LEWES SATURDAY FOLK CLUB PROGRAMME

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FEB 6 MIKE NICHOLSON http://www.mikenicholson.me.uk/ (£5) Beautiful songs in a voice of 99% cocoa solids with stylish guitar accompaniment. FEB 13 ELLE OSBORNE http://www.elleo.com/ (£4) A vibrant, touching voice & dashing fiddle playing. FEB 20 Lewes Saturday Folk Club Workshop No 123 STEVE TURNER: CONCERTINA WORKSHOP - SONG ACCOMPANIMENT (all systems) 10.45 a.m.- 4.45 p.m. Places £25 Booking forms,& full details available from the club & here. Steve (http://www.steve-turner.co.uk) is a beautifully inventive & dazzling English concertina player. He is also an excellent singer, cittern & mandolin player. The workshop will cover choice of accompaniment styles & instrument, different approaches to accompaniment, finding chords, singing techniques, arrangement & presentation. Some music will be sent in advance. IN THE EVENING STEVE TURNER PERFORMS AT THE ELEPHANT & CASTLE (£6, advance tickets from club & here.) FEB 27 Lewes Saturday Folk Club Workshop No 124 COOPE BOYES & SIMPSON: VOCAL HARMONY WORKSHOP Workshop and evening Sold Out. Please contact Valmai Goodyear to be put on a waiting list. 10.45 a.m.- 4.45 p.m. Places £30 Booking forms,& full details available from the club & here. Coope Boyes & Simpson (http://www.coopeboyesandsimpson.co.uk/) have taken the English tradition of unaccompanied singing in radical new directions.Offering both written arrangements & the chance to harmonise by ear, the workshop will draw on the band's songwriting & a range of traditional material. IN THE EVENING COOPE BOYES & SIMPSON PERFORM AT THE ELEPHANT & CASTLE (£8, advance tickets from club & here.) Lewes Saturday Folk Club Workshop No 125 GEORGINA BOYES: ENGLISH FOLKLORE: AN INTRODUCTION a talk with participation 2.00 -4.30 p.m. Places £8.00 in advance( here), £10 on the door The Crown Inn, 191 High St, Lewes BN7 2NA Georgina Boyes is a folklorist whose depth of scholarship is combined with a lively & entertaining presentational style. Her talk will introduce the fascinating range of traditions covered by English Folklore Studies & will appeal to beginners as well as those with some knowledge of the subject.
MARCH 6 JIM GLOVER & CHRIS SKINNER (£4) Two well-loved singers from West Sussex with a good range of traditional & more recent songs. MARCH 13 DAMIEN BARBER & MIKE WILSON (£6) http://www.thedemonbarbers.com/default.aspx?tabid=177 Damien (The Demon Barbers) & Mike (The Wilson Family) combine fine singing, concertina & guitar playing with good humour. MARCH 20 MATT QUINN & TOM MOORE http://www.myspace.com/mattquinnfolk (£5) Two splendid young musicians: melodeon, fiddles, mandolin & voice. MARCH 27 Lewes Saturday Folk Club Workshop No 126 BEN PALEY: FIDDLE WORKSHOP http://www.benpaley.com/biography 10.45 a.m.- 4.45 p.m. Places £25 Booking forms & full details available from the club & here. Steeped in traditional music since childhood, Ben is a dazzling player of American, Swedish, Irish & Klezmer styles. He plays with his father Tom Paley in the New Deal String Band & also with Sara Grey & Kieron Means. The workshop will explore tunes from the USA, Sweden & Ireland. Some music will be sent in advance. IN THE EVENING BEN PALEY PERFORMS AT THE ELEPHANT & CASTLE (£5, advance tickets available from club & here.)
APRIL 3 SING A RAINBOW (£3 including raffle tickets) Bring songs & tunes to suit the theme. APRIL 10 DOGAN MEHMET & FRIENDS (£5) http://www.doganmehmet.com/ Dogan is an energetic & talented young singer, fiddler, melodeon player, Morris dancer & student on the Newcastle folk music degree course, blending southern English & Turkish Cypriot styles in an effervescent mix of traditional & new music. His new CD had enthusiastic reviews, especially in fRoots magazine. APRIL 17 & SUNDAY APRIL 18 Lewes Saturday Folk Club Workshop Nos 127 & 128 SHIRLEY COLLINS: ENGLISH FOLK SONG WORKSHOPS http://www.shirleycollins.co.uk/ 10.45 a.m.- 4.45 p.m. Places £30 per day Shirley's love, knowledge & understanding of English traditional song are second to none. In these workshops, limited to eight people per day, participants will bring two or three English traditional songs of their choice for her to give her unique guidance on interpretation & performance. Saturday 17th. April 8.00 p.m. I'M A ROMANY RAI Shirley's presentation about the Gypsy singers & songs of Southern England with Pip Barnes & recordings & slides from Vic & Tina Smith. Sunday 18th. April 8.00 p.m. PETER KENNEDY'S SONG COLLECTING IN SOUTHERN ENGLAND, 1950s-60s A new presentation from Shirley with Pip Barnes & Vic & Tina Smith. Presentations £6 each. Advance tickets from the club & here. There will be opportunities for floor singers & musicians on both nights. APRIL 24 Lewes Saturday Folk Club Workshop No 129 ISSY EMENEY: MELODEON WORKSHOP http://www.issyemeney.co.uk/ http://www.wildgoose.co.uk/displayArtist.asp?ARTIST_ID=118 10.45 a.m.- 4.45 p.m. Places £25 A popular & inspiring tutor, Issy is an outstanding melodeon player with a uniquely melodic & sensitive style. The workshop will cover general technique in both hands, with some emphasis on dexterity, chord playing & right hand harmonies. Issy will share some tricks of the trade, help with some of your playing problems & give you plenty of new ideas to take away & perfect. IN THE EVENING ISSY & DAVID EMENEY & KATE RIAZ PERFORM AT THE ELEPHANT & CASTLE Admission £6. Advance tickets from the club & here.
MAY 1 WELCOME IN THE MAY (£3) Bring songs & tunes for the season. Maids of Honour, a traditional May treat made with new cream, lemon, almonds, currants & pastry, will be served. MAY 8 SO LAST CENTURY STRING BAND (£5) http://www.myspace.com/solastcenturystringband Michi Mathias (fiddle, bnajo, voice) Dan Edwards (banjo, voice) & Tim Wharton (guitar, voice) play American Old-Time with excursions into jug band & 1920s/30s music. MAY 15 JOHN JOSEPH (£4) Underwater cyclist, yodelling chicken sexer, contortionist, unfrocked nun & intergalactic whistler: John is none of these things, but he is amazingly inventive & funny. Wear hard hat if nervous of ballistic onions. MAY 22 Lewes Saturday Folk Club Workshop No 130 JOE PENLAND: NORTH CAROLINA SONG & SOCIETY WORKSHOP http://www.joepenlandmusic.com/ 10.45 a.m.- 4.45 p.m. Places £25 Joe has inherited the song & storytelling traditions of the North Carolina Appalachians. He plays guitar & banjo. His account of life in the small village of Sodom Laurel is fascinating & often surprising. The workshop will cover 'Old Love Songs & Ballads from the Western North Carolina Mountains' & the oral tradition that preserved them. There will be plenty of opportunities to sing the songs. A work book with lyrics & information & a CD of field recordings will be provided for each participant. IN THE EVENING JOE PENLAND PERFORMS AT THE ELEPHANT & CASTLE Admission £5. Advance tickets from the club & here. MAY 29 COME-ALL-YE (£3 including raffle tickets)
JUNE 5 MIKE O'CONNOR & BARBARA GRIGGS Workshop - Cornish tunes from manuscripts JUNE 6 MIKE O'CONNOR Workshop - Songwriting in the tradition JULY 10 KAREN TWEED Workshop - O'Carolan's music (any instrument) SEPT 18 MOOR MUSIC Workshop - Dartmoor music (any instrument) OCT 9 JOHN ADAMS Workshop - Village Music Project (any instrument) OCT 10 CHRIS COE Ballad forum OCT 31 MARTIN CARTHY Workshop - Guitar NOV 13 FRANKIE ARMSTRONG Workshop - Singing & vocal techniques NOV 20 TIM LAYCOCK Workshop - Concertina (all systems)