Frittenden Festival

Swan Stepping sessions

Kerry Fletcher and Rosie Davis are involved in running sessions featuring a lot of stepdancing at The Swan, Middle St, Falmer, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 9PD. Musicians, singers and steppers are all welcome.

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Frittenden Sessions at the Bell & Jorrocks

Last Sunday (usually) in the month from September to April, from 8pm.

An entertaining old fashioned and traditional pub evening with songs and tunes, and plenty of variety and good humour. If you’ve got a song, a tune, a stepdance or story, enjoy joining in with a chorus or just like listening in the bar, please come along. We go on until it’s time to close with Nellie Dean the old way – just as people used to before the telly and the computer.

Guests for Christmas and 2011

29th December: Peter Collins with the wonderful Udimore Bell Ringers * (Note this isn’t a Sunday)
29th January: Chris Walshaw
26th February: Dan Quinn
25th March: Liam Robinson
29th April: Jim Causley

Hoorah! Our thanks to everyone who has kindly agreed to perform for us, and to make these sessions special.

The event is organised by Julie and Gavin Atkin. Call Gavin 07985 522734 for information, or email gmatkin@gmail.com.

Session tune sets for the Bell & Jorrocks sessions

The following tunes sets have been put together by Gavin to enable less experienced session players to join in the fun.We don’t promise to play them all every time, but if you’d like us to play one, just ask!

1 Roger’s polkas

Brighton Camp (G) Music Play tune
Curly headed ploughboy (G) Music Play tune
Redwing (G) Music Play tune

2 Polka set 2

Uncle Bernard’s (G) Music Play tune
I have a bonnet trimmed with blue (G) Music Play tune

3 Gav’s hornpipes

Steamboat (G) Music Play tune
Click go the shears (D) Youtube link (couldn’t find any dots online sorry!)

4 Speed the plough set

Speed the plough (G) Music Play tune
Donkey riding (G) Music Play tune

5 Jig set 1

Oyster girl (G) Music Play tune
Starry night for a ramble (D) Music Play tune

6 Jig set 2

Off she goes (D) Music Play tune
The new rigged ship (D) Music Play tune

7 March set 1

Winster gallop (G) Music Play tune
Huntsman’s chorus (G) Music Play tune

8 March set 2

Portsmouth (G) Music Play tune
Foul weather call (D) Music Play tune

9 Waltz set 1

The man in the moon (G) Music Play tune
Michael Turner’s (G) Music Play tune

10 Waltz set 2

Shoe the donkey (G) Music Play tune
Eton boating song (G) Youtube video or try this for an alternative take: Youtube video