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August Programme
1999
Reservations
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You may want to check
out the Allen Valleys Diary for a listing of What's
On in the area, over the
next several months.
Alternatively, you may
get more information of interesting events and services,
from the friendly folks at
www.northpennines.com
who offer a free help
service for those who wish to visit this friendly
area.
Regular
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Live Music, and Welcome to
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PROMOTIONS IN AUGUST
'99
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Gary Hall
with
Susan
Hedges
Friday August
6th, King's Head, Allendale
£4.00 at the
door
We thought they were
great! Susan is a brilliant emerging new talent, and Gary's
long set was just the sort of country blues that makes you
glad you're alive.
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NORTHUMBRIAN
MUSIC NIGHT
2nd Friday,
August 13th
Right snugly in
their appointed slot, these nights, especially in the
summertime, are great for audience and entertainers alike.
All ages are warmly welcomed!
Tickets only
£1.00 or 50 p concessions.
And what a super
super night it was, too! You never know exactly what you're
going to get, and it's exciting to wait to hear, but this
was a very lucky evening, with brilliant sets of
Northumbrian pipe tunes from the Lawrenson siblings Dot and
Tom, as well as pipe teacher Adrian Schofield. Andy Morgan
started the evening off, as usual, with some nice fiddle
tunes, and then there was Bob and Sue Day with some lovely
ballads, and Charlie Colborn with his own lilting Scottish
songs, Dave Minikin with a couple of enchanting numbers,
Carrie & Liz with both serious folky songs and sillies,
a super set from Ian Brown, a charming swinging set from Sue
Brown on clarinet with Glynn on guitar, and others whose
names we didn't quite catch. All in all it was a thrilling
night for old and young, and there's still another night yet
to go this month!
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St. Cuthbert's
Parish Church
Allendale Market
Square
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For a small village, it
seems that Allendale gets a pretty good share of harmonious
music. But on Wednesday and Thursday, the 18th and 19th of
August, there will be an abundance of harmony to share with
one and all, when the acclaimed choral ensemble called
'Village Harmony' arrives in town.
Composed of some 22
teenagers mostly from New England, the ensemble is
accompanied by Val Mindel, an Appalachian fiddler and
teacher at the Old Town music school in Chicago, as well as
by Evi Aries, guitarist with Caravanserai who lives in
Scotland. This international group is led by Kate Howard,
who is well known for her work with community choirs and
music workshops throughout England.
Village Harmony is the
young and exciting offshoot of Northern Harmony, the
shape-note singing community developed in Vermont by Larry
Gordon, which has toured throughout the UK for a number of
years now, delivering an emotive blend of rhythmic and
compelling four-part repertoire. Their songs are a blend of
sacred and secular anthems, featuring striking modal
melodies, contrapuntal 'fuging' sections, and horizontal
counterpoint with frequent voice crossings and biting
dissonances.
These teenagers are
serious and passionate and are searching for music and a
musical experience that is in some way transcendent. Village
Harmony concerts are very different from the typical choral
presentation. Wearing a variety of colourful purples and
earthtones, the performers stand in a large semi-circle
performing mostly from memory, making extensive eye contact
with each other and the audience. Their sound is a very
exciting, bright, hard-edged 'chest voice', on the
invigoratingly effusive numbers, yet in the delicate pieces
they summon an uncommonly pure and angelic sound from their
treble voices.
On Wednesday the 18th of
August, the group will be facilitating an evening workshop
with exciting opportunity to blend voices old and young in
St. Cuthbert's parish church, in Allendale's Market Square.
After a day's respite for a brief session of sight-seeing in
Tynedale, Village Harmony will present a concert at the same
venue on the evening of Thursday the 19th.
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Workshop for all
singers
Wednesday August
18th
Tickets are only
£4.00
Concert for all
listeners
Thursday August
19th
Tickets are only
£4.00
To make sure you
get a chance to participate in either of these events,
contact the promoters, Northumbrian Music Nights, at (01434)
685047 for further details.
What we said about
Village Harmony
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Tryckster
Friday, August
20th
King's
Head
£5.00
Upbeat, lively,
Celtic Rock act of 2 women and 4 men, with a range of
influences from The Levellers, the Pogues and REM to Jethro
Tull, Planxty and the Bothy Band. Tryckster use strong
original songs fused with Celtic instrumentation (flute,
fiddle, bouzouki, mandolin, hand-drums) and a traditional
rock rhythm section (drums, bass, acoustic guitar) to make
powerful music you can dance to. Tryckster are local
Cumbrian heroes, and recently signed with Fellside Records,
so expect their new CD out any day now!
But catch them
live here in Allendale on the intimate stage of the King's
Head, if you missed them at Brampton Live, Saltburn, or the
Northern Green Gathering at Pontefract.
What we said
about Tryckster
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Northumbrian
Music Night
4th Friday August
27th
The King's Head,
Allendale
Nearly the end of
the summer, music for all!
Tickets only
£1.00 or 50p concessions, and all entertainers are very
welcome. If the 2nd Friday of August was any indication,
you'd better arrive early (~8:30 pm is recommended) if you
want a seat!
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