Hello everyone!It feels like ages since we’ve all been down at Chats Palace singing and making music together, but the good news is the regular classes start up again tomorrow on Thursday 11th.  Once again upstairs we’ll have the Sea Shanty Choir singing their hearts out (with bawdy numbers as well as some pretty exciting space-jazz five part harmony) and the play folk tunes course are meeting up again for six weeks of instrumental dance music.

The Shanty Choir have had a great summer with performances at Cock and Bull Festival, on the roof of the Queen Elizabeth Hall and busking by the Thames.  Look forward to their monthly residencies starting up at Trip Space again soon.  Check out some nice videos of them performing on the videos page.

The tunes course has helped to create a band in the form of the Hedgepigs.  They’ve done a couple of gigs now and played a wedding on Friday (see this amazing photo). Come down tomorrow and join the course and meet people to play music with.

A big thank you to Rachel Eddy for her excellent Old Time Fiddle Workshop at the Harrison Pub last night.  It was a really great session followed by a lovely gig.  Hopefully we can make this a regular thing when other touring fiddle and banjo players come over.

Coming up later this month we’ve got a couple more one off workshops at the Harrison Pub on Sundays.  The wonderful Steph West is offering an introduction to folk harp course with harps available for you to play on.  Later that afternoon Dave DeLarr will be sharing some of his harmony skills with his getting out of the three chord trick session.

Also there’s no need to fear the Autumn blues as Chats Palace are hosting a number of barn dances and French Bals this winter.  Cut a Shine return with a series of big dances (keep an eye on the website for details) and SOAS French Dance Society are hosting a Grand Bal on Friday 19th September.

As usual there’s more details below and keeping an eye on the future there’ll also be a six week course on Scandinavian Dance Music starting up in January.  It’s going to be great!

Keep having fun, keep making music and look forward to seeing lots of you soon!

Ed

PS:  Please do forward this message to your friends who might be interested in learning folk music and dance!

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Sea Shanty Choir – September and October 2014

Thursdays ∙ 7:30pm – 9:30pm ∙ 11 September 2014 to 16 October 2014

£30 for the six week term or £6 per session for exisiting members (email us for information about concessions)

Chats Palace, Hackney

With Pete Truin

http://OFFLINEZIP.wpsho/course/sea-shanty-choir-october-and-september-2014/

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Introduction to Folk Harp

2:00pm – 4:00pm, Sunday 28 Sep 2014

£10 per person, harps provided (email us for information about concessions)

The Harrison Pub, Kings Cross

With Steph West

http://OFFLINEZIP.wpsho/course/introduction-to-folk-harp/

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Play Folk Tunes – September and October 2014

Thursdays ∙ 7:00pm – 8:30pm ∙ 11 September 2014 to 16 October 2014

£10 a session or £50 for all six weeks (email us for information about concessions)

Chats Palace, Hackney

With Nick Hart and Ed Hicks

http://OFFLINEZIP.wpsho/course/play-folk-tunes-september-and-october-2014/

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Getting out of the 3 chord trick – developing your harmonic accompaniment

4:30pm – 6:00pm, Sunday 28 Sep 2014

£10 for the workshop (email us for information about concessions)

The Harrison Pub, Kings Cross

With Dave Delarre

http://OFFLINEZIP.wpsho/course/getting-out-of-the-3-chord-trick-developing-your-harmonic-accompaniment/

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Swedish/Scandinavian Music

Thursdays ∙ 7:00pm – 8:30pm ∙ 8 January 2015 to 12 February 2015

£10 a session or £50 for all six weeks (email us for information about concessions)

Chats Palace, Hackney

With Esbjorn Wettermark

http://OFFLINEZIP.wpsho/course/swedishscandinavian-music/

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Grand Autumn Folk Ball with Duo Fisson/Martin and guests

Friday 19th September, Chats palace

Get down to Chats palace next friday for a glamourous night of French and Breton folk dancing. The dance class at 8pm will show you all the easy steps you need, then dance the night away with live music from French accordion/guitar duo Fisson/Martin, Oxford-based duo Pawsey/Wass and french pianist Valentin Barray. Get your dancing shoes and best dresses out for the summer is not over!

Tickets £10 adv/£12 door
Doors 7.30pm, dance class 8-9pm
www.soasfrenchdance.org.uk
www.facebook.com/events/341454792686955

Cut a Shine Dances

A series of monthly winter barn dances at Chats Palace.  Keep an eye on the Cut a Shine Website for details.

http://www.cutashine.co.uk/

Other Gigs Coming up soon through Two for Joy Music

The Stray Birds (USA) – Sunday 14th September – Passing Clouds, Dalston.
Polly and the Billets Doux (UK) – Sunday 21st Septmber – Passing Clouds, Dalston
Furnace Mountain (Virginia, USA) – Thursday 23rd October – Passing Clouds, Dalston.
Spiro – Thursday 30th October – Passing Clouds, Dalston.