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News and Site Details
Alistair Hulett 1951 - 2010 It is with regret that we heard of the death of Alistair in January. Alistair was a Scottish singer and revolutionary Socialist best known as the singer of the Folk Punk band Roaring Jack. Our thoughts go out to his partner Fatima and his family ***********
The RING o' BELLS folk club, Widnes is closing at the end of May, and FOLK AT THE NORTON Halton Village, Runcorn WA7 2AD is OPENING on Wednesday May 27th, 8.30 - 11, Contact the Organisers: Stan Hesketh 01928 560581
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Palatine Fiddlers These group workshops enable enthusiastic fiddle players to meet weekly in a relaxed, comfortable, and friendly, tutor-lead environment to learn and play folk and traditional music. They learn through the playing of music primarily from the rich local repertoires of Lancashire and North-West England although regularly dip into those of Britain in general and further afield. They learn how to play the types of tunes commonly found in traditional music like jigs, hornpipes and waltzes, reels, polkas and airs. Attention is given to reproducing the style of the tune by the use of bowing technique, ornamentation and variation, along with the phrasing and expression found in that tradition. The workshops are open to fiddle and violin players of all ages and abilities. You should have some experience and your own instrument. These workshops are NOT suitable for complete beginners but previous experience of folk music is not a requirement and nor is the capacity to read music. If you play, at whatever level, and would like to improve, come and join us. We plan to invite well-known players from other traditions to teach us at special one-day workshops held here in the beautiful Ribble Valley. We also hope to develop our playing abilities to enable us to perform at public events and to play for social dancing at country dances and ceilidhs. The cost of attending the workshops for the 2008/9 season is £50 per person per term or £30 for concessions. The workshops are held at:- Mellor Brook Community Centre. Tel.: 01254 812150 Contact Julian Taylor by E-mail or by mobile: 07745 493135 *********** Before setting out to your favourite folk club get up to date traffic reports from http://www.frixo.com/ *********** Please click on the links below to go to:
Performance Workshop by John Prentice The Folk North West Magazine pages Links to other folk music related sites I'm looking for the words to... ----------
Roy Harris has sent us a letter about his 70th birthday plans Read it HERE
Read all about it HERE
---------- BBC Treasure Hunt
If you have any recordings of old BBC Folk Music Programmes from before 1984, then the BBC might be interested. Click HERE for more details.
Harry Boardman
For anybody interested in the work of the Pioneering Lancashire folksinger and researcher, I am compiling a list of his recordings and broadcasts. Click HERE for more details
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The Winter 2009 edition of Folk North West is now available from your local folk club - price £2-00 or by subscription.
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If I get the information from you, I would like to have some pages featuring the history of your club. What I'd be looking for is an article about the club, how it started, who started it, residents past and present, has the club wandered around from pub to pub in its time, good times and bad times. Some photographs of your residents and regulars would be good as well . You send it in - I'll do you a page.
clubhistory@folknorthwest.co.uk
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