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Details of sessions Folkworks participants go to. If you want to have your session listed here, please email me the details. _________________________________________________ Geoff Wright brackenriggband at hotmail.com _________________________________________________ Two Wedesday sessions around Selby, both English/Irish but featuring Northumbrian tunes as well . George and Dragon, West Haddlesey (off A19) Jemmy Hirst At The Rose And Crown, Rawcliffe (J37 M62) We alternate between the two pubs. Cheers Geoff Wright Bracken Rigg Band _________________________________________________ Simon Garbutt sigarb at aol.com _________________________________________________ French Music and Dance at the Ketton Club, Ketton, Rutland (just off the A1 near Stamford, Lincs), normally on the third Friday of every month so 18th Nov, 13th/16th Dec??? 8pm or thereabouts. Musicians/dancers welcome. Some tuition (some dances are walked through first). Nominally free, but donations for the room rental are welcome. Cheapish bar! It's a great fun session, with people regularly travelling surprisingly long distances to play and/or dance (or even just listen!) but the "band" line-up depends on whoever turns up, so it's always slightly different. Hurdy-gurdies, melodeons, guitars & whistles/recorders are fairly constant but often bagpipes, sometimes Irish pipes, flutes etc. I f you happen to be heading north on a third Friday, call in! The Ketton Club is on the south side of Ketton High Street (A6121) in the middle of the village. Always check with the organisers, Adam & Mary Cade, Tel: 01780 720521 just in case! _________________________________________________ Noel Jackson noelbats at onetel.com _________________________________________________ Last Thursday of each Month : For a real hardcore Northumbrian experience, come to Beamish Home Farm on the last Thursday of the month. Northumbrian tunes round the kitchen fire. _________________________________________________ Robert Lambourn Robert.Lambourn at gp-A84032.nhs.u _________________________________________________ Morpeth: Every Sunday Lunchtime - Tap and Spile mixture, variable speed, occasional songs First Wednesday of the Month - Old Red Bull 8.00pm largely northumbrian, also anything else, usually a few pipers with concert pitch chanters plus other instruments [this is a concert pitch session] Third Wednesday of the Month - Old Red Bull 8.00pm [f] largely pipers in traditional [f] pitch, but all instruments welcome provided play a tone flat! [this is a flat pitch session - take a c pennywhistle!] Newcastle: 1st and 3rd Monday of the Month - Stout Fiddler [manors] Everyone welcome, variable speed [slow ones and faster!] Hexham 3rd Thursday of the Month - Tap and Spile Well - attended session [up to 50 or so] often with David Oliver in the middle! Start slowly and gets faster, often with the same tune played more than the customary twice - excellent for learning new stuff by ear. Berwick every Thursday, 8:30pm - Pilot Welcoming Session playing mainly scots/irish with some northumbrian and other good music! _________________________________________________ Geoff Walker geoff.walker at ntlworld.com _________________________________________________ I go to a session at Manfield, near Darlington on Sunday. Very friendly and welcoming. They are looking for new members. It is a very relaxed session with plenty "crack" between the tunes. Tempo is steady so suits a relative newcomer like myself. The session is monthly at The Crown in Manfield on the third Sunday of the month from approx 2 - 4pm. Excellent Ale :-) - the landlord has won award for his beers. For more info, contact Christine Williamson on 01325 465129 _________________________________________________ Geraldine Legard galegard at btinternet.com _________________________________________________ The Tap and Spile, Tower Street, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, every Tuesday evening from 8.30pm A friendly session playing a variety of tunes - English, Irish, Scottish, French, a bit of Scandi. Visitors always welcome. Contact [email protected] for more details. Look forward to seeing you there! _________________________________________________ Judith Davison judith_davison at hotmail.com 01289 388501 _________________________________________________ If anyone is up this way, there is a session every Wednesday in The Pilot in High Greens in Berwick upon Tweed, starts about 8.30pm. Mainly Irish and Shetland, plus a bit Northumbrian when I can remember how the tunes start! There is also a session of mainly Northumbrian music in The White Swan in Alnwick on the third Wednesday of every month, which starts around 8.00pm. More info. from Judith Davison tel. 01289 388501, email judith_davison at hotmail.com _________________________________________________ Mary Kipling maryvan at supanet.com _________________________________________________ My regular session is at the Queen's Hotel, St Bees, Cumbria, generally on the first Sunday of the month except August. I'd be happy for people to email me to check that it's definitely on - things like bank hols move it around a little but we always agree the date for the next month before the session ends. 8.30 pm, tunes and songs. Also if folkies pass this way, Erica and David are kindly disposed to impromptu sessions if asked. The other goodie round here is at Netherwasdale every Thursday, alternating between the Screes and the Strands - the only 2 pubs in the hamlet, and opposite each other. Tunes and songs, tends to be more tune based (but depends who's there of course). _________________________________________________ Yael MoOnt ourfolkworks at yahoo.co.uk _________________________________________________ Found two really good sessions and very friendly people. The Duke of Edinborough, 394 Lee High Road, Lewisham, sessions every Sunday from 9ish. The Holly Tree, 32 Dermody Road, Lewisham every Friday from 9ish too. The Holly Tree session have some sh*t hot players in there, I can't keep up, but they're all really friendly and don't exclude anyone. Both sessions are mostly tunes, but some singing too. |
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