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20th December GAINSBOROUGH: The downloadable flyer (and a small booking form for those who don't wish to download the whole thing) are now available from our events page Don't forget the half price offers for people who will steward (see the main paragraph below) *************************************** Kickin Alice cloggers from the Shropshire/Herefordshire areas are looking for a musician Contact Ros Barker 01588 640094 *************************************** Upcoming performances by the New Deal String Band in early 2008: Friday Jan 11 at 'MUSICAL TRADITIONS' ('The King & Queen', 1 Foley St, London W1) Thursday Jan 24 at 'THE ROYAL OAK' (Station St, Lewes, Sussex) Thursday Jan 31 at 'ISLINGTON FOLK CLUB' ('The Horseshoe', 24 Clerkenwell Close, London EC1R 0AG) The New Deal String Band consists of Tom Paley (formerly of the New Lost City Ramblers) his son, fiddling Ben Paley, and (banjo & guitar whiz) Joe Locker. They specialize in traditional American oldtime tunes and songs. They also have two other gigs coming up a little later in the year: Tuesday Mar 11 at 'SHARPS' ('Cecil Sharp House', London) Saturday Apr 19 Tom Paley, solo, at 'THE CELLAR UPSTAIRS'('The Exmouth Arms', Starcross St, London NW1 1HR) *************************************** CELLAR UPSTAIRS FOLK CLUB: PROGRAMME FOR JANUARY - JUNE 2008 Here is the programme for the Cellar Upstairs for January - June 2008. Please note asterisked note about nights when the price is slightly higher). 12 JAN: ROBB JOHNSON 19 JAN: BALLAD EVENING: PETA WEBB, KEN HALL, GAIL WILLIAMS, JIM YOUNGER, BOB WAKELING, SUE WILLIAMS AND FRANKIE CLEEVE 26 JAN: ROY BAILEY 2 FEB: SEAN MONE 9 FEB*: CHRIS WOOD 16 FEB: ANDREW FRANK AND MICHAEL HEBBERT 23 FEB: BESKYDY 1 MAR: KATE LISSAUER 8 MAR*: KAREN TWEED AND ROGER WILSON 15 MAR: PHIL CALLERY 22-29 MAR: closed for Easter 5 APRIL: JANET RUSSELL 12 APRIL: LEON ROSSELSON 19 APRIL: TOM PALEY: 80 YEARS + 1 MONTH (belated birthday celebration for legendary American singer, guitarist and banjo player – and he will be playing those) 26 APRIL*: FRASER SISTERS 3 MAY: THE OTHER BAND 10 MAY: MICK RYAN AND PAUL DOWNES 17 MAY: KATHLEEN O’SULLIVAN, KAREN RYAN and PETE QUINN 24 MAY: closed 31 MAY: RAY FISHER 7 JUNE: BRIAN PETERS 14 JUN**: MARTIN CARTHY (£7 members, £8 non-members tonight; £1 off for unwaged people) VENUE: Exmouth Arms, Starcross Street, London NW1 2HR (on the corner of Cobourg Street, near Euston and Euston Square stations; parking is easy), on Saturdays at 8.15pm INFORMATION: 020 7281 7700; http://hometown.aol.co.uk/cellarupstairs ENTRANCE: Members: £5, non-members: £6 (unwaged £1 less) except on nights marked , when it will be £6 and £7 (** higher price). Membership: £2 for the year ACCESS: The club room is up a short staircase. RESIDENT PERFORMERS: Peta Webb, Ken Hall, Gail Williams, Jim Younger, Bob Wakeling, Sue Williams, Frankie Cleeve *************************************** 13th December 2007 Sara Grey says: If anyone in Scotland is interested in taking old time banjo lessons,could they contact me in Perth 01738 446053 or *************************************** Magpie's Nest folk club, The Old Queen's Head Pub, 44 Essex Road, London, N1 8LN Ben Paley and Tab Hunter, Wednesday 16th January Sara Grey, Ben Paley and Kieron Means. April 17th Thursday Bruce Molsky advance notice - Tuesday 7th October. His only central London show on the tour. Doors 7pm, Open Mic/Floor Spots 7-8, Support Act main act 9:30 £6 admission, £3 for open mic performers www.myspace.com/themagpiesnest tickets from www.wegottickets.com *************************************** Every so often I have a little rave about the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain In case you wonder what on earth I'm going on about here's some video clips of them... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmBaE7ozWow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptlW99wWBWY You can find several other links from them and here's some seasonal mp3s... www.ukuleleorchestra.com/main/ListClips.aspx?Type=1&SessionKey *************************************** Advance notice for the Sewerby (Bridlington, North Yorks) early May Bank Holiday weekend. The details are the same as before i.e. can arrive Thursday after lunch and leave Wednesday by lunch. The main dates are Friday the 2nd May to Monday 5th and its free to FOAOTMAD Members. Anyone wishing further information can contact John Yeaman by or 01482 871466 *************************************** 6th December 2007 I'm pleased to repeat the 'stop press' item from last week to the effect that the cornish Bluegrass Festival WILL be happening next September after all. *************************************** The Gainsborough Festival approaches! Publicity and booking forms will come with the next issue of the Old Time News for FOAOTMAD members. For those of you who aren't members (and members who want to make a head start on their planning) there will be a poster/flyer/booking form available on our web site www.foaotmad.org.uk - BUT IT'S NOT THERE YET and is unlikely to be for a week or two. I will let you know as soon as it is available - please don't pester me or webmaster John in your enthusiasm. What I can say is the line-up is led by Piney Woods, a band featuring Kate Lissauer, Dave and Tim Bing and Jim Martin. They will be admirably supported by fellow Americans Adam Hurt and Beth Hartness. Holding up the UK honours will be the Down Trodden String Band and the Kitty Hawks. Dancers will have the pleasure of Kerry Fletcher's tuition and Kerry will be supported by fiddler Tim Brooks. All that and more.... As usual we are looking for people prepared to give up about 4 hours of their time to act as stewards (mainly on the site gate) in exchange for a half price ticket. If you are interested in that deal pleas contact Sara Marshall who is co-ordinating that side of things. Email her *************************************** New from Hobgoblin - Tenor guitars After much personal pestering of my contacts at Hobgoblin they have now added a tenor guitar to their Ashbory range. I shall have the pleasure of checking them out in a weeks time and I guess I need to put my money where my mouth is!! Various tuning options can be used - buy more than one!! Check out www.hobgoblin.com and it can be found in the 'new items' area or in the guitar area of the online catalogue under 'Ashbury' with a nice looking photo. GR5219: Ashbury Tenor Guitar. Solid spruce top, mahogany body, 12 frets to body, 580mm scale length. Price £159. or go straight to http://www.hobgoblin.com/local/bigpic.php?ID=GR5219 Hobgoblin also have shops in Birmingham, Bristol, Crawley, Leeds, London, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Nottingham and Wadebridge - there's a good chance there's one in stock at each but it could be worth a phone call before you visit. *************************************** Once more an urgent reminder from John & Moira Wirtz of Sore Fingers: We have booked the very talented Thomas Bailey for Old Time Fiddle and Brett Ratliff for Old Time Banjo for our Easter courses 2008. We only have three people booked on each of these courses at present and we need at least ten more on each course to make it viable. If you are intending to come, could you please send your booking as soon as possible as I need to commit to booking their flights and at present are in a position where it is not viable to run these courses with US tutors. All details are on the website at www.sorefingers.co.uk and you can download a booking form from there too. If you have any questions, please call 01373 813590 or email Details of all the tutors etc. can be found further on... *************************************** For Sale: (and a reminder that these are listed on our Small Ads page. If you've had any items advertised there in the past please check and see it the details are still correct. The same applies to entries in the Old Time News) Mandolin. Eastman MD604. "A" model with oval sound hole. Very well made from nice woods. Lovely old time sound. As new condition. With good quality rectangular hard case. £400. Mandolin. Eastman MD805. "A" model with "f" holes. Powerful sound. Very well made from nice woods. Excellent condition. With good quality rectangular hard case. £500. Martin D35. Spruce top, rosewood (3-piece) back and sides. Fine example from 1988 – nicely played in. Excellent condition. With hard case. £1200. Contact Stuart Wade 01246 563532 (Derbyshire). *************************************** Here's a message from James Wood of Lancing, North Carolina: We live in Ashe County North Carolina (Blue Ridge Mountains). We have a farm with a country store and we have jam sessions every Friday night. We would like to see if we could list the jam on your site for people coming here to visit, and maybe they could come and jam or listen to the music in the heart of American Old Time country. We will have a house for people to stay in spring 2008. We have great jams and I know you would enjoy them. So the details are: Phipps Country Store Friday Night Jam, 7:00PM-10:00PM Admission Free 2425 Silas Creek Rd., Lansing, NC. 28643 Old Time Mountain String Music with some Bluegrass. All ages and skill levels welcome, dancers too. Info: James (Dawg) or Rita Wood 336-384-2382 Lancing is about 20 miles north of Boone, almost at the Virginia state line. *************************************** Clogging news from Kerry Fletcher: Wednesday 5th December some of the wonderful Faversham Clogging students are performing at Graham Anstee's lovely music club ROOTS http://www.roots.ik.com/ Rainham & Wigmore Community Centre, Granary Close, Rainham, Gillingham, ME8 7SG, UK. 8pm £2 Saturday 8th December is another sizzling session of Appalachian clogging at Piton, Hertfordshire (contact Kerry for details 07703 639 720)
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