Thu 11 Sep
Royal Oak, Lewes
Matt does his first solo gig, at the Royal Oak, with a little bit of help from Dan. Now it's off to the Traditional Music degree course at the University of Newcastle. Best wishes!
Showing posts with label traditional music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label traditional music. Show all posts
Friday, 12 September 2008
Matt @ the Oak
Tuesday, 1 April 2008
Mayalde
Sat 8 Mar
Conservatorio Superior de Música, Salamanca
Kitchen percussion taken to the limit - every conceivable household implement struck, stroked, spun, shaken, swung, tinkled, blown, pinged, plucked. They did cheat a couple of times and played an accordeon. All making the important point that that's what people used to do when they didn't have instruments.
Here's a slideshow from the concert with music clips from their latest CD (downloaded from their web-site):
- and an album of the same photos (much better quality images, but no music).
Thursday, 14 June 2007
Local music for local people
Mon 11 Jun
Trevor Arms, Glynde
Will Duke's English music session, which meets 2nd Mondays, with anything from 10 to 20 or even 30 musicians all going for it hammer and tongs. It's been going for 30 years or more, under one guise or another, formerly at the Ram at Firle, now at the Trevor Arms.
This week there was the usual mix of concertinas, melodeons, accordions, fiddles, banjo, clarinet, bones. A few years back the regulars got some 180 of their favourite tunes together and published them in a gorgeously produced book which they called The Lewes Favourites (what else?). So there's no excuse for not learning some of them so you can play along, is there?
Wed 13 Jun
Fountain Inn, Ashurst
The Sussex Chorus and Harmony session (2nd Wednesdays). English (mostly) songs, with lots of choruses and lots of harmony, just what it says on the tin, really.
The Lewes Arms Folk Club has a listing of Traditional Music Sessions in Sussex - something to suit every taste (well, most). For a broader listing of clubs, concerts and festivals in Sussex see the Folk Diary, free from all sorts of places and also on-line (.pdf format); the current one's red, so you can't mislay it.
I'll get hammered if I don't mention the Royal Oak, which consistently has the best programme of traditional (and contemporary) music of any club I've come across. It's just that I don't think I've been since I started this blog . . .
[wot no pics?]
Trevor Arms, Glynde
Will Duke's English music session, which meets 2nd Mondays, with anything from 10 to 20 or even 30 musicians all going for it hammer and tongs. It's been going for 30 years or more, under one guise or another, formerly at the Ram at Firle, now at the Trevor Arms.
This week there was the usual mix of concertinas, melodeons, accordions, fiddles, banjo, clarinet, bones. A few years back the regulars got some 180 of their favourite tunes together and published them in a gorgeously produced book which they called The Lewes Favourites (what else?). So there's no excuse for not learning some of them so you can play along, is there?
Wed 13 Jun
Fountain Inn, Ashurst
The Sussex Chorus and Harmony session (2nd Wednesdays). English (mostly) songs, with lots of choruses and lots of harmony, just what it says on the tin, really.
The Lewes Arms Folk Club has a listing of Traditional Music Sessions in Sussex - something to suit every taste (well, most). For a broader listing of clubs, concerts and festivals in Sussex see the Folk Diary, free from all sorts of places and also on-line (.pdf format); the current one's red, so you can't mislay it.
I'll get hammered if I don't mention the Royal Oak, which consistently has the best programme of traditional (and contemporary) music of any club I've come across. It's just that I don't think I've been since I started this blog . . .
[wot no pics?]
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