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JUNE'S Programme
1999
Reservations
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PROMOTIONS IN JUNE
'99
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Srideag
Friday June 4th,
King's Head, Allendale
£2.50 at the
door
Kicking off June's
programme, we're really pleased to present as special guests
a relatively new Northumbrian band. They used to be part of
'Below the Salt' before they weren't, anymore, so now they
are Srideag, err, that's pronounced Straddick.
The band was
formed in October 1998. Srideag aim to play a
combination of Irish, Scottish and English folk music
(they
don't know any Welsh songs yet! ). They really enjoy their
music and convey this enjoyment to their audiences.
They've got some
accomplished vocals and instrumental backing, and the
evening should be a real delight, especially as we'll
recruit some of our own Tynedale regulars as support. Look
out especially for Srideag's Jen Williams who is the lead vocalist with
added percussive talents, and Jim Lewis (6 and 12 string
guitar), Ian Glendinning on 6 string and additional vocals,
and Bill Pikett on whistles, recorders and backing vocals
rounds the group off.
The band
name, Srideag, in the Gaelic tongue has two
definitions: in traditional Scottish it means
"spark from a flame" (or so we
understand ); whereas in traditional Irish it
means,"spit on the fire". The band do enjoy their music
and although are currently folk music based they intend in
the future to perform any genre of music or song that
appeals to them.
It's got to be
a lovely evening!
What we said about
Srideag
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NORTHUMBRIAN
MUSIC NIGHT
2nd Friday, June
11th
Another brilliant
Friday evening around the fire, or maybe just a few embers,
now that it's getting warmer, with our own entertainers and
a pleasant audience providing lots of good cheer,
friendliness, applause and fun. These evenings just keep
getting better and better. New performers always come
around, and new audiences, so the thing to do is to turn up
and see what's happening. Typically, the evenings consist of
2 sessions of sing-around or play-around, when each
entertainer provides us with a couple of numbers. We have a
small break for the raffle, which supports the whole
enterprise, and then have another go, getting either more
silly, or more serious, as the mood, or the libation, takes
us.
Tickets only
£1.00 or 50 p concessions.
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ALLENDALE VILLAGE
HALL
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A fortnight ago
Pierre Schryer and his band were featured on BBC Scotland,
and they're finishing up a grand tour of the Highlands and
Islands, combining a couple of festivals up there with great
sight-seeing and spontaneous dancing everywhere they go. Now
Saturday June 12th sees the last gig of their UK tour, as
they venture just south of the border, so we're looking for
a really great night!
Pierre is the
grand champion of every fiddle genre imaginable, over in
North American, whether it's Irish, French, or open fiddle
style, and with his band, as you can see for yourself at
their web site, composed of Julie Schryer on keyboards,
Brian Pickell on guitar, mandolin and banjo, and the
multi-instrumental talents of Nathan Curry they play up a
scintillating dish of superlative music that will have your
whole body jigging around. We've been listening to their
latest CD 'The New Canadian Waltz' with increasing respect
and wonder, and we can't wait to hear this Canadian
super-group at first-hand, or first-ear.
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Saturday June
12th
Tickets are only
£6.00
There is, of
course, a licensed bar for the evening.
What we said about
The Pierre Schryer Band
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PRELUDE
Friday, June
18th
The King's Head,
Allendale
Reformed as a 5
piece, and with a great and friendly sound, this band looks
like a great start to the North
Pennines Festival. We're expecting the tickets to go fast for
this gig at only £5.00 in the intimate room at The
King's, so early booking is advised.
What we said about
Prelude
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Saturday June
19th
The King's Head,
Allendale
Vin
Garbutt
recommended Bernard to us this past January, and so we
thought well why not? Little did we know that Bernard plays
regularly with one of our particular favourites, Peter
Grayling, whose cello accompanies Kristina Olsen. But
Saturday the 19th of June is Bernard's own special night,
and he promises to bring a little bit of his own Aussie
humour along with him, in addition to his great music. Sure
and we've got those four-legged woolly things here too!
Tickets are only
£4.00
What we said about
Bernard Carney
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NORTHUMBRIAN
MUSIC NIGHT
4th Friday, June
25th
We're expecting
lots of audience tonight, because this is a featured
presentation of the North Pennines Festival, for which
100,000 newspapers have been distributed at just about every
place imaginable around and about the region. So everybody's
got to know about this special evening, and who knows, the
joint may be bursting! Always a special welcome to any
entertainers brave enough to get up and entertain us, and
we'll commiserate if they hit a wrong note, but cheer madly
if they get it spot-on wonderful. Most of the regulars agree
that these nights are the best of all our presentations, and
you won't know until you see for yourself.
Tickets only
£1.00 or 50 p concessions.
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THE SNAKE DAVIS
BAND
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ALLENDALE VILLAGE
HALL
Saturday June
26
Specially
Extended Full License for the Evening
Tickets only
£7.50
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Bringing you the music you like
best, in cooperation with North Pennines Entertainment, and
as a featured gig in the North
Pennines Festival, this
band has been consistently the most applauded outfit to
appear in venues around the North-East.
Fans of mega pop band 'M' People
know Snake Davis well as the band's resident sax player who
appears with them on TV and top venues around the world. But
with his own band, Snake Davis is extra special. Being in
demand to play with the biggest names in the biz is just an
extra job for one of the best sax players around. Leading
recording artists such as Tina Turner, Lisa Stansfield, Ray
Charles, George Michael, Paul McCartney, Take That, and the
Spice Girls have all used the magic sax of Snakey.
Backed by a cracking band that
features the outstanding Jon Ellis on Hammond organ, it
looks like a memorable show of sublime soul, energetically
mixed with raunchy R&B, smokey midnight blues and a
touch of slinky jazz. Remember the hit TV drama series The
Paradise Club? Yes, the Snake Davis Band were the group on
stage that did so much to create the atmosphere for theat
popular show.
That same blues club atmosphere
will be created in Allendale as the band delivers two
inspired sets of brilliant music!
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We know you can't
wait, but in the meantime, you may wish to reserve your
tickets for what will be a very special night, the finale
gig of the North Pennines Festival, in Allendale, simply by
dropping us a line.
What we said
about
The Snake Davis
Band
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