LEWES SATURDAY FOLK CLUB PROGRAMME

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2009
DEC 5 Lewes Saturday Folk Club Workshop No 121 BILLY TEARE: STORYTELLING WORKSHOP About Billy 10.45 a.m.- 4.45 p.m. Places £25 Booking forms,& full details available from the club & here. The Crown Inn, 191 High St, Lewes BN7 2NA From Larne, Co. Antrim, Billy is one of the most popular storytellers in the UK & abroad. He brings songs, music, magic, juggling, theatre skills & audience participation into his wide range of tales, monologues, rhymes & chants. The workshop will use traditional & modern stories. Participants will learn memory techniques specific to themselves. Lewes Saturday Folk Club Workshop No 122 KATHLEEN O'SULLIVAN: IRISH SONG WORKSHOP About Kathleen 10.45 a.m.- 4.45 p.m. Places £25 Booking forms,& full details available from the club & here. Born in East London, Kathleen learned to sing from her family, who all sang and/or played traditional Irish music. She appeared, toured & recorded with The London Lasses & Pete Quinn for seven years & now performs with the storyteller Billy Teare. The workshop will explore Irish songs (sung in English) from a personal relationship to common themes, along with the style, variation, ornamentation & intrinsic presentation related to the old Sean nos style. KATHLEEN O'SULLIVAN & BILLY TEARE PERFORM AT THE CLUB IN THE EVENING (£6) DEC 12 'My Little Elephant' COME-ALL-YE at the Black Horse, 55 Western Road, Lewes BN7 1RS (£3) You can take the club out of the Elephant but you can't take the Elephant out of the club. Admission includes raffle tickets. DEC 19 CHRISTMAS CAROLS & MINCE PIES by firelight & candlelight (£3) Bring a Christmas party piece or choose a carol from our book. DEC 26 BOXING DAY: CLUB CLOSED
2010
JAN 2 WASSAIL! (£3) Twelfth Cake & a wassail bowl will be served. Bring seasonal songs & tunes. JAN 9 HILARY WARD (half-booking) (£4) CANCELLED due to bad weather We'll arrange anotgher date for Hilary later in the year. A fine unaccompanied singer, Hilary has chosen to do a half-booking so there will be plenty of scope for floor spots. SUSSEX All-day SINGAROUND SATURDAY 16TH. JANUARY 2010 11.00 a.m. - 11.00 p.m. (Break 6.00 - 7.00 p.m.) The Royal Oak, High Street, Barcombe (near Lewes) East Sussex BN8 5BA Free admission - good pub food on sale all day. First 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. BALLAD SESSION SUNDAY 17TH. JANUARY 2010 noon - 3.00 p.m. Elephant & Castle, White Hill, Lewes, East Sussex BN7 2DJ Free admission - good pub food on sale. JAN 23 COME-ALL-YE with spotlight on JILL THOMPSON (£3) A chance for an old friend of the club to do an extended spot. JAN 30 DYER:CUMMINGS (£5) http://www.myspace.com/dyercummings A high-energy young band from Somerset with fiddle, bouzouki, accordion, guitar, flute, bassoon, oboe & voices. These 'New Roots' competition finalists featured at many 2009 festivals including Sidmouth & run their own local sessions. They will play for a few dances as well as songs & tunes for listening.
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 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 17/18 Lewes Saturday Folk Club Workshop No 127/8 SHIRLEY COLLINS: ENGLISH FOLK SONG MASTERCLASSES http://www.shirleycollins.co.uk/ 10.45 a.m.- 4.45 p.m. Places £30 Booking forms & full details available from the club & here. Saturday evening 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 evening 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 available from club & here.) APRIL 24 Lewes Saturday Folk Club Workshop No 129 ISSY EMENEY: MELODEON WORKSHOP http://www.issyemeney.co.uk/ 10.45 a.m.- 4.45 p.m. Places £25 Booking forms & full details available from the club & here. A popular & inspiring tutor, Issy is an outstanding melodeon player with a uniquely melodic & sensitive style IN THE EVENING ISSY & DAVID EMENEY & KATE RIAZ PERFORM AT THE ELEPHANT & CASTLE (£6, advance tickets available from club & here.) MAY 22 JOE PENLAND Workshop - North Carolina song & society JUNE 5 MIKE O'CONNOR & BARBARA GRIGGS Workshop - Cornish tunes from source 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)