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CYMRU/WALES 🄵🅆 Cymru
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ENGLAND
WEST COUNTRY based 🄵🅆 West Country
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MIDLANDS-based 🄵🅆 Midlands
🄵 LEDBURY SINGAROUND & MUSIC SESSION, 3rd Tues [most months] Herefs, at Ledbury RFC, Ross Road, Ledbury, HR8 2LP, has changed its start time to 7.30pm (was 8pm). Singaround & music session for folk and rural roots. Singers, poets, storytellers, and all types of acoustic instruments welcome. Free entry. Please check before coming, as not every month. Contact: Bernie on bernieuptonfolk<at>gmail.com
🄵 HOMEND POETS, LEDBURY, last Tues [most months] Tuesday 30th April, Theme: 'Green'. See webpage (on this site)
Based in SOUTH-EAST 🄵🅆 SE, London, East
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FESTIVALS & WORKSHOPS updates for May Folklife West (updating January 2024, which was copied to 🄵🅆 Festivals, Workshops Diary )
🄵 2024 April 26-28 CHURCHDOWN BEER & FOLK FESTIVAL Facebook GlosFolk
→ CHURCHDOWN, Gloucestershire. The Churchdown Club (http://churchdownclub.co.uk), Church Road, Churchdown, Gloucester, GL3 2ER
⌂ For more info: website/facebook tba, http://liamtho.com/FolkAtTheClub.
⊕ Guests as below. Please contact Bill Craswell, 07740 248785, liam<at>liamtho.com 🄵 Bill Craswell
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ENGLAND
WEST COUNTRY based 🄵🅆 West Country
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MIDLANDS-based 🄵🅆 Midlands
🄵 LEDBURY SINGAROUND & MUSIC SESSION, 3rd Tues [most months] Herefs, at Ledbury RFC, Ross Road, Ledbury, HR8 2LP, has changed its start time to 7.30pm (was 8pm). Singaround & music session for folk and rural roots. Singers, poets, storytellers, and all types of acoustic instruments welcome. Free entry. Please check before coming, as not every month. Contact: Bernie on bernieuptonfolk<at>gmail.com
🄵 HOMEND POETS, LEDBURY, last Tues [most months] Tuesday 30th April, Theme: 'Green'. See webpage (on this site)
Based in SOUTH-EAST 🄵🅆 SE, London, East
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FESTIVALS & WORKSHOPS updates for May Folklife West (updating January 2024, which was copied to 🄵🅆 Festivals, Workshops Diary )
🄵 2024 April 26-28 CHURCHDOWN BEER & FOLK FESTIVAL Facebook GlosFolk
→ CHURCHDOWN, Gloucestershire. The Churchdown Club (http://churchdownclub.co.uk), Church Road, Churchdown, Gloucester, GL3 2ER
⌂ For more info: website/facebook tba, http://liamtho.com/FolkAtTheClub.
⊕ Guests as below. Please contact Bill Craswell, 07740 248785, liam<at>liamtho.com 🄵 Bill Craswell
Adverts for May 2024 Folklife West
more adverts received since last Update: Broadstairs FF, Bromyard FF We're happy to feature festival adverts sent before deadline, (ads booked before deadline pre-arranged to arrive after - those won't be listed here) A4 ads as 2/3rds column width here, 1/4 as 1/3rd column width here. They will be mentioned in next Updates email but not copied to it as we find images don't copy over too well |
CYMRU/WALES 🄵🅆 Cymru
South-West
🄵 TYWI TUNE CLUB near Llandeilo, Carms. 3rd Sundays, 2pm (new day & time)
A collection of the tunes we play can be found here at www.tunelines.com The Club has taken the Mari Lwyd out around Carmarthenshire; a booklet of tunes and songs relating to the Mari Lwyd tradition has been produced and can be downloaded from www.helenadam.com
Helen Adam 🄵, 07929 202257, helenadamfiddle<at>gmail.com, Facebook: Tywi Tune Club Clwb Alawon Tywi
ENGLAND
WEST COUNTRY based 🄵🅆 West Country
🄵 BODMIN FOLK CLUB St Petroc’s Parish Centre, Priory Road, Bodmin PL31 2DP
April 2024: 5th, Ian Bruce. 12th, Open House. 19th, Maggy Duffy & Bob Thompson. 26th, Members’ Showcase: Tim Joyce.
Enquiries: Sylvia Watts, sylvwatts<at>aol.com. bodminfolk.co.uk, www.facebook.com/bodminfolk/
🄵 BLACKMORE VALE FOLK NIGHTS are moving again, to the Fiddleford Inn, DT10 2BX, on the A357 about a mile from Sturminster Newton.
MIDLANDS-based 🄵🅆 Midlands
🄵 STEVE TURNER - New album 'Curious Times'
Steve Turner is known as a pioneer of highly sophisticated English concertina song accompaniments, stretching the boundaries of traditional forms, with one of the best voices in the business. He is a multi-instrumentalist, who accompanies himself on the concertina and plays mandolin and tenor banjo.
Steve began his career in Manchester at the end of the ‘60s, with Geordie band “Canny Fettle”, touring for 8 years and making 2 albums. After winning the UK Melody Maker’s national “Stars of the 80s” competition in 1979 he turned professional and for the next 12 years he toured nationally and internationally and released 4 solo albums.
In 2004, after a 13 year break, Steve returned to the folk scene performing in folk clubs and festivals. In 2008 he produced his 5th album, the highly acclaimed “Whirligig of Time” which featured UK luminaries Martin Carthy, Nancy Kerr and Miranda Sykes. He has since released a further 4 albums with his latest 9th album “Curious Times” featuring Martin Carthy receiving excellent reviews.
“Curious Times is an appropriate title as these songs came together during the pandemic. Every recording Turner makes is magnificent. His voice has a distinctive expression and character. This is a fine collection.”]
Based in SOUTH-EAST 🄵🅆 SE, London, East
🄵 MOONRAKERS
Sat 16th March St Giles Church, Horspath, Oxford, OX33 1RU. A welcome return to this lovely church in a village tucked beneath Shotover Hill near Oxford. 7.30pm. £12 on the door. Enquiries: 01865 769206.
Sat 23rd March Christ Church, Swindon, SN1 3HG. A lovely church in the centre of Swindon. 7.30pm. £12 on the door, or in advance for £10 from https://ccccswindon.co.uk/page/tickets Enquiries: 01793 617237
Sat 6th April All Saints Church, Castle Street, High Wycombe, HP11 2BN. 7.30pm £12 on the door or in advance from 01494 504815.Sat 13th April St Chad’s Church, Bishops Tachbrook, Leamington Spa, CV33 9RJ. 7.30pm £12 on the door.
Fri 26th April St John's Church, Bodicote, Banbury, OX15 4DW, A church dating back to the 13th century. 7.30pm. £12 on the door or in advance from 01295 250282
The full touring dates, including Folk Orchestra workshops, can be found at www.moonrakers.net
FESTIVALS & WORKSHOPS updates for May Folklife West (updating January 2024, which was copied to 🄵🅆 Festivals, Workshops Diary )
🄵 2024 June 21 - 23 TEIGNMOUTH FOLK FESTIVAL www.teignmouthfolkfestival.co.uk
→ TEIGNMOUTH, Devon.
⌂ Contact: info@teignmouthfolkfestival.co.uk; Amanda Wheaton, 07903530854. Facebook: Teignmouth Folk Festival
⊕ 21 June: 7.30pm, Granny’s Attic, St. James Church, TQ14 9BT (£18 in advance, £20 on the door).
22 June: 10.30am, Fiddle Workshop with Sophia Colkin (£10). 12.30pm, ‘Big Sing’ with Kitty Vernon & Derek Burgess, feature spot from ‘Silvington’. 4.30pm, Tune Session hosted by GrimsBand. 7.30pm, SykesMartin, St. James Church, TQ14 9BT (£18 in advance, £20 on the door).
23 June: 10.30am, Vocal Workshop with Paul Wilson (£10). 2pm, Mixed Session with Norman Bellamy. 5.30pm, Family Ceilidh with Wren Music’s Folk Orchestra of East Devon, The Strand Centre, EX7 9PT (£10 for adults, £5 for children under 16, must be accompanied by an adult). Food and drink available at the centre.
Over 25 dance sides during the weekend in The Triangle, plus Darrell and Joy, The Estuary Band, Teignmouth Youth Choir, Mother’s Ruin, The Back Beach Boyz and Celtic Dawn, donations.
SIDMOUTH FOLK FESTIVAL’S CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL:
SEASIDE STOMPERS CEILIDH BAND WORKSHOP.
Offering young musicians a very exciting opportunity to work with others, learn new music and then to perform. Music workshops for over eight year olds, playing any musical instrument, building up to a special evening performance of fantastic foot tapping dance music as part of the festival ceilidh programme in the Blackmore Marquee on Thursday night, celebrating the 70th Sidmouth Folk Festival in true party style.
Ray Langton leads the workshops, with talented tutors who help and encourage players; there is expertise in guitar, brass, percussion, woodwind squeezebox, strings; anything else is also welcome. Dance music includes jigs, reels, polkas and hornpipes.
Participants must have their own instruments and be able to play a number of tunes from music or by ear (approximately Grade 2 standard). Music provided, parts for all instruments and all abilities available.
For further information: Ray & Bev Langton, bev.langton@talk21.com; for more on Sidmouth Folk Festival, www.sidmouthfolkfestival.co.uk
CALLING ALL YOUNG PERFORMERS.
The Children’s Festival are looking for talented young performers (aged 21 or under) to showcase on the 'Star Stage'. For further details and applications: www.littleseedsmusic.co.uk/sidmouth24
🄵 2024 Aug 22 - 26 (BH weekend) CORNWALL FOLK FESTIVAL www.CornwallFolkFestival.com SEE ADVERT
→ WADEBRIDGE, North Cornwall
⌂ Email: info<at>cornwallfolkfestival.com. Online Ticket Shop www.CornwallFolkFestival.com/tickets
For tickets and more details, visit www.CornwallFolkFestival.com; follow at facebook.com/CornwallFolkFestival
⊕ Cornwall Folk Festival is back in full over the August Bank Holiday with an intimate town-based festival in Wadebridge, North Cornwall. From Thursday evening to Monday, this compact town centre event brings a top line-up to Wadebridge Town Hall and The John Betjeman Centre and showcases local music at the outdoor FAR stage and in pubs and street locations. Opens and closes with the latest Cornish dance trends: Nos Lowens from Bagas Fellyon (Town Hall, Thurs 22) and Jackson’s Claret (FAR Stage, Mon 26). Town hall concerts continue with The Trials of Cato + Tarren (Fri 23), Daphne’s Flight + Suthering (Sat 24) and Lady Maisery + James Dixon (Sun 25). Also two evening Betjeman Sessions: Cornish songwriter double-bill with Richard Trethewey and Annie Baylis (Fri 23) and Reg Meuross + Detta Kenzie (Sun 25). Additional Fri PM gig with Prophesy of Merlin. FAR Stage Sat-Mon will include True Foxes, Blue Badgers, Julian Gaskell & Ragged Trouser Philanthropists, Du Glas and many more from across the Southwest, plus workshops.
South-West
🄵 TYWI TUNE CLUB near Llandeilo, Carms. 3rd Sundays, 2pm (new day & time)
A collection of the tunes we play can be found here at www.tunelines.com The Club has taken the Mari Lwyd out around Carmarthenshire; a booklet of tunes and songs relating to the Mari Lwyd tradition has been produced and can be downloaded from www.helenadam.com
Helen Adam 🄵, 07929 202257, helenadamfiddle<at>gmail.com, Facebook: Tywi Tune Club Clwb Alawon Tywi
ENGLAND
WEST COUNTRY based 🄵🅆 West Country
🄵 BODMIN FOLK CLUB St Petroc’s Parish Centre, Priory Road, Bodmin PL31 2DP
April 2024: 5th, Ian Bruce. 12th, Open House. 19th, Maggy Duffy & Bob Thompson. 26th, Members’ Showcase: Tim Joyce.
Enquiries: Sylvia Watts, sylvwatts<at>aol.com. bodminfolk.co.uk, www.facebook.com/bodminfolk/
🄵 BLACKMORE VALE FOLK NIGHTS are moving again, to the Fiddleford Inn, DT10 2BX, on the A357 about a mile from Sturminster Newton.
- FOLK SONG NIGHT 🄵., venue as above, 2nd Sun. (not July, Aug), 7.30 start. Songs mostly – but musicians welcome too. Contrary to popular belief, John does not lynch anyone who sings non-traditional stuff! John Waltham, 01963 362890, jhnwaltham@yahoo.co.uk
- FOLK MUSIC NIGHT 🄵., venue as above, 4th Sun.,, 7.30 start Emphasis will be on tunes rather than songs. All welcome, to join in or listen. Mandy Waltham, 01963 362890, jhnwaltham@yahoo.co.uk
MIDLANDS-based 🄵🅆 Midlands
🄵 STEVE TURNER - New album 'Curious Times'
Steve Turner is known as a pioneer of highly sophisticated English concertina song accompaniments, stretching the boundaries of traditional forms, with one of the best voices in the business. He is a multi-instrumentalist, who accompanies himself on the concertina and plays mandolin and tenor banjo.
Steve began his career in Manchester at the end of the ‘60s, with Geordie band “Canny Fettle”, touring for 8 years and making 2 albums. After winning the UK Melody Maker’s national “Stars of the 80s” competition in 1979 he turned professional and for the next 12 years he toured nationally and internationally and released 4 solo albums.
In 2004, after a 13 year break, Steve returned to the folk scene performing in folk clubs and festivals. In 2008 he produced his 5th album, the highly acclaimed “Whirligig of Time” which featured UK luminaries Martin Carthy, Nancy Kerr and Miranda Sykes. He has since released a further 4 albums with his latest 9th album “Curious Times” featuring Martin Carthy receiving excellent reviews.
“Curious Times is an appropriate title as these songs came together during the pandemic. Every recording Turner makes is magnificent. His voice has a distinctive expression and character. This is a fine collection.”]
Based in SOUTH-EAST 🄵🅆 SE, London, East
🄵 MOONRAKERS
Sat 16th March St Giles Church, Horspath, Oxford, OX33 1RU. A welcome return to this lovely church in a village tucked beneath Shotover Hill near Oxford. 7.30pm. £12 on the door. Enquiries: 01865 769206.
Sat 23rd March Christ Church, Swindon, SN1 3HG. A lovely church in the centre of Swindon. 7.30pm. £12 on the door, or in advance for £10 from https://ccccswindon.co.uk/page/tickets Enquiries: 01793 617237
Sat 6th April All Saints Church, Castle Street, High Wycombe, HP11 2BN. 7.30pm £12 on the door or in advance from 01494 504815.Sat 13th April St Chad’s Church, Bishops Tachbrook, Leamington Spa, CV33 9RJ. 7.30pm £12 on the door.
Fri 26th April St John's Church, Bodicote, Banbury, OX15 4DW, A church dating back to the 13th century. 7.30pm. £12 on the door or in advance from 01295 250282
The full touring dates, including Folk Orchestra workshops, can be found at www.moonrakers.net
FESTIVALS & WORKSHOPS updates for May Folklife West (updating January 2024, which was copied to 🄵🅆 Festivals, Workshops Diary )
🄵 2024 June 21 - 23 TEIGNMOUTH FOLK FESTIVAL www.teignmouthfolkfestival.co.uk
→ TEIGNMOUTH, Devon.
⌂ Contact: info@teignmouthfolkfestival.co.uk; Amanda Wheaton, 07903530854. Facebook: Teignmouth Folk Festival
⊕ 21 June: 7.30pm, Granny’s Attic, St. James Church, TQ14 9BT (£18 in advance, £20 on the door).
22 June: 10.30am, Fiddle Workshop with Sophia Colkin (£10). 12.30pm, ‘Big Sing’ with Kitty Vernon & Derek Burgess, feature spot from ‘Silvington’. 4.30pm, Tune Session hosted by GrimsBand. 7.30pm, SykesMartin, St. James Church, TQ14 9BT (£18 in advance, £20 on the door).
23 June: 10.30am, Vocal Workshop with Paul Wilson (£10). 2pm, Mixed Session with Norman Bellamy. 5.30pm, Family Ceilidh with Wren Music’s Folk Orchestra of East Devon, The Strand Centre, EX7 9PT (£10 for adults, £5 for children under 16, must be accompanied by an adult). Food and drink available at the centre.
Over 25 dance sides during the weekend in The Triangle, plus Darrell and Joy, The Estuary Band, Teignmouth Youth Choir, Mother’s Ruin, The Back Beach Boyz and Celtic Dawn, donations.
SIDMOUTH FOLK FESTIVAL’S CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL:
SEASIDE STOMPERS CEILIDH BAND WORKSHOP.
Offering young musicians a very exciting opportunity to work with others, learn new music and then to perform. Music workshops for over eight year olds, playing any musical instrument, building up to a special evening performance of fantastic foot tapping dance music as part of the festival ceilidh programme in the Blackmore Marquee on Thursday night, celebrating the 70th Sidmouth Folk Festival in true party style.
Ray Langton leads the workshops, with talented tutors who help and encourage players; there is expertise in guitar, brass, percussion, woodwind squeezebox, strings; anything else is also welcome. Dance music includes jigs, reels, polkas and hornpipes.
Participants must have their own instruments and be able to play a number of tunes from music or by ear (approximately Grade 2 standard). Music provided, parts for all instruments and all abilities available.
For further information: Ray & Bev Langton, bev.langton@talk21.com; for more on Sidmouth Folk Festival, www.sidmouthfolkfestival.co.uk
CALLING ALL YOUNG PERFORMERS.
The Children’s Festival are looking for talented young performers (aged 21 or under) to showcase on the 'Star Stage'. For further details and applications: www.littleseedsmusic.co.uk/sidmouth24
🄵 2024 Aug 22 - 26 (BH weekend) CORNWALL FOLK FESTIVAL www.CornwallFolkFestival.com SEE ADVERT
→ WADEBRIDGE, North Cornwall
⌂ Email: info<at>cornwallfolkfestival.com. Online Ticket Shop www.CornwallFolkFestival.com/tickets
For tickets and more details, visit www.CornwallFolkFestival.com; follow at facebook.com/CornwallFolkFestival
⊕ Cornwall Folk Festival is back in full over the August Bank Holiday with an intimate town-based festival in Wadebridge, North Cornwall. From Thursday evening to Monday, this compact town centre event brings a top line-up to Wadebridge Town Hall and The John Betjeman Centre and showcases local music at the outdoor FAR stage and in pubs and street locations. Opens and closes with the latest Cornish dance trends: Nos Lowens from Bagas Fellyon (Town Hall, Thurs 22) and Jackson’s Claret (FAR Stage, Mon 26). Town hall concerts continue with The Trials of Cato + Tarren (Fri 23), Daphne’s Flight + Suthering (Sat 24) and Lady Maisery + James Dixon (Sun 25). Also two evening Betjeman Sessions: Cornish songwriter double-bill with Richard Trethewey and Annie Baylis (Fri 23) and Reg Meuross + Detta Kenzie (Sun 25). Additional Fri PM gig with Prophesy of Merlin. FAR Stage Sat-Mon will include True Foxes, Blue Badgers, Julian Gaskell & Ragged Trouser Philanthropists, Du Glas and many more from across the Southwest, plus workshops.
Update to Jan ad for Upton ---> UPTON The latest lineup by day
Friday Evening: Ceilidh with Pat Smith & Ned Clamp with Martin Hughes, Andrew McKay & Carole Etherton, Benammi Swift, Bordewey, Young & Gittens, Caffrey, McGurk & Madge, English Fiddle Ensemble, Janice Burns & Jon Doran, Jim Mageean & Graeme Knights, Magpie Lane, Stonesthrow. Saturday Day: Andrew McKay & Carole Atherton, Benammi Swift, Bordewey, Young & Gittens, Close Quarters, Janice Burns & Jon Doran, Jim Mageean & GraemeKnights, Mice in a Matchbox, Old Spot, Pat Smith & Ned Clamp, The Wilsons Saturday Evening: Ceilidh with Melrose Quintet with Martyn Harvey , English Fiddle Ensemble, Doug Eunson & Sarah Matthews, Janice Burns & Jon Doran, Magpie Lane, The Medlars, Old Spot, Rod Penlington, Steve & Julie Wigley, Mice in a Matchbox Sunday Day: Benammi Swift, Caffrey, McGurk & Madge, Doug Eunson & Sarah Matthews, Drywood, English Fiddle Ensemble, The Laners, Magpie Lane, Melrose Quartet, The Twiddlers, Vital Spark Sunday Evening: Ceilidh with The Barber Band with Sue Coe, Bordewey, Young & Gittens, Jim Mageean & Graeme Knights, Melrose Quartet, The Melsons, Old Spot, Pat Smith & Ned Clamp, Pete Coe, The Wilsons Monday: Close Quarters, Doug Eunson & Sarah Matthews, Pete Coe, The Wilsons Adverts for May 2024 Folklife West
more adverts received since last Update: Warwick FF, Cornwall FF We're happy to feature festival adverts sent before deadline, (ads booked before deadline pre-arranged to arrive after - those won't be listed here) A4 ads as 2/3rds column width here, 1/4 as 1/3rd column width here. They will be mentioned in next Updates email but not copied to it as we find images don't copy over too well |
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CYMRU/WALES 🄵🅆 Cymru
Wales: South-East
🄵 VALLEY FOLK CLUB, PONTARDAWE will be moving back to Pontardawe as from March 15th.
Pontardawe Heritage & Visitors Centre, The Old Stable, Herbert Street, Pontardawe SA8 4EB (behind The Dillwyn Arms at the traffic lights, centre of town.) Evenings usually start at 8pm.
There is ample Free Parking (from 6pm) in the town car parks; please don’t use the pub car park. Bring Your Own refreshments (the pub is next door and there is a small supermarket along the road).
Valley Folk Club usually meets on 1st. 3rd. and 5th Fridays with a few exceptions which are posted in the diary on the web page.
1st Fridays are usually Open Nights, 3rd Fridays Guest Nights and often a 50/50 Night on 5th Fridays featuring 2 acts.
On Open Nights a warm welcome is extended to everyone to sing, play, recite or just enjoy. We sometimes allow a short set showcasing visiting performers. Please make contact to pre-arrange this. Open Nights are £2 to cover room hire.
Guest Nights Usually 2 x 40/45 min sets with floor spots before the 1st set. It will be advisable to reserve tickets by email for Guest and Special Nights, usually £8
The club web page is www.casbar.co.uk/pontardawe-valley-folk-club/ which is updated regularly. Email:- PontyVFC<at>casbar.co.uk
We are also on Facebook. See Pontardawe, Valley Folk Club
https://www.facebook.com/Pontardawe-Valley-Folk-Club-267787909911885/
Wales: Midlands (Mid-Wales)
🄵 TASC : A Day with Will Pound, was Saturday 9th March NOW POSTPONED - NOT CANCELLED !!
Church Barn, Bishops Castle, Shropshire, England
One of the finest harmonica and melodeon players of his generation, Will Pound has pushed the boundaries and established himself as one of the UK’s outstanding musicians, creating new and exciting music on the harmonica and melodeon - often at the same time!
Contact Lisa via: admin<at>tradartsupport.org.uk for further information.
Please book tickets via www.tradartsupport.org.uk/shop.html
🄵 TASC: Membership 1st April to 31st March. This income (£5 for individuals and £15 for groups helps us to put on events for the enjoyment of traditional music and dance for the community, and to maintain our website, with its wealth of resources. If you are not a member please consider joining us to show support for our work - we also try to give members some small benefits when we can, like a reduced price for the Welsh Clog Day Workshops.
You can pay or join here: www.tradartsupport.org.uk/shop.html
Best wishes, Claire, Trevor, Louise, Lisa, Kay and Sue, TASC trustees
WEST COUNTRY based 🄵🅆 West Country
🄵 CHELTENHAM FOLK CLUB
March 11 No club (room not available)
March 25 Blackthorn Buskers
Time for floor spots every time. All at the Sandford Park Alehouse at 8pm. Sorry, no dogs.
For details, please join the mailing list, machteltje<at>gmail.com
Based in SOUTH-EAST 🄵🅆 SE, London, East
🄵 MOONRAKERS www.moonrakers.net
Sat 2nd March Snell’s Hall, Church Street, EAST HENDRED, OX12 8LA. 7.30pm. £14 + booking fee in advance from www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/moonrakers-tickets-777065954187?aff=ebdshpsearchautocomplete or on the door. Bar drinks.
Sat 16th March St Giles Church, Horspath, OXFORD, OX33 1RU. A welcome return to this lovely church in a village tucked beneath Shotover Hill near Oxford. 7.30pm. £12 on the door. Enquiries: 01865 769206.
Sat 23rd March Christ Church, SWINDON, SN1 3HG. A lovely church in the centre of Swindon. 7.30pm. £12 on the door, or in advance for £10 from https://ccccswindon.co.uk/page/tickets Enquiries: 01793 617237
🄵 LITTLE BOOK OF BALLADS ** special price of £5 post free to Folklife readers.
If you like rhythm and romance, drama and enchantment, you’ll love this collection of ballads. The experts are still arguing about when the earliest of them, generally referred to as the ‘border ballads’ – Sir Patrick Spens, The Wife of Usher’s Well, for instance – were written. Most agree, however, that the best ones were written over a fifty year period in an area covering about sixty square miles, which points to one man - True Thomas:
‘A pretty gift ye would give to me
For I might never buy nor sell
At fairs or stalls in my countree,
Nor sue a fair ladee.’
Enjoy these ballads for all that they tell us about ourselves, our folk culture and our history. They are sung to different tunes. We wanted to create a portable little pocket book of ballads and space was a constraint that stopped us from including the tunes, but they are easily found in rich variety on the worldwide web.
🄵 Derek Taylor, books<at>derektaylor.org The book is available at Amazon etc and http://www.derektaylor.org
Based in ALBA/SCOTLAND 🄵🅆 Alba•Scotland
🄵 On Zoom: Themed Shanty Big Sing – No 15 – “Blow, Boys, Blow” - Was Tuesday 5 March 2024 NOW POSTPONED - NOT CANCELLED !
8pm UK time
Dear friends
What fun we had with our last Themed Shanty Big Sing (no 14) themed on “California”.
Our next Themed Shanty Big sing is coming up eek immediately (timed to avoid St Patrick’s Day sings and then my trip to Aus), next Tuesday 5 March 2024, 8pm UK/ Ireland time (3pm ET, noon PT, 9pm France time etc), when we look forward to everyone joining us to share / hear versions of Shantys featuring (in the chorus we expect) "Blow, Boys, Blow", aka "Congo River". Shantys / Chanteys please!
To join as singers / audience and to request the event Zoom link (which we circulate about 24 hours prior), pls email Linn direct at linnphipps<at>gmail.com, with subject line Themed Shanty Big Sing No 15 “Blow, Boys, Blow”.
Also, to help version learning, the next upcoming themes will be: "Haul Away, Joe"
See you soon! Linn Phipps & Jim Lucas
Shanty Big Sing website http://shantyman.dk/ShantyBigSings/
New Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ThemedShantyBigSings-rc9te
Additionally https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/collaborations-links-and-other-news/
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Delighted to welcome Doug as our first US Folklife member! more welcome!
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CYMRU/WALES 🄵🅆 Cymru
Wales: South-East
🄵 VALLEY FOLK CLUB, PONTARDAWE will be moving back to Pontardawe as from March 15th.
Pontardawe Heritage & Visitors Centre, The Old Stable, Herbert Street, Pontardawe SA8 4EB (behind The Dillwyn Arms at the traffic lights, centre of town.) Evenings usually start at 8pm.
There is ample Free Parking (from 6pm) in the town car parks; please don’t use the pub car park. Bring Your Own refreshments (the pub is next door and there is a small supermarket along the road).
Valley Folk Club usually meets on 1st. 3rd. and 5th Fridays with a few exceptions which are posted in the diary on the web page.
1st Fridays are usually Open Nights, 3rd Fridays Guest Nights and often a 50/50 Night on 5th Fridays featuring 2 acts.
On Open Nights a warm welcome is extended to everyone to sing, play, recite or just enjoy. We sometimes allow a short set showcasing visiting performers. Please make contact to pre-arrange this. Open Nights are £2 to cover room hire.
Guest Nights Usually 2 x 40/45 min sets with floor spots before the 1st set. It will be advisable to reserve tickets by email for Guest and Special Nights, usually £8
The club web page is www.casbar.co.uk/pontardawe-valley-folk-club/ which is updated regularly. Email:- PontyVFC<at>casbar.co.uk
We are also on Facebook. See Pontardawe, Valley Folk Club
https://www.facebook.com/Pontardawe-Valley-Folk-Club-267787909911885/
Wales: Midlands (Mid-Wales)
🄵 TASC : A Day with Will Pound, was Saturday 9th March NOW POSTPONED - NOT CANCELLED !!
Church Barn, Bishops Castle, Shropshire, England
One of the finest harmonica and melodeon players of his generation, Will Pound has pushed the boundaries and established himself as one of the UK’s outstanding musicians, creating new and exciting music on the harmonica and melodeon - often at the same time!
- Morning Melodeon workshop (intermediate/advanced)
- Afternoon Harmonica workshop (beginners/intermediate)
- Evening Concert
Contact Lisa via: admin<at>tradartsupport.org.uk for further information.
Please book tickets via www.tradartsupport.org.uk/shop.html
🄵 TASC: Membership 1st April to 31st March. This income (£5 for individuals and £15 for groups helps us to put on events for the enjoyment of traditional music and dance for the community, and to maintain our website, with its wealth of resources. If you are not a member please consider joining us to show support for our work - we also try to give members some small benefits when we can, like a reduced price for the Welsh Clog Day Workshops.
You can pay or join here: www.tradartsupport.org.uk/shop.html
Best wishes, Claire, Trevor, Louise, Lisa, Kay and Sue, TASC trustees
WEST COUNTRY based 🄵🅆 West Country
🄵 CHELTENHAM FOLK CLUB
March 11 No club (room not available)
March 25 Blackthorn Buskers
Time for floor spots every time. All at the Sandford Park Alehouse at 8pm. Sorry, no dogs.
For details, please join the mailing list, machteltje<at>gmail.com
Based in SOUTH-EAST 🄵🅆 SE, London, East
🄵 MOONRAKERS www.moonrakers.net
Sat 2nd March Snell’s Hall, Church Street, EAST HENDRED, OX12 8LA. 7.30pm. £14 + booking fee in advance from www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/moonrakers-tickets-777065954187?aff=ebdshpsearchautocomplete or on the door. Bar drinks.
Sat 16th March St Giles Church, Horspath, OXFORD, OX33 1RU. A welcome return to this lovely church in a village tucked beneath Shotover Hill near Oxford. 7.30pm. £12 on the door. Enquiries: 01865 769206.
Sat 23rd March Christ Church, SWINDON, SN1 3HG. A lovely church in the centre of Swindon. 7.30pm. £12 on the door, or in advance for £10 from https://ccccswindon.co.uk/page/tickets Enquiries: 01793 617237
🄵 LITTLE BOOK OF BALLADS ** special price of £5 post free to Folklife readers.
If you like rhythm and romance, drama and enchantment, you’ll love this collection of ballads. The experts are still arguing about when the earliest of them, generally referred to as the ‘border ballads’ – Sir Patrick Spens, The Wife of Usher’s Well, for instance – were written. Most agree, however, that the best ones were written over a fifty year period in an area covering about sixty square miles, which points to one man - True Thomas:
‘A pretty gift ye would give to me
For I might never buy nor sell
At fairs or stalls in my countree,
Nor sue a fair ladee.’
Enjoy these ballads for all that they tell us about ourselves, our folk culture and our history. They are sung to different tunes. We wanted to create a portable little pocket book of ballads and space was a constraint that stopped us from including the tunes, but they are easily found in rich variety on the worldwide web.
🄵 Derek Taylor, books<at>derektaylor.org The book is available at Amazon etc and http://www.derektaylor.org
Based in ALBA/SCOTLAND 🄵🅆 Alba•Scotland
🄵 On Zoom: Themed Shanty Big Sing – No 15 – “Blow, Boys, Blow” - Was Tuesday 5 March 2024 NOW POSTPONED - NOT CANCELLED !
8pm UK time
Dear friends
What fun we had with our last Themed Shanty Big Sing (no 14) themed on “California”.
Our next Themed Shanty Big sing is coming up eek immediately (timed to avoid St Patrick’s Day sings and then my trip to Aus), next Tuesday 5 March 2024, 8pm UK/ Ireland time (3pm ET, noon PT, 9pm France time etc), when we look forward to everyone joining us to share / hear versions of Shantys featuring (in the chorus we expect) "Blow, Boys, Blow", aka "Congo River". Shantys / Chanteys please!
To join as singers / audience and to request the event Zoom link (which we circulate about 24 hours prior), pls email Linn direct at linnphipps<at>gmail.com, with subject line Themed Shanty Big Sing No 15 “Blow, Boys, Blow”.
Also, to help version learning, the next upcoming themes will be: "Haul Away, Joe"
See you soon! Linn Phipps & Jim Lucas
Shanty Big Sing website http://shantyman.dk/ShantyBigSings/
New Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ThemedShantyBigSings-rc9te
Additionally https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/collaborations-links-and-other-news/
INTERNATIONAL 🄵🅆 International
We are happy to include all international news, on this page.
International members' news, printed in Folklife West:
Additionally, we now offer to include your news in the printed Folklife (next: out May 1, deadline March 20) if you become a Folklife member - this is just £9 a year for sending you PDFs of Folklife West (x3), and Journal (x2), via WeTransfer. Or posted £27 Europe or £33 rest of the world
Sings, concerts, shops, festivals, media -- up to 160 words, for each news item, plus a small picture, as below.
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Draft for our first 2 international news items below.
Delighted to welcome Doug as our first US Folklife member! more welcome!
FESTIVALS updates for May Folklife West (updating January 2024 which is copied to 🄵🅆 Festivals, Workshops Diary )
🄵 2024 May 24 - 27 CHIPPENHAM FOLK FESTIVAL www.chippfolk.co.uk
→ CHIPPENHAM, Wiltshire.
⌂ Chippenham Folk Festival, The Cause Music and Arts Centre, The Causeway, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 3DD. www.chippfolk.co.uk
info@chippfolk.co.uk 01249 657 190 (answered by an answerphone and checked weekly)
⊕ With our 51st festival, 24th - 27th May, now well on the way we can proudly announce we have over 180 artists and sides confirmed. Thanks to our dedicated volunteer team we’ll once again be bringing Chippenham Town alive with colourful dance displays, music, folk dancing and entertainment for families alongside fun with a vibrant local community. Grab your weekend ticket and immerse yourself in one of the liveliest South West folk events. Visit www.chippfolk.co.uk to see line up and grab your weekend ticket.
2024 Aug 17 - 23 WHITBY FOLK WEEK www.whitbyfolk.co.uk
→ WHITBY, North Yorkshire. Numerous venues throughout the town.
⌂ Whitby Folk Week; General Enquiries email: folk@whitbyfolk.co.uk; Ticket Sales email: tickets@whitbyfolk.co.uk or postal: PO Box 6150, Sheffield, S11 0HB; Camping Enquiries email: camping@whitbyfolk.co.uk; Craft Fair Enquiries email: craft@whitbyfolk.uk.co
⊕ Whitby Folk Week is a celebration of British traditional song, dance, music and storytelling, which takes place in the picturesque fishing town of Whitby on the North Yorkshire Coast.
Whitby is renowned for it’s wide variety of workshops, many of which are a progressive through the week, e.g. Singing in Harmony, Playford for All, Festival Orchestra. There are many opportunities to learn new styles of dance, or take take up an instrument, as well as sessions aimed at both beginner and experienced dancers and musicians.
There is a full programme of daily concerts, talks, interviews and presentations, as well as social dances and ceilidhs every evening in the Spa Pavillion.
Our annual Music and Craft Fair is open daily throughout the week with a wide variety of musical instruments, crafts, and, of course, festival merchandise.
With with hundreds of events to choose from, including a full Children’s Festival programme, Whitby Folk Week has something for everyone, and all the family!
🄵 2024 May 24 - 27 CHIPPENHAM FOLK FESTIVAL www.chippfolk.co.uk
→ CHIPPENHAM, Wiltshire.
⌂ Chippenham Folk Festival, The Cause Music and Arts Centre, The Causeway, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 3DD. www.chippfolk.co.uk
info@chippfolk.co.uk 01249 657 190 (answered by an answerphone and checked weekly)
⊕ With our 51st festival, 24th - 27th May, now well on the way we can proudly announce we have over 180 artists and sides confirmed. Thanks to our dedicated volunteer team we’ll once again be bringing Chippenham Town alive with colourful dance displays, music, folk dancing and entertainment for families alongside fun with a vibrant local community. Grab your weekend ticket and immerse yourself in one of the liveliest South West folk events. Visit www.chippfolk.co.uk to see line up and grab your weekend ticket.
2024 Aug 17 - 23 WHITBY FOLK WEEK www.whitbyfolk.co.uk
→ WHITBY, North Yorkshire. Numerous venues throughout the town.
⌂ Whitby Folk Week; General Enquiries email: folk@whitbyfolk.co.uk; Ticket Sales email: tickets@whitbyfolk.co.uk or postal: PO Box 6150, Sheffield, S11 0HB; Camping Enquiries email: camping@whitbyfolk.co.uk; Craft Fair Enquiries email: craft@whitbyfolk.uk.co
⊕ Whitby Folk Week is a celebration of British traditional song, dance, music and storytelling, which takes place in the picturesque fishing town of Whitby on the North Yorkshire Coast.
Whitby is renowned for it’s wide variety of workshops, many of which are a progressive through the week, e.g. Singing in Harmony, Playford for All, Festival Orchestra. There are many opportunities to learn new styles of dance, or take take up an instrument, as well as sessions aimed at both beginner and experienced dancers and musicians.
There is a full programme of daily concerts, talks, interviews and presentations, as well as social dances and ceilidhs every evening in the Spa Pavillion.
Our annual Music and Craft Fair is open daily throughout the week with a wide variety of musical instruments, crafts, and, of course, festival merchandise.
With with hundreds of events to choose from, including a full Children’s Festival programme, Whitby Folk Week has something for everyone, and all the family!
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Obituary: Pete MacGregor, October 1942 to January 2024
Pete MacGregor, October 1942 to January 2024, was involved in folk music throughout his life as a performer, folk club organiser and sound-desk man. He will be remembered for his fine singing and sensitive guitar accompaniments as well as his lively wit. His powerful tenor voice had a dramatic resonance and natural warmth.
He was born during the war in Dorking, Surrey, in his maternal grandparents’ house in Rosehill, who by coincidence were friends of Ralph Vaughan Williams. Pete, whose father came from the Isle of Lewis, always thought of himself as Scottish, and it was at school in Scotland that he grew to love the great Scottish ballads and began singing them whilst at Edinburgh University in the early 1960s. Jimmy MacBeath and Jean Redpath were both influential in his style of song.
He moved first to London, and then to the West Country where he was part of a successful trio, Chanticleer, performing songs from the English tradition with his first wife Mary MacGregor and Dave Galloway, who had an impressive bass voice. Pete ran Bath Traditional Folk Club at The Hat and Feather, first with Mary, and subsequently with Rosie Upton. The club closed in the late 1970s following a move to Bradford on Avon, where they opened Boafolk Club, and from there becoming an integral part of the Village Pump iconic folk club and festival based in Trowbridge. As well as singing traditional songs, his own songs recorded on “When Years Were Long” combined humour with political and social comment.
A stalwart of the folk scene from the virtual beginnings of the revival, and a man whose musical abilities and knowledge of the tradition were beyond question.
Pete MacGregor, October 1942 to January 2024, was involved in folk music throughout his life as a performer, folk club organiser and sound-desk man. He will be remembered for his fine singing and sensitive guitar accompaniments as well as his lively wit. His powerful tenor voice had a dramatic resonance and natural warmth.
He was born during the war in Dorking, Surrey, in his maternal grandparents’ house in Rosehill, who by coincidence were friends of Ralph Vaughan Williams. Pete, whose father came from the Isle of Lewis, always thought of himself as Scottish, and it was at school in Scotland that he grew to love the great Scottish ballads and began singing them whilst at Edinburgh University in the early 1960s. Jimmy MacBeath and Jean Redpath were both influential in his style of song.
He moved first to London, and then to the West Country where he was part of a successful trio, Chanticleer, performing songs from the English tradition with his first wife Mary MacGregor and Dave Galloway, who had an impressive bass voice. Pete ran Bath Traditional Folk Club at The Hat and Feather, first with Mary, and subsequently with Rosie Upton. The club closed in the late 1970s following a move to Bradford on Avon, where they opened Boafolk Club, and from there becoming an integral part of the Village Pump iconic folk club and festival based in Trowbridge. As well as singing traditional songs, his own songs recorded on “When Years Were Long” combined humour with political and social comment.
A stalwart of the folk scene from the virtual beginnings of the revival, and a man whose musical abilities and knowledge of the tradition were beyond question.
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FOR ALL UK READERS
CLUB BANK ACCOUNTS AND TAX ! !
This is from the excellent GLOS FOLK mailing list. - see https://www.glosfolk.org.uk which also publishes a Diary and Facebook page
" If your club/morris side/band/group etc operates a bank account in the name of the group rather than an individual,
you will need to register with the HMRC’s Trust Registration Service (TRS), even if you don’t have any tax liability.
This is to make sure you are not laundering money/people trafficking etc on behalf of some criminal gang!
And as bank account holders change, you will need to make sure the TRS system is updated too.
The Joint Morris Organisations have published a step by step, and very easy to follow guide to what to do at
Banking – HMRC’s Trust Registration Service – The Morris Federation (Our Glos Folk Treasurer is currently having a lie down in a darkened room!) " Glosfolk contacts: https://www.glosfolk.org.uk/contact.html
Note to US readers - normally, small non-profit groups don't get involved with UK tax authorities (HMRC) - we don't have 501(c)(3) nonprofits which is why Folklife can't get discounts from US-based Ko-Fi, PayPal, etc.
CYMRU/WALES 🄵🅆 Cymru
Llongyfarchiadau (Congratulations) to Mick Tems, our Cymru Correspondent - the National Union of Journalists have granted Mick a Life Member honour.
Mick writes: Annwyl Sam ac Eleanor,
Due to circumstances beyond my control, I have retired from the editorship of FolkWales Online Magazine. But I still would write and would be a Cymru/Wales correspondent of Folklife Magazine; in the next May edition, I want to focus on the Welsh festivals that are going ahead in 2024, including Tredegar House Folk Festival in May, Gower Folk Festival in June and Sesiwn Fawr Dolgellau in August – plus all of the folk clubs as well, including Llantrisant Folk Club, (Pontardawe) Valley Folk Club and the Lyceum Folk Club in Newport.
Onwards and Upwards!
WEST COUNTRY based 🄵🅆 West Country
🄵 PENNYMOOR SINGAROUND
It is no longer possible for Pennymoor to meet at The Cruwys Arms in Pennymoor, its home for so many years. We now meet in a range of lovely pubs, please see the advert left and the details below of clubs run by members of Pennymoor. We will be running our annual Song and Ale weekend at The London Inn, Morchard Bishop, on the 7th-9th of June this year. We can only hope for the glorious weather that we had for last year’s event. If you would like to come for a day or the whole weekend please contact Biddy on 01271 373305, you’d be made most welcome. There are also the monthly sessions run by Pennymoor or its members where you would be made very welcome. They are quite informal and welcome both players and singers; there is a dedicated players’ session on the last Sunday of the month at The Half Moon. Please contact us via the phone numbers below if you are coming for the first time.
Paul Holden
Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround www.facebook.com/groups/1221430771269195
Several monthly sessions in mid Devon run by Pennymoor members:
🄵 ROB BARRATT, comic poet
February 2nd - The Song Loft (folk club), The York House Centre, London Road, Stony Stratford (near Milton Keynes) MK11 1JQ. 8pm
February 23rd - Bodmin Old Library, Fore Street, Bodmin, Cornwall. 5.30pm
June 7th - Watford Folk Club, Pump House, Local Board Road, Lower Watford High Street, Watford. WD17 2JP. 8pm.
June 8th - Exton Village Hall, Oakham Rd, Exton, Oakham LE15 8AP. Evening performance.
June 15th - The Two Robbies with Robert Garnham, Padstow Little Theatre, Cornwall. Evening
June 28th to 29th - Exile Music Festival, Sabine Hay, off Oldfield Lane, near Darley Dale, Derbyshire. DE4 2LN.
July 4th to 7th - Bromsgrove Folk Festival, Avoncroft, Stoke Heath Bromsgrove, B60 4JR.
Rob Barratt , 01566 880336, rbarratt<at>cooptel.net For more information, see: www.robbarratt.co.uk
🄵 WREN MUSIC Peggy Seeger Saturday 27 April Okehampton
An intimate conversation with Wren Music's patron - a unique artist who has carved a special place in the folk music of both the UK and the USA.
www.wrenmusic.co.uk
🄵 WHITE HORSE FOLK CLUB, St Michael’s Hall, Lechlade Road, Highworth SN6 7HQ. 1st & 3rd Wed, 7.30pm;
Occasional concert announced for March, in addition to previously-announced in April & June.
Wednesday 20th March: Jackie and Felix Byrne
Wednesday 17th April: Dave Ellis and Boo Howard
Wednesday 19th June: Anthony John Clarke and his wife Julia
Zoom meeting on the 4th Wednesday of each month, for info for Zoom please email whfczoom<at>gmail.com
Folk Club Information: Derrick Beer, 01793 762070; Geoff Davies, 01793 706753; www.facebook.com/whitehorsefolkclub
WEST MIDLANDS 🄵🅆 Midlands
🄵 MIKE WEAVER
Mike Weaver’s latest CD, The Greyest Bits, was released in 2023 to mark his 65th birthday. This retrospective collection features compositions spanning five decades with new studio recordings of songs from those years, as well as new tracks, with musical contributions from Lukas Drinkwater and Katie Grace Harris. For details see the website www.mikeweavermusic.com
🄵 FOYER FOLK, Number 8, High Street, Pershore, WR10 1BG
Foyer Folk: Liz Simcock Saturday 16 March, 8.00pm
https://www.number8.org/events/foyer-folk-liz-simcock/
One of the UK’s finest singer-songwriters, Liz Simcock performs original songs injected with poetry, emotion and splashes of humour. In 2020 she released her fifth album, Winter Hill - a pared down acoustic album featuring one voice, one guitar and a handful of beautifully crafted and previously unreleased tracks. Tickets: £10.00 (plus £1 if booked online).
Foyer Folk :Brimstone Saturday 20 April - 8.00pm
https://www.number8.org/events/foyer-folk-brimstone/
Inspired by music from across the Celtic nations, Brimstone perform traditional, contemporary and self-penned jigs, reels and heartwarming songs. With a line-up including fiddle, whistle, bodhran and guitar, a fun and energetic evening is guaranteed! Tickets: £10.00 (plus £1 if booked online).
Coming up - see Folklife West, May issue
Julie July Band Album Launch Saturday 11 May - 7.30pm https://www.number8.org/events/julie-july-band-album-launch/ Tickets: £18.50 (plus £1 if booked online).
Foyer Folk: Steve Ashley Saturday 18 May - 8.00pm https://www.number8.org/events/foyer-folk-steve-ashley/ Tickets: £12.00 (plus £1 if booked online).
1BG
Box Office 01386 555488; email enquiries<at> number8.org, more details on www.number8.org
🄵 BLACK DIAMOND FOLK CLUB, The Lamp Tavern, 157 Barford Street, Highgate, Birmingham B5 6AH blackdiamondfolkclub.org.uk/
April 5th Mal Waite.
April 26th Tom McConville and Michael Biggins.
June 14th Ken Wilson and Jim McFarland.
June 28th Pete Grassby
🄵 TRADITIONAL ARTS TEAM - More info at tradartsteam.co.uk, on Facebook, or @tradartsteam on Twitter
Wednesday 21 Feb, 7:30pm Birmingham Storytelling Café: Best Friends Forever, with the Café Crew. Kitchen Garden Cafe, York Road, Kings Heath, B14 7SA. A menu of great food, drinks and cakes will accompany our delightful and/or heart-wrenching stories of Friendship. Doors open 6.30pm, stories start at 7:30pm. £10: wegottickets.com More info: https://www.birminghamstorytellingcafe.co.uk/
Thursday 22 Feb, 7:30 pm Moseley Village Band St Columba’s Church Hall, Moseley, B13 8DD
tradartsteam.co.uk/our-events/events-by-partners-and-friends/#moseley-village-band
Tuesday 27 Feb, 7:30 pm Royal Tales – Sutton Coldfield Storytelling Station Pub, 44 Station St, Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, B73 6AT. Free entry, but please support the venue by buying drinks and food. Royal Tales facebook group for more info
Sat 2 March, 10am-1pm Birmingham Folk Workshop with Ricardo Santos Rocha, Portuguese multi-instrumentalist and composer. Moseley Hive, 93 Alcester Rd, Birmingham B13 8DD. He’ll use the diatonic accordion (melodeon) to share a few tunes, traditional dance rhythms and idiosyncratic aspects of the repertoire from Portugal, Galicia and Basque Country. Facebook page for more info
🄵 FOLK IN THE FOYER Conquest Theatre, Tenbury Rd., Bromyard HR7 4LL.
Sat 9th March (not the usual Friday Night) The Salts - one of the most exciting and energetic concept bands around, the Salts perform original material alongside their own interpretations of traditional songs. 21st century folk fires a respectful broadside at the traditional. "...just outstandingly brilliant" Tim Walker BBC (Costa del Folk 2022). “Incredibly gutsy stuff with a big sound” Mike Harding, (The Mike Harding Folk Show), see https://www.thesalts.co.uk/ [... and new album, see below - Ed.]
Support: The Vegan Vampires: a violin and guitar duo who play a variety of high energy Celtic and world music with punk influences. They perform traditional and original tunes to delight their audiences.
£12. Doors 7.30pm, music starts 8pm. Please Please book early so we get an idea of numbers
Coming soon: Friday 12th April – Merry Hell. Support: your own, your very own, Roger Pugh!
https://conquest-theatre.co.uk/whats-on/ / 01885 488575
Based in LONDON 🄵🅆 SE, London, East
🄵 THE SALTS: New Release: ⚓️ Live in London Town
Johnny Come Down To Hilo; Hanging Johnny; Good Ship Bess; Alabama John Cherokee; Fifteen Men; Silver & Shame; Dead Horse; Nelson’s Blood; Fire Marengo; London Town; A Shadow Falls; The Bulgine Run; Hieland Laddie; Hold The Line
www.TheSalts.co.uk
Based in YORKSHIRE & THE HUMBER 🄵🅆 North
🄵 JAN AND PAUL RAMSEY
During covid, Jan and Paul were invited to play numerous extended sets on UK and worldwide open mics and zoom folk clubs around the world. As a consequence of their zoom appearances, they were invited to play gigs in the UK and internationally, as far apart as the Middle East and America.
Their repertoire includes a wide range of traditional folk songs, as well as more contemporary and self-penned folk music. They have held various residencies in folk clubs including Aberdeen, Lancaster, and Nottingham. They are currently residents at Grimsby Folk Club.
Their latest album is ‘Role Call’, a mix of traditional and self-penned songs. This, as well as their previous album ‘Lincs to Land and Sea’ is available as a CD, with accompanying booklet, from jprfolk.com, or as a digital download from ‘Bandcamp’, janandpaulramsey.bandcamp.com
Set lengths and talk about folk music are available from between 30 and 90+ minutes.
To discuss a booking, please contact Jan on 07984 643921
or email: jprfolk<at>gmail.com.
Based in ALBA/SCOTLAND 🄵🅆 Alba•Scotland
🄵 WORLD WHALE DAY - Zoom Sing Invitation Sunday 18 February
Hi everyone
Following the great success of our inaugural World Whale Day Sing, you are invited to join us for another special sing to mark World Whale Day 2024 on Sunday 18 February – 8pm UK, 3pm ET, noon PT. Songs that celebrate and treasure whales (there probably aren’t a lot…), and songs that remember mankind’s impact through whaling (ideally the less triumphalist ones!!). Invitation attached.
Please contact linnphipps<at>gmail.com to join the participants list – Zoom link to join will be sent 24 hours prior – singers, musicians and listeners all welcome.
Best wishes from Linn Phipps and Bonnie Milner. Other links: https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk Bonnie: www.thejohnsongirls.com
USA ⎈ International
Zoom - Boston, Mass
ØØ LINN NOEL https://sites.google.com/view/crosscurrents-music
.and ZOOM: LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN
Zoom meeting links are mailing list only.. Join this mailing list at http://mailinglist.mermaidstavern.com
Monthly sessions on first Sundays 2-4pm ET. Special events as the occasion requires.
............................... 3 COLORADO LIVE VENUES added !
Aurora, CO
ØØ NEIGHBORHOOD SINGAROUND -- https://www.sophielichens.com/singarounds
Monthly folk singaround on third Saturdays 2-4pm MT. All welcome to sing or to listen. Trad(ish) songs, unaccompanied. Located at Neighborhood Music in the Stanley Marketplace, 2501 Dallas St, Suite 130, Aurora, CO, 80010. Entrance on the north side of the building.
Email SundaySeaSongs<at>gmail.com with questions.
Colorado Springs, CO
🄵 WEEKLY TRADITIONAL MUSIC SESSION Weekly traditional music session, singers and instrumentalists (and listeners) welcome, in Colorado Springs at Jack Quinn’s Pub and Restaurant, 21 South Tejon St., Colorado Springs CO 80903, running 3 to 6 pm every Sunday. Anchored by Doug Huggins, the session will celebrate 26 years at the same location this March. Contact Doug at 01 (719) 208-1817 or Tradmusic<at>centurylink.net if you have questions.
Old Colorado City, CO
🄵 WEEKLY TRADITIONAL MUSIC SESSION, singers, players and listeners welcome at Jives Coffee Lounge, 16 Colbrunn Court, Old Colorado City, 80904, every Thursday evening, 6 to 9 pm. Contact Doug at 01 (719) 208-1817 or Tradmusic<at>centurylink.net if you have questions or if weather is bad.
FESTIVALS/WORKSHOPS UPDATES 🄵🅆 Festivals, Workshops Diary
Guests added
2024 May 10 - 12 TREDEGAR HOUSE FOLK FESTIVAL www.tredegarhousefestival.org.uk
→ NEWPORT. Tredegar House & Country Park, Newport, Gwent NP10 8YW. South Wales
⌂ TREDEGAR HOUSE FOLK FESTIVAL; for further details, contact: Sue Oates, susieoates135hotmail.com, 01633 246241
⊕ A weekend of international dance, music, and song. Full Headliners: Lindisfarne, Huw Williams, The Young’Uns, Rusty Shackle, too many artists to list, so check the website. Plus Llantrisant, Lyceum & Newport Folk Clubs, Real Ales, Farmers’ Market, Ceilidhs, Irish Session… Workshops + Open Mics + brilliant crafts people + and lots, lots more! Plus! The finest, most colourful Welsh, UK & international folk dance teams you’ll ever see gathered in one place in the British Isles. 🄵 Sue Oates
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This is from the excellent GLOS FOLK mailing list. - see https://www.glosfolk.org.uk which also publishes a Diary and Facebook page
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CYMRU/WALES 🄵🅆 Cymru
Llongyfarchiadau (Congratulations) to Mick Tems, our Cymru Correspondent - the National Union of Journalists have granted Mick a Life Member honour.
Mick writes: Annwyl Sam ac Eleanor,
Due to circumstances beyond my control, I have retired from the editorship of FolkWales Online Magazine. But I still would write and would be a Cymru/Wales correspondent of Folklife Magazine; in the next May edition, I want to focus on the Welsh festivals that are going ahead in 2024, including Tredegar House Folk Festival in May, Gower Folk Festival in June and Sesiwn Fawr Dolgellau in August – plus all of the folk clubs as well, including Llantrisant Folk Club, (Pontardawe) Valley Folk Club and the Lyceum Folk Club in Newport.
Onwards and Upwards!
WEST COUNTRY based 🄵🅆 West Country
🄵 PENNYMOOR SINGAROUND
It is no longer possible for Pennymoor to meet at The Cruwys Arms in Pennymoor, its home for so many years. We now meet in a range of lovely pubs, please see the advert left and the details below of clubs run by members of Pennymoor. We will be running our annual Song and Ale weekend at The London Inn, Morchard Bishop, on the 7th-9th of June this year. We can only hope for the glorious weather that we had for last year’s event. If you would like to come for a day or the whole weekend please contact Biddy on 01271 373305, you’d be made most welcome. There are also the monthly sessions run by Pennymoor or its members where you would be made very welcome. They are quite informal and welcome both players and singers; there is a dedicated players’ session on the last Sunday of the month at The Half Moon. Please contact us via the phone numbers below if you are coming for the first time.
Paul Holden
Facebook: Pennymoor Singaround www.facebook.com/groups/1221430771269195
Several monthly sessions in mid Devon run by Pennymoor members:
- Last Sun, Cheriton Fitzpaine, HALF MOON LUNCHTIME MUSIC SESSION, Clare, 01884 860023.
- 1st Tue, Sandford, THE LAMB INN SESSION, Hazel / Paul, 01363 776275.
- Last Tue, Coleford, THE NEW INN SESSION, Dave, 01363 84914.
- 3rd Wed, Sandford, THE LAMB INN SINGAROUND, Biddy, 01271 373305.
- 4th Wed, Stoke Canon, FOLK AT THE STOKE, Alison/Paul, 07709 324836.
- 1st Thu, 12 noon, Morchard Bishop, LONDON INN lunchtime Song/Music SESSION, Jon, 07840 524318.
🄵 ROB BARRATT, comic poet
February 2nd - The Song Loft (folk club), The York House Centre, London Road, Stony Stratford (near Milton Keynes) MK11 1JQ. 8pm
February 23rd - Bodmin Old Library, Fore Street, Bodmin, Cornwall. 5.30pm
June 7th - Watford Folk Club, Pump House, Local Board Road, Lower Watford High Street, Watford. WD17 2JP. 8pm.
June 8th - Exton Village Hall, Oakham Rd, Exton, Oakham LE15 8AP. Evening performance.
June 15th - The Two Robbies with Robert Garnham, Padstow Little Theatre, Cornwall. Evening
June 28th to 29th - Exile Music Festival, Sabine Hay, off Oldfield Lane, near Darley Dale, Derbyshire. DE4 2LN.
July 4th to 7th - Bromsgrove Folk Festival, Avoncroft, Stoke Heath Bromsgrove, B60 4JR.
Rob Barratt , 01566 880336, rbarratt<at>cooptel.net For more information, see: www.robbarratt.co.uk
🄵 WREN MUSIC Peggy Seeger Saturday 27 April Okehampton
An intimate conversation with Wren Music's patron - a unique artist who has carved a special place in the folk music of both the UK and the USA.
www.wrenmusic.co.uk
🄵 WHITE HORSE FOLK CLUB, St Michael’s Hall, Lechlade Road, Highworth SN6 7HQ. 1st & 3rd Wed, 7.30pm;
Occasional concert announced for March, in addition to previously-announced in April & June.
Wednesday 20th March: Jackie and Felix Byrne
Wednesday 17th April: Dave Ellis and Boo Howard
Wednesday 19th June: Anthony John Clarke and his wife Julia
Zoom meeting on the 4th Wednesday of each month, for info for Zoom please email whfczoom<at>gmail.com
Folk Club Information: Derrick Beer, 01793 762070; Geoff Davies, 01793 706753; www.facebook.com/whitehorsefolkclub
WEST MIDLANDS 🄵🅆 Midlands
🄵 MIKE WEAVER
Mike Weaver’s latest CD, The Greyest Bits, was released in 2023 to mark his 65th birthday. This retrospective collection features compositions spanning five decades with new studio recordings of songs from those years, as well as new tracks, with musical contributions from Lukas Drinkwater and Katie Grace Harris. For details see the website www.mikeweavermusic.com
🄵 FOYER FOLK, Number 8, High Street, Pershore, WR10 1BG
Foyer Folk: Liz Simcock Saturday 16 March, 8.00pm
https://www.number8.org/events/foyer-folk-liz-simcock/
One of the UK’s finest singer-songwriters, Liz Simcock performs original songs injected with poetry, emotion and splashes of humour. In 2020 she released her fifth album, Winter Hill - a pared down acoustic album featuring one voice, one guitar and a handful of beautifully crafted and previously unreleased tracks. Tickets: £10.00 (plus £1 if booked online).
Foyer Folk :Brimstone Saturday 20 April - 8.00pm
https://www.number8.org/events/foyer-folk-brimstone/
Inspired by music from across the Celtic nations, Brimstone perform traditional, contemporary and self-penned jigs, reels and heartwarming songs. With a line-up including fiddle, whistle, bodhran and guitar, a fun and energetic evening is guaranteed! Tickets: £10.00 (plus £1 if booked online).
Coming up - see Folklife West, May issue
Julie July Band Album Launch Saturday 11 May - 7.30pm https://www.number8.org/events/julie-july-band-album-launch/ Tickets: £18.50 (plus £1 if booked online).
Foyer Folk: Steve Ashley Saturday 18 May - 8.00pm https://www.number8.org/events/foyer-folk-steve-ashley/ Tickets: £12.00 (plus £1 if booked online).
1BG
Box Office 01386 555488; email enquiries<at> number8.org, more details on www.number8.org
🄵 BLACK DIAMOND FOLK CLUB, The Lamp Tavern, 157 Barford Street, Highgate, Birmingham B5 6AH blackdiamondfolkclub.org.uk/
April 5th Mal Waite.
April 26th Tom McConville and Michael Biggins.
June 14th Ken Wilson and Jim McFarland.
June 28th Pete Grassby
🄵 TRADITIONAL ARTS TEAM - More info at tradartsteam.co.uk, on Facebook, or @tradartsteam on Twitter
Wednesday 21 Feb, 7:30pm Birmingham Storytelling Café: Best Friends Forever, with the Café Crew. Kitchen Garden Cafe, York Road, Kings Heath, B14 7SA. A menu of great food, drinks and cakes will accompany our delightful and/or heart-wrenching stories of Friendship. Doors open 6.30pm, stories start at 7:30pm. £10: wegottickets.com More info: https://www.birminghamstorytellingcafe.co.uk/
Thursday 22 Feb, 7:30 pm Moseley Village Band St Columba’s Church Hall, Moseley, B13 8DD
tradartsteam.co.uk/our-events/events-by-partners-and-friends/#moseley-village-band
Tuesday 27 Feb, 7:30 pm Royal Tales – Sutton Coldfield Storytelling Station Pub, 44 Station St, Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, B73 6AT. Free entry, but please support the venue by buying drinks and food. Royal Tales facebook group for more info
Sat 2 March, 10am-1pm Birmingham Folk Workshop with Ricardo Santos Rocha, Portuguese multi-instrumentalist and composer. Moseley Hive, 93 Alcester Rd, Birmingham B13 8DD. He’ll use the diatonic accordion (melodeon) to share a few tunes, traditional dance rhythms and idiosyncratic aspects of the repertoire from Portugal, Galicia and Basque Country. Facebook page for more info
🄵 FOLK IN THE FOYER Conquest Theatre, Tenbury Rd., Bromyard HR7 4LL.
Sat 9th March (not the usual Friday Night) The Salts - one of the most exciting and energetic concept bands around, the Salts perform original material alongside their own interpretations of traditional songs. 21st century folk fires a respectful broadside at the traditional. "...just outstandingly brilliant" Tim Walker BBC (Costa del Folk 2022). “Incredibly gutsy stuff with a big sound” Mike Harding, (The Mike Harding Folk Show), see https://www.thesalts.co.uk/ [... and new album, see below - Ed.]
Support: The Vegan Vampires: a violin and guitar duo who play a variety of high energy Celtic and world music with punk influences. They perform traditional and original tunes to delight their audiences.
£12. Doors 7.30pm, music starts 8pm. Please Please book early so we get an idea of numbers
Coming soon: Friday 12th April – Merry Hell. Support: your own, your very own, Roger Pugh!
https://conquest-theatre.co.uk/whats-on/ / 01885 488575
Based in LONDON 🄵🅆 SE, London, East
🄵 THE SALTS: New Release: ⚓️ Live in London Town
Johnny Come Down To Hilo; Hanging Johnny; Good Ship Bess; Alabama John Cherokee; Fifteen Men; Silver & Shame; Dead Horse; Nelson’s Blood; Fire Marengo; London Town; A Shadow Falls; The Bulgine Run; Hieland Laddie; Hold The Line
www.TheSalts.co.uk
Based in YORKSHIRE & THE HUMBER 🄵🅆 North
🄵 JAN AND PAUL RAMSEY
During covid, Jan and Paul were invited to play numerous extended sets on UK and worldwide open mics and zoom folk clubs around the world. As a consequence of their zoom appearances, they were invited to play gigs in the UK and internationally, as far apart as the Middle East and America.
Their repertoire includes a wide range of traditional folk songs, as well as more contemporary and self-penned folk music. They have held various residencies in folk clubs including Aberdeen, Lancaster, and Nottingham. They are currently residents at Grimsby Folk Club.
Their latest album is ‘Role Call’, a mix of traditional and self-penned songs. This, as well as their previous album ‘Lincs to Land and Sea’ is available as a CD, with accompanying booklet, from jprfolk.com, or as a digital download from ‘Bandcamp’, janandpaulramsey.bandcamp.com
Set lengths and talk about folk music are available from between 30 and 90+ minutes.
To discuss a booking, please contact Jan on 07984 643921
or email: jprfolk<at>gmail.com.
Based in ALBA/SCOTLAND 🄵🅆 Alba•Scotland
🄵 WORLD WHALE DAY - Zoom Sing Invitation Sunday 18 February
Hi everyone
Following the great success of our inaugural World Whale Day Sing, you are invited to join us for another special sing to mark World Whale Day 2024 on Sunday 18 February – 8pm UK, 3pm ET, noon PT. Songs that celebrate and treasure whales (there probably aren’t a lot…), and songs that remember mankind’s impact through whaling (ideally the less triumphalist ones!!). Invitation attached.
Please contact linnphipps<at>gmail.com to join the participants list – Zoom link to join will be sent 24 hours prior – singers, musicians and listeners all welcome.
Best wishes from Linn Phipps and Bonnie Milner. Other links: https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk Bonnie: www.thejohnsongirls.com
USA ⎈ International
Zoom - Boston, Mass
ØØ LINN NOEL https://sites.google.com/view/crosscurrents-music
.and ZOOM: LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN
Zoom meeting links are mailing list only.. Join this mailing list at http://mailinglist.mermaidstavern.com
Monthly sessions on first Sundays 2-4pm ET. Special events as the occasion requires.
- note cancelled March Saint Patrick's Day special, so next is:
- April 7 Chantey and Tavern Sing
- May 1 special May Morning at Dawn EST
............................... 3 COLORADO LIVE VENUES added !
Aurora, CO
ØØ NEIGHBORHOOD SINGAROUND -- https://www.sophielichens.com/singarounds
Monthly folk singaround on third Saturdays 2-4pm MT. All welcome to sing or to listen. Trad(ish) songs, unaccompanied. Located at Neighborhood Music in the Stanley Marketplace, 2501 Dallas St, Suite 130, Aurora, CO, 80010. Entrance on the north side of the building.
Email SundaySeaSongs<at>gmail.com with questions.
Colorado Springs, CO
🄵 WEEKLY TRADITIONAL MUSIC SESSION Weekly traditional music session, singers and instrumentalists (and listeners) welcome, in Colorado Springs at Jack Quinn’s Pub and Restaurant, 21 South Tejon St., Colorado Springs CO 80903, running 3 to 6 pm every Sunday. Anchored by Doug Huggins, the session will celebrate 26 years at the same location this March. Contact Doug at 01 (719) 208-1817 or Tradmusic<at>centurylink.net if you have questions.
Old Colorado City, CO
🄵 WEEKLY TRADITIONAL MUSIC SESSION, singers, players and listeners welcome at Jives Coffee Lounge, 16 Colbrunn Court, Old Colorado City, 80904, every Thursday evening, 6 to 9 pm. Contact Doug at 01 (719) 208-1817 or Tradmusic<at>centurylink.net if you have questions or if weather is bad.
FESTIVALS/WORKSHOPS UPDATES 🄵🅆 Festivals, Workshops Diary
Guests added
2024 May 10 - 12 TREDEGAR HOUSE FOLK FESTIVAL www.tredegarhousefestival.org.uk
→ NEWPORT. Tredegar House & Country Park, Newport, Gwent NP10 8YW. South Wales
⌂ TREDEGAR HOUSE FOLK FESTIVAL; for further details, contact: Sue Oates, susieoates135hotmail.com, 01633 246241
⊕ A weekend of international dance, music, and song. Full Headliners: Lindisfarne, Huw Williams, The Young’Uns, Rusty Shackle, too many artists to list, so check the website. Plus Llantrisant, Lyceum & Newport Folk Clubs, Real Ales, Farmers’ Market, Ceilidhs, Irish Session… Workshops + Open Mics + brilliant crafts people + and lots, lots more! Plus! The finest, most colourful Welsh, UK & international folk dance teams you’ll ever see gathered in one place in the British Isles. 🄵 Sue Oates
Dates announced, was listed as TBA
GWERIN GWALLGO 2024 - Youth Folk Course
Monday, March 25 – Thursday, March 28
Gwersyll yr Urdd, Glanllyn, Bala, United Kingdom
A full-on four-day residential folk course for young people, aged 11 to 18. Tuition includes instrumental work (beginners to advanced), folk song, clog dancing, and lots of hwyl! Fully inclusive - the cost includes all meals, accommodation, and tuition.
Tutors: Fiddle, Patrick Rimes and Aneirin Jones; Song, Beth Celyn; Clog dancing, Beth Williams Jones and Huw Williams;| Guitar, Rhys Morris; Harp, Gwen Màiri; Cello/Mixed Instrument - Awen Blandford; Studio - Osian Gruffydd
Bursaries and support for people with additional support needs are available - please contact jordan<at>trac-cymru.org for more information. Places are limited, register now!
https://www.trac.cymru/en/gwerin-gwallgo/
GWERIN GWALLGO 2024 - Youth Folk Course
Monday, March 25 – Thursday, March 28
Gwersyll yr Urdd, Glanllyn, Bala, United Kingdom
A full-on four-day residential folk course for young people, aged 11 to 18. Tuition includes instrumental work (beginners to advanced), folk song, clog dancing, and lots of hwyl! Fully inclusive - the cost includes all meals, accommodation, and tuition.
Tutors: Fiddle, Patrick Rimes and Aneirin Jones; Song, Beth Celyn; Clog dancing, Beth Williams Jones and Huw Williams;| Guitar, Rhys Morris; Harp, Gwen Màiri; Cello/Mixed Instrument - Awen Blandford; Studio - Osian Gruffydd
Bursaries and support for people with additional support needs are available - please contact jordan<at>trac-cymru.org for more information. Places are limited, register now!
https://www.trac.cymru/en/gwerin-gwallgo/
UPDATES - only if additional to January issue of Folklife West; plus online-only overseas news
ENGLAND: WEST COUNTRY 🄵🅆 West Country
🄵 WHITE HORSE FOLK CLUB, St Michael’s Hall, Lechlade Road, Highworth SN6 7HQ.
1st & 3rd Wed, 7.30pm; occasional concerts announced:
Wednesday 17th April: Dave Ellis and Boo Howard
Wednesday 19th June: Anthony John Clarke and his wife Julia
Zoom meeting on the 4th Wednesday of each month, for info for Zoom please email whfczoom<at>gmail.com
Folk Club Information: Derrick Beer, 01793 762070; Geoff Davies, 01793 706753; www.facebook.com/whitehorsefolkclub
🄵 CHELTENHAM FOLK CLUB UPDATE !
Hi everyone, here is an update for winter/spring 2024
Jan 22 Steve Litchfield and Mike Tasker
Feb 12 Open Night
March 11 No club (room not available)
March 25 Blackthorn Buskers
Time for floor spots every time. All at the Sandford Park Alehouse at 8pm. Sorry, no dogs.
Looking forward to some great music in 2024 — Judith For details, please join the mailing list, machteltje<at>gmail.com
(new to Folklife - see also Directory Updates, Venues West Country)
🄵 PEBBLES FOLK AND ACOUSTIC NIGHT, Pebbles, 24 Market St, Watchet, Somerset TA23 0AN. 2nd Tuesdays, 7.30pm
Described as one of the snuggest venues in Somerset, the small, unique Pebbles Tavern has won numerous CAMRA awards for Cider Pub of the Year since 2014 (whatpub.com/pubs/TAU/558/pebbles-tavern-watchet). It has been described as ‘a cathedral for cider drinkers’, offering up to 30 different varieties at any one time. Several real ales are also kept. The online journal Somerset Live, describes the “convivial individuality of Pebbles Tavern” (www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/west-somerset-pub-thats-cathedral-7386269).
The club welcomes allcomers from near and far. Many, including the local town crier (who also hosts a shanty night on the third Tuesday at Pebbles), walk round to the club but many have travelled from Taunton, Glastonbury and the Devon Coast to be there.
All genres of music are welcome including traditional and contemporary folk, blues, jazz, swing, bluegrass and much more. Storytelling and poetry reading is also featured from time to time. The process is simple: on arrival, book your spot by asking for your name to be chalked up on the board, order a drink, take a seat in comfort, and be enthralled by the attention-grabbing interior, including the ceiling!
It is usually best to arrive early to be assured of a seat on these second Tuesdays: 7pm-ish is recommended.
John Henden 🄵
For more information, telephone Pebbles on: 01984 633215. www.facebook.com/pebblestavern
WEST MIDLANDS 🄵🅆 Midlands
🄵 Friday 9th February, Bromyard’s Folk in the Foyer welcomes the wonderful Steve Turner. Steve is known as a pioneer of highly sophisticated English concertina song accompaniments, stretching the boundaries of traditional forms, with one of the best voices in the business. He is a multi-instrumentalist, who also accompanies himself on the cittern, and also plays mandolin and tenor banjo. His latest much anticipated 9th album “Curious Times” featuring Martin Carthy will be released in Spring 2023. "The best gig I ever saw!’ Nancy Kerr
Support: Our very own Huw Knight and Viv Bell - singer-songwriter/guitarists who live in Bromyard. They write and perform original songs. Recordings they have made are regularly played on BBC Hereford and Worcester.
£10. Doors: 7.30pm. Music starts: 8pm. Please please book early so we get an idea of numbers.
Conquest Theatre, Tenbury Rd., Bromyard HR7 4LL https://conquest-theatre.co.uk/whats-on 01885 488575
Saturday 9th March (yes, that’s correct, this one’s on a Saturday!): The Salts: one of the most exciting and energetic concept bands around, performing original material alongside their own interpretations of traditional songs. Support: The Vegan Vampires
Friday 12th April – Merry Hell. Support: your own, your very own, Roger Pugh!
🄵 BANJAXXED (new to Folklife - see also Directory Updates, Folk Groups)
Banjaxxed are a band based in Malvern (Worcs) and Ledbury (Herefs) who play mainly Celtic and Irish music. We are pretty versatile and between us play a diverse range of traditional instruments and one or two that are not so traditional!
We really enjoy playing for audiences big and small, from family functions to cafes and theatres.
If you are interested in booking us please phone Pippa on 075228 24450 or Peter on 07774045830 or email bernieuptonfolk<at>gmail.com
🄵 FISHMONGERS' FRIENDS (new to Folklife - see also Directory Updates, Shanties)
Fishmongers’ Friends shanty crew are an informal group of shanty singers based in Bishops Frome, Herefordshire.
Anybody interested in booking The Fishmongers' Friends for your event please contact Richard by email rcmam.74<at>gmail.com or phone 07989501047.
Based in SOUTH-EAST 🄵🅆 SE, London, East
🄵 MOONRAKERS GIGS
Based in ALBA/SCOTLAND 🄵🅆 Alba•Scotland
🄵 THEMED SHANTY BIG SING ON ZOOM: Next is “CALIFORNIA”. Tuesday 13 February.
Our next Themed Shanty Big Sing (no 14) will be on Tuesday 13 February 2024, 8pm UK/ Ireland time (3pm ET, noon PT, 9pm France time etc), when we look forward to everyone joining us to share / hear versions of Shantys featuring as the / a key theme, “California”.
To join as singers / audience and to get the event Zoom link (about 24 hours prior), pls email Linn direct at linnphipps @ gmail.com, with subject line Themed Shanty Big Sing No 14 “California”.
Also, to help version learning, the next upcoming themes will be:
· "Blow, Boys, Blow", aka "Congo River"
· "Haul Away, Joe"
See you soon!
Linn Phipps & Jim Lucas
Shanty Big Sing website http://shantyman.dk/ShantyBigSings/
New Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ThemedShantyBigSings-rc9te
Additionally https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/collaborations-links-and-other-news/
FESTIVALS UPDATES 🄵🅆 Festivals, Workshops Diary
🄵 2024 FEBRUARY 16 - 18 GWERIN IAU, residential Folk Weekend for children aged 8-14 https://trac.cymru/en/junior-folk-weekend/
→ Gwersyll yr Urdd, Glan-llyn, near Llanuwchllyn, Y Bala, Gwynedd
⌂ Trac Cymru, trac@trac-cymru.org,
⊕ The popular Gwerin Iau / Junior Folk course returns to Gwersyll yr Urdd, Glan-llyn over the last weekend of February half term, in a joint arrangement between Trac Cymru and Urdd Gobaith Cymru. This is a special opportunity for children aged 8-14 to attend a residential course at Glan-llyn to take part in folk music activities, singing, dancing, playing instruments and all with a good dollop of adventurous activities. The musical elements will be led by 3 leading individuals in their fields – the singer and harpist from the group Pedair – Gwenan Gibbard, the fiddler and singer Angharad Jenkins from Calan and the broadcaster and expert clog dancer – Tudor Phillips.
The course will run from 12pm Friday February 16, to 4pm Sunday February 18. Price £160.
The price includes accommodation, food, training, activities and childcare. If there is enough demand, a bus from south Wales can be arranged for an additional £35. Click to register – limited to 50 places only! www.cognitoforms.com/UrddGobaithCymru/CwrsCerddoriaethGwerin2024GlanllynGlanllynFolkMusicCourse2024
🄵 Listed as 2024 May TBA CHURCHDOWN BEER & FOLK FESTIVAL
now confirmed as
2024 APRIL 26 - 28 CHURCHDOWN FOLK & ALE FESTIVAL Facebook GlosFolk
→ CHURCHDOWN, Gloucestershire. The Churchdown Club (http://churchdownclub.co.uk), Church Road, Churchdown, Gloucester, GL3 2ER
⌂ For more info: website/facebook tba, http://liamtho.com/FolkAtTheClub.
⊕ Guests tba. Please contact Will Craswell, 07740 248785, liam@liamtho.com 🄵 Will Craswell
INTERNATIONAL - USA
Zoom - Boston, Mass
ØØ LINN NOEL https://sites.google.com/view/crosscurrents-music
.and ZOOM: LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN
Zoom meeting links are MAILING LIST ONLY. Join this mailing list at http://mailinglist.mermaidstavern.com
2023-2024 SCHEDULE: Monthly sessions on first Sundays 2-4pm ET. Special events as the occasion requires.
Live - New York state
ØØ CORNING. VALLEY FOLK MUSIC CONCERTS: 2024 revised since last Updates
Buy tickets online at www.valleyfolk.org or at the door.
Sunday, January 28, 2 pm ...... John Showman & Chris Coole (one week later than originally advertised). Showman and Coole
Through twenty years and a couple of thousand shows together, John Showman and Chris Coole have developed a deep and instinctual musical bond. Their music lurks around a truly unique space that is somewhere on the outskirts of old-time, bluegrass, and folk. More info...
Purchase tickets online here!
Saturday, February 10, Darol Anger & Mike Marshall Duo - Concert has been canceled due to unforeseen circumstances beyond our control. We apologize for any disappointment.
Sunday, March 10, 2pm .................. Beppe Gambetta
Concerts are held at 144 Cedar Street Corning, NY (corner 1st St.) in the red brick Methodist Church
For more information visit our website, or contact us: (1) 607-962-4461, or info<at>valleyfolk.org www.valleyfolk.org
ENGLAND: WEST COUNTRY 🄵🅆 West Country
🄵 WHITE HORSE FOLK CLUB, St Michael’s Hall, Lechlade Road, Highworth SN6 7HQ.
1st & 3rd Wed, 7.30pm; occasional concerts announced:
Wednesday 17th April: Dave Ellis and Boo Howard
Wednesday 19th June: Anthony John Clarke and his wife Julia
Zoom meeting on the 4th Wednesday of each month, for info for Zoom please email whfczoom<at>gmail.com
Folk Club Information: Derrick Beer, 01793 762070; Geoff Davies, 01793 706753; www.facebook.com/whitehorsefolkclub
🄵 CHELTENHAM FOLK CLUB UPDATE !
Hi everyone, here is an update for winter/spring 2024
Jan 22 Steve Litchfield and Mike Tasker
Feb 12 Open Night
March 11 No club (room not available)
March 25 Blackthorn Buskers
Time for floor spots every time. All at the Sandford Park Alehouse at 8pm. Sorry, no dogs.
Looking forward to some great music in 2024 — Judith For details, please join the mailing list, machteltje<at>gmail.com
(new to Folklife - see also Directory Updates, Venues West Country)
🄵 PEBBLES FOLK AND ACOUSTIC NIGHT, Pebbles, 24 Market St, Watchet, Somerset TA23 0AN. 2nd Tuesdays, 7.30pm
Described as one of the snuggest venues in Somerset, the small, unique Pebbles Tavern has won numerous CAMRA awards for Cider Pub of the Year since 2014 (whatpub.com/pubs/TAU/558/pebbles-tavern-watchet). It has been described as ‘a cathedral for cider drinkers’, offering up to 30 different varieties at any one time. Several real ales are also kept. The online journal Somerset Live, describes the “convivial individuality of Pebbles Tavern” (www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/west-somerset-pub-thats-cathedral-7386269).
The club welcomes allcomers from near and far. Many, including the local town crier (who also hosts a shanty night on the third Tuesday at Pebbles), walk round to the club but many have travelled from Taunton, Glastonbury and the Devon Coast to be there.
All genres of music are welcome including traditional and contemporary folk, blues, jazz, swing, bluegrass and much more. Storytelling and poetry reading is also featured from time to time. The process is simple: on arrival, book your spot by asking for your name to be chalked up on the board, order a drink, take a seat in comfort, and be enthralled by the attention-grabbing interior, including the ceiling!
It is usually best to arrive early to be assured of a seat on these second Tuesdays: 7pm-ish is recommended.
John Henden 🄵
For more information, telephone Pebbles on: 01984 633215. www.facebook.com/pebblestavern
WEST MIDLANDS 🄵🅆 Midlands
🄵 Friday 9th February, Bromyard’s Folk in the Foyer welcomes the wonderful Steve Turner. Steve is known as a pioneer of highly sophisticated English concertina song accompaniments, stretching the boundaries of traditional forms, with one of the best voices in the business. He is a multi-instrumentalist, who also accompanies himself on the cittern, and also plays mandolin and tenor banjo. His latest much anticipated 9th album “Curious Times” featuring Martin Carthy will be released in Spring 2023. "The best gig I ever saw!’ Nancy Kerr
Support: Our very own Huw Knight and Viv Bell - singer-songwriter/guitarists who live in Bromyard. They write and perform original songs. Recordings they have made are regularly played on BBC Hereford and Worcester.
£10. Doors: 7.30pm. Music starts: 8pm. Please please book early so we get an idea of numbers.
Conquest Theatre, Tenbury Rd., Bromyard HR7 4LL https://conquest-theatre.co.uk/whats-on 01885 488575
Saturday 9th March (yes, that’s correct, this one’s on a Saturday!): The Salts: one of the most exciting and energetic concept bands around, performing original material alongside their own interpretations of traditional songs. Support: The Vegan Vampires
Friday 12th April – Merry Hell. Support: your own, your very own, Roger Pugh!
🄵 BANJAXXED (new to Folklife - see also Directory Updates, Folk Groups)
Banjaxxed are a band based in Malvern (Worcs) and Ledbury (Herefs) who play mainly Celtic and Irish music. We are pretty versatile and between us play a diverse range of traditional instruments and one or two that are not so traditional!
We really enjoy playing for audiences big and small, from family functions to cafes and theatres.
If you are interested in booking us please phone Pippa on 075228 24450 or Peter on 07774045830 or email bernieuptonfolk<at>gmail.com
🄵 FISHMONGERS' FRIENDS (new to Folklife - see also Directory Updates, Shanties)
Fishmongers’ Friends shanty crew are an informal group of shanty singers based in Bishops Frome, Herefordshire.
Anybody interested in booking The Fishmongers' Friends for your event please contact Richard by email rcmam.74<at>gmail.com or phone 07989501047.
Based in SOUTH-EAST 🄵🅆 SE, London, East
🄵 MOONRAKERS GIGS
- Thur 29th Feb Duo concert (Jon & Jacqui), with special guest Andy May, HALSWAY MANOR, Somerset, TA4 4BD. 8.00pm .
- Sat 2nd March Snell’s Hall, Church Street, EAST HENDRED, OX12 8LA. 7.30pm. £14 + booking fee in advance from www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/moonrakers-tickets-777065954187?aff=ebdshpsearchautocomplete or on the door. Bar drinks.
- Sat 16th March St Giles Church, Horspath, OXFORD, OX33 1RU. A welcome return to this lovely church in a village tucked beneath Shotover Hill near Oxford. 7.30pm. £12 on the door. Enquiries: 01865 769206.
- Sat 6th April All Saints Church, Castle Street, HIGH WYCOMBE, HP13 6RF. 7.30pm £12 on the door.
- Sat 13th April St Chad's Church, Bishops Tachbrook, LEAMINGTON SPA, CV33 9RJ. 7.30pm £12 on the door.
- Fri 26th April St John's Church, BODICOTE, Banbury, OX15 4DW, A church dating back to the 13th century. 7.30pm. £12 on the door or in advance from 01295 250282
- Sat 11th May Holy Trinity Church, PRESTWOOD, Bucks, HP16 0HJ. 7.30pm. £12 on the door.
Based in ALBA/SCOTLAND 🄵🅆 Alba•Scotland
🄵 THEMED SHANTY BIG SING ON ZOOM: Next is “CALIFORNIA”. Tuesday 13 February.
Our next Themed Shanty Big Sing (no 14) will be on Tuesday 13 February 2024, 8pm UK/ Ireland time (3pm ET, noon PT, 9pm France time etc), when we look forward to everyone joining us to share / hear versions of Shantys featuring as the / a key theme, “California”.
To join as singers / audience and to get the event Zoom link (about 24 hours prior), pls email Linn direct at linnphipps @ gmail.com, with subject line Themed Shanty Big Sing No 14 “California”.
Also, to help version learning, the next upcoming themes will be:
· "Blow, Boys, Blow", aka "Congo River"
· "Haul Away, Joe"
See you soon!
Linn Phipps & Jim Lucas
Shanty Big Sing website http://shantyman.dk/ShantyBigSings/
New Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ThemedShantyBigSings-rc9te
Additionally https://linnphippsfolk.co.uk/collaborations-links-and-other-news/
FESTIVALS UPDATES 🄵🅆 Festivals, Workshops Diary
🄵 2024 FEBRUARY 16 - 18 GWERIN IAU, residential Folk Weekend for children aged 8-14 https://trac.cymru/en/junior-folk-weekend/
→ Gwersyll yr Urdd, Glan-llyn, near Llanuwchllyn, Y Bala, Gwynedd
⌂ Trac Cymru, trac@trac-cymru.org,
⊕ The popular Gwerin Iau / Junior Folk course returns to Gwersyll yr Urdd, Glan-llyn over the last weekend of February half term, in a joint arrangement between Trac Cymru and Urdd Gobaith Cymru. This is a special opportunity for children aged 8-14 to attend a residential course at Glan-llyn to take part in folk music activities, singing, dancing, playing instruments and all with a good dollop of adventurous activities. The musical elements will be led by 3 leading individuals in their fields – the singer and harpist from the group Pedair – Gwenan Gibbard, the fiddler and singer Angharad Jenkins from Calan and the broadcaster and expert clog dancer – Tudor Phillips.
The course will run from 12pm Friday February 16, to 4pm Sunday February 18. Price £160.
The price includes accommodation, food, training, activities and childcare. If there is enough demand, a bus from south Wales can be arranged for an additional £35. Click to register – limited to 50 places only! www.cognitoforms.com/UrddGobaithCymru/CwrsCerddoriaethGwerin2024GlanllynGlanllynFolkMusicCourse2024
🄵 Listed as 2024 May TBA CHURCHDOWN BEER & FOLK FESTIVAL
now confirmed as
2024 APRIL 26 - 28 CHURCHDOWN FOLK & ALE FESTIVAL Facebook GlosFolk
→ CHURCHDOWN, Gloucestershire. The Churchdown Club (http://churchdownclub.co.uk), Church Road, Churchdown, Gloucester, GL3 2ER
⌂ For more info: website/facebook tba, http://liamtho.com/FolkAtTheClub.
⊕ Guests tba. Please contact Will Craswell, 07740 248785, liam@liamtho.com 🄵 Will Craswell
INTERNATIONAL - USA
Zoom - Boston, Mass
ØØ LINN NOEL https://sites.google.com/view/crosscurrents-music
.and ZOOM: LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN
Zoom meeting links are MAILING LIST ONLY. Join this mailing list at http://mailinglist.mermaidstavern.com
2023-2024 SCHEDULE: Monthly sessions on first Sundays 2-4pm ET. Special events as the occasion requires.
- January 21: SPECIAL Burns Night
- February 4: SPECIAL Child’s Birthday Ballad Sing
- March 17: SPECIAL Saint Patrick's Day
- April 7 Chantey and Tavern Sing
- May 1 SPECIAL May Morning at Dawn EST
Live - New York state
ØØ CORNING. VALLEY FOLK MUSIC CONCERTS: 2024 revised since last Updates
Buy tickets online at www.valleyfolk.org or at the door.
Sunday, January 28, 2 pm ...... John Showman & Chris Coole (one week later than originally advertised). Showman and Coole
Through twenty years and a couple of thousand shows together, John Showman and Chris Coole have developed a deep and instinctual musical bond. Their music lurks around a truly unique space that is somewhere on the outskirts of old-time, bluegrass, and folk. More info...
Purchase tickets online here!
Saturday, February 10, Darol Anger & Mike Marshall Duo - Concert has been canceled due to unforeseen circumstances beyond our control. We apologize for any disappointment.
Sunday, March 10, 2pm .................. Beppe Gambetta
Concerts are held at 144 Cedar Street Corning, NY (corner 1st St.) in the red brick Methodist Church
For more information visit our website, or contact us: (1) 607-962-4461, or info<at>valleyfolk.org www.valleyfolk.org
DECEMBER
🄵 TRAD ARTS TEAM DECEMBER NEWSLETTER and 🄵 HOMEND POETS, updated events now passed
UPDATES - only if additional to January issue of Folklife West; plus online-only overseas news
CYMRU/WALES
🄵 TASC Saturday 6th January, Montgomery Town Hall Twelfth Night Ceilidh with Ffonic and Monty Folk
Advance tickets available from https://www.tradartsupport.org.uk/shop.html
Contact Claire via: admin<at>tradartsupport.org.uk for further information.
🄵 BLACK MOUNTAIN BALFOLK (see FW Jan 2024 page 7)
Here is an update for January 2024 for the Black Mountain Balfolk in Hay on Wye Parish Hall: Sunday 7 and 21 January 4-6 pm .
WEST COUNTRY
🄵 WREN MUSIC
Musical Warm Bank until Sunday 31 March 2024. This winter we are sharing love, joy and good health by hosting a musical warm bank. For five evenings a week our doors will be open to families from Okehampton, to help keep their heating bills down and their spirits up.
Wassails January 14, 19, 20 & 27
Okehampton, Exeter, Landkey and Brixham. We will be supporting four community Wassails this year.
Her Story 2024 from Sunday 4 February Exeter Phoenix
If you identify as a woman, come along and celebrate the women's history of Exeter, through song!
New Term starts again on Monday 8 January
Come along and make folk music with others - every week!
Mondays: Folk Orchestra of East Devon
Tuesdays: West Devon and Torbay Folk Choirs
Wednesdays: North Devon and Exeter Choirs Details, and calendar www.wrenmusic.co.uk
LONDON
🄵 THE SALTS Thursday 25 January, Cutty Sark Concert, 7 - 8.50pm, £18 www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/cutty-sark-concert-the-salts
Celebrate Burns Night on board the iconic tea clipper Cutty Sark for a folktastic evening of music from The Salts, who return after a sell-out performance last year.
The Salts are one of the most exciting and energetic concept bands around, performing original material alongside their own interpretations of traditional songs. www.TheSalts.co.uk
FESTIVALS UPDATES 🄵🅆 Festivals, Workshops Diary
🄵 2024 June 21 - 23 TEIGNMOUTH FOLK FESTIVAL ; 🄵 2024 Aug 16 - 18 WHITE HORSE FOLK FESTIVAL ; and
🄵 2024 Aug 22 - 26 (BH weekend) CORNWALL FOLK FESTIVAL; updates now included in January issue, see Festivals/Workshops webpage
Happy to include news from ØØ international non-members on UPDATES mailing list (not in print magazine, unless members).
INTERNATIONAL - USA
ØØ Four Forebitters from a Tavern Down by the Harbour
A compact 11 minute a cappella set of lightly telescoped versions of four forebitters recently shared with folks at the Vancouver Folk Song Society.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TmjyiIi8WY
Tavern Down by the Harbour (Tom Sweeney); From Auckland to the Bluff (Rudy Sunde); Shanghaied (David Littlefield); Song of the Sea (Rod Sherman). I can provide the full lyrics, but I do not have the chords or sheet music for instrumentalists.
Rick Pollay
ØØ LINN NOEL https://sites.google.com/view/crosscurrents-music
.and ZOOM: LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN
Zoom meeting links are MAILING LIST ONLY. Join this mailing list at http://mailinglist.mermaidstavern.com
2023-2024 SCHEDULE: Monthly sessions on first Sundays 2-4pm ET. Special events as the occasion requires.
Live - New York state
ØØ CORNING. VALLEY FOLK MUSIC CONCERTS: 2024 revised since last Updates
Buy tickets online at www.valleyfolk.org or at the door.
Sunday, January 28, 7.30 pm ...... John Showman & Chris Coole (one week later than originally advertised).
Saturday, February 10, 7.30 pm ... Darol Anger & Mike Marshall Duo
Sunday, March 10, 2pm .................. Beppe Gambetta
Cancelled: Sunday, April 7, 2pm .... Stars for the Eclipse
New concert added: Sunday April 28, 2pm .... Sally Rogers & Claudia Schmidt
Concerts are held at 144 Cedar St. Corning, NY (corner 1st St.) in the red brick Methodist Church
For more information visit our website, or contact us: (1) 607-962-4461, or info<at>valleyfolk.org
www.valleyfolk.org
We are always happy to welcome holiday makers to our concerts. The Corning Museum of Glass (CMOG) also located in Corning, NY where our concerts are held, is well worth a side trip from bigger destinations and is just a little west of the halfway point between NY City and Niagara Falls. And once in Corning, the smaller Rockwell Museum of Western Art (that’s western US) is affiliated with the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC. One could happily spend a few days here for a nice contrast to crowded big city places. - Debra
🄵 TRAD ARTS TEAM DECEMBER NEWSLETTER and 🄵 HOMEND POETS, updated events now passed
UPDATES - only if additional to January issue of Folklife West; plus online-only overseas news
CYMRU/WALES
🄵 TASC Saturday 6th January, Montgomery Town Hall Twelfth Night Ceilidh with Ffonic and Monty Folk
Advance tickets available from https://www.tradartsupport.org.uk/shop.html
Contact Claire via: admin<at>tradartsupport.org.uk for further information.
🄵 BLACK MOUNTAIN BALFOLK (see FW Jan 2024 page 7)
Here is an update for January 2024 for the Black Mountain Balfolk in Hay on Wye Parish Hall: Sunday 7 and 21 January 4-6 pm .
WEST COUNTRY
🄵 WREN MUSIC
Musical Warm Bank until Sunday 31 March 2024. This winter we are sharing love, joy and good health by hosting a musical warm bank. For five evenings a week our doors will be open to families from Okehampton, to help keep their heating bills down and their spirits up.
Wassails January 14, 19, 20 & 27
Okehampton, Exeter, Landkey and Brixham. We will be supporting four community Wassails this year.
Her Story 2024 from Sunday 4 February Exeter Phoenix
If you identify as a woman, come along and celebrate the women's history of Exeter, through song!
New Term starts again on Monday 8 January
Come along and make folk music with others - every week!
Mondays: Folk Orchestra of East Devon
Tuesdays: West Devon and Torbay Folk Choirs
Wednesdays: North Devon and Exeter Choirs Details, and calendar www.wrenmusic.co.uk
LONDON
🄵 THE SALTS Thursday 25 January, Cutty Sark Concert, 7 - 8.50pm, £18 www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/cutty-sark-concert-the-salts
Celebrate Burns Night on board the iconic tea clipper Cutty Sark for a folktastic evening of music from The Salts, who return after a sell-out performance last year.
The Salts are one of the most exciting and energetic concept bands around, performing original material alongside their own interpretations of traditional songs. www.TheSalts.co.uk
FESTIVALS UPDATES 🄵🅆 Festivals, Workshops Diary
🄵 2024 June 21 - 23 TEIGNMOUTH FOLK FESTIVAL ; 🄵 2024 Aug 16 - 18 WHITE HORSE FOLK FESTIVAL ; and
🄵 2024 Aug 22 - 26 (BH weekend) CORNWALL FOLK FESTIVAL; updates now included in January issue, see Festivals/Workshops webpage
Happy to include news from ØØ international non-members on UPDATES mailing list (not in print magazine, unless members).
INTERNATIONAL - USA
ØØ Four Forebitters from a Tavern Down by the Harbour
A compact 11 minute a cappella set of lightly telescoped versions of four forebitters recently shared with folks at the Vancouver Folk Song Society.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TmjyiIi8WY
Tavern Down by the Harbour (Tom Sweeney); From Auckland to the Bluff (Rudy Sunde); Shanghaied (David Littlefield); Song of the Sea (Rod Sherman). I can provide the full lyrics, but I do not have the chords or sheet music for instrumentalists.
Rick Pollay
ØØ LINN NOEL https://sites.google.com/view/crosscurrents-music
.and ZOOM: LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN
Zoom meeting links are MAILING LIST ONLY. Join this mailing list at http://mailinglist.mermaidstavern.com
2023-2024 SCHEDULE: Monthly sessions on first Sundays 2-4pm ET. Special events as the occasion requires.
- January 21: SPECIAL Burns Night
- February 4: Child’s Birthday Ballad Sing
Live - New York state
ØØ CORNING. VALLEY FOLK MUSIC CONCERTS: 2024 revised since last Updates
Buy tickets online at www.valleyfolk.org or at the door.
Sunday, January 28, 7.30 pm ...... John Showman & Chris Coole (one week later than originally advertised).
Saturday, February 10, 7.30 pm ... Darol Anger & Mike Marshall Duo
Sunday, March 10, 2pm .................. Beppe Gambetta
Cancelled: Sunday, April 7, 2pm .... Stars for the Eclipse
New concert added: Sunday April 28, 2pm .... Sally Rogers & Claudia Schmidt
Concerts are held at 144 Cedar St. Corning, NY (corner 1st St.) in the red brick Methodist Church
For more information visit our website, or contact us: (1) 607-962-4461, or info<at>valleyfolk.org
www.valleyfolk.org
We are always happy to welcome holiday makers to our concerts. The Corning Museum of Glass (CMOG) also located in Corning, NY where our concerts are held, is well worth a side trip from bigger destinations and is just a little west of the halfway point between NY City and Niagara Falls. And once in Corning, the smaller Rockwell Museum of Western Art (that’s western US) is affiliated with the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC. One could happily spend a few days here for a nice contrast to crowded big city places. - Debra
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Before Covid ... amazingly high annual-renewal rates. Sadly, some venues have closed. And some adverts are missing.
This means our losses are more than usual.
• We're not crowd-funding, we're not asking for large donations, etc.
• If . . . most members renew their membership (£18) --- perhaps 2 copies (£24 a year) instead of 1?
. . . and if some non-members consider joining (£18), or subscribing to Journal (£10),... or donating annually (£3) via box on website
. . . and maybe some advertise (from 1/8th mono £10) . . .
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