The extended slots at next Monday's session (July 7th) at the Lord Nelson
will be from Lee's Company.

They are: Jim Lee (guitar & vocals) Clare Juliet (accordion) and Jon Wigg
(fiddle)

Their repertoire is broadly folk and Americana and will feature some of the
material from their new White Mansions album.

The Lord Nelson is in Trafalgar Street, Brighton - 100 metres from Brighton
Station.

This month in Northwich (or at least near by):

Friday 4th July: Singers' Night at the Harlequin Theatre, Queen St.,
Northwich CW9 5JN.
Friday 11th July: Singers' Night at the Davenham Players Theatre,
Church St., Davenham CW9 8NE.
Friday 18th July: Singers' Night at the Davenham Players Theatre,
Church St., Davenham CW9 8NE.
Friday 25th July : Brackenrigg (duo from Wolverhampton) at the
Harlequin Theatre, Queen St., Northwich CW9 5JN.

Further details at www.northwichfolk.co.uk where you can also download
the latest Columbine newsletter.

Received this just now:

Join us for the first ever Time Out Battle Satellite in association with
Vibe Live:

Who gives a folk?

Folk, the people's music, means many things to many people. Folk music
often seems squeezed from above and below. Pop music, and the
folk-fusions that follow in its wake, are seen by some purists as
diluting the folk tradition. At the same time it seems that this
'people's culture' is scorned by the cultural establishment. In the last
few years, however, a revival of English folk music has seen a plethora
of new folk styles sprout up, from nu-folk to twisted folk, from Bat for
Lashes to Tunng and even twindie, a new generation seems to be giving
folk new meaning and an unexpected lease of life. Has folk finally left
behind its parochial, twee image?

Politics seems to be an essential part of the revival. From the
Levellers' Battle of the Beanfield to Clan Dyken's 'eco-folk', have 'new
age' subcultures and green politics helped to recover folk's radical...

This Sunday, the 6th of July, our guests at SSFC will be Liz Law and Terry
Conway. See http://www.stonehousemusic.co.uk/

Next weekend in Middlesbrough there's the sixteenth Nature's World Folk
Festival and you can get a copy of the flyer at
http://www.southshieldsfolkclub.co.uk/nworld.pdf
If you go to Middlesbrough you'll almost certainly need sun hats!

Then Johnny Collins http://www.johnnycollins.net/ is our guest next Sunday,
July the 13th.

KeithC
http://www.southshieldsfolkclub.co.uk/

http://www.linlithgowfolk.com/

11th to 14th September 2008

watch the above site for details, hopefully see some folks from the net
there