This page lists details of past folk arts events in the South Riding region, whether organised
by the SRFN or notified to us by our friends and associates. Current and forthcoming events are listed on our home page, and subsequently archived here. The SRFN web-directory also includes a
comprehensive calendar of regular events featuring e.g. sessions
and folk clubs. If you are organising an event, or know of one that may be of interest, please
send details to info@folk-network.com.
A season examining the post-war folk music revival in Britain, including new documentaries and archive programmes.
9 pm - 10 pm: Folk Britannia 1: Ballads & Blues: repeated 12.55 am - 1.55 am; Saturday 4: 11.15 pm - 12.15 am; 3.25 am - 4.25 am
10 - 11 pm: Folk at the BBC: archive and new performances including Ewan MacColl, Martin Carthy and A L Lloyd: repeated 1.55 am-2.55 am
11 - 11.30 pm: The White Heather Club: Andy Stewart presents the '1960 Burns Night Special' of the Scottish country dance show.
Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/music/features/folk-britannia-season.shtml
A season examining the post-war folk music revival in Britain, including new documentaries and archive programmes.
9 pm - 10 pm: Folk Britannia 2: Folk Roots, New Routes: repeated 12.55 am - 1.55 am
10 - 11 pm: Folk at the BBC: archive and new performances: repeated 2.55 am - 3.55 am
11 - 11.30 pm: This is Genius: Lucas Wilson II - Folk Legend: the inevitable parody. No details available yet; will it be intelligent and funny, or just crass?
1.55 - 2. 55 am (Saturday): Martin Carthy & Friends: repeat of the 2002 concert, including Norma Waterson, Eliza Carthy, Dave Swarbrick and Brass Monkey
Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/music/features/folk-britannia-season.shtml
7.30 for 8 pm at Calver Village Hall, 61 Smithy Knoll Road, Calver.
Full Bar. Tickets £7 on the door or from Steve Wise : 01629 812092
Email: steve-wise@lycos.co.uk
10.30 am to 4 pm at the Memorial Hall, Top Lane, Worrall. A chance to experience the traditional four-part harmony hymns which are still sung in the deep south of the USA. Potluck lunch around 1 pm.
Info: Ian West: 0116 2709702
Email: singing@ianewest.co.uk
Website: http://www.ukshapenote.org.uk/
9 - 10 pm on BBC Radio 2: a new six-part documentary series based on the BBC Radio Ballads produced for the Home Service between 1957 and 1964.
1: The Song of Steel: the decline of the steel industry in Sheffield and Rotherham. Featuring new songs by John Tams, Ray Hearne and Julie Matthews.
Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/radioballads/
St Davids Day ceilidh with Derwenna and caller Martyn Harvey Saturday 4 March 2006
8.30 pm at Royal Society for the Blind Hall, Mappin Street Sheffield
-also featuring Welsh interval acts, real ale and leek soup.
Website: http://www.derwenna.co.uk/
Concerts, guitar workshop, singaround, real music bar and jazz night
at the Three Horseshoes, Bawtry Road and Blessed Trinity Church Hall,
Northfield Lane.
Info: Pete Thornton Smith: 01709 546555
Email: pts@barrel.demon.co.uk
Website: http://www.barrel.demon.co.uk/
9 - 10 pm on BBC Radio 2: a new six-part documentary series based on the BBC Radio Ballads produced for the Home Service between 1957 and 1964.
2: Enemy That Lives Within: modern stories of people living with HIV/AIDS.
Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/radioballads/
9 - 10 pm on BBC Radio 2: a new six-part documentary series based on the BBC Radio Ballads produced for the Home Service between 1957 and 1964.
3: Horn of the Hunter: both sides of the story of hunting with hounds.
Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/radioballads/
9 - 10 pm on BBC Radio 2: a new six-part documentary series based on the BBC Radio Ballads produced for the Home Service between 1957 and 1964.
4: Swings and Roundabouts: the travelling people who run Britain's fairgrounds.
Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/radioballads/
9 - 10 pm on BBC Radio 2: a new six-part documentary series based on the BBC Radio Ballads produced for the Home Service between 1957 and 1964.
5: Thirty Years of Conflict: sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland.
Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/radioballads/
FolkTrain with The Little Bigfoot Band (tbc)
Tuesday 28 March
Ceilidh with Shinjig and Kimbers Men
Friday 31 March
8 pm - midnight at Huddersfield Irish Centre, Fitzwilliam Street,
Huddersfield.
A benefit in memory of Roger Hepworth. £5.00 donation on the door.
All profits to the Laura Crane Trust for cancer research.
Info: Huw Evans: 01484 538781
9 - 10 pm on BBC Radio 2: a new six-part documentary series based on the BBC Radio Ballads produced for the Home Service between 1957 and 1964.
6: Ballad of the Big Ships: the shipyards of Tyne & Wear and the Clyde.
Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/radioballads/
7.15 for 8 pm at the Library Theatre, Tudor Square, Sheffield.
Tickets £12 on the door or in advance from Jack's Records, Division Street, Sheffield: 0114 276 7093
Info from Bob Hazelwood and Suzie O'Connell: bobh-suzieo@blueyonder.co.uk
Based around the Montgomery Hall and the Sandygate Hotel, Wath-Upon-Dearne,
Rotherham.
Guests include Ray Hearne, the Oyster Band, Ivan Drever, the Battlefield Band, Bernard Wrigley, Ruth & Gary Wells and more: plus ceilidh, singarounds and a "fringe event" from the Real Music Bar, with Tegwen Roberts, Martin Harwood and others.
Info: 0114 245 7454
Email: wath2006@hotmail.co.uk
Website: http://www.syfolk.co.uk/wath
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