Good Festival News!

We can now confirm that STEVE PHILLIPS is booked for Friday 19 September, tickets £8, at the Cellar Bar, UNISON Club, Beaumont Fee, for the opening concert of the Festival. Doors open 7.15 pm.

This is a really great performer, Blues at its best, played by a consummate artist with a very wide range of material to appeal to everyone.

Spring season

Here's Marianne with details of the spring season:

And here it is, our Spring Season set of gigs to delight and enthuse!

SATURDAY 23 February 2008
ROD CLEMENTS, a special this one. Rod was the musical brains behind Lindisfarne and the writer of 'Meet me on the Corner' and 'Devil of the North'. We saw him at the New Forest Festival summer 2007. He was fantastic, a superb dobro player and full of interesting and witty chat. We simultaneously decided we wanted to book him.

FRIDAY 4 April 2008
MARTYN WYNDHAM-READ

Please note that this is a change from the previously advertised date of Sunday 30 March. Martyn has been invited to play at Queen Elizabeth Hall on Sunday 30 March so we let him off!

SATURDAY 26 April 2008
BILL CADDICK, support Stitherum and this is by popular demand (especially from Damian our Sound Engineer and resident artiste). One of the best songwriters around, which is what a lot of publicity blurbs like to claim, but we are talking about an artist who has been recorded by June Tabor, Christy Moore, Artisan and John Kirkpatrick. Stitherum is that well known pair, and great doyens of folk music, Sue and Mike Dewsbury.

SUNDAY 18 May 2008
PETE COE, support Winter Wilson
Pete Coe was last heard by us at Shrewsbury Festival 2007, is there anything this guy can't do? He sings and plays greatly some great songs and he has been known to break out into a step dance. Andy describes him as representing the backbone of the modern folk revival.

Winter Wilson are always good enough to agree to do a support for us every Season. Andy just gives them the list and this is the one they chose.

If you haven't heard Winter Wilson before, be ready to be amazed and delighted. These two are rather more than local performers. They are beginning to be nationally known but for them its the usual getting out of Lincolnshire problem.

COST: all tickets are £7, OAPs £6 and students £5

PURCHASE OF TICKETS: By Post: cheques made payable to 'Lincoln Folk Festival' with a sae sent to 12 Witham Road Woodhall Spa Lincolnshire LN10 6RW

In Person: from Salamander Park Street Lincoln (down the side Road opposite Ruddocks) - link to map on the right of this page

ENQUIRIES: 01526 352153

VENUE: Unison Club Beaumont Fee Lincoln (link to map on right)

TIME: Doors open when we get there which is 6.30pm. You are welcome to come in then and sit wherever you like, the bar opens around that time and you can always sit in the bar room if you want. Setting up doesn't take us long and our artists are pretty quick usually about sound checks. The support act goes on 7.30 pm prompt. Remember this venue is a cellar room and bar so you're looking for a downstairs entry. There are in fact two side downstairs entrances and of course they are lit and labelled so it doesn't matter which you use, but if you haven't been before, its not welcoming when its not clear where to go! The support act finishes around 8.15 pm, after that it's just the main act.

We finish at about 11 pm.

PARKING: And again parking in abundance, since we are in of one of the City car parks but you do have to pay for it from one of the clearly lit machines.

WELCOME and SEATING: We are the ultimate in non-cliquey folk and, although we have some faithful attendees, we get lots of people from far afield who we just come for their own 'special' artist, so there are no specially-labelled seats (although we will always reserve a bench seat if stools are not comfortable for you. (Or there is enough space for you to bring your own seat as long as you let us know.)

LINCOLN FOLK FESTIVAL is 19 and 20 September 2008

We are still booking artists and are particularly interested in hearing from young players who are prepared to perform for a fee of a free weekend ticket. We had a right good turn up last year so old friends are welcomed back AND we'd like to see even more aspiring performers. We aren't a big Festival, although we aren't against getting bigger...and anyway we're beautifully formed!

The venue of West Gate School Lincoln has been confirmed this afternoon which means the Boss is confirming the contract for Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick this evening...

LINCOLN FOLK FESTIVAL is Andy Watkins, Damian Woodings, Dick Morriss, Jane Morriss and Marianne Watkins and various helpers too numerous to mention, although we would welcome a few more!

Christmas party report

Message from Marianne:

Just a quick mention of our Xmas party which we had on Saturday 15 December - if you weren't there folks, you missed a good one. Tom McConville played with David Woods and it was lively, fun and lyrical.

I've heard Tom in a lots of guises and combinations but I've never heard him play so well or be so entertaining. Thanks to Liam, Brian and Damian (especially for the Boar's Head Carol). The food seemed to go down well too, especially as some people said they had had their tea already. I'd just like to say that I'm glad I don't have to provide for you when you havn't had your teas!

2007 Autumn season

Marianne's sent the autumn schedule for me to post:

We're right proud of this year's concert season, so there!


Sunday 30 September
JOHN RENBOURN - needs no introduction, tickets going fast!
supported by lovely Pete and Helen Wray ragtime and blues

Sunday 28 October
PETE MORTON - OK my personal favourite - what a song writer! sends shivers down me spine! Liam Robinson that stalwart champion of folk music and dance in Lincoln - and young to boot - supports

Sunday 25 November
THE SULTANS OF SQUEEZE - heard the CD had to have John Kirkpatrick and Chris Parkinson - superb musicians in various other identities - spark off each other musically and humourously - little bit cheeky! support by Brian Dawson - if that man doesn't make a CD soon someone is going to kidnap him until he gives in and does it.

Saturday 15 December
XMAS PARTY - with improved refreshments! and the TOM McCONVILLE BAND which is good and ..... there's more from various of the locally excellent who will 'do a turn'. Miss it and regret it.

VENUE
If you're behind the times (or you actually didn't know we existed, which is possible) we've moved. From the Turks Head, which is sad so thanks Dave. Anyway we're at the UNISON Club at Beaumont Fee, Lincoln (next to Council Offices).

Look there is so much parking space its not true. Of course you will have to pay for it because this is Lincoln - the most expensive place to park in the country?? comments please! and its in front of the Council Offices which is where the club is. Its an old grey building a bit like a Victorian primary school and we are in the very nice and CLEAN basement bar, which holds eighty folks. Its got a few trees round it so don't give up if you don't see it instantly, it's there! on the end of the car park at the end of the 60's style council building next to the road and we'll put out the Festival Banners and signs to help you.

TIME
All concerts start at 7.30. prompt because Andy is a stickler for timing. The support is on for about forty five minutes, then we have a SHORT break and the main artist goes one forty-five minutes followed by a fifteen minute break and then about another hour so we finish around 10.30/10.45.

TICKETS
send sae to 12 Witham Road Woodhall Spa Lincs LN10 6RW or phone 01526 352153 or email. No cards sales as we are too little! Make cheques out to LINCOLN FOLK FESTIVAL

Tickets can be purchased from Salamander Park St Lincoln (nearly opposite Ruddocks on the High Street).
John and Xmas Party £8
Pete and the Sultans £7
OAPs reduction of £1
Under 18s students etc reduction of £5

2007 Folk Festival (now past)

Welcome to the new web site for the Lincoln Folk Festival. It's been set up as a blog to make it easy to maintain.

The 2007 Lincoln Folk Festival was held over the weekend of June 22nd & 23rd 2007. We drank the bar dry!

The timetable of the festival is pasted below.

Details of the 2008 Festival to follow.

The Autumn series of concerts will be held in the 'Unison Club', Beaumont Fee, Lincoln, LN1 1UL: details to follow.

As usual the 2007 Festival was held in and around Westgate Junior School, Lincoln.
Season tickets: £17.00 (£14.00 conc.)
Friday June 22nd: Mr Sid Kipper
(@ the 'Turks Head'- now closed)
supported by Damian Woodings.
Tickets: £8.00 (£6.00 conc.)

Saturday June 23rd included in the afternoon:
Workshop: Ragtime Guitar: Pete Wray (£2.50) Noon
Workshop: Harmony Singing (& how it works): Robin Garside (£2.50) 1.00 - 2.00pm
Lincolnshire Young Performers Showcase FREE 1.30 - 3.30pm
Children's Event: Story telling with Shonaleigh and 'Punch & Judy' with Robert Rae (£2.00) 2.15-3.30pm
'Jeff Woods Memorial Session' hosted by Robin Garside 3.00 onwards 'Victoria' - Bar
'Story-Go-Round with Shonaleigh' - All storytellers & listeners welcome. FFREE 3.30 - 5.30pm
'The Old Bakery', Burton Road.

'Lincolnshire Songs collected by Percy Grainger': presented by Brian Dawson. £2.50 3.45pm

Storytelling with Shonaleigh; the annual 'Jeff Woods' session with Robin Garside; 'The Grainger Collection' - Brian Dawson reveals some of the gems collected by Percy Grainger on his visits to Lincolnshire; 'Young Persons Concert'; 'Ragtime Guitar Workshop' with Pete Wray; 'Harmony singing' with Robin Garside

A Real Ale bar supported by the Lincoln Branch of CAMRA was available on the Saturday evening. Beers by Milestone Brewery, Cromwell.

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On the Saturday evening:
'A GRAND CONCERT' @ 7.15pm
(Doors open 6.30) Tickets: £10.00 (£8.00 conc.)

Vin Garbutt supported by Robin Garside, and Ed Korolyk & Gwen Brash.

Lincoln Folk Festival acknowledges the support given by Bailgate Methodist Church in the supply of chairs, and by the staff of Westgate Junior School . Thanks to Alan Watts of the 'Strugglers' for the loan of the glass washer, the 'Victoria' and the 'Old Bakery'.