Lewes Folk Festival 2012

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 17 Sep 12 - 09:01 AM

I wish you the best of luck but it is not a formula that appeals to me.

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Sep 12 - 10:11 AM

Do you need Stewards?

I am available for most of the duration if you need me

Dave

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Dave Earl
Date: 17 Sep 12 - 10:19 AM

Doh!!!

That was me improperly signe in :-(

Dave

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 25 Sep 12 - 09:13 AM

Don't forget that October 1st is the last day for the Advance ticket reduction, typically saving you £2 on entry to each event.
Phone [phone] for the rapidly changing position on ticket availability.

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Valmai Goodyear
Date: 26 Sep 12 - 01:51 PM

The music for the two Spare Parts workshops can now be downloaded in midi and pdf form from the Tunes page of the band website, http://www.sparepartsband.co.uk/SPTunes.php (link-maker not working).

Saturday 13th. October, 11.00 a.m. - 12.30
Playing tunes in parts for any melody instrument with
SPARE PARTS CONCERTINA BAND
Elephant and Castle, White Hill, Lewes BN7 2DJ.

The tunes are :-
A French Minuet
Harvey's Hornpipe
A Jigg Ashling

The MIDI files have normal and slow versions of the full arrangements and of each part separately. Each tune is played three times.

Sunday 14th. October, 11.00 a.m. - 12.30
English Tunes Practice Session with
SPARE PARTS CONCERTINA BAND
Elephant and Castle, White Hill, Lewes BN7 2DJ.

The tunes are :-
Brook Street Polka
Flowers of Ashgill
Gipsy'sHornpipe
GraceBell'sBarnDanceh
The Plane Tree
Welch's 3 Part Polka

The MIDI files have normal and slow versions of the tunes. Each tune is played three times.

Even if you aren't coming to the Festival, feel free to try out the music.

Valmai (Lewes)

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Valmai Goodyear
Date: 27 Sep 12 - 02:19 AM

I'll repost this as the link maker is now working. Many thanks to Bryan TheSnail Creer for all the work involved in making separate midi files for the parts:

The music for the two Spare Parts workshops can now be downloaded in midi and pdf form from the tunes page of the band website, http://www.sparepartsband.co.uk/SPTunes.php.

Saturday 13th. October, 11.00 a.m. - 12.30
Playing tunes in parts for any melody instrument with
SPARE PARTS CONCERTINA BAND
Elephant and Castle, White Hill, Lewes BN7 2DJ.

The tunes are :-
A French Minuet
Harvey's Hornpipe
A Jigg Ashling

The MIDI files have normal and slow versions of the full arrangements and of each part separately. Each tune is played three times.

Sunday 14th. October, 11.00 a.m. - 12.30
English Tunes Practice Session with
SPARE PARTS CONCERTINA BAND
Elephant and Castle, White Hill, Lewes BN7 2DJ.

The tunes are :-
Brook Street Polka
Flowers of Ashgill
Gipsy's Hornpipe
Grace Bell's Barn Dance
The Plane Tree
Welch's 3 Part Polka

The MIDI files have normal and slow versions of the tunes. Each tune is played three times.

Even if you aren't coming to the Festival, feel free to try out the music.

Advance tickets for all Festival events are available from the Lewes Folk Festival website and are typically £2 cheaper if you book before 1st. October.

Valmai (Lewes)

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Valmai Goodyear
Date: 02 Oct 12 - 10:52 AM

In case anyone finds it useful to have all the Festival workshops listed in one place, here they are. You can still book online via the http://www.lewesfolkfest.org/ website. The Martin Carthy / Dave Swarbrick event is sold out, as is Shirley Collins's song workshop.

PART-PLAYING WORKSHOP FOR ANY INSTRUMENT WITH SPARE PARTS CONCERTINA BAND, £6
Saturday 13th. October 11.00 – 12.30, Elephant & Castle, White Hill, Lewes BN7 2DJ
Bryan Creer, Valmai Goodyear and Suzanne Higgins play arrangements of British dance music on three concertinas and fiddle. They also sing in harmony and with the concertinas. The music is available in advance as dots and midis downloadable from the Tunes page of the Spare Parts website http://www.sparepartsband.co.uk/SPTunes.php or they can be emailed or even printed and posted on request.

FIDDLE WORKSHOP WITH LINDA GAME, £6
Saturday 13th. October 13.00 - 14.30, Elephant & Castle, White Hill, Lewes BN7 2DJ
Since moving to Brighton 20 years ago Linda has played in a variety of bands with differing styles, from jazz and rock through to traditional music. Linda played for the Brighton based American Appalachian dance team Broken Ankles for 17 years and was one of The Kitchen Girls. She was the fiddle player with the rock group The Fold and is a member of The English Contra Dance Band.

MELODEON WORKSHOP WITH MATT QUINN, £6
Saturday 13th. October 13.15 – 14.45, Royal Oak, Station Street, Lewes BN7 2DA
Matt Quinn is fast becoming a well-known name on the English folk scene. He has been performing for the last 7 years in various bands including Dogan & the Boombox Karavan (previously the Deerhunters), and the Eliza Carthy Ceilidh Band with their themed ceilidhs at UK Folk Festivals. He has performed at a wide range of venues from folk clubs across the country up to main stages at Sidmouth, Beverley, Warwick, and Broadstairs festivals. A multi-instrumentalist, Matt plays melodeon, mandolin, fiddle and sings.

AUSTRALIAN DANCE TUNES WORKSHOP WITH MARTYN WYNDHAM-READ & IRIS BISHOP, £6
Saturday 13th. October 15.00 – 16.30, Elephant & Castle, White Hill, Lewes BN7 2DJ
Although an Englishman,Martyn Wyndham-Read has nonetheless become one of the greatest ambassadors of Australian folk song, having spent over 30 years playing music absorbed from the musical tradition of drovers, bush workers, and cane cutters. Having spent time employed as a bush worker himself, Wyndham-Read first fell in love with the traditional Aussie folk songs while employed on a South Australian sheep farm in the early '60s. Only 18 years old at the time, Wyndham-Read found himself enraptured by the songs he heard from the local farm hands, and after leaving his job, traveled the Australian countryside, playing in pubs and trading songs with those he chanced to meet. By 1967, he had befriended Australian-born folkie Trevor Lucas and was recruited to join Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick to contribute to Bert Lloyd's classic LP 'Leviathan'. Soon Wyndham-Read would find himself at the center of a Australian folk music revival, recording his own debut with Nic Jones and a cast of friends and playing the country from end to end before returning home to England, where he found a similarly receptive audience. With over 30 albums to his credit, Wyndham-Read remains an active touring act, frequently joined by the like-minded No Man's Band, presenting commentaries on Australian history, reciting bush poetry, and delivering outback anecdotes that have earned him a reputation as a tremendously warm and hypnotic performer.

Iris Bishop is an inspirational player of duet concertina and accordion. She works with Martyn's No Man's Band, Elsie's Band and The Other Band.

FRENCH & BRETON DANCE WORKSHOP WITH JAN MULREANY & LIZI STOREY, £6
Saturday 13th. October 17.00 – 18.30 Elephant & Castle, White Hill, Lewes BN7 2DJ
Jan and Lizi met 20 years ago through a love of European music & dance. Both are avid collectors at French dance festivals (St Chartier, Gennetines) with an occasional swerve into Sweden, Italy and Eastern Europe. They run Dansez Français in Brighton, hosting bands from France and UK. Lizi plays melodeon and leads DF's houseband. She and Jan have taught European folk dances at festivals in UK, USA France & Belgium. They are mad about the Bourrée and Breton dances and will teach you some of these in their workshop.

ENGLISH TUNES PRACTICE FOR ANY INSTRUMENT WITH SPARE PARTS CONCERTINA BAND, £6
Sunday 14th. October 11.00 – 12.30, Elephant & Castle, White Hill, Lewes BN7 2DJ
Bryan Creer, Valmai Goodyear and Suzanne Higgins play arrangements of British dance music on three concertinas and fiddle. They also sing in harmony and with the concertinas. The music is available in advance as dots and midis downloadable from the Tunes page of the Spare Parts website http://www.sparepartsband.co.uk/SPTunes.php or they can be emailed or even printed and posted on request.

TRADITIONAL SONG WORKSHOP WITH SHIRLEY COLLINS, £12
SOLD OUT
Sunday 14th. October 14.45 – 17.45 Elephant & Castle, White Hill, Lewes BN7 2DJ
Shirley has been one of the pivotal figures of the folk revival and she remains one of the greatest advocates of English traditional song. We are indeed fortunate to have such an inspirational figures living in Lewes and one who takes such an active part as the festival's patron. Though she no longer sings, she has found other ways of sharing her great love for folk song with her popular multimedia shows and her traditional singing workshops. She will be leading a traditional song workshop and narrating the Down The Lawson Trail show as her involvement in this year's festival, but there is no doubt that we will see her face at other times during the weekend

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Girl Friday
Date: 03 Oct 12 - 02:14 PM

Shame I missed the posting that said £2,00 saving ended on October 1st. Never mind - tickets booked for Les Barker....worth every penny.
Is there a singaround somewhere beforehand ?

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 03 Oct 12 - 05:25 PM

Is there a singaround somewhere beforehand ?

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: Girl Friday
Date: 05 Oct 12 - 09:22 AM

Thanks Vic. Hope to be there for that.

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 06 Oct 12 - 06:46 AM

From today's (Saturday) listings section in the "Guide" section of "The Guardian"....
I suppose this event for Thursday 11th October was an inevitable choice but as you might expect, this was sold out at long time ago.
Thursday 11th October
Lewes
* Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick
Traditional & contemporary folk
(01273 478124) 8pm £12.
However if you go to the LEWES FOLK FESTIVAL website at http://www.lewesfolkfest.org/ you will see that there are many other attractive events at the festival..... like this one also listed in "The Guardian"
Friday 12th October
Lewes
* The Young Coppers, Bob Lewis, Noel Dumbrell
A cappella folk
(01273 478124) 8pm £12.

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 07 Oct 12 - 03:06 PM

Who wants the last pair of tickets for Les Barker?

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 08 Oct 12 - 01:21 PM

MARTIN CARTHY & DAVE SWARBRICK
Earlier this today I had this email from their agent:-

Hi Vic
I'm afraid Swarb is ill with gastroentiritis. He was taken ill in Cork and is still there. Jill has flown over to look after him. Dave's various conditions means that this has affected him more than most as he isn't retaining his copious amounts of drugs and is therefore quite severely weakened.
Martin is on his way back from Cork and is certain that Dave won't make his gigs this week. Martin is willing to do them solo if required. Please confirm you have this and advise on how you want to proceed. Many thanks
Best
Alan

My immediate reaction was to phone and see whether there was any chance of Chris Parkinson being able to replace Dave Swarbrick. Alan thought that was a good suggestion and tried to set this up. Several phone calls later it transpired that Chris is in Portugal this week.
The evening will go ahead with Martin Carthy performing as a soloist which, as you all know, is a very exciting prospect in itself. It also means that we have to offer those who have purchased tickets three options:-
* Come and still enjoy what will undoubtedly be a great evening
* Return your ticket in exchange for a replacement date in the not too distant future by the duo - which we have been offered.
* Ask for a refund on your purchase.

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Oct 12 - 05:41 PM

There are still a few tickets for Les Barker on Saturday night - ring 01273 478124 for details.

The weather forecast for Saturday is good, with a maximum temperature of 12 deg C predicted, and sunshine for all the morris dancers.

Valmai (Lewes)

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 11 Oct 12 - 07:00 AM

It all kicks off tonight with MARTIN CARTHY - now solo - at the Royal Oak in Station Street. A few returned tickets available from those who particularly wanted to see the indisposed DAVE SWARBRICK - 01273 478124

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Valmai Goodyear
Date: 12 Oct 12 - 05:33 AM

Tonight the Festival presents two events:

Two Magic Lantern Shows

Authentic Victorian Magic Lantern
with historic hand-painted & photographic slides, music, songs & readings

Elephant & Castle, White Hill, Lewes BN7 2DJ

Pepper's Ghost
'The Lifeboat Story' with Spare Parts Concertina Band

Plus
Charlotte & Spong: Songs with fiddle, concertina, guitar & mandolin
Roger Brasier: Poetry, verse & prose

Tickets are £8 on door.

Union Music Store presents Faustus at the All Saints Centre, Friars Walk:

As part of the Lewes Folk Festival Union is proud to present an evening of top class British folk with Faustus & Elle Osborne

After a break of 18 months, the original trio of Benji Kirkpatrick, Saul Rose and Paul Sartin is reforming.

Nominated in the 2009 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, the Faustus truimvirate are three of the leading lights of their generation: Saul Rose (Waterson;Carthy, Whapweazel), Benji Kirkpatrick (Seth Lakeman Band, Bellowhead) and Paul Sartin (Bellowhead, Belshazzar's Feast).
Faustus came together in 2006 as an evolution of the award winning band Dr. Faustus, when Tim Van Eyken and Rob Harbron left to pursue other projects 'Dynamically fascinating to watch, entertaining and intriguing. Their ability to switch from song to tune, from instrument to voice, from traditional tune to modern arrangements made seeing them again a necessity' Folk and Roots

In Support we have Elle Osborne, local folk singer with critically acclaimed new album Slowly Slowly Got She up, released on the Folk Police label.

Valmai (Lewes)

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 12 Oct 12 - 07:44 AM

A great mesmeric night with Martin Carthy to start the festival last night, and reports say that the other event last night was also a cracker - the Old Timey session run by Michi Mathias at the Lamb.

Valmai wrote:-
Tonight the Festival presents two events
Well, actually there are three, for she is forgetting the Traditional Sussex Evening at the Royal Oak with the six grandchildren of Bob Copper - Andy, Ben, Lucy, Mark, Sean and Tom - The Young Coppers who will be sharing the evening with two of the stalwarts of the true Sussex Tradition Noel Dumbrell and Bob Lewis. Martin Carthy has a night off tonight so he is going to be in the audience for this one.

Then on Saturday and Sunday with have the fine and varied selection of events mentioned above.

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

Sorry, I should have checked the programme!

Valmai

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 12 Oct 12 - 11:52 AM

LEWES FOLK FESTIVAL 11 - 14 OCTOBER 2012
A lovely day in Lewes today with the same forecast for tomorrow and this means that we should have another great day for all the dance display sides that will be in the town. Here are the details:-
11am-4pm Collection
All Day Dance Displays in four locations - 1] John Harvey Tavern, Bear Yard 2] Cliffe Precinct 3] Outside Waitrose 4] The Dorset, Malling Street.

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

From last year's festival, here is Mary Motley of the Knots of May and a Festival Committee member, who we have to thank for arranging this great programme.

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 13 Oct 12 - 05:59 AM

Heavy rain until about ten minutes ago. Clearing quickly from the west to be replaced by blue skies. How about that for timing? Our very full programme of five straight hours of dance displays by sixteen dance sides throughout the town for LEWES FOLK FESTIVAL is due to start in 32 minutes. HOOOORRRAAAYYY!!!

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Girl Friday
Date: 14 Oct 12 - 09:17 AM

We hit some showers on the way down, but they seemed to have died out by the time we arrived . It was well gone three, so we decided to miss out on the singaround in favour of a mooch around the High Street. Had a late lunch in Market Street, and dinner in The Brewery Arms. The specials board had a lot of good meals... not your usual pub fayre. I plumped for the caramelised onion and goat's cheese quiche, salad, and new potatoes, and insisted that, being a leopard.. Mumblin should have a zebra burger and chips. Both were scrummy. Zebra is not unlike horse .

We were first to arrive at the concert, which became a packed house, with around 80 in the audience. It was very cozy, there was much hilasrity, and we suggested to Les Barker that he ought to get sponsored by Tennalady. It was a really good event.

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: GUEST,Martin (Mythago)
Date: 14 Oct 12 - 03:57 PM

Just to say we had a great time Saturday Morris dancing, and the side were even kind enough to give me a little time off (for good behaviour or perhaps to get rid of me!) so that I could attend the Linda Game fiddle workshop, which was fantastic. Really great day!

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Chris Amos
Date: 15 Oct 12 - 02:14 AM

Shirley Collins song workshop was wonderful, good singers, great songs, insightful comments I feel completely inspired.

Chris

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 15 Oct 12 - 06:06 PM

A huge thank you to everyone who made LEWES FOLK FESTIVAL 2012 such a huge success. There were many people taking photos of the festival, I would love to be able to share them. Please email me

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 18 Oct 12 - 09:45 AM

We've been sent a link to a mass of excellent photos of Lewes Folk Festival taken by someone called themselves Phil the Flute that he has posted on Flickr. You can see them by clicking here .

They are mostly of the many display teams at the festival but there are are also some of the sessions as well. A few Bonfire boys and girls in their smugglers' jumpers or pirates costumes have also crept in somehow. They were out in force selling Bonfire programmes and helping us to make Lewes a very colourful place. There's even a Guy Fawkes tableau being trundled along.

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 18 Oct 12 - 11:19 AM

You can see over 200 of my photos of the festival by clicking here

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Valmai Goodyear
Date: 18 Oct 12 - 11:51 AM

I'm glad to see that Phil the Flute had a ball.

Valmai

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 21 Oct 12 - 02:35 PM

A (spontaneous & unofficial) morris procession

The first I knew of it was when I saw this on Youtube!

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 21 Oct 12 - 02:38 PM

Sun Oak Clog

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 21 Oct 12 - 02:41 PM

Sompting Village Morris

Outside Safeways

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 21 Oct 12 - 02:47 PM

Marlings Morris

in Cliffe Precinct

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 21 Oct 12 - 02:52 PM

Oyster Girls Morris (from the Isle of Wight)

Outside Waitrose (as it should also say above for Sompting Village!)

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 21 Oct 12 - 02:56 PM

Cuckoo's Nest

Outside The John Harvey

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 21 Oct 12 - 03:07 PM

Broadwood Morris

in Cliffe Precinct

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 21 Oct 12 - 03:10 PM

The Seven Champions

Outside Waitrose

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 21 Oct 12 - 03:13 PM

Cuckoo's Nest

in Cliffe Precinct

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 21 Oct 12 - 03:17 PM

Oyster Girls

Outside The John Harvey

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 21 Oct 12 - 03:26 PM

Cuckoo's Nest

Outside The J

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 21 Oct 12 - 03:27 PM

Whoops!
Outside The John Harvey

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 21 Oct 12 - 03:30 PM

Brighton Morris Men

Outside The John Harvey

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 21 Oct 12 - 03:33 PM

The Seven Champions

Outside The John Harvey

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 21 Oct 12 - 03:36 PM

The Knots of May

outside The Dorset

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 21 Oct 12 - 03:39 PM

Mythago Morris

outside The Dorset

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 21 Oct 12 - 03:44 PM

Long Man Morris

outside The Dorset

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 21 Oct 12 - 03:46 PM

The Knots of May

outside The Dorset

Subject: RE: Lewes Folk Festival 2012
From: Vic Smith
Date: 21 Oct 12 - 03:48 PM

Mythago Morris

Outside the Dorset