|
02 Jan 08 - 12:19 PM (#2226734) Subject: January Folk News From Sussex (9 items) From: Vic Smith NINE ITEMS OF FOLK MUSIC NEWS FROM SUSSEX 1] FOLK AT THE ROYAL OAK Station Street, Lewes Enquiries:- (01273) 478124 or 881316 Email tinvic@globalnet.co.uk. 8.pm START Here is the programme for the first months of 2008:- Jan 3rd * £5.00 * BILL CADDICK An outstanding songwriter and a compelling singer. "Holds your attention from first to last. He has hell of a voice and plays a mean guitar." fRoots Jan 10th * £5.00 * MAT GREEN & ANDY TURNER English folk dance tunes and songs from two of the finest exponents with Mat's fiddle and solo jigging and Andy's melodeon, concertina and voice Jan 17th * £5.00 * THE TITANIC SYNCOPATORS with PETA WEBB With the Titanic Syncopators, Peta sings a range of distinctive songs from the 1920s and 30s, selected for their striking melodies and evocative lyrics. Jan 24th * £5.00 * THE NEW DEAL STRING BAND American Old Timey at its finest from three outstanding exponents. Tom Paley, his son Ben and Joe Locker. Jan 31st * £5.00 * THE BOAT BAND This very experienced quartet make their first appearance for us with their huge repertoire of English dance tunes and songs, many from the Lake District. Feb 7th * Free Admission * TUNE-AROUND Led by Will Duke and Dan Quinn. Join in with the tunes you know and play some we don't. Songs allowed. Feb 14th * £4.00 * GAVIN ATKIN & JULIE WELLS Romantic songs for Valentine's Day sung by wonderful Kent chanteuse accompanied on duet concertina and fiddle. Feb 21st * £5.00 * ROGER JENKENS' Roger Grimes, Ken Langsbury and Jen Spencer from Gloucestershire perform English traditional song. Outrageous harmonies and outrageous stories from Ken. Memories of The Songwainers. Feb 28th * £5.00 * RÓISÍN WHITE Róisín is a noted, distinctive and very experienced singer from Armagh. She has a great range of varied songs in English and Irish Mar 5th * Free Admission * OPEN NIGHT All performers, particularly new ones to the Royal Oak are welcome. Mar 12th * £5.00 * PHIL CALLERY One of Ireland's outstanding singers of traditional songs. Phil was with the leading Irish group, The Voice Squad Mar 19th * £6.00 * DAVE SWARBRICK We are delighted to be able to present a solo appearance by the remarkable legendary fiddle player Mar 26th * £4.00 * JAMIE CRAWFORD A talented singer of ballads but mainly a compelling storyteller with a mesmeric presentational style. Apl 3rd * £5.00 * ELIZABETH STEWART with ALISON MacMORLAND Elizabeth is a prominent member of the extended travelling family that includes Britain's best traditional singers with support from another remarkable Scots singer. Also exhilarating Scots tunes on piano from Elizabeth. THEN OUR "AMERICAN SEASON" - 10th April until 5th June Bryan Bowers (10/4) * Sara Grey & Kieron Means (17/4) * Claudia Gould & Ben Paley (24/4) * Rosie Davis, Joe Locker & Bob Winquist (01/5) * Bayou Seco (08/5) * Dana & Susan Robinson (15/5) * Jeff Warner (22/5) * Beverly Smith & Carl Jones (29/5) * Judy Cook (05/6) And then before the summer break:- TIM VAN EYKEN * MARTIN CARTHY Other guests in 2008 will include:- Dave Sealey * Bruce Molsky * Jeff Gillett & Ron Taylor Our websites are at http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~tinvic and http://www.myspace.com/royaloakfolklewes Those of you with listings/ gig guides etc. are asked kindly to include these dates amongst them. *********** 2] FOLK AT THE ROYAL OAK ON "MYSPACE" An additional website for the Royal Oak has been developed to give the venture a MYSPACE profile. This should enable us to profile sample tracks of coming guests as well as photos and biographies. It is at http://www.myspace.com/royaloakfolklewes Currently on our MYSPACE we have the following tracks by coming guests:- Bill Caddick – "Slipping Away" - (January 3rd) Mat Green & Andy Turner - "Quicksteps" - (January 10th) The Titanic Syncopators with Peta Webb - "Pennies From Heaven" - (January 17th) The New Deal String Band - "Penney's Farm" - (January 24th) The Boat Band - "Carlisle Reel" - (January 31st) Roisin White – "Among The Heather" – (February 28th) There is also a photo montage video of some of the best nights at the Royal Oak between 2002 and 2006 and video clips of some of our coming guests:- BILL CADDICK January 3rd TOM PALEY [here with THE NEW DEAL STRING BAND] January 24th ROISIN WHITE February 28th DAVE SWARBRICK March 20th BRYAN BOWERS April 10th MARTIN CARTHY June 26th *********** 3] SUSSEX FOLK GUIDE WEBSITE - UPDATED For all the listings of folk music, song club, dances, festivals in and around Sussex, have a look at http://whatson.brighton.co.uk/folk This site all always kept updated with the latest events and those currently listed cover all the dates up until the end of January 2008. ********** 4] THE FOLK DIARY Most of the listings on the Sussex Folk Guide website are taken from the paper magazine, THE FOLK DIARY Issue no 228 covers the months of December & January and this is now available. They are packed with adverts for various folk festivals, folk music record companies, specialist shops, instrument makers and other services as well as details of all the folk song and dance events in our area. As well there are four pages of reviews of recent fool music books, CDs and DVDs. To obtain copies of this free magazine as it is published, please send SAE's to Vic Smith at the address below. (Make sure that the SAE stamp meets the new postal charges!) It is also the address to send album review copies to. Potential advertisers are also asked to contact Vic for a statement of our advertising rates. The copy date for issue no 229 has just passed. The copy date for the April/may 2008 issue will be February 28th ********** 5] THE FOLK DIARY ON LINE THE FOLK DIARY is available on-line. For some years now, all the listings which THE FOLK DIARY gives has been given in date order on THE SUSSEX FOLK GUIDE WEBSITE but now, the entire magazine is available on-line; go to the website for the FOLK AT THE ROYAL OAK, LEWES http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~tinvic and then click on the "Folk Diary" symbol. You will need Adobe ACROBAT READER to read the pages and, frankly, unless you are on broadband, the page will take too long to download. The size of each page is given by each page link and the content of each page is indicated. The following issue is now on-line and is listed here with the content of each page :- ISSUE No. 228 DECEMBER 2007 - JANUARY 2008 Page 1 (2335kb) Croydon Folk Club (Mons), Lord Nelson, Brighton (Mons) Steve Hicks concert in Horsham, Christmas Ceilidh in Bexhill. Page 2 (1589kb) Sussex Folk Association. Fee Calls Ceilidhs, Elsies (Sats), Worthing Ceilidhs, Footlights West Chiltington (Sats), Pepper's Ghost at Brighton Toy Museum, Rude Mechanicals Shoreham (Weds), Spyboy events at Hailsham Pavilion Page 3 (402kb) Lewes Arms Lewes (Sats), Royal Oak Lewes (Thurs) - Advertising rates and copy dates Page 4 (402kb) Book and CD reviews Page 5 (422kb) CD reviews, Amberley Folk Club (Tues), BCMA trip to Texas. Page 6 (926kb) Cellarfolk Brighton (Tues), Vince Purcell fiddles, Mid- Sussex folk singers (Weds), Willows Folk Club Arundel (Weds), Seaford Folk Club (Fris) Page 7 (581kb) Fireman's Arms Uckfield (Tues), Brighton Singers' Club (Weds & Suns), GBH Ceilidhs Godalming, Chris & Jill from Cornflower Blue, Acoustic Sussex Page 8 (227kb) CD reviews. Page 9 (284kb) CD reviews, Button Badges, The Sussex Pistols Page 10 (1263kb) Barry Murphy banjoes, Sandra's party, Horsham Folk Club (Suns), Lewes Ceilidhs, Six Bells Chiddingly (Tues), White Horse Bodle St. Green (Mons), Page 11 (1437kb) Hobgoblin Music, Electric Voices Guildford area, Meltdown Ceilidhs, SEFAN. Page 12 (2053kb) Mistletoes To Maypoles Hawth Crawley, Transports of Delight at Brighton Toy Museum, Komedia Brighton. ********** 6] INSTRUMENTAL & VOCAL WORKSHOPS IN LEWES LEWES ARMS FOLK CLUB WORKSHOPS 2008 The workshops last a full Saturday or Sunday and the tutor performs at the club in the evening. 15th March Alistair Anderson Northumbrian music (any instrument) 19th April Martin Carthy Guitar & song (12 places only) 7th June Cloudstreet Vocal harmony 14th June Paul Hutchinson Accordion 14th June Paul Sartin Fiddle Belshazzar's Feast evening (TBC) 19th July Mick West Scottish song 19th July Frank McLaughlin Scottish music for guitar 20th Sept Mary Humphreys & Anahata Fenland tunes (any instrument) 18th Oct John Kirkpatrick Modes (any instrument) 25th Oct Coope Boyes & Simpson Vocal harmony 25th Oct Georgina Boyes Seminar on Wassails, Carols & Winter Customs (pm) 22nd Nov Roy Clinging & Neil Brookes Cheshire tunes (any instrument) The website for more details is http://www.lewesarmsfolkclub.org/LAFC/workshps.html or contact Valmai Goodyear on (01273) 476757 or email ValmaiGoodyear@aol.com ************ 7] REGULAR SESSIONS IN THE LEWES/BRIGHTON AREA Bryan Creer has taken on the task of detailing these and they are listed at http://www.lewesarmsfolkclub.org/LAFC/Sessions.html Have a look and if there are any you think that Bryan has missed - contact him on Bryancreer@aol.com ************ 8] HUGE EVENT with SHIRLEY COLLINS AT THE SOUTH BANK CENTRE IN LONDON IN MARCH This press release has been issued by the South Bank Centre in London:- SHIRLEY COLLINS' 'FOLK ROOTS, NEW ROUTES' 25 - 30 March 2008, Southbank Centre Folk Roots, New Routes - a five-day series of performances and talks in the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room programmed by the renowned and much-loved folk singer Shirley Collins. The America Over The Water talk in the Purcell Room (a fascinating account of her journeys with Alan Lomax) was a surprise hit event of 2006. The diverse line-up of expected guests will attest to an influence and an address book that extends far beyond the world of folk music. Look out for more details of these talks/concerts/performances etc as they emerge. There will certainly be full details in these circulars. ************ 9] SUSSEX ALL-DAY SINGAROUND - SATURDAY 19th January 11.00 a.m. - 11.00 p.m. Once again the venue for this will be ROYAL OAK, BARCOMBE, EAST SUSSEX BN8 5BA. Free admission - pub food on sale all day. There will be an hour of informal tunes while people arrive. Then the singing starts, finishing with a good hour of glorious choruses. Ballads & the occasional instrumental party piece will be very welcome too. And the following day, whilst people are in the area:- ENGLISH TUNES SESSION Sunday 20th. January noon - 3.00 p.m. The Lewes Arms, Mount Place, Lewes, East Sussex BN7 1YH +++++++++++++++++++++ A NUMBER OF OUR GAMBIAN INTERESTS HAVE NOW BEEN GATHERED TOGETHER UNDER THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE **COMPOUND SOUNDS*** Have a look at it at http://www.compoundsounds.com where we have added a video clip of Jail Sheriff Kenneth playing at the Whitby Music port Festival in October 2005. *** This website includes the work that we are doing to help to set up a new music school in Brakeman, teaching okra, blazon, demes and jail singing to European tourists to The Gambia. ***The lovely batiks made by Bubal Drummer sell through this site and we photograph each one to show on the site:- http://www.compoundsounds.com/batiks/index.html The Compound Sounds website can now accept payment for batiks and for the two albums by the kora maestro Jali Sherrifo Konteh by Paypal and most major credit cards. Sound clips from Sherrifo's album "Chesano" have been added to this website. Sherrifo has a Myspace site where you can hear six tracks by him at http://www.myspace.com/jalisherrifokonteh +++++++++++++++++++++ ...And if you are ever looking for a good barn dance band, look no further than THE SUSSEX PISTOLS - though you should get in quickly - available dates for 2008 are being snapped up quickly. Contact Tina on 01273 478124 or email her at tinasmith226@yahoo.co.uk to book the band. The band's website is at http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~tinvic/pistols.htm and, yes, they also have a MYSPACE profile as well at http://www.myspace.com/thesussexpistols VIC & TINA SMITH Vic Smith 26 Ferrers Road LEWES East Sussex BN7 1PZ England Tel & Fax:- 01273 478124 Email:- tinvic@globalnet.co.uk folk@brighton.co.uk ROYAL OAK WEBSITE:- http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~tinvic SUSSEX FOLK GUIDE WEBSITE:- http://whatson.brighton.co.uk/folk SUSSEX PISTOLS BARN DANCE BAND WEBSITE:- http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~tinvic/pistols.htm COMPOUND SOUNDS WEBSITE http://www.compoundsounds.com |