programme to take us up to the end of the season in
July:-
June 2nd * £7.00 * THOMAS McCARTHY & BRENDAN McAULEY Thomas McCarthy is a man
steeped in the tradition of Irish songs, intoxicated by the music and
passionate in his sensitivity towards them.
Joined tonight by a fine uilleann piper
June 9th * £6.00 * DENISE & STUART SAVAGE present “WHAT A HAPPY YOUNG MAN”
A multimedia presentation on the life and songs of Henry Hills of Lodsworth
with Denise & Stuart singing many of the songs.
June 16th * £8.00 * JAMES FAGAN & NANCY KERR One of the most established and
respected duos on the folk scene, Nancy Kerr and James Fagan are winners of
the 2011 BBC Radio 2 Folk Award for Best Duo
June 23rd * £7.00 * LIZ & YVONNE KANE & EDEL FOX Highly exciting and vibrant
music from sister fiddle players from Connemara and their concertina playing
friend from County Clare. Three of the most highly regarded amongst the rising
generation of Irish musicians.
June 30th * £6.00 * BING LYLE
Accordion, flute and guitar player, Bing also has one of the finest singing
voices whether he is singing traditional songs or his own compositions.
July 7th * £8.00 * RORY McLEOD
A one man soulband, poet and storyteller, singing his own unique upbeat dance
stories. A modern travelling troubadour using tap shoes, acappella, harmonica,
guitar, trombone, spoons, finger cymbals, bandorea, djembe and various
percussion instruments!
July 14th * Free Admission * OPEN NIGHT
July 21st * £7.00 * THE NEW SLIDE
An excellent young band including two exceptional local musicians, Matt Quinn
and Tom Redman. English tunes and songs.
July 28th * £10.00 * THE SAVOY FAMILY BAND A great coup for us as we have the
opportunity to book the world’s leading Cajun band from Eunice, Louisiana.
Advance tickets from May 5th.
Our Future Guests will include:-
* Cathal McConnell & Duncan Wood (September 15th)
* Debby McClatchy (September 22nd)
* Jigjaw [Rosie Davis, Kerry Fletcher, Janet Russell, Frances Watt]
(September 29th)
* Black Umfolosi 5 (October 6th) - Opening night of Lewes Folk Festival
* Alice Gerrard & Beverley Smith (October 13th)
* Lady Maisrey [Hazel Askew, Rowan Rheingans and Hannah James] (October
27th)
* Zoox [Linda Game, Jo May & Becky Menday] (November 10th)
* Elsie's Band [Dave Watts, John Hills, Iris Bishop & Tony Deane] (November
17th)
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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3] THE SAVOY FAMILY BAND FROM EUNICE, LOUISIANA JULY 28th A real coup for
the Royal Oak as we are able to present one of the world’s top Cajun music
bands consisting of Marc & Ann Savoy and their songs Joel and Wilson. We
rarely do advance tickets for our events but this will be needed in the case
of the Savoys because of the anticipated size of the turn out. Tickets (£10)
are now on sale please phone 01273
478124 or email folk_at_brighton_dot_co_dot_uk in the first case.
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4] FOLK AT THE ROYAL OAK ON "MYSPACE"
Our MYSPACE profile enables us to provide 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:- Tommy
McCarthy “"Down That Road" - (June 2nd) Stuart & Denise Savage - "Our
Captain Cried" - (June 9th) Nancy Kerr & James Fagan - "The Banks of the
Condamine" - (June 16th) Edel Fox [with The Kane Sisters] - "Jigs" - (June
23rd) Liz & Yvonne Kane [with Edel Fox] - "13 Reels" - (June 23rd) Bing Lyle -
"Painting The Town" - (June 30th) Rory McLeod - "Baksheesh Dance" - (July 7th)
The Savoy Family Band - "Valse De Chagrin" - (July 28th) Cathal McConnell &
Duncan Wood - "Highland March/Earl of Errol/Bleaton Gardens" - (September
15th) Debby McClatchy “Didn’t He Ramble?” (September 22nd)
(After each gig the tracks will drop off to be replaced with another by an
upcoming guest.) There is also two photo montage videos of some of the best
nights at the Royal Oak. One covering the club evenings during 2007 and the
other between 2002 and 2006.
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5] 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 there are over 100 events currently
listed covering all the dates up until the end of June.
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6] THE FOLK DIARY
Most of the listings on the Sussex Folk Guide website are taken from the paper
magazine, THE FOLK DIARY. Issue no 249 covers the months of June and July.
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. 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
delivery of issue 250 covering August and September is June 30th.
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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7] 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 contents:-
ISSUE No. 249 June - July 2011
Page 1 Beacon Tunbridge Wells (Mon), Jimmy Lee at the Komedia, Folk By The
Water Shoreham.
Page 2 Crawley Folk Festival.
Page 3 Lewes Saturday Folk Club, Folk at the Royal Oak, Lewes (Thurs).
Page 4 Chichester Pickers (Thurs), Hat Music Films, Barber Taylor & Reed at
the Open House Brighton, Pokey laFarge at Blue Coconut. Button Badges,
Hobgoblin Music.
Page 5 Ropetackle Shoreham
Page 6 Lewes Folk Festival.
Page 7 Croydon Folk Club (Mons), Tim Broadbent new CD, Folk in Laughton and
Ringmer (Suns), Sandra's Song & Dance, Telscombe Village Folk in August,
Sussex Folk Association, Drifter Promotions.
Page 8 CD Reviews.
Page 9 Tenterden Folk Festival, CD Reviews.
Page 10 Piggies' Open Mic (Tues), Harmony Glen in High Hurstwood, Advertising
rates and copy dates, Lamb Eastbourne (Weds), Hove Folk Club (Fris).
Page 11 Horsham Folk Club (Suns), Union Music Store, Willows Folk Club Arundel
(Weds) Page 12 Brighton Singers Club (Weds) Folk On The Coast, Bognor (Fris),
White Hart Bodle St. Green (Mons), Cellarfolk Brighton (Tues), Cigar Box
guitars, Amberley Folk Club (Tues), Elsie's (Sats), The Folk Diary by post.
Page 13 Towersey Festival. .
Page 14 Seaford Folk Club (Weds), Harmony Glen & Barber, Taylor & Reed in
Framfield, Country Music at the Blue Coconut Martin Simpson in Guildford.
Page 15 Tonbridge Folk Club (Mons),Rude Mechanicals Shoreham (Weds), Six Bells
Chiddingly (Tues), Vince's Violins, Jon Wigg, Fee Calls Ceilidhs, Breton Dance
Workshop Hassocks, Mid-Sussex Folk Singers Ashurst (Weds), Brighton Acoustic
session Lord Nelson (Mons), Page 16 Littlehampton Folk Roots & Art festival.
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8] VIDEO PAGE ON THE FOLK AT THE ROYAL OAK WEBSITE The Folk at the Royal Oak
website now has a page devoted to YouTube and Facebook videos. It is at
www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~tinvic/videos.htm
The page is divided into
two sections, the first showing videos of guest artists who will be appearing
at the Royal Oak, and the second section showing videos of some performances
on past nights at the Royal Oak. The videos currently being shown on that page
are as follows:- SECTION 1
VIDEOS: VIDEOS OF COMING GUESTS
THOMAS McCARTHY on June 2nd
NANCY KERR & JAMES FAGAN on June 16th
THE KANE SISTERS & EDEL FOX on June 23rd RORY McLEOD on July 7th THE NEW SLIDE
on July 21st THE SAVOY FAMILY BAND on July 28th CATHAL McCONNELL & DUNCAN WOOD
on September 15th BLACK UMFOLOSI 5 (from ZIMBABWE) on October 6th ALICE
GERRARD [with Beverly Smith] on October 13th BEVERLY SMITH [with Alice
Gerrard] on October 13th LADY MAISERY on October 27th ZOOX on November 10th
SECTION 2
VIDEOS TAKEN DURING CLUB EVENINGS AT THE ROYAL OAK Currently 48 videos of
appearances at the Royal Oak including Chris Foster. Jez Lowe, Bartram Brookes
& Weatherall, Martyn Wyndham-Read & Iris Bishop, Mike Gulston, Tim Van Eyken,
Carthy Waterson & Parkinson, Davis Locker & Winquist, Black Umfolosi 5, John
Kirkpatrick, The Long Hill Ramblers, Mandy Murray, Linda Game, Maggie Boyle,
The Twagger Band, Marilyn Bennett, Terry Masterson, Dana & Susan Robinson,
Pete Cooper & Richard Bolton, Gavin Atkin, Ian Chisholm & Derrick Hughes,
Roger Brasier. Bayou Seco.
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9] LEWES WORKSHOPS AT THE ELEPHANT & CASTLE The workshops last a full Saturday
or Sunday and the tutor performs at the club in the evening.
Forthcoming workshops in 2011 -
04 June Martyn Wyndham-Read & Iris Bishop Singing & accompaniment
11 June John Kirkpatrick John K's tunes (any instrument)
16 July Brian Peters Melodeon
17 July Brian Peters Ballad forum
15 Oct Tom & Barbara Brown West Country songs
29 Oct Jody Kruskal Concertina
03 Dec Paul & Liz Davenport Ballads
The Lewes Saturday Folk Club has a new domain name -
www.lewessaturdayfolkclub.org/.
This will work in parallel with the old
name
www.lewesarmsfolkclub.org/
for the time being but they hope to
phase it out so please change your bookmarks.
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10] REGULAR SESSIONS IN THE LEWES/BRIGHTON AREA Bryan Creer has taken on the
task of detailing these, and they are posted at
www.lewessaturdayfolkclub.org/LAFC/Sessions.php
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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11] THE TRIBAL EARTH GATHERING August 18th -21st We have been asked to mention
a small very friendly festival in the Hastings area. The event is a smaller
four day outdoor event, providing music (mainly world/folk) and workshops etc
raising funds for a charity providing housing and education for street
children in Nepal and all profit goes to the charity every year. There are
full details of a very varied and attractive programme at
www.tribalearth.co.uk
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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 2011 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
LEWES FOLK FESTIVAL WEBSITE:-
lewesfolkfest.org/
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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