* Regional Performers of note *
The South Yorkshire Folk Event Diary
A self-service Calendar
List your event here!
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Folk Clubs - Concert Venues - Festivals - CDs - Sponsors - Other links
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Folk Clubs
folk clubs by others
Please note:- many have breaks in the school holiday periods (except for Kiveton)
Sundays - Wath Sunday Singaround
Mondays - Booit Straps Folk Club, Chapeltown, Sheffield. - Barnsley Folk Club
Tuesdays - Hillsborough Folk - Kiveton Park Folk Club - Mansfield's Brown Cow Folk Club
Wednesdays - The Rivelin Valley Folk Club - Cottingham Live
Thursdays - The Princess Royal
Fridays - Shalesmoor 'Play On' Folk Club
No responsibility accepted for errors or omissions, changes of venues etc.
Please check with individual organisations or hosts before travelling
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Concert Venues
by other organisations
The New Beehive Inn at Bradford
Henshaws Arts and Crafts Centre Knaresborough
Sheffield and South Yorkshire Folk
The Sheffield Edale Rambler - Folk Train
Wakefield
Wakefield's Acoustic Cabaret at the Red Shed
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Festivals
organised by others
Late April/early May
May
June
Robin Hood's Bay Folk Club Weekend
Beverley & East Riding Folk Festival
July
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"Victor Jara was a teacher, poet, theatre director and popular folk singer and songwriter who, as part of the "New Song" movement, advocated revolutionary cultural and political change under Salvador Allende's democratic government. Allende's power was short-lived, however, and in a 1973 military coup, backed by the US Government, thousands of his political supporters were rounded up into stadium buildings, where they were tortured and murdered. As a prominent musician, his captors reserved particular attention for his guitarist's hands, which were mutilated before his death. He was 38 years old. More than 35 years after the event a 53 year old former soldier has been charged with his murder." ................ Karine Polwart
Victor Jara on Utube - A Song of Tribute
The struggle for life in East Timor
continues - read on!
More external links
Folkal Point at www.folkal-point.co.uk
Sheffield Live Community Radio Broadcasts
http://www.sheffieldlive.org
Dave Eyre's "Thank Goodness It's Folk" Radio Programme
Available on line and broadcast 'live' on Fridays at 10am.
A Sheffield Live Community Radio Broadcast
www.sheffieldlive.org
Listen on line to the podcast at www.canstream.co.uk/sheffieldlive
Collectors Folk
books vinyls prints paintings etc
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www.itvlocal.com/yorkshire
What's on and news from your doorstep on ITV Local Yorkshire
Formerly Radio Britfolk |
The South Yorkshire Folk recovery page
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* The BBC Radio 2 Virtual Session *
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Other great sites!
Sheffield Parks & Countryside Ranger Service Walks and events
A-SIDE STUDIO, a professional studio offering the latest Pro Tools HD Recording,
ideal for, solo singers, bands, song-writers, TV, and Film production
Tel 01924 825165 mobile 07802 957037
Wakefield
Sheffield Tutors
Private, personal, expert tuition
Fully qualified teachers covering a wide variety of subject areas,
primary, secondary and tertiary.
Whatever your needs, we can deliver.
Email with your requirements here
Folk Songs from Various countries
Essentially Acoustic
incorporating
Blast PA Systems
and Rootbeat Records Ltd
email enquiries here
Fort Lauderdale, Florida Apartment
2 bedroom 2 bath apartment available in Tamarac
Email enquiries here.
Folk Talk
Covering East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire
Filofolk and Tykes' News Magazine
Quarterly magazine for Folk in and around Yorkshire
South Riding Folk Network
traditional folk music resource
The Burwell Bash
A folk music performance course
(between Cambridge and Newmarket)
Monologues, poems, etc
| Click here for the South Yorkshire Folk MySpace site |
Rotherham - The Unofficial Website
An unofficial website about the town and borough of Rotherham
Kathy Cookson Guitar Tuition
Website
Real UK Music at http://www.realukmusic.co.uk
This is the South Yorkshire Folk website at www.syfolk.co.uk
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All rights reserved. South Yorkshire Folk
Get the Lowe down on north east ambassador Jez's songs
Published Date: 17 April 2009
JEZ Lowe is one of the folk scene's busiest performers.
He is constantly on tour, both solo and as leader of his band, The Bad Pennies.
And he still finds time to write memorable songs and act as a musical ambassador for the north east.
Among those who have recorded Lowe's songs, are Fairport Convention, The Dubliners, The Tannahill Weavers, Cherish The Ladies, Liam Clancy and Bob Fox.
Songs like Back in Durham Gaol, The Bergen, Greek Lightning and These Coal Town Days are now classics.
He has performed at some of the most prestigious venues in the world, including the main stages at Edmonton Festival in Canada, Denmark's Tonder Festival, The Kennedy Center and the Smithsonian in the US, Port Fairy and Byron Bay Festivals in Australia and at concerts and festivals in New Zealand, Hong Kong, Ireland, Holland, Germany and Spain
In 2006 Jez participated in a hugely successful series for the BBC, entitled The Radio Ballads, composing 23 new songs, many of which are already finding their way into the repertoires of his peers, and also formed the basis of a new album for Jez himself Jack Common's Anthem.
The Radio Ballads went on to be honoured with two Sony Radio Academy Awards and earning a nomination as Folksinger of the Year in the 2008 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards for Jez himself.
Most recently he collaborated with Karine Polwart, Stu Hannah, Emily Smith, Mark Erelli and others on songs for the Darwin Song Project, featured on BBC radio. He is at the Worb, at thel, E tomorrow. Guests on May are