New Year Folk

Dear Folks Happy new year !   My new year resolution is to keep my newsletters to one or two a month so do please send me any news you wish me to pass on about a month before it happens if possible.   Tonight at the White Star in Stoke with His Worship The Pig is sold out !   Dabbers Session will not now be meeting on New Years Day but will hold the regular session on Thursday January 7th 8pm at the Riflemans Pub in James Hall Street Nantwich.   Still available, New Years Eve and New Years Day session at the Bull Bay Hotel Anglesey while the next Big Lock session will be Sunday 3rd January in Middlewich. Fiddle Maestroes Dave Swarbrick and Gina Le Faux appear at Middlewich British Legion on January 30th Tickets are £12 Details for all these events at www.inanyevent.org.uk Tel Liz 01606 834969   Miles Hunt And Erica Nockalls Wednesday 27th Jaunuary, Square One http://www.creweroots.co.uk    The creweroots line-up just gets better and better. Their gig for us last time pulled our biggest crowd to date and it has always been in our top three creweroots shows ever, so we're delighted that they are coming back to see us again in the New Year. This is going to be another busy night so just let us know you're coming if you want to guarantee a ticket.   You can check out a film of Miles and Erica playing some obscure little South Cheshire gig here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbrYErexI7U And there's a film of them playing 'Circle Square' in Birmingham here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcSjbT6O-DU# You can also hear an album's worth of songs streamed at www.myspace.com/theactualmileshunt . All fantastic stuff and we can't wait.   North Staffs Folk Diary full listings will be on the news pages my website shortly www.amandalynnemusic.com . Meanwhile....   JANUARY EVENTS   Thu    14      Spiers & Boden, New Vic   Sat     16      Oakcake Billy's Ideal Band.& Leopard Spot Clog Dancers, Ceilidh,                            Chesterton – contact Jason Hill 01782 813401 Wed   20       Steve Tilston, "Up in Arms" (Biddulph Arms)                      Vin Barretts' concert at the Players Theatre in Nantwich was absolutely brilliant. Nantwich Gas Flame Centre loaned a log effect fire for the stage, and complete with Xmas tree , logs and music, we had a wonderful atmosphere for Vin's lyrics. Vin is surely one of the very best new songwriters around.   The main surpise of the night was the opening act Golden Zimmaestro, a guitarist originally from Zimbabwbe and now a music technology student in The University of Staffordshire. Golden brought some warm sunshine into a freezing cold night, playing world African fusion music using live looping with his guitar and a pedal. I won't even attempt to describe how live looping works but it's great !   Other surpises were Stuart Lupton who managed to play a few numbers despite his thumb being stitched up, Gary O Brien had swine flu and couldn't make it at all, but Vins partner John joined Vin for the numbers Stuart was unable to play.   I am currently attempting to re size video files of the show so you can view them online. That will keep me up late!   Have a happy and healthy new year all.          Warm regards,   Lynne Barnes AmandaLynne Music Agency www.amandalynnemusic.com 01270 628041  mobile 077 900 82523 68 The Beeches, Nantwich, Cheshire, CW5 5YP