LEWES SATURDAY FOLK CLUB PROGRAMME

November December January February
1 NOVEMBER RACHAEL ROSE EDMUNDS £8 cash Traditional & new songs in a glorious, compelling voice, unaccompanied & with shruti box. 8 NOVEMBER ANDY TURNER & MAT GREEN £10 cash https://www.andyturnermusic.uk/mat_andy/ English trad songs & tunes with fiddle & anglo concertina. Mat & Andy are founder members of the band Magpie Lane. Mat was Squire of Bampton Morris for 25 years & Andy is now the musician for Headington Quarry Morris Dancers. 15 NOVEMBER JESS & RICHARD ARROWSMITH £12 cash https://arrowsmithmusic.co.uk/ Email to reserve places, bring the right money in cash on the night Traditional English music & song, plus songs by Jess, in vocal harmony with fiddle & melodeon. With Nancy Kerr & James Fagan, Jess & Richard are half The Melrose Quartet. They are also top dance musicians. JESS & RICHARD ARROWSMITH VOCAL HARMONY WORKSHOP 10:45 - 16:45 £45 cash (2 under-25 year olds £22) Email to reserve places, bring cash on the day Teaching will be by ear, but with dots & words provided. 22 NOVEMBER DEREK SEED Derek has been a folk performer for decades, first in Liverpool & then as a resident of Lewes Saturday Folk Club. He founded the Shellback Chorus, which toured extensively abroad. Derek specialises in sea songs & industrial songs of all sorts. Come ready to join in with plenty of choruses. 29 NOVEMBER BING LYLE £8 cash Bing is a fine accordion player & singer of traditional English songs & tunes & many he has written himself. He's a member of the Sussex Pistols dance band & for years was in a duo with fiddler Ben Paley. He is a great promoter of the traditional music of Ukrainian refugees in Sussex & performs with them.
6 DECEMBER ROBB JOHNSON & ROGER WATSON £12 cash Robb is a great songwriter & guitarist with a social conscience & a fine sense of humour. His newest CD, The Optimist Hotel, features Roger, a songwriter in traditional style & hugely influential melodeon player. 13 DECEMBER JACKIE OATES & JOHN SPIERS £15 cash Email to reserve tickets, bring the right money in cash on the night Traditional English music & song with Jackie's fiddle & John's melodeon from two of the top performers of our times. JACKIE OATES ENGLISH FIDDLE WORKSHOP 10:45 – 16:45 £45 cash (2 under-25 year olds £22) Email to reserve places, bring cash on the day JOHN SPIERS MELODEON WORKSHOP 10:45 – 16:45 £45 cash (2 under-25 year olds £22) Email to reserve places, bring cash on the day 20 DECEMBER CHRISTMAS PARTY £6 cash We light the open fire & a blaze of candles & serve home-made mince pies. Bring a seasonal song or reading, or choose a carol from our book for everyone to join in. Ballgowns optional. We always finish by singing Shepherds Arise by firelight & candlelight alone. 27 DECEMBER SHEPHERDS ARISE £8 cash Email to reserve tickets, bring the right money in cash on the night Old Sussex carols with fiddle, flute, bassoon, serpent, whistle & concertinas, Sussex tunes, Sussex readings, Sussex mummers' play.
3 JAN COPPER FAMILY £15 cash We will start at 7:30 p.m. & finish at 10:30 p.m. Email to reserve tickets, bring the right money in cash on the night The genuine article: Sussex traditional songs in harmony from a family who have been singing them for at least ten generations. 10 JAN WASSAIL £6 cash We will start at 7:30 p.m. & finish at 10:30 p.m. We light the log fire and the candles tonight. Bring songs and tunes for winter and wassailing. Bring a long twig from your own apple tree for our indoor wassailing ceremony to share in any blessing it might give. We'll be serving Twelfth Cake, (orange peel, crystallised ginger, honey, spices, rum) and a wassail bowl of hot spiced old ale. 17 JAN SUSSEX ALL-DAY SINGAROUND, ROYAL OAK, BARCOMBE BN8 5BA 11.00 a.m. to 11.00 p.m First, an hour of join-in tunes while people arrive. Singing starts at noon; ballads and the occasional instrumental party piece will be very welcome. This very popular annual event was started decades ago by Jerry Jordan.There's a break from 6.00 - 7.00 p.m. After the break we'll continue the singaround, and after completing the circuit of the room we'll try to put on anyone who hasn't yet sung. The last hour will be for glorious chorus songs. Food is on sale until 8:45 p.m. Admission with collection of a suggested £1 a head. 24 JAN SIMON STALLARD £8 cash We will start at 7:30 p.m. & finish at 10:30 p.m. Simon sings unaccompanied in English & Scots Gaelic in a beautiful, authentic style. He also plays Scottish traditional tunes on the flute. 31 JAN MILLY MURPHY CD LAUNCH £5 cash We will start at 7:30 p.m. & finish at 10:30 p.m. Milly is one of our residents. She's a lovely singer of traditional songs & writes her own in traditional style, plays clarinet, dances with The Knots of May & sings with Sussex Harmony. Milly also writes & arranges tunes to West Gallery carols.
7 FEB EWAN WARDROP £10 cash We will start at 7:30 p.m. & finish at 10:30 p.m. Singer of traditional & new songs, step-dancer, guitarist, member of The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, jig-doll operator & very accomplished actor, Ewan is a great entertainer. His one-man show Sweet Thames, Flow Softly, about London folk clubs in the 60s & 70s, has toured many festivals. 14 FEB VALENTINE'S NIGHT £5 cash We will start at 7:30 p.m. & finish at 10:30 p.m. Bring songs, tunes & stories on the theme. A good night to try performing for the first time to a friendly audience. 21 FEB THE MEDLARS £10 cash We will start at 7:30 p.m. & finish at 10:30 p.m. Essex trio Alie Barnes (voice) Emma Hardy (fiddle) & Tom hardy (guitar, voice) bring songs & tunes from the East Anglian tradition. 28 FEB BILL CRAWFORD £10 cash We will start at 7:30 p.m. & finish at 10:30 p.m. Bill sings traditional songs from Devon with great charm & authenticity. He's a popular MC at many folk festivals & was a member of the mighty Claque.