Thanks to everyone who's answered Sue's questions before me, and my apologies for not having got back to this thread sooner - it's been a very busy weekend.

Not least because we've had the excellent young singer, guitarist and fiddler James Findlay with us at the Lewes Arms this weekend. He's a New Roots competition finalist and a cracking good performer with his feet firmly in the tradition, but willing to experiment and innovate. We were expecting something pretty hot as Matt and Dan Quinn spoke highly of him after the competition. James is based in Dorchester.

Regarding 'The Way Through the Woods' with Craig Morgan Robson: the idea is that groups of people will work on the songs and readings a bit in advance to bring them to the workshop day, when they can be polished and brought to stage standard. The whole show will then be part of CMR's evening performance at the club.

Come to think of it, that weekend is going to be a bit like a small festival in its own right with the two workshops and evening performance on the Saturday; so is Brian Peters's in Feb/March.

Oh, and the workshop list for the rest of this year is:

18th Oct    Coope Boyes & Simpson    Vocal harmony SOLD OUT
18th Oct    Georgina Boyes    Seminar: Wassails, Carols & Winter   customs (pm)

25th Oct    John Kirkpatrick    Modes (any instrument)ONE PLACE LEFT

22nd Nov    Roy Clinging & Neil Brookes    Cheshire tunes (any instrument)

6th Dec    Paul Hutchinson    Accordion
6th Dec    Paul Sartin    Fiddle
                Belshazzar's Feast (evening)


Valmai (Lewes)