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Posted By: Valmai Goodyear
20-Sep-12 - 09:15 AM
Thread Name: Katie & John Howson tunes workshop 1 Dec
Subject: Katie & John Howson tunes workshop 1 Dec
Lewes Saturday Folk Club Workshop No 168
Katie & John Howson: EAST ANGLIAN DANCE MUSIC FOR ANY INSTRUMENT
Places £30
Saturday 1st. December 2012
10.45 a.m.- 4.45 p.m.
Elephant & Castle White Hill Lewes BN7 2DJ
Katie & John have played music from Suffolk & Norfolk for over 30 years, alongside East Anglian traditional legends such as Oscar Woods & Billy Bennington. John founded the Veteran CD label & Katie runs the East Anglian Traditional Music Trust. They were both awarded the EFDSS Gold Badge in 2011. Band work includes the Old Hat Band,
Katie's Quartet & Polkaworks.
Teaching will be by ear & recorders are welcome, but written music will also be available. Any instrument which can play in D & G is welcome; the Suffolk traditional key was C, so if you've something to play in that key bring it as well. We will focus on rhythm & phrasing as well as melody & chords.
KATIE & JOHN HOWSON PERFORM AT THE ELEPHANT & CASTLE IN THE EVENING
(£7; advance tickets available from the address at end of this form)
KATIE & JOHN HOWSON: EAST ANGLIAN DANCE MUSIC FOR ANY INSTRUMENT
Saturday 1st. December 2012
Provisional Timetable
The instrumental music of East Anglia features mainly polkas, schottisches, waltzes, & fast hornpipes played for step-dancing.
10.45 Registration & coffee; please order lunch at the bar (refreshments not included)
11.00 An easy polka to get everyone going & a more unusual waltz to open up discussions about accompaniment.
12.30 Lunch
13.30 Time to tackle those fiendishly fast stepdancing hornpipes!
15.00 Tea/coffee break
15.15 Finishing off with some straightforward but lesser-known schottisches.
16.45 Finish
N.B. Booking is recommended as numbers are limited. Maps & accommodation lists will be sent on request.
KATIE & JOHN HOWSON: EAST ANGLIAN DANCE MUSIC FOR ANY INSTRUMENT
Saturday 1st. December 2012
BOOKING FORM
I would like to attend the workshop. I enclose a cheque for £30 (refreshments not included).
Name:
Address:
Instrument/s:
No. of tickets for evening performance
(£7 each, include SAE for these):
Telephone:
E-mail address:
Tick for map: Tick for accommodation list:
Please make cheques payable to Lewes Saturday Folk Club (new account name) and send with this booking form to:
Valmai Goodyear, 20, St. John's Terrace,
LEWES, East Sussex BN7 2DL
Tel. (01273) 476757
valmaigoodyear@aol.com
www.lewessaturdayfolkclub.org/