November 2017 – MARDLES January 2018 The Folk Magazine for East Anglia Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex News, Reviews and Listings DERT Winners Oakenyouth Rapper at Folk East In this issue: Over and Out – The Last Issue of Mardles ~ The New Mardles Web Site Big Changes at EATMT ~ Folkwise for Young Folkies Published Quarterly by Suffolk Folk ~ Free to Members ~ £1.50 www.mardles.org 2 Announcement – Mardles.org..............................................................4,5 Advertising in Mardles, List of Advertisers.........................................6 Contact Details for Mardles and the Suffolk Folk Committee.........6 Looking to the Future – Jill Parson.........................................................7 Stirrings — Editorial, Letters and Opinions.........................................8 Education – Country Dance Event at Kelsale CECVP School.........10 Morris on! — Dave Evans and Gill Brett.............................................12 21st Century Morris?.......................................................12 Morris at Folk East...........................................................14 Thoughts on Days of Dance............................................16 Morris Shorts.....................................................................17 Morris Winter Diary........................................................19 Morris Clubs.....................................................................20 News from...Norfolk................................................................................24 An Exciting New Venture for NFA from 2018!............24 New Folk Venture in Aylsham.......................................25 Concert in Overstrand.....................................................27 Feature: The Time Passes Over… – Megan Wisdom.........................28 Feature: New Horizons at East Anglian Traditional Music Trust..30 CD Reviews .............................................................................................34 Leveret – Inventions.........................................................34 Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne – Outway Songster........34 Martin Newell & Hosepipe Band – The Green Children..36 Foxglove Trio – Distant Havens.....................................37 Rosewood – Rife & Strife & Mirth & Fun.....................38 Artists Bands, Callers, Singers and Musicians.......................40 Club and Session Guide.........................................................................42 Suffolk................................................................................42 Norfolk ..............................................................................46 Essex...................................................................................48 Cambridgeshire................................................................50 Events Diary — What, Where, When...................................................52 Event and Venue Contact Details..................................55 Media Radio, Internet, Publications.........................................58 Cover picture: Oakenyouth Rapper at Folk East. They also danced at the Blaxhall Ship: see them on YouTube at www.tinyurl.com/oakeast 3 News and information about Suffolk Folk 4 5 News and information about Suffolk Folk Advertisers Suffolk Folk Committee In Alphabetical Order Chair Jill Parson Flat C, Blaxhall Ship Inn 27 100 Earlham Road Bury Folk Collective 17 Norwich Carols at Mendlesham 11 NR2 3HB Celilidhs on the Move 59 01603 620273 Colchester Folk Club 39 [email protected] Come and Join the Band 37 Secretary Val Haines EATMT Concert Party 33 [email protected] Everyman Folk Club 2 Treasurer Mike Rudge Hadleigh Folk and Acoustic Nights 39 [email protected] Hobgoblin 60 Martyn White melodeons and repairs 57 Milkmaid Folk Arts Centre 41 Other Committee Members Milkmaid Folk Club 25 Mike Lawrence, Sue Lawrence J S Arts 23 Events diary New Year Barn Dance, Clopton 29 Val Haines Mardles distribution Norfolk Ceilidhs 29 Simon Haines Publicity, advertising Norwich Playford Ball 35 On-Y-Va! 51 Pennyless 29 Special Email Addresses St Neots Folk Club 57 Stanton Musicians 27 Mardles editor (Anahata) Whittlesea Straw Bear 15 [email protected] Please remember to let our Suffolk Folk membership (Mike Rudge) advertisers know that you saw [email protected] them in Mardles! The other Suffolk Folk email addresses that Note to Advertisers used to appear here will also remain valid Though there won’t be any more printed for some time, but not forever, and the Mardles magazines to advertise in, you will Suffolk Folk web site will remain in a be able to advertise on the new reduced form. For the latest information www.mardles.org web site which is already and up to date contact details, please go to working, though it may not be in its final the new Mardles web site: form yet. For now, contact [email protected] for the latest www.mardles.org information on advertising services and rates, and check the web site periodically for updates on contact details. 6 Looking to the Future To be clear, we regard ourselves as separate bodies working together to create a web site In this final edition of the Mardles that is all that the Mardles magazine was magazine the committee of Suffolk Folk plus… well, just about anything that you would like to take the opportunity to can imagine! Everything is underpinned by explain our position and reassure the our basic and stated aim of ‘promoting membership about the future of Suffolk traditional and modern folk music, song Folk and its relationship to mardles.org. and dance in Suffolk and contiguous areas’. Nothing is changing! We are engaged in pooling expertise and Although the magazine itself is moving to enthusiasm in order to create more a web-based format it is still under the opportunities to promote Folk in our direction of the Suffolk Folk committee that counties, which seems a lot more positive was elected at the AGM in June 2017, and so than allowing Mardles the magazine to far as we are concerned anybody who paid simply disappear. a subscription for that year will remain on Setting the web site up is our priority the database as a member of Suffolk Folk during the transition period between now until the AGM 2018 is convened and the and the end of December when the printed situation can be discussed further. magazine ceases production. The big difference is that your You can visit the site now if you would like membership will now cost you nothing, as to see how it is coming along, but be warned there is no intention of charging anyone for that at the moment things are changing very access to the mardles.org website, and you quickly and what you see now is very much are not losing any of the other benefits of a prototype and is a long way from Suffolk Folk membership: the right to a vote reflecting our final vision. at the AGM and a small reduction for events You’ll find it at: that have long been affiliated to and www.mardles.org supported by Suffolk Folk. If this doesn’t please you and you would The most important thing to take from this like your name removed from the article, for both Suffolk Folk and Norfolk membership database please contact Mike Folk Association members, is to remember Rudge ([email protected]). If to you are reading this and it sounds quite CANCEL YOUR STANDING ORDER interesting and exciting contact him to have And your name added. You are very welcome! PLEASE DON’T SEND US ANY Suffolk Folk is very keen to expand its MONEY!! horizons and be seen as representing the whole of East Anglia. To this end we are The Suffolk Folk Committee all hope that joining forces with the Norfolk Folk you will continue to support us. Association to create mardles.org which is Jill Parson set to become an umbrella organisation with Chair, Suffolk Folk. plenty of room to include representations September 2017 from Essex and Cambridge. Anyone from [email protected] these counties who would like to get involved, we would love to hear from you. 7 Stirrings Editorial, Letters and Opinions From The Editor I’ll have to mention some notable contributors too. Though it’s been fun and Over and Out – desirable to get copy from lots of different The Last Issue of Mardles people, there are some who have consistently As predicted in previous issues, as I type put in a terrific amount of work over long this I am now sitting in Riddlesden, West periods of time. Yorkshire, with a fine view over Airedale Mardles has always had a strong morris though the window in front of me, and this dance section. It was started (as far as I can will be the last print issue of Mardles. remember) by Mike and Jenny Everett. When Inevitably it’s tempting to take a they left we persuaded Colin Cater to cover retrospective look at the last few years of Morris Matters, and since then Jill Parson, Mardles as a printed magazine. Adam Garland and then Dave Evans and Gill I’ve had a few kind messages with Brett have made substantial contributions. compliments on the quality of the magazine All have turned in a substantial volume of over the last few years. However I’ve only thoughtful and well researched material for been keeping up a standard that was set by every issue during their tenure. my predecessors, and putting together I haven’t heard much from, or about, Dave material that other people have taken the Cooper recently, but when I took over the trouble to write for the magazine. It wouldn’t magazine he was our roving reporter writing have