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Would you like to have your old time news or event posted on the news & events page and emailed to FOAOTMAD members and beyond. Contact me: mailout1@foaotmad.org.uk and I will add it to the next update. You do not have to be a member of FOAOTMAD to have your Old Time information posted but be sure to include full details, links and pictures. Paul Bennett :)
Not getting your Old Time News and Events email? Click here This year's AGM will be taking place online on Sunday 13 February at 11am. Details of how you can take part, send in questions or apply for the vacant or contested committee positions is on the Events page of our website along with the committee members reports for 2021.
https://foaotmad.weebly.com/events.html We will be holding our next Old Time session on 26th January. Kat and I will be taking lateral flow tests before we attend, I encourage anyone attending to do the same.The "Blue" is rarely packed out with people and we can all stay some distance apart. It would be great to see you for tunes
Out of the Blue 19.30 - 22.00 Wednesday 26th January 2022 Mill Lane Porthleven Cornwall TR13 9LQ Map With the rapidly worsening situation with the Omicron variant of Covid 19 in the UK and the potential disruption that it might bring, it is with regret that we have decided it would be impossible to run February’s 2022 Gainsborough Festival in a Covid safe way. Therefore we must formally announce that the advertised event will now not take place.
As the FOAOTMAD Annual General Meeting normally takes place over the festival weekend we will now replace it with a Zoom meeting similar to last year. Details of the meeting, committee member reports and annual accounts will be sent out by email direct to members as well as being published on our website. You will also find details on the website of how members can take part in the meeting. For more information please go to the Foaotmad website. https://foaotmad.weebly.com/festival.html Tim Rooke Festival Organiser American-Canadian roots duo Newberry & Verch will be performing a special seasonal livestreamed concert on Monday 20th December 2021, in fact two shows to allow for both performances to be in an evening time slot for the UK and USA/Canada. Joe Newberry and April Verch are well known to UK old-time, bluegrass and folk fans, for their entertaining blend of original songs, lively fiddle and banjo duets and Ottawa Valley step dancing. This year they’re reviving their popular Holiday Cheer pre-Christmas tour in the USA, and have added a final date to livestream a show to fans who can't be there in person. The concert will be broadcast live to Facebook and YouTube with donations welcome. So save the date and prepare to settle down by the Christmas tree - Newberry and Verch are coming to town, direct to a screen near you! Monday 20th December 2021 Show 1 * 7.30pm UK time (20.30 CET Europe/2.30pm EST) Show 2 * 7.30pm EST (USA/Canada) For more details, visit aprilverch.com or truenorthmusic.co.uk  The Cabin Creek Boys from Virginia are on tour in the UK and joined by our very own Nick Pimbert playing banjo. The tour is filling up but if you do know of any agents or venues that may be interested in booking them, please contact Nick reverend.delta@googlemail.com  Two acclaimed step dancers are working on a special new project which celebrates two of their dance heroes. Award-winning Canadian musician April Verch will be known to many old-time enthusiasts from her work with Joe Newberry and her own trio. April has been playing fiddle since the age of six, and dancing since she was just three, influenced by the rich musical and dancing heritage of the Ottawa Valley region. Simon Harmer has been a well respected UK performer and teacher of step dance styles for over 30 years. Their dance collaboration, Steps From The Heart, will culminate on the weekend of 8th & 9th January 2022 with an online presentation, performance and workshop. Look out for an interview with April and Simon in the next edition of Old Time News, and for more details or to book your place, visit bit.ly/stepsfromtheheart  Our Next Old Time Session Out of the Blue 19.30 - 22.00 Wednesday 1st December 2021 Mill Lane Porthleven Cornwall TR13 9LQ  The Fordsons are performing in Bristol on Sunday 21st November. 7.30pm at The Hare on The Hill The Fordsons perform old-time, mountain music from the Appalachian region United States of America. The Fordsons take their influence from the popular old-time music of the 1920s and 30s. Music made famous in the recordings of The Skillet Lickers, Charlie Poole and The Carter Family to name just a few. Expect furious breakdowns, nonsense songs, fiddle and banjo tunes and cautionary ballads of love and loss. Link to the event here This may be of interest. Coming up this weekend.
Talk by Rose Ardron on the Southern Folk Cultural Revival Project- an ambitious and controversial initiative in the 1969s to bring black and white musicians together in tours of the South. Also presentation by Brian Peters on Racial cross currents in Appalachian folk music. English Folk Dance and Song Society - Library Conference – Diversity in Folk https://www.efdss.org/whats-on/61-conferences/10476-library-conference-diversity-in-fo Music Lovers can Visit all 22 Iconic Music Destinations to Earn Exclusive Prizes
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Oct. 8, 2021) - The Tennessee Department of Tourist Development is launching a new digital passport to encourage music lovers to visit the nearly two dozen sites in Tennessee that appear in Ken Burns’ PBS documentary “Country Music,” as part of a campaign promoting Tennessee Music Pathways. Using a web-based application created by Salt Lake City-based Bandwango, travelers can document their visits and redeem their “stamped” passports for prizes ranging from a limited-edition Hatch Show Print to a copy of “Ken Burns Country Music: An Illustrated History,” or a Tennessee Music Pathways branded guitar. Passports are available online through Oct. 18, 2022. Tennessee Tourism launched a physical passport for the Ken Burns Country Music Pathway in 2019, and is adding the digital passport to make the traveling experience and “stamp collecting” even easier. A companion advertising campaign, targeting those who have watched the acclaimed documentary on Amazon Prime, encourages travelers to download their own Ken Burns Country Music Passport and visit sites across Tennessee. Nearly 50 million people in the U.S. and millions more worldwide watched Ken Burns’ critically acclaimed “Country Music” when it aired in 2019, making it one of the most-watched documentary series in history. More than 10 percent of viewers (4 million) streamed the 16-part series online, and thousands more continue to watch on Amazon Prime each month, nearly two years after its premier. Locations that inspired the music on the “Ken Burns Country Music Pathway” include:
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I am a medical student from Turkey (I also live in Turkey). I'm fascinated by the fiddle and I am very eager to learn it. It is an instrument that fills me up with a lot of different feelings when I hear it. And I am a complete beginner. However, it isn't taught in Turkey and I can't afford the online classes from abroad because of the exchange rate of the Turkish Lira. I wanted to kindly ask if you know a teacher who offers any scholarships. Thank you very very much, Idil Name Idil Erdem idil.erdem@yahoo.com |
