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15 Nov 11 - 05:51 PM (#3257716) Subject: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith LEWES FOLK FESTIVAL 2012We have settled on the dates for the 2012 Festival. It will be on 11th-14th October. We have booked the venues that we require and have contacted the names that we would like as headliners and straight away, five of them have said that they are available and willing to play at the festival. Lots of negotiation and arrangements to be completed, obviously, but you can mark those dates in your 2012 calendar. Updates here as they are finalised. |
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17 Nov 11 - 05:40 AM (#3258635) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith In the meantime, have a look at nearly 200 photos from the 2011 event by clicking here. |
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30 Dec 11 - 12:15 PM (#3282003) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Subject to contact, those appearing will include:- MARTIN CARTHY & DAVE SWARBRICK |
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22 May 12 - 07:33 AM (#3354218) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith The full programme for LEWES FOLK FESTIVAL 2012 has now been arranged and will appear here:- Thursday 11th October EVENT 1 8 -11pm £12 Martin Carthy & Dave SwarbrickWith Dan Quinn & Will Duke, Terry Masterson and Vic & Tina Smith Royal Oak, Station Street * Tickets will be on sale from June 1st from the Lewes Folk Festival website * In the meantime all events are listed at The Lewes Folk Festival Myspace Site |
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23 May 12 - 05:09 AM (#3354652) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Valmai Goodyear Thrilled to bits! Valmai (Lewes) |
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23 May 12 - 07:00 AM (#3354672) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Thursday 11th October EVENT 2 8-11pm Collection Old Time Music Session led by The So Last Century String BandThe Lamb, Fisher Street |
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24 May 12 - 07:30 AM (#3355046) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Friday 12th October EVENT 3 8pm £15 FAUSTUS |
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25 May 12 - 04:47 AM (#3355381) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Friday 12th October EVENT 4 8 -11pm £12 (£10 in adv.) The Young Copperswith Bob Lewis and Noel Dumbrell Royal Oak, Station Street |
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26 May 12 - 04:51 PM (#3355978) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Friday 12th October EVENT 5 8 -11pm £8(£6 in adv.) Peppers Ghost Magic Lantern Showplus The Lifeboat Story with Charlotte & Spong and Spare Parts Elephant & Castle, White Hill |
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27 May 12 - 05:32 AM (#3356083) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Saturday 13th October EVENT 6 11am-4pm Collection All Day Dance Displays in four locationsThe Knots of May Oyster Girls Seven Champions Molly Dancers Mythago Black Dragon Marlings Morris Broadwood Morris Magog Sompting Morris (2 sides) Ditchling Morris Brighton Morris Cuckoo's Nest Rampant Rooster Long Man Morris Sun Oak Clog 1] John Harvey Tavern, Bear Yard 2] Cliffe Precinct 3] Waitrose 4] The Dorset, Malling Street. |
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08 Jun 12 - 07:17 AM (#3360870) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Saturday 13th October EVENT 7 11-12.30pm £6 (£4 in adv) Part Playing Workshop For Any Melody InstrumentLed by Spare Parts Elephant & Castle, White Hill |
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08 Jun 12 - 10:00 AM (#3360910) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Valmai Goodyear We'll be putting the music for that on the Spare Parts band website in advance, in dots and two speeds of midi for anyone who wants to try it out. Valmai (Lewes) |
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09 Jun 12 - 07:17 AM (#3361211) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Saturday 13th October EVENT 8 12 – 1pm £8 (£6 in adv.) An Hour with Martyn Wyndham-ReadRoyal Oak, Station Street |
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10 Jun 12 - 05:16 AM (#3361533) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Saturday 13th October EVENT 9 12- 12.30 Collection Matt Quinn |
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11 Jun 12 - 06:05 AM (#3361939) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Saturday 13th October EVENT 10 12 - 5.00pm Collection Afternoon tune sessionThe Lamb, Fisher Street |
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11 Jun 12 - 08:00 AM (#3361977) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Richard Bridge Can you tell us please about camping and fringe events? |
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12 Jun 12 - 06:38 AM (#3362433) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Camping is one of the topics on the agenda for tomorrow's committee meeting, Richard. |
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12 Jun 12 - 06:41 AM (#3362434) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Saturday 13th October EVENT 11 1 -2.30pm £6 (£4 in adv) Linda Game |
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13 Jun 12 - 05:47 AM (#3362824) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Saturday 13th October EVENT 12 1.15–2.45pm £6(£4 in adv) Matt Quinn |
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14 Jun 12 - 08:02 AM (#3363291) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Saturday 13th October EVENT 13 3-4.30pm £6(£4 in adv Australian Dance Tunes Workshop with |
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15 Jun 12 - 07:36 AM (#3363675) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Saturday 13th October EVENT 14 3 – 6.00pm Collection Singaround Led by Will Duke |
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16 Jun 12 - 05:46 AM (#3364081) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Saturday 13th October EVENT 15 3 – 3.30 Collection Carrie Elkin & Danny Schmidtfrom Austin Texas In-Store Session Union Music Store, Lansdown Place |
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17 Jun 12 - 06:27 AM (#3364489) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Saturday 13th October EVENT 16 5.00 – 6.30 pm £6(£4 in adv) French Dance Workshop |
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18 Jun 12 - 05:42 AM (#3364837) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Saturday 13th October EVENT 17 8pm £12 (£10 in adv.) DOWN THE LAWSON TRACKA Multimedia Show with Martyn Wyndham-Read Shirley Collins Pip Barnes Iris Bishop Jon Wigg Gary Holder Royal Oak, Station Street |
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20 Jun 12 - 05:46 PM (#3365990) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Saturday 13th October EVENT 18 8 pm £12 (£10 in adv.) Les Barkerwith Dan Quinn & Will Duke, Steve & Diane Nevill Lewes Old Grammar pupils Elephant & Castle, White Hill |
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21 Jun 12 - 07:53 AM (#3366187) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Saturday 13th October EVENT 19 8pm £12(£10 in adv) Festival Dance with |
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23 Jun 12 - 06:15 AM (#3366980) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Sunday 14th October EVENT 20 11-12.30pm £6 (£4 in adv) English Tunes Practice Session |
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24 Jun 12 - 09:38 AM (#3367360) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Sunday 14th October EVENT 21 12 – 2.30pm Collection Tune Session led by Matt QuinnRoyal Oak, Station Street |
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24 Jun 12 - 10:10 AM (#3367369) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: GUEST ...any chance of another "kirkpatrick" being involved???? Song spot MC Running a folk club? |
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25 Jun 12 - 07:45 AM (#3367701) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Sunday 14th October EVENT 22 1 - 2.30pm £6 (£4 in adv) The Songs, Pictures & Reminiscences of |
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26 Jun 12 - 12:39 PM (#3368234) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Sunday 14th October EVENT 23 2.45 – 5.45pm £10 (12 places only) Traditional Song Workshop |
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01 Jul 12 - 11:02 AM (#3370270) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Sunday 14th October EVENT 24 3-4pm £6 (£4 in adv) An Hour with Bing LyleRoyal Oak, Station Street |
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02 Jul 12 - 06:43 AM (#3370638) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Sunday 14th October EVENT 25 4.15–6.15 Collection Singaround led by Stuart ReedRoyal Oak, Station Street |
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03 Jul 12 - 09:49 AM (#3371262) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Sunday 14th October EVENT 26 6.–7.45 £6 (£4 in adv) "What A Happy Young Man" |
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04 Jul 12 - 07:03 AM (#3371789) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Sunday 14th October EVENT 27 6pm Collection Moody & Sankey Hymns |
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05 Jul 12 - 06:53 AM (#3372259) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Sunday 14th October EVENT 28 8 pm Collection Farewell SessionLed by Bryan Creer Elephant & Castle, White Hill |
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06 Jul 12 - 04:32 PM (#3372959) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Right! That's the entire programme listed. We have published a free 16-page programme with lots more details. If you would like a copy, just send an S.A.E. to Vic Smith 26 Ferrers Road Lewes East Sussex. BN7 1PZ If an on-line version will do - click here |
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13 Aug 12 - 04:28 PM (#3389773) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith It looks like the first event to sell out will be:- EVENT 23 2.45 – 5.45pm £10 Traditional Song Workshop Led by Shirley Collins There is only ONE ticket left - but other events are selling well with advance sales quite a bit up on what they were at this time last year. |
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22 Aug 12 - 04:06 PM (#3393746) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Richard Bridge And the camping and fringe? |
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25 Aug 12 - 12:28 PM (#3394935) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith And the camping and fringe? I will be in a position to post a full answer in a couple of days, Richard. In The meantime, please note that events are selling well and that we only have FOUR tickets left for EVENT 1 - Carthy & Swarbrick and ONE place left for EVENT 23 Shirley Collins song workshop. Move very quickly to get these tickets - other events, particularly Faustus & Les Barker selling well. |
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28 Aug 12 - 03:05 PM (#3396588) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Event 23 Shirley Collins Traditional Song Workshop ***NOW SOLD OUT*** |
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30 Aug 12 - 12:20 PM (#3397618) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Right. At Last! * Camping & Caravans for Lewes Folk Festival:- This will be at Spring Barn Farm Park Kingston Road Lewes East Sussex BN7 3ND Either - * Telephone 01273 488450 or * Go to http://www.springbarnfarm.com/campsite/ and fill in the booking form. * About 1 mile from the centre of the town * Facilities - Toilet block - Standpipe - Dogs on a lead at all times * Tents in the field. Caravans and Camper Vans on the hard surface only. They say "Our prices have changes from last year, they have gone down!!!!". We were investiagting a possible temporary site nearer the centre of the town but this will not be possible for this year - perhaps in future. |
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30 Aug 12 - 12:23 PM (#3397620) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith ONE TICKET ONLY left for Event 1 - MARTIN CARTHY & DAVE SWARBRICK |
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02 Sep 12 - 03:22 PM (#3399120) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Event 1 - MARTIN CARTHY & DAVE SWARBRICK ***SOLD OUT*** |
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14 Sep 12 - 12:13 PM (#3404568) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Now less than 10 tickets left for Event 18 LES BARKER |
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16 Sep 12 - 03:48 PM (#3405788) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Richard Bridge And what about the fringe? |
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17 Sep 12 - 05:22 AM (#3406027) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Richard Bridge wrote:- "And what about the fringe?" I am not sure what you are talking about, Richard. We have organised concerts, folk club evenings, dance displays presentations, workshops in melodeon and fiddle playing, tunes from manuscripts, singing style, French dance steps, a church singing session to belt out hymns to the very fine Salvation Army Band, singarounds and tune sessions for those who wish to participate. It's all in the on-line programme at http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~tinvic/lff2012.htm What sort of events do you mean by "fringe"? I thought that "fringe" events (as at the Edinburgh Festival) meant "events other than those mounted by the main festival organisers". |
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17 Sep 12 - 07:11 AM (#3406058) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Richard Bridge Like Sidders - walk into pub, sit down, sing and play. |
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17 Sep 12 - 07:34 AM (#3406070) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Richard wrote:- "Like Sidders - walk into pub, sit down, sing and play. " I thought that is what you meant having just read your post (16 Sep 12 - 12:11 PM ) in the Deal Maritime (folk) festival and I think that I can work out what you are after. What you are seeking is a pub or part of a pub to be set aside in the evenings for you and others to do your own singing (rather than tune playing) quite separate from the main festival events. May I try to answer your enquiry from two standpoints – firstly the pubs' and then our festival's. I don't suppose Lewes is very different from many other small towns but the pubs that survive - and seven pubs have closed in the town in recent years – are competing to attract the declining numbers of regular pub drinkers, particularly on their prime busy times of Friday and Saturday evenings. To this end, all Lewes pubs now do meals most with a separate dining area, some have large screens showing sport, mainly football, throughout the weekend and some book bands on weekend evenings. The regular pub bands will continue to provide for the pub's regular customers during our festival weekend. If I were to ask these pub managers to give me a room for one weekend for an undefined number of folk singers, I know what their answer would be. Then the festival…. We are still in our infancy, rather that the 50 year plus maturity of Sidmouth. This will be our third year. One of the early points made by the committee when it was setting things up for the first year was that if we made a loss, we would not be pursuing a future festival. We suspected that things were going to be marginal but we did not how close we were. If the weather had not been good on the Saturday and we had not collected £300 from the various morris/dance sites then the festival would have been £150 in the red rather than in the black. We did rather better in our second year, but still we need to cover all our expenses from ticket sales and what goes into the collecting tins. Our outlay is very considerable. The main expense is obviously artists' fees and if you look through the programme above you will see many top – and therefore expensive – names. In addition, unlike some festivals, we try to pay all the support artists at least something for their efforts (unless, of course, they happen to members of the committee, in which case they get nothing!). Do I need to list the others? Insurance, venue rents, printing, programme and poster design, magazine and local newspaper advertising, etc. etc. Running a four day festival does not come cheap and we have no source of income apart from our ticket sales. This means that in the evenings, our main time for obtaining income, there are only admission price events and this is unlikely to change in the near future. There are "free admission with collection" singarounds during the day and on the Sunday evening. Festivals have taken a hammering in 2012. A number of them decided not to operate this year and others were badly affected by the great deluge that was July. Many found tickets sales down this year. They are going to need the financial support from people buying at least some event tickets to be able to survive. |
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17 Sep 12 - 08:12 AM (#3406090) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: GUEST,matt milton I'm looking forward to it. I have a ticket for Shirley Collins' singing workshop on the Sunday, and intend to cram in as much stuff that day I can fit in. If I'm not too busy, I'm thinking of popping down on the Thursday too (though mainly for checking out handmade guitars). I've been thinking a lot about how festivals work recently. I started idly wondering (inspired by the No Masters record label) how feasible it might be to run a festival entirely as a co-operative: with all the acts performing and all the people organising on a level footing, all with stakes in the festival, all involved. |
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17 Sep 12 - 09:01 AM (#3406115) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Richard Bridge I wish you the best of luck but it is not a formula that appeals to me. |
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17 Sep 12 - 10:11 AM (#3406149) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: GUEST Do you need Stewards? I am available for most of the duration if you need me Dave |
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17 Sep 12 - 10:19 AM (#3406153) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Dave Earl Doh!!! That was me improperly signe in :-( Dave |
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25 Sep 12 - 09:13 AM (#3409876) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Don't forget that October 1st is the last day for the Advance ticket reduction, typically saving you £2 on entry to each event. Phone 01273 478124 for the rapidly changing position on ticket availability. |
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26 Sep 12 - 01:51 PM (#3410551) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Valmai Goodyear The music for the two Spare Parts workshops can now be downloaded in midi and pdf form from the Tunes page of the band website, http://www.sparepartsband.co.uk/SPTunes.php (link-maker not working). Saturday 13th. October, 11.00 a.m. - 12.30 Playing tunes in parts for any melody instrument with SPARE PARTS CONCERTINA BAND Elephant and Castle, White Hill, Lewes BN7 2DJ. The tunes are :- A French Minuet Harvey's Hornpipe A Jigg Ashling The MIDI files have normal and slow versions of the full arrangements and of each part separately. Each tune is played three times. Sunday 14th. October, 11.00 a.m. - 12.30 English Tunes Practice Session with SPARE PARTS CONCERTINA BAND Elephant and Castle, White Hill, Lewes BN7 2DJ. The tunes are :- Brook Street Polka Flowers of Ashgill Gipsy'sHornpipe GraceBell'sBarnDanceh The Plane Tree Welch's 3 Part Polka The MIDI files have normal and slow versions of the tunes. Each tune is played three times. Even if you aren't coming to the Festival, feel free to try out the music. Valmai (Lewes) |
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27 Sep 12 - 02:19 AM (#3410762) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Valmai Goodyear I'll repost this as the link maker is now working. Many thanks to Bryan TheSnail Creer for all the work involved in making separate midi files for the parts: The music for the two Spare Parts workshops can now be downloaded in midi and pdf form from the tunes page of the band website, http://www.sparepartsband.co.uk/SPTunes.php. Saturday 13th. October, 11.00 a.m. - 12.30 Playing tunes in parts for any melody instrument with SPARE PARTS CONCERTINA BAND Elephant and Castle, White Hill, Lewes BN7 2DJ. The tunes are :- A French Minuet Harvey's Hornpipe A Jigg Ashling The MIDI files have normal and slow versions of the full arrangements and of each part separately. Each tune is played three times. Sunday 14th. October, 11.00 a.m. - 12.30 English Tunes Practice Session with SPARE PARTS CONCERTINA BAND Elephant and Castle, White Hill, Lewes BN7 2DJ. The tunes are :- Brook Street Polka Flowers of Ashgill Gipsy's Hornpipe Grace Bell's Barn Dance The Plane Tree Welch's 3 Part Polka The MIDI files have normal and slow versions of the tunes. Each tune is played three times. Even if you aren't coming to the Festival, feel free to try out the music. Advance tickets for all Festival events are available from the Lewes Folk Festival website and are typically £2 cheaper if you book before 1st. October. Valmai (Lewes) |
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02 Oct 12 - 10:52 AM (#3413056) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Valmai Goodyear In case anyone finds it useful to have all the Festival workshops listed in one place, here they are. You can still book online via the http://www.lewesfolkfest.org/ website. The Martin Carthy / Dave Swarbrick event is sold out, as is Shirley Collins's song workshop. PART-PLAYING WORKSHOP FOR ANY INSTRUMENT WITH SPARE PARTS CONCERTINA BAND, £6 Saturday 13th. October 11.00 – 12.30, Elephant & Castle, White Hill, Lewes BN7 2DJ Bryan Creer, Valmai Goodyear and Suzanne Higgins play arrangements of British dance music on three concertinas and fiddle. They also sing in harmony and with the concertinas. The music is available in advance as dots and midis downloadable from the Tunes page of the Spare Parts website http://www.sparepartsband.co.uk/SPTunes.php or they can be emailed or even printed and posted on request. FIDDLE WORKSHOP WITH LINDA GAME, £6 Saturday 13th. October 13.00 - 14.30, Elephant & Castle, White Hill, Lewes BN7 2DJ Since moving to Brighton 20 years ago Linda has played in a variety of bands with differing styles, from jazz and rock through to traditional music. Linda played for the Brighton based American Appalachian dance team Broken Ankles for 17 years and was one of The Kitchen Girls. She was the fiddle player with the rock group The Fold and is a member of The English Contra Dance Band. MELODEON WORKSHOP WITH MATT QUINN, £6 Saturday 13th. October 13.15 – 14.45, Royal Oak, Station Street, Lewes BN7 2DA Matt Quinn is fast becoming a well-known name on the English folk scene. He has been performing for the last 7 years in various bands including Dogan & the Boombox Karavan (previously the Deerhunters), and the Eliza Carthy Ceilidh Band with their themed ceilidhs at UK Folk Festivals. He has performed at a wide range of venues from folk clubs across the country up to main stages at Sidmouth, Beverley, Warwick, and Broadstairs festivals. A multi-instrumentalist, Matt plays melodeon, mandolin, fiddle and sings. AUSTRALIAN DANCE TUNES WORKSHOP WITH MARTYN WYNDHAM-READ & IRIS BISHOP, £6 Saturday 13th. October 15.00 – 16.30, Elephant & Castle, White Hill, Lewes BN7 2DJ Although an Englishman,Martyn Wyndham-Read has nonetheless become one of the greatest ambassadors of Australian folk song, having spent over 30 years playing music absorbed from the musical tradition of drovers, bush workers, and cane cutters. Having spent time employed as a bush worker himself, Wyndham-Read first fell in love with the traditional Aussie folk songs while employed on a South Australian sheep farm in the early '60s. Only 18 years old at the time, Wyndham-Read found himself enraptured by the songs he heard from the local farm hands, and after leaving his job, traveled the Australian countryside, playing in pubs and trading songs with those he chanced to meet. By 1967, he had befriended Australian-born folkie Trevor Lucas and was recruited to join Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick to contribute to Bert Lloyd's classic LP 'Leviathan'. Soon Wyndham-Read would find himself at the center of a Australian folk music revival, recording his own debut with Nic Jones and a cast of friends and playing the country from end to end before returning home to England, where he found a similarly receptive audience. With over 30 albums to his credit, Wyndham-Read remains an active touring act, frequently joined by the like-minded No Man's Band, presenting commentaries on Australian history, reciting bush poetry, and delivering outback anecdotes that have earned him a reputation as a tremendously warm and hypnotic performer. Iris Bishop is an inspirational player of duet concertina and accordion. She works with Martyn's No Man's Band, Elsie's Band and The Other Band. FRENCH & BRETON DANCE WORKSHOP WITH JAN MULREANY & LIZI STOREY, £6 Saturday 13th. October 17.00 – 18.30 Elephant & Castle, White Hill, Lewes BN7 2DJ Jan and Lizi met 20 years ago through a love of European music & dance. Both are avid collectors at French dance festivals (St Chartier, Gennetines) with an occasional swerve into Sweden, Italy and Eastern Europe. They run Dansez Français in Brighton, hosting bands from France and UK. Lizi plays melodeon and leads DF's houseband. She and Jan have taught European folk dances at festivals in UK, USA France & Belgium. They are mad about the Bourrée and Breton dances and will teach you some of these in their workshop. ENGLISH TUNES PRACTICE FOR ANY INSTRUMENT WITH SPARE PARTS CONCERTINA BAND, £6 Sunday 14th. October 11.00 – 12.30, Elephant & Castle, White Hill, Lewes BN7 2DJ Bryan Creer, Valmai Goodyear and Suzanne Higgins play arrangements of British dance music on three concertinas and fiddle. They also sing in harmony and with the concertinas. The music is available in advance as dots and midis downloadable from the Tunes page of the Spare Parts website http://www.sparepartsband.co.uk/SPTunes.php or they can be emailed or even printed and posted on request. TRADITIONAL SONG WORKSHOP WITH SHIRLEY COLLINS, £12 SOLD OUT Sunday 14th. October 14.45 – 17.45 Elephant & Castle, White Hill, Lewes BN7 2DJ Shirley has been one of the pivotal figures of the folk revival and she remains one of the greatest advocates of English traditional song. We are indeed fortunate to have such an inspirational figures living in Lewes and one who takes such an active part as the festival's patron. Though she no longer sings, she has found other ways of sharing her great love for folk song with her popular multimedia shows and her traditional singing workshops. She will be leading a traditional song workshop and narrating the Down The Lawson Trail show as her involvement in this year's festival, but there is no doubt that we will see her face at other times during the weekend |
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03 Oct 12 - 02:14 PM (#3413761) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Girl Friday Shame I missed the posting that said £2,00 saving ended on October 1st. Never mind - tickets booked for Les Barker....worth every penny. Is there a singaround somewhere beforehand ? |
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03 Oct 12 - 05:25 PM (#3413879) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Is there a singaround somewhere beforehand ? Saturday 13th October EVENT 14 3 – 6.00pm Collection Singaround Led by Will Duke Tunes led by Steve Nevill Royal Oak, Station Street |
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05 Oct 12 - 09:22 AM (#3414806) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Girl Friday Thanks Vic. Hope to be there for that. |
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06 Oct 12 - 06:46 AM (#3415310) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith From today's (Saturday) listings section in the "Guide" section of "The Guardian".... I suppose this event for Thursday 11th October was an inevitable choice but as you might expect, this was sold out at long time ago. Thursday 11th October Lewes * Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick Traditional & contemporary folk (01273 478124) 8pm £12. However if you go to the LEWES FOLK FESTIVAL website at http://www.lewesfolkfest.org/ you will see that there are many other attractive events at the festival..... like this one also listed in "The Guardian" Friday 12th October Lewes * The Young Coppers, Bob Lewis, Noel Dumbrell A cappella folk (01273 478124) 8pm £12. |
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07 Oct 12 - 03:06 PM (#3415955) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Who wants the last pair of tickets for Les Barker? |
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08 Oct 12 - 01:21 PM (#3416439) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith MARTIN CARTHY & DAVE SWARBRICK Earlier this today I had this email from their agent:- Hi Vic I'm afraid Swarb is ill with gastroentiritis. He was taken ill in Cork and is still there. Jill has flown over to look after him. Dave's various conditions means that this has affected him more than most as he isn't retaining his copious amounts of drugs and is therefore quite severely weakened. Martin is on his way back from Cork and is certain that Dave won't make his gigs this week. Martin is willing to do them solo if required. Please confirm you have this and advise on how you want to proceed. Many thanks Best Alan My immediate reaction was to phone and see whether there was any chance of Chris Parkinson being able to replace Dave Swarbrick. Alan thought that was a good suggestion and tried to set this up. Several phone calls later it transpired that Chris is in Portugal this week. The evening will go ahead with Martin Carthy performing as a soloist which, as you all know, is a very exciting prospect in itself. It also means that we have to offer those who have purchased tickets three options:- * Come and still enjoy what will undoubtedly be a great evening * Return your ticket in exchange for a replacement date in the not too distant future by the duo - which we have been offered. * Ask for a refund on your purchase. |
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10 Oct 12 - 05:41 PM (#3417724) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: GUEST There are still a few tickets for Les Barker on Saturday night - ring 01273 478124 for details. The weather forecast for Saturday is good, with a maximum temperature of 12 deg C predicted, and sunshine for all the morris dancers. Valmai (Lewes) |
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11 Oct 12 - 07:00 AM (#3417999) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith It all kicks off tonight with MARTIN CARTHY - now solo - at the Royal Oak in Station Street. A few returned tickets available from those who particularly wanted to see the indisposed DAVE SWARBRICK - 01273 478124 |
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12 Oct 12 - 05:33 AM (#3418488) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Valmai Goodyear Tonight the Festival presents two events: Two Magic Lantern Shows Authentic Victorian Magic Lantern with historic hand-painted & photographic slides, music, songs & readings Elephant & Castle, White Hill, Lewes BN7 2DJ Pepper's Ghost 'The Lifeboat Story' with Spare Parts Concertina Band Plus Charlotte & Spong: Songs with fiddle, concertina, guitar & mandolin Roger Brasier: Poetry, verse & prose Tickets are £8 on door. Union Music Store presents Faustus at the All Saints Centre, Friars Walk: As part of the Lewes Folk Festival Union is proud to present an evening of top class British folk with Faustus & Elle Osborne After a break of 18 months, the original trio of Benji Kirkpatrick, Saul Rose and Paul Sartin is reforming. Nominated in the 2009 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, the Faustus truimvirate are three of the leading lights of their generation: Saul Rose (Waterson;Carthy, Whapweazel), Benji Kirkpatrick (Seth Lakeman Band, Bellowhead) and Paul Sartin (Bellowhead, Belshazzar's Feast). Faustus came together in 2006 as an evolution of the award winning band Dr. Faustus, when Tim Van Eyken and Rob Harbron left to pursue other projects 'Dynamically fascinating to watch, entertaining and intriguing. Their ability to switch from song to tune, from instrument to voice, from traditional tune to modern arrangements made seeing them again a necessity' Folk and Roots In Support we have Elle Osborne, local folk singer with critically acclaimed new album Slowly Slowly Got She up, released on the Folk Police label. Valmai (Lewes) |
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12 Oct 12 - 07:44 AM (#3418532) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith A great mesmeric night with Martin Carthy to start the festival last night, and reports say that the other event last night was also a cracker - the Old Timey session run by Michi Mathias at the Lamb. Valmai wrote:- Tonight the Festival presents two events Well, actually there are three, for she is forgetting the Traditional Sussex Evening at the Royal Oak with the six grandchildren of Bob Copper - Andy, Ben, Lucy, Mark, Sean and Tom - The Young Coppers who will be sharing the evening with two of the stalwarts of the true Sussex Tradition Noel Dumbrell and Bob Lewis. Martin Carthy has a night off tonight so he is going to be in the audience for this one. Then on Saturday and Sunday with have the fine and varied selection of events mentioned above. |
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12 Oct 12 - 10:00 AM (#3418589) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Valmai Goodyear Sorry, I should have checked the programme! Valmai |
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12 Oct 12 - 11:52 AM (#3418666) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith LEWES FOLK FESTIVAL 11 - 14 OCTOBER 2012 A lovely day in Lewes today with the same forecast for tomorrow and this means that we should have another great day for all the dance display sides that will be in the town. Here are the details:- 11am-4pm Collection All Day Dance Displays in four locations - 1] John Harvey Tavern, Bear Yard 2] Cliffe Precinct 3] Outside Waitrose 4] The Dorset, Malling Street. The Knots of May * Oyster Girls Seven Champions Molly Dancers Mythago * Black Dragon Marlings Morris Broadwood Morris * Magog Sompting Morris (2 sides) Ditchling Morris Brighton Morris * Cuckoo's Nest Rampant Rooster Long Man Morris * Sun Oak Clog From last year's festival, here is Mary Motley of the Knots of May and a Festival Committee member, who we have to thank for arranging this great programme. |
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13 Oct 12 - 05:59 AM (#3419047) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Heavy rain until about ten minutes ago. Clearing quickly from the west to be replaced by blue skies. How about that for timing? Our very full programme of five straight hours of dance displays by sixteen dance sides throughout the town for LEWES FOLK FESTIVAL is due to start in 32 minutes. HOOOORRRAAAYYY!!! |
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14 Oct 12 - 09:17 AM (#3419614) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Girl Friday We hit some showers on the way down, but they seemed to have died out by the time we arrived . It was well gone three, so we decided to miss out on the singaround in favour of a mooch around the High Street. Had a late lunch in Market Street, and dinner in The Brewery Arms. The specials board had a lot of good meals... not your usual pub fayre. I plumped for the caramelised onion and goat's cheese quiche, salad, and new potatoes, and insisted that, being a leopard.. Mumblin should have a zebra burger and chips. Both were scrummy. Zebra is not unlike horse . We were first to arrive at the concert, which became a packed house, with around 80 in the audience. It was very cozy, there was much hilasrity, and we suggested to Les Barker that he ought to get sponsored by Tennalady. It was a really good event. |
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14 Oct 12 - 03:57 PM (#3419772) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: GUEST,Martin (Mythago) Just to say we had a great time Saturday Morris dancing, and the side were even kind enough to give me a little time off (for good behaviour or perhaps to get rid of me!) so that I could attend the Linda Game fiddle workshop, which was fantastic. Really great day! |
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15 Oct 12 - 02:14 AM (#3420016) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Chris Amos Shirley Collins song workshop was wonderful, good singers, great songs, insightful comments I feel completely inspired. Chris |
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15 Oct 12 - 06:06 PM (#3420434) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith A huge thank you to everyone who made LEWES FOLK FESTIVAL 2012 such a huge success. There were many people taking photos of the festival, I would love to be able to share them. Please email me |
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18 Oct 12 - 09:45 AM (#3421977) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith We've been sent a link to a mass of excellent photos of Lewes Folk Festival taken by someone called themselves Phil the Flute that he has posted on Flickr. You can see them by clicking here . They are mostly of the many display teams at the festival but there are are also some of the sessions as well. A few Bonfire boys and girls in their smugglers' jumpers or pirates costumes have also crept in somehow. They were out in force selling Bonfire programmes and helping us to make Lewes a very colourful place. There's even a Guy Fawkes tableau being trundled along. |
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18 Oct 12 - 11:19 AM (#3422033) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith You can see over 200 of my photos of the festival by clicking here |
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18 Oct 12 - 11:51 AM (#3422052) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Valmai Goodyear I'm glad to see that Phil the Flute had a ball. Valmai |
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21 Oct 12 - 02:35 PM (#3423697) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith A (spontaneous & unofficial) morris procession The first I knew of it was when I saw this on Youtube! |
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21 Oct 12 - 02:38 PM (#3423699) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Sun Oak Clog |
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21 Oct 12 - 02:41 PM (#3423703) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Sompting Village Morris Outside Safeways |
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21 Oct 12 - 02:47 PM (#3423710) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Marlings Morris in Cliffe Precinct |
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21 Oct 12 - 02:52 PM (#3423718) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Oyster Girls Morris (from the Isle of Wight) Outside Waitrose (as it should also say above for Sompting Village!) |
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21 Oct 12 - 02:56 PM (#3423720) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Cuckoo's Nest Outside The John Harvey |
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21 Oct 12 - 03:07 PM (#3423724) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Broadwood Morris in Cliffe Precinct |
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21 Oct 12 - 03:10 PM (#3423729) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith The Seven Champions Outside Waitrose |
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21 Oct 12 - 03:13 PM (#3423731) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Cuckoo's Nest in Cliffe Precinct |
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21 Oct 12 - 03:17 PM (#3423734) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Oyster Girls Outside The John Harvey |
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21 Oct 12 - 03:26 PM (#3423742) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Cuckoo's Nest Outside The J |
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21 Oct 12 - 03:27 PM (#3423743) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Whoops! Outside The John Harvey |
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21 Oct 12 - 03:30 PM (#3423744) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Brighton Morris Men Outside The John Harvey |
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21 Oct 12 - 03:33 PM (#3423746) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith The Seven Champions Outside The John Harvey |
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21 Oct 12 - 03:36 PM (#3423748) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith The Knots of May outside The Dorset |
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21 Oct 12 - 03:39 PM (#3423750) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Mythago Morris outside The Dorset |
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21 Oct 12 - 03:44 PM (#3423753) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Long Man Morris outside The Dorset |
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21 Oct 12 - 03:46 PM (#3423757) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith The Knots of May outside The Dorset |
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21 Oct 12 - 03:48 PM (#3423759) Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012 From: Vic Smith Mythago Morris Outside the Dorset |
