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Come All Ye Bold Miners concert

02 Jul 15 - 10:25 AM (#3720531)
Subject: Come All Ye Bold Miners concert
From: GUEST,Hartlepool Folk Festival

On Saturday 17 October, Hartlepool Folk Festival commemorates the 30th anniversary of the end of the Miners strike with a special event. Come All Ye Bold Miners is a concert inspired by the song anthology of the same name, collected by AL Lloyd. It features Dick Gaughan and Durham Miners Association Brass Band, as well as performers including Pete Wood and The Wilsons. Three people who contributed songs to the book, Bert Draycott, Ed Pickford and Johnny Handle, will also perform.

The concert takes place in St Hilda's Church on the Hartlepool Headland.

Two screenings during the weekend will be on a similar theme: Death of a Miner, the BBC's 1967 film about Jack Elliott of Birtley, and 2014's Still the Enemy Within. The latter is funded by the Coalfields Regeneration Trust and is free for all to attend.

Tickets are available from www.hartlepoolfolkfest.co.uk


02 Jul 15 - 12:35 PM (#3720555)
Subject: RE: Come All Ye Bold Miners concert
From: GUEST,Anne Neilson

This sounds like a wonderful event -- both musically and politically -- but JUST too far away…..

All good wishes for a night of passionate engagement and real feelings.


02 Jul 15 - 01:21 PM (#3720564)
Subject: RE: Come All Ye Bold Miners concert
From: GUEST,Fred McCormick

It's too far to travel and I'm away doing something else that weekend, but I will certainly be there in spirit. BTW., did anyone see Denis Skinner on Prime Ministers' Question, haranguing David Cameron over the government's alleged misuse of the miners's pension fund. Talk about going purple in the face - Skinner that is, not Cameron.


02 Jul 15 - 01:25 PM (#3720565)
Subject: RE: Come All Ye Bold Miners concert
From: Bonzo3legs

I would rather support a "Come all ye tax avoiders" concert!!!


02 Jul 15 - 01:56 PM (#3720568)
Subject: RE: Come All Ye Bold Miners concert
From: GUEST,Fred McCormick

Bonzo. We all support tax dodgers, sorry, tax avoiders. We have to, simply because if they don't pay their fair share of taxes, we're the poor suckers who make up the revenue shortfall.

Concert for tax avoiders? I'd rather support a public hanging for tax avoiders, and for anyone who supports their devious and dishonest behaviour.


02 Jul 15 - 10:14 PM (#3720666)
Subject: RE: Come All Ye Bold Miners concert
From: GUEST

Concert for Capital Punishment then????
See you there, Fred.


03 Jul 15 - 05:48 AM (#3720714)
Subject: RE: Come All Ye Bold Miners concert
From: GUEST,Fred McCormick

Only for capitalists.


04 Jul 15 - 02:43 AM (#3720881)
Subject: RE: Come All Ye Bold Miners concert
From: Wheatman

You will need a bl**dy big room to fit them in Fred :-)


04 Jul 15 - 05:56 AM (#3720910)
Subject: RE: Come All Ye Bold Miners concert
From: GUEST,Fred McCormick

Naah. Open air. Charge £500 a seat. We'd soon have the budget deficit paid off.


04 Jul 15 - 08:23 AM (#3720927)
Subject: RE: Come All Ye Bold Miners concert
From: Bonzo3legs

Thank goodness that our homes with a value lass than £1m will no longer attract Inheritance Tax after the forthcoming budget!!


04 Jul 15 - 08:24 AM (#3720928)
Subject: RE: Come All Ye Bold Miners concert
From: Bonzo3legs

"lass than" ????? I meant less than!!


04 Jul 15 - 08:57 AM (#3720934)
Subject: RE: Come All Ye Bold Miners concert
From: GUEST,Cujimmy


04 Jul 15 - 09:06 AM (#3720935)
Subject: RE: Come All Ye Bold Miners concert
From: GUEST,Cujimmy

Looking forward to this, my father, grand father, and, extended family were miners, fought very hard for better working conditions for everyone, not forgetting the wonderfully strong women of these communities. Lookin forward to some interesting songs.


05 Jul 15 - 06:29 AM (#3721083)
Subject: RE: Come All Ye Bold Miners concert
From: Wheatman

nowtsthebotha


05 Jul 15 - 10:30 AM (#3721143)
Subject: RE: Come All Ye Bold Miners concert
From: GUEST,patriot

all you folk on about the miners, don't forget it's the Durham Miners' Gala next Saturday 11th if you want to pay homage to those brave men...


05 Jul 15 - 05:51 PM (#3721207)
Subject: RE: Come All Ye Bold Miners concert
From: GUEST,cujimmy

Il be on the 8.43am train from Leeds to Durham, looking forward to it


06 Jul 15 - 08:47 AM (#3721310)
Subject: RE: Come All Ye Bold Miners concert
From: GUEST,Hartlepool Folk Festival

We'll be at Big Meeting! Looking forward to it, as always - our administrator used to play with Murton Band.