http://folk.hopcott.net Folk music and musicians, folk dance and folk dancing, folk song and folk singers - stories and articles by Rob Hopcott Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:38:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Another great 4th Sunday traditional folk tune session at the Hunters Inn, Heddon valley, North Devon, hosted by Ian Hudson last night with lots of traditional folk instrumentalists from Exmoor Border Morris, the always excellent piano accordion player Martin Hughes and a very welcome surprise visit from excellent folk music ... http://folk.hopcott.net/2009/10/4th-sunday-folk-music-session-hunters-inn-heddon-valley-devon/ I just heard from Pete Mac that he is running musician workshops at the next folk camp weekend at Beckford in Worcestershire with folk camp leader Mic Spenceley. If you like playing folk music, folk dancing, camping and being with a great bunch of people with similar interests, Folk Camps are ... http://folk.hopcott.net/2009/02/folk-camps-weekend-for-aspiring-folk-dance-band-musicians/ [caption id="attachment_36" align="alignright" width="225" caption="Folk Camps are for people who like getting together to dance, sing and play folk music in a family friendly, community and camping environment."][/caption] If you like folk music, folk dance and folk songs, you might just love Folk Camps which is a registered charity and exists ... http://folk.hopcott.net/2008/12/like-folk-music-folk-singing-and-folk-dancing-you-could-love-folk-camps/ [caption id="attachment_23" align="alignright" width="250" caption="Folk musicians and carol singers at Dunster by Candlelight, West Somerset"][/caption] lk musicians and carol singers were playing and singing Christmas tunes and carols at Dunster by Candlelight which takes place the first Friday and Saturday in December each year and is a marvellous Christmas event and ... http://folk.hopcott.net/2008/12/christmas-folk-musicians-folk-music-and-christmas-carols-at-dunster-by-candlelight-west-somerset/ Weymouth & Portland National Sailing Academy has been confirmed as the official venue for the Olympic Sailing events in 2012. To mark the part that Weymouth & Portland are going to play in hosting the sailing events, Wessex Folk Festival are running a song writing contest. Songs must have a maritime ... http://folk.hopcott.net/2008/04/wessex-folk-festival-song-writing-competition-with-a-nautical-theme/ I'm sitting in a brown panelled room enjoying a monthly Sunday evening folk music sing around somewhere in the West Country UK. There is a secret door in the corner of the wood panelling to the library which contains a fascinating multimedia collection of folklore, customs, traditional music, dance and song ... http://folk.hopcott.net/2007/12/guess-where-i-am/ On the 17th January 2007, there will be a traditional wassailing folk music playing session at Butchers Arms, Carhampton, West Somerset with cider soaked toast (but that's for the apple trees), shooting (that's at the apple trees) and singing the Wassailing song. See you there or more info (with podcast) from ... http://folk.hopcott.net/2007/01/apple-tree-to-be-shot-in-west-somerset-at-the-butchers-arms-wassailing/ I always very much enjoy playing music for the elderly at rest homes or nursing homes so when I got the invitation from a local West Country folk musician friend, whose mother had just moved into the Dunster Lodge Residential Home, Minehead, to play some music to welcome in the ... http://folk.hopcott.net/2007/01/new-year-folk-music-entertainment-for-elderly-residents-at-dunster-lodge-residential-home-in-minehead-west-country-great-britain/ It's wonderful the different folk you meet at traditional folk music sessions. On New Year's Eve, I decided to visit the Pennymoor Singaround and play some traditional English and Irish folk music with some old friends which was great but I also discovered a local Bluegrass Music session and a fascinating ... http://folk.hopcott.net/2007/01/bluegrass-english-and-irish-folk-and-sugan-traditional-celtic-furniture-on-new-years-eve/ Christmas really got under way with a crash and a bang when I attended to play some Christmas and traditional folk tunes at Minehead day care centre. Fantastic tunes with my old musician friends in an environment where so much is achieved. Read about Christmas really got under way with a crash ... http://folk.hopcott.net/2006/12/christmas-really-got-under-way-with-a-crash-and-a-bang/