Brian Peters melodeon & ballad workshops

Subject: Brian Peters melodeon & ballad workshops
From: Valmai Goodyear
Date: 18 Nov 14 - 05:48 PM

On 6th. December Brian Peters leads an all-day melodeon workshop and performs at Lewes Saturday Folk Club, Sussex, UK in the evening. On Sunday 7th. December Brian leads an all-day ballad forum for us. I'll put details of the melodeon workshop in the next post and details of the ballad forum in the one after that.

Valmai (Lewes)

Subject: RE: Brian Peters melodeon & ballad workshops
From: Valmai Goodyear
Date: 18 Nov 14 - 05:50 PM

Lewes Saturday Folk Club Workshop No 201
BRIAN PETERS MELODEON WORKSHOP
Places £35
Saturday 6 December 2014
10.45 a.m.- 4.45 p.m.
Elephant & Castle White Hill Lewes BN7 2DJ      

Brian Peters is 'one of the country's finest melodeon players' (English Dance & Song 2011) & an internationally-known instrumentalist & singer with a wide teaching experience on melodeon, including Melodeons at Witney, Folkworks, Music without Frontiers (Netherlands) & a Masterclass at the Australian National Folk Festival. He also gives regular lessons to groups & individuals. Working solo & in various combinations, he specialises in Northern English dance music & accompanying traditional song, but has also experimented with blues, Tex-Mex & much else. He is an excellent Anglo concertina player as well.

The workshop will cover three main topics if time permits (see provisional timetable). Players should have a G/D instrument & be reasonably experienced; music will be provided for readers but by-ear learners are welcome too.

BRIAN PETERS PERFORMS AT THE ELEPHANT & CASTLE IN THE EVENING
(£7; advance tickets available from address at end of this form) AND ALSO LEADS AN ALL-DAY BALLAD FORUM ON SUNDAY 7 DECEMBER AT THE ELEPHANT & CASTLE

Provisional Timetable

10.45   Registration & coffee; please order lunch at the bar (refreshments not included)

11.00 More Nuggets from the North: dance tunes from Lancashire & Yorkshire.

12.30 - 13.30 Lunch

13.30 Don't be a chicken, cross the rows! 'Canal en Octobre' à la française, & others.

15.00 Tea/coffee break

15.15 Slower tunes for weary brains.

16.45 - Finish

N.B. Booking is recommended as numbers are limited. Music will be sent in advance & maps & accommodation lists on request.


BRIAN PETERS MELODEON WORKSHOP
Saturday 6 December 2014
BOOKING FORM

I enclose a cheque for £35.00 for workshop fees (refreshments not included).

Name:

Address:








No. of tickets for evening performance
(£7 each, include SAE for these):

Telephone:

E-mail address:

Tick for map:    Tick for accommodation list:

Please make cheques payable to Lewes Saturday Folk Club and send with this booking form to:
Valmai Goodyear, 20, St. John's Terrace,
LEWES, East Sussex BN7 2DL
Tel. [phone]
www.lewessaturdayfolkclub.org/

Subject: RE: Brian Peters melodeon & ballad workshops
From: Valmai Goodyear
Date: 18 Nov 14 - 05:50 PM

Lewes Saturday Folk Club Workshop No 202
BRIAN PETERS BALLAD FORUM
www.brian-peters.co.uk
Sunday 7 December 2014
10.45 a.m.- 4.45 p.m. Places £25
Elephant & Castle White Hill Lewes BN7 2DJ      

Brian Peters has been singing some of the greatest Child Ballads for many years, but established his reputation as one of their leading researchers & performers with the ballad CD 'Songs of Trial & Triumph'.
In this forum Brian will bring his expertise in locating, refurbishing, arranging & singing the greatest ballads, & also his knowledge of the ballads that you bring yourselves, including comparative versions & fascinating source recordings from the tradition.

Stephen Winick, of the Library of Congress, Washington DC, says: 'Brian Peters has long been one of the very best performers in the field of English traditional song & music,. His Child ballads embody tragedy, action, excitement & humour ... unusual ballads such as Sir Aldingar & False Foudrage shimmer with magic & murder.'

You are invited to bring along at least one traditional ballad of your choice to sing & talk about. To avoid clashes with other contributors. please state your preferred ballad in advance. If your choice has already been taken, we will let you know so that you can choose another. If in doubt about what counts as a ballad, please email me.

ON SATURDAY 6 December BRIAN PETERS PERFORMS AT THE ELEPHANT & CASTLE IN THE EVENING (£7; advance tickets available from address at end of this form)
& ALSO LEADS AN ALL-DAY MELODEON WORKSHOP.

Provisional Timetable

10.45   Registration & coffee; please order lunch at the bar (refreshments not included)
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch
15.15 Tea/coffee break
16.45 Finish

Ballads chosen so far: Lady Diamond, House Carpenter, Matty Groves, Long Lankin, Battle of Lewes, Queen Eleanor's Confession, Banks of Green Willow

N.B. Booking is recommended as numbers are limited. Maps & accommodation lists
will be sent in advance.

BRIAN PETERS BALLAD FORUM
Sunday 7 December 2014
BOOKING FORM
I enclose a cheque for £25.00 for workshop fees (refreshments not included).

Name:

Address:






*Ballad chosen:

No. of tickets for Saturday evening performance
(£7 each, include SAE for these):

Telephone:

E-mail address:

Tick for map:    Tick for accommodation list:

Please make cheques payable to Lewes Saturday Folk Club and send with this booking form to:
Valmai Goodyear, 20, St. John's Terrace,
LEWES, East Sussex BN7 2DL
Tel. [phone]

www.lewessaturdayfolkclub.org/

Subject: RE: Brian Peters melodeon & ballad workshops
From: Valmai Goodyear
Date: 19 Nov 14 - 06:52 PM

You can also print booking forms from Lewes Saturday Folk Club's website.

Valmai (Lewes)

Subject: RE: Brian Peters melodeon & ballad workshops
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Nov 14 - 08:10 PM

Tha knows I don't do choons but I'M sure it'll be a Grand thing anyway

Subject: RE: Brian Peters melodeon & ballad workshops
From: maeve
Date: 20 Nov 14 - 01:27 AM

Brian's workshops are well worth travel, and I am so impressed with this ballad series! Wish I could attend!

Subject: RE: Brian Peters melodeon & ballad workshops
From: Valmai Goodyear
Date: 20 Nov 14 - 12:51 PM

Add 'Semmerwater' to the list of ballads chosen.

Valmai (Lewes)

Subject: RE: Brian Peters melodeon & ballad workshops
From: Valmai Goodyear
Date: 22 Nov 14 - 09:14 AM

The music for Brian's melodeon workshop is now ready to be sent out. We have workshop places and evening tickets available. The list of ballads now included 'Semmerwater'.

Valmai (Lewes)

Subject: RE: Brian Peters melodeon & ballad workshops
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 22 Nov 14 - 09:24 AM

a bargain - worth that just to talk with Brian, and listen to him playing!

Subject: RE: Brian Peters melodeon & ballad workshops
From: GUEST,Anne Neilson
Date: 22 Nov 14 - 10:46 AM

Just wish I weren't so far away!

It's a real treat to hear someone as knowledgeable as Brian talk about ballads "in the round" -- collection history, themes and folklore, tunes, performance -- with a proper passion which he certainly communicates. He makes learning a pleasure.

Enjoy your weekend, Valmai et al, and try not to make the rest of us too jealous.

Subject: RE: Brian Peters melodeon & ballad workshops
From: Valmai Goodyear
Date: 22 Nov 14 - 08:01 PM

Thanks, Anne - from an organiser of the Glasgow Ballad workshops that's a very valuable comment indeed.

Valmai (Lewes)

Subject: RE: Brian Peters melodeon & ballad workshops
From: RoyH (Burl)
Date: 24 Nov 14 - 10:17 AM

Everyone who CAN get to these events, SHOULD do. Brian Peters is one of our folk scene treasures. Go,listen, learn, and be hugely entertained at the same time. I too wish I didn't live so far away.

Subject: RE: Brian Peters melodeon & ballad workshops
From: GUEST,Valmai Goodyear
Date: 25 Nov 14 - 02:29 AM

The ballad list has grown again:

Lady Diamond, Queen Eleanor's Confession, House Carpenter, Matty Groves, Long Lankin, Battle of Lewes, Banks of Green Willow, Riddles Wisely Expounded, Young Hunting.

We still have places fot the ballad forum, the melodeon workshop and the evening.

Valmai (Lewes)

Subject: RE: Brian Peters melodeon & ballad workshops
From: GUEST,Valmai Goodyear
Date: 25 Nov 14 - 01:43 PM

And the list is now:

Lady Diamond, Queen Eleanor's Confession, House Carpenter, Matty Groves, Long Lankin, Battle of Lewes, Banks of Green Willow, Semmerwater, Riddles Wisely Expounded, Young Hunting, Richie Storey.

Valmai (Lewes)

Subject: RE: Brian Peters melodeon & ballad workshops
From: GUEST,Valmai Goodyear
Date: 27 Nov 14 - 03:40 AM

In response to a request from one of the attendees Brian has very kindly sent sound files of the advance music, which I am emailing to people today. We still have some melodeon workshop places,Saturday evening tickets and Sunday ballad forum places available.

Valmai (Lewes)

Subject: RE: Brian Peters melodeon & ballad workshops
From: GUEST,Valmai Goodyear
Date: 01 Dec 14 - 01:39 PM

We could still fit in a few more people. If you plan to come, email me on valmaigoodyear[at]aol[dot]com and bring the right money in cash on the day as there isn't now time to put a cheque through the club's account.

Valmai (Lewes)

Subject: RE: Brian Peters melodeon & ballad workshops
From: GUEST,Valmai Goodyear
Date: 05 Dec 14 - 11:40 AM

As above - bring cash on the day if you're a last-minute booker. We have evening tickets, too.

Valmai (Lewes)