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Folk-Now Folk Music Notice BoardAre you looking for the words to a song or a long ago deleted recording? Maybe you need a lift to a festival or have a spare ticket to dispose of, or perhaps want a pen pal, with an interest in folk music. Pin your message to the notice board; it's absolutely FREE. Folk-Now / Jim Hancock accept no responsibility for the accuracy of any message left on this notice board. If you find a problem with a message let me know at jim@folk-now.co.uk so that it can be removed |
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QUICKSILVER Come and see QuickSilver In Concert at Barnsley's
delightful Lamproom Theatre on Saturday 20th February.For details check out
the theatre's web site on http://www.lamproom.com or call 01226 200075. |
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THE OLD OAK
CONCERTS 2010 THIS MONTH! –
FEBRUARY 10th – The Old Oak Inn,
SARA GREY & KIERON
MEANS! Sara is arguably the
most valid and experienced of all the Kieron is her son and a
real chip off the old block but by no means a carbon copy. He has a style and
delivery all of his own which is exciting, refreshing and original yet
entirely complimentary to his mother’s music making. In their genre, I
can tell you, it doesn’t come any better than this – miss them at your peril! Entry:- £10.00 (£9.00
if reserved in advance) with concessions at £7.50 – proof required please. Please contact:
01335 345675/07885 345367 or keith@keithkendrick.com |
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Folkrock pioneers revisit Portsmouth Fairport Convention at the New Theatre
Royal Fairport Convention, the group
that pioneered folkrock, will visit the New Theatre Royal, Tickets
cost £17 (£15 concessions) from the box office on 023 9264 9000 or online at www.newtheatreroyal.com |
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FEBRUARY STORYTELLING CAFE AND TRADITIONAL ARTS TEAM NEWS |
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Joint Fixture
List for Kimber’s Men and Joe Stead. 2010 Feb 10th (KM) Feb 20th (KM) Whitby RNLI Charity Concert on board Feb 28th (Joe) St Mary’s Public School, Shaftesbury,
Dorset. (Life+times Paul Robeson). Mar 3rd (Joe) Halifax Library 2pm. (Life and times Paul
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Sarah
McQuaid
Saffron Walden, 01799 524002 Price: Stg 10 Thanks
to Joanna Eden for putting together a last-minute Concert For Haiti to try
and raise funds for this pressing cause. Tickets can be reserved at Saffron
Walden Tourist Information Centre on 01799 524002 (ticket price includes two
glasses of wine or fruit juice). Musicians taking part include Joanna Eden (http://www.joannaeden.com),
Ben Sommers of Mozzy Green (http://www.mozzygreen.com) and Sarah McQuaid (http://sarahmcquaid.com)
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Sarah
McQuaid +44
1736 810807 or +44 7999 868758 sarah@sarahmcquaid.com or sarahmcquaidshiels@gmail.com The
Half Moon Pub, Bishop's
Stortford, Hertfordshire CM23 2LD GB 01279
833154 Price:
Stg 4 (2 for performers) Rayleigh,
Essex SS6 7UT GB 07982
718292 Price:
Stg 8/5 U16 TwickFolk (Twickenham Folk Club) Cabbage
Patch Pub, Twickenham
TW1 3SZ 020
8991 5461 Price:
Stg 8 Fore
Street Grampound,
GB 01726
883874 Price:
Stg 7/4 conc Time
TBC Isles
of Scilly Folk Festival St
Mary's, Isles of Scilly GB 01720
422777 83
Botanic Avenue 028
90 319601 Price:
Stg 8.50 Friday,
April 30th- Weobley
Village Hall, The Hopelands, GB 01544
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Silver Dogs are an ambient Folk Rock band based in Fronted by Becky Haslam (Daughter of folk artist Ray
Haslam) Silver Dogs perform their own takes on songs penned by the likes of
Lal Waterson and Sandy Denny and will next be performing at The ACE Centre
Nelson on the 27th February 2010. Tickets are priced at £5.00 and can be obtained by
contacting the ACE Centre on 01282-661080 |
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Can’t
Wait For The Spring Tour 2010. An
evening with Trevor Moss & Hannah-Lou and The Lantern Players. February Friday 12th - Quorn Village Hall, Leicestershire. Saturday 13th – Dilton Memorial Hall, Wiltshire. Sunday 14th – Hambledon Village Hall, Monday 15th – Thursday 18th – The Betsey Trotwood, Friday 19th – Wytham Village Hall, Oxfordshire. Saturday 20th – Evershot Village Hall, Sunday 21st – Freshwater Memorial Hall, Tickets available in advance from www.wegottickets.com/lantern
£5 in advance, Limited tickets available in the door £6 Contact – Trevor Moss & Hannah-Lou – trevormossandhannahlou@gmail.com
Tel – 07810 399884 For more information on TM&HL, the Lantern Society and the tour
visit www.trevormossandhannahlou.com |
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World Unlimited
upcoming dates for January - April 2010 February 4th Peter
Von Poehl + support: Hare & Hounds 15th Francis Dunnery: Kitchen Garden Café 22nd Paper Aeroplanes & Georgia Ruth
Williams: Hare &
Hounds 27th Beth Nielsen Chapman + special guest Marcus
Hummon: Town Hall 28th Music Room: Henry’s Children, Young
Runaways, Bombdog March 11th Colvin/Quarmby: Hare & Hounds (seated) 16th Folka
Miseria: Hare & Hounds 18th Martyn Joseph: Hare & Hounds (seated) 20th Rafiki Jazz + DJ: Hare & Hounds 24th Geoff
Farina and Chris Brokaw: Hare & Hounds 28th Music Room: Goodnight Lenin + tbc April 12th Dogan Mehmet: Kitchen Garden Café: 25th Joanne Louise Parker, Men In General, Dan
Whitehouse: Music Room 29th James Grant : Hare & Hounds May 9th Show Of Hands : Wulfrun Hall Doors 15th Dreadzone: Little Civic Doors 18th
Sarah MacDougall & Tim Tweedale : Kitchen
Garden Café Venue details Hare & Hounds, Kitchen Garden Café, http://www.facebook.com/graham.radley http://www.worldunlimited.freeuk.com http://www.myspace.com/worldunlimited further info from Graham Radley – grahamrooti@o2.co.uk |
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Lyrics wanted Years ago, probably in the
early 70's, I heard a recording of a song that a friend had on a reel
to reel tape. I should have followed up on it at the time, but didn't;
the friend moved away and I'm now unable to locate him. I remember being
struck by the melody and the only lyrics I can remember are something
about a meteor shower and a hotel in
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FOLK AT THE February 25th
* £6.00 * PETA WEBB & KEN HALL |
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CELLAR UPSTAIRS FOLK CLUB: PROGRAMME FOR JANUARY TO MARCH 2010 VENUE: Exmouth Arms, INFORMATION: 020 7281 7700; www.cellarupstairs.org.uk (PUB: 020 7387 5440) ENTRANCE: Members: £5, non-members: £6 (unwaged £1 less), except on nights marked *, when it will be £6 and £7 (unless otherwise specified – NB: higher prices on 20 March). Membership: £2 for the year ACCESS: The club room is up a short staircase. RESIDENT PERFORMERS: Jim Younger, Gail Williams, Peta Webb, Ken Hall, Bob Wakeling, Sue Williams, Frankie Cleeve 2010. 6 FEB: JOHN KIRKPATRICK is one of the kings of the squeezebox. He performs traditional and his own songs and tunes; his own songs and tunes include Laundroloverette (often called the laundrette song), A Length of Yarn, Blue Balloon and Pepper in the Brandy. 13 FEB: DAVID CAMPBELL is a fine singer from a famous singing family; his father is Ian Campbell, his aunt is Lorna Campbell (both of the Ian Campbell Folk Group) and his grandparents, Dave and Betty Campbell, were traditional singers from Aberdeenshire (they were the people Bob Dylan turned up to see at the Islington folk club in 1987). David sings traditional and other songs, including a few written by his father. 20 FEB: SANDRA KERR sings songs of the personal and the political, some traditional and some written by her, including many great feminist songs such as We Were There, The Bible According to Eve, The Maintenance Engineer and The Cheviot Hills. 27 FEB: LEON ROSSELSON is one of 6 MAR: The KLEZMER KLUB is a band made up of about six men and women, who perform songs in Yiddish and a wide range of wonderful tunes, some jolly and some melancholy, on various instruments. 13 MAR: MATT QUINN and TOM MOORE are two very fine young fiddlers (Matt is 19, and Tom is still at school); they perform mainly traditional songs and tunes. Matt is the son of singer and musician Dan Quinn. 20 MAR**: I probably don’t need to tell you much about NORMA WATERSON, MARTIN CARTHY and CHRIS PARKINSON; they’re among the very best. These are the prices for tonight only: non-members £9, members £8, unwaged £1 less. 27 MAR and 3 APRIL closed for Easter |
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Jeff Lang February 2010 Mon 1. The Spring, Tel: 012392 472700 Tickets £12.50 -- From Tue 2. Black Horse, High Street, Amberley, Arundel, Tel 01798 875476 & 01798 831552 Tickets: £7.00 -- From Tel: 01252 330040 Tickets: £10.00 -- From Thurs 4. Arts Centre, Tel: 01603 660352Tickets: £10.00 -- From Fri 5. The Watersplash, Tel: 01534 482886 Tickets £8.00 -- From Sat 6. The Globe Hotel, Tel: 01392 877895 or 873407 Tickets £10.00 -- From Sun 7. The Boardwalk, 39/41 Snig Hill, City Centre, Tel 0871 230 1101Tickets: £10.00 -- From Mon 8. The Ravenswood, Horsted Lane, Sharpthorne, Tel 01342 810216 Tickets £13.00/£10.00 -- From Tue 9. The Sea View Labour Club, Tel 01446 749915Tickets: £10.00 -- From Wed 10. Mr Kyps, Tel: 01202 748945 Tickets:£10.00/£8.00 -- From Thur 11. Battle Folk Club, Tel: 07969 462836 or 01424 773344 Tickets
£8.00/£6.50 -- From Sat 13. Cooksbridge, Beechwood Hall, Lewes BN7 3QG Tel: 01273 477706 Tickets £7.00/£5.00 -- From Sun 14.The Half Moon, Lower Tel: 0208 780 9383 Tickets £10.00 -- From Mon 15. Blue Front Blues Room, The Miners Arms, Tel: 01594-861151 Tickets £9.00 -- From Tue 16. The Tel: 07760 400 226 Tickets: £9.00 -- From
Thurs 18 The Green Note, Parkway, Tel: 0207 485 9899 Tickets £12.50 -- From Fri 19. Hunton Village Hall, West St, Tel: 01622 820683 or 820127Tickets £8.00 – From |
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The Record Journal Live
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PETE CASTLE
presents WHEN THAT I WAS A LITTLE TINY BOY… A programme of stories and songs for National Storytelling
Week As the venue was
built as a school Pete will be taking as his theme stories and songs about
children, or those which feature children. But rest assured it won’t all be
cosy—children are often like the little girl with the curl in the middle of
her forehead: "When she
was good she was very, very good But when she was
bad she was horrid!" At Strutts
Centre (the old 7.30—10.00pm Tickets £5 Please phone or
email Pete in advance to book your ticket. steel.carpet@tiscali.co.uk 01773-822829 |
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JEZ LOWE FEBRUARY |
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The Hive, Belmont, Shrewsbury |
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Lau
- March 4
Octagonal Doors open/bar open: More
information/Book online at www.amgigs.co.uk
or call us on 01858 525179 |
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Fenland Arts
presents "Guitars Encore" |
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Simon Mayor &
Hilary James February 2010. Hilary James & Simon Mayor Fri 5. New Tel: 01663 744907 Tickets £7.00/£5.00 Conc. -- From Hilary James & Simon Mayor Sat 6. Sandhurst Village Hall, Tel: 01452 731489 or e-mail at bookings@sandhurstvillagehall.co.ukTickets £8.00 -- From Hilary James & Simon Mayor Sat 13. The Memorial Hall, Gerrans Hill, Portscatho, Tel: 01872 580610 Tickets £13.00 -- From Hilary James & Simon Mayor Sat 20 Riverhouse, Tel: 01932 253354 Tickets £12.00 -- From Hilary James & Simon Mayor Children’s Show Sat 20. Musical Mystery Tour Children's
Show Riverhouse, Tel: 01932 253354 Tickets £8.00 – From Hilary James & Simon Mayor Thur 25 Drayton Bassett Village Hall, Tel: 01827 284812 Tickets £7.00 From Hilary James & Simon Mayor Fri 26. Forthampton Village Hall, Tel: 01684 298293 Tickets £6.00 From Hilary James & Simon Mayor Sat 27 Mackenzie Hall, Mill Hill, Brockweir, Tel: 01291 689561 Tickets £10.00 – From March 2010. Hilary James & Simon Mayor Fri 5. Burton Institute, Tel: 01629 650090 Ticket £7.50 From Hilary James & Simon Mayor Sat 6. Alrewas Village Hall, Tel: 01283 791670 Tickets £7/£5.50 Students & OAPs/ £5
Children -- From Hilary James & Friends with special guests Tim Healey
and Simon Mayor - Sex, Drink & Death In 17th Century
Oxfordshire Tues 16. Tel: 0118 378 8660 Tickets £15.00 – From A very welcome return to MERL of popular writer and
broadcaster Tim Healey, exploring the colourful and raffish
side of English social life during the tumultuous era of the Civil War
and Restoration. Accompanied in song and music by Hilary and Simon. Hilary James & Simon Mayor Fri 26 Bouverie Hall, Tel: 01672 562584 Tickets £7.00/£6.00 Concessions
/£4.00 Child -- From Hilary James & Simon Mayor Sat 27. The Fold, 72 Laindon Road, Billericay, Essex,
CM12 9LD T Tel: 01277 659286 Tickets £9.00 – From |
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The Old Oak Inn, Keith Kendrick & Sylvia Needham Host:: Feb 10th
Sara Grey & Kieron Means
Top Drawer, legendary mother and son old timey duo from Mar 10th
The Old Fashioned
Traditional
English country music and song at it’s very best! Just the way mother used to
make it! - GET YOURSELF A SLICE! Seat Reservations and further information: Keith 07885 345367 or mailto:keith@keithkendrick.com |
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