Thanks to the good work of Jim Saville (aka ShantyFreak) the details of our C. Fox Smith workshop at the Otley Festival have been nailed down:

September 18th, Saturday 2.30 pm, Black Horse Public House - Upstairs

Upstairs is the old Otley Folk Club meeting room, spacious and with fair accoustics. The location is good too, very easy to find.

What we'll present are poems composed by Cicely Fox Smith (1882-1954), and songs based on such poems. There will also be time for questions and discussion. I'll bring copies of my Sea Songs of Cicely Fox Smith songbook as well as CD's.

Few people have done as good a job of creating nautical poems from the stories deep-water sailors tell as Smith has done. And over 70 of her poems have been recently recorded as songs, not all of them having to do with the sea.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble