- 4 May MAY SONGS & TUNES £5 cash
- Bring songs, tunes & readings for May. Derek Seed is in the chair. We'll be serving home-made Maids of Honour, a traditional Maytime treat. This is a good night for performing in public for the first time to friendly listeners. Vocal & instrumental groups welcome.
- 11 May COME ALL YE £5 cash
- Bring songs, tunes & readings. Derek Seed is in the chair. This is a good night for performing in public for the first time to friendly listeners. Vocal & instrumental groups welcome.
- 18 May CORACLE £15 cash
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Paul Hutchinson (Belshazzar's Feast) Karen Wimhurst (Welsh National Opera, Grimethorpe Colliery Band, jazz) & Anna Tam (Mediaeval Babes) blend traditional music & song in enthralling alchemy with elements from Early Music, classical & jazz. They sing & play accordion, clarinet, nyckelharpa, hurdy gurdy, cello & viola da gamba.
CORACLE EARLY MUSIC FOR FOLK MUSICIANS WORKSHOP (any instrument)
Saturday 18 May 10:45 - 16:45 £45 cash (2 under-25 year olds £22) Email to reserve places
The workshop will explore the long border where traditional & Early Music overlap, merge & borrow from each other. Music reading required. More details to follow. Some music will be available in advance. - 25 May COME ALL YE £5 cash
- Bring songs, tunes & readings. Derek Seed is in the chair. This is a good night for performing in public for the first time to friendly listeners. Vocal & instrumental groups welcome.
- 1 June TWAGGER BAND £12 cash
- Beautiful, jolly & funny tunes & songs from the British Isles & beyond with two hammer dulcimers, fiddle, guitar, whistles, serpent, accordion & concertina,
- 8 June BOB & GILL BERRY £12 cash
- Traditional & newer songs in vocal harmony with guitar, bouzouki, concertina & ukulele.
- 15 June TYBURN ROAD (DAVE TOWNSEND & IAN GILES) £12 cash
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Traditional & unusual songs & tunes, many about rogues, vagabonds & villains of all sorts, plus sea songs, with concertina & melodeon.
DAVE TOWNSEND VILLAGE BAND WORKSHOP (any instrument)
Saturday 15 June 10:45 - 16:45 £45 cash (2 under-25 year olds £22) Email to reserve places
Dave's popular, lively & very playable four-part arrangements of mainly English traditional dance tunes for any instrument.
Music reading required. Some music will be available in advance. - 22 June BOLD REILLY £11 cash
- Dan Stewart (banjo, guitar, fiddle, voice, Rattle on the Stovepipe, Long Hill Ramblers) & Chan Reid (voice, guitar, fiddle, Hastings CCe) play & sing Irish traditional songs & tunes, with some added sea shanties.
- 6 July BROWN BOOTS £10 Cash
- Martin Clarke (fiddle) & Will Allen (melodeon) play dance music from the British Isles in a magnificent, inventive, humorous style with plenty of surprises. They are the musicians for the magnificent Tower Ravens rapper side.
- 13 July SING A SONG OF SUSSEX £8 Cash
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Written songs about Sussex from songmakers new & old. Singers will include Bob Lewis, Bing Lyle, Milly Murphy, Don & Di Morgan, Ann Hilton, Jim Glover & Chris Skinner, & Valmai Goodyear.
Home-made Sussex Plum Heavies will be served. Surplus after expenses will be donated to the charity Sussex Traditions.
ROGER WATSON: 'NEW SONGS FOR OLD' WORKSHOP
10:45 - 16:45 £45 cash (2 under-25 year olds £22)
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Roger Watson is a mighty songwriter. He has more than four decades of national & international folk music experience as a musician, singer, songwriter & dance caller
best known for his work with Muckram Wakes & the New Victory Band from 1971 - 81. He was also responsible for melodeon and concertina tutors first published in 1980 (still selling!)
He founded the folk development organisation Traditional Arts Projects (TAPS).
The workshop will cover an examination of how different versions of traditional songs may have come about and how songwriters with a knowledge of old songs can make their own personal and contemporary versions, and create new songs using elements of traditional ones. - 20 July CHRIS & STEVE WILSON £12 Cash
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Chris & Steve are two of that Teeside vocal powerhouse, The Wilsons. They sing traditional songs & newer ones from writers such as Leon Rosselson & Ed Pickford, their voices solo & in harmony enhanced by Steve's flute & keyboard playing.
- 27 July MARTIN WYNDHAM-READ & IRIS BISHOP £10 Cash
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Beautiful, moving & funny songs & tales from the British Isles & Australia with guitar, duet concertina & accordion.
A joint 70th. birthday celebration for Trevor & Rosemary Curry & Valmai Goodyear.
Doors will open early at 6:00 p.m. for nibbles & cake.
- AUGUST 3, 10, 17, 24, 31: COME ALL YE (£5 Cash ) with DEREK SEED
The workshops mostly last a full Saturday or Sunday & the tutor performs at the Elephant & Castle, White Hill, Lewes BN7 2DJ, on the Saturday evening. Email for places, pay cash on the day.
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- 15 June Townsend & Ian Giles Village Band
- 13 July Roger Watson 'New Songs For Old' (Reworking traditional songs & ballads for today)
- 7 or 8 Sept Pete Shepheard & Arthur Watson Ballad forum
- 21 Sept Tom McConville Fiddle
- 12 Oct Crows Song arrangement & accompaniment
- 10 Nov (Sunday) Bruce Molsky US Old-Time fiddle
- 16 Nov Doc Rowe & Jill Pidd 'Seasons & Songs'