NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 5th 2014 Hello All Lou Marriott guests at the club next week. Having started performing as a singer/guitarist when he was 26, in 1979, he has since sung and played in various pubs, folk clubs and festivals, mainly in South Yorkshire but sometimes further afield. In the 1990s, for 6 years, he was one half of the duo ‘Twofold’ and in 2001 he formed ‘Travelling Folk’, a troupe of 9 performers who offered guest nights comprising individual short sets from troupe members. His repertoire is varied and includes songs from Jez Lowe, Ralph McTell, Leonard Cohen, Lennon/McCartney and many others. His speciality is singing a wide range of songs by Bob Dylan and for 6 years from 2000 he hosted an annual Dylan night at the Red House in Sheffield, which has now moved here, to the Princess Royal. He has had 2 stints running the Booit Straps Folk Club at The Commercial, Chapeltown, for 3 years from 1983 and again for 4½ years from 1998. He has also run 3 or 4 guitar classes each week for over 25 years now, encouraging many people to perform in class, some of whom have now become regulars at various Folk Clubs in South Yorkshire. **STOP PRESS** - BRIGHT SEASON STEP IN FOR TOEIN IN THE DARK Unfortunately, due to a short-notice appointment with a surgeons knife (made with Sheffield Steel, I hope), Toein in the Dark have had to pull out of their booking on June 12th, for all those out there who have been looking forward to it, fret ye not, they will now appear on July 17th. In the meantime, Michael J Tinkers Bright Season have stepped into the breach - not a bad replacement, eh?. FACEBOOK The threats are back - please keep clicking the Maybes! We are now closing in on the quarter-thousand mark with our Likes, Im dying to find out how many fairies wont jump out of my screen at me when we get there so, if you havent done so already, watcha waiting for? GET LIKING us at facebook/pages/Crookes-Folk-Club/261198863985926 , we have pulled clear of the upstart Stirrings, but cant rest on our laurels. A reminder also, that you can see all of the Facebook events to which I have been invited on the Facebook group Crookes Folk and all That at: facebook/groups/crookesfolkandallthat . COMING DATES June 05 - Lou Marriott June 12 - Bright Season June 19 - Magpi June 26 - Paul Bell SUMMER PROGRAMME (**PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGES FROM THE LISTING PUBLISHED LAST WEEK**) The Summer programme is now ALMOST complete and its another good-un:- July 3 - Paula Ryan July 10 - Paul Handyside July 17 - Toein in the Dark July 24 - Johnny Campbell and Sheffield City Morris Men (Tramlines warm-up with SCMM display 7:30 to 8:15) July 25 (FRIDAY) - Tramlines Special (No floor singers, 6 acts, 8:00 - 11:30, door 7:45) July 31 - Raintown Seers August 7 - Scanning Horizons August 14 - Chris Sammon & Dave Wilde August 21 - Blackwater August 28 - TBC September 4 - Bob Ballard (**PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE FROM LAST WEEK**) September 11 - Harry Bird and the Rubber Wellies (FREE tickets in advance only) September 18 - Jan Bell (**PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE FROM LAST WEEK**) September 25 - Luke Hirst More details of the clubs Tramlines Special will follow later. I have had a number of people keep asking after a booking for August 28th. I find it very flattering that people are so eager to appear at the club and would love to say yes to each and every one but I have, in fact, someone lined up for the evening, but we need to be patient for just a little while longer before I commit them in print. If this arrangement falls through I shall certainly go to the list of people who have contacted me on the matter. THE PLUG (See below in AND FINALLY, THE USUAL STUFF for how to get your plug in here) **Warning** - this list has been assembled in all good faith and, as the information comes principally from the horses mouths ought to be acurate but, if you dont want to make a wasted journey then its is probably best to check using the link(s) or other contact details provided. Peak Concerts have Martyn Joseph at the Whitworth Centre, Darley Dale, Saturday May 31st: peakconcerts.co.uk . The cleverly entitled follow up to the Legal Street Performers Bob Dylan special at the Gardeners earlier this year, the Anything But Dylan Night will be at the Gardeners Rest, Neepsend on Saturday May 31st: andrewhardy1533@gmail and sheffieldpub.co.uk/pubs/neepsend/gardeners-rest . Mansfield Folk club presents Stitherum on Monday June 2nd: mansfieldfolkclub.org.uk . Mike Lydiatts regular (1st Tuesdays) Carolan session is at the White Lion, Heeley on Monday June 2nd: docsworkshop.co.uk Soapstone Dragon host their regular (1st Thursday) session at the White Hart in Calow (near Chesterfield) on Thursday June 5th. TOFFEE Musics regular (2nd Tuesdays) benefit for The Weston Park Hospital Cancer Charity is at Shakespeares, Gibraltar street on Tuesday June 10th: toffeemusic.co.uk . The Fates wave a fond farewell to Peter Rophone at the Lantern Theatre on Tuesday June 10th, but fear not, Tegwen, Sue and Bay will be continuing with their own top-notch a-capella music: ticketsource.co.uk/search/searchPerformance.asp?performance_id=103046&sid= or lanterntheatre.org.uk or facebook/events/463883293757083 . Great club favourites, Harry Bird and the Rubber Wellies grace the stage at The Greystones on Wednesday June 10th: hotdroprecords for details. As part of the Broomhill Festival, Martin Simpson and Roy Bailey join forces for an evening of acoustic music at St Marks Church, Broomhill on Wednesday June 11th, tickets from record collector: broomhillfestival.org.uk/events/an-evening-with-martin-simpson-roy-bailey . Dont forget Richard Kitsons KickStarter campaign to get his new CD out (see CDs, below). FESTIVAL PLUGS (See below in AND FINALLY, THE USUAL STUFF for how to get your plug in here) Nothing this week . CDs (See below in AND FINALLY, THE USUAL STUFF for how to get your plug in here) Skyhook are soon to release their new, much awaited, CD At the Strinsmiths Forge is almost ready, see: skyhookmusic and watch THE PLUG for their launch concert details. Im sure Keystone will be only too delighted to sell you a copy of their new CD Blah, Blah, Blah, go to keystoneacoustic.co.uk for details. Much missed Hugh Wallers The Grey Hawk and revised Seeds of Love and Death are available at the bar of Fagans for £10 each, all proceeds from sales are to be donated to MacMillan Cancer Care for whom Hughs partner, Sue Taylor, tells me £1000 has so far been raised in his honour, keep it coming and get a great CD into the bargain. Richard Kitson has launched a KickStarter campaign to raise the necessary funds to release his up-coming CD Hermit Hill, there are all sorts of goodies available to contributors, please go to kickstarter/projects/720907514/hermit-hill to get full details and to make your investment in the future of one of the regions shining stars. Simon Kempston graced the club a couple of weeks ago, not many were there to enjoy this excellent singer and guitarist, but you can enjoy a selection of his CDs from his web-site: simonkempston.co.uk/albums . Patrick Rose has his album Paradise Square available both as a CD and a download, whilst his Himself album is also available as a download got to: patrickrose.bandcamp/album/paradise-square and patrickrose.bandcamp/album/himself respectively, or e-mail him at [email protected] . The Repeters (Peter Gilbert and Pete Smith) have now released Fruits of Time and Freedom get it from Amazon, iTunes and the rest if you must, but Peter Gilbert will be happy to supply you direct at: pipg80@hotmail . Big favourites with yours truly, Grassoline, have their new CD available, it is an EP entitled Here But Not at Home - Vol 2 goto: grassoline.bandcamp to buy this and their previous CDs (free entry to Crookes Folk Club for 6 months if you can guess what one of them is called). Philip Cockerhams new CD Running Man is available NOW: facebook/PhilipCockerham . Ray Padgett still has his monster 2 CD set, Traditionalist English Songs, containing 49 traditional English songs available: facebook/raymond.padgett . TOFFEE Music now have 2 CDs, Toffee Rainbow and the brand new Sheffield Flood, released to mark the 150th anniversary of the great Sheffield flood, they are £5 each and all proceeds go to the Weston Park Hospital Cancer Charity: toffeemusic.co.uk . Julian Socha will be only too happy to sell you some of his CDs, of which I understand there are several: juliansocha . Dogwood Roses CD All Things to Please Us is available from Mike Richards at: michael_g_richards@hotmail . Richard Kitsons re-released eponymous debut album in new packaging and flashy new artwork is now available from Richard at: richardkitson.net . I am also informed that he has a new CD in production and he may even hold the launch party at our humble club (though that is yet to be confirmed). Welsh Geoffs new CD Crug Mawr is now available, to find out how to get your sticky mitts on it, go to: welshgeoff.co.uk . Club favourite Michael J Tinker, in collaboration with Damien OKane has a single, Shenandoah out now, more details at: facebook/michaeljtinker and michaeljtinker . Paul Bells new album Small Town Boy is now available at: store.paulbellmusic . Shaun (Hutch) Hutchisons CD EP Introducing... Shaun Hutch is now available: shaunhutchmusic . Andy Broderick has CDs available and very good they are too, please contact him at: [email protected] . And dont forget that Blackwater still have copies of Vanderpool available: facebook/blackwatermelodicacoustica?fref=pb&hc_location=friends_tab . BOOKS (See below in AND FINALLY, THE USUAL STUFF for how to get your plug in here) JP Beans Singing from the Floor is now available on general release. INTERESTING LINKS (**UPDATED LAST WEEK**) facebook/pages/Crookes-Folk-Club/261198863985926 - Our very own Facebook page facebook/groups/crookesfolkandallthat - A place for event invites and to find out what is going on in folk and beyond facebook/princess.royal.507 - the Facebook page of our host venue, the Princess Royal google/calendar/embed?src=sheffieldfolk%40gmail&ctz=Europe/London - The Sheffield Folk: Gigs & Events Calendar, if its on in Sheffield, it should be listed here. https://google/calendar/embed?src=nfmj3k662fo6k4nep4n7s7gm20%40group.calendar.google&ctz=Europe/London - The Sheffield Folk: Sessions Calendar want a session in Sheffield? Look here. wortleyfolkclub.info/ - the website of Wortley Folk Club, now based at the Venu in Stocksbridge mansfieldfolkclub.org.uk/ - Mansfield Folk Clubs web site sheffieldbabelsongs.org/ - a project to collect and disseminate songs and related memories from the international people who now live in Sheffield stirrings.org.uk/ - the folk magazine for Sheffield, South Yorkshire and beyond syfolk.co.uk/ - Pete Shaws web site with links to much that is happening in these parts reverbnation/ - a useful site for finding out whats on and where folkradio.co.uk/ - online radio station specialising in folk music sheffieldlive.org/ - home of Sheffields independent radio station, Sheffield Live and, in particular, Thank Goodness Its Folk UnsignedRadio.biz/ - Unsigned Radio, an on-line radio station providing a platform for un-signed talent hallamtrads.co.uk/ - a site promoting traditional song and dance in the Sheffield area jmucreate/ - Acoustic Rotherhams splendid web-site, containing lots and lots of information and links for folk and the broader arts in Rotherham and South Yorkshire, this is a great site wyecreekmusic.co.uk/ - The web-site of a community-based, not for profit, group, set up to promote songwriters in and around the Peak District mudcat.org/ - The Mudcat Cafe online folk music chat room yorkshirefolksong.net/ - The web-site of the Yorkshire Garland project, which includes a growing database of traditional folk songs from Yorkshire yorkshire-folk-arts/ - The web-site of Yorkshire Folk Arts and the Yorkshire Folk Arts directory. Yorkshire Folk Arts exists to co-ordinate and promote folk song and dance throughout Yorkshire E-MAIL [email protected] to get your music included on Mimi OMalleys folk show on Federal Radio AND FINALLY, THE USUAL STUFF How to Get a Plug: I am happy to help people out by including short plugs in this newsletter - here is how you can get yourself one. For ALL plugs, please use [email protected] . Gigs and Other Non-Festival Events I dont have the time nor, frankly, the inclination to trawl through Facebook Events, ReverbNation, Stirrings or leaflets looking for things to plug. So, if you would like me to put a line about your up-coming event in the newsletter, then please e-mail me at [email protected] . Ill try to get it in a couple of weeks before-hand, but in order for me to do that, you need to get it to me on the Tuesday of the week that you want it to appear (for instance, for your plug to appear in the Newsletter for January 16th - sent out January 9th to 13th, you will need to get it to me by Tuesday January 7th). Festivals Rather than add these to my THE PLUG section (as I have done hither too) I now have a dedicated section called FESTIVAL PLUGS (clever, eh?) If you are the organiser of a festival and you would like me to give you a mention then you need to e-mail me at [email protected] with the following:- Festival name Dates Location 3 main headline acts OR a brief (no more than 10 words) summary of the nature of the festival (eg song sessions or sea shanties or Wagon Wheel variations). Closing date for early bird ticket sales Contact details, consisting of one or more of: web address, e-mail address, Facebook page, telephone number I shall include the plug for about 3 weeks prior to the closure of early bird ticket sales and then remove it once that date has passed, re-inserting it about 3 weeks before the event. As with all other plugs, you need to e-mail me at said address, I do not have the time, energy or inclination to trawl through leaflets, web pages, Facebook events or newspapers looking for things to include, no e-mail, probably no plug. CDs and Books I now have separate sections to plug CDs and books, but the e-mail address is the same: [email protected] . Ill need the name and contact details for finding out more (1 or more of snail mail, phone, e-mail, WWW or Facebook). I wont keep the plug in forever, but the turnover will be very much dictated by how many I am asked to include, itll be a case of first in, first out. As usual, we are at the Princess Royal, Slinn Street, SHEFFIELD, S10 1NW, doors open at 8:15, for an 8:30 start and there is no charge for entry, just bring a few quid to support the raffle and collection! All singers and musicians are welcome, there is no need to pre-arrange a spot, just try to get there early, so that we have the best chance of giving everyone a fair go. Disclaimer etc: I have tried to ensure that people do not receive more than one copy of this mailing and hope that all who receive it want it. If you have received more than one copy, or do not wish to receive any further ones, please e-mail me with the e-mail address in question and I shall endeavour to avoid any repetition. See you all on Thursday Steve Cooper, Crookes Folk Club
Posted on: Sat, 31 May 2014 12:12:20 +0000
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