Nowell Sing We Clear

Subject: Nowell Sing We Clear
From: Suffet
Date: 21 Sep 01 - 06:27 AM

New York Pinewoods Folk Music Club presents...

NOWELL SING WE CLEAR

An old-time English Yuletide show featuring John Roberts and Tony Barrand.

Friday, November 30, 2001, 8 PM
Advent Lutheran Church
Broadway & West 93rd Street
New York City
Non-member adults: $13.
Seniors citizens or students: $9.
Children: $6.
New York Pinewoods members: FREE!

NY Pinewoods website: http://www.folkmusicny.org


---- Steve

Subject: RE: Nowell Sing We Clear
From: Naemanson
Date: 21 Sep 01 - 12:25 PM

Do these guys have a web site with a tour schedule on it?

Subject: RE: Nowell Sing We Clear
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 21 Sep 01 - 05:31 PM

Nowell Sing we Clear's most recent web page is from last year, but it gives Tony's email address:
[e-mail]
You could find out from him!

Subject: RE: Nowell Sing We Clear
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 22 Sep 01 - 12:05 AM

John Roberts is also a Mudcatter, and may check in on this thread. I don't like to give personal e-mail addresses without permission. Their web site for Golden Hind Records is here (click).

Sandy (who also has all of their recordings at Folk-Legacy)

Subject: RE: Nowell Sing We Clear
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 22 Sep 01 - 12:14 AM

So, the web site gives you John Roberts' e-mail. It's [e-mail]. The web site isn't totally up to date. Their earlier recordings are now available on CD also:

Spencer the Rover is Alive and Well (and Living in Ithaca)
Across the Western Ocean
Live at Holstein's (Eat Bertha's Mussels)

These should be added to the list. They're on the Folk-Legacy web site now. C'mon, John! Catch up!

Sandy

Subject: Press Release
From: Suffet
Date: 24 Sep 01 - 06:44 AM

New York Pinewoods Folk Music Club
Folk Music Society of New York, Inc.
450 7th Avenue #972 • New York, NY 10123 • [phone]
Website: http://www.folkmusicny.org


PRESS RELEASE

Contact for this event: Evy Mayer, [phone] after 11 AM only.

For immediate release on or after September 24, 2001:

Nowell Sing We Clear to appear in New York City, November 30, 2001, at 8 PM.

New York Pinewoods Series Concert to features unusual Yuletide Pageant at Advent Lutheran Church.

New York Pinewoods Folk Music Club will present Nowell Sing We Clear, an eclectic musical Yuletide celebration at the Advent Lutheran Church, Broadway and West 93rd Street in New York City, on Friday evening, November 30, 2001. The show begins at 8 PM. This event is one in a series of six concerts per year presented by New York Pinewoods and is free to club members. General public admission is $13. Seniors citizens and students pay only $9 each. Children's admission is just $6. For further information the public can call Evy Mayer at [phone] after 11 AM.

This will be the twenty-sixth touring season of Nowell Sing We Clear with its unusual songs, carols, stories, and customs. Drawn mostly from English-language folk traditions, the songs tell both a version of the events and characters involved in the Christmas story and detail the customs which make up the twelve magical days following the return of the light at the winter solstice. Many of these ancient customs are the basis of the today's holiday traditions, such as visiting and feasting, gift-giving, carol singing from door-to-door and the adorning of houses and churches with garlands of evergreen.

Nowell Sing We Clear celebrates Christmas as it was known for centuries in Britain and North America, and as it continues in many places to the present. The songs come from an age when the midwinter season was a time for joyous celebration and vigorous expression of older, perhaps pagan, religious ideas. There is not always a clear line between these and the rejoicing at the birth of Jesus bringing a fresh light into the world at this dark midwinter time. A special and unusual treat is the enactment of a Mummers Play from Kentucky. Performed in the traditional manner, the play is typical of folk dramas which survive to this day throughout Britain and North America symbolizing and portraying the death of the land at midwinter and its subsequent rebirth in the spring.

While much of the singing is done in unaccompanied style, the pageant is also stamped with the energetic dance band sound of fiddle, button accordion, electric piano, drums, and concertina and includes traditional step dancing. The audience will be supplied with song sheets and encouraged to sing along. Nowell Clear We Sing performers include John Roberts and Tony Barrand, widely known for their lively presentations of English folk songs, and Fred Breunig and Andy Davis, well known in New England as dance callers and musicians.

The Advent Lutheran Church is located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The closest subway stop is 96th Street on the 1, 2. 3. and 9 (Broadway) lines.

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Subject: RE: Nowell Sing We Clear
From: Burke
Date: 25 Sep 01 - 09:47 PM

Dirty Linen has 2 listings: Nowell Sing We Clear
12/7 MA Whaling Museum/New Bedford 508/673-8523
12/10 NY Old Songs at Masonic Temple/Altamont 518/765-2815

Subject: RE: Nowell Sing We Clear
From: Anglo
Date: 10 Oct 01 - 12:51 AM

The Nowell Sing We Clear December 2001 schedule is now on Tony Barrand's webpage at:

Click here

Subject: RE: Nowell Sing We Clear
From: Suffet
Date: 16 Oct 01 - 06:17 AM

Reminder...

Nowell Sing We Clear

Friday, November 30, 2001
8 PM
Advent Lutheran Church
West 93rd Street & Broadway
New York City

General admission: $13.
Senior citizens or students: $9.
Children: $6.
New York Pinewoods members: free.


Be there!


--- Steve

Subject: RE: Nowell Sing We Clear
From: Suffet
Date: 29 Oct 01 - 06:58 AM

Refresh

Subject: RE: Nowell Sing We Clear
From: Peg
Date: 29 Oct 01 - 08:50 AM

anyone know when their Boston area gig is? (I saw an ad for it)

Subject: RE: Nowell Sing We Clear
From: Suffet
Date: 28 Nov 01 - 06:20 PM

Refresh

Subject: RE: Nowell Sing We Clear
From: DonMeixner
Date: 28 Nov 01 - 06:50 PM

And also at Mays Unitarian in Syracuse, NY very soon.

Subject: RE: Nowell Sing We Clear
From: DebC
Date: 29 Nov 01 - 08:47 AM

They will be in New Bedford, MA on December 7, at the Whaling Museum. Details and more information can be found atthis website

Deb

Subject: RE: Nowell Sing We Clear
From: Suffet
Date: 29 Nov 01 - 08:54 PM

And DebC will be at Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, New York, on Friday, March 8, 2002, in a concert rescheduled from this past September 14. It's in the Wunsch Hall Student Center at 8 PM. Be there!

--- Steve

Subject: RE: Nowell Sing We Clear
From: Burke
Date: 10 Dec 01 - 11:42 AM

Saw them yesterday in Syracuse. I really enjoyed it.

Tony looked like he was in a lot of pain. I've seen him walking with a cane for a while but he was using an electric cart before the show. I'm assuming he has back problems; does anyone know anything more?

Subject: RE: Nowell Sing We Clear
From: Anglo
Date: 10 Dec 01 - 01:09 PM

Tony has MS.

Subject: RE: Nowell Sing We Clear
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 10 Dec 01 - 04:42 PM

Tony's a trouper. So are they all. I am so looking forward to seeing them Friday night- still fresh after all these years!