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Saturday, November 14, 2009
London Bridge
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Cider Festival
have organic options if this is of interest. We have recently sponsored the cider bar at the St Albans beer
festival where the cider went down a storm! I have attached a brief PDF to give a flavour of what we do. If you would like any more information, please do not hesitate to contact me. Regards, Jennie White via http://www.ukcider.co.uk
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Royal Windsor Racecourse
Hi
We are planning a cider festival to be held during racing on a lovely late summer Monday evening.
Would you be interested in talking to me about this.
Best wishes and thanks
Matthew
Matthew Foxton-Duffy
Sales & Marketing Manager
Flash New 2009 Hospitality Brochure
Royal Windsor Racecourse
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TWELVE ITEMS OF FOLK MUSIC NEWS FROM LEWES FOR NOVEMBER
Station Street, Lewes
Enquiries: - (01273) 478124 or 881316
Email tinvic@globalnet.co.uk.
Every Thursday 8.pm PROMPT START
Here is our programme for the coming months:-
Nov 12th * £5.00 * BOB LEWIS
The finest of the Sussex traditional singers and a genial man with the
very fine repertoire of songs. The evening will also include a showing
of Jonathan Roper's film about Bob entitled "The Crocodile, the
Cobbler and Bob" Nov 19th * £7.00 * DICK GAUGHAN
Edinburgh's finest. An outstanding radical singer and guitarist and a
professional musician since Jan 1970. In two months time, Dick will
have been performing for a living for 40 years. Nov 26th * £6.00 * RATTLE ON THE STOVEPIPE
The combination of Dave Arthur, Pete Cooper and Dan Stewart is a very
special one and rightly they have become a very popular attraction. Dec 3rd * Free Admission * LEWES LATE NIGHT SHOPPING OPEN NIGHT
There's always lots going on in the town on this night including many
visiting musicians - and they usually wind up at the Royal Oak. Dec 10th * £7.00 * PETE MORTON, MAGGIE BOYLE & CHRIS PARKINSON present
"THE MAGIC CHRISTMAS TREE TOUR"
Hilarious, entertaining, engaging, fascinating and musically excellent. Dec 17th * Free Admission * CHRISTMAS PARTY NIGHT
With the resident musicians acting as the band, we have a right old
song and dance. Jan 7th * £6.00 * ROSIE DAVIS, JOE LOCKER & BOB WINQUIST A tremendous trio offering great singing and musicianship on fiddle,
banjo, autoharp, guitar and bass plus Rosie's sparkling dancing. Jan 14th * free admission * OPEN NIGHT Jan 21st * £5.00 * BING LYLE The very engaging local singer of traditional songs, songwriter and a
talented multi- instrumentalist. Jan 28th * £7.00 * SARA GREY'S 70th BIRTHDAY PARTY. We give a party for the American singer and banjoist who has made very
many appearances in Lewes since the 1960s and made a huge contribution
to the folk scene on both sides of the Atlantic. She appears with her
song Kieron and surprise guests. Feb 4th * £6.00 * MARTYN WYNDHAM READ & IRIS BISHOP One of the finest voices on the folk scene in the company of one of
the most talented and sensitive accompanists. Later in 2010, our guests will include:- * JEZ LOWE *THE SHROPSHIRE HEROES [Chris Bartram, Neil Brookes & Tony
Weatherall] * CHRIS COE & JOHN ADAMS MARTIN CARTHY, NORMA WATERSON &
CHRIS PARKINSON * JOHN KIRKPATRICK * ANDY TURNER & MATT GREEN * JEFF
WARNER * Our websites are at http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~tinvic and http://www.myspace.com/royaloakfolklewes Those of you who arrange listings are politely requested to include
all of the above. *********** 2] LEWES FOLK FESTIVAL 7 -10th OCTOBER 2010.
The two Lewes folk clubs are combining their efforts to promote this
festival, largely based in their own clubrooms and other venues in the
town. At the moment this is still in the early planning stages but
watch this circular and elsewhere for updates on the guests/programme
etc. At the moment the following artists have agreed to appear: -
SHIRLEY COLLINS, JOHN KIRKPATRICK, CHRIS COE, JOHN ADAMS, PETE COE.
SUE COE. *********** 3] SARA GREY'S 70th BIRTHDAY - 28th JANUARY 2010 One regular recipient of this monthly circular will not be receiving
it this time - and that is Sara Grey! We have booked her along with
her son Kieron Means to appear on that night and we do want to make it
a very special occasion so please:- * Contact us with your suggestions of what we could do on the evening * Send your cards, letters to us at the address below and we will
present them to Sara on the evening. * Any email messages we will collate and print to give to her -
tinvic@globalnet.co.uk * Any short .mp3 message of greeting attached to emails will be played
to her during the evening - also tinvic@globalnet.co.uk But most of all - please make an effort to be there to make it a very
special occasion for Sara who has been a stalwart of the folk club
scene in this country for over 40 years now. *********** 4] 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:-
Bob Lewis - "A Sweet Country Life" (November 12th)
Dick Gaughan - "The Freedom Come-All-Ye" - (November 19th)
Rattle On The Stovepipe - "Eight More Miles To Louisville" (November 26th)
Maggie Boyle [with Pete Morton & Chris Parkinson] - "The Little
Thatched Cabin" - (December 10th)
Chris Parkinson [with Pete Morton & Maggie Boyle] - "Scotch
Measure/Mount Hills" - (December 10th)
Pete Morton [with Maggie Boyle & Chris Parkinson] - "The Two Brothers"
- (December 10th)
Joe Locker [with Rosie Davis & Bob Winquist] - "Hogeye" - (January 7th) Sara Grey & Kieron Means - "Lazy John" - (January 28th)
Martyn Wyndham Read & Iris Bishop - "The Foggy Dew" - (February 4th)
Tony Weatherall [as part of The Shropshire Heroes] - "The Woolsack -
Oh What A Row - Reel" - (February 18th) 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:-
DICK GAUGHAN - November 19th RATTLE ON THE STOVEPIPE November 26th PETE MORTON December 10th MAGGIE BOYLE December 10th ROSIE DAVIS JOE LOCKER & BOB WINQUIST January 7th SARA GREY & KIERON MEANS January 28th MARTYN WYNDHAM READ & IRIS BISHOP February 4th
JEZ LOWE February 11th ***********
5] 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 2009.
***********
6] THE FOLK DIARY
Most of the listings on the Sussex Folk Guide website are taken from
the paper magazine, THE FOLK DIARY. Issue no 239 covers the months of
October and November. 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. 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 will be December 31st for the February/March issue.
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 Or VIC SMITH 01273 478124 tinvic@globalnet.co.uk The next issue will be number 240 covers the months of December and
January and as is a bi-monthly publication, it does not take much to
work out that it will mark 40 years of this local listings
magazine!!!! And all the time the same two people have been at the
helm. This will be delivered from the printers tomorrow - November
11th and distribution will start straight away.
**********
7] 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 are listed here with the content of each page:- ISSUE No. 239 OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 2009
Page 1 (572kb) Brighton Acoustic Season, The Stag Theatre Sevenoaks,
Spyboy Presentations.
Page 2 (1547kb) Willows Folk Club, Arundel (Weds),Croydon Folk Club
presents "The Navvy's Wife", The Rude Mechanicals (Weds), GBH
Ceilidhs, The White Horse Bodle St. Green (Mons), The Beacon Tunbridge
Wells (Mons).
Page 3 (836kb) Lewes Saturday Club, Royal Oak Lewes (Thurs) -
Advertising rates and copy dates
Page 4 (679kb)Piggies Open Mic Uckfield (Tues), Sussex Folk
Association, Lamb Eastbourne (Weds), Hobgoblin Music, Greg Harper
dates.
Page 5 (1054kb) Roots Around The World, Grub Music Cafe East
Grinstead, Brighton Folk & Blues Club (Fris).
Page 6 (2005kb) Fee Calls Ceilidhs, North Brighton Singarounds (Weds &
Suns), Amberley Folk Club (Tues), Tenterden Folk Festival.
Page 7 (1659kb) Seaford Folk Club (Fris), Acoustic Sussex.
Page 8 (2051kb) Croydon Folk Club presents James Fagan & Nancy Kerr,
Greg Harper album, Meltdown Ceilidhs, Hotel Le Cheval Blanc.
Page 9 (755kb) GP Music Productions, Elsies (Sats), Six Bells
Chiddingly (Tues), Zoox at Bom-Bane's Cafe, Brighton Cellarfolk
(Tues), Electric Voices.
Page 10 (721kb) Barry Murphy Banjos, Vince's fiddles, Barber & Taylor
at The Open House, Croydon Folk Club, Mid-Sussex Folk Singers (Weds)
Page 11 (474 kb) Horsham Folk Club (Suns), Jo Chedgey, " With Our Pint
Pots In Our Hands"
Page 12 (1599 kb) Gary's Live Music Club, Komedia Brighton
Page 13 (272 kb) Hawth Crawley, Button Badges, Sussex Pistols, 40
years of The Folk Diary ********** 8] LEWES WORKSHOPS AT THE ELEPHANT & CASTLE
The workshops last a full Saturday or Sunday and the tutor performs at the
club in the evening. The programme for the remainder of 2009 will be:- 14th. Nov Vicki Swan Scottish smallpipes 21st. Nov Tom & Barbara Brown Ballad forum 5th. Dec Billy Teare Storytelling 5th. Dec Kathleen O'Sullivan Irish song Then the programme for 2010 is as follows:- 20th Feb Steve Turner Concertina (all systems) 27th Feb Coope Boyes & Simpson Vocal harmony 27th Feb Georgina Boyes Folklore: a participatory talk 27th. March Ben Paley Fiddle 17th. April Shirley Collins English traditional song masterclass 18h. April Shirley Collins English traditional song masterclass 24th April Issey Emeney Melodeon 22nd. May Joe Penland North Carolina traditional song & society 5th June Mike O'Connor & Barbara Griggs Cornish
traditional tunes from manuscripts 6th June Mike O'Connor Songwriting in the tradition 10th. July Karen Tweed O'Carolan's music (any instrument) 18th. Sept Moor Music Dartmoor music (any instrument) 9th. Oct John Adams, Chris Partington Village Music
Project (any instrument) 10th Oct Chris Coe Ballad forum 30/31st. Oct Martin Carthy Guitar (workshop on Sunday 31st) 13th. Nov Frankie Armstrong Voice & performance technique 20th. Nov Tim Laycock Concertina (all systems)
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 Lewes Saturday Folk Club has a new domain name -
http://www.lewessaturdayfolkclub.org/. This will work in parallel with
the old name http://www.lewesarmsfolkclub.org/ for the time being but
they hope to phase it out so please change your bookmarks. ******** 9] MONTHLY SESSION IN LEWES After a gap of several years, Sunday afternoon tune and song sessions
have returned to the bar of the Royal Oak in Station Street in Lewes.
These will be on the last Sunday of the month from 3.30 - 5.30pm.
Dates for the next sessions are ~~~~~ November 29th - January 31st ~~~~~ No session in December They will be run by Vic & Tina Smith. ********
10] OTHER REGULAR SESSIONS IN THE LEWES/BRIGHTON AREA
Bryan Creer has taken on the task of detailing these, and they are posted at
http://www.lewesarmsfolkclub.org/LAFC/Sessions.php
Have a look and if there are any you think that Bryan has missed - contact
him on Bryancreer@aol.com ******** 11] BRIGHTON MIDWINTER CEILIDH - CORN EXCHANGE, BRIGHTON - 20th DECEMBER This huge event is one of the most popular and well attended folk
dances in the south of England. Dancing to THE SUSSEX PISTOLS with
caller VIC SMITH. It always sells out so get your tickets well in
advance from http://www.brightondome.org/EventSeatBlock.aspx ******** 12] THE COPPER FAMILY - HOUSE CONCERT - 26th JANUARY This from Jon Dudley Dear V&T,
It's coming up that time of year again - January, and we've decided to
have another house concert, Our guests will be 'Rattle on the
Stovepipe' and the date will be Tuesday 26th January (the last Tuesday
in January if it helps people remember), Any chance you might feel
like MC'ing Vic?
We hope you may be available for this onerous task and that you would
be kind enough to mention the event to your august and faithful
audience via your email blast...again we're suggesting a 'voluntary'
£7.00 donation. There will be a free glass of Harveys or a glass of
red or white wine, subsequent ones at £1 a throw. Strictly
not-for-profit. All proceeds to artists.
Tickets will be by email application only and we'll be emailing
everyone that came last time as well. Please email
copperdudley@btopenworld.com >
...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 2010 are being snapped up quickly. They have been
booked, once again for the largest and most prestigious dance in our
area, the BRIGHTON MIDWINTER CEILIDH at the Corn Exchange in Brighton
on December 20th. Book early for this as it always sells out very
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 LEWES FOLK FESTIVAL WEBSITE:- http://lewesfolkfest.org/ SUSSEX PISTOLS BARN DANCE BAND WEBSITE:-
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~tinvic/pistols.htm COMPOUND SOUNDS WEBSITE
http://www.compoundsounds.com http://www.myspace.com/jalisherrifokonteh
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Monday, November 09, 2009
Manmade Eden - a history of Orchards
the campaign to save and celebrate English orchards gathers momentum,
this book explores their fascinating and - until now - neglected
history. Why is Glastonbury known as Avalon, the Isle of Apples? What
made Redstreak Cyder the most popular drink of the seventeenth
century? Who was Dr Ashmead, cultivator of the connoisseur's favourite
apple, Ashmead's Kernel? How did a Somerset vicar come to make cider
for Queen Victoria?This rich, wide-ranging book takes a long historic
look at changing fashions and fortunes - asking why thirteenth-century
monks and Edwardian landowners planted orchards, and why post-war
governments paid farmers to destroy them. The author argues that Apple
Day (October 21) should be made our national autumn holiday. He
examines the role of Common Ground, the National Trust and other
organisations in preserving and restoring orchards, and asks: what can
we do to make our orchards as profitable as they were in centuries
past?
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Sunday, November 08, 2009
Havering Folk Club News
| Havering Folk Club News 8th November 2009
Last Week: Wow, what a truly unusual evening our guest artists, Sandragon gave us last week! I love those medieval sounds (the raushfeife’s my favourite) and the gang gave us a varied programme which was much enjoyed by all judging from the applause. They even had us clearing the tables and having a go at some medieval dancing. Good fun and very entertaining indeed.
We also had some floor spots from our regulars and these were Bert Dady & Keith Petty, Kriss Pouch, Simon Oliver, Margaret Brown, Andy Roberts and Linda Worley.
Haverfolks’ Outside Activities: A reminder that Chelmsford Star Barbershop Harmony Club, of which Dave Worley is a member, will be hosting a concert in aid of McMillan Cancer Support on Saturday, 28th November 2009 at Chelmsford County High School for Girls, Broomfield Road, Chelmsford, CM1 1RW. Doors open at 7pm for a 7.30pm start and tickets are just £5. Apart from Chelmsford Star themselves, there will be several other guest artists.
A slightly early next, but I’ll put it round again nearer the date: This is a Traditional Folk Carol Service to be held at St. Clement’s Church, Leigh-on-Sea on Sunday 13th December 2009 from 6.30pm – 8pm. Regular Haverpeople, Foxen will be performing along with Famous Potatoes, John Coppins, Jack Forbes, Peter Monk, Roy Brown, Suzanne Higgins, John Smith, Chrissy King, Honeygales, Essex Singers’ Club, and Ken MacKinnon. The performance is in aid of homeless, famine and church charities. I’ve not been told the price of tickets, but I feel sure Foxen will enlighten me. I’ve attached a poster for anyone able to give this a bit of publicity.
Christmas Dinner: Our Christmas Dinner this year will be on Wednesday 16th December at The Golden Lion and will be followed by an open session. The menu is:
Starters: Mushroom Dipper Prawn Cocktail Soup of the Day
Main Courses: Traditional Roast Turkey Traditional Roast Beef Fillet of Salmon with Tomato and Basil Source Asparagus and Brie Tart
Desserts: Profiteroles and Ice Cream Vanilla Cheesecake Christmas Pudding.
Prices are just £7.99 for two courses or £9.99 for three courses. If you’d like to come along to the dinner this year please let us have your choices and payments by the end of November. Next Session: Wednesday 11th November is another of our open sessions, so I look forward to seeing you there. Make it a date – Wednesday at eight!
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Kasai Masai on 27th November
diary that back by popular demand is the fantastic African band, Kasai
Masai www.kasaimasai.com. on friday, 27th November at the back of the
Forest Gate Hotel, Sebert Road, E7 0LW. They bring the traditional
sounds of Africa but mix it with an urban edge and will have you
dancing in the aisles if we had aisles. Plus the Flats family band,
surprise guests and local acts as usual.
This will be our last event before Christmas so make sure you come
early to be sure of your favourite seat By the way Chris Haigh and Andy Tulloch gave us a fantastic night last
month and we'd like to say a big thankyou to them
and all the other performers who helped make the night so memorable. stay forever young Jenny and Caroline
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Andy Roberts - Building a log pile
"DARnet Andy Roberts" - 1 new article
Building a log pileI started building a small log pile a couple of years ago in order to add to the environmental diversity in my back garden. There were only a few pieces of wood though, left over from some grubbing out and thinning. Then there was the incident with the dangerously overgrown eucalyptus tree which had to be taken down or severely pollarded. When the tree surgeons came to do the job I told them to leave me the logs, so this is what I had as my raw material to build my substantial log pile with. The rest of this story can be told largely in pictures, I think. Unless there are any questions. Thanks for subscribing to Andy Roberts blog Related posts: More Recent Articles |
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Wednesday, November 04, 2009
One More cup of Coffee Bob Dylan song on Andy Roberts Youtube
Getting more views on youTube than Andy Roberts own songs at present
is a cover of Bob Dylan's song from the Desire album - One More cup of
Coffee for the road.
...to the Valley below Is it worth recording covers like Bob Dylan songs or should I be
concentrating more on my own stuff really?
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009
One More Cup Of Coffee - Bob Dylan Song by Andy Roberts
One more cup of coffee for the road.
Friday, October 02, 2009
The Rowan Tree - Andy Roberts Folk Song
The Rowan Tree - Andy Roberts Folk Song
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Tuesday, September 08, 2009
Blog
Seems to have been going for a very long time though.
Monday, August 24, 2009
Clicking on a YouTube Video
You can try the new feature using the video embedded below. You'll notice that YouTube uses a URL format that lets you link to certain sequence from a video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Umj1lvgoI68#t=1m15s
(where 1m15s is the start time)
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Grow Fins from Captain Beefheart on acoustic guitar by Andy Roberts music
Grow Fins from Captain Beefheart on acoustic guitar by Andy Roberts music
andyrobertsmusic (15 hours ago)
Thanks. Yes, this is in standard tuning, if a tone or so below concert pitch. Mostly just E major, simple stuff really!
qwertyasop (16 hours ago)
great job! loved it. Do you use standard tuning?
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Thursday, April 09, 2009
Cajun Music Cajun Food
Cajun Music Cajun Food by Andy Roberts at Havering Folk Club on his April 1st Guest night.
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
Andy Roberts - guest night
Andy Roberts
Singer Songwriter
Havering Folk Club
Golden Lion
2 High St
Romford
Essex
April 1st 2009
8pm
Tickets £1
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Mazet - Andy Roberts at Havering Folk Club
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