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Gainsborough 2023 Everything is in place for a great festival and tickets are selling well, so if you haven’t already got yours, now is the time to buy them. There will be concerts on Friday and Saturday evenings, Sunday afternoon and Sunday evening. Workshops will be run on Saturday and Sunday and will include Beginners Banjo with Rachel Eddy, Double Bass, with Graeme Parry and Old-Time Mandolin with Evan Davies, plus ones for voices and dance. Food will be served all through the weekend with a varied menu including vegetarian options. There will also be a bar available over the weekend (cash only please). See www.foaotmad.weebly.com for information. Hope to see you there. Tim Rooke Festival Organiser  If you are a FOAOTMAD member and want to take part in our survey on the location and structure of our camps you have until the 14 January to do so. You will find the questionnaire and details on the Camps page of our website.
www.allcounted.com/s?did=s145tujo25uzx&lang=en_US Criffel Creek is an hour of Old Time and Bluegrass Music on Alive 107.3 broadcast at 11am on Sundays and repeated at 11pm on Mondays. Hosted by Paul Lyttle and Colin Kennington. Although Alive 107.3 is a community radio station based in Dumfries, you can stream the show from their website.
https://aliveradio.net/ You may have heard that just before Christmas we lost Eve Morris, our membership secretary of many years and our only life member. Her loss was sudden and as in these situations our thoughts are with Eve's family and close friends. Below is a note from Eve's family related to her funeral.
Dear All, Eve's family would like to invite you to a gathering for Eve’s funeral and wake. The funeral will take place at Taunton Crematorium on 13th January at 2:30pm. The wake will be held immediately after the funeral at The World’s End Pub at Bradford-on-Tone (on the A38 to Wellington). We would like to remember Eve as she was, so please wear colourful clothing. We request no flowers, however, we will be collecting for two of Eve’s favourite causes at the funeral: the Donkey Sanctuary and the Cats Protection League (should you wish to make a donation). If you are considering attending the funeral and/or wake, please let us know by emailing: ipk243@protonmail.com as we are trying to gather an idea of numbers. Celebration of Life We are also planning a celebration of Eve’s life in 2023. More information will be published and distributed nearer the time. We would like to thank all those we have spoken to, and heard from for the lovely comments about Eve and we are looking forward to meeting many of you to remember Eve in the New Year. If you require further information about the funeral, please contact myself or Co-op Funeralcare, 32 Priorswood Road, Taunton, TA2 7PW - tel 01823 272139 Imogen (Eve’s niece) x The ’Slow & Steady Bluegrass’ at Core Music in Hexham takes place on the 1st and 3rd Thursday each month. For the winter there are two sessions, a lunchtime one at 1130 for 1200 - 1330 and an evening one at 1900 for 1930 to 2100hrs. An O’brother Where Art Thou' Special has been arranged for Thursday 5th January, details below.  Hi Pickin' Lunchtimers. Yes our New Year starts with an Old-Time jam on
Sunday 1st January 2-5pm (all levels welcome) at The Fisherman's Cottage, 3 Canal Way, Reading. RG1 3HJ https://www.thefishermanscottagereading.co.uk/ This is a very spacious venue in a pleasant location; with no sports screens to compete with; a very highly rated dining/food menu; very dog friendly, even a comfy fireplace on cold days! Normal driving access is via Orts Road from the townside! see https://maps.app.goo.gl/TyvJaTYwFyD6SB1s9. Free parking at the rear (though limited) with reasonable disabled access (please note that we bring spare visitor parking permits for nearby roads if so required). Also if preferred both the Queens Road Car Park and the Central Train Station offer a pleasant canal towpath walk of approx 10mins to the venue Your presence with as many more you can coerce to come would be just great! Looking forward to another great jam! Colm & Cathy 1st Sundays of the month 2-5pm American Old-Time Facebook https://rb.gy/e76riy Website https://rb.gy/dgoxeu & 3rd Sundays of the month 2-5pm Irish/Celtic Facebook https://rb.gy/3sf8dr Gallery https://rb.gy/r1x64b And here are some useful tips in case you didn't know: Su & Jules Old Time Jams - weekly online sessions on Tuesday and Sundays (slow jam) where we actually do get to meet up with other Pickin Lunchtimers. If you are not familiar with how to join or how it works you can find out more here: http://oldtime.sumo55.co.uk/ Old Time Music Hour is a weekly radio show from Bill Smedley that certainly ticks the listening box for me: https://padlet.com/newtchaser/OTMH And not forgetting our late Carole Finer/Chant (R.I.P) who often came all the way from London to our Pickin Lunchtimes, for she hosted her weekly radio shows for many many years called SoundOut on Resonance104.4FM which often featured Old Time and sometimes promoted our sessions on her shows. https://padlet.com/newtchaser/soundout Would you like to have your old time news or event posted on this page and emailed to FOAOTMAD members and beyond. Contact me on 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 information, links and pictures. Paul Bennett Wayward Jane a five piece Old Time band from Edinburgh is to play at the Song Loft on September 15th 2023. Because the gig is not until next September it is listed under "Full List of Events for 2023" and tickets are not yet on sale. We will feature this concert on the news & events page again closer to the time. Wayward Jane’s music is an innovative ‘transatlantic’ interpretation of American folk and old time traditions, blending roots material with fresh arrangements and original compositions. Their rich sound features fiddle, clawhammer banjo, double bass, guitar, wooden flute and close vocal harmonies. Their live shows have a joyful energy, expressing the fine musicianship of the band members as well as the friendship and playful chemistry that exists between them. Ranging in mood from high-octane, toe-tapping tunes to tender and soulful songs, Wayward Jane tend to leave audiences with a glow in their hearts. Band Website: www.waywardjane.com Songloft website: www.thesongloft.com  Grey Wolf are performing at : BROMYARD FOLK CLUB on Friday 9th December In the Falcon Hotel Mews Doors Open 7pm, Tickets : £10 By phone 07726 462220 or online john@bloor.org.uk Or on the door. Endorsed by Robert Plant! Robert Plant saw the band in concert in Ludlow: "The whole place was singing along to 'In the Pines' ", he said. The Birmingham News heard Grey Wolf at the Kitchen Garden Cafe: "There's an equality to the group's spread of sound, but each player is constantly soloing-in-motion, rising up in turn, according to where the ears of the audience might alight at any one moment." All four band members join in with vocals and harmonies, accompanied by their own multi-instrumental playing on banjo, guitar, fiddle, double bass, dulcimer, mandolin... They're a headline band who've appeared on radio, in folk clubs, at festivals and at music and literary venues as well as topping the bill at several of this UK's most prestigious Old Tyme American Music and Dance Festivals. Try before you buy at this link: https://soundcloud.com/grey-wolf-3  Hi Pickin' Lunchtimers. Our next music session is Old-Time on Sunday 4th December 2-5pm (all levels welcome) The Fisherman's Cottage, 3 Canal Way, Reading. RG1 3HJ https://www.thefishermanscottagereading.co.uk/ This is a very spacious venue in a pleasant location; with no sports screens to compete with; a very highly rated dining/food menu; very dog friendly, even a comfy fireplace on cold days! Normal driving access is via Orts Road from the townside! see https://maps.app.goo.gl/TyvJaTYwFyD6SB1s9. Free parking at the rear (though limited) with reasonable disabled access (please note that we bring spare visitor parking permits for nearby roads if so required). Also if preferred both the Queens Road Car Park and the Central Train Station offer a pleasant canal towpath walk of approx 10mins to the venue Your presence with as many more you can coerce to come would be just great! Looking forward to another great jam! Colm & Cathy  Meeting at The Seven Stars, Dinton near Aylesbury, normally on the third Friday afternoon of the month our session is purely old-time. The pub is a traditional old English pub with a garden that enables us to play outside when the weather suits.
The inside sessions are held in the snug which has a limit on the numbers it can hold so particularly while we are still emerging from Covid please contact Alan before you come to ensure there is enough space. Anyone who can't do a weekday afternoon but is looking for a session in the area please contact Alan and have a chat. Venue: The Seven Stars Stars Lane, Dinton, Aylesbury HP17 8UL When: Third Friday afternoon 2pm till 4:30pm Contact: Alan Pridgeon 2pridgeons@gmail.com or phone 01844 238203 Unfortunately there is a delay on issuing the next edition of the Old Time News which includes everything about Gainsborough 2023, including ticket prices and how to obtain them but here is some information about the 2023 festival which I hope you will find useful.
Gainsborough 2023. Friday 10th to Sunday 12th February Tickets will be available from 1st December. We are working hard to get all the information on the Foaotmad website, but until that is ready please email Tim Rooke at festival@foaotmad.org.uk Members full weekend tickets £80 Non-members weekend tickets £105 (this includes one years’ membership to Foaotmad) Day tickets £50 As well as a great line-up of artists from the UK, we are also pleased to have Spencer and Rains, Rachel Eddy and Mitch Depew from the USA. (the full line-up and all the information regarding the festival will be published in the next edition of the OTN). If you require any more information regarding the festival, please contact Tim on the above email address. https://foaotmad.weebly.com/festival.html Old Time and Bluegrass session at the Wallingford Sports Park. With plenty of space, friendly bar staff, good beer and car parking. We usually have a good mix of banjos, mandolins, guitars and fiddles and play both Bluegrass and Old Time (probably slightly more of the latter), sometimes with a bit of Americana thrown in for good measure. There is a mixture of songs and tunes for everyone to join in and we are very careful to make sure that everyone who wants to gets a chance to take the lead. We average about 12 musicians each month and a variety of instruments.
Venue: Wallingford Sports Park, Hithercroft Road, Wallingford. OX10 9RB When: Second Tuesday of the month 20.00 - 22.30 Contact: Lucy Quinn tonyquinn@aol.com or phone 01491 835 122 The Lonesome Ace Stringband are looking forward to getting back to the UK in the new year! There is info for all these shows on our website. https://lonesomeace.com  With their high energy approach to traditional American songs and dance music, Interstate Express combines a love of old stories with a passion for the joy of a fiddle tune that drives like a Mercedes on the open road.The music that developed in America is as diverse as the people who brought it there, from fast banjo and fiddle tunes and early country songs to blues and ballads, this trio plays it all and are as comfortable on a festival stage as a sweaty bar. The band was formed on a long drive from Tennessee to New Orleans and is the newest project of fiddler and singer Craig Judelman, who has learned from and performed with some of the great traditional musicians of the last generations. Currently based in Berlin, he is bringing this legacy to European audiences, telling stories and sharing his American culture that goes much deeper than fast food and baseball. Way Down The Ole Plank Road  |
