Joe Penland North Carolina workshop, Lewes

Subject: Joe Penland S Carolina workshop, Lewes
From: Valmai Goodyear
Date: 01 Mar 10 - 03:03 PM

Lewes Saturday Folk Club Workshop No 130
JOE PENLAND
Joe Penland's website
NORTH CAROLINA SONG & SOCIETY WORKSHOP
Places £25
Saturday 22nd. May 2010
10.45 a.m.- 4.45 p.m.
Elephant & Castle White Hill Lewes BN7 2DJ   
Joe has inherited the song & storytelling traditions of his family in the North Carolina Appalachians, where he still lives & works. He plays guitar & banjo. His account of life in the small village of Sodom Laurel is fascinating & often surprising. The workshop will cover 'Old Love Songs & Ballads from the Western North Carolina Mountains' & the oral tradition that preserved them. Joe will tell the stories of the 'Keepers of the Old Songs' who passed them on to him. Photographs of the landscape & the singers, along with field recordings,
will paint a vivid portrait of life in this isolated part of America.
A work book with lyrics & information & a CD of field recordings will be provided for each participant.

IN THE EVENING JOE PENLAND PERFORMS AT THE ELEPHANT & CASTLE
Admission £5. Advance tickets from address at end of this form.

Provisional Timetable

N.B. We will be singing throughout the day!

10.45   Registration & coffee; order lunch
        (refreshments not included)

11.00    Introduction to Madison County, North Carolina. Life at the time of Cecil Sharp's visit: the singers & the songs they sang.
12.30         Lunch
13.30        Songs & stories of the Sodom Laurel community: the Wallin, Ray, Chandler, Norton & Ramsey Family
15.00        Tea/coffee break
15.45 - 16.45 Bascomb Lamar Lundsford & other collectors.

Booking is recommended as numbers are limited. Maps & accommodation lists will be sent on request.


JOE PENLAND NORTH CAROLINA SONG & SOCIETY WORKSHOP
Saturday 22nd. May 2010
BOOKING FORM
I would like to attend the workshop. I enclose a cheque for £25.00 (refreshments not included).

Name:

Address:





Telephone:

E-mail address:

Tick for map:    Tick for accommodation list:

No. of tickets @ £5 for evening performance (include SAE for these):
Please make cheques payable to Lewes Arms Folk Club (that's right) and send with this booking form to: Valmai Goodyear,
20, St. John's Terrace, LEWES,
East Sussex BN7 2DL

Subject: RE: Joe Penland S Carolina workshop, Lewes
From: peregrina
Date: 01 Mar 10 - 03:26 PM

This should be terrific--it's been wonderful to hear Joe at Whitby singing and talking about the Wallins and others.

Subject: RE: Joe Penland S Carolina workshop, Lewes
From: maeve
Date: 01 Mar 10 - 03:28 PM

I've just been listening to a beautiful rendition of "Crossing the Bar" on Mr. Penland's website, linked above.

maeve

Subject: RE: Joe Penland S Carolina workshop, Lewes
From: Valmai Goodyear
Date: 01 Mar 10 - 03:32 PM

Blush, stutter, mumble, I've put South instead of North Carolina in the thread title. Could a kindly elf please sort this out for me?

Geographically embarrassed,

Valmai

Subject: RE: Joe Penland North Carolina workshop, Lewes
From: Valmai Goodyear
Date: 01 Mar 10 - 05:33 PM

Many thanks to the elf who corrected the thread title.

Valmai

Subject: RE: Joe Penland North Carolina workshop, Lewes
From: Valmai Goodyear
Date: 06 May 10 - 02:34 AM

We still have day and evening places for this. Some people are coming quite a distance, from Scotland, Hampshire and the Home Counties. I think I've got that bit of geography right.

Valmai

Subject: RE: Joe Penland North Carolina workshop, Lewes
From: maeve
Date: 06 May 10 - 05:41 AM

Valmai, I don't suppose it's possible for someone to pay for and get the cd and booklet by mail? I can't get there from here, and I'd love to learn more about Mr. Penland's songs.

maeve

Subject: RE: Joe Penland North Carolina workshop, Lewes
From: Valmai Goodyear
Date: 06 May 10 - 07:48 AM

Yes, I think that will be possible. Please email me on valmaigoodyear[at]aol[dot]com.

All the best,

Valmai

Subject: RE: Joe Penland North Carolina workshop, Lewes
From: maeve
Date: 07 May 10 - 06:49 AM

Will do. Thank you.

maeve

Subject: RE: Joe Penland North Carolina workshop, Lewes
From: GUEST,BanjoRay
Date: 08 May 10 - 04:34 AM

Why do superb things like this always happen at the other end of the country?

Ray

Subject: RE: Joe Penland North Carolina workshop, Lewes
From: Valmai Goodyear
Date: 11 May 10 - 06:19 AM

An added incentive may be that the evening before, Friday 21st. May, the Copper Family are singing in aid of Christian Aid in Rottingdean. Tickets are £10 and the show starts at 8.00 p.m. Phone [phone] for details.

More information and a map are on the Coppersongs website.

Ray: Ah ... bully your local organisers into doing something similar, or offer to help them do it ... it can't be difficult or we wouldn't be able to do it down here ... Come and see us one day, anyway.

Tootle pip,

Valmai

Subject: RE: Joe Penland North Carolina workshop, Lewes
From: Valmai Goodyear
Date: 11 May 10 - 02:50 PM

And Joe's coming to the Coppers concert, too.

Valmai

Subject: RE: Joe Penland North Carolina workshop, Lewes
From: Valmai Goodyear
Date: 18 May 10 - 05:32 AM

You can also catch Joe at the Chippenham Folk Festival the following weekend.

Valmai

Subject: RE: Joe Penland North Carolina workshop, Lewes
From: Valmai Goodyear
Date: 20 May 10 - 11:46 AM

I'm delighted to say that Joe has landed despite the volcano.

Valmai

Subject: RE: Joe Penland North Carolina workshop, Lewes
From: Valmai Goodyear
Date: 23 May 10 - 06:59 PM

A damn fine day and evenbing. Joe will be at Chippenham Folk Festival next weekend.

Valmai

Subject: RE: Joe Penland North Carolina workshop, Lewes
From: peregrina
Date: 23 May 10 - 07:22 PM

Thanks Valmai, and the others who did all the organizing work.

Really an excellent time: Joe evoked the world of the singers recorded on collections like 'High Atmosphere', 'Dark Holler' and 'Far in the Mountains' with great warmth, vividness and humour; his own stories and personal connections to those keepers of the old songs made that corner of North Carolina seem very close to Lewes.