SSFC resident singers' and musicians' material is mostly traditional, as are most of the guest performers we book, but we do like to hear other kinds of music as well, and very much appreciate visitors who perform contemporary, country, blues, or their own material. Even when our guest diary is full floor singers are especially welcome.
It'll cost at least £4 each for admission to a guest night and £2 each for admission to a "Residents and Visitors" night. Membership is free and once you're on the list you'll get email updates etc., and you'll be at the beginning of the queue for special events tickets which may also be a special (probably more expensive) price. Special events may not necessarily be on the normal club night
Location first, and a good place to start exploring Tyneside is Jim Scott's website.
South Shields Folk Club was born in the early sixties as the Beacon Folk Club and met in the Beacon on the Lawe Top every Friday. Needing a bigger room, the club moved after a few year and for many years was known as the Marsden Inn Folk Club. We changed the name again after leaving the Marsden Inn, and for a few years before settling into the South Shields and Westoe Club we met at the Old Ship in Harton.
We will be meeting every Sunday evening at 7.30 pm in the function room. If you look first at the Multimap 1:5,000 you'll see that Dean Road begins at a roundabout. South Shields and Westoe Club is about twenty yards away from the roundabout, to the west. The postcode is NE33 4EA.
Find your way in Transport Direct
Here's a few more maps for people travelling, as they do, from miles around....
1:10,000
1:25,000
1:50,000
1:100,000
1:200,000
1:500,000
1:1,000,000
Alternatively, if you find that you don't like the new Multimap, which misses the target slightly, go to Google Maps and enter the postcode in the search box.
If you need to get back to Newcastle or beyond on the Metro here's where to find the Metro timetable for South Shields.
http://www.nexus.org.uk/wps/wcm/resources/file/eba01f0132389c2/South%20Shields.pdf
It's the timetable for the South Shields terminus but it's only a couple of minutes from there to Chichester station which is a 10 minute walk from SS&W Club.
Metro trains are every 15 minutes on Sunday nights and these are the times of the last ones from South Shields:-
to St James 10.13 pm
to Manors 10.58 pm
to North Shields 11.13 pm
to Regent Centre 11.28 pm
to South Gosforth 11.56 pm
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By telephone:- Bill Redhead 0191 456 4450
Keith Cunningham 0191 510 1589
By post:- Bill Redhead,
248, Mowbray Road,
South Shields,
Tyne and Wear,
NE33 3NW
As you can see from our diary, we have some spaces for guest nights. Our organisers are suffering from increased demands upon their time and so have been unable to spend as much of it trying to contact artists. If you are interested in a booking at SSFC please use this link. Naturally we'd need to hear artists before we book them so if they can't drop in one night we'd need a demo. You'd also need to take into consideration that we don't use a house PA system because our residents are loud enough not to need one. But we wouldn't object to guests bringing and setting up their own.
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(mainly concertinas) list from Don Nichols' website
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this.. http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/licensing/
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this,
http://www.cronin.co.uk/what-is-the-petition-about
and this as
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/libby_purves/article1336496.ece
And here's another one!
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/dancers/
http://www.flatrock.org.nz/topics/society_culture/fiddling_around_the_lab.htm
Uk Power price comparisons
http://www.hydrogen.co.uk/h2_now/journal/articles/3_Methane.htm
news://uk.music.folk/
news:rec.music.makers.guitar.acoustic
http://www.rmmga.org.uk/
http://www.studiohartlepool.com/
Are we going to collide with an asteroid?
Main links section
Folk Roundabout is published quarterly and is a comprehensive guide to the region's gannins-on, with lists of venues, club diary dates, festivals, workshops, performers, and much more. You can buy it in many folk clubs for £1, or you can have four quarterly issues posted to your home for (price quoted in issue 151) £7.00.
It's a good place to advertise club and festival activities. Full page ad (130 x 188mm) rate quoted in issue 151 is only £20 with half and quarter pages pro rata.
It's edited by Trevor Lister, 24 Ambleside Grove, Middlesbrough, Cleveland TS5 7DQ. His phone number is 01642 821 776. I'll not put his email address in this bit in case he gets loads of spam from the link, but it's always on page 3 of the magazine.
fRoots Festivals Page
Auckland(NZ)Folk Festival
Holmfirth Festival of Folk
Ely Folk Festival
Maryport Blues Festival
Whitby Folk Week
Travelling by rail, bus, air, or broomstick? Try this
Or by road? RAC Route Planner
Or the AA planner
Or Transport Direct
Floods? Leaves on the track? The wrong sort of snow?
The BBC Weather Centre Online
Durham University Folk Society
Rothbury Roots
Westoe Rugby Club
John Barlow's website, with a lot of info about the Tyne-Teesish folk scene.
Gary Hogg's ToontoonS Site
fRoots
Real UK Music
Ron Angus ; There's a lot of good stuff for acoustic guitarists on his website.
The Kitchen Musician Website
National Trust Surnames Website
Aaron Jones
Bill Whaley and Dave Fletcher
Brian Peters
Colum Sands
Chris Milner
Dick Gaughan
Debra Cowan
Dogwatch
Ed Pickford
Geoff Higginbottom
Graham and Eileen Pratt
English folk music performers
http://www.fyldefolk.freeserve.co.uk/fyldefolk/artists.html
"Celtic" musicians in Wales & England In Scotland And in Ireland
Folkinfo
Pete Loud's Tunebook
The Mudcat Cafe Website
Digital Tradition titles etc.
A Barn Dance Repertoire
Ceili House Band Tunes
Richard Robinson's Tunebook
Eric Foxley's Music Database
ConcertinaMusic.com Chemnitzer stuff
The abc musical notation language
The Living Tradition
North-East Of England Regional Information Service
The Northern Sinfonia and The Cobweb Orchestra
The Scottish Chamber Orchestra
The Musicians' Union
The Sage Gateshead
English folk and traditional music on the Internet
MusicalTraditions Internet Magazine
Uilleann pipes
Flutes , Tin whistles
Barleycorn Concertinas
Jurgen Suttner Concertinas
C.Wheatstone & Co
Sounds Interesting
The Music Room
Not only Concertina FAQbut also how to tune them! Have fun!
Chemnitzer concertinas
Concertina spotters' guide
Melodeon.net
Dave Mallinson Publications
The Hobgoblin Catalogue
Lowden , Gordon-Smith , Fylde , Stefan Sobell , Fender , Gibson , Martin , Paul Reed Smith , Seagull, Simon and Patrick, Art and Lutherie, Norman, La Patrie, Godin ,Adamas, Ovation, Takamine, Hamer , Guild
A & P Richardson Custom Guitars
Ancestral Instruments
http://www.flatrock.org.nz/topics/society_culture/fiddling_around_the_lab.htm
Webfeet : English Ceilidh, Folk, Morris, French, Breton, and Cajun dance pages
The Morris Federation
The Morris Ring
Sailing ships
The Shields Gazette
Evening Chronicle
Eastwise
Sunderland
The Sunderland Echo
Back On The Map
The Good Beach Guide What will you be swimming in? Read the Guide first!
Fauna and Flora Intenational
UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre
Urban Regeneration and The Environment
The Carbon Trust
http://greenfuels.co.uk
UK power website. Easy-to-use fuel tariff information.
The Information Commissioner's Office
Government Office for the North East
Regen.net The information guide for regeneration partnerships
The Improvement and Development Agency
The Environment Agency
The Development Trusts Association
The Department of Culture, Media, and Sport
The Department for International Development
The Department for Transport
The Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
The Department for Communities and Local Government (Formerly the ODPM)
The Department for Children, Schools and Families!
The Department for Work and Pensions
The Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
The Convergence Think Tank!
HM Revenue and Customs
The Department for Constitutional Affairs (Formerly the Lord Chancellor's Department)
The SIS
MI5
The Durham Brewery in Bowburn
The Big Lamp Brewery in Newcastle
High House Farm Brewery in Matfen
The Mordue Brewery in North Shields
The Darwin Brewery in Hendon, Sunderland
The Hadrian and Border Brewery in Newcastle
The Bull Lane Brewing Company in the Clarendon
The Jarrow Brewery in the Robin Hood
