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NEWSLETTER FOR MAY 29th 2014 Hello All In the middle of a great performance, Keystone turned our Waggon Wheel Challenge on its head last week - yours truly won hands down (he is SUCH a pig [Kerrie]). They had great support as usual from our floor singers, thank you all. This weeks entertainment, MacTaylor, is made up of two musicians John McLoughlin and Bryan Taylor who play the type of music they both grew up with and enjoy playing. Their music draws from a wide range of eras and styles including pop, folk, Irish and self penned songs. John McLoughlin nicknamed Johnny Mac is MacTaylors Doncaster born and bred vocalist, guitarist and Mandolin player. His early influences include the Beatles, Neil Young and the Kinks but he likes all styles of music. He was a late developer in terms of playing in bands starting in 1994 playing his own material and later playing in various bands, duos, trios etc. Around six years ago he formed Macaracca who play sixties and seventies pop music, folk and Irish songs. Bryan is a Dearne Valley born and bred guitarist who started playing guitar after leaving school. His early influences include the Beatles, Wishbone Ash, Crosby, Still Nash and Young and Deep Purple. He played in various club bands and rock bands through out Yorkshire for a number of years in the 70s and 80s. When he started a family he moved away from bands and turned his guitar playing to classical guitar but still occasionally playing electric guitar and bass. A chance visit to an open mic acoustic night re-kindled his interest in the acoustic guitar and he started playing more acoustic guitar and composing acoustic guitar based instrumental songs. After a collaboration on a charity CD for water aid with Anxious Andrews he teamed up with him as duo Savant and continued to write and perform their own material until they both parted company last year. John and Bryan were both regulars at Wath folk club and around 2012 John invited him to join his band Macaracca. Looking for new avenues to peruse John and Bryan decided to get together as a duo to play the songs they both love and MacTaylor was born. If you like a variety of music and styles then pop along and see MacTaylor. **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 click some Maybes! 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 May 29 - MacTaylor June 05 - Lou Marriott June 12 - Bright Season June 19 - Magpi June 26 - Paul Bell SUMMER PROGRAMME The Summer programme is now complete and ita 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 (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 - TBA September 4 - Jan Bell September 11 - Harry Bird and the Rubber Wellies (FREE tickets in advance only) September 18 - Bob Ballard September 25 - Luke Hirst More details of the clubs Tramlines Special will follow later. 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. Doncaster Folk Festival is this weekend, Friday May 23rd to Sunday May 25th (see FESTIVAL PLUGS, below, for more details). Farm Yard @ Birds Yard presents Shaun Hutch, The Village, Tim & Julie Cole, Folkus, Mike Booth and Keystone Accoustic on Chapel Walk from 12:00 till 16:00 on Saturday May 24th: facebook/events/513882138723587 . The regular last Tuesday Just Voices gathering of unaccompanied singers can be had at The Black Bull, Birstall on Tuesday May 27th: moorleyfolk@btinternet . 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 . 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. 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) Doncaster Folk Festival runs from Friday May 23rd to Sinday May 25th, featuring, amongst others, Chris Wood, Jim Moray Band, The Willows, Gavin Davenport Band and Reg Meuross. There will be sinarounds, sessions and workshops. Camping is available: facebook/events/298606133638111 and doncasterfolkfestival.org.uk . CDs (See below in AND FINALLY, THE USUAL STUFF for how to get your plug in here) 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 THIS 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