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a quick look through the programme for concertina events shows the following ...... apologies for any I miss .... Sunday: 10.00 - 11.20 Spa Theatre bar upstairs Beginners English Concertina Workshop with Alex Wade £5 11.30 - 12.50 Spa Theatre bar upstairs Tunes of Scan Tester with Will Duke £5 11.30 - 12.50 Coliseum Tunes of William Clarke of Feltwell Nick & Mary Barber with Mary Humphries and Anahata leading the session £5 1.00 - 2.20 West Cliff School class 1 Children's concertina workshop with Alex Wade, 11 starter concertinas to have a go on £5 1.00 - 3.00 Consevative Club bar Music session with Alistair Anderson donations 5.00 - 7.00 Middle Earth Music session Will Duke with Derrick Hughes and Joy Lewis donations Monday: 11.30 - 12.50 Conservative Club bar Concertina Workshop Part Playing (intermediate) with Spare Parts Concertina Band £5 1.00 - 3.00 Fisherman's Rowing Club Music Session with Spare parts Concertina Band donations Tuesday: 10.00 - 11.20 Spa Theatre bar upstairs Intermediate Anglo Concertina with Brian Peters £5 11.30 - 12.50 Conservative Club Bar Concertina Part Playing (intermediate) Spare Parts Concertina Band £5 1.00 - 3.00 Conservative Club bar Music session with Mary Humphries and Ananhata donations 5.00 - 7.00 Fisherman's Rowing Club Music session with Brian Peters donations Wednesday: 10.00 - 11.20 Spa Theatre Bar upstairs Beginners English ConcertinaWorkshop with Alex Wade £5 11.30 - 12.50 Consevative Club bar Concertina Part Playing Spare Parts Concertina Band £5 5.00 - 7.00 Middle Earth Music Session with Spare Parts Concertina Band donations Thursday: 11.30 - 12.50 Conservative Club bar Concertina part Playing with Spare Parts Concertina Band £5 5.00 - 6.00 Spa Theatre and Hour with 'The Sultans of Squeeze' Alan Ball introduces John Kirkpatrick and Chris Parkinson £9 5.00 - 7.00 Fisherman's Rowing Club Music session with Dan Quinn and Will Duke donations Friday: 11.30 - 12.50 Conservative Club bar Concertina Part Playing Spare Parts Concertina Band £5 plus all the impromptu sessions in pubs throughout the week

a quick look through the programme for concertina events shows the following ...... apologies for any I miss .... Sunday: 10.00 - 11.20 Spa Theatre bar upstairs Beginners English Concertina Workshop with Alex Wade £5 11.30 - 12.50 Spa Theatre bar upstairs Tunes of Scan Tester with Will Duke £5 11.30 - 12.50 Coliseum Tunes of William Clarke of Feltwell Nick & Mary Barber with Mary Humphries and Anahata leading the session £5 1.00 - 2.20 West Cliff School class 1 Children's concertina workshop with Alex Wade, 11 starter concertinas to have a go on £5 1.00 - 3.00 Consevative Club bar Music session with Alistair Anderson donations 5.00 - 7.00 Middle Earth Music session Will Duke with Derrick Hughes and Joy Lewis donations Monday: 11.30 - 12.50 Conservative Club bar Concertina Workshop Part Playing (intermediate) with Spare Parts Concertina Band £5 1.00 - 3.00 Fisherman's Rowing Club Music Session with Spare parts Concertina Band donations Tuesday: 10.00 - 11.20 Spa Theatre bar upstairs Intermediate Anglo Concertina with Brian Peters £5 11.30 - 12.50 Conservative Club Bar Concertina Part Playing (intermediate) Spare Parts Concertina Band £5 1.00 - 3.00 Conservative Club bar Music session with Mary Humphries and Ananhata donations 5.00 - 7.00 Fisherman's Rowing Club Music session with Brian Peters donations Wednesday: 10.00 - 11.20 Spa Theatre Bar upstairs Beginners English ConcertinaWorkshop with Alex Wade £5 11.30 - 12.50 Consevative Club bar Concertina Part Playing Spare Parts Concertina Band £5 5.00 - 7.00 Middle Earth Music Session with Spare Parts Concertina Band donations Thursday: 11.30 - 12.50 Conservative Club bar Concertina part Playing with Spare Parts Concertina Band £5 5.00 - 6.00 Spa Theatre and Hour with 'The Sultans of Squeeze' Alan Ball introduces John Kirkpatrick and Chris Parkinson £9 5.00 - 7.00 Fisherman's Rowing Club Music session with Dan Quinn and Will Duke donations Friday: 11.30 - 12.50 Conservative Club bar Concertina Part Playing Spare Parts Concertina Band £5 plus all the impromptu sessions in pubs throughout the week

Not heard anything definite yet, my source of info is with the Morris sde at Sidmouth and won't be back until the weekend, will post on this thread and http://www.concertina.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=15135] .....the other Whitby thread .... when there's any news

handy links for Whitby ....... will keep updated between now and Folk Week ;D Weather reports and Tide predictions for Whitby will show tide times (GMT, add 1 hour for BST) for next 28 days and updates itself ..... hopefully saves anyone going for a stroll on the beach and getting cut off by the tide map of Whitby Car Parks and the page with the details of Off Street Car Parks Advance Tickets , how to get them, how much they cost and which car parks they're valid for The Local Drs Surgery at Spring Vale Medical Centre .... for those little emergencies the minor injuries unit at Whitby Hospital is open from 8am to 11pm daily ** note ...the Co-op car park .... the car park is now restricted to a maximum stay of 2 hours and is for customers only. An ANPR system will automatically issue parking tickets to vehicles staying for longer than 2 hours. Bus Timetables for Whitby useful ones are .... 91 Castle Park circular which goes up past Stakesby School to Castle Park then down White Leys Road past the Rugby Club entrance and back to the bus station 98 West Cliff circular which will also pass the Rugby Club on the Stakesby Road and Love Lane sides before going along the cliff top past the Spa Pavilion and back through town to the bus station ( and the 1, 1a tour bus which is handy as a day ticket will allow you to hop on and off as many times as you like lWhitby Yacht Club Webcam so you can see what's happening down the pier

provisional update for concertina friendly sessions during folk week (they're used to me turning up every week for the Saturday FILO Folk) Chris Coulter and Stu Tonnar hope to be running twice daily mixed tune/song sessions, 1pm to 3pm and 7pm to midnight every day of Folk Week in the First In Last Out any acoustic instrument welcome. The pub is conveniently close to the festival campsite at Airy Hill school and only a short walk from the Community College ...... any more info will be posted as soon as I hear of it

thank you Mo there's plenty there to go at and we'll probably be staying in Fradley Do you go to any of the sessions?

will be visiting near Lichfield with friends sometime this year and wondered if there were any regular sessions or Folk clubs that we could drop in on. Friends sing and play mandolin/guitar and I'll have the concertina with me, tunes/songs range from Morris, English, Irish and Australian to Northern European

such sad news,he'll be much missed, we used to do the 'defence cuts budget version' of the 'Red Army Choir' at the Whitby Euro sessions, one deep bass singer and a concertina player.

Artists booked over the weekend: "Other Roads", "Something Nasty in the Woodshed", Dan Donnelly, Alistair Russell, Rosie Hodgson, The Chimney Boys, Stony and other support artists... Provisional Programme Friday: "Welcome to Whitby"… after setting up your camping, enjoy fish n chips freshly cooked by us (Moor & Coast Catering), before a great evening concert… with special guests"Other Roads" and "Emma & the Professor" plus full supporting guests... Late night session after the concert, open to all ticket holders... Saturday: Breakfast at the Rugby Club for all camping then enjoy an easy afternoon in Whitby, with sessions in local pubs and dancers on the harbour side. An evening concert with guests "Something Nasty in the Woodshed" and "The Chimney Boys" plus full support… Late night session after the concert, open to all ticket holders... Sunday: Breakfast at the Rugby Club for all camping then enjoy an easy afternoon in Whitby, with sessions in local pubs and dancers on the harbour side. An evening concert with guests "Rosie Hodgson" "Stony" and "Dan Donnelly" plus full support… Late night session after the concert, open to all ticket holders...

the festival office and ticket collection point this year will be at Whitby Leisure Centre instead of West Cliff School

the 16th Saltburn Folk Festival a friendly event on the North East Coast. There will be music , song and Morris Dancing .......... with the added attractions of Ray Padgett, Martyn Wyndham Read & Iris Bishop, Vin Garbutt and Harvey Andrews

here are the links to Broadings Farm Campsite , just a mile out of Whitby and Hook's House Farm campsite which is slightly further away on the road down to Robin Hood's Bay. Well behaved dogs allowed on both campsites

..... having problems editing my last post to add the following..... link to Whitby Folk Week Moor and Coast campsite page using Whitby Community College for people who don't want to buy a full festival season ticket to get camping at Airy Hill

the latest from the news page ........ looks like a great idea .... quote .. " New plans for minibus morning service planned between the new campsite Airy Hill School and Whitby Leisure Centre, plus late night return minibus from Spa. Although this will be chargeable we are hoping to negotiate a good deal ! More information soon."

I'll be the one disguised as a Muggle will put links to useful local info .... Dr's, buses, etc nearer the time sorry about the thread title .... it was entered as 'UK ' and '17th - 23rd' but appears as Uk, Th, Rd instead

the Guest List so far is looking good ... a fair amount of concertina interest and there's no clash with the Regatta this year. here's a link to the festival News page giving the latest updates re campsites and the theme for the ceilidh

not long to this friendly little weekend festival , ideal if you prefer small festivals to great big ones Whitby Spring Session 2013 no line up published yet but one of the organisers lives over the road from me so it'll be easy to find out when it's all settled ....... there will be Morris Dancing events held mainly in the Rugby Club, festival camping is on the Rugby Club site but you can get a festival ticket without camping included if you're going to make your own arrangements

Very Beautiful tune and well executed! rss playing along to Eric Theze's recordings is great practice, much better than trying to pick up a tune just from the dots ......now if only my own attempts matched his I'd be more than happy

Bad weather's a great excuse for experimenting with new tunes, I'm trying to play along to Eric Theze's Valse au pauvre Charlie tombe dans la gouttiere after an afternoon of mangling La Cumparsita

An early 'heads up' for the Musicport event as the first tranche of 100 early bird tickets are available from February the 1st and the second lot on March the 1st. Will update when the festival line up is published did try putting it on the calender but got "Fatal error: Call to undefined method parseBbcode::showEditor() in/usr/www/users/aep/concertina/forums/admin8600/applications_addon/ips/calendar/modules_public/calendar/calendars.php on line1221"

it was a great weekend, over £200 in the bucket for the RBRB ( exact total to be verified ), the weather stayed mainly bright and dry and the woollies kept the cold out. There's a rumour that next year one of the competitions will be 'Guess how many layers of clothes the concertina player is wearing' The Carols/ tunes that had people singing / humming along most and stopping to listen were ...... Adeste Fidelis, Silent Night, God Rest ye Merry Gentlemen, Away in a manger, The Holly and the Ivy, Once in Royal David's City, Good King Wenceslas, The First Noel, We three kings of Orient are, In Dulce Jubilo, The 12 days of Christmas, Deck the Halls with boughs of Holly, I saw 3 ships, Coventry Carol, How much is that doggy in the window, After the ball is over, I do like to be beside the seaside, Down at the old Bull and Bush, Daisy Daisy, In the shade of the old Apple tree, Plaisir d'Amour, The Bluebell Polka and the Trumpet Hornpipe. There was also a request for O come O come Emmanuel. Various waltzes, mazurkas and country dance tunes got the children ( and some adults ) skipping and dancing past. Mugs of tea and glasses of sherry were supplied by a friendly landlord, a cafe served up a helping of Shepherds pie for lunch each day and transport there and back was provided by the organisers .... I'm booked again for next year edited to show total raised ....... £207 the official letter and receipt from the RBRB are with the Victorian Weekend committee for their records

luckily I'm safe on the other side of the river, well away from the landslip, but poor Jude Knight who has a lot to do with folk singing and sessions in Whitby has lost nearly everything. She is (was) the only permanent resident in that terrace ( the rest are holiday lets) and her house (no. 6) is having it's roof slates removed near the end of this BBC news item in the picture the row of 7 houses nearest to the Abbey is Aelfleda Terrace, the engineers hope to save the 2 closest to the Abbey but the others are to be demolished