News, Archive & links:
'Folk At the Fold '
What's the Life of a Man' - a scratch play was performed at the club on the 22nd October. Peter Hingley, Bob Fox and Roger Davies worked with three groups of willing volunteers including Sue and Bill Smith, Kaye Brown, Kathy Tyler,Carole & Graham Davies, Ros Prokopin, Andrea Cooper, Rebecca Fox and Mo Daw. Together they created a brilliant 'three act production' which included poems, songs and sketches representing the stages in the life of a man.It was a great , fun evening with some very original ideas from groups of people who had never worked together before!
There were so many high spots in the night - Rebecca - killing the wolf and marrying Bill (almost!), Peter in his school boy outfit, Bob getting his certificate of 'manhood' - We could go on and on! It was absolutely fantastic!! VERY many thanks to all those involved for giving us such a great evening!
If you missed it -the play was recorded thanks to David Robertson and a DVD is available - These are £5 each and need to be ordered and paid for in advance.
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Archive:
The Folk Trail - From Land’s End to John O’Groats.
April 1st to June 30th 2011
A group of people from the Pennymoor Singaround in Devon are walking from Lands End to John O’Groats on a “Folk Trail” from April 1st to June 30th this year.
On the way they are meeting with the local folk community at pub sessions, the usual club night etc. At each event they are recording the evening. From this they plan to produce an archive of C.D.’s/D.V.D’s plus a journal and a blog. A copy will be offered to C. Sharp House and the Oral History Archive of The British Museum.
The aim is a ‘snapshot’ of Folk activity en route in England and Scotland in 2011, and to enjoy a terrific, challenging, fun experience along the way!
On the 28th of April the group came to the Fold and we will had a brilliant session in The Eco cafe! This was jointly arranged between ourselves, The Somers Traditional Folk Club and John Taylor / local session performers. The walkers arrived at about 7pm absolutely shattered having walked about 23 miles (in one day!?) - but once they had eaten one of David's lovely meals they were refreshed enough to finish off the evening with some cracking tunes and a couple of rousing choruses! John MC'd the evening and did a brilliant job as he had a huge number of performers to get round
The Pennymoor walkers are continuing their route and if anyone would like to join them at any stage of the walk they would be delighted.
If this has stirred your interest you can get more information by Googling Pennymoor singaround or you can contact Clare Penney on 01884 860023 (Events Organiser )
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Links:
http://www.folklife-west.org.uk/
