Lewes Folk Festival 2012

Subject: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 15 Nov 11 - 05:51 PM

LEWES FOLK FESTIVAL 2012

We have settled on the dates for the 2012 Festival. It will be on 11th-14th October. We have booked the venues that we require and have contacted the names that we would like as headliners and straight away, five of them have said that they are available and willing to play at the festival.
Lots of negotiation and arrangements to be completed, obviously, but you can mark those dates in your 2012 calendar.

Updates here as they are finalised.

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 17 Nov 11 - 05:40 AM


In the meantime, have a look at nearly 200 photos from the 2011 event by clicking here.

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 30 Dec 11 - 12:15 PM

Subject to contact, those appearing will include:-

MARTIN CARTHY & DAVE SWARBRICK
LES BARKER
MARTYN WYNDHAM-READ'S "DOWN THE LAWSON TRACK" with SHIRLEY COLLINS
THE NEW SLIDE with caller ALEX CUMMING

Look out for updates at http://www.lewesfolkfest.org/

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 22 May 12 - 07:33 AM

The full programme for LEWES FOLK FESTIVAL 2012 has now been arranged and will appear here:-

Thursday 11th October

EVENT 1
8 -11pm £12

Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick

With Dan Quinn & Will Duke, Terry Masterson
and Vic & Tina Smith
Royal Oak, Station Street

* Tickets will be on sale from June 1st from the Lewes Folk Festival website

* In the meantime all events are listed at The Lewes Folk Festival Myspace Site

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Valmai Goodyear
Date: 23 May 12 - 05:09 AM

Thrilled to bits!

Valmai (Lewes)

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 23 May 12 - 07:00 AM

Thursday 11th October

EVENT 2
8-11pm Collection
Old Time Music Session led by

The So Last Century String Band

The Lamb, Fisher Street

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 24 May 12 - 07:30 AM

Friday 12th October

EVENT 3
8pm £15

FAUSTUS
Benji Kirkpatrick, Saul Rose, Paul Sartin

with Elle Osborne
All Saints Centre, Friars Walk
A Union Music Store event

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 25 May 12 - 04:47 AM

Friday 12th October

EVENT 4
8 -11pm £12 (£10 in adv.)

The Young Coppers

with Bob Lewis and Noel Dumbrell
Royal Oak, Station Street

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 26 May 12 - 04:51 PM

Friday 12th October
EVENT 5
8 -11pm £8(£6 in adv.)

Peppers Ghost Magic Lantern Show

plus The Lifeboat Story with Charlotte & Spong
and Spare Parts
Elephant & Castle, White Hill

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 27 May 12 - 05:32 AM

Saturday 13th October

EVENT 6
11am-4pm Collection

All Day Dance Displays in four locations

The Knots of May
Oyster Girls
Seven Champions Molly Dancers
Mythago
Black Dragon
Marlings Morris
Broadwood Morris
Magog
Sompting Morris (2 sides)
Ditchling Morris
Brighton Morris
Cuckoo's Nest
Rampant Rooster
Long Man Morris
Sun Oak Clog

1] John Harvey Tavern, Bear Yard
2] Cliffe Precinct
3] Waitrose
4] The Dorset, Malling Street.

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 08 Jun 12 - 07:17 AM

Saturday 13th October

EVENT 7
11-12.30pm £6 (£4 in adv)

Part Playing Workshop For Any Melody Instrument

Led by Spare Parts
Elephant & Castle, White Hill

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Valmai Goodyear
Date: 08 Jun 12 - 10:00 AM

We'll be putting the music for that on the Spare Parts band website in advance, in dots and two speeds of midi for anyone who wants to try it out.

Valmai (Lewes)

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 09 Jun 12 - 07:17 AM

Saturday 13th October

EVENT 8
12 – 1pm £8 (£6 in adv.)
An Hour with

Martyn Wyndham-Read

Royal Oak, Station Street

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 10 Jun 12 - 05:16 AM

Saturday 13th October
EVENT 9
12- 12.30 Collection

Matt Quinn
In-Store Session

Union Music Store, Lansdown Place

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 11 Jun 12 - 06:05 AM

Saturday 13th October
EVENT 10
12 - 5.00pm Collection

Afternoon tune session

The Lamb, Fisher Street

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 11 Jun 12 - 08:00 AM

Can you tell us please about camping and fringe events?

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 12 Jun 12 - 06:38 AM

Camping is one of the topics on the agenda for tomorrow's committee meeting, Richard.

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 12 Jun 12 - 06:41 AM

Saturday 13th October
EVENT 11
1 -2.30pm £6 (£4 in adv)

Linda Game
Fiddle Workshop

Linda outlines her workshop:-

"PLAYING CHORDS ON THE FIDDLE How do I play chords on the fiddle ? How do I know which chords to choose ? Begin to unravel these mysteries with this workshop. Using well known or simple tunes we'll look at major and minor chords and how to voice them. We'll also work together as a group with some fun rhythms to create great string sounds, and to develop musicianship skills. Bring a couple of brain cells and a pencil!

Elephant & Castle, White Hill

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 13 Jun 12 - 05:47 AM

Saturday 13th October

EVENT 12
1.15–2.45pm £6(£4 in adv)

Matt Quinn
Melodeon workshop

Being Adventurous with your left hand
Royal Oak, Station Street

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 14 Jun 12 - 08:02 AM

Saturday 13th October
EVENT 13
3-4.30pm £6(£4 in adv

Australian Dance Tunes Workshop with
Martyn Wyndham-Read & Iris Bishop

Elephant & Castle, White Hill

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 15 Jun 12 - 07:36 AM

Saturday 13th October

EVENT 14
3 – 6.00pm Collection

Singaround Led by Will Duke
Tunes led by Steve Nevill

Royal Oak, Station Street

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 16 Jun 12 - 05:46 AM

Saturday 13th October

EVENT 15
3 – 3.30 Collection

Carrie Elkin & Danny Schmidt

from Austin Texas
In-Store Session
Union Music Store, Lansdown Place

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 17 Jun 12 - 06:27 AM

Saturday 13th October

EVENT 16
5.00 – 6.30 pm £6(£4 in adv)

French Dance Workshop
Led by Jan Mulreany & Lizi Storey

Elephant & Castle, White Hill

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 18 Jun 12 - 05:42 AM

Saturday 13th October

EVENT 17
8pm £12 (£10 in adv.)

DOWN THE LAWSON TRACK

A Multimedia Show with
Martyn Wyndham-Read
Shirley Collins
Pip Barnes
Iris Bishop
Jon Wigg
Gary Holder
Royal Oak, Station Street

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 20 Jun 12 - 05:46 PM

Saturday 13th October

EVENT 18
8 pm £12 (£10 in adv.)

Les Barker

with Dan Quinn & Will Duke,
Steve & Diane Nevill
Lewes Old Grammar pupils
Elephant & Castle, White Hill

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 21 Jun 12 - 07:53 AM

Saturday 13th October

EVENT 19
8pm £12(£10 in adv)

Festival Dance with
The New Slide & Alex Cumming

Displays by The Knots of May
and The Seven Champions
All Saints Centre, Friars Walk

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 23 Jun 12 - 06:15 AM

Sunday 14th October

EVENT 20
11-12.30pm £6 (£4 in adv)

English Tunes Practice Session
For Any instrument

Led by Spare Parts
Elephant & Castle, White Hill

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 24 Jun 12 - 09:38 AM

Sunday 14th October

EVENT 21
12 – 2.30pm Collection

Tune Session led by Matt Quinn

Royal Oak, Station Street

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Jun 12 - 10:10 AM

...any chance of another "kirkpatrick" being involved????

Song spot
MC
Running a folk club?

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 25 Jun 12 - 07:45 AM

Sunday 14th October

EVENT 22
1 - 2.30pm £6 (£4 in adv)

The Songs, Pictures & Reminiscences of
Bob Lewis

with Bob interviewed by Vic Smith

Elephant & Castle, White Hill

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 26 Jun 12 - 12:39 PM

Sunday 14th October

EVENT 23
2.45 – 5.45pm
£10 (12 places only)

Traditional Song Workshop
Led by Shirley Collins

Elephant & Castle, White Hill

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 01 Jul 12 - 11:02 AM

Sunday 14th October

EVENT 24
3-4pm £6 (£4 in adv)

An Hour with Bing Lyle

Royal Oak, Station Street

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 02 Jul 12 - 06:43 AM

Sunday 14th October

EVENT 25
4.15–6.15 Collection

Singaround led by Stuart Reed

Royal Oak, Station Street

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 03 Jul 12 - 09:49 AM

Sunday 14th October

EVENT 26
6.–7.45 £6 (£4 in adv)

"What A Happy Young Man"
The Life of Henry Hills of Lodsworth

A multimedia show with
Denise & Stuart Savage
Elephant & Castle, White Hill

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 04 Jul 12 - 07:03 AM

Sunday 14th October

EVENT 27
6pm Collection

Moody & Sankey Hymns
With Sussex Harmony
and the
Brighton Salvation Army Band

St Anne's Church, Western Road

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 05 Jul 12 - 06:53 AM

Sunday 14th October

EVENT 28
8 pm Collection

Farewell Session

Led by Bryan Creer
Elephant & Castle, White Hill

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 06 Jul 12 - 04:32 PM

Right! That's the entire programme listed. We have published a free 16-page programme with lots more details. If you would like a copy, just send an S.A.E. to
Vic Smith
26 Ferrers Road
Lewes
East Sussex.
BN7 1PZ

If an on-line version will do - click here

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 13 Aug 12 - 04:28 PM

It looks like the first event to sell out will be:-
EVENT 23
2.45 – 5.45pm
£10
Traditional Song Workshop
Led by Shirley Collins
There is only ONE ticket left - but other events are selling well with advance sales quite a bit up on what they were at this time last year.

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 22 Aug 12 - 04:06 PM

And the camping and fringe?

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 25 Aug 12 - 12:28 PM

And the camping and fringe?

I will be in a position to post a full answer in a couple of days, Richard. In The meantime, please note that events are selling well and that we only have FOUR tickets left for EVENT 1 - Carthy & Swarbrick and ONE place left for EVENT 23 Shirley Collins song workshop. Move very quickly to get these tickets - other events, particularly Faustus & Les Barker selling well.

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 28 Aug 12 - 03:05 PM

Event 23
Shirley Collins Traditional Song Workshop
***NOW SOLD OUT***

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 30 Aug 12 - 12:20 PM

Right. At Last!
* Camping & Caravans for Lewes Folk Festival:-
This will be at
Spring Barn Farm Park
Kingston Road
Lewes
East Sussex
BN7 3ND

Either -
* Telephone [phone]
or
* Go to http://www.springbarnfarm.com/campsite/ and fill in the booking form.
* About 1 mile from the centre of the town
* Facilities - Toilet block - Standpipe - Dogs on a lead at all times
* Tents in the field. Caravans and Camper Vans on the hard surface only.

They say "Our prices have changes from last year, they have gone down!!!!".
We were investiagting a possible temporary site nearer the centre of the town but this will not be possible for this year - perhaps in future.

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 30 Aug 12 - 12:23 PM

ONE TICKET ONLY left for Event 1 - MARTIN CARTHY & DAVE SWARBRICK

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 02 Sep 12 - 03:22 PM

Event 1 - MARTIN CARTHY & DAVE SWARBRICK
***SOLD OUT***

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 14 Sep 12 - 12:13 PM

Now less than 10 tickets left for Event 18 LES BARKER

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 16 Sep 12 - 03:48 PM

And what about the fringe?

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 17 Sep 12 - 05:22 AM

Richard Bridge wrote:-
"And what about the fringe?"

I am not sure what you are talking about, Richard. We have organised concerts, folk club evenings, dance displays presentations, workshops in melodeon and fiddle playing, tunes from manuscripts, singing style, French dance steps, a church singing session to belt out hymns to the very fine Salvation Army Band, singarounds and tune sessions for those who wish to participate.

It's all in the on-line programme at http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~tinvic/lff2012.htm

What sort of events do you mean by "fringe"? I thought that "fringe" events (as at the Edinburgh Festival) meant "events other than those mounted by the main festival organisers".

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 17 Sep 12 - 07:11 AM

Like Sidders - walk into pub, sit down, sing and play.

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 17 Sep 12 - 07:34 AM

Richard wrote:-
"Like Sidders - walk into pub, sit down, sing and play. "

I thought that is what you meant having just read your post (16 Sep 12 - 12:11 PM ) in the Deal Maritime (folk) festival and I think that I can work out what you are after.
What you are seeking is a pub or part of a pub to be set aside in the evenings for you and others to do your own singing (rather than tune playing) quite separate from the main festival events.
May I try to answer your enquiry from two standpoints – firstly the pubs' and then our festival's.

I don't suppose Lewes is very different from many other small towns but the pubs that survive - and seven pubs have closed in the town in recent years – are competing to attract the declining numbers of regular pub drinkers, particularly on their prime busy times of Friday and Saturday evenings. To this end, all Lewes pubs now do meals most with a separate dining area, some have large screens showing sport, mainly football, throughout the weekend and some book bands on weekend evenings. The regular pub bands will continue to provide for the pub's regular customers during our festival weekend. If I were to ask these pub managers to give me a room for one weekend for an undefined number of folk singers, I know what their answer would be.

Then the festival…. We are still in our infancy, rather that the 50 year plus maturity of Sidmouth. This will be our third year. One of the early points made by the committee when it was setting things up for the first year was that if we made a loss, we would not be pursuing a future festival. We suspected that things were going to be marginal but we did not how close we were. If the weather had not been good on the Saturday and we had not collected £300 from the various morris/dance sites then the festival would have been £150 in the red rather than in the black.
We did rather better in our second year, but still we need to cover all our expenses from ticket sales and what goes into the collecting tins. Our outlay is very considerable. The main expense is obviously artists' fees and if you look through the programme above you will see many top – and therefore expensive – names. In addition, unlike some festivals, we try to pay all the support artists at least something for their efforts (unless, of course, they happen to members of the committee, in which case they get nothing!). Do I need to list the others? Insurance, venue rents, printing, programme and poster design, magazine and local newspaper advertising, etc. etc. Running a four day festival does not come cheap and we have no source of income apart from our ticket sales. This means that in the evenings, our main time for obtaining income, there are only admission price events and this is unlikely to change in the near future. There are "free admission with collection" singarounds during the day and on the Sunday evening.

Festivals have taken a hammering in 2012. A number of them decided not to operate this year and others were badly affected by the great deluge that was July. Many found tickets sales down this year. They are going to need the financial support from people buying at least some event tickets to be able to survive.

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: GUEST,matt milton
Date: 17 Sep 12 - 08:12 AM

I'm looking forward to it. I have a ticket for Shirley Collins' singing workshop on the Sunday, and intend to cram in as much stuff that day I can fit in. If I'm not too busy, I'm thinking of popping down on the Thursday too (though mainly for checking out handmade guitars).

I've been thinking a lot about how festivals work recently. I started idly wondering (inspired by the No Masters record label) how feasible it might be to run a festival entirely as a co-operative: with all the acts performing and all the people organising on a level footing, all with stakes in the festival, all involved.