We've used Force9/Plusnet/Free-Online since July the 31st 1997
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, as are new resident singers and musicians.
It'll cost at least £5 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.
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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 years 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, except on bank holiday weekends, at 7.30 pm in the function room. If you look first at the Googlemap 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.
Metro trains are every 15 minutes on Sunday nights and these are the times of the last ones from South Shields:-
to St James 10.12 pm
to Manors 11.12 pm
to North Shields 11.12 pm
to Regent Centre 11.27 pm
to South Gosforth 11.56 pm
http://www.nexus.org.uk/metro/timetables/south-shields
Find your way in Transport Direct
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(mainly concertinas) list from Don Nichols' website
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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
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
Phoenix Folk, Ouseburn
South Shields Football Club
The Marsden Writers
Ron Angus ; There's a lot of good stuff for acoustic guitarists on his website.
Aaron Jones
Dearman Gammon and Harrison
Here's a few session type tunes. They were recorded stone cold sober in broad daylight with the computer microphone so they have no feeling and they're a bit approximate. I tried to play them slowly enough for those who don't know them to pick up the tunes. More to come when I find the rest of the files.
Mack's Rambles
The Silver Spear
Father Kelly's
Out On The Ocean
Years ago at Cramlington FC we formed a ceilidh band and these three reels were used for one of our sets.
Spoot Skerry (Fitful Head)
The Wooden Dolly, by Barrie Temple
A Shetland version of Soldier's Joy
There are some sets on the Tradition Club website. The club no longer meets in the Lord Ashley and I'm uncertain about its future so check with the organisers before visiting. Web address is http://tradclub.ingridbarton.org.uk/
The tunes are on http://tradclub.ingridbarton.org.uk/sets.php
When you get to the list of sets choose one with a green disk, click on the title, select the Recordings link, then click on the tune title.
Folkinfo
Pete Loud's Tunebook
The Mudcat Cafe Website
Digital Tradition titles etc.
A Barn Dance Repertoire
Richard Robinson's Tunebook
ConcertinaMusic.com Chemnitzer stuff
The abc musical notation language
The Living Tradition
The Musicians' Union
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!
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
Ancestral Instruments
Webfeet : English Ceilidh, Folk, Morris, French, Breton, and Cajun dance pages
The Morris Federation
The Morris Ring
Sailing ships
The Shields Gazette
Evening Chronicle
Sunderland
The Sunderland Echo
Back On The Map
The ETEC Development Trust
North-East Of England Regional Information Service
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
Regen.net The information guide for regeneration partnerships
The Improvement and Development Agency
The Environment Agency
Locality (Communities ambitious for change)
Department of Energy and Climate Change
The Department of Culture, Media, and Sport Hisss..Booo...rubbish PEL!
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 Education
The Department for Work and Pensions
The Department for Business Innovation and Skills
The Convergence Think Tank!
HM Revenue and Customs
The Justice Department (Formerly the 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
Northumberland Brewery
Ouseburn Valley Brewery
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
The Tyne Bank Brewery