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27 Sep 08 - 09:20 AM (#2451516) Subject: October Folk News From Sussex -13 items From: Vic Smith THIRTEEN ITEMS OF FOLK MUSIC NEWS FROM SUSSEX FOR OCTOBER 1] FOLK AT THE ROYAL OAK Station Street, Lewes Enquiries:- (01273) 478124 or 881316 Email tinvic@globalnet.co.uk . Every Thursday 8.pm PROMPT START Here is our programme for our new season and for the rest of this year. Oct 2nd * £5.00 * MANDY MURRAY The all-Ireland champion concertina player who is also a remarkable singer. This replaces the advertised appearance in July that Mandy was forced to cancel. Oct 9th * £6.00 * BRUCE MOLSKY Alone or with fellow musicians; guitar, fiddle, or banjo in hand, Bruce Molsky has been exploring traditional music from an astonishingly broad range of cultures over the past two decades Oct 16th * £5.00 * PETE COE A multi-instrumentalist on melodeon, dulcimer, banjo and bouzouki, Pete is a lovely singer of both traditional and written songs with a particular affinity with ballads. Oct 23rd * £5.00 * PETE MORTON One of the outstanding English songwriters and a mesmeric character in front of an audience. His songs and performances are a joy Oct 30th * £5.00 * RON TAYLOR & JEFF GILLETT Ron, once of The Songwainers in a great singer and Jeff's guitar accompaniments support beautifully. Their recent album, "Both Shine As One", is a delight. Nov 6th * £5.00 * JEZ LOWE A man who written so many outstanding songs and one who performs them with great panache, style and relish. Nov 13th * £6.00 * RORY McLEOD Ex-circus clown and fire eater. A one man soulband, poet and storyteller, singing his own unique upbeat dance stories. A modern travelling troubadour using tap shoes, acappella, harmonica, guitar, trombone, spoons, finger cymbals, bandorea, djembe and various percussion instruments! Nov 20th * £6.00 * MARTIN CARTHY The outstanding singer and guitarist of the folk revival, Martin has been a top attraction for four decades now. Nov 27th * £5.00 * JIGJAW The superb line-up of Janet Russell, Rosie Davis, Kerry Fletcher and Frances Watt bring their unique combination of song, music and dance. Dec 4th * free * LEWES LATE NIGHT SHOPPING OPEN NIGHT Dec 11th * £5.00 * PEPPER'S GHOST CHRISTMAS SHOW Songs, music, monologues and poems augment the wonderful Victorian Christmas magic Lantern show with Alan & Rene Marriott, Charlotte Oliver, Richard Spong & Roger Brasier. Dec 18th * free * CHRISTMAS PARTY NIGHT Our annual song and dance bash is always one of our most popular events. Other attractions during 2009 will include:- SULTANS OF SQUEEZE (John Kirkpatrick & Chris Parkinson) * MAGGIE HOLLAND * TONY HALL * JIM & LYNETTE ELDON * JEFF DAVIS * ZOOX * JIM BAINBRIDGE * THE ASKEW SISTERS * SHEPHEARD, SPIERS & WATSON * JERRY EPSTEIN & RALPH BODINGTON * CON FADA O'DRISCEOL 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" Our MYSPACE profile enables us to profile sample tracks of coming guests as well as show photos and biographies of coming guests. It is at http://www.myspace.com/royaloakfolklewes Currently on our MYSPACE we have the following tracks by coming guests:- Mandy Murray - "Drogheda Lassies/The Game of Love" - (October 2nd) Bruce Molsky - "Wolves A-Howling" - (October 9th) Pete Coe - "The Fireman's Song" - (October 16th) Pete Morton - "The Two Brothers" - (October 23rd) Ron Taylor & Jeff Gillett - "Lisbon" - (October 30th) Jez Lowe – "Bede Weeps" – (November 6th) After each gig the songs will drop off to be replaced with another by an upcoming guest. In addition there are videos by each of the following coming guest artists:- BRUCE MOLSKY - October 9th PETE COE - October 16th PETE MORTON – October 23rd JEZ LOWE - November 6th RORY McLEOD – November 13th MARTIN CARTHY - November 20th SULTANS OF SQUEEZE – January 8th JIM ELDON – March 12th TONY HALL – June 11th *********** 3] FOLK AT THE ROYAL OAK ON "YOUTUBE" There are two photo-montage videos of artists that have appeared at the Royal Oak in past years posted on "Youtube". The first one features singers and musicians who have played at The Royal Oak between 2002 and 2006. You can see it at:- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnHcbITBoJ0 It is accompanied by the following music:- a] Foul Weather Call/From Night Till Morn b] Monkey Hornpipe/Stepdance c] Hunt The Squirrel/Four Hand Reel This is played by Dan Quinn & Will Duke, two of the resident performers at the Royal Oak, and taken from their album "Wild Boys" available from:- http://homepage.ntlworld.com/rebe.cleveland/hebeweb.htm The second one is a montage of some of the best performances at the Royal Oak during 2007. You can see it at:- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmQLe_Fz2UA It is accompanied by the following music:- a] The High Low Schottische / Untitled Schottische b] The Bird on Nellie's Hat / Hopscotch Schottische It is played by Will Duke, one of the resident performers at the Royal Oak, and taken from his 2008 album "Out of the Box " available from Will by emailing him at willlawrenceduke@hotmail.com *********** 4] 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 October 2008. *********** 5] THE FOLK DIARY Most of the listings on the Sussex Folk Guide website are taken from the paper magazine, THE FOLK DIARY. Issue no 233 covers the months of October and November 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 pages of reviews of recent folk CDs. To obtain copies of this free magazine as it is published, please send SAE's to Vic Smith at the address below. 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 the December 2008/January 2009 is October 31st. However, it should be mentioned that once the available space has been filled, no more adverts can be accepted even if they are received BEFORE the copy date. With this in mind, it is worth contacting the editors before the copy date to state your intentions and reserve advertising space even if you have not got final details or you copy prepared. Please contact JIM MARSHALL 01273 559750 jimars@globalnet.co.uk VIC SMITH 01273 478124 tinvic@globalnet.co.uk ********** 6] THE FOLK DIARY ON LINE THE FOLK DIARY is available on-line at http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~tinvic/fd.htm You will need Adobe ACROBAT READER to read the pages. 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. 233 OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 2008 Page 1 (937kb) Electric Voices Guildford area, Rude Mechanicals Shoreham (Weds), Spyboy Autumn presentations, Knots of May dancers Page 2 (388kb) Piggies Open Mic Uckfield (Tues), Croydon Folk Club (Mons), Lamb Folk Club Eastbourne (Weds), The Sussex Pistols dance band, Uiscedwr Big Band in Hailsham Page 3 (892kb) Lewes Arms Lewes (Sats), Royal Oak Lewes (Thurs) - Advertising rates and copy dates Page 4 (695kb) Brighton Acoustic Session (Mons), Fee Calls Ceilidhs, Sussex Folk Association, Almond Greenway, Barry Murphy banjos, The Drift Ceilidh, Jim Marshall's button badges. Page 5 (1582kb) Komedia events Brighton, Brighton Folk & Blues club (Fris), Hobgoblin music. Page 6 (410kb) Melodeon for sale, Elsies Cowden Pound (Sats), White Horse Bodle Street Green (Mons), Acoustic mini festival East Grinstead, Six Bells Chiddingly (Tues), Brighton Singers Club (Weds & Suns) GBH Ceilidhs Godalming, Brighton Cellarfolk (Tues) Page 7 (3108kb) Willows folk club Arundel (Weds), CD Reviews Page 8 (2618kb) Horsham Folk Club (Weds), Julis Felix at The Willows Arundel, CD Reviews Page 9 (2988kb) Hawth Crawley events, CD Reviews Page 10 (1826kb) Seaford Folk Club (Fris), Beacon folk club Tunbridge Wells (Mons), Spinning Jenny Band, Meltdown Ceilidhs Haywards Heath Page 11 (1825kb) Folk at Hemingways Brighton (Mons), The Great Feelgood Company, Chanctonbury Ring Morris, Vince's fiddles, Acoustic Sussex presentations Page 12 (39kb) Roots Around The World presentations ********** 7] 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. 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) 6th Dec - Paul Hutchinson - Accordion 6th Dec - Paul Sartin - Fiddle 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 The two workshops on 25th October will represent the 100th day workshop that Valmai has organised in Lewes. Well done, that woman! ***STOP PRESS*** The programme of workshops for 2009 has just been announced. It is:- 28th Feb Brian Peters Melodeon 1st. March Brian Peters Ballad forum 28th. March Tom McConville Fiddle 25th. April Craig Morgan Robson 'The Way through the Woods' (a journey in songs) 26th. April Craig Morgan Robson Vocal harmony 5th. June Nancy Kerr Fiddle James Fagan Bouzouki Robert Harbron Concertina 6th. June Nancy Kerr & James Fagan Vocal harmony Robert Harbron Tunes from the William Winter manuscript (any instrument) 18th. July Bonnie Shaljean Harp 12th. Sept Tommy Peoples Fiddle 19th. Sept Jeff Warner American traditional dance music (any instrument) 10th. Oct Tim Edey Melodeon 21st. Oct Tom & Barbara Brown Ballad forum 14th. Nov Vicki Swan (with Johnny Dyer) Scottish smallpipes 5th. Dec Billy Teare Storytelling 5th. Dec Kathleen O'Sullivan Irish song ******** 8] SUSSEX MUSICIANS (Will Duke & Ian Salter) ON RESONANCE FM RADIO TRADITIONAL MUSIC PROGRAMME. Every Thursday afternoon, there is an excellent programme on traditional music on Resonance FM on 104.4 FM or on mp3 Streaming Audio at http://resonancefm.com/ There are various presenters including Kevin Sheils, Simon Ritchie and the programmes are usually of a very high standard, particularly when Reg is presenting. Simon Ritchie contacts with this information:- The traditional music hour on Resonance Radio Live in session on Resonance Radio 104.4FM. Thursday 9th October 2pm. The traditional music hour LIVE!!! Possibly the most interesting and satisfying traditional English style band there has ever been! Reg Hall - Fiddle Will Duke - Concertinas Ian Salter - Fiddle and Piccolo Ken Lees - Banjo Presented by Simon Ritchie ******** 9] FOLK AND WORLD MUSIC PROGRAMMES ON "ROCKET FM" LEWES Rocket FM, the community radio station for Lewes and the Ouse valley will be back on the air for the Bonfire season again this year for its eighth year. The frequency will be the usual one of 87.8FM with the facility to listen to the programmes on-line from the station's website at http://www.rocketfm.org.uk/ and follow the "Listen Live!" link at the top of the navigation menu. Once again the station's folk music and world music programmes will be presented by Vic Smith. Here is his schedule:- ROCKET FM Sun Oct 12 8-10pm Folk Music Wed Oct 15 9-10pm World Music Sun Oct 19 8-10pm Folk Music Wed Oct 22 9-10pm World Music Sun Oct 29 8-10pm Folk Music Wed Oct 29 9-10pm World Music Sun Nov 02 8-10pm Folk Music This means that he has been allocated 11 hours or more than one day of the station's transmission time. Vic says he has plenty of ideas for the features but with eleven hours to fill, he is still open to suggestions for ideas for inclusion in the programme, recent albums to play on the programme etc….. Suggestions to Vic at folk@brighton.co.uk ******** 10] REGULAR SESSIONS IN THE LEWES/BRIGHTON AREA Bryan Creer has taken on the task of detailing these, but has made changes to the way this is presented. Here is what he says:- I have given free rein to my inner geek and written a new version of the Sessions page that works out the date of the next of each session (except for the weekly ones where it seemed a bit pointless). This was inspired by the uselessness of "Fortnightly counting from 3rd October 2006". I think it probably works almost all of the time (maybe). Would you like to change any references you make to it to http://www.lewesarmsfolkclub.org/LAFC/Sessions.php Cheers Bryan Have a look and if there are any you think that Bryan has missed - contact him on Bryancreer@aol.com ************ 11] SHIRLEY COLLINS NEWS Shirley is continuing to present her show "America Over The Water" at prestigious events and the next two events will be:- Saturday October 11th Opera North 2:30pm West Yorkshire Playhouse £8 (£6 concessions) Leeds Tickets 0113 213 7700 or www.wyp.org.uk Website http://www.operanorth.co.uk/ontperformanceinfo.aspx?productionid=68 Sunday 19th October 2pm The American Museum in Britain Claverton Manor, Bath BA2 7BD Details at http://www.americanmuseum.org/default.cfm/loadindex.4/sublevel.264 Shirley is also involved in the first two events of the Brighton Early Music Festival – see the next news item. ************ 12] BREMF - THE BRIGHTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL This year the Brighton Early Music Festival explores the relationship between early music and traditional folk song and music – and their first two events feature SHIRLEY COLLINS:- SUNDAY 5 OCTOBER Royal Oak Pub, 3 Station Street, Lewes BN7 2DA 11 am - 5.30 pm Workshop on English traditional singing with Shirley Collins One of the greatest living authorities on English folk song will guide singers to a deeper understanding of this rich and varied heritage. As this is an aural and oral tradition using no scores, no sight reading is necessary – nor is a 'great voice'! Open to voices of all levels of experience – even the most timid are encouraged to give it a try! "Shirley Collins is without doubt one of England's greatest cultural treasures" - Billy Bragg FRIDAY 17 OCTOBER Pelham House, Lewes BN7 1UW A Most Sunshiny Day presented by Shirley Collins with Pip Barnes A fascinating and timely look at the remarkable song culture of the rural labouring people of Sussex, illustrated with field recordings and pictures. This music had a great effect on the work of Vaughan Williams and George Butterworth, and remains a source of inspiration to many young singers today, being a direct and essential connection to our roots and history. SATURDAY 18 OCTOBER St Mary's RC Church Hall, Surrenden Rd, Brighton BN1 6PA 8 pm The BREMF Ceilidh The Unitarian Church, New Road, Brighton With traditional band Rattlebone SUNDAY 19 OCTOBER Ralli Hall, 81 Denmark Villas Hove BN3 3TH 11 am – 5.30 pm English traditional dance music Workshop for players of all instruments - early, traditional and modern - and anyone who enjoys dancing! Led by members of The Carnival Band with Mary Collins dance instructor. A day of spectacular fun, open to all ages and levels of ability. Instrumentalists will have an opportunity to dance, and more expert players will get a chance to play while the less experienced take a turn dancing, and learn to feel the beat of this music with their feet! No previous experience of dance necessary. FRIDAY 24 OCTOBER St George's Church, Kemptown, Brighton BN2 1ED 8 pm Brighton Early Music Festival Gala Opening concert Meet the neighbours! Celebrate the glorious traditional and medieval music of our fairest isles with some leading performers from Britain and Ireland: Róisín Elsafty, Siobhán Armstrong, Cass Meurig, Gwenan Gibbard, Clare Norburn, Joy Smith and Hilary Michael perform songs in Gaelic, Welsh and Middle English, with an array of lilting harps, dazzling fiddles and the ancient Welsh crwth. Informal 'bar' setting. SUNDAY 26 OCTOBER St George's Church, Kemptown, Brighton BN2 1ED 7.30 pm Wandering Fiddlers Elizabeth Wallfisch baroque violin Gerry O'Connor Irish fiddle Siobhán Armstrong Celtic and baroque harps Virtuoso violin music from Italy meets Celtic fiddling in 17th and 18th century England - here played by three of the finest virtuosi of our time. SATURDAY 8 NOVEMBER The Unitarian Church, New Road, Brighton BN1 1UF 1 pm As part of our Young Artist Showcase series, the ensemble Emerald will perform baroque and traditional music from Ireland. To apply for workshop booking forms, join the mailing list or request a full brochure listing all events, phone 01273 833746 or visit www.bremf.org.uk ************ 13] THE BRIGHTON WINTER CEILIDH This year the tickets have gone on sale early for this hugely popular event. Winter Ceilidh Corn Exchange Brighton Saturday 20 December 7pm (doors 6.15pm) With THE SUSSEX PISTOLS and caller Vic Smith Despite its huge size, this event always sells out quickly, so if you intend buying tickets get on quickly to http://www.brightondome.org/events.aspx?eid=2999 for further details and tickets. <><><>><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> ...And mentioning that band…… 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 2008/9 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 they have a MYSPACE profile as well at http://www.myspace.com/thesussexpistols __________________________________________ VIC & TINA 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 WEBSITES:- http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~tinvic http://www.myspace.com/royaloakfolklewes 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 |