Following on from last year's successful inaugural Night of the Longways Dances, just a note to remind you of the next in line..... SETS IN THE CITY - EPISODE...
*Hi all Are there any callers or musicians out there who fancy a free week in a Schloss in Bavaria, providing some dancing for about 100 wonderful people, ...
I second that. Just wish schools in this part of the world broke up a bit earler! Keith Leech *Hi all Are there any callers or musicians out there who fancy a...
February 28th The Sugar Loaf Band (Ex Banjax and Catsfield Steamers) Caller Keith Leech Adults £5 ... Concs (kids/OAPs/benefits/students etc) £3.00 ... U5s...
Hi all This is now sorted. Roger Watson and Liam Robinson are going to do it. If anybody else would like to consider doing it in future years, let me know and...
Some of the UK's finest Ceilidh band musicians in concert ..... At Folk at The Pump House, Colne River Room, Local Board Road, Watford, WD17 2JP on Friday 6th...
... Thanks to Chris Brady for finding this. Fee x http://www.bbc. co.uk/schools/ gcsebitesize/ music/worldmusic /britishislesand irelandrev1. shtml  Enjoy -...
Er..my feet are shuffling a bit. Anybody doing music GCSE then is supposed to learn this? Who is in charge of quality control there? I don't want to hurt...
My feelings aren't hurt ... maybe it should be removed. Over to you ...  Fee x ... From: Chris Partington <ChrisTheFiddlerPartington@...> Subject:...
The argument is with the exam boards and those who set the national curriculum, almost certainly classically trained musicians and this is probably how they...
It does make you spit, doesn't it? I've just sent this to the BBC's complaints deaprtment. I hope you all feel I've got it right! Gav 'I must complain about...
The thing is, Folk Music is such a miniscule part of the GCSE Music curriculum that it's not even getting worked up over... at best they might get some...
But it was so easy to get right, and they chose to blindly trot out a bundle of half-remembered, predujiced, misleading... Grrr! My kids would laugh! Gav...
My assumption is that it was a piece of written work produced by a child, from the information provided by a teacher or website. On which basis fair enough,...
Nope - it's revision materials for GCSE students. ... -- Iain (Jethro) Anderson - DBA (ISYS) University of Bristol "Never give a sword to a man who can't...
Most likely this is what is said on the GCSE specifications. We need to discover which board is putting out this b*;;ocks and complain to them. Keith Leech ......
I wasted an hour this morning looking through them and couldn't find anything but I am sure there's a music teacher out there somewhere. Keith Leech ... From:...
... As far as I know the boards don't specify anything as detailed as what was on the BBC site - they tend to say that students will have to know about certain...
The place to start I would have thought would be the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, http://www.qca.org.uk/ who specify what the examination boards...
We've not cancelled in the past 33 years and we're not cancelling tonight! Tickets will be available on the door! Godalming Borough Hall Bridge Street ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7877228.stm "Johnson wants to dance UK fitter Strictly Come Dancing has inspired Health Secretary Alan Johnson to a new...
Hilarious. For years the only direct government grant the EFDSS ever got was £20,000 p.a. from the Sports Council, as dancing keeps you fit. Now I don't think...
Some sad news. Rosie Turner-Bisset of this parish has died due to complications following knee replacement surgery. She played with us in Knit Your Own...
Hi Ian (& everyone else on this list)  Some of you may know this already, but for those who don't, I'm Rosie's nephew and it is mainly thanks to her that I...
Funeral now fixed... From the Mudcat thread...... Rosie's funeral will be at 3.30pm on Friday 27th February at Reading Crematorium, All Hallows Road,...
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