Lymm Folk Club


Lymm Festival 2009



Tel: Stewart Lever (mobile) 07919-270916


This year's Festival venues are:
The
Spread Eagle in Lymm Centre,
Lymm Rugby Club and Lymm Methodist Church Hall.




Festival Guests 2009

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Thursday
June 25th
Friday
June 26th
Saturday
June 27th
Sunday
June 28th
Monday
June 29th
Tuesday
June 30th
Wednesday
July 1st
Thursday
July 2nd
Friday
July 3rd



 
Thursday
25 June
8:30pm
£6.00

OR
£5.00
advance
booking
Full House

Full House have been finding life increasingly busy with gigs over the last couple of years, so we thought we’d book them for Lymm Festival before they become too famous. They play songs a lot, they play tunes quite a lot and they probably drink more than is good for them!

For those of you unfamiliar with Chester’s longest running folk-opera, they are: Ian Jones (melodeon, flute, whistles), Chris Lee (Vocals, Acoustic & Electric Mandolins, Bass), Nick Mitchell (Vocals, Guitar, Mandola), Dave Russell (Vocals, Fiddle, Bouzouki, Guitar, Bass) and Mark Woolley ( Percussion, Low Whistle).

They love to play for people and so we hope you’ll drop in to see them tonight!

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  • Pepper Street
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    Friday
    26 June
    8:30pm
    £6.00

    OR
    £5.00
    advance
    booking
    Bernard Cromarty

    Bernard Cromarty - the incredible Bernard Cromarty! is an accomplished singer and multi instrumentalist who has been around the folk scene since the late 1960s, and his early influences include the Spinners, the Oldham Tinkers, John Kirkpatrick and many others… a natural entertainer and skilled musician, he can take you from tears of laughter to tears of sadness and back again, even in the same song!

    I once – foolishly – tried to count the number of instruments Bernard plays. After 100 I was losing count! And the amazing thing is that he seems to be a virtuoso in all of them!! Ali O'Brien, Director, Saddleworth Festival

    With virtuoso performances on accordion, English & Anglo concertina, six & twelve string guitar with fancy tunings and five string banjo and both slow haunting songs 'Sally Free & Easy' & 'Ladybird' and funny chorus songs 'Ball o'Yarn' and 'Slap Bum Tailor'... and my particular favourite guitar instrumental was 'Dallas Rag'.

    He arrived at our club long before his audience. The array of three guitars, two concertinas, accordion, and an assorted percussion/harmonica contraption had me looking for his support group. Naaaaaa. It was all Bernard's.Jean Finney, Ring O'Bells Folk Club, Widnes

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  • Nick and Lin
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    Saturday
    27 June
    Breakfast with Marmalade / Singaround / Evening Concert
    11.30 - 14.30
    (free)
    Breakfast

    with the

    Marmalade Club
     

    From humble beginnings, this band rapidly became a force to be reckoned with! To find out more about these icons of folk, visit their website! Oh, and don't forget they're playing for this year's Festival Ceilidh!

      
    15.00 - 17.30
    (free)
    Singaround
    with
    Bernard
      
    Evening
    Concert

    8:30pm
    £7.00

    OR
    £6.00
    advance
    booking
    Vicki Swan and Jonny Dyer

    Vicki Swan & Jonny Dyer have been playing music together for over 10 years.

    Vicki's unique style of playing the Scottish Smallpipes, along with flute, nyckelharpa and double bass, is spell-bindingly beautiful, haunting and perfectly compliments Jonny's driving guitar playing. Jonny is a composer and competition-winning guitar player, has outstanding technical ability, coupled with a wide-ranging musical taste and a tireless and forceful musical innovator. Jonny has been singing choral music, soul, jazz and folk for as long as he can remember.

    Strong believers in letting music live and breathe, they allow the melody to sing without any constraints. Constantly seeking new harmonic pathways they help to keep pipe music alive and growing. Come along and hear them, you will be delighted.

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    SUPPORT:
  • Nelson Peach
  •            Thursday
    June 25th
    Friday
    June 26th
    Saturday
    June 27th
    Sunday
    June 28th
    Monday
    June 29th
    Tuesday
    June 30th
    Wednesday
    July 1st
    Thursday
    July 2nd
    Friday
    July 3rd
     
    Sunday
    28 June
    Afternoon Acoustic Concert / Songwriter Competition / Evening Concert
    12.30 - 15.30
    (free)
    Acoustic Music Concert

    We had twenty minutes each from:

    John Condy

    Angie Wright

    Pelican Babies (Mark Connelly) 090109

    Sandra Martin & Phil Robinson

    Andrew and Ellie Tullo

    Richard Freeston Trio (Idle Young)

    Michelle Holding

    Diana Johnstone

      
    16.00 - 18.00
    (free)
    Singer-Songwriter Competition

    £100 & £50 prizes - your entry form (also available from Stewart) must be received by 18th June 2009, strictly limited to 18 entries on first-come-first-served basis by postmark.

    All entries were in weeks ago - so it promises to be another excellent concert! A shame there can only be one winner... even if yours isn't the winning entry, you can bet there's someone in the audience who thinks your efforts were better!

    And the winner is... Richard Knott with 'Too Fast'! Richard won the very first Lymm Festival Songwriting Competition in 2007...! Special mention also went to the three who tied for 'second place' - Jean Finney, John Condy and Richard Grey.

      
    Evening
    Concert

    8:30pm
    £9.00

    OR
    £8.00
    advance
    booking
    Bob Fox

    Bob Fox - from his home in County Durham, Bob's performance is deeply influenced by the working class culture and industrial folk song of that area.

    A professional folk singer since 1975 and during his career has released several award winning recordings starting with a vinyl album voted Melody Maker's Folk Album of the year called Nowt So Good'll Pass and more recently in 2002 and 2003 he was nominated Best Folk Singer in the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.

    Bob was nominated for Best traditional song and Best original song for his arrangements of the traditional song Here's the tender coming and Chris Leslie's My love is in America.

    ...as soon as I heard him sing I realised that Bob Fox must have one of the best voices in England, he is an artist of great ability and integrity. Ralph McTell

    Blessed with one of the best voices in British Folk Music today and coupled with astonishing guitar technique, Bob Fox performs pure and unadulterated folk music at its finest. Australian National Folk Festival

    Long standing Lymm Folk Club members may remember Bob once did a floor spot at the Railway - he was acting as Vin Garbutt's chauffeur for the evening!

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    SUPPORT:
  • Stewart
  •  
    Monday
    29 June
    8:30pm
    £1.00
    Singers Night BIG Spot
    with
    Andrew Walpole

    Winner of last year's Songwriting Competition...

    What is a 'Big Spot'? Performers are asked to do an extended spot after the beer break on a Singers' Night.

    Andrew Walpole won the Singer/Songwriter Competion last year with Peterborough Boy… with 24 entries of a fabulous standard, that was some achievement... I'm glad I wasn't one of the judges!

    So... we've asked Andrew to do a “big spot” for us as part of Lymm Festival. Andrew impressed everyone with his winning song… come and hear him sing and play his guitar.

    Not bad for a pound, eh!?

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    SUPPORT:
  • You?!
  •  
    Tuesday
    30 June
    8:30pm
    £12.00

    OR
    £10.00
    advance
    booking


    PLEASE NOTE:
    This event
    takes place at
    Lymm Rugby Club!
    Chris While and Julie Matthews

    Chris While & Julie Matthews are both brilliant individual writers, but it's when they combine their writing talents that the unique nature of their partnership flourishes. They are world renowned for their affinity on stage and for their energy and enthusiasm of their live performances.

    Seven times nominated for BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in the Best Duo, Best Song & Best Live Act categories.

    They are two of my favourite singer songwriters in the whole wide world! Beth Nielsen-Chapman (they're Stewart Lever's favourite duo too - guess why he's doing support?!!)

    Julie plays: guitar, piano, bouzouki, mandolin & harmonica; Chris plays: guitar, banjo, dulcimer & percussion.

    Throughout their career they have toured solidly as a duo in the UK, Europe, Africa, North America and Australia (where they have achieved great success and are held in the highest esteem, filling concert halls and headlining festival stages. They've also worked on several musical projects for the BBC including Tales of the Towpath (a radio documentary about the building of the Manchester Ship Canal) and the 2006 Radio Ballads.

    They're simply World Class, it just doesn't come any better than that... Chris Leslie of Fairport Convention was heard to say, on his way out of a While & Matthews' concert.

    They've delighted the Lymm Festival audiences ever since they first appeared in the big Marquee at the Railway, Heatley in 2005.

    So if you've seen them before... see you this time... and if you've never seen them, it'll be a sell-out, so book your tickets quickly.

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    SUPPORT:
  • Stewart
  •            Thursday
    June 25th
    Friday
    June 26th
    Saturday
    June 27th
    Sunday
    June 28th
    Monday
    June 29th
    Tuesday
    June 30th
    Wednesday
    July 1st
    Thursday
    July 2nd
    Friday
    July 3rd
     
    Wednesday
    1 July
    8:30pm
    £9.00

    OR
    £8.00
    advance
    booking


    PLEASE NOTE:
    This event
    takes place at
    Lymm Rugby Club!
    Kerfuffle

    ...music with immense vitality & style!

    Kerfuffle played a stunning set at our Festival last year, so inviting them back was an easy decision, as the young traditional quartet won over the audience with a balanced set of songs, tunes and memorable dancing from Hannah James. The young bar staff of the Rugby Club were heard to say, “I've never heard music like it before... it's just so cool!”

    Four of the finest young musicians on the folk scene today, Sam Sweeney, Hannah James, Jamie Roberts & Tom Sweeney perform their music with immense vitality and style…drawing their influences from all over Europe and perform a vibrant and inventive live set.

    If you didn't see them last time, ask around Lymm, everybody is talking about them!

    ...and ...get this! Stewart Lever has 15 free tickets for anyone under 15!. Order by texting him on 07919 270 916, the mobile phone line opens at 08:00 on 17 June 09 with one ticket per text.

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    SUPPORT:
  • Bernard
  •  
    Thursday
    2 July
    8:30pm
    £7.00

    OR
    £6.00
    advance
    booking
    The Perfectly at Home String Band

    The biggest surprise of last year's festival!

    The Perfectly At Home String Band came together, for the first time, at last year's Festival. They totally surprised everyone, including Lymm Folk & Acoustic Music Club organiser Stewart, as it brought together two acts, Nick & Lin Tysoe and Nelson Peach, who are Club Residents (see below or click the links).

    They make a wonderful sound... with Nick Tysoe (vocals, guitar and banjo), Lin Tysoe (vocals, autoharp, mandolin and double bass), Lesley Nelson (vocals, guitar, double bass and harmonica), Rick Nelson (vocals, mandolin and guitar) and Richard Peach (vocals, fiddle, guitar and double bass). The band members have a wide variety of musical backgrounds including playing folk, jazz and blues for the past thirty years.

    The band came together through a mutual love of American Old Time music. This music started in the Southern Appalachian mountains, where if you wanted to go out to a dance on a Saturday night you had to make sure at least one of your friends could play an instrument or you had nothing to dance to. With the advent of cheap(ish) radio in the twenties it became popular with a much wider audience.

    Basically, it's about everyone having a good time. So come along and enjoy yourself. Foot tapping, clapping and even dancing is allowed.

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    Friday
    3 July
    8:30pm
    £5.00

    OR
    £4.00
    advance
    booking


    PLEASE NOTE:
    This event
    takes place at
    Lymm
    Methodist Church
    Hall
    !
    Ceilidh
    with
    The Marmalade Band

    What a way to end Lymm Folk & Acoustic Music Club's part of the Festival, dancing the evening away!

    The Marmalade Band includes Clare Rigby (flute and whistle), Marian Sudbury (violin), Heather Bamforth (guitar and flute), Helen Jocys (Accordian) and Kathie Taylor (flute and whistle).

    Gillian Sheill (caller) makes things easy for everyone to dance, and she's most persuasive! If she can't get you up dancing, you must be made of stone!

    There won't be any worms this year... because we're in the Methodist Church Hall, just 50 yards from the Spread Eagle. Only those who've been to Festival Ceilidhs in the Railway marquee will know what I'm talking about!

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               Thursday
    June 25th
    Friday
    June 26th
    Saturday
    June 27th
    Sunday
    June 28th
    Monday
    June 29th
    Tuesday
    June 30th
    Wednesday
    July 1st
    Thursday
    July 2nd
    Friday
    July 3rd

    OUR RESIDENTS

    Lymm Folk Club is blessed with a fine complement of 'Residents' - these are the performers who provide tireless support throughout the year for our guests!

    They are:

    Stewart Lever: Stewart is the club organiser, who sings and plays guitar. His material ranges from traditional, covers and self-penned.

    Nelson Peach: the club's own super-group! They are Lesley & Rick Nelson and Richard Peach, whose material ranges from traditional, covers and the occasional self-penned song, along with a few tunes for good measure! Lesley plays flute, whistle, guitar and triangle, Rick plays guitar, cittern and mandolin, and Richard plays fiddle, mandolin, guitar and banjo - and they all sing!

    Nick and Lin: Nick Tysoe plays guitar and banjo, and Lin plays autoharp, mandolin and guitar, and they both sing. Their material is predominantly American traditional and 'Old Timey'.

    Pepper Street: Having begun life as a trio, Pepper Street is now a two-man outfit comprising Mick Hare and John Condy, who are building on the following the band has attracted over the last couple of years. They perform mostly contemporary songs plus some original material written by Mick. Mick and John both play guitar; Mick also plays mandolin and bouzouki whilst John includes banjo, mandolin, harmonica and a mean slide guitar amongst his range of instruments.

    Bernard Cromarty: There aren't many instruments Bernard doesn't play... and he sings, too. His material ranges from traditional, contemporary, Music Hall and just plain daft!

    Bob and Kate: Although Bob and Kate aren't performers, their support is just as important - if not more so! Bob collects the door money, and Kate sells the raffle tickets! Without them, the club wouldn't function!




    Thursday
    June 25th
    Friday
    June 26th
    Saturday
    June 27th
    Sunday
    June 28th
    Monday
    June 29th
    Tuesday
    June 30th
    Wednesday
    July 1st
    Thursday
    July 2nd
    Friday
    July 3rd

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