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Thread #116305 Message #2498336
Posted By: Valmai Goodyear
20-Nov-08 - 08:03 AM
Thread Name: Launching a Beginners Tune Session
Subject: RE: Launching a Beginners Tune Session
In case it helps you decide what to put on your own flier, I'll copy this year's Lewes Favourites handout below. We send it to folk clubs and instrument shops throughout the area; it also gets posted to people attending Lewes Arms workshops.
Valmai (Lewes)
ENGLISH TUNES PRACTICE SESSIONS 2008 'The Lewes Favourites'
These are a regular opportunity to practice tunes popular in local English sessions, whatever instrument you play, to whatever standard, and whether or not you read music. It's a chance to identify some of those tunes you recognise when you hear them but can't quite remember, to put the names to familiar tunes, and to play them over until you are sure of them. You can record the sessions. Admission is free.
You can download 180 of the tunes plus 33 recent additions in Noteworthy Composer, ABC and midi form from the Lewes Arms Folk Club website www.lewesarmsfolkclub.org/: go to Links and then to Lewes Favourites. The 'Lewes Favourites' tune book compiled by Andy Warburton contains background information and pictures as well. It is available from the contacts below or through the website, price £10 plus £1 p&p, by cheque payable to 'Lewes Arms Folk Club'. A supplement of the additions is available at the sessions.
We meet in the Lewes Arms club-room, Mount Place, Lewes BN7 1YH from 8.00 p.m. onwards on the third Wednesday of every month, except in January & February. 15th. Jan (Tuesday) 12th. February (Tuesday) 19th. March 16th. April 21st. May 18th. June 16th. July 20th. August 17th. September 15th. October 19th. November 17th. December
Bryan Creer, 12, Fife Court, 99 The Hydneye, Hampden Park BN22 9DD 01323 505372 Bryancreer@aol.com Valmai Goodyear, 20, St. John's Terrace, Lewes BN7 2DL 01273 476757 valmaigoodyear@aol.com