TWELVE ITEMS OF FOLK MUSIC NEWS FROM LEWES FOR NOVEMBER

1] FOLK AT THE ROYAL OAK

Station Street, Lewes
Enquiries: - (01273) 478124 or 881316
Email tinvic@globalnet.co.uk .

Every Thursday 8.pm PROMPT START
Here is our programme for the coming months:-

Nov 12th * £5.00 * BOB LEWIS
The finest of the Sussex traditional singers and a genial man with the very fine repertoire of songs. The evening will also include a showing of Jonathan Roper's film about Bob entitled "The Crocodile, the Cobbler and Bob"

Nov 19th * £7.00 * DICK GAUGHAN
Edinburgh's finest. An outstanding radical singer and guitarist and a professional musician since Jan 1970. In two months time, Dick will have been performing for a living for 40 years.

Nov 26th * £6.00 * RATTLE ON THE STOVEPIPE
The combination of Dave Arthur, Pete Cooper and Dan Stewart is a very special one and rightly they have become a very popular attraction.

Dec 3rd * Free Admission * LEWES LATE NIGHT SHOPPING OPEN NIGHT
There's always lots going on in the town on this night including many visiting musicians – and they usually wind up at the Royal Oak.

Dec 10th * £7.00 * PETE MORTON, MAGGIE BOYLE & CHRIS PARKINSON present "THE MAGIC CHRISTMAS TREE TOUR"
Hilarious, entertaining, engaging, fascinating and musically excellent.

Dec 17th * Free Admission * CHRISTMAS PARTY NIGHT
With the resident musicians acting as the band, we have a right old song and dance.

Jan 7th * £6.00 * ROSIE DAVIS, JOE LOCKER & BOB WINQUIST
A tremendous trio offering great singing and musicianship on fiddle, banjo, autoharp, guitar and bass plus Rosie's sparkling dancing.

Jan 14th * free admission * OPEN NIGHT

Jan 21st * £5.00 * BING LYLE
The very engaging local singer of traditional songs, songwriter and a talented multi- instrumentalist.

Jan 28th * £7.00 * SARA GREY'S 70th BIRTHDAY PARTY.
We give a party for the American singer and banjoist who has made very many appearances in Lewes since the 1960s and made a huge contribution to the folk scene on both sides of the Atlantic. She appears with her song Kieron and surprise guests.

Feb 4th * £6.00 * MARTYN WYNDHAM READ & IRIS BISHOP
One of the finest voices on the folk scene in the company of one of the most talented and sensitive accompanists.


Later in 2010, our guests will include:-

* JEZ LOWE *THE SHROPSHIRE HEROES [Chris Bartram, Neil Brookes & Tony Weatherall] * CHRIS COE & JOHN ADAMS MARTIN CARTHY, NORMA WATERSON & CHRIS PARKINSON * JOHN KIRKPATRICK * ANDY TURNER & MATT GREEN * JEFF WARNER *

Our websites are at
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~tinvic   and
http://www.myspace.com/royaloakfolklewes

Those of you who arrange listings are politely requested to include all of the above.
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2] LEWES FOLK FESTIVAL 7 -10th OCTOBER 2010.
The two Lewes folk clubs are combining their efforts to promote this festival, largely based in their own clubrooms and other venues in the town. At the moment this is still in the early planning stages but watch this circular and elsewhere for updates on the guests/programme etc. At the moment the following artists have agreed to appear: - SHIRLEY COLLINS, JOHN KIRKPATRICK, CHRIS COE, JOHN ADAMS, PETE COE. SUE COE.

The Festival has a website at http://www.lewesfolkfest.org/
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3] SARA GREY'S 70th BIRTHDAY – 28th JANUARY 2010
One regular recipient of this monthly circular will not be receiving it this time – and that is Sara Grey! We have booked her along with her son Kieron Means to appear on that night and we do want to make it a very special occasion so please:-
* Contact us with your suggestions of what we could do on the evening
* Send your cards, letters to us at the address below and we will present them to Sara on the evening.
* Any email messages we will collate and print to give to her - tinvic@globalnet.co.uk
* Any short .mp3 message of greeting attached to emails will be played to her during the evening – also tinvic@globalnet.co.uk
But most of all – please make an effort to be there to make it a very special occasion for Sara who has been a stalwart of the folk club scene in this country for over 40 years now.

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4] FOLK AT THE ROYAL OAK ON "MYSPACE"
Our MYSPACE profile enables us to profile sample tracks of coming guests as well as show photos and biographies of coming guests. It is at http://www.myspace.com/royaloakfolklewes
Currently on our MYSPACE we have the following tracks by coming guests:-

Bob Lewis - "A Sweet Country Life" (November 12th)
Dick Gaughan - "The Freedom Come-All-Ye" - (November 19th)
Rattle On The Stovepipe - "Eight More Miles To Louisville" (November 26th)
Maggie Boyle [with Pete Morton & Chris Parkinson] - "The Little Thatched Cabin" - (December 10th)
Chris Parkinson [with Pete Morton & Maggie Boyle] - "Scotch Measure/Mount Hills" - (December 10th)
Pete Morton [with Maggie Boyle & Chris Parkinson] - "The Two Brothers" - (December 10th)
Joe Locker [with Rosie Davis & Bob Winquist] - "Hogeye" - (January 7th)
Sara Grey & Kieron Means - "Lazy John" - (January 28th)
Martyn Wyndham Read & Iris Bishop - "The Foggy Dew" - (February 4th)
Tony Weatherall [as part of The Shropshire Heroes] - "The Woolsack - Oh What A Row - Reel" - (February 18th)

After each gig the songs will drop off to be replaced with another by an upcoming guest.
In addition there are videos by each of the following coming guest artists:-
DICK GAUGHAN - November 19th
RATTLE ON THE STOVEPIPE November 26th
PETE MORTON December 10th
MAGGIE BOYLE December 10th
ROSIE DAVIS JOE LOCKER & BOB WINQUIST January 7th
SARA GREY & KIERON MEANS January 28th
MARTYN WYNDHAM READ & IRIS BISHOP February 4th
JEZ LOWE February 11th

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5] SUSSEX FOLK GUIDE WEBSITE - UPDATED
For all the listings of folk music, song club, dances, festivals in and around Sussex, have a look at http://whatson.brighton.co.uk/folk This site all always kept updated with the latest events and those currently listed cover all the dates up until the end of 2009.
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6] THE FOLK DIARY
Most of the listings on the Sussex Folk Guide website are taken from the paper magazine, THE FOLK DIARY. Issue no 239 covers the months of October and November. They are packed with adverts for various folk festivals, folk music record companies, specialist shops, instrument makers and other services as well as details of all the folk song and dance events in our area. To obtain copies of this free magazine as it is published, please send SAE's to Vic Smith at the address below.
It is also the address to send album review copies to. Potential advertisers are also asked to contact Vic for a statement of our advertising rates.
The copy date will be December 31st for the February/March issue. However, it should be mentioned that once the available space has been filled, no more adverts can be accepted even if they are received BEFORE the copy date. With this in mind, it is worth contacting the editors before the copy date to state your intentions and reserve advertising space even if you have not got final details or you copy prepared.
Please contact
JIM MARSHALL 01273 559750 jimars@globalnet.co.uk
Or
VIC SMITH 01273 478124 tinvic@globalnet.co.uk
The next issue will be number 240 covers the months of December and January and as is a bi-monthly publication, it does not take much to work out that it will mark 40 years of this local listings magazine!!!! And all the time the same two people have been at the helm. This will be delivered from the printers tomorrow – November 11th and distribution will start straight away.
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7] THE FOLK DIARY ON LINE
THE FOLK DIARY is available on-line at http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~tinvic/fd.htm http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~tinvic/fd.htm
You will need Adobe ACROBAT
READER to read the pages. The size of each page is given by each page
link and the content of each page is indicated. The following issue is now on-line and are listed here with the content of each page:-
ISSUE No. 239 OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 2009
Page 1 (572kb) Brighton Acoustic Season, The Stag Theatre Sevenoaks, Spyboy Presentations.
Page 2 (1547kb) Willows Folk Club, Arundel (Weds),Croydon Folk Club presents "The Navvy's Wife", The Rude Mechanicals (Weds), GBH Ceilidhs, The White Horse Bodle St. Green (Mons), The Beacon Tunbridge Wells (Mons).
Page 3 (836kb) Lewes Saturday Club, Royal Oak Lewes (Thurs) - Advertising rates and copy dates
Page 4 (679kb)Piggies Open Mic Uckfield (Tues), Sussex Folk Association, Lamb Eastbourne (Weds), Hobgoblin Music, Greg Harper dates.
Page 5 (1054kb) Roots Around The World, Grub Music Cafe East Grinstead, Brighton Folk & Blues Club (Fris).
Page 6 (2005kb) Fee Calls Ceilidhs, North Brighton Singarounds (Weds & Suns), Amberley Folk Club (Tues), Tenterden Folk Festival.
Page 7 (1659kb) Seaford Folk Club (Fris), Acoustic Sussex.
Page 8 (2051kb) Croydon Folk Club presents James Fagan & Nancy Kerr, Greg Harper album, Meltdown Ceilidhs, Hotel Le Cheval Blanc.
Page 9 (755kb) GP Music Productions, Elsies (Sats), Six Bells Chiddingly (Tues), Zoox at Bom-Bane's Cafe, Brighton Cellarfolk (Tues), Electric Voices.
Page 10 (721kb) Barry Murphy Banjos, Vince's fiddles, Barber & Taylor at The Open House, Croydon Folk Club, Mid-Sussex Folk Singers (Weds)
Page 11 (474 kb) Horsham Folk Club (Suns), Jo Chedgey, " With Our Pint Pots In Our Hands"
Page 12 (1599 kb) Gary's Live Music Club, Komedia Brighton
Page 13 (272 kb) Hawth Crawley, Button Badges, Sussex Pistols, 40 years of The Folk Diary

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8] LEWES WORKSHOPS AT THE ELEPHANT & CASTLE
The workshops last a full Saturday or Sunday and the tutor performs at the
club in the evening. The programme for the remainder of 2009 will be:-

14th. Nov        Vicki Swan Scottish smallpipes
21st. Nov        Tom & Barbara Brown Ballad forum
5th. Dec                Billy Teare Storytelling
5th. Dec                Kathleen O'Sullivan Irish song
Then the programme for 2010 is as follows:-
20th Feb         Steve Turner Concertina (all systems)
27th Feb         Coope Boyes & Simpson Vocal harmony
27th Feb         Georgina Boyes Folklore: a participatory talk
27th. March        Ben Paley Fiddle
17th. April         Shirley Collins English traditional song masterclass
18h. April         Shirley Collins English traditional song masterclass
24th April         Issey Emeney         Melodeon                 
22nd. May         Joe Penland North Carolina traditional song & society
5th June         Mike O'Connor & Barbara Griggs Cornish traditional tunes from manuscripts
6th June         Mike O'Connor Songwriting in the tradition
10th. July        Karen Tweed O'Carolan's music (any instrument)
18th. Sept         Moor Music Dartmoor music (any instrument)         
9th. Oct                John Adams, Chris Partington Village Music Project (any instrument)        
10th Oct                Chris Coe Ballad forum        
30/31st. Oct        Martin Carthy Guitar (workshop on Sunday 31st)
13th. Nov        Frankie Armstrong Voice & performance technique
20th. Nov        Tim Laycock Concertina (all systems)

The website for more details is
http://www.lewesarmsfolkclub.org/LAFC/workshps.html or contact Valmai
Goodyear on (01273) 476757 or email ValmaiGoodyear@aol.com
The Lewes Saturday Folk Club has a new domain name - http://www.lewessaturdayfolkclub.org/ . This will work in parallel with the old name http://www.lewesarmsfolkclub.org/ for the time being but they hope to phase it out so please change your bookmarks.

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9] MONTHLY SESSION IN LEWES
After a gap of several years, Sunday afternoon tune and song sessions have returned to the bar of the Royal Oak in Station Street in Lewes. These will be on the last Sunday of the month from 3.30 – 5.30pm. Dates for the next sessions are
~~~~~    November 29th - January 31st   ~~~~~
No session in December
They will be run by Vic & Tina Smith.
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10] OTHER REGULAR SESSIONS IN THE LEWES/BRIGHTON AREA
Bryan Creer has taken on the task of detailing these, and they are posted at

Have a look and if there are any you think that Bryan has missed - contact http://www.lewesarmsfolkclub.org/LAFC/Sessions.php or email him on Bryancreer@aol.com
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11] BRIGHTON MIDWINTER CEILIDH – CORN EXCHANGE, BRIGHTON - 20th DECEMBER
This huge event is one of the most popular and well attended folk dances in the south of England. Dancing to THE SUSSEX PISTOLS with caller VIC SMITH. It always sells out so get your tickets well in advance from http://www.brightondome.org/EventSeatBlock.aspx
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12] THE COPPER FAMILY – HOUSE CONCERT – 26th JANUARY
This from Jon Dudley
Dear V&T,
It's coming up that time of year again - January, and we've decided to have another house concert, Our guests will be 'Rattle on the Stovepipe' and the date will be Tuesday 26th January (the last Tuesday in January if it helps people remember), Any chance you might feel like MC'ing Vic?
We hope you may be available for this onerous task and that you would be kind enough to mention the event to your august and faithful audience via your email blast...again we're suggesting a 'voluntary' £7.00 donation. There will be a free glass of Harveys or a glass of red or white wine, subsequent ones at £1 a throw. Strictly not-for-profit. All proceeds to artists.
Tickets will be by email application only and we'll be emailing everyone that came last time as well. Please email copperdudley@btopenworld.com
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...And if you are ever looking for a good barn dance band, look no further than THE SUSSEX PISTOLS - though you should get in quickly - available dates for 2010 are being snapped up quickly. They have been booked, once again for the largest and most prestigious dance in our area, the BRIGHTON MIDWINTER CEILIDH at the Corn Exchange in Brighton on December 20th. Book early for this as it always sells out very quickly.
Contact Tina on 01273 478124 or email her at tinasmith226@yahoo.co.uk to book the band. The band's website is at http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~tinvic/pistols.htm   and they have a MYSPACE profile as well at http://www.myspace.com/thesussexpistolshttp://www.myspace.com/thesussexpistols
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VIC & TINA SMITH
26 Ferrers Road
LEWES
East Sussex
BN7 1PZ
England