Lewes Folk Fest 6-9 Oct - Sussex tunes workshops

[Valmai Goodyear]

Advance music is now available for two workshops at the Lewes Folk Festival (http://www.lewesfolkfest.org/). Tickets for all Festival events are available at a discount through the Festival website.

 

Guests include BLACK UMFOLOSI 5 (from Zimbabwe)

SHIRLEY COLLINS * THE COPPER FAMILY

SID KIPPER * CHRIS WOOD

THE TWAGGER BAND * THE GECKOES with caller WILL HALL

THE LONG HILL RAMBLERS

ANDY TURNER

 

Event 5 Sat 8th October 11am-12.30

Playing Tunes in Parts for Any Melody Instrument

led by SPARE PARTS CONCERTINA BAND

The Elephant & Castle, White Hill BN7 2DJ

Advance tickets £4 Door £6

 

The music for this can now be downloaded from the Spare Parts Concertina Band website (http://www.sparepartsband.co.uk/SPTunes.php'>http://www.sparepartsband.co.uk/SPTunes.php) in midi and pdf forms. The MIDI files have normal and slow versions of the full arrangements and of each part separately. Each tune is played three times. The PDF files have versions with the third line in the Treble clef to be played an octave down and in the Bass clef.

 

These are three-part arrangements of three tunes from the seminal Sussex Tune Book (1982) edited by Vic Gammon & Anne Loughran, containing a selection of tunes from Sussex manuscripts. They aren't in the Lewes Favourites Tune Book.

 

The tunes are :-

 

A Sussex Waltz, Sussex Tune Book no. 104 (not Michael Turner's)

The Grinders, Sussex Tune Book no. 113 (differs quite a lot from the standard version)

The Troublesome Cossack, Sussex Tune Book no. 84

 

Event 16 Sun 9th October 11 – 12.30pm

Tunes from "The Sussex Tune Book" for any instrument

led by SPARE PARTS CONCERTINA BAND

The Elephant & Castle, White Hill bn7 2dj

Advance tickets £4 Door £6

 

The music for this can now be downloaded from the Spare Parts Concertina Band website (http://www.sparepartsband.co.uk/SPTunes.php) in midi and pdf forms. The MIDI files have normal and slow versions of the tunes and each tune is played three times.

 

These come from the seminal Sussex Tune Book (1982) edited by Vic Gammon & Anne Loughran, containing a selection of tunes from Sussex manuscripts. They aren't in the Lewes Favourites Tune Book.

 

The tunes are :-

 

Richer's Hornpipe

The London Troop

Original Schottishe Polka

New Coldstream March

Jack's Ramble

A Jigg Ashling

 

You can download the music without booking a ticket unless you want it sent by post. Booking in advance is £2 cheaper.

[AnnC]

I've been cheeky and downloaded the music even though I can't get to the festival

 

 

 

p.s. the 'Mrs Savages Whim' tune Spare Parts used in the workshops at Whitby last year is being played regularly at the Whitby folk Club ...... only due to being misheard over a noisy bar in a pub it's also known as 'Lily Savage's Whip'

[Valmai Goodyear]

Thanks for a very good start to Monday morning! Spare Parts are more than happy for people to download the music and play it whether or not they're coming to the Festival, which is why we put it on the website.

 

The new name for Mrs. Savage's Whim is a delight. The Blue-Eyed Stranger is often known as the Blue-Eyed Strangler round here, but I think The Blue Hydrangea is even better.

[Valmai Goodyear]

The Sussex tunes we're using come from local manuscripts, several of which are held by the Sussex Archaeological Society in Barbican House, Lewes. Bryan Creer has been out with his camera and taken pictures of the ones from the Welch manuscript, and I've already got one from the Aylmore manuscript, so we'll be able to hand out facsimilies of the originals as well as the modern computerised versions which are easier to read.

 

I'm attempting to attach a photo of The New Coldstream March from Aylmore.