Magic Lantern, concertinas, songs 25 March-Lewes

Subject: RE: Magic Lantern, concertinas, songs 25 March-Lewes
From: Valmai Goodyear
Date: 09 Feb 11 - 03:10 AM

Many thanks to Joe Offer for correcting the date and adding the location.

Valmai

Subject: RE: Magic Lantern, concertinas, songs 25 Feb
From: The Sandman
Date: 08 Feb 11 - 07:25 AM

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Subject: Magic Lantern, concertinas, songs 25 March
From: Valmai Goodyear
Date: 08 Feb 11 - 05:36 AM

FROM THE FIELD TO THE FOUNDRY
A Journey with Magic Lantern & Concertinas
Friday 25th. March 8.00 p.m.        Doors open 7.30 p.m.
The Assembly Room, Lewes Town Hall BN7 2QS
Tickets £10 (to include an interval drink)

Enquiries & tickets: Sussex Archaeological Society
01273 405373 [e-mail]

Images, traditional songs and readings about life on the land in Sussex at the time the Lewes Phoenix Foundry opened in 1832 and the changes it brought to working people's lives. The show was originally put together for the Lewes Phoenix Oral History Project.

The images are supplied by Allan and Rene Marriott's Magic Lantern, the Victorian ancestor of the slide projector. The show will include many rare slides of old Lewes from the Archaeological Society's private collection, including a feature on a visit by Sanger's Circus in the early 1900s.

The lantern will also show an entertaining group of novelty slides with special effects, many of them humorous.

Music from Spare Parts Concertina Band.

To add to the general effect, the performers will be in costume.

In aid of the Sussex Archaeological Society.