Hello team ravens,
Just to let you know that for tomorrow's crawl we are meeting at the Pineapple pub in Kentish Town. Please be there and ready to dance by 7.30. They serve thai food if you want to get there early and eat (although I have never eaten there and not sure what time they serve from).
For a full list of pubs we will be visiting during the course of the evening, please see the Facebook event.
See you tomorrow!
Laura x
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Speedy response from the organisers- please see the booking form for prices and the like!
B x
From: folkspots(a)btinternet.com
To: info(a)towerravens.org.uk
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 12:38:21 +0100
CC: darenjones(a)barryjones.freeserve.co.uk
Subject: Re: [TR Committee] Tenterden - thank you
Hi Becky, Spud is working on the dance timetable and will be sending it out very soon. Dancing normally starts at 10.00 on Saturday and Sunday. We can provide some parking but it is a short walk back into town so good to drop off passengers and equipment before parking. Yes camping is still available at the Early Bird price of £20 per caravan and £18 per tent for dancers. We will need a list of members who would like free weekend tickets please. See attached original invitation and booking form for info but let me know if you still have other questions. Alan Alan Castle BEMFolk Spots, Tenterden Folk Festival and Revelation St Mary’swww.folkspots.co.ukwww.tenterdenfolkfestival.org.ukwww.tenterdencraftfair.org.uk www.revelationstmarys.co.ukwww.afa.btck.co.uk We are also on Twitter http://twitter.com/tenterdenfolk, Facebook http://www.facebook.co. and YouTube From: towerravensrapper(a)gmail.com [mailto:towerravensrapper@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Tower Ravens
Sent: 23 September 2014 12:27
To: Alan Castle
Subject: Re: [TR Committee] Tenterden - thank you Dear Alan, I have taken over from Rachel as the new secretary for Tower Ravens and just wanted to confirm a few details before next Saturday.What sort of time do we need to be arriving? Is there an itinerary for the day? I wasn't in the team this time last year so it will be my first time and I'm not sure what to expect. We will be driving to you, I'm just confirming the numbers of cars, is there any parking available through you? Or if not can you recommend anywhere near by? Lastly, some people are considering camping, I wanted to check if there was still any room and the cost? I don't think we've had that information, if we have I'm really sorry to make you repeat yourself! Kind Regards, Becky Tower Ravens Rapper On 30 March 2014 11:39, Alan Castle <folkspots(a)btinternet.com> wrote:Hi Rachel, That is great news. I will add you to the list. See the invitation letter attached for more details. Alan Alan Castle BEMFolk Spots, Tenterden Folk Festival and Revelation St Mary’swww.folkspots.co.ukwww.tenterdenfolkfestival.org.ukwww.revelationstmarys.co.uk From: rhc27uk(a)gmail.com [mailto:rhc27uk@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Rachel Sheridan
Sent: 28 March 2014 10:12
To: Alan Castle
Subject: Fwd: Tenterden - thank you Hi Alan, Thanks for organising a great festival in 2013 - we had a wonderful time. If you have space for us, Tower Ravens would love to come again this year and we have a side for the Saturday Day of Dance. Do let me know if that would be possible and if you need any other information from us. Looking forward to it! Rachel(Tower Ravens Secretary From: The Foxglove Trio [mailto:thefoxglovetrio@gmail.com]
Sent: 15 January 2014 17:14
To: Alan Castle
Subject: Re: Tenterden - thank you Hi Alan, I'm not sure about Tower Ravens. We had a great time last year so I think we'd like to come again. I'll get it on the agenda for our next practice and see if we can get a team together. Ffion On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Alan Castle <folkspots(a)btinternet.com> wrote:Hi Ffion, Thanks for keeping in touch. At present I’m just booking guests as funding get confirmed so am having to be quite careful. It would be good to have the Trio back again but I’m not sure if budgets will permit it. Are Tower Ravens likely to be coming again as that could make a difference. I hope to catch up with you somewhere soon. Alan Alan Castle BEMFolk Spots, Tenterden Folk Festival and Revelation St Mary’swww.folkspots.co.ukwww.tenterdenfolkfestival.org.ukwww.revelationstmarys.co.uk From: The Foxglove Trio [mailto:thefoxglovetrio@gmail.com]
Sent: 14 January 2014 22:25
To: Alan Castle
Subject: Re: Tenterden - thank you Hi Alan, I hope you're well. I see from facebook that you've already confirmed several acts for the 2014 so I was just wondering if you've had any further thoughts about booking The Foxglove Trio.
Cheers,
Ffion
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Hi all,
Thanks to everyone who came last night. I think it's really worthwhile spending time working properly on stepping now and again. I hope you all agree and I hope everyone has got something to work on when they're practising their stepping at home. I've uploaded the videos to youtube as a reminder but they're unlisted which means only people with the links can see them.
http://youtu.be/ctLCkfPiQi0http://youtu.be/-gQ8NwUz1PMhttp://youtu.be/WSA2T3XYJ6c
It was also good to figure out a potential ending for the new dance. Next week we'll try and walk through it with the people who've done most work on it and then after the workshop week we'll start actually trying to dance it!! Lindsey, Becky, Sinead and Katherine can you let me know if there are any big chunks you haven't walked through before? The whole new dance is written out below.
Next week we'll also make sure that people going to Tenterden are happy with Beadnell and processing.
See you on Thursday,
Ffion x
open ring
Full windmill (i.e. 2 times through) with 1 and 5 then 3 doing the jumping
Fountains
Breastplates
Nut
Winlaton spin
Make a line facing the back, step around 180 degrees
needles
Triangle lock
Walkround
Open ring with 2 facing audience
Sweepy jumps - 4 and 5
#2 tumble off 4 and 5
Open ring
Tits/follower/follower/tits with T coming in for last tits
6 person lock then remove T
Walkround to open ring - 5 with back to audience
1 and a half windmills
Double tumble
Open ring
Walk round adding in T between 2 and 3 then B between 3 and 4
Open ring - 3 with back to audience
Glass, 7 person popcorn
7 haymarket
7 person lock
Hi all,
Thanks to everyone who came to practice last night - enough for 2 sets again - and congrats to our new tumblers and double tumblers!
Lindsey asked how long we've got left to perfect the new dance before Thrales days (invitations will be sent this week apparently) and the answer is 7 weeks. However, 1 week is our open practice week and another we'll need to spend mostly on making sure everything's looking good ahead of Tenterden.
Below is the plan for the next 3 weeks. You'll see that I'd like to experiment with having 7 people in the set at the end of the new dance which means we need a Betty! Would anyone like to volunteer? Similarly, if anyone would like to have a go at Tommying let me know. I don't think Sue can come to Tenterden so it would be good to have one or two more people willing to do a bit of shouting at the crowds! ALSO, a reminder that we need more teachers! I feel bad having to ask people to teach who don't necessarily want to do it, but I can't be in two places at once!
22 Sept
Working on stepping style - all
New dance, walk through to the end (remaining figures below): 1) Ffion 2) Lindsey 3) Becky 4) Sinead 5) Katherine T) Sue B) ??
Tidying up new people/positions: 1) Anna 2) Janet 3) Laura/Kat 4) Lizzie 5) Kate
Jubilee reminder with crawl people: 1) Katherine, Ffion 2) Laura, Janet, 3) Becky, Lindsey, 4) Sinead, (Hannorah)5) Sue, Kat B
Apologies: Hannorah
6 person lock remove T
Walkround
windmills with 2 and 3 then 4 jumping
2 and 3 tumble
Extra figure needed?
7 person corner
7 person lock
29 Sept
Quick walk through of all of new dance: 1) Ffion 2) Lindsey 3) Becky 4) Sinead 5) Katherine T) Sue B) ?
Jubilee reminder with Tenterden people: 1) Katherine 2) Laura, Janet 3) Lindsey, Becky 4) Sinead, (Hannorah) 5) Ffion
Beadnell reminder with Tenterden people: 1) Lindsey 2) Laura, Janet 3) Becky 4) Ffion 5) Katherine
Procession reminder with Tenterden people: 1) Lindsey 2) Laura, Janet 3) Becky 4) Ffion, 5) Katherine T) Hannorah
Jig?
Apologies: Hannorah
6 Oct
Open practice - invite your friends! We'll almost definitely need a second teacher for this day.
See you next week,
Ffion x
I know, I know - it's mentally early to be even thinking of DERT accommodation, but I was booking other accommodation on Airbnb just now and found this amazing townhouse that's sleeps up to 14 for £350 a night:
https://m.airbnb.co.uk/listings/341227
Of course we won't book anything without knowing who's in the team etc, but when we do - just imagine staying here! :-)
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