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Traditional and old fashioned songs, dances and tunes in mid-Kent

Frittenden sessions for 2014/15

28th September – Roger Resch

26th October – John Morgan

30th November – Rosie Davis and Jerry O’Reilly (great singer and dancer from Dublin)

28th December – Peter Collins (great local singer)(also we’re planning to revive some lost local carols that night)

25th January – Ruairidh Greig (singer and fiddler from Lincolnshire, and a Lincs material scholar and collector)

22nd February – Matt Quinn (he probably needs no introduction, but I’d just like to mention that his dad’s from Lincolnshire)

29th March – Annie Dearman and Steve Harrison (great friends at the Frittenden session, Annie’s a smashing singer, Steve is a lovely accompanist on melodeon, banjo and tenor guitar, and a cracking mouthorgan player)

26th April – Mike Hebbert (the Jeffries duet concertina player’s Jeffries duet concertina player, if I may coin such a phrase)

The autumn dance with the Horsmonden tunes workshop providing the music, party games and turns at the Bell & Jorrocks is on the 29th November. Our lovely caller for the night will be Fee Lock. Please put it in your diary!

Traditional and old fashioned songs, dances and tunes in mid-Kent

It’s all starting again – why not join us, as most things we run are free, and they’re all fun?

  • The first Tuesday evening song workshop of the season at the Gun, Horsmonden is from 8pm on Tuesday 2nd September
  • Horsmonden tunes workshop – free tunes workshop led by multi-instrumentalist Gavin Atkin. Gun & Spitroast, Horsmonden, from 8pm on the 24th September at the same pub
  • Mixed tunes and songs session at the Bell & Jorrocks, Frittenden, with guest Roger Resch, 28th September from 8pm
Traditional and old fashioned songs, dances and tunes in mid-Kent

First Sunday Tunes Session at Horsmonden

This is a mainly English tunes session held at the Gun & Spitroast pub, Horsmonden (TN12 8HT), starting at 8pm or so on the first Sunday of the month.

We play a good mix of mainly English tunes, including a good helping of the tunes we’ve been working at the Wednesday night workshops, favourites or our own and and anything else whatever people bring along.

Click on the relevant tab above to see the tunes we’ve been working on recently – they’re presented as abcs, written-out dots and YouTubes with slow demonstrations.