Seaton Sluice Music Festival Programme

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F E S T I V A L O F M U S I C OFFICIAL PROGRAMME

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Alf Doyle, resident of Seaton Sluice.

A WARM WELCOME TO THE SEATON SLUICE FESTIVAL OF MUSIC ~ 2013

The second Seaton Sluice Festival of Music will be held on Friday 28th, Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th June in various venues in and around Seaton Sluice. Once again there will be events for all ages from a Friday morning concert ‘Sing Along Memory Lane’ for senior citizens and their friends to Saturday morning ‘Music Workshops for Children.’ The popular ‘Musical Talent Competitions’ this year will have categories for all ages: 11s and Under, 12-17’s, and Adult /Open. The theme of the competition is ‘Music and Songs of the North.’

The events of Saturday morning and afternoon are free so do come along to Children’s Music Workshops, ‘Coffee with Mike and Friends’, an impromptu musical ‘Lunch Spot’ and to support the ‘Musical Talent Competition.’ There is also free entry to the ‘Celebration of Music’ held at St. Paul’s Church on Sunday afternoon. At all these events there will be refreshments available to purchase.

Throughout the weekend there will be four very different concerts which will bring professional musicians to Seaton Sluice. Musicians from the Sage, Gateshead will play a variety of music in the ‘Kit and Caboodle’ concert. An American lute player, Jacob Heringman, will be especially welcome when he and Susanna Pell of ‘Pellingman’s Saraband’ play two concerts of early music in the 900 year old Church of Our Lady on Sunday 30th June. His music can be heard on ‘Harry Potter 3’ and ‘Robin Hood’.

Stewart Hardy, resident of Seaton Sluice, continues to give the Festival of Music invaluable advice and he will be performing in the very popular ‘Geordie Music Night’ with other famous Northern folk musicians. Instrumentalists will enjoy his expertise at the children’s music workshops on the Saturday morning together with university music students.

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Contents

How to Book Your Tickets

Welcome 3 How to Book Your Tickets 5 Seaton Sluice Festival of Music 5 Festival Map of Seaton Sluice 6 Directions to Seaton Sluice 7 A Short History of Seaton Sluice 7 Prize Draw 8 Art Exhibition 8 A Brief History of Songs and Music of the North 9 The 3 Day Festival at a Glance 10 and 11 Events on Friday 28th June

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13 to 15 Events on Sunday 30th June

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please tel. 0191 2371136 or 0191 2375163 From 7th June onwards ~ visit the Box-Office at Seaton Sluice Community Centre, Albert Road, NE26 4QX.

* Come along and enjoy a range of free Festival events including:

‘Coffee with Mike’ ~ 10 - 11.30am Saturday, 29th June.

‘Musical Talent Challenge: 11s and under’ ~ 11.30am Saturday, 29th June.

‘Lunch Spot’ ~ 12.00 - 1.15pm Saturday, 29th June.

‘Musical Talent Challenge: 12s to 17s’ ~ 1.30 - 3.30pm Saturday, 29th June.

‘Musical Talent Competition: Adult / Open’ ~1.30 - 3.30pm Saturday, 29th.

‘A Celebration of Music’ ~ 4.30 pm Sunday, 30th June.

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* If you would like to enjoy these concerts or workshop over the three day Festival, please book tickets in advance:

‘Sing Along Memory Lane’ ~ 10:30am - 12 noon Friday, 28th June.

‘Northumbrian Pipes Workshop’ ~ 10am - 4.00pm Friday, 28th June.

‘Kit and Caboodle’ ~ 7.00 - 9.30pm Friday, 28th June.

‘Geordie Music Night’ ~ 7.30 - 10pm Saturday, 29th June.

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Two concerts of early music with Pellingman’s Saraband: ‘Divison Musick’ ~ 11.00am Sunday, 30th June.

‘Muses Gardin of Delights’ ~ 1.00pm Sunday, 30th June.

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Tickets are available now ~

Box-Office Opening Times ~ 7th June onwards Mondays 5.00 -7.00pm Wednesdays 10.00 -12.00noon Fridays 3.00 - 5.00pm (Tickets are also on sale at Seaton Delaval Hall ticket office in the car park.)

* If you would like to take part in any of the following events it would be very helpful if you could please book places in advance all on Saturday, 29th June. .

FREE ‘Children’s Music Workshops’ ~ 9.30 - 11.15am FREE ‘Musical Talent Challenge: 11s and under’~ 11.30am ‘Musical Talent Challenge: 12s to 17s’ ~ 1.30 - 3.30pm ‘Musical Talent Competition: Adult / Open’ ~ 1.30 - 3.30pm

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‘Seaton Sluice Festival of Music’

was formed in August, 2010 by a group of four local residents to promote and stimulate musical talent and appreciation, shared enjoyment and access to live music in the local area. It is a non-profit making organisation.

The first Festival was held in June 2011 and proved very successful. It brought together many volunteers whose hard work and enthusiasm have helped run 25 varied and enjoyable live music events in the village.

Thanks to the support of loyal and appreciative audiences, surplus finances have been used to fund a variety of children’s musical activities in Seaton Sluice and New Hartley. The Festival of Music has funded a Drum Workshop in Seaton Sluice Middle School, Ukulele Workshops, Drum Workshops and a Folk Dance day in the First School, Sing and Play and a Dance Group in the Community Centre, and funding towards ‘The Holly and the Ivy’ musical concert in New Hartley First School.

Festival of Music Committee: Anita Romer, chairman Susan Sproat, secretary Robert Kermode, treasurer Eleanor Kermode, funding and volunteers

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For more information or to book places, please tel. 0191 2371136 or 2375163

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Festival Map of Seaton Sluice

Seaton Sluice with Old Hartley make up one of five villages in Seaton Valley, together with New Hartley, Holywell, Seaton Delaval and Seghill. Come along and enjoy beautiful scenery, sandy beaches, cycle tracks and cliff and woodland walks in the area.

Visit nearby Seaton Delaval Hall and the Norman Church of Our Lady.

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Walk: from Blyth or Whitley Bay along the coastal walks.

Bus: 308 and 309 from Newcastle, Whitley Bay or Blyth. X4 from Newcastle, New Hartley or Blyth Cycle: Cycle racks are available in the Community Centre car park.

Car: There is car parking at the Community Centre and on the green near the Methodist Church, opposite the Centre. There is a car park at St. Paul’s Church and parking on Collywell Bay Road and nearby streets. Please car share if possible.

For the Sunday concerts at The Church of Our Lady, behind Seaton Delaval Hall, there will be parking at Hall Farm.

National Trust members may park at Seaton Delaval Hall car park – please allow 10 minutes to walk to the Church of Our Lady.

Train: from King’s Cross, York, Edinburgh, Sunderland, Hexham to Newcastle Central Station, then take the Metro to Whitley Bay. Metro: from Newcastle and Sunderland to Whitley Bay, then take a taxi or bus.

Taxi: from Whitley Bay etc.

A Short History of Seaton Sluice (Hartley Haven) and Old Hartley.

The ‘Delaval’ Family of Seaton Delaval Hall had been coal owners since the reign of Queen Elizabeth 1st, working seventeen pits in the area. Most of the coal was exported down the coast to the South of England from the harbour at Hartley Haven. This port rivalled those of nearby Blyth and Newcastle because the coal was of such good quality. Sir John Delaval opened a new ‘cut’ for loading ships. Special sluice gates were built to hold the river water back and upon opening at low tide the water would sluice out sand and mud from the harbour, so giving the village the new name of Seaton Sluice. Coal was not the only industry; salt pans had been here since medieval times, hence the old name of Hartley Pans.

In 1763, the glass works were built and men were brought from Hanover to teach the trade to local men. ‘Copperas’ was a by-product of the coal industry and used to colour the glass. The bottles were produced in their thousands from the ‘Royal Northumberland Bottle Works’, the six tall kilns of which were a prominent land mark. There was also a brewery, a shipyard and a sandstone quarry which produced the stone for London’s Blackfriars Bridge. Men and boys of the area worked in the nearby coal mine in New Hartley where the worst pit disaster in England occurred, 151 years ago.

Coal mining has influenced the culture of this area, as well as the whole of the North East. Songs relating to this culture will be sung on Saturday 29th June at the ‘Geordie Music Night’ and possibly during the competition in the afternoon.

Please come along and soak up some of this traditional Northern music.

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Seaton Sluice Community Association Luncheon Club Every Thursday in the Main Hall, 12.00-1.30 pm Two course, home cooked meal £4.00 Typical menu: Quiche, Salad, Chips Chocolate pudding with custard, Tea/coffee.

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Prize Draw

Tickets (£1 each and books of 5) will be on sale before the Festival of Music and at the events on Friday and Saturday. £150 first prize, original painting by Kath Woollen second prize, six bottles of wine third prize, bottle of whisky fourth prize and a basket of fruit fifth prize.

It will be drawn during the ‘Geordie Music Night’ on Saturday, 29thJune.

Art Exhibition

10am to 4.00pm on Fri, 28th and Sat, 29th June in Room 5, Community Centre.

Please visit the exhibition of work by members of Seaton Sluice Art Club where some of the paintings will be on sale. The themes depicted relate to the Festival of Music such as ‘The Songs and Music of the North’, Lindisfarne and views of the Northumberland coast.

There will be free children’s art activities and children’s music workshops in nearby rooms on the Saturday morning.

Do come along and join in!

Joan Rest, resident of Seaton Sluice

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A Brief History of Songs and Music of the North.

A Stockton scholar, Joseph Ritson, at the end of the eighteenth century, discovered ancient ballads such as ‘Rookhope Ride’ and the homely songs, ‘The Keel Row’ and ‘Elsie Marley’. Elsie was a landlady at the pub at Picktree, near Birtley. Possibly the first mining song, ‘Collier’s Rant’ was also included in his book.

Newcastle printer, John Bell in 1812 wrote in his ‘Rhymes of Northern Bards’, such songs as ‘Bobby Shaftoe’, ‘Buy Broom Besoms’, ‘Dol-li-a’ and ‘Water of Tyne’. Again a number of mining songs were present such as ‘Byker Hill’, ‘Footy Agin the Wall’ and ‘The Collier’s Pay Week’. Bell was able to name the writers in a third of the songs, such as J.P. Robson, Ned Corvan, Joe Wilson and Geordie Ridley. Ridley sang his own ‘Blaydon Races’ in the Wheatsheaf Inn, Newcastle in 1862.

‘Tyneside Songs’ was written by Thomas Allan in 1862 with the final edition in 1891.He wrote about the actual characters in the songs and the stories of the songwriters. One character was Blind Willie Purvis.

A committee of the Society of Antiquaries wrote the ‘Northumbrian Minstrelsy’ in 1882 and this was supposedly the first large-scale regional survey of traditional songs in England. Some songs were published for the first time and these included ‘Blow the Wind Southerly’, ‘The Fair Flower of Northumberland’, and the ‘Oak and the Ash’. There were also some pipe tunes such as ‘Bonny at Morn’, ‘Shows the Way to Wallington’ and ‘Elsie Marley’. ‘Dance to thi Daddy’, ‘Skipper’s Wedding’ and ‘The Folk of Shields’ were some of the songs written by Stokoe

and Reay in 1893. This time there were full musical scores. Actual recording of songs occurred 1912-1931 with Charles Warrington, a latter day music hall singer.

Included were such favourites as ‘Cushie Butterfield’, ‘The Lampton Worm’, ‘The Blaydon Races’, ‘Wor Nanny’s a Mazor’, Keep Your Feet Still Geordie Hinnie’, and the ‘Paanshops Blazin’. The colourful culture of the North East was kept alive by families singing such songs, especially around their parlour piano.

A Jesmond singing teacher, Ernest J. Potts, recorded ‘Do-li-la’ in 1927 and it was he who was a mentor to Owen Brannigan who was famous in the ‘50s.

He has a living relative in Seaton Sluice today.

Frank Graham started the present revival in the 1970s.

Compiled by Anita Romer who would like to thank Pete Woods for his notes: ‘Tyneside Songs: Print or Trad?’ Included in ‘Trad’ would be ‘Bobby Shafto’, ‘Bonny at Morn’ and ‘Water of the Tyne’, printed examples would include ‘The Lambton Worm’ and ‘Keep your Feet Still Geordie Hinnie’.

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Sunday lunches 11.30-3.00pm using only the best locally sourced meat.

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EVENT

DETAILS

TIME

PLACE

PRICE

BOOKING INFO

Art Exhibition

Seaton Sluice Art Club

10.00 to 4.00 pm

Small Hall, Seaton Sluice Community Centre, NE26 4QX

Free

‘Sing Along Memory Lane’

With the Silver Singers and Ukulele Group

10.30 to 12.00 pm

Main Hall, Seaton Sluice Community Centre

£2.50 includes refreshments Raffle

“Northumbrian Pipes Workshop’

12 places only

10.00 to 4.00 pm

Room 5, Seaton Sluice Community Centre

£20 includes refreshments + ** Please book places in light lunch advance

‘Kit and Caboodle’ Concert

With 10 musicians from ‘The Sage’ Families Welcome

7.00 to 10.30 pm

St Paul’s Church, Seaton Sluice, next to harbour bridge, Beresford Rd, NE26 4DR.

Adult: £10.00, Concessions: £7.50. Family (2+2): £25, Child: £5.00

Art Exhibition

Seaton Sluice Art Club

10.00 to 4.00 pm

Small Hall, Seaton Sluice Community Centre

Free

‘Children’s Music Workshops’

Choice of activities

9.30 to 11.15 am

Seaton Sluice Community Centre

Free

‘Coffee with Mike’

Live music

10.00 to 12.00 pm

Small Hall, Seaton Sluice Community Centre

Free Refreshments extra

Musical Talent Challenge 11 years and Under

Song or tune of your own choice

11.30 to 12.00 pm

Small Hall, Seaton Sluice Community Centre

Free

Lunch Spot

Impromptu live music

12.00 to 1.15 pm

Small Hall, Seaton Sluice Community Centre

Free Refreshments extra

Musical Talent Challenge 12 to 17 years

Songs and music of the North

1.30 to 3.30 pm

Small Hall, Seaton Sluice Community Centre

Free to audience

Please book places if possible

Musical Talent Competition Open/Adult

Songs and music of the North

1.30 to 3.30 pm

Small Hall, Seaton Sluice Community Centre

Free to audience

Please book places if possible

‘Geordie Music Night’

Stewart Hardy and friends

7.30 to 10.00 pm

Small Hall, Seaton Sluice Community Centre

Adult: £10.00, Concessions: £7.50. Family (2+2): £25, Child: £5.00

** Please book tickets in advance

Early Music Concert 1 ‘Division-Musick’

Early music with Pellingman’s Saraband

11.00 am

Church of Our Lady, NE26 4QR

£10.00

** Please book tickets in advance

Early Music Concert 2 ‘Muses Gardin of Delights’

Pellingman’s Saraband and Faye Newton, soprano

1.00 pm

Church of Our Lady, NE26 4QR

£10.00

** Please book tickets in advance

‘A Celebration of Music’

Children of the village.

4.30 pm Musicians from the weekend

St Paul’s Church, Seaton Sluice, NE26 4DR.

Free Refreshments - Donations.

** Please book tickets in advance

FRIDAY, 28TH JUNE

** Please book tickets in advance

** Please book tickets in advance

SATURDAY, 29TH JUNE

Please book places if possible

Please book places if possible

SUNDAY, 30TH JUNE

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EVENTS ON FRIDAY 28TH JUNE

EVENTS ON SATURDAY 29TH JUNE (** Please see page 5 for how you can book tickets.)

(** Please see page 5 for how you can book tickets.)

‘Sing Along Memory Lane’ ~ with the Silver Singers and Ukulele Group

10.30am - 12.00 noon in the Main Hall, Seaton Sluice Community Centre.

Cost is £2.50 including light refreshments. ** Please book tickets in advance.

Jane Harland and the Silver Singers with Diane Robson and the Ukulele Group will brighten your morning with songs old and new. Senior citizens, friends, family and carers are especially welcome. Raffle.

‘Northumbrian Pipes Workshop’ ~ all day workshop 10.00am - 4.00pm in Room 5, Seaton Sluice Community Centre.

12 places are available for adults and over 16s.

Cost is £20 including tuition, all refreshments and a light lunch. ** Please book places in advance.

The teacher is Dave Shaw, master pipes player who has played for most of the Royal Family including the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh at the opening of the Sage, Gateshead.

At the end of the session you should be able to play a tune.

‘Kit and Caboodle’ ~ a highly

entertaining concert by ten musicians from The Sage, Gateshead (Sponsored by Mr Gill of ‘The Harbour View’ to café, Beresford Road.)

7.00 - 9.30pm in St. Paul’s Church, Seaton Sluice, NE26 4DR Adult: £10, Concessions £7.50, Family ticket (2+2) £25, Child £5. ** Please book tickets in advance.

A special concert for the Festival provided by talented musicians from The Sage, Gateshead will appeal to all ages.

This will be an exciting and original entertainment of contemporary and jazz music with some four part vocals and unusual instruments. Families are very welcome.

Refreshments are available and Prize Draw tickets will be on sale.

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‘Children’s Music Workshops’ ~ fun for all ages and abilities

9.30 -11.30am. FREE admission.

In various rooms on the old school side in Seaton Sluice Community Centre and outside on the grass, weather permitting.

‘Sing and Play’ ~ for younger children with parents and carers ‘Instrumental Workshop’ ~ intermediate standard, please bring your own

instrument.

‘Ukulele Workshop’ ~ a chance for children 7 + to try a musical instrument.

‘Maypole Dancing’ ~ to live music.

‘Story-Telling with Music’ ~ suitable for 10 years and under.

(Sponsored by Shirley and Doug Sutherland.)

Children of all ages are very welcome; the younger ones must be accompanied by an adult. Whether you are an experienced musician or would just like to join in and have a go, there will be something for you. ** Please book your place in advance if possible or turn up on the morning.

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‘Coffee with Mike’ ~ Mike Waller and friends will entertain you 10.00am -12.00 in the Main Hall, Seaton Sluice Community Centre.

A relaxed morning of live music including Northumbrian Pipers, ‘Robson’s Choice’ FREE admission to this event, refreshments are extra.

‘Musical Talent Challenge’ ~ for children ‘11 Years and Under’ 11.30am in the Main Hall, Seaton Sluice Community Centre.

First prize: £25, second prize: £15 and third prize: £10, in vouchers.

Have a go! You can entertain the audience with a song or tune of your own choice. ** For early entries please tel. 0191 2371136 or 2375163 FREE to entrants and audience.

(Prizes given in memory of Mrs Dorothy Backhouse, nee Goundry).

‘Lunch Spot’ ~ impromptu live music in and around Seaton Sluice Community Centre. 12.00 -1.15pm in the Main Hall, Seaton Sluice Community Centre.

Refreshments are available to purchase.

There’ll be impromptu live music so do come along, join in and enjoy the music making while you are having lunch.

‘Songs and Music of the North’ ~ Musical Talent Competition Compered by Dave Minikin 1.30 - 3.30pm in the Main Hall, Seaton Sluice Community Centre.

FREE admission for the audience.

There are two categories for entrants: 1. ‘Songs and Music of the North’ ~ Musical Talent Challenge ~

for young people ‘12 to 17 Years’ please line up for first prize below First prize: £50 in vouchers, Second prize: £25 in vouchers.

Take up the musical challenge! You can perform a song or music of the North on your own or with friends.

Entry fee: £2.00 per person (Prizes give by Miss Mary Foreman and Miss Joyce Brown)

2. ‘Songs and Music of the North’ ~ Adult / Open Competition

First prize: £250 (In memory of Mrs Jean Gent) Second prize: £100 (In memory of Mrs Hilda Marshall) Entry fee: £5 for individual, £10 for small groups up to 5, £20 for groups and choirs of 6 and over. Maximum number for a group is 25.

** For early entries, please tel. 0191 2371136 or 0191 2375163 ALL Entrants, please register from 12.00 noon in the Main Hall of the Community Centre. FREE admission for the audience Donations will be very welcome, collection boxes will be around the Hall.

Juice will be available throughout the afternoon.

Winners of each of the three sections are invited to perform at the start of ‘Geordie Music Night’ on Saturday evening at 7.30pm.

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‘Geordie Music Night’ ~ with Stewart Hardy and friends

7.30-10.00 pm in the Main Hall, Seaton Sluice Community Centre.

Adult: £10.00, Concessions: £7.50. Family (2+2): £25, Child: £5.00 ** Please get your tickets early so as not to be disappointed.

Stewart Hardy, George Welch, Jim Mageean , Johnny Handle and Benny Graham.

Refreshments, alcoholic and non alcoholic fruit punches on sale.

THE PRIZE DRAW will be drawn at this event, so please bring your ticket stubs and those of your friends and relatives.

Stewart Hardy, resident of Seaton Sluice, is one of the most exciting fiddle players in England. Classically trained, Stewart has been a professional musician since 1988.

He was a core tutor on the Folk Music Degree Course at Newcastle University and is involved with numerous national and international projects. At Christmas he was one of three entertainers in the ‘Holly and The Ivy’ held in Seaton Sluice Community Centre and organised by the Seaton Sluice Festival of Music.

Jim Mageean of ‘The Keelers’ was known as ‘Shanty Jim’ for many years. Jim is a powerful singer and has won international festivals and is particularly associated with sea songs of the West Indies.

George Welch is a superb guitarist and entertainer with a rich mellow voice. George is proud of Tyneside and this is reflected in his tunes and songs. His version of the ‘Blackleg Miner’ is especially relevant since is it about the Seghill mine, in Seaton Valley.

Johnny Handle, English folk singer and musician, plays the accordion, keyboard, banjo, whistle and Northumbrian pipes and contributed significantly to the coal mining repertoire in the North.

Benny Graham, accordion player, served his apprenticeship in the folk clubs of the North-East. Benny worked as a solo artist for several years and founded the ‘Peg-Leg Ferret’, a three part harmony band. His roles include, actor, singer, songwriter and stage and production manager.

Tel. 07803197012 Alison Christer resident of Seaton Sluice

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EVENTS ON SUNDAY 30TH JUNE

(** Please see page 5 for how you can book tickets.)

‘Two Concerts of Early Music’ ~ with Pellingman’s Saraband 11.00am and

1.00pm in the 900 year old Church of Our Lady, behind Seaton Delaval Hall.

Ticket for each concert is £10.00. Why not book for both concerts? ** Please book tickets in advance Refreshments and toilets in the ‘Hall’ grounds.

Please park at the nearby ‘Hall Farm’, NE26 4QS. National Trust Members may park in Seaton Delaval Hall car park but please allow up to ten minutes to walk to the Church of Our Lady for the start of the concert.

CONCERT 1 ~ ‘Division- Musick’ with Jacob Heringman, lute and

Susanna Pell, viol 11.00 - 12 noon in The Church of Our Lady. (NE26 4QR) All tickets £10 ** Please book tickets in advance The art of ‘dividing’ upon a ground bass, or playing ‘divisions’, was the equivalent of our modern jazz tradition in the Elizabethan period and throughout the seventeenth century in England. Skilled musicians, both amateur and professional, would improvise upon a fixed repeated harmonic sequence (the ‘ground’), often with astonishing inventiveness and virtuosity. This programme explores some of the many composed, and therefore surviving, examples of this art along with sets of variations on popular tunes of the day. Lute solos alongside divisions played on treble, tenor and bass viol accompanied by lute improvisations make for a rich palette of aural colours and a vibrant and virtuosic recreation of sixteenth and seventeenth century music making in England.

‘A Celebration of Music’

4.30pm in St. Paul’s Church, Seaton Sluice. (NE26 4DR) Join some of the musicians who have performed during the Festival weekend as well as children from the village for a service in celebration of music.

FREE admission.

Refreshments available. Donations welcome.

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Serving Seaton Valley and Whitley Bay Meter starts at £1.50, the lowest in Blyth area Holywell taxis are ready to take you to and from the events at the Festival of Music in June.

CONCERT 2 ~ ‘The Muses Gardin of Delights’: lute songs for the spring with

Faye Newton, internationally famous soprano, Susanna Pell, viol and Jacob Heringman, lute.

1.00 - 2.00pm in The Church of Our Lady. (NE26 4QR) All tickets £10 ** Please book tickets in advance This concert was first devised in 2012 to celebrate the inauguration of the IMRS Medieval Garden at Durham University.

Faye Newton and Pellingmans’ Saraband (Jacob and Susanna) present a programme of lute songs and instrumental pieces from the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods, with a particular focus on themes of flowers, gardens, spring and nature.

Elizabethan and Jacobean music is often melancholy (indeed John Dowland was famous for it), but this programme shows another more cheerful, side of the repertoire.

Composers will include Thomas Campion, John Dowland, Robert Johnson, Thomas Morley and Nicholas Lanier. The programme explores many aspects of spring, nature and the pastoral, with a view to presenting a musical “posie” to celebrate the spring and summer seasons.http://www.pellingman.co.uk/about-us.html http://fayenewton.com/page2.htm 16

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Telephone 0191 2375163

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Sponsoring the ‘Kit and Caboodle’ concert on Friday evening at St. Paul’s Church

Outstanding quality and good value for money.

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Thank you to:

~ the many volunteers who have helped over the last two and a half years by baking, serving, washing up, putting up posters, organising the raffles and tombolas, giving prizes, posting door drop leaflets in every house in Seaton Sluice and decorating venues for 25 live music events ~ the audiences for continued support, generous encouragement and donations ~ the musicians who have shared their enthusiasm and expertise with us ~ the tutors and university music students who helped run the music workshops ~ the participants in the music workshops, concerts, challenges and competitions ~ the children, parents and schools who have supported and enjoyed many musical activities ~ Stewart Hardy for his guidance, advice and inspirational musicianship ~ Mr Gill (Harbour View Café) for sponsoring the ‘Kit and Caboodle’ concert ~ Mr and Mrs Sutherland for sponsoring the ‘Story-Telling with Music’, Miss Mary Foreman and Miss Joyce Brown and three anonymous benefactors for prizes for the Talent Competition in memory of loved ones ~ many generous individuals for giving Raffle and Prize Draw prizes ~ many local businesses for advertising in the Festival of Music Programme ~ Seaton Delaval Hall and Hall Farm for their support and help with car parking ~ 1st Seaton Sluice Scout Group for first aid 20

~ the Graphic Design Team at Morpeth for production of the Programme ~ CVA Blyth Valley for their advice especially on funding matters ~ Sir James Knott Trust and RW Mann Trust for their generous funding towards the 3-day Festival ~ Seaton Sluice Community Centre Committee and the vicar Rev. David Bowler of Delaval Parish for the use of their venues for music events ~ Alf Doyle, Alison Christer and Joan Rest for their artistic contributions. ~ thanks most of all to you for your support.

We hope you enjoy

F E S T I V A L O F M U S I C If you would like to give a donation towards the cost of this programme or to the Festival of Music 3 Day Event, please tel. 0191 2371136 or 2375163 and your donation will be personally collected. Thank you.

The organisers are unable to accept responsibility for the general information contained within this programme nor the accuracy of any claims made by the advertisers.

This programme was produced by Graphic Design at NCC. Tel: 01670 622427

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