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25th March New Old-time session: Brandling Villa Pub, Haddricks Mill Road, South Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE3 1QL Contact: Jennifer - 0191 2344580 or **************************************** New old-time & bluegrass session Blue Lion pub, 133 Gray's Inn Road, London. Meet every other Wednesday, gathering from around 7 and playing tunes from 8. The next session is Weds 31st March. If anyone would like to be on the email list, please **************************************** If you did my mandolin workshop at Gainsborough, the process of putting tab & audio on the www.foaotmad.org.uk website has started with the Beginners material on the Resources page. The remainder will follow shortly. Be warned, it is fairly basic and should be treated as a reminder rather than an exact science! **************************************** Carole Chant's guest on her radio programme, Sound Out, this Friday, 26th March, will be our very own President Tom Paley. Listen on Resonance Radio 104.4fm or http://www.resonacefm.com. Don't miss it! **************************************** Now here's an interesting website - the Woodsongs AUdio Hour - with a decent smattering of old time audio clips... http://www.woodsongs.com/showlist.asp e.g. Carolina Chocolate Drops on show 430 *************************************** From Bluegrass Ireland.... Here is a short Youtube link to a trailer for a new tv documentary about the banjo, being produced by Tony Trischka. Steve Martin narrates. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqRL3N1veSA The trailer is a good nine minutes long, it includes footage of Pete Seeger, Bela Fleck, Taj Mahal, and many others. The full documentary will be eagerly awaited; if it surpasses the hour-long 'Echoes of America' film on the same subject, made twenty years ago, it will be a real classic. http://www.thebanjoproject.org/index.html *************************************** From Kate Lissauer: BUFFALO GALS The last stop on our series of village hall visits occurs this Saturday, March 27, at Bighton Village Hall. It's near Basingstoke. A small place, so the hall will be easy to find, but for any information or tickets, contact Geoff Buss on 01962 734 853 or Please make a special effort to come out to this performance, because the promoters said they never have more than X number of people, and they sounded a little sad about that, and apologetic. We don't mind how many people are there, but let's give them a nice surprise for this, especially because it's our... ....penultimate gig before taking a break for a few months, to work on our next album and other projects! It is also our last gig for that time as the full-blown lineup of Buffalo Gals, because our dear banjo-playing bison Johnny Whelan must have hand surgery in early April. We'll be joined by the inimitable Simon Fosse on five-string banjo for our last gig of the season... ....The American Museum in Britain, on Sunday, April 11. Part of the Museum's great series of Sunday concerts. Concert included in admission to the Museum. 2pm, in the Lecture Hall. Claverton Manor, Bath, BA2 7BD. SPAIN We have room for one or two more at La Fuente De Musica, May 2-9, With Dave Bing and Kate Lissauer teaching banjo and fiddle. See www.katelissauer.com for more information, or contact Kate by We have plenty of space at the moment for Beverly Smith and Carl Jones' workshop, September 25-October 2. (Please not that these dates were posted incorrectly in some mails and on Kate's website. These ARE the correct dates.) Classes will be in banjo, fiddle, guitar, mandolin, and singing. See as above for more information. This class will fill, so make your intentions known as early as you can. *************************************** 18th March Dates for your diary: Gainsborough Festival 2011 will be February Friday 18th through to Sunday 20th, the Venue will be the same as this year. That's a few days later than normal due to the school term. **************************************** The George in South Molton on Saturday 20th March. Will Kaufman will be presenting his multi-media musical documentary Woody Guthrie: Hard Times and Hard Travellin’. This highly acclaimed show sets the songs of Woody Guthrie in the context of 1930s’ America – the Dust Bowl, the Depression, the New Deal and the state of popular music itself. Will’s rendition of songs from Guthrie and others, buttressed by detailed historical commentary, exemplify the blending of music and radical politics that marks Guthrie’s most powerful and evocative work. Will Kaufman is from New Jersey, and has been a semi-professional singer and musician for over thirty years, being equally at home on guitar, fiddle, banjo or mandolin. Tickets are £6 in advance (£5 to Shammick Acoustic members) and are available direct from The George Hotel or online from www.wegottickets/event/59007, or £7 at the door. **************************************** Down Trodden String Band news: Saturday 10 April - Cancer Research UK Fund-raising Ceilidh Town Hall Wirksworth, DE4 4EU, 8-11pm, £5 tickets on door or from Janet Pidgeon on 01629 824912 Sunday 2 and Monday 3 May - Bakewell Showground Spectacular Bakewell Showground, Bakewell, DE45 1AQ, £5/£3 Saturday 13 November - Oxfam Fund-raising Ceilidh, Town Hall, Bakewell, DE45 1BT **************************************** Jeff Warner Tour Dates MAY Fri 7th, Acorn Theatre, Worksop with the The Wright Family Sat 8th to Sun 9th Holmfirth Festival of Folk Tue 11th Montrose Folk Club, Links Hotel, Montrose Angus DD10 8RL Wed 12th Aberdeen Folk Club, Blue Lamp, Gallowgate, Aberdeen Thu 13th Falkirk Folk Club, Princes Street, Falkirk FK1 1LS Fri 14th FifeSing Weekend, The Fife Animal Park Sat 15th Davy Lamp Folk Club, Washington, Tyne & Wear Tue 18th St. Neots Folk Club, The Priory Centre, St Neots PE19 2BH Thu 20th Folk at the Royal Oak, Lewes, Sussex Fri 21st Ram Folk Club, Old Cranleighan Sports Club, Thames Ditton, Surrey Sat 22nd Elsie's Folk Club,Sevenoaks, Kent TN15 Sun 23rd Folk On The Moor, The Westward Inn, Lee Mill, Plymouth PL21 9EE Tue 25th Sharp's, Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regents Park Road, London, NW1 7AY Wed 26th Magpie's Nest, Venue tba, London with Joe Penland Thu 27th Maidenhead Folk Club, The Seven Stars, Bath Road, Knowl Hill, Maidenhead, Berks. Fri 28th to Mon 31st Chippenham Folk Festival JUNE Wed 2nd Cross Keys Folk Club, Running Hill Gate Uppermill Nr Oldham OL3 6LW Thu 3rd Redbourn Folk Club, Hollybush Public House, Church End, Redbourn (near St Albans) Herts AL3 7DU. Fri 4th Swindon Folk Club, Gorse Hill Working Men's Club, Chapel Street, Swindon. Sat 5th Haddenham Ceilidh, Village Hall, Banks Park, Haddenham, Bucks HP17 8EE Sun 6th Walthamstow Folk, The Plough Inn, 173 Wood Street, Walthamstow, London E17 3NU **************************************** Old Time and Bluegrass Picking weekend Wiston Lodge Biggar, South Lanarkshire ML12 6HT 18th to 20th of June Set in the grounds of an old hunting lodge with Tinto hill providing a wonderful backdrop for this event. £25 for the weekend Half price under 16 Day tickets £10 Sat/Sun Fri eve £5 Camping, Open stage, All Acoustic, Session Tents, Campfire, Barbecue Area, Showers Call 01899 850 611 or for further details *************************************** Michi Mathias is running the London Marathon and raising money for a small charity for disabled people in Lewes, Sussex. Some of you have been asking her for this info, so here it is for those interested. The Oyster Project is a group of people with various disabilities who organise things they want to do or learn or get involved in, whether it's working on an allotment, watercolour painting, cooking, IT skills, going for wheelchair-accessible walks, seeing films, setting up an internet radio station, camping.... whatever the members want to find a way to do. It's fairly new and not very well-known yet, but Michi has been going to their drop-in cafe once a week and am really impressed with the energy and creativity. It's all being done with little money and a great deal of volunteer effort, so anything she can raise for them will go a long way. http://www.justgiving.com/Michi-Mathias *************************************** 4th March THERE WILL BE NO MAILOUT NEXT THURSDAY. **************************************** The editor of the Old Time News would welcome contributions for the next issue, particularly about Gainsborough. Email with what you would like to say. **************************************** 10th ANNIVERSARY! KILLINGTON LAKE AMERICAN OLD-TIME MUSIC & DANCE WEEKEND SESSION JULY 9TH – 11TH 2010 Again at Joe and Margaret’s place by Killington Lake [Leave M6 at J37 - turn RIGHT towards Sedbergh- take the 1ST RIGHT, then 2ND RIGHT – Joe’s is on your RIGHT after 800m - Grid ref 593907] Pick-up from Oxenholme Railway Station (West Coast Main Line) can be arranged. Plenty of room for caravans, camper vans and campers Bring your own food and drink – water and Portaloos provided DANCE FLOOR, BARBECUE, SWIMMING, GOSPEL SESSION, LATE NIGHT JAMS UNDER THE BERBER TENT TEL. 015395 60534 FOR DETAILS or NO NEED TO BOOK – JUST TURN UP FOR A GREAT WEEKEND! **************************************** There's some newly started Bluegrass and Old Time evenings in Kent (3rd Fridays or Saturdays). www.KentFolk.com/bluegrass The first gig was on Friday 19th February, and the photo report and review is at : http://www.kentfolk.com/gig_reports/2010/2010-02-19_FV_Biggin-Hillbillies_Grove-Ferry Next gigs are : 16th April 2010 (3rd Friday) - A Band Like Alice - London 5-piece bluegrass. £8 www.wegottickets.com/event/71358 22nd May 2010 (3rd Saturday) - Allison Williams & Chance McCoy. £10 www.wegottickets.com/event/73504 Both events at The Boathouse, Grove Ferry Inn, Grove Road, Upstreet, Nr. Canterbury, Kent. CT3 4BP More details contact Dr. Beau Webber by *************************************** There's an NPR interview with the Carolina Chocolate Drops here - www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123968480 with text extracts on the web page. *************************************** Bruce Molsky is at Redbourn Folk Club, Redbourn, Herts AL3 7DU on 8th April Tickets £10 each *************************************** Dan Crary is not only an amazing guitarist who has played with many of the old-time and bluegrass greats but he's also presenting a fascinating multi-media show called "Twaaang" which explores the fascinating world of the steel-string guitar. It features Dan's impeccable playing along with rare archival film & photos, and the music of Woody Guthrie, Doc Watson, Jimmie Rogers, and the Carter Family. (Numbers limited due to use of cinema.) Friday, April 2, 2010 8:00 PM ? Doors Open 7:30 PM £10.00 The Blue Walnut Cafe, 14 Walnut Road, Chelston, Torquay TQ2 6HS Website: www.bluewalnutcafe.com phone: 01803-605995 or |