Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival: 7-10th October 2010 From: Vic Smith Date: 13 Oct 10 - 07:06 AM Shirley Collins appeared at Lewes Folk Festival last weekend... and by today she is getting a mention in the Financial Times! See http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/5834f048-d619-11df-81f0-00144feabdc0.html Quick! Sell oil and banks! Buy Folk Festivals! |
Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival: 7-10th October 2010 From: Kampervan Date: 12 Oct 10 - 08:21 PM It sounds as though the weekend worked really well. Is there any chance of getting a campsite that is a little more central for next year. A mile or more is quite a way to walk and maybe there is a school or leisure centre closer to the town centre that would oblige; althopugh given that this is in term time this may not be straightforward. But campers will always camp, no matter what the season! K/van |
Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival: 7-10th October 2010 From: Vic Smith Date: 12 Oct 10 - 12:11 PM Just noticed that Valmai has made the link before I did - wasn't the first time and won't be the lasr time that she has beaten me to it! |
Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival: 7-10th October 2010 From: Vic Smith Date: 12 Oct 10 - 12:08 PM Thanks to everyone - committee, stewards, display dance sides, booked artists contributing singers & musicians and audiences - who contributed towards making the festival a huge success artistically and financially. There is a large selection of photos from the festival at http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=45524&id=100000192240957&l=923d37439c |
Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival: 7-10th October 2010 From: bazza Date: 12 Oct 10 - 07:53 AM A great weekend, thanks to all concerned. |
Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival: 7-10th October 2010 From: Valmai Goodyear Date: 12 Oct 10 - 06:15 AM That was a splendid weekend. The weather was good, people came, and the atmosphere was delightful. Vic has been putting up photos on Farsebook; there's a cracking one of John Kirkpatrick looking not unlike a shark that's just spotted a juicy swimmer. Valmai (Lewes) |
Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival: 7-10th October 2010 From: Valmai Goodyear Date: 07 Oct 10 - 05:40 PM I dropped some extra posters off at the Black Horse this afternoon and noticed that their guest beer is St. Austell's Proper Job. That'll help the tunes session there on Friday night. There are two other very different events on Friday night: Shirley Collins's 'America Over The Water' illustrated presentation, and Seaford Folk Club's evening with guest performer Bagge Armer at the Royal Oak, Station Street, Lewes. Seaford's website says there are a few floor spots available. Valmai |
Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival: 7-10th October 2010 From: Vic Smith Date: 07 Oct 10 - 09:31 AM Well, the culmination of that work starts off today! The weather forecast is good and we are hoping for a great weekend. Tickets for Event 1 JOHN KIRKPATRICK and Event 13 SUSSEX SINGERS NIGHT WITH THE COPPER FAMILY are now sold out, but you should be able to buy tickets for the other events on the door, but more than one-third of the evnets are free..... |
Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival: 7-10th October 2010 From: Vic Smith Date: 03 Oct 10 - 02:16 PM Michael Shade has posted a photo of the cold'n'wet session which you can see by clicking here ...but that is not my main point in coming here. The main point is that if anyone wants to come to Event 1 John Kirkpatrick and/or Event 13 Sussex Singers Night with The Copper Family then move quickly because there is only about a dozen tickets left for each. |
Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival: 7-10th October 2010 From: Vic Smith Date: 01 Oct 10 - 10:17 AM With a crowd of mates, I have just played tunes for an hour in a cold and wet Lewes Market Tower and all to help to promote LEWES FOLK FESTIVAL - http://www.lewesfolkfest.org/ - and good old Valmai handed out a whole pile of festival leaflets. Let's hope it sells some tickets but by the comments and cheerful expressions that we saw at this crowded event, it was worth it anyway. |
Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival: 7-10th October 2010 From: Valmai Goodyear Date: 01 Oct 10 - 09:29 AM You can also get advance tickets for the showing of Morris: A Life With Bells On at Lewes Cinema on Sunday 10th. october at 6.00 p.m. They are available on line from the cinema's website. Lewes Cinema is held in an Arts Centre which used to be a church. Excellent home-made cakes are on sale and the place has a village hall sort of atmosphere. Valmai |
Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival: 7-10th October 2010 From: Valmai Goodyear Date: 29 Sep 10 - 02:45 AM More good news for the hardy outdoor folk: as well as camping at Spring Barn Farm, there is a place at Kingston about a mile and a half away which can accommodate camper vans and caravans. Ring Colin Martin on 01273 477037. Valmai |
Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival: 7-10th October 2010 From: Vic Smith Date: 27 Sep 10 - 05:21 PM As Valmai says - Advance tickets gave you a saving for all paid events - so why not buy now? Go to http://www.lewesfolkfest.org/LFFtickets.php (Paypal & Cheque) |
Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival: 7-10th October 2010 From: Valmai Goodyear Date: 17 Sep 10 - 07:58 PM And don't forget that tickets are cheaper if bought in advance, people! |
Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival: 7-10th October 2010 From: Vic Smith Date: 17 Sep 10 - 01:28 PM We now know that Denise Stewart is unwell and unlikely to be so for some time so the festival event listed above as:- Event 16 Sun 10th October 11am A presentation on the songs of HENRY HILLS OF LODSWORTH "WHAT A HAPPY YOUNG MAN" by DENISE & STUART SAVAGE Royal Oak, Station Street BN7 2DA Advance tickets £4 Door £6 has had to be cancelled. We have managed to contact all the people that have booked tickets for this event and have refunded them. Talking of tickets - the website address at http://www.lewesfolkfest.org/LFFtickets.php gives very easy access to be able to buy tickets for individual events by cheque or by Paypal. |
Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival: 7-10th October 2010 From: Valmai Goodyear Date: 09 Sep 10 - 02:59 AM The music for the Village Music Project workshop on Saturday 9th. October has reached me and is ready to be sent out by email: full details on this thread. Valmai |
Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival: 7-10th October 2010 From: Valmai Goodyear Date: 08 Sep 10 - 05:47 AM As Vic says, the idea at Lewes is to make sure that people can get into the events they've booked for. Booking in advance gets you a discount as well as assuring you a seat. Yes, audience changeover can be very irritating. The concerts I went to at Whitby this year weren't like that - everyobdy started queueing at least half an hour before their chosen event and generally clung like grim death to their chairs for the duration, which was generally not more than three hours. The Gosport and Fareham Easter Festival copes with this by having rolling concerts through the afternoon and evening with 15-minute gaps between acts, which means you can adjust your personal fluid levels without missing anything or annoying the people in the same row, or come in late. It allows the sound men plenty of time to adjust between acts as well. Even with the big venues they use it can still be impossible to get into very popular acts late in a concert. |
Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival: 7-10th October 2010 From: Vic Smith Date: 07 Sep 10 - 05:55 AM Mo wrote:- Interesting idea, not selling season tickets. With many of the events taking place in pub function rooms, with a relatively small capacity, it would have been dangerous to sell season tickets and then find that the large majority of season ticket holders wanted to opt for one of the events. It was more than that, however. I really like the idea that an audience commits itself to an event from beginning to end so that you get the feeling of building an atmosphere during an event and relating to things that have gone before. You cannot get this with transient audience and performers. In many ways, Whitby is the finest folk festival in the country, but the one thing that it has against it is that, in the concerts, when you come to the end of one singer/musician's performance, you get a restlessness and often quite a change over of audience. The worst example of this was a Saturday night concert at the Rugby club a few years ago - lasting four and a half hours; too long - we were the comperes and the opening act of this concert. I am convinced that the only people who were there for the whole show of this well-attended event were the two people on the sound desk and Tina and I; even the bar staff changed during the evening. At the end, I felt foolish thanking all the performers who had taken part in the concert when the only one there to hear me was the one who had finished the concert. One song had been sung by us at the beginning and then was sung by two others during the evening. |
Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival: 7-10th October 2010 From: Mo the caller Date: 07 Sep 10 - 05:14 AM Interesting idea, not selling season tickets. No-one will be able to complain that they couldn't get in to something they wanted to. OTOH a lot of advance planning will be needed. |
Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival: 7-10th October 2010 From: GUEST,surreysinger sans cookie Date: 06 Sep 10 - 05:02 AM See Vic's entry from 26 June - there will be a tunes session on the Sunday in the Royal Oak. |
Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival: 7-10th October 2010 From: GUEST,Mark Stevens Date: 05 Sep 10 - 02:42 PM Will there be any informal pub music sessions ? |
Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival: 7-10th October 2010 From: Valmai Goodyear Date: 04 Sep 10 - 08:43 AM In case people hadn't realised, there is an attractive discount on tickets booked in advance. Valmai |
Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival: 7-10th October 2010 From: Valmai Goodyear Date: 30 Aug 10 - 11:25 AM We distributed about half a stone of Festival leaflets at Whitby, so I think the rush will be upon us after the Bank Holiday weekend. |
Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival: 7-10th October 2010 From: Vic Smith Date: 30 Aug 10 - 11:12 AM Tickets are starting to move more quickly. You will need to think about booking tickets soon, particularly for Event 1 - JOHN KIRKPATRICK and Event 13 - SUSSEX SINGERS NIGHT (see above). |
Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival: 7-10th October 2010 From: Valmai Goodyear Date: 05 Aug 10 - 02:49 AM More good news - tents can be accommodated at Spring Barn Farm on the outskirts of Lewes. The site has agreed to stay open for the Festival instead of closing at the end of September as usual. It's a bit far to walk carrying large instruments, but there are some buses in the day and it's a very short drive or taxi ride. Valmai |
Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival: 7-10th October 2010 From: Vic Smith Date: 04 Aug 10 - 07:23 PM The Lewes Folk Festival now has a MySpace site at http://www.myspace.com/lewesfolkfestival where you can hear the following tracks by artists who will be appearing at the festival:- SHIRLEY COLLINS – My Dearest Dear THE COPPER FAMILY – Claudy Banks WILL DUKE – High Low Schottische / Untitled Schottische CHRIS COE – Geordie BOB LEWIS – John Barleycorn RYBURN THREE STEP - British Field March / Drummer Boy for Waterloo NOEL DUMBRELL – Buttercup Joe DENISE & STUART SAVAGE – Mount of the Dew PETE COE – Seven Gypsies JOHN KIRKPATRICK – Welcome To Hell |
Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival: 7-10th October 2010 From: Herga Kitty Date: 24 Jul 10 - 03:59 PM Will have to miss this, because we're booked at Banbury, but it sounds great and I know you'll all have a brilliant weekend! Kitty |
Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival: 7-10th October 2010 From: Dave Ruch Date: 24 Jul 10 - 12:17 PM Vic, how about a live internet feed so we can enjoy this over here in the U.S. as well? :) Best wishes for great success with this. |
Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival: 7-10th October 2010 From: Vic Smith Date: 23 Jul 10 - 04:39 PM If you click here you can see photos all all the guest performers/workshop leaders with biographies of each of them. The levels of ticket sales are encouraging! Get yours from http://www.lewesfolkfest.org/LFFtickets.php |
Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival: 7-10th October 2010 From: The Sandman Date: 02 Jul 10 - 02:17 PM refresh |
Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival: 7-10th October 2010 From: My guru always said Date: 02 Jul 10 - 04:07 AM Oh, I wish this weren't clashing with Banbury, there's no way we can go anywhere else I'm afraid. All sounds fantastic though, good luck!! |
Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival: 7-10th October 2010 From: The Sandman Date: 01 Jul 10 - 08:20 AM best of luck with the festival. |
Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival: 7-10th October 2010 From: Vic Smith Date: 30 Jun 10 - 02:47 PM You may want to click on Lewes Folk Festival Facebook Group to join our group and read about what we have planned. |
Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival: 7-10th October 2010 From: Vic Smith Date: 26 Jun 10 - 07:09 AM For further details:- Phone 01273 478124 (Vic & Tina) Email: lewesfestival@yahoo.co.uk Website: http://www.lewesfolkfest.org/ Advance tickets:- 26 Ferrers Road, Lewes, BN7 1PZ pay by cheque payable to "Lewes Folk Festival" (SAE Please) By PayPal at http://www.lewesfolkfest.org/LFFpaypal.php |
Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival: 7-10th October 2010 From: Vic Smith Date: 26 Jun 10 - 07:04 AM ***SUNDAY*** Event 15 Sun 10th October 10.45 a.m.- 4.45 p.m ALL-DAY BALLAD FORUM with CHRIS COE £20 Nominate your ballad to sing & discuss in advance Elephant & Castle, White Hill BN7 2DJ Book tickets for this event separately through http://www.lewessaturdayfolkclub.org/ Event 16 Sun 10th October 11am A presentation on the songs of HENRY HILLS OF LODSWORTH "WHAT A HAPPY YOUNG MAN" by DENISE & STUART SAVAGE Royal Oak, Station Street BN7 2DA Advance tickets £4 Door £6 Event 17 Sun 10th October 12.15pm "An hour with PETE COE" Royal Oak, Station Street BN7 2DA Advance tickets £4 Door £6 Event 18 Sun 10th October 1.30pm Tune session led by CHRIS PARTINGTON & JOHN ADAMS Royal Oak, Station Street BN7 2DA Free with collection. Event 19 Sun 10th October 4pm Song & Tune session led by VIC & TINA SMITH Royal Oak, Station Street BN7 2DA Free with collection. Event 20 Sun 10th October 6pm Film MORRIS: A LIFE WITH BELLS ON All Saints Centre, Friars Walk BN7 2LE Tickets from www.lewescinema.co.uk Event 21 Sun 10th October 8pm Farewell session led by DENISE & STUART SAVAGE Black Horse, Western Road BN7 1RS Free with collection |
Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival: 7-10th October 2010 From: Vic Smith Date: 26 Jun 10 - 07:00 AM ***SATURDAY*** Event 5 Sat 9th October 10.45 a.m. - 4.45 p.m. ALL-DAY WORKSHOP on THE VILLAGE MUSIC PROJECT < http://www.village-music-project.org.uk/> with JOHN ADAMS and CHRIS PARTINGTON £25 For any instrument. Some music will be available in advance Elephant & Castle, White Hill BN7 2DJ Book tickets for this event separately through http://www.lewessaturdayfolkclub.org/ Event 6 Sat 9th October 10.45am- 12.45pm STEP DANCE WORKSHOP with SUE COE and PETE COE Hibbert Room, Westgate Chapel, High Street BN7 1XH Advance tickets £4 Door £6 Event 7 Sat 9th October 12 noon Multimedia presentation on the life of GORDON HALL presented by VIC SMITH Royal Oak, Station Street BN7 2DA Advance tickets £4 Door £6 Event 8 Sat 9th October 2pm West Gallery Singing Workshop with SUSSEX HARMONY Hibbert Room, Westgate Chapel, High Street BN7 1XH Advance tickets £4 Door £6 Event 9 Sat 9th October 11am-4pm DANCE DISPLAYS AT 4 LOCATIONS. The following dance sides (from):- THE KNOTS OF MAY BRIGHTON MORRIS MEN BROADWOOD MORRIS SUN OAK * MARLING CUCKOO'S NEST * MAGOG DITCHLING MORRIS SOMPTING MORRIS CHANCTONBURY RING MORRIS HUNTERS MOON 1] Cliffe Precinct BN7 1XH 2] The Dorset Arms, Malling Street BN7 2RD 3] The John Harvey Tavern, Cliffe High Street BN7 2AN 4] The Volunteer, Eastgate BN7 2LP Free with collection. Event 10 Sat 9th October 3-6pm SINGAROUND Led by SANDRA GODDARD Tune interludes led by WILL DUKE Royal Oak, Station Street BN7 2DA Free with collection. Event 11 Sat 9th October 4-7pm STARFISH EVENT Showcasing young local bands The Nutty Wizard, Cliffe High St. BN7 2BP Free with collection. Event 12 Sat 9th October 8pm FESTIVAL DANCE with RYBURN 3 STEP Caller SUE COE Priory School Hall, Mountfield Road BN7 2XN Advance tickets £8 Door £10 Event 13 Sat 9th October 8pm SUSSEX SINGERS CONCERT Compere SHIRLEY COLLINS THE COPPER FAMILY BOB LEWIS * WILL DUKE NOEL DUMBRELL Royal Oak, Station Street BN7 2DA Advance tickets £8 Door £10 Event 14 Sat 9th October 8pm PEPPER'S GHOST MAGIC LANTERN SHOW GAVIN & JULIE ATKIN JIM WARD Elephant & Castle, White Hill BN7 2DJ Advance tickets £8 Door £10 |
Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival: 7-10th October 2010 From: Vic Smith Date: 26 Jun 10 - 06:49 AM ***FRIDAY*** Event 2 Fri 8th October 8pm Multimedia Presentation SHIRLEY COLLINS with Pip Barnes "AMERICA OVER THE WATER" South Downs College Hall Mountfield Road BN7 2XH Advance tickets £8 Door £10 Event 3 Fri 8th October 8pm Seaford Folk Club in Lewes Evening with NIGEL BAGGE & EDDIE ARMER Royal Oak, Station Street BN7 2DA Advance tickets £6 Door £8 Event 4 Fri 8th October 8pm Old Timey Music session led by MICHI MATHIAS Black Horse, Western Road BN7 1RS Free with collection. |
Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival: 7-10th October 2010 From: Vic Smith Date: 26 Jun 10 - 06:46 AM List of Events ***THURSDAY*** Event 1 Thurs 7th October 8pm Folk Club Evening with JOHN KIRKPATRICK Royal Oak, Station Street BN7 2DA Advance tickets £8 Door £10 |
Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival: 7-10th October 2010 From: Vic Smith Date: 26 Jun 10 - 06:42 AM The PayPal facility is now working perfectly and we have been selling multiple tickets in that way. Well done Bryan Creer, out intrepid webmaster. Send for an emailed complete programme - as in previous posting |
Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival: 7-10th October 2010 From: Vic Smith Date: 11 Jun 10 - 11:35 AM * Festival programme completed. * Events listed at http://www.lewesfolkfest.org/LFFprogramme.php * Tickets now on sale by cheque at http://www.lewesfolkfest.org/LFFtickets.php * Tickets available by PayPal from that same location within a few days (When it becomes available it will be noted here.) * To receive an emailed programme leaflet which you can print out yourselves, email folk@brighton.co.uk Twenty-one events now arranged. Twelve dance teams, concerts, folk clubs, dance, singarounds, tune sessions, presentations, workshops. Lots of top nasme guests. |
Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival: 7-10th October 2010 From: Vic Smith Date: 09 Oct 09 - 11:45 AM John Kirkpatrick.....Shirley Collins.....John Adams.....Chris Coe....Chris Partington |
Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival: 7-10th October 2010 From: Will Fly Date: 08 Oct 09 - 02:18 PM Excellent! More strength to your arm, Vic - and those other arms around you. I'm amazed that you can find the time and energy when you and Valmai and others are actively involved in keeping up the standard at the Lewes clubs - plus the Folk Directory, sessions, etc. It makes me feel tired just to see it all going on! |
Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival: 7-10th October 2010 From: Vic Smith Date: 08 Oct 09 - 01:53 PM "However, any progress on the programme? " Mostly being negotiated at the moment, Mike, but expect some top names amongst them. |
Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival: 7-10th October 2010 From: Will Fly Date: 08 Oct 09 - 03:35 AM Just realised - 2010 (not 2009) - I thought I'd had a senior moment and I had! However, any progress on the programme? |
Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival: 7-10th October 2010 From: Will Fly Date: 08 Oct 09 - 03:32 AM I'm just back from travels and have a weekend fairly free - but the quoted festival link: http://www.lewesfolkfest.org tells me nothing. Is there another link somewhere? Or is there a programme I can pick up from the Oak this evening? Thanks. |
Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival: 7-10th October 2010 From: GUEST,harmanfolk participate festival Date: 07 Oct 09 - 03:11 PM we are turkish folk group we want to join festival our folklore group if you interest harman@harmanfolk.com bulent uzun |
Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival: 7-10th October 2010 From: bubblyrat Date: 01 Oct 09 - 01:15 PM Speaking both as an "Old Midhurstian",and coming from a long line of Mills ancestors from Lyminster (Littlehampton) and Fernhurst,I would have LOVED to attend a festival in GOSBTS,but have already pledged my services to Merek & Dary in Banbury !! |
Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival: 7-10th October 2010 From: Vic Smith Date: 01 Oct 09 - 12:46 PM "any plans to accommodate caravans?" None at present - rather thought that mid-October was outside the camping/caravanning season (though we are in October and the weather in Lewes today is like a hot summer's day). We will give it thought, discuss it and post here some time in the future. |
Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival: 7-10th October 2010 From: Acorn4 Date: 01 Oct 09 - 12:41 PM As a Suswegian by birth and us being regular attenders at the Upper Dicker Folk and Ale, we might be tempted - any plans to accommodate caravans? |
Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival: 7-10th October 2010 From: Surreysinger Date: 01 Oct 09 - 10:28 AM Sorry, Valmai ... that wouldn't tempt me at all - don't drink the stuff!!! [grins] Doesn't matter, I'm tempted by the potential content of the festival!! |
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