MELTING POT NEWS - SPRING 2004

Changes afoot! This is probably the last newsletter you'll receive
from me for some time as I will be going abroad for two years to do
Voluntary Service Overseas. I'll be working for the National Legal
Aid Clinic for Women in Lusaka, Zambia as a database developer and
will be leaving on 20th May, so will obviously not be playing with
Skimmington Ride and the Frescobaldi Consort for a while!

Fiddling duties in Skimmington Ride will be taken over by Chris
Townsend who you may have caught in action with any or all of Man in
a Brown Hat, Chien Bizarre and Minced Head - all three bands have
played at the Beggars Fair and at the Tudor Rose. Chris has already
played our April date at the Tudor Rose and will be joining us
tomorrow at the Dolphin in St Denys, on Sunday at the Fulflood in
Winchester and next Sunday at the Tudor Rose. Tomorrow is the last
gig with all of us, since I will be away this Sunday and Mark will be
away next

Sunday. It would be great to catch as many of you as possible at one
of these gigs before I go away.

The Frescobaldi Consort is celebrating its 20th anniversary this
year. Although we don't have any performances planned, we will be
having a big party with lots of the people who have played with the
Consort over the years. We've recently welcomed a new member, Pat
Glynn, who plays the lute, and we're still looking for another full
time recorder player. We're looking for competent sight readers, able
to play (or willing to learn) all sizes of recorder; if this is you,
or someone you know, do get in touch at consort@...

Not really band news, but you may also like to know that Nic and I
got married on Easter Saturday after twenty years together. The
reception featured short performances by the Consort, the Travelling
Talesman and a hastily reconstituted Souls of Fire (acoustic). We
had a really amazing day and our feet are only just beginning to
touch the ground again!

Hopefully this won't be the last Melting Pot newsletter and I'll be
able to find a willing victim, sorry volunteer, to keep the news
coming.

Hope to see some or all of you at the Dolphin or the Tudor Rose - if
not, goodbye, thank you, and see you in two years' time!

Love
Cath


GIG DATES

Thursday 22nd April at 9pm
Skimmington Ride
Dolphin, Osborne Road South, Southampton
(right next to St Denys railway station)

Sunday 25th April at 9pm
Skimmington Ride
Fulflood Arms, 28 Cheriton Road, Winchester
http://www.fulfloodarms.co.uk/

Saturday 1st May at 7.30pm
King John's Morris dance in the Cornmarket, Romsey
followed by a song and tune session in the Tudor Rose with King
John's Morris, Skimmington Ride and anyone else who turns up.

Sunday 2nd May at 9pm
Skimmington Ride
Tudor Rose, Cornmarket, Romsey

Sunday 6th June at 9pm
Skimmington Ride
Tudor Rose, Cornmarket, Romsey

Sunday 4th July at 9pm
Skimmington Ride
Tudor Rose, Cornmarket, Romsey

Friday 9th and Saturday 10th July
Beggars Fair, Romsey