NEWSLETTER FOR APRIL 24th 2014 Hello All Well - they just keep on coming. What a great night Bo Weavil served up last Thursday, we only had 5 floor singers, but they all played their part in delivering up another great eveing at Crookes Folk Club - TA! Richard Kitson is a Barnsley lad, who started young playing harmonica and singing in the school chior, eventually persuading his parents to buy him a guitar, which he duly taught himself to play. While he was at college, his punk band, Strawberry Jack, managed to get themselves banned from every pub in town. He struck-out on his own in 2001, developing and honing his bluesy, finger-picking accoustic style. As well as playing, Richard also writes much of his own material. He cites Sonny Boy Williamson, Big Bill Broonzy, Robert Johnson, Mississipi John Hurt, Rory Gallagher, Bert Jansch, Davy Graham, John Renbourn and John Martyn as influences. FACEBOOK 230 Likes and counting. Some of my readers will be aware of my recent difficulties with sending out event invites. Basically, I got banned for sending out too many. When I received an invite, I generally invited those of my Friends who havent said that they would rather I didnt, insufficient numbers have expressed an interest in those events (klicking Join, Going or Maybe) and that seems to have gone against a Facebook usage policy. A test the other day suggests that I have now been forgiven, but I have yet to try them out with a serious batch of invites! Meanwhile, I have set up a Group (Crookes Folk and all That) into which I will Share all of my invites, most of my Friends have been enrolled. If you wish to join you can do so by going to facebook/groups/crookesfolkandallthat , if you are a Friend who has been enrolled but would rather not be there, then please either goto the link above, click the gear-wheel below the banner then select Leave Group or e-mail me at [email protected] and Ill remove you. Group members are welcome to suggest new members and offer postings and shares, refusals will be rare indeed, I am sure. COMING DATES April 24 - Richard Kitson May 01 - Patrick Rose May 08 - The Flow May 15 - Simon Kempston May 22 - Keystone May 29 - MacTaylor June 05 - Lou Marriott June 12 - Toein in the Dark June 19 - Magpi June 26 - Paul Bell THE PLUG (See below in AND FINALLY, THE USUAL STUFF for how to get your plug in here) Polka Works, with caller Baz Parkes have a Ceilidh at Croft House, Garden Street on Friday April 18th (Sheffield Sessions Festival): sheffieldceilidh.wordpress/polkaworks and facebook/events/1393346074270859 . Jim McDonald launches his new album at Shakespeares, Gibraltar Street on Friday April 18th (Sheffield Sessions Festival). The Gina LeFaux Trio, supported by Dovetail are at Shakespeares, Gibraltar Street on Saturday April 19th (Sheffield Sessions Festival). Maddy Prior, Giles Lewin, Hannah James are the guests at Peak Concerts, the Witworth Centre, Darley Dale on Saturday April 19th: peakconcerts.co.uk . The Sheffield heat of the John Birmingham Cup (for un-accompanied singers) is at Shakespeares, Gibraltar Street on Sunday April 20th, 12pm (Sheffeild Sessions Festival). Reg Meuross, supported by our own Shaun Hutch are at Shakespeares, Gibraltar Street on Sunday April 20th, 3pm (Sheffield Sessions Festival). TOFFEE Musics regular (2nd Mondays) fund-raiser for the Weston Park Hospital Cancer Charity has been re-arranged to Monday April 21st for this month only. It is at Shakespeares, Gibraltar Street on Monday April 14th: toffeemusic.co.uk . With the exception of Richard Kitsons appearence at Crookes on the 24th, the musical highlight of the week has to be Andrea Beeversa new venture at The Venue, Stocksbridge, where she is presenting a St Georges day folk / rock special, featuring Merry Hell, Ferocious Dog Acoustic and Gaz Brookfield on Wednesday April 23rd. Merry Hell consist of former members of long lamented 90s folk / punks, The Tansads whose 1995 live album Drag Down the Moon is one of my 11 favourite albums of all time and, possibly, my favourite for driving to, see: facebook/events/220336094823829 . English Contra Dance Band and caller Rhodri Davies have an event on Saturday 26th April at Walkley Community Centre: facebook/sheffieldcontradances/events or sheffieldcontradances.co.uk/events . Monday April 28th sees MLENDO at the Mansfield Folk Club: mansfieldfolkclub.org.uk . Just Voices latest monthly (last Tuesday) gathering is at the Black Bull Inn, Birstall on Tuesday April 29th: moorleyfolk@btinternet . Soapstone Dragon host their regular first Thursday session at the White Hart, Calow on Thursday May 1st. FESTIVAL PLUGS (See below in AND FINALLY, THE USUAL STUFF for how to get your plug in here) Sheffield Sessions Festival kicks off on Friday April 18th at 3:00pm and ends in the early hours of Monday April 21st. There are numerous concerts, sessions and workshops to look forward to at Shakespeares, Gibraltar Street (2 rooms), Kelham Island Tavern, The Fat Cat, The Grapes, Fagans and the Dog & Partridge. Wath Folk Festival runs from Friday May 2nd to Sunday May 4th featuring many class acts, icluding the Demon Barbers XL Roadshow, Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman and Kris Drever: wathfestival.org.uk . CDs (See below in AND FINALLY, THE USUAL STUFF for how to get your plug in here) 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. **THE FOLLOWING SECTIONS HAVE BEEN SUBSTANTIALLY ALTERED IN THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS** INTERESTING LINKS **A NEW LINK HAS BEEN ADDED 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 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 **THIS SECTION WAS SUBSTANTIALLY ALTERED LAST WEEK** 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
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