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Lewes Saturday Folk Club Workshop No 168
Katie & John Howson: EAST ANGLIAN DANCE MUSIC FOR ANY INSTRUMENT
Places £30
Saturday 1st. December 2012
10.45 a.m.- 4.45 p.m.

Elephant & Castle White Hill Lewes BN7 2DJ              
        
Katie & John have played music from Suffolk & Norfolk for over 30 years, alongside East Anglian traditional legends such as Oscar Woods & Billy Bennington. John founded the Veteran CD label & Katie runs the East Anglian Traditional Music Trust. They were both awarded the EFDSS Gold Badge in 2011. Band work includes the Old Hat Band,
Katie's Quartet & Polkaworks.        
        
Teaching will be by ear & recorders are welcome, but written music will also be available. Any instrument which can play in D & G is welcome; the Suffolk traditional key was C, so if you've something to play in that key bring it as well. We will focus on rhythm & phrasing as well as melody & chords.

KATIE & JOHN HOWSON PERFORM AT THE ELEPHANT & CASTLE IN THE EVENING
(£7; advance tickets available from the address at end of this form)

KATIE & JOHN HOWSON: EAST ANGLIAN DANCE MUSIC FOR ANY INSTRUMENT
Saturday 1st. December 2012
Provisional Timetable

The instrumental music of East Anglia features mainly polkas, schottisches, waltzes, & fast hornpipes played for step-dancing.

10.45   Registration & coffee; please order lunch at the bar (refreshments not included)
11.00        An easy polka to get everyone going & a more unusual waltz to open up discussions about accompaniment.
12.30         Lunch
13.30        Time to tackle those fiendishly fast stepdancing hornpipes!
15.00        Tea/coffee break
15.15        Finishing off with some straightforward but lesser-known schottisches.
16.45         Finish

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

KATIE & JOHN HOWSON: EAST ANGLIAN DANCE MUSIC FOR ANY INSTRUMENT
Saturday 1st. December 2012

BOOKING FORM
I would like to attend the workshop. I enclose a cheque for £30 (refreshments not included).

Name:

Address:



Instrument/s:

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 (new account name) and send with this booking form to:

Valmai Goodyear, 20, St. John's Terrace,
LEWES, East Sussex BN7 2DL
Tel. (01273) 476757
valmaigoodyear@aol.com
www.lewessaturdayfolkclub.org/


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