South Shields Folk Club
every Sunday evening
at South Shields and Westoe Club,
(also the home of Westoe Rugby Club, Westoe Lawn Tennis Club
and South Shields Cricket Club)
Dean Road, South Shields NE33 4EA
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  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.
Cloudstreet
will be our guests this coming Sunday.
The room will be open at 7.00pm and we like to get there early to have a diddly music session before the MC gets a grip on the proceedings at 8.30.
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.
Have a look at this..   http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/licensing/
and this....            http://www.cronin.co.uk/what-is-the-petition-about
and this as well...   http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/libby_purves/article1336496.ece

And here's another one!
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/dancers/
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Our Diary    17/7/08 update
July August September October November  December
March09
 
History and Location
Newsbits 7/7/08 update
Festivals    27/5/08 update
Links 12/3/08 update
Pictures
The Ancient Mariners
Pagetop
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History and Location

South Shields Folk Club was formed more than forty years ago and for many years was known as the Marsden Inn Folk Club. We reverted to the original name after leaving the Marsden Inn and for a few years  we met at the Old  Ship in Harton.

We will be meeting every Sunday evening at 7.30 pm in the Westoe Rugby Club 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, on the left. The postcode is NE33 4EA.

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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Contacts

By telephone:- Bill Redhead 0191 456 4450
Keith Cunningham 0191 510 1589

By post:- Mr. W. Redhead,
248, Mowbray Road,
South Shields,
Tyne and Wear,
NE33 3NW

If you'd like to be added to our email list please use this link

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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Our Diary
July the 20th
Cloudstreet
plus residents and visitors
July the 27th
TrioThrelfall
plus residents and visitors
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August the 3rd
Resident and visiting singers and musicians
August the 10th
Resident and visiting singers and musicians
August the17th
Resident and visiting singers and musicians
August the 24th
Resident and visiting singers and musicians
August the 31st
Stewart Hardy and Frank McLaughlin
http://www.brechinartsfestival.org/stewart_hardy_and_frank_mclaughl.htm
plus residents and visitors
September the 7th
Resident and visiting singers and musicians
September the 21st
Resident and visiting singers and musicians
September the 28th
Grace Notes
plus residents and visitors
October the 5th
The Keelers
plus residents and visitors
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October the 12th
Resident and visiting singers and musicians
October the 19th
Ben Sands
http://www.bensands.com/music.html
plus residents and visitors
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October the 26th
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November the 2nd
November the 9th
November the 16th
November the 23rd
November the 30th
December the 7th
December the 14th
December the 21st
December the 28th

March the 29th
Jim Bainbridge
plus residents and visitors
Newsbits
Tradition Club is a new enterprise in South Shields aimed at traditional instrumentalists. There's more information on
http://www.tradition.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
Click below for flyer about
Folk at Nature's World, Middlesbrough
on the 12th and 13th of July
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 Added the Folkinfo website to the Links section. There's a search section in which you can quickly locate songs of the sea, songs of broken tokens, or songs of vex and silence etc., although in some cases the coarser references seem to have been written out to fit in with tea and cucumber sandwiches rather than pies and pints. Never mind. You can always put them back! You'll also find most (and possibly beerier versions) of these songs at The Mudcat Cafe Website


Standing Stones' Celtic music and culture article
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Stolen squeezebox (mainly concertinas) list from Don Nichols' website

Some interesting links I came across whilst surfing around...
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.celtic/
news:rec.music.makers.guitar.acoustic
http://www.rmmga.org.uk/
http://www.studiohartlepool.com/
Are we going to collide with an asteroid?
http://www.onthebox.com/
Main links section

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Folk Roundabout is published quarterly and has lists of venues, club diary dates, festivals, workshops, and much more. You can buy it in many folk clubs for £1 . It's edited by Trevor Lister, 24 Ambleside Grove, Middlesbrough, Cleveland TS5 7DQ.
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Festivals
fRoots Festivals Page
Folk and Roots festivals list

Auckland(NZ)Folk Festival
Darlington Spring Thing
Shetland Folk Festival
Moor and Coast Festival, Whitby
Clennell Hall Folk Festival
Orkney Folk Festival
Holmfirth Festival of Folk
Wimborne Folk Festival
Durham Folk Party
Leigh Folk Festival
Four Fools Folk Festival
Cleckheaton Folk Festival
Ely Folk Festival
Priddy Folk Festival
Folk at Nature's World
Stonehaven Folk Festival
Rothbury Traditional Music Festival
Saddleworth Folk Festival
Maryport Blues Festival
Warwick Folk Festival
Sidmouth Folk Week
Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Saltburn Folk Festival
Bideford Folk Festival
Whitby Folk Week
Shrewsbury Folk Festival
Fylde Folk Festival
Bromyard Folk Festival
Travelling by rail, bus, air, or broomstick? Try this
Or by road? RAC Route Planner
Or the AA planner

Floods? Leaves on the track? The wrong sort of snow? 
The BBC Weather Centre Online
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Bill Redhead, Fred Brierley, and Eric Copeland are
The Ancient Mariners
They're shanty singers and will perform at your function if you offer a bribe.
Contact Bill on 0191 456 4450.
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Instruments for sale

A 120 bass Hohner Atlantic piano accordion. Quite old but working.
email

A 120 Bass Paolo Soprani C system continental chromatic button accordion.
email

A Lowden S12 Guitar (small body mahogany/spruce) with Fishman Rare Earth soundhole pickup.
email

Two handcrafted mandolins.
email
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Links
Ashington Folk Club
The Black Swan Folk Club
The Bridge Folk Club
Cramlington Folk Club
Cutty Wren Folk Club
The Davy Lamp Folk Club
Durham University Folk Society
Edinburgh Folk Club
East Boldon Folk Club
Foggy Furze Folk Club
Kelso Folk and Live Music Club
The Pot House Folk Club, Hartlepool
Rothbury Roots
Stockton Folk Club
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Westoe Rugby Club
The Customs House
John Barlow's website, with a lot of info about the Tyne-Teesish folk scene.
The Marsden Writers
Gary Hogg's ToontoonS Site

fRoots
Folk and Roots
Real UK Music

Robert Whitehead and the Danelaw Dance Band
Cuenet
The Studio, Hartlepool
Ron Angus ;  There's a lot of good stuff for acoustic guitarists on his website.
Dick Gaughan's Website
The Kitchen Musician Website
Make your own
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Aaron Jones
Benny Graham
Bill Whaley and Dave Fletcher
Bob Fox
Brian Peters
Brother Crow
Colum Sands
Claire Mann
Cloudstreet
Cockersdale
Chris Milner
Dick Gaughan
Dave Webber and Anni Fentiman
Debra Cowan
Derek Gifford
Donal Maguire
Eddie Walker
Ed Pickford
Ed Rennie
Emily and Hazel Askew
George Welch
Grace Notes
Graham and Eileen Pratt
Horseplay
Jack B. Burness
Jim Bainbridge
John Kirkpatrick
Johnny Collins
Jez Lowe
Judy Dinning
Keeper's Fold
Keith Kendrick
Last Night's Fun
Les Barker
Lynne Heraud and Pat Turner
Lyra Celtica
Marie Little
Mary Humphreys and Anahata
Martyn Wyndham-Read
Nick Hennessey
Nancy Kerr and James Fagan
Pegleg Ferret
Peter Wood
Pete Coe
Rachel Unthank and The Winterset
Rallion
Robin Laing
Sam Pirt
Steve Tilston
Simon Haworth and Andy May
Stephen Snow
Steve and Kristi Nebel
The Keelers
The Young'ns
12 Year Malt
Tom and Barbara Brown
Tom McConville
Tom NapperTom Bliss
Tom Lewis
Terry Conway and Liz Law
The Askew Sisters
Tim van Eyken
William Pint and Felicia Dale
Waterson Carthy
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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
http://www.folkmusic.net/
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
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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
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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
URGENT
The Carbon Trust
http://greenfuels.co.uk
UK power website.  Easy-to-use fuel tariff  information.
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The Information Commissioner's Office
Government Office for the North East
Regen.net  The information guide for regeneration partnerships
Renewal.net
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!
Inland Revenue and Customs
The Department for Constitutional Affairs (Formerly the Lord Chancellor's Department)
MI5
The SIS