The Folk Diary is 40 - Happy Birthday!

Subject: The Folk Diary is 40 - Happy Birthday!
From: Vic Smith
Date: 12 Nov 09 - 01:32 PM

Issue number 240 of THE FOLK DIARY is now published and as it is a bi-monthly publication, it does not take much mathematics to work out that it has now reached its 40th birthday - and all that time under the same two editors - JIM MARSHALL and VIC SMITH. You can read the 16 pages (including 4 pages of album reviews) on-line at http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~tinvic/fd.htm and that webpage will also give you the address to send an SAE to if you would like to receive a free paper copy. Each page of the magazine is available in the form in which it is printed. Each page is available to be viewed and printed in .pdf format. You will need Adobe ACROBAT READER to access each of these pages.
The size of file for each page is given by the page number:-

1] (432kb) Croydon folk club - "The Magical Christmas Tree Show, Derrick Hughes plays serpent, "Maypoles to Mistletoes" at The Hawth, Crawley, Brighton Folk & Blues Club at The Open House (Fris).

2] (399kb) Meltdown Ceilidhs Haywards Heath, Nellie Folk Club Tonbridge (Mons), Horsham Folk Club (Suns), Sandra's Party, Spyboy Presentations.

3] (936kb)Gary's Live Music Club Coolham Village Hall, Folk at the Royal Oak, Lewes (Thurs), Copy dates and contact details.

4] (1.00mb) Rattlebag singarounds Hastings (Thurs), Folk on the Coast Bognor (Fris), The Sussex Pistols Barn Dance Band.

5] (0.99kb) Barry Murphy banjos. Vince's fiddles, Croydon Folk Club (Mons), Crow Jane recording studio Lewes, Mid-Sussex folk singers Ashurst (Weds)

6] (291kb) Amberley Folk Club (Tues), Steve Winchester new album, Fee calls Ceilidhs, North Brighton singarounds (Thurs & Suns), Rude Mechanicals (Weds), Blakewood The Blue Coconut (Thurs), Get the Folk Diary by post.

7] (586kb) CD reviews by Jim Marshall and Vic Smith

8] (1.29mb) CD reviews by Jim Marshall and Vic Smith

9] (385kb) CD reviews by Jim Marshall and Vic Smith

10] (392kb) CD reviews by Jim Marshall and Vic Smith

11] (2.04mb) Willows Arundel (Weds), SEFAN Regional Meeting, Acoustic Sussex

12] (1.10mb) Piggies Open Mike Uckfield (Tues), Sussex Folk Association, Lamb folk club Eastbourne (Weds), Hat Music aand Films.

13] (1.54mb) Blakewood Acoustic sessions (Weds), Brighton Cellarfolk Brighton (Tues), Six Bells Chiddingly (Tues). Elsie's (Sats), Brighton Acoustic session (Mons), White Horse Bodle Street Green (Mons)

14] (2.26mb) Geordie's Winter Almanac Tour Winchester, Forty Years of The Folk Diary!

15] (1.13mb) Seaford Folk Club (Fris) Brighton Singers Club (Weds), All Good Folk ( carols), Electric Voices Guildford area.

16] (123KB) Lewes Saturday Club.

Subject: RE: The Folk Diary is 40 - Happy Birthday!
From: Will Fly
Date: 12 Nov 09 - 03:38 PM

Vic - congratulations to you and Jim for keeping this excellent publication going for 40 years! It's absolutely invaluable - long may it flourish.

Subject: RE: The Folk Diary is 40 - Happy Birthday!
From: Valmai Goodyear
Date: 13 Nov 09 - 03:55 AM

A brilliant achievement. One of the reasons there's so much folk music in Sussex is that the Folk Diary makes it easy to find out what's on.

Valmai

Subject: RE: The Folk Diary is 40 - Happy Birthday!
From: GUEST,Stuart Reed
Date: 13 Nov 09 - 07:10 PM

OBEs for Jim & Vic. I'll have a Harveys.

Subject: RE: The Folk Diary is 40 - Happy Birthday!
From: TheSnail
Date: 13 Nov 09 - 07:45 PM

It more or less coincides with my involvement in Sussex folk music. I think I even did some folding back in the early days. Many thanks to Jim and Vic for all they've done.

Bryan

Subject: RE: The Folk Diary is 40 - Happy Birthday!
From: Dave Earl
Date: 13 Nov 09 - 07:54 PM

Yes indeed.

1969 in the Springfield on a Friday night was about the first time I came across the Folk Diary.