- 5 SEP LYNNE HERAUD & PAT TURNER £12 cash
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This Saturday, we are in the Westgate Chapel, High St., Lewes
We will start at 7:30 p.m. & finish at 10:30 p.m.
This is a Bring Your Own Booze (& glasses) venue. Bring bottles or collect draught Harveys from the excellent Brewers Arms next door.
Old & new songs, pure, beautiful vocal harmonies, spiced with ingenious smut. - 12 SEP BRIAN PETERS £12 cash
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This, we are in the Cliffe Hall, behind St Thomas's Church, Cliffe High St
We will start at 7:30 p.m. & finish at 10:30 p.m.
This is a Bring Your Own Booze (& glasses) venue.
Email to reserve tickets, bring the right money in cash on the night
Brian Peters is 'one of the country's finest melodeon players' (EDS) & an internationally-known instrumentalist & singer. He specialises in Northern English dance music & accompanying traditional song, but has also experimented with blues, Tex-Mex & much else. He is an excellent Anglo concertina & guitar player. - 13 SEP BRIAN PETERS BALLAD FORUM
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Goodyear Towers, 20 St. Johns Terrace, Lewes BN7 2DL
Email to reserve places, bring cash on the day
10:45 - 16:15 £45 cash (2 under-25 year olds £22)
Brian Peters has been singing some of the greatest Child Ballads for many years, but established his reputation as one of their leading researchers & performers with the ballad CD 'Songs of Trial & Triumph'.
In this forum Brian will bring his expertise in locating, refurbishing, arranging & singing the greatest ballads, & also his knowledge of the ballads that you bring yourselves, including comparative versions & fascinating source recordings from the tradition.You are invited to bring along at least one traditional ballad of your choice to sing & talk about. To avoid clashes with other contributors, please state your preferred ballad in advance. If your choice has already been taken, we will let you know so that you can choose another. - 19 SEP SOUND TRADITION £12 cash
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This, we are in the Cliffe Hall, behind St Thomas's Church, Cliffe High St
We will start at 7:30 p.m. & finish at 10:30 p.m.
This is a Bring Your Own Booze (& glasses) venue.
Traditional & new songs in rich, resonant & sensitive four-part vocal harmony. - 26 SEP KENT SONGS COLLECTIVE: ELECTRIFYING FORCE £12 cash
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This Saturday, we are in the Lewes Arms, 1 Mount Place, Lewes, BN7 1YH
We will start at 7:30 p.m. & finish at 10:30 p.m.
Bob Kenward, John & Di Cullen, Sue Watson, Sue Evans, Laurie Jeal present an engaging show about the harnessing of electricity, with guitars, concertinas, hammered dulcimer & vocal harmony.
- 3 OCT HARVEST SUPPER £5 cash
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This Saturday, we are in the Lewes Arms, 1 Mount Place, Lewes, BN7 1YH
We will start at 7:30 p.m. & finish at 10:30 p.m.
Bring songs, tunes & reading for harvest & autumn. - 10 OCT Jerry O'Reilly & Rosie Davis £12 cash
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This Saturday, we are in the Westgate Chapel, High St., Lewes
We will start at 7:30 p.m. & finish at 10:30 p.m.
This is a Bring Your Own Booze (& glasses) venue. Bring bottles or collect draught Harveys from the excellent Brewers Arms next door.
Glorious traditional Irish song with a spot of dancing from Rosie, - SUNDAY 11 OCT Jerry O'Reilly IRISH SONG WORKSHOP
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John Harvey Tavern, foundry Lane, Lewes BN7 2AN
Email to reserve places, bring cash on the day
10:45 - 16:15 £45 cash (2 under-25 year olds £22)
Jerry is a commanding, spellbinding singer steeped in Irish traditions. He has a deep & wide knowledge of the songs beginning with singers in many generations of his own family. He, along with some others, runs the foremost traditional singing club in Ireland, An Goilin, and is an expert Irish set dancer & teacher.
The workshop will cover vocal decoration, song selection, Irish broadsides & Irish language songs which have been translated into English. Teaching will be by ear and will include listening to recordings of some of the singers that have inspired Jerry over the years. - 17 OCT GEORGE SANSOME & MATT QUINN £12 cash
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This Saturday, we are in the Westgate Chapel, High St., Lewes
We will start at 7:30 p.m. & finish at 10:30 p.m.
This is a Bring Your Own Booze (& glasses) venue. Bring bottles or collect draught Harveys from the excellent Brewers Arms next door.
A spellbinding collaboration between two leading young traditional singers, George Sansome (Granny's Attic) & Matt Quinn (Culverake) sing traditional songs from the British Isles unaccompanied & with mandolin and guitar. Their well-blended voices & close harmonies create a warm, enthralling sound and their English folk instrumental styles complement each other perfectly. - 24 OCT COHEN BRAITHWAITE-KILCOYNE £15 cash
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This Saturday, we are in the Westgate Chapel, High St., Lewes
We will start at 7:30 p.m. & finish at 10:30 p.m.
This is a Bring Your Own Booze (& glasses) venue. Bring bottles or collect draught Harveys from the excellent Brewers Arms next door.
Cohen is a young, brilliant & inventive melodeon & anglo concertina player & a glorious singer with a deep understanding of traditional music & a powerful, compelling style of his own. He's in great demand at folk music festivals & clubs as a solo performer & with the trio Granny's Attic.Cohen loves to share knowledge & ideas & is a fine teacher. - 24 OCT COHEN BRAITHWAITE-KILCOYNE MELODEON WORKSHOP
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This Saturday, we are in the Westgate Chapel, High St., Lewes
Email to reserve places, bring cash on the day
10:45 - 16:15 £45 cash (2 under-25 year olds £22)
The workshop will focus on English melodeon playing for experienced players. Cohen will begin by sharing useful melodeon exercises and techniques, before delving into the rich repertoire of English traditional tunes, exploring how advanced melodeon techniques can be used to develop these tunes.
Some music will be sent out in advance. - 31 OCT SEB STONE £10 cash
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This Saturday, we are in the Lewes Arms, 1 Mount Place, Lewes, BN7 1YH [TBC]
We will start at 7:30 p.m. & finish at 10:30 p.m.
Seb Stone is an arresting traditional singer & uilleann piper from the Peak District with an unusual & fascinating collection of songs. In 2022 he won both the Future of Folk Award & the Shantyman of the Year Award at Bromyard Folk Festival. He sings with the trio Culverake & is much in demand at festivals.
- 7 NOV SHERBURN BARTLEY SANDERS £15 cash
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Venue to be confirmed. Check our website, Facebook page & your emails.
We will start at 7:30 p.m. & finish at 10:30 p.m.
Email to reserve tickets, bring the right money in cash on the night
Chris (Anglo concertina) & Denny (vocals, guitar) have brought their unique sound to audiences across the globe since 1993 with Last Night's Fun. In 2016, they joined forces with Emily (fiddle, vocals) blending vocal harmonies & strings in their unique sound. Now, their soul-stirring songs, exhilarating tunes and quick-witted banter ensures that no two concerts are ever the same. - 14 NOV TIM EDEY £15 cash
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Venue to be confirmed. Check our website, Facebook page & your emails.
We will start at 7:30 p.m. & finish at 10:30 p.m.
Email to reserve tickets, bring the right money in cash on the night
Tim has toured the world & recorded with most of the major names in Celtic/Contemporary roots music including The Chieftains, Christy Moore, Sharon Shannon, Ross Ainslie, Natalie MacMaster, Donnell Leahy, Altan, Capercaillie, Brendan Power, Michael McGoldrick, Seamus Begley, Dougie Maclean, Kevin Burke, Liam O'Maonlai, The Barra MacNeills, JP Cormier, Shaun Davey, Session A9, Lunasa, Vinnie Kilduff , Mary Black, Session A9, Julie Fowlis, & Frankie Gavin, to name but a few. He is now a name on the world stage in his own right. - SATURDAY 14 NOV TIM EDEY MELODEON WORKSHOP
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Venue to be confirmed. Check our website, Facebook page & your emails.
Email to reserve places, bring cash on the day
10:45 - 16:15 £45 cash (2 under-25 year olds £22)
- 21 NOV CHRIS FOSTER £12 cash
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Venue to be confirmed. Check our website, Facebook page & your emails.
We will start at 7:30 p.m. & finish at 10:30 p.m.
Email to reserve tickets, bring the right money in cash on the night
Chris is a superb singer of traditional songs from the British Isles & a magnificent guitarist. In recent years he has added material from the Icelandic tradition to his repertoire. - SATURDAY 21 NOV CHRIS FOSTER GUITAR WORKSHOP
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Venue to be confirmed. Check our website, Facebook page & your emails.
Email to reserve places, bring cash on the day
10:45 - 16:15 £45 cash (2 under-25 year olds £22)
The workshop will focus on how Chris approaches accompanying songs using the guitar, but but will bring out general points about the nature of accompaniment including the use of different tunings. - 28 NOV REG MEUROSS £12 cash
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Venue to be confirmed. Check our website, Facebook page & your emails.
We will start at 7:30 p.m. & finish at 10:30 p.m.
Email to reserve tickets, bring the right money in cash on the night
A compassionate & insightful songwriter, Reg's quiet resistance & storytelling remind us of our shared humanity. Recently named one of FATEA magazine's 2025 Artists of the Year, Reg is a rare & vital voice. His career spans five decades & he has made seventeen albums. He is driven by a profound sense of compassion & a compulsion to sing about social injustice, inequality, courage, & heroism - above all, a desire to tell people's stories. His study of the slave trade, Stolen From God, with Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne, Modou Ndiaye & Tim Walker, was a packed-out highlight of Whitby Folk Week this year.
The workshops mostly last a full Saturday or Sunday & the tutor performs at the Elephant & Castle, White Hill, Lewes BN7 2DJ, on the Saturday evening. Email for places, pay cash on the day.
- 12 Sept Brian Peters Ballad forum
- 10 Oct Jerry O'Reilly & Rosie Davis Irish song
- 24 Oct Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne English Melodeon
- 14 Nov Tim Edey Melodeon