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24th December Sore Fingers Week 2010 – 5th to 9th April, 2010 - www.sorefingers.co.uk The Sorefingers team are now getting close to a final line up of musicians to provide another brilliant Sore Fingers Week next Easter! As usual the "recession proof" banjo players have been booking en masse again and though they are not yet close to beating last year’s record number of 118 banjo students, they are on the way. So Tony Furtado’s class is now over subscribed and Alan Munde has been booked to teach a second class. Anyone already registered wishing to change from Tony’s class to Alan’s, should let them know without delay. Old time players will be delighted with their two fantastic tutors Stephanie Coleman and Adam Hurt. These folks are towards the younger end of the scene and will surely bring along some fresh ideas to enhance your playing techniques. There are still plenty of places for both classes and they urge you to keep supporting Sore Fingers Week as they are totally committed to continuing to offer Old Time classes as part of the programme. It is usual to have to give a few classes the hard sell at this time of year and an early commitment helps them make sure they will have enough students to justify the cost of the flights which they will be booking early next year. So if you are planning to book it helps them to know sooner rather than later so get your booking form out to them please. The full Line up as it stands is: Autoharp – Cathy Britell Banjo - Tony Furtado Banjo – Alan Munde Bass - Eric Thorin Dobro - Jimmy Heffernan Fiddle - Brian Wicklund Guitar – Dan Crary Mandolin – John Reischman Mandolin – T.B.C. Old Time Fiddle - Stephanie Coleman Old Time Banjo - Adam Hurt Singing - Janet Beazley & Chris Stewart Songwriting - Ben Demerath Beginners – Stewart Williams John Wirtz *************************************** The 2010 Orkney Folk Festival will be hosting some music of interest. The Foghorn String band are playing, there is also Tim O'Brien and the New Rope String Band featuring our own Jock and Vera. The Festival is the last weekend in May and is based in Stromness. *************************************** "WHARF BLUEGRASS WEEKEND 2010 - May 7,8,9. New, improved venue at Stoke Prior near M5 Junction 5. See website www.wharfbluegrass.com for details as they become available" *************************************** 18th December Sara Grey tour dates for 2010 16 Jan morn/aft with Jimmy Hutchison Traditional Song Workshop, Steeple Arts Centre, Newburgh, Fife UK tour with Kieron Means 28 Jan Lewes Folk Club, Royal Oak, Lewes, Sussex 29 Jan The Milkmaid FC, Royal British Legion Club, Guildhall St, Bury St Edmunds 30 Jan Memorial Concert for Johnny Collins, Village Hall, Banks Park, Haddenham, Bucks. HP17 8EE 3 Feb Spalding Folk Club, The Lounge Bar, South Holland Centre, Market Place, Spalding, Lincs 5 Feb Church House, South Tawton, Devon 7 Feb Grimsby Folk Club, The Spiders Web, Carr Lane, Grimsby 8 Feb The Foresters Folk Club, Foresters Arms, Coatham Mundeville nr Darlington, 10 Feb The Old Oak Concerts, Old Oak Inn, Horsley Woodhouse, Derbyshire 11 Feb Milford on Sea Folk Club, Community Centre, Milford on Sea, Hampshire 12 Feb Swindon Folk Club, Milton Road Club, Swindon, Wiltshire 13 Feb The White Hart Folk Club, The White Hart, Mickleby, North Yorkshire 14 Feb Bothy Folk Club, Park Golf Club, Park Road West, Southport 15 Feb Tin Hut Sessions, Gartly, Aberdeenshire 17 Feb Edinburgh Folk Club, Pleasance Cabaret Bar, 60 The Pleasance, Edinburgh 18 Feb The Star Folk Club, St Andrew in the Square, 1 St. Andrews Square, Glasgow 19 Feb Fo'c'sle Folk Club, Richmond Inn, Southampton 20 Feb Wortley Folk Club, Black Bull, Ecclesfield, S. Yorks US tour with Kieron Means 4 Mar Stonefield Cellars Winery, 8220 NC Highway 68, Stokesdale, NC 5 Mar Blesings Concert, Winston Salem, NC 27106 6 Mar Bridgeback Movement Studio, corner of Back St and Bridge St, Marshall, NC 7 Mar The Rooster's Wife, The Postmaster's House, 204 E South Street, Aberdeen, NC 11 Mar House Concert, 611 Templton Ave, Charlotte, NC 12 Mar Jack Of The Wood, 95 Patton Ave, Ashville, NC 13 Mar Triangle Folk Music Society, 1112 Georgia Ave, Durham, NC 14 Mar Concert, Cumberland Gap National Historic Park, Middlesboro, KY 15 Mar John C Campbell Folk School, One Folk School Road, Brasstown, NC 17 Mar North Arkansas College, Seville Hotel,302 North Main Street, Harrison, AR 18 Mar University, Fayetteville, AR 19 Mar Historic Arkansas Museum, 200 E3rd St, Little Rock, AR 20 Mar Memphis Accoustic Music Association, Otherlands Coffee Bar, 641 South Cooper, Memphis TN 22 Mar Munroe Area Council For The Arts, Madisonville Presbyterian Church, 201 Main St, Madisonville, TN 6:00pm Migration of Ballads workshop ; 8:00pm Concert 23 Mar Concert venue tbc, Elizabethton, TN 8-9 May Sara solo Keith Summers Festival, The King and Queen, 1 Foley St, London 5 Jun Sara solo Clack Mountain Festival Morehead, KY 6-12 Jun TBC Sara solo Appalachian Family Folk Week, Hindman Settlement School, Hindman, KY 25-27 Jun Sara Grey and Ben Paley Scottish Traditional Boat Festival, The Salmon Bothy, Portsoy, Banff
30 Jul-6 Aug Sara, Kieron and Ben Paley Sidmouth Folk Week, Sidmouth, Devon Sara and Kieron unless stated: 4 Aug The Lamb Folk Club, Lamb Inn, Church Street, Eastbourne 12 Aug The Wee Folk Club, Royal Oak, Infirmary Street, Edinburgh 13-15 Aug Auchtermuchty Festival, Auchtermuchty, Fife 21-27 Aug Whitby Folk Week, Whitby, North Yorkshire 22-24 Oct 2010 Sara solo Sore Fingers October Weekend, Kingham School, Kingham, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire 11 Nov Totnes Folk Club, Dartmouth Inn, Totnes, Devon 12 Nov Potteries Folk Club, Foxfield Railway, Caverswall Road Blythes Bridge, Staffordshire 14 Nov Readifolk, The RISC Centre, 35-39 London Street, Reading 15 Nov Midway Folk Club, Midway Tavern, 263 Newbridge Lane, Stockport 17 Nov Llantrisant Folk Club, Windsor Hotel, Llantrisant Road, Pontyclun 19 Nov Bodmin Folk Club, The Barley Sheaf, 2 Lower Bore St, Bodmin 21 Nov Walthamstow Folk, Plough Inn, Wood St, London 22 Nov Four Fools Folk Club, Crown Inn, Platt Lane, Worthington, Lancashire 24 Nov Upper Mill Folk Club, Cross Keys in the barn, Uppermill 25 Nov Wellington Inn, Wellington Inn, Wolviston, Cleveland 26 Nov Grove Folk Club, The Grove Inn, Back Row, David Street, Leeds 28 Nov plus Ben Paley Square Chapel Centre, Square Road, Halifax, West Yorkshire 1 Dec plus Jimmy Hutchison SteepleArts, 67 High Street, Newburgh 2 Dec Acoustic Music Club, Polish Club Bennochy House, Bennochy Road, Kirkcaldy 3 Dec Bacca Pipes Folk Club, The Ukranian Club, 9 Henry Street, Keighley, North Yorkshire 4 Dec plus Ben Paley Haddenham Ceilidhs, Village Hall Haddenham, Bucks *************************************** For Sale: an unused back gig bag for acoustic bass guitar. Please or 'phone 01686 650833 *************************************** Davis, Locker & Winquist Tuesday December 22nd, 12:30-2:30pm (free). Rosie, Joe and Bob are doing the 2-hour lunchtime slot in St.Pancras International Station concourse, London. It's part of their Xmas season music program for charities - D, L & W have selected Water Aid. *************************************** The Return of the Sacrewell website Colm Daly reports that this is back online again at: http://www.myfamily.com/group/11646818 Non-members can browse this public site, but have to register to upload or download, and the great news is that it is totally free. Past members’ logins should still work and save you registering again. It’s a totally new interface and a lot easier than the old one. Some old features are lost like the Calendar Section but all the old recordings and photos and videos are back. This new site is in the public domain so it can shared, but Colm can revert it to being a login only site if members prefer, so please get yourself registered if not already. More details from Colm by *************************************** 10th December The news you've all been waiting for: Gainsborough Old Time Festival - February 12th to 14th, 2010 Note the different venue - Queen Elizabeth High School Morton Terrace, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire Guest artists are The Slate Mountain Rammblers from Ararat, Virginia with dancer Marty Todd. From the UK are 44 Gun String Band (Somerset and Devon) and The New River Roustabouts (Derbyshire). Dancing from Sara Marshall. The weekend will feature, concerts, open stage, dances, shapenote and gospel singing, slow jam, a range of workshops plus the return of the Scratch Band competition amongst others. Workshops will also include fiddle, banjo, guitar and bass. As well as the Scratch Band competition, there will also be competitions for fiddle, banjo and dance (youth, adult and seniors). Weekend tickets £50, Saturday all day £30, Friday or Saturday evening £15 (all less 10% for current FOAOTMAD and BBMA members). Indoor camping, food and food available. Details will be available very shortly on our events page *************************************** Bruce Molsky is doing a bit of touring in the UK . Transatlantic Sessions Tour : Jan 29 Celtic Connections Festival, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall Feb 01 Celtic Connections Festival, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall Feb 02 Manchester Bridgewater Hall Feb 03 The Sage, Gateshead Feb 04 Belfast Waterfront Hall, N.Ireland Feb 05 Birmingham Symphony Hall Feb 06 London Royal Festival Hall and then solo: Apr 07 Magpie’s Nest, Old Queen's Head, Islington, London Apr 08 Redbourn Folk Club, Hollybush Public House, Church End, Redbourn Apr 09 The Ram Club, Thames Ditton, Surrey Apr 11 Walthamstow Folk Club, Walthamstow, London Apr 12 (Not) The White Horse Folk Club, Beverley, Yorkshire Apr 13 Stamford TBA Apr 14 Cromer TBA Apr 16 The Fiddle Tree, The Birnam Institute, Birnam Apr 17 Fraser Centre, Milngavie TBA Apr 18 Lochgoilhead Fiddle Workshop, Argyll Apr 20 Heart of Hawick, Tower Mill, Hawick TBA Apr 21 Edinburgh Folk Club, Cabaret Bar, Edinburgh Apr 22 York Folk Club, Peasholme Green, York Apr 23 Ruskin Mill, Nailsworth, Glos More details www.brucemolsky.com *************************************** Down Trodden String Band Wednesday 16th December - Traveller's Rest, Draycott, DE72 3NJ, 9pm, Free This one will be a regular old-time jamboree. Sara Marshall and her 'Lost Soles' Appalachian dance team will be joining in and doing a few dances (floor space permitting). Dave Proctor (Slow Down Boys, Six Hands in Tempo and Bearcat Cajun) will also be joining on fiddle (other commitments permitting). It will be a bit of a squeeze, but a splendid time is guaranteed for all (as someone once said). *************************************** 3rd December Mandolin and Banjo Camps North 2010... The staff have been selected (there are still a couple more to be confirmed) but the list below is of the staffs for the two Camps in 2010. Mandolin Camp North is April 16-18. Banjo Camp North is May 14-16. MCN 2010 Staff: Don Steirnberg, David Harvey, Ben Pearce, Richie Brown, Neil Rossi, Phil Zimmerman, Alan Kaufman, Skip Gorman, Lorraine Hammond, Dave Reiner, Rich DelGrosso, David Surrette, Bill Wallach, Martin Grosswendt, Mike Rivers, Dave Howard. BCN 2010 Staff: Tony Trischka, Eric Weissberg, Greg Cahill, Janet Davis, Bob Altschuler, Bruce Stockwell, Dave Kiphuth, Mike Kropp, Gordon Stone, Rich Stillman, Ira Gitlin, Phil Zimmerman, Howie Bursen, Mac Benford, Dick Bowden, Martin Grosswendt, Paul Brown, Lorraine Hammond, Dave Reiner, Alan Jabbour, Geoff Bartley, Mike Rivers And more to be announced... The deadline for the early bird registration fee is January 31, 2010. *************************************** Swan Folk, The Swan in the Rushes, Loughborough are holding 'An Appalachian Christmas' performed by Lynda Hardcastle, Helen Hockenhull, Mike Hockenhull, and Alan Rose, narrated by Nigel Schofield on Dec 13th 2009 More details: Chris 01664 569224 or www.swanfolk.btinternet.co.uk/ *************************************** Via BluegrassIreland and UKbluegrass comes the news that the Carolina Chocolate Drops have a short tour in England following their performance at Celtic Connections in Glasgow: JANUARY 26 Celtic Connections Festival 28 Town Hall, Gateshead 30 Derby Theatre, Derby 31 Memorial Hall, Sheffield FEBRUARY 3 St. George's, Bristol 4 Bush Hall, Shepherds Bush, London 5 Arlington Arts Centre, Newbury 6 The Met, Bury http://www.carolinachocolatedrops.com/ Interestingly the Bristol gig notes: "Join us for an after-show party / music session and an exclusive drinks promotion." However the tickets are mostly £19 each with some restricted view ones being a little cheaper - I hope that includes the party!! *************************************** The Carrivick Sisters are finalists in the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award. The final is this Friday (4th) and we wish them all the best. *************************************** |