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