Over the past four decades Martin Carthy MBE has set the standard for the acoustic guitar accompaniment of British traditional song. This will be a rare opportunity to brush up on your technique and pick up some tips. Numbers will be strictly limited. To ceilidh-goers throughout the country John Kirkpatrick is the complete dancing master. This will be your chance to pick his brains and find out how to play infectious, driving and, most importantly, danceable folk music.
All instruments welcome.
The G.B.H. Ceilidh club rounds off its 25th Anniversary Weekend celebrating English traditional music with a concert featuring two giants of the folk scene. A joy to watch and listen to. Following the success of the Melstock Band at last year's book festival we welcome back Melstock member Charles Spicer with writer and broadcaster Tim Healey, Caroline Butler and Edward Fitzgibbon for an evening of readings from diarists and poets of the Restoration enlivened by street ballads, dance tunes, airs and rounds on an array of instruments that include fiddle, bagpipes, lute, cittern, harpsichord, shawm and hurdy-gurdy. December 2001 - 8.00pm A Garland of Carols and Songs Sung at Christmas Barry Coope, Jim Boyes, Jo Freya, Fi Fraser and Georgina Boyes present a celebration of the glorious profusion of words and tunes associated with Christmas carols and songs from across England and the tradition of singing them in back kitchens, streets, pubs and village churches with enthusiasm and affection. To Mistletoe Christmas wouldn't be Christmas at the Electric Theatre without a performance of this joyous celebration of the seasons in traditional dance, song, custom, music and legend.