LEWES SATURDAY FOLK CLUB PROGRAMME

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2009
6 JUNE NANCY KERR, JAMES FAGAN & ROB HARBRON (http://www.myspace.com/kerrfaganharbron) (£8) Glorious fiddle, bouzouki & English concertina & guitar playing with wonderful singing as well. Between them they are leading five workshops for us over the week-end. Lewes Elephant Folk Music Workshops nos. 109 - 113 All workshops run from 10.45 a.m.- 4.45 p.m. Places £30. Music available in advance. Booking forms, full details & evening tickets available from the club & Workshops page. 6 JUNE NANCY KERR: FIDDLE WORKSHOP http://www.myspace.com/nancykerrandjamesfagan At the Elephant & Castle. 6 JUNE JAMES FAGAN: BOUZOUKI & CITTERN WORKSHOP http://www.myspace.com/nancykerrandjamesfagan At the Royal Oak, Station Street, Lewes BN7 2DA 6 JUNE ROB HARBRON: CONCERTINA WORKSHOP (all systems) http://www.robertharbron.co.uk/ At the Crown Inn, High Street, Lewes BN7 2NA 7 JUNE (SUN) NANCY KERR & JAMES FAGAN: VOCAL HARMONY WORKSHOP http://www.myspace.com/nancykerrandjamesfagan At the Elephant & Castle. 7 JUNE (SUN) ROB HARBRON: TUNES from the WILLIAM WINTER MANUSCRIPT for ANY INSTRUMENT http://www.halswaymanor.org/publications/winter/index.html At the Crown Inn, High Street, Lewes BN7 2NA 13 JUNE CLACKERTY (£4) Sue Evans, Sel Adamu & Muff Lucas: harp, hammered dulcimer, voices, concertina, guitar, autoharp, clarinet, feet. 20 JUNE PETER COLLINS (£4) Wonderful singer, glorious songs, plenty of choruses 27 JUNE THE CLAQUE www.wildgoose.co.uk/displayArtist.asp?ARTIST_ID=122 (£6) Breathtaking, powerful, almost dangerous vocal harmony from Tom Addison, Barry Lister, Dave Lowry & Sean O'Shea on a rare visit from Devon. Trained in the Songwainers, Isca Fayre & Hollinmor. Unmissable.
4 JULY 'THE DAY WAR BROKE OUT' with ROGER BRASIER (£4) An evening of humour, nostalgia and pathos to mark the 70th. anniversary of the start of World War Two. Featuring Roger Brasier (Yes! it's That Man Again) and Full Supporting Programme. Book your floor spot in advance if you want to do a particular song from the period. 11 JULY Lewes Elephant Folk Music Workshop no. 114 WILL DUKE: THE TUNES OF SCAN TESTER for ANY INSTRUMENT(http://www.mustrad.org.uk/reviews/w_duke.htm) 10.45 a.m.- 4.45 p.m. Places £25. Teaching is by ear. All profits after expenses go to the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library at Cecil Sharp House. IN THE EVENING WILL DUKE PERFORMS AT THE ELEPHANT & CASTLE (£5) Booking forms & evening tickets available from the club & here. 18 JULY Lewes Elephant Folk Music Workshop no. 115 BONNIE SHALJEAN: IRISH HARP WORKSHOP 10.45 a.m.- 4.45 p.m. Places £25. Music available in advance. IN THE EVENING BONNIE SHALJEAN PERFORMS AT THE ELEPHANT & CASTLE (£5) Booking forms & evening tickets available from the club & here 25 JULY OLD FADED GLORY STRING BAND (£5) Oldtime songs and tunes from the Southern United States. Barry & Mary Murphy (banjo, mandolin, banjo uke) Dan Stewart (guitar, banjo) Rosie Davis (bass,dancing) plus dancing dolls Willard & Wilma.
AUG 1 TUNES SESSION led by Bryan Creer (£3 including raffle tickets) Bring instruments to join in mainly English tunes led by Bryan on concertina & fiddle. Singers welcome too. AUG 8 'INSURRECTION' Come-All-Ye with Denise & Stuart Savage (£3 including raffle tickets) AUG 15 'GOODIES & BADDIES' Come-All-Ye with Sandra Goddard (£3 including raffle tickets) AUG 22 'TOUGH LUCK!' Come-All-Ye with Derek Seed (£3 including raffle tickets) AUG 29 COME-ALL-YE with Diane & Steve Nevill (£3 including raffle tickets)
SEP 5 SONG & DANCE NIGHT (£3) Bring songs to perform, instruments to join the band & feet for dancing in our fine big room. SEP 12 Lewes Elephant Folk Music Workshop No. 116 TOMMY PEOPLES FIDDLE WORKSHOP 10.45 a.m. - 4.45.p.m. Places £40 (only 2 left but waiting list will be kept) Booking forms, full details & evening tickets available from the club & here. Tommy Peoples (http://homepage.tinet.ie/~logo/tommy.htm) is a living legend, the greatest exponent of the driving Donegal style of fiddling. A founding member of the Bothy Band, his 1999 solo CD The Quiet Glen earned him his country's highest accolade as ‘Musician of the Year', the first person to be so honoured by the Irish Government. The workshop will cover ornamentation, bowing, & some unusual tunes. IN THE EVENING TOMMY PEOPLES PERFORMS AT THE ELEPHANT & CASTLE (£9; advance tickets available from the club or here) SEP 19 Lewes Elephant Folk Music Workshop No. 117 JEFF WARNER: SONG ACCOMPANIMENT for any instrument 10.45 a.m.- 4.45 p.m. Places £25 Booking forms, full details & evening tickets available from the club & here. A fine singer of American traditional songs, Jeff (http://www.jeffwarner.com) accompanies himself on guitar, 5-string banjo & English concertina. He presents music from North Carolina to New England with warmth, humour & understated scholarship. He's also a great teacher with a deep understanding of the origins on the music & how to perform it for today's listeners. The workshop will cover choice of instruments & styles, chords, voicings, scales, harmonies, how to accompany or be accompanied, playing with others, & performance tips. Styles & ideas used on Jeff's main instruments are transferrable to others. We won't be discussing guitar open tunings or banjo bluegrass picking. MP3s & music will be sent ahead for sample songs. Recording devices welcome. IN THE EVENING JEFF WARNER PERFORMS AT THE ELEPHANT & CASTLE (£5; advance tickets available from the club or here) SEP 26 JOHN CAVE (£4) Witty & entertaining songs, many of them John's own, with guitar. He is a resident of Seaford Folk club.