Valmai Goodyear

Great! I look forward to meeting you. If you would like to know about reasonably-priced B&Bs in Lewes, try http://www.lewesbandb.co.uk/accommodation/lewes-town/. Castle Banks Cottage and Felix Gallery are both about a hundred yards from the Elephant & Castle (http://www.elephantandcastlelewes.co.uk/), where the workshop and folk club are held. Valmai

Lewes Saturday Folk Club Workshop No 123 STEVE TURNER CONCERTINA WORKSHOP SONG ACCOMPANIMENT: ALL SYSTEMS Saturday 20th. February 2010 10.45 a.m.- 4.45 p.m. Places £25 Elephant & Castle White Hill Lewes BN7 2DJ www.lewessaturdayfolkclub.org/ Steve (www.steve-turner.co.uk) comes from a family of singers & concertina players; his grandfather sang & played concertina in the 1890s. In the 1970s he belonged to the Geordie band Canny Fettle & won the Melody Maker 'Stars of the 80s' national competition. His English concertina playing is beautifully inventive & dazzling. He is also an excellent singer, cittern & mandolin player & his latest (5th.) album has received outstanding reviews. The workshop will cover choice of accompaniment styles & instrument, different approaches to accompaniment, finding chords, singing techniques, arrangement & presentation. Some music will be sent in advance. IN THE EVENING STEVE TURNER PERFORMS AT THE ELEPHANT & CASTLE (admission £6; advance tickets available from address at end of this form) Provisional Timetable 10.45 Registration & coffee; order lunch (refreshments not included) 11.00 Introductions, background, choosing an accompanying instrument, singing techniques, finding chords 12.30 Lunch 13.30 Looking at songs, choosing a song, different approaches to accompaniment,discussion 15.00 Tea/coffee break 15.15 More advanced ideas, arranging a song, presentation to an audience, time for participants to play, sing & discuss 16.45 Finish N.B. Booking is recommended as numbers are limited. Music will be sent in advance & maps & accommodation lists on request. Lewes Saturday Folk Club c/o 20, St. John's Terrace, LEWES, East Sussex BN7 2DL Tel. (01273) 476757 e-mail: valmaigoodyear@aol.com www.lewessaturdayfolkclub.org/ STEVE TURNER CONCERTINA WORKSHOP Saturday 20th. February 2010 BOOKING FORM I would like to attend the workshop. I enclose a cheque for £25.00 (refreshments not included). Name: Address: Telephone: E-mail address: Tick for map: Tick for accommodation list: No. of tickets for evening performance: (£6 each, include SAE for these) Please make cheques payable to Lewes Arms Folk Club (that's right) and send with this booking form to: Valmai Goodyear, 20, St. John's Terrace, LEWES, East Sussex BN7 2DL Tel. (01273) 476757 e-mail: valmaigoodyear@aol.com www.lewessaturdayfolkclub.org/

Spare Parts (just Bryan Creer and me on this occasion) are running our usual part-playing session for all concertina systems at the Tenterden Folk Festival, Kent, UK, on Sunday 4th. October (http://www.tenterdenfolkfestival.org.uk/). Our session is from 3.00 pm - 4.30 pm in the White Lion Saddlery. You'll find the three-part arrangement of the tunes we'll be using as Noteworthy Composer, PDF and MIDI files on the band website (http://www.sparepartsband.co.uk/SPTunes.php) thanks to Bryan. The MIDI files have normal and slow versions. Each tune is played five times. The tunes are Centenary March, Trip to the Bath and Lakes of Sligo. We're also running a general song and tunes session in the White Lion bar that lunchtime. I understand Brian Peters is running a melodeon workshop from 5.30 - 7.00 pm on the Saturday afternoon. Tootle pip, Valmai

Yes - I was keeping the title short, but I hope it was clear from the body of the post that the workshop's in Sussex rather than Delaware. Does Lewes, Delaware have a lot of traditional music? Should we establish contact? Lewes in Sussex is soaked in the stuff. We're looking forward to Jeff's visit, and whisking him off to a party on the Friday evening. Valmai

A fine singer of American traditional songs, Jeff (www.jeffwarner.com) accompanies himself on guitar, 5-string banjo & English concertina. He presents music from North Carolina to New England with warmth, humour & understated scholarship. He's also a great teacher with a deep understanding of the origins on the music & how to perform it for today's listeners. The advance music for his all-day workshop in Lewes, Sussex, UK on 19th. September is now ready to be sent out (four songs as mp3s, plus words). Jeff recommends bringing a recording device if you have one, and also a song to try out in the group. Jeff performs at the Lewes Saturday Folk Club in the evening. We still have places at the workshop and tickets for the evening performance. A booking form follows my signature. Best wishes, Valmai Valmai Goodyear 20, St. John's Terrace, Lewes, BN7 2DL 01273 476757 Lewes Saturday Folk Club, Elephant & Castle, White Hill, Lewes BN7 2DJ http://www.lewessaturdayfolkclub.org/ Residents: Bryan Creer, Dave Earl, Sandra Goddard, Valmai Goodyear, Suzanne Higgins, Steve & Diane Nevill, George Oakley, Robert O'Mahony, Denise & Stuart Savage, Derek Seed Lewes Elephant Workshop No 117 JEFF WARNER: SONG ACCOMPANIMENT for any instrument Saturday 19th. September 2009 10.45 a.m.- 4.45 p.m. Places £25 Elephant & Castle White Hill Lewes BN7 2DJ www.elephantandcastlelewes.co.uk The workshop will cover choice of instruments & styles, chords, voicings, scales, harmonies, how to accompany or be accompanied, playing with others, & performance tips. Styles & ideas used on Jeff's main instruments are transferrable to others. We won't be discussing guitar open tunings or banjo bluegrass picking. MP3s & music will be sent ahead for sample songs. Recording devices are welcome. IN THE EVENING JEFF WARNER PERFORMS AT THE ELEPHANT & CASTLE (admission £5; advance tickets available from address at end of this form) Provisional Timetable 10.45 Registration & coffee; order lunch (refreshments not included) 11.00 Getting to know each other & what we sing. Finding the chords, making choices. 12.30 Lunch 13.30 Examining song examples with analysis of accompaniment. Discussion of technique/ knowledge needed - or using easier approaches. 15.00 Tea/coffee break 15.15 Exploring more difficult choices; playing in groups; presenting a song to listeners. time will be set aside for participants to play or sing & receive feedback. 16.45 Finish N.B. Booking is recommended as numbers are limited. Maps & accommodation lists will be sent on request. JEFF WARNER SONG ACCOMPANIMENT WORKSHOP Saturday 19th. September 2009 BOOKING FORM I would like to attend the workshop. I enclose a cheque for £25.00 for workshop fees (refreshments not included). Name: Address: Telephone: E-mail address: INSTRUMENT(S): Tick for map: Tick for accommodation list: No. of tickets for evening performance: (£5 each, include SAE for these) Please make cheques payable to Lewes Arms Folk Club (that's right) and send with this booking form to: Valmai Goodyear, 20, St. John's Terrace, LEWES, East Sussex BN7 2DL Tel. (01273) 476757 e-mail: valmaigoodyear@aol.com www.lewesarmsfolkclub.org

On Sunday 20th. September the South Downs Society (registered charity number 230329) presents a fund-raising event: 'From the Fields to the Foundry' A Journey with Magic Lantern, Voices & Concertinas The Steyning Centre, Fletchers Croft, Steyning, West Sussex UK BN44 3XZ Doors open at 7.30 p.m. The show starts at 7.45 p.m. and finishes at 9.45 p.m. Images, traditional songs & readings about life on the land in Sussex at the time the Lewes Phoenix Foundry opened in 1832 & the changes it brought to working people's lives. Images from Allan & Rene Marriott's magic lantern, the Victorian ancestor of the slide projector. Music from the Spare Parts Concertina Band. Tickets are £10 including a welcome glass of wine and tea or coffee and biscuits during the interval. If you plan to come, please let me know (valmaigoodyear(at)aol(dot)com) so that your name can be put on the list at the door (numbers are limited). Payment in cash or by cheque payable to the South Downs Society. South Downs Society Registered office: 2 Swan Court, Station Road, Pulborough, RH20 1RL. Registered charity number 230329. www.southdownssociety.org.uk The South Downs Society is an independent charity which relies on member subscriptions and gifts in wills. All the best, Valmai Goodyear SPARE PARTS CONCERTINA BAND Bryan Creer, Suzanne Higgins, Valmai Goodyear http://www.sparepartsband.co.uk/

I hope everyone who came to the sessions had as good a time as we did. This was our first time at Whitby and we thought it was terrific. We now have leg muscles like pit ponies and are bathed in a warm glow. At least, I think that's what it is. The tunes will stay on our website until the run-up to our next festival outing at Tenterden in October. Tootle pip, Valmai

Dear Everyone, CONCERTINA PART-PLAYING at WHITBY FOLK WEEK , 22 - 28 August 2009 (UK) with SPARE PARTS CONCERTINA BAND http://www.whitbyfolk.co.uk/index.html Spare Parts (Bryan Creer, Suzanne Higgins and I) are running part-playing sessions for all concertina systems in the Conservative Club bar every morning from 10.00 - 11.20 from Sunday until Friday. We'll be taking two sets of the arranged tunes we've worked on to the final workshop concert at the end of the week. These are less complicated than formal band settings, but give people the chance to play together in harmony. Thanks to a lot of hard work by Bryan Creer, all the tunes are on the band website http://www.sparepartsband.co.uk/SPTunes.php as pdfs and MIDI files. The MIDIs are in two versions, one normal speed and one slow for practising. The whole selection is also there as a single Word document. On Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday we'll work on Pleasures of Salisbury and Gussondall Bay as a set; on Monday, Wednesday and Friday we'll do the same for Nameless and Miss Sackville's Fancy. To provide variety we'll also play The Silver Swan, Peaceful Western Wind, Whinshields Hornpipe and Centenary March, but we're not aiming to get those ready for performance. The other tunes (Man in the Moon, Lovesick Polly, Quasimodo's Polka and Nancy's Fancy) may get an outing if people want, but are really coming with us as extras. Do get in touch if you can't make them work or want any help. If you want to concentrate on tunes which will definitely come up during the week, stick to Pleasures of Salisbury/Gussondall Bay and Nameless/Miss Sackville's Fancy. Valmai

We've now got the music for the workshop ready to send by post or email. There are still places for this workshop and for Rob's workshop on tunes from the William Winter manuscript for any instrument in the same place on the Sunday. In the evening Rob performs at the Lewes Saturday Folk Club with Nancy Kerr and James Fagan. Valmai

We've now got the music for the workshop ready to send by post or email. There are still places for this workshop and for Rob's all-systems concertina workshop in the same place on the Saturday. In the evening Rob performs at the Lewes Saturday Folk Club with Nancy Kerr and James Fagan. Valmai

Lewes Elephant Workshop No 114 THE TUNES OF SCAN TESTER: WORKSHOP with WILL DUKE Saturday 11th. July 2009 10.45 a.m.- 4.45 p.m. Places £25 Elephant & Castle, White Hill, Lewes BN7 2DJ www.elephantandcastlelewes.co.uk All profits after expenses go to the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, Cecil Sharp House Scan Tester (1887-1972) was an Anglo concertina player from Sussex with a vast repertoire of social dance & popular tunes. The workshop is aimed at proficient musicians on any instrument, who can learn & play tunes by ear. Will Duke will simply play tunes at you & encourage you to join in, playing the same tune half a dozen times. Participants can record tunes on the day on their own equipment. By the end of the day he hopes you will have captured some of these tunes, either in your head and/or on your machine. Will has made a CD including several of the tunes he’ll be using today. To order one see the back of this booking form, or buy it on July 11th. IN THE EVENING WILL DUKE PERFORMS AT THE ELEPHANT & CASTLE (admission £5; advance tickets available from address at end of this form) Provisional Timetable 10.45 Registration & coffee; order lunch (refreshments not included) 11.00 Brief explanation about Scan Tester, his repertoire & style of playing the anglo concertina 11.20 Polkas & schottisches 12.30 Lunch 13.30 Popular songs turned into tunes 13.45 Stepdances & hornpipes 15.00 Tea/coffee break 15.15 3 or more waltzes 16.00 Questions answered! Recap & final playthrough of some of the tunes we have worked on 16.45 Finish N.B. Booking is recommended as numbers are limited. Maps & accommodation lists will be sent on request. Lewes Saturday Folk Club c/o 20, St. John's Terrace, LEWES, East Sussex BN7 2DL Tel. (01273) 476757 e-mail: valmaigoodyear@aol.com Website: www.lewesarmsfolkclub.org THE TUNES OF SCAN TESTER WORKSHOP with WILL DUKE Saturday 11th. July 2009 BOOKING FORM All profits after expenses go to the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, Cecil Sharp House I would like to attend the workshop. I enclose a cheque for £25.00 for workshop fees (refreshments not included). Name: Address: Telephone: E-mail address: Tick for map: Tick for accommodation list: No. of tickets for evening performance: (£5 each, include SAE for these) To order a CD, see the form below. Please make cheques payable to Lewes Arms Folk Club (that's right) and send with this booking form to: Valmai Goodyear, 20, St. John's Terrace, LEWES, East Sussex BN7 2DL Tel. (01273) 476757 e-mail: valmaigoodyear@aol.com Website: Website: www.lewesarmsfolkclub.org WILL DUKE’S CD ‘OUT OF THE BOX’ The CD will be available at the workshop. You can also order copies direct from Will or through the Lewes Saturday Folk Club if you’re attending the workshop, but in either case please make your cheque payable to W. DUKE rather than to the club. If you’re ordering direct from Will, send this form to Will Duke, 41, Dallas Lane, Barcombe, East Sussex BN8 5DZ Please send me ........ copies of Will’s CD @ £10 plus £1.00 postage & packing per CD. I enclose a cheque for £ payable to W. Duke. Name: Address: Only to be used if there’s a query: Your telephone number: Your email: If you’re ordering from the club, fill in this form and send it with a separate cheque with your workshop and/or evening tickets booking.

Lewes Elephant Workshop No 113 ROBERT HARBRON TUNES FROM WILLIAM WINTER'S MANUSCRIPT for ANY INSTRUMENT Places £30 Sunday 7th. June 2009 10.45 a.m.- 4.45 p.m. The Crown Inn, 191, High St, Lewes, BN7 2NA www.crowninn-lewes.co.uk/ Rob is widely considered the most important concertina player of his generation. He is known for his work with Dr. Faustus, Tim van Eyken, The English Acoustic Collective, Emma Reid, & Nancy Kerr & James Fagan. He has been a popular tutor for Folkworks, Hands-On Music, the International Concertina Association & a great many more. William Winter was a fiddle player who lived from 1774 to 1861 in the Quantock Hills in Somerset. He played in a church band and for country dances, and worked as a village shoemaker. His manuscript collection of over 400 tunes includes unusual tunes and interesting variants of familiar ones. The manuscript has recently been published by Halsway Manor, and copies will be available for sale on the day. (Purchase of the book is optional and copies of any music required for the workshops will be provided). The workshops will be an opportunity to discover some of the tunes in the Winter MS. We will also discuss ways of getting tunes ‘off the page’, including phrasing, ornamentation and creative interpretation. ON SATURDAY 6TH. JUNE NANCY KERR, JAMES FAGAN & ROB HARBRON PERFORM AT THE ELEPHANT & CASTLE, LEWES (admission £8, advance tickets available from the address at the end of this form) ROBERT HARBRON Sunday 7th. June 2009 WILLIAM WINTER WORKSHOP Provisional Timetable 10.45 Registration & coffee; order lunch (refreshments not included). 11.00 An introduction to the Winter MS and some of its tunes. 12.30 Lunch 13.30 Getting the tune off the page – phrasing, pulse, feel and style 15.00 Tea/coffee break 15.15 Going beyond the dots – creative interpretation of manuscript 16.45 Finish N.B. Booking is recommended as numbers are limited. Music, maps & accommodation lists will be sent in advance. Lewes Saturday Folk Club c/o 20, St. John's Terrace, LEWES, East Sussex BN7 2DL Tel. (01273) 476757 valmaigoodyear@aol.com www lewesarmsfolkclub.org ROBERT HARBRON WILLIAM WINTER WORKSHOP Sunday 7th. June 2009 BOOKING FORM I enclose a cheque for £30.00 for workshop fees (refreshments not included). Name: Address: Tickets for evening performance (£8 each, include SAE for these): Telephone: E-mail address: Tick for map: Tick for accommodation list: Please make cheques payable to Lewes Arms Folk Club (that's right) and send with this booking form to: Valmai Goodyear, 20, St. John's Terrace, LEWES, East Sussex BN7 2DL Tel. (01273) 476757 valmaigoodyear@aol.com www lewesarmsfolkclub.org

Lewes Elephant Folk Music workshop no. 112 ROBERT HARBRON CONCERTINA WORKSHOP Places £30 Saturday 6th. June 2009 10.45 a.m.- 4.45 p.m. The Crown Inn, 191, High St, Lewes, BN7 2NA www.crowninn-lewes.co.uk/ Rob is widely considered the leading concertina player of his generation. He is known for his work with The English Acoustic Collective, Emma Reid, Tim van Eyken, and Nancy Kerr and James Fagan. He has been a popular tutor for Folkworks, Hands-On Music, the International Concertina Association and a great many more. The workshop will look at a number of techniques involved in developing a personal style of playing – phrasing, pulse, dynamics, ornamentation, fingering and use of the bellows. We will also look at some approaches to chords and harmony. Rob’s technical knowledge is mostly centered on the English system, but the workshops are open to players of all systems as many aspects of the workshop apply to other types of concertina. IN THE EVENING NANCY KERR, JAMES FAGAN & ROB HARBRON PERFORM AT THE ELEPHANT & CASTLE (admission £8, advance tickets available from the address at the end of this form) ROBERT HARBRON CONCERTINA WORKSHOP Saturday 6th. June 2009 Provisional Timetable 10.45 Registration & coffee; order lunch (refreshments not included). 11.00 Getting the basics right – posture, fingering, phrasing and the bellows 12.30 Lunch 13.30 Chords and harmony – three complimentary approaches 15.00 Tea/coffee break 15.15 Ornamentation and twiddly bits, and putting it all together 16.45 Finish N.B. Booking is recommended as numbers are limited. Music, maps & accommodation lists will be sent in advance. Lewes Saturday Folk Club c/o 20, St. John's Terrace, LEWES, East Sussex BN7 2DL Tel. (01273) 476757 valmaigoodyear@aol.com www lewesarmsfolkclub.org ROBERT HARBRON CONCERTINA WORKSHOP Saturday 6th. June 2009 BOOKING FORM I enclose a cheque for £30.00 for workshop fees (refreshments not included). Name: Address: No. of tickets for evening performance (£8 each, include SAE for these): Telephone: E-mail address: Tick for map: Tick for accommodation list: Please make cheques payable to Lewes Arms Folk Club (that's right) and send with this booking form to: Valmai Goodyear, 20, St. John's Terrace, LEWES, East Sussex BN7 2DL Tel. (01273) 476757 valmaigoodyear@aol.com www lewesarmsfolkclub.org

You'll be able to download our three-part arrangements of the tunes from our website http://www.sparepartsband.co.uk/ in midis and .pdfs in the next day or so, but if your excitement is so great that you can't wait that long I can send them to you by email or post on request. Bryan's put them on the site now, and they will stay there until he puts up the selection for our next festival (Chippenham, in the third week-end of May). Valmai

Dear Everyone, Spare Parts (Bryan Creer, Suzanne Higgins and I) will be running concertina part-playing sessions again at the Gosport and Fareham Easter Festival http://www.gosportfestival.co.uk/ this year. The sessions are free - you don't need to show a festival season ticket to get in, although there are a lot of splendid-looking events that might well interest you anyway. All concertina systems are welcome, and so are recording devices. You'll be able to download our three-part arrangements of the tunes from our website http://www.sparepartsband.co.uk/ in midis and .pdfs in the next day or so, but if your excitement is so great that you can't wait that long I can send them to you by email or post on request. Here's our timetable: Friday 10th April 5.15.- 7.00 pm Lysses House Hotel, High Street, Fareham http://www.lysses.co.uk/ Gussondall Bay, Mist-Covered Mountains of Home, Wals voor Polle Saturday 11th. April 5.15 - 7.00 pm Ashcroft Arts Centre, Osborn Road, Fareham http://www3.hants.gov.uk/ashcroft Galloway Girth, Jouissance vous donneray, Whinshields Hornpipe Sunday 12th. April 5.15 - 7.00 pm Lysses House Hotel, High Street, Fareham http://www.lysses.co.uk/ Any or all of: Gussondall Bay, Mist-Covered Mountains of Home, Wals voor Polle, Galloway Girth, Jouissance vous donneray, Whinshields Hornpipe Tootle pip, Valmai Valmai Goodyear 20, St. John's Terrace, Lewes, BN7 2DL 01273 476757 Lewes Saturday Folk Club, Elephant & Castle, White Hill, Lewes BN7 2DJ www.lewesarmsfolkclub.org Residents: Bryan Creer, Dave Earl, Sandra Goddard, Valmai Goodyear, Suzanne Higgins, Steve & Diane Nevill, George Oakley, Robert O'Mahony, Denise & Stuart Savage, Derek Seed

Alan is the guest performer at the Lewes Saturday Folk Club (formerly Lewes Arms Folk Club) on Saturday 21st. March. The club now meets at the Elephant & Castle, White Hill, Lewes BN7 2DJ (http://www.elephantandcastlelewes.co.uk/) which has an excellent function room and superb Harveys best bitter. As before, we meet every Saturday, only stopping for Christmas or Bonfire if they are too close to a Saturday. The club's website remains http://www.lewesarmsfolkclub.org/ and has a splendid new logo of an elephant decorated with the Lewes coat of arms, designed by our Captain of Website and English tenor-treble player Bryan Creer. Bryan's Concertinas Anonymous sessions are now in the Elephant on the second Tuesday of the month. The Lewes Favourites English tunes practice sessions are also in the Elephant on the fourth Tuesday of the month. Both these sessions are free. Admission is £5. Tootle pip, Valmai

Dear Everyone, Spare Parts (just Bryan Creer and me on this occasion as Suzanne Higgins has a prior commitment) will be running a part-playing session for all concertina systems in the White Lion Saddlery in Tenterden High Street from 3.00 - 4.30 p.m. on Sunday 5th. October. The music is available from our website http://www.sparepartsband.co.uk/ in .pdf and midi form; Bryan's put up versions which will play at slow speed. The session is open to people who haven't got a season ticket at a modest admission charge. If you'd rather have a printed version by post, let me know. The tunes we've arranged are Long Odds, Bobby Shafto (Knots of May version) and the Kelso Fiddle & Accordion Club (Bob Liddle arr. Bryan Creer). For details of the Tenterden Folk Festival this year, see http://www.tenterdenfolkfestival.org.uk/. Valmai

FROM THE FIELD TO THE FOUNDRY A Journey with Magic Lantern & Concertinas Friday 12th. September Doors open 7.30 p.m. Licensed bar with Harveys beer Foundry Gallery, Old Market Lane Garage, 32 North Street, Lewes BN7 2PH Images, traditional songs and readings about life on the land in Sussex at the time the Phoenix Foundry opened in 1832 and the changes it brought to working people's lives. Images from Alan and Rene Marriott's Magic Lantern, the Victorian ancestor of the slide projector. Music from the Spare Parts Concertina Band. (http://www.sparepartsband.co.uk/ ) The concertina was invented in 1830 by Sir Charles Wheatstone. Tickets £6/£5 available on the door or from Laportes (Friars Walk) and Lewes Tourist Information Office. http://www.artemis-arts.co.uk/lewes_phoenix_project.html The Lewes Phoenix Project Lewes’ celebrated Phoenix Ironworks will rise again – at least through the recorded memories, Photographs and artefacts of local people, thanks to the Lewes Phoenix project which has recently been awarded a generous grant by the Heritage Lottery Fund. The Lewes Phoenix project is the brainchild of Ar¬temis Arts Ltd who are working with the community – from schoolchildren to elderly residents – to capture the stories and images of the former iron foundry, the site of which is at the centre of plans for a major town centre redevelopment. Volunteers and contributors are encouraged to get in touch and find out how they can take part. The railings of St Paul’s Cathedral and girders for the piers at Brighton, Eastbourne and Hastings, many lamp posts in Sussex streets, along with oven doors and soot boxes for local homes were manufactured at the ironworks which for much of the 19th century was the largest employer in the town of Lewes. The ‘Lewes Phoenix ‘ project will be launched by Ar¬temis Arts during Artwave –its theme is ‘Lewes, Now & Then’. A collaboration with clubs , youth organisa¬tions, artists, dancers, musicians, writers and histo¬rians who will celebrate local creativity from 1832 to the present day. The Foundry was established in 1832 - a time when large numbers of local people were moving from the land to towns and cities. The theme of town and country, from the early nineteenth century to the present will be echoed in a series of events, held in the old foundry buildings .

You don't need me to tell you that these two are distinguished concertina players. Valmai Lewes Arms Workshop No 98 MARY HUMPHREYS & ANAHATA: FENLAND TUNES WORKSHOP for any instrument Places £25 Saturday 20th. September 2008 10.45 a.m. - 4.45 p.m. The Lewes Arms, Mount Place, Lewes, East Sussex BN7 1YH These two skilled, enthusiastic & popular performers (http://www.treewind.co.uk/mha/) have unearthed & revived some rare gems of English song & dance music, particularly from the Fenland area. Anahata plays melodeons, Anglo concertina & cello; Mary plays banjo & English concertina. Mary sings traditional songs, mostly in English & a few in Welsh, The workshop will cover tunes mainly from the Cambridge fens & surrounding areas, & especially featuring tunes from the unpublished manuscripts of William Clarke of Feltwell in Norfolk. We'll include some East Anglian tunes & harmony arrangements. Music will be sent in advance. IN THE EVENING MARY HUMPHREYS & ANAHATA PERFORM AT THE LEWES ARMS FOLK CLUB (£6; advance tickets available from address at end of this form) MARY HUMPHREYS & ANAHATA: FENLAND TUNES WORKSHOP for any instrument Provisional timetable 10.45 Registration & coffee; order lunch (refreshments not included) 11.00 Cambridgeshire tunes & introduction to Clarke manuscripts. 12.30 - 13.30 Lunch 13.30 Clarke in detail 15.00 Tea/coffee break 15. 15 -16.45 John Clare and East Anglia. N.B. Booking is recommended as numbers are limited. Music, maps & accommodation lists will be sent in advance. MARY HUMPHREYS & ANAHATA: FENLAND TUNES WORKSHOP Saturday 20th. September 2008 BOOKING FORM I would like to attend the workshop on Saturday 20th. September 2008. I enclose a cheque for £25.00 (refreshments not included). Name: Address: Instrument(s): No. of evening tickets (£6 each, include SAE for these): Telephone: E-mail address: Tick for map: Tick for accommodation list: Please make cheques payable to Lewes Arms Folk Club and send with this booking form to: Valmai Goodyear, 20, St. John's Terrace, LEWES, East Sussex BN7 2DL Tel. (01273) 476757 e-mail: valmaigoodyear@aol.com Website: www.lewesarmsfolkclub.org/

We're delighted to announce that this is the hundredth workshop at the Lewes Arms and John's fourth for us. Valmai Goodyear Lewes Arms workshop no. 100 JOHN KIRKPATRICK: MODES WORKSHOP for any instrument Places £30 Saturday 25th. October 2008 10.45 a.m.- 4.45 p.m. The Lewes Arms, Mount Place, Lewes, East Sussex BN7 1YH John Kirkpatrick is a superb singer, great writer, fine dancer & the best English squeezer bar none. He is one of the great solo acts on the folk scene & has played with the Albions, Steeleye Span, Brass Monkey, Band of Hope & many more. "Modes" are kinds of scales that are not quite the same as the common Do Re Me variety. John will explain exactly what they are, how they behave, where you find them in English folk music, and what to do with with them once you've identified what they are. Modes demystyfied. Of interest to any instrumentalist or singer, but more suitable for instrumentalists. IN THE EVENING JOHN KIRKPATRICK PERFORMS AT THE LEWES ARMS FOLK CLUB (admission £7; advance tickets available from the address at end of this form) Provisional Timetable Music will be sent out in advance. 10.45 Registration & coffee; order lunch (refreshments not included) 11.00 What the different modes are, and how they relate to the common major scale. 12.30 Lunch 13.30 Examples of modal tunes in English folk music - both songs and dance tunes. 15.00 Tea/coffee 15.15 - 16.45 How do you accompany a modal tune - what to leave out? N.B. Booking is recommended as numbers are limited. Maps & accommodation lists will be sent on request. JOHN KIRKPATRICK : MODES WORKSHOP for any instrument Saturday 25th. October 2008 BOOKING FORM I would like to attend the workshop. I enclose a cheque for £30.00 (refreshments not included). Name: Address: Telephone: E-mail address: Your instrument: No. of tickets for evening performance: (£7 each; please include SAE for these) Tick for map: Tick for accommodation list: Please make cheques payable to Lewes Arms Folk Club and send with this booking form to: Valmai Goodyear, 20, St. John's Terrace, LEWES, East Sussex BN7 2DL Tel. (01273) 476757 e-mail: valmaigoodyear@aol.com Website: www.lewesarmsfolkclub.org/

Dear Everyone, Booking has now opened for Will Duke's third all-day workshop for any instrument on the tunes of Scan Tester. You can also download the form from the Lewes Arms Folk Club website (http://www.lewesarmsfolkclub.org) . Will has recently made a CD including several of the tunes he'll be using today. To order one get in touch with him direct, PM me, or buy it on July 5th. Tootle pip, Valmai Lewes Arms Workshop No 94 THE TUNES OF SCAN TESTER: WORKSHOP with WILL DUKE Saturday 5th. July 2008 10.45 a.m.- 4.45 p.m. Places £25 The Lewes Arms Mount Place, Lewes, East Sussex BN7 1YH All profits after expenses go to the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, Cecil Sharp House Scan Tester (1887-1972) was an Anglo concertina player from Sussex with a vast repertoire of social dance & popular tunes. The workshop is aimed at proficient musicians on any instrument, who can learn & play tunes by ear. Will Duke will simply play tunes at you & encourage you to join in, playing the same tune half a dozen times. Participants can record tunes on the day on their own equipment. By the end of the day he hopes you will have captured some of these tunes, either in your head and/or on your machine. IN THE EVENING WILL DUKE PERFORMS AT THE LEWES ARMS (admission £5; advance tickets available from address at end of this form) Provisional Timetable 10.45 Registration & coffee; order lunch (refreshments not included) 11.00 Brief explanation about Scan Tester & his repertoire 11.20 Polkas, schottisches, waltzes, step dances, jigs 12.30 Lunch 13.30 More polkas, schottisches, waltzes, step dances & jigs! 14.30 Linking tunes together 15.00 Tea/coffee break 15.15 Popular song tunes 16.00 Recap & final playthrough of some of the tunes we have worked on 16.45 Finish N.B. Booking is recommended as numbers are limited. Maps & accommodation lists will be sent on request. THE TUNES OF SCAN TESTER: WORKSHOP with WILL DUKE Saturday 5th. July 2008 BOOKING FORM All profits after expenses go to the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, Cecil Sharp House I would like to attend the workshop. I enclose a cheque for £25.00 for workshop fees (refreshments not included). Name: Address: Telephone: E-mail address: Tick for map: Tick for accommodation list: No. of tickets for evening performance: (£5 each, include SAE for these) Please make cheques payable to Lewes Arms Folk Club and send with this booking form to: Valmai Goodyear, 20, St. John's Terrace, LEWES, East Sussex BN7 2DL Tel. (01273) 476757 Website: Website: www.lewesarmsfolkclub.org Valmai Goodyear 20, St. John's Terrace, Lewes, BN7 2DL 01273 476757

And I've just sent them as midis as well. The last two arrangements are under construction - one is Windshields Hornpipe, but I don't know what the other will be. Each member of the band contributes two tunes and surprises the others with them. If they haven't reached you, let me know. It may be that I'm not using the right email address, in which case let me know which one I should use. Valmai

Peter, I've just sent you pdfs of four of the arrangements we plan to use: the tunes are Black Nag, Portsmouth, I'll Touzel Yer Kurchy (Jackson) and The Britches (adaptation of the Irish tune Britches Full Of Stitches). There will be another couple of tunes, but these should be something to start on. Let me know if they don't arrive or appear mangled when they reach you. We'll follow our usual policy of doing three tunes in each session, and they will be different in each session. All the best, Valmai

Dear Everyone, Concertina sessions at the Gosport & Fareham Easter Festival http://www.gosportfestival.co.uk/index.html The Spare Parts Concertina Band (Bryan Creer, Suzanne Higgins, Valmai Goodyear) is running a couple of part-playing sessions for concertinas on Friday 21st. March at 5.15 pm and at 11.00 a.m. on Saturday 22nd. March, both in the Lysses House Hotel, High Street, Fareham, Hampshire, UK. Admission is free for festival ticket holders, but non-ticket holders may need to pay a modest fee. If you'd like the music in advance, please send me an SAE so that I can post it to you. I should also be able to send it in midi form, in Noteworthy Composer, and as pdfs. All the best, Valmai Goodyear 20, St. John's Terrace, Lewes, BN7 2DL 01273 476757 Lewes Arms Folk Club, Mount Place, Lewes, East Sussex BN7 1YH http://www.lewesarmsfolkclub.org/ Residents: Bryan Creer, Dave Earl, Sandra Goddard, Valmai Goodyear, Suzanne Higgins, Steve & Diane Nevill, George Oakley, Robert O'Mahony, Derek Seed LEWES ARMS FOLK CLUB WORKSHOPS 2008 The workshops last a full Saturday and the tutor performs at the club in the evening. Booking forms can be printed from the website about four months before the event. 15th March Alistair Anderson Northumbrian music (any instrument) FULLY BOOKED BUT WAITING LIST BEING KEPT & EVENING TICKETS AVAILABLE 19th April Martin Carthy Guitar & song (12 places only) 7th June Cloudstreet Vocal harmony 5th. July Will Duke Scan Tester's tunes 19th July Mick West Scottish song 19th July Frank McLaughlin Scottish music for guitar 6th. Sept Marian Button Ballad forum 20th Sept Mary Humphreys & Anahata Fenland tunes (any instrument) 18th Oct John Kirkpatrick Modes (any instrument) 25th Oct Coope Boyes & Simpson Vocal harmony 25th Oct Georgina Boyes Seminar: Wassails, Carols & Winter Customs (pm) 22nd Nov Roy Clinging & Neil Brookes Cheshire tunes (any instrument) 6th Dec Paul Hutchinson Accordion 6th Dec Paul Sartin Fiddle Belshazzar's Feast (evening) SPARE PARTS CONCERTINA BAND Bryan Creer, Suzanne Higgins, Valmai Goodyear

Don't worry, Alistair assures me he's not going to play them all with us. I think a lot of them are there as illustrations. We've got a few tickets left for his performance in the evening; anyone can use the booking form at the head of this thread to reserve them if you like. Send me a cheque and I'll hold tickets on the door as there isn't time to put them in the post. All the best, Valmai