ALERT BBC4 19:30 Tonight - Transatlantic Session (prob 1998 episode)
Fri, 09 May 2008 16:13:19 +0100
I suspect the following blurb is wrong, last week's episode was from
the 1998 series!
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MUSIC: Transatlantic Sessions
On: BBC 4 (7)
Date: Friday 9th May 2008 (starting in 3 hours and 19 minutes)
Time: 19:30 to 20:00 (30 minutes long)
Folk musicians co ...
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Someone called J.F.
Fri, 9 May 2008 15:15:41 +0100
Who is again without newsgroup access because of ISP troubles, would like
someone called S.K. to know its now 53+.
Ha! Decode that!
Gerry,
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SSFC Guests this month
Fri, 9 May 2008 15:11:50 +0100
This month's guests at South Shields Folk Club will be
Paul Dalton and Pat Wilson on the 11th,
The Hokum Hotshots on the 18th,
Keepers Fold on the 25th
Rallion on the 1st of June.
www.southshieldsfolkclub.co.uk/
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"sipsi" (folk clarinet) in Turkey and Wales
Fri, 09 May 2008 10:25:46 +0100
I have a few notes on the Turkish folk clarinet called the "sipsi"
on my website: http://www.campin.me.uk/Music/Sipsi/ . Last night
a friend of mine (actually the guy in the photo there) told me he'd
come across a reference to a similar Welsh instrument with almost
the same name.
Interesting because the area o ...
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Holmfirth Festival of Folk
Fri, 9 May 2008 01:19:17 -0700 (PDT)
Weather's looking great. Will I recognise the place? Anyway, I'm off
soon to http://www.holmfirthfestivaloffolk.co.uk/ and a spiffing time.
If you're going to be there too, please seek me out and claim a free
beverage of your choice!
~8^) ...
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A folk classic!
Thu, 8 May 2008 12:24:29 -0700 (PDT)
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/2176885/6889582 ...
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Announce - Lunasa - Morecambe
Thu, 08 May 2008 14:01:50 +0100
Friday 9th May
Lunasa
at The Platform, Morecambe
8 pm
For tickets and enquiries 01524 406108
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Beside the Seaside
Live Entertainment in the Morecambe Bay area
www.lunevalleyaudio.com ...
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Announce - St Neots Folk Festival
Wed, 07 May 2008 15:54:20 -0500
St Neots Folk Festival 9th, 10th and 11th May
at the Priory Centre, St Neots, Cambs.
Artists appearing include...
Martin Simpson, Suntrap, Paul Cherrington & Pamela Ward,The Hosepipe
Band, Mary Panton, Tom Bliss
plus Dance sides, Real Ale bar
and not forgetting the St Neots Folk Club Home Made Cakes St ...
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Eric Andersen in UK
Wed, 07 May 2008 15:03:02 -0500
I don't know how many of you have heard of Eric; he and some of his songs
(Violets of Dawn, Thirsty Boots) were as well known to me as a teenager as
Dylan's, and like Dylan, Tom Paxton, Dave van Ronk, et al he came out of
that 1960s clutch of singer/songwriters/folksingers in the Village (and if
you could hold ...
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help / advice re media
Wed, 7 May 2008 12:01:50 +0200
Hi,
So far I have been releasing blues-related stuff on my reocrd label but ar
the moment I am preparing a few new releases that are a bit more towards
acoustic / roots / americana
I would like to know which media (magazines, radio, websites etc) woudl be
usefull for the promotion of these releases.
Please ...
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