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Thread #126351 Message #2874492
Posted By: Valmai Goodyear
29-Mar-10 - 05:51 AM
Thread Name: Ben Paley fiddle workshop Lewes 27 March 2010 UK
Subject: RE: Ben Paley fiddle workshop Lewes 27 March 2010 UK
Many thanks to Will Fly for this excellent quality video clip of Ben playing 'Yew Piney Mountain' at the Lewes Saturday Folk Club on 27th. March. His all-day workshop was sold out, with half a dozen more people on the waiting list. He held us all spellbound in the evening with two forty-five minute sets of beautiful, varied and dazzling tunes.
On a local note, the thing on the wall behind Ben is a processional banner belonging to Commercial Square Bonfire Society and dating from the 1930s; it's now too frail to be taken out. The firey skull & crossbones of Cliffe Bonfire Society can be seen on the concertina case in the front row. The acoustics in this room bring out all the fine detail in Ben's playing.
Valmai