As promised, here's the invite from Thrales with all the info about Sunday.
See most of you then!
Rachel x
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From: Searle, Mary-Jo <maryjo.searle(a)kcl.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 6:26 PM
Subject: Thrales rapper session Nov 10th 2013
To: "Searle, Mary-Jo" <maryjo.searle(a)kcl.ac.uk>
Hello Rapper teams, Step dancers, and Mummers.
Thrales invite you to join us in our annual Rapper session on the afternoon
of Sunday 10th November in The Prince William Henry, 218 Blackfriars Rd,
London, SE1 8NL.
The Prince William Henry is about 100 yards North of Southwark Tube Station
(Jubilee line) but it is also within walking distance of Waterloo East,
Waterloo, and Blackfriars Stations.
Mons Meg will be dancing with us this year.
The pub has a new manager, but he's heard all about us from the old
manager, and the beer tastes as good as usual. (Youngs and Charles Wells)
The pub opens at noon.
Dancing from 12.30, until 4.00pm.
I hope you can join us
Please let me know if you can come.
Cheers
M-J
Musician, Thrales Rapper.
PS. Transport for London website http://www.tfl.gov.uk/
Mary-Jo Searle
Technician, KCL Nutrition.
FWB lab 4.81, ext.4434
Mary-Jo Searle
Technician, Nutrition, King's College London
4.81 Franklin Wilkins Building
Stamford Street, LONDON, SE1 9NH
020 7848 4434
Hi all,
Just as a follow-up from last night, for those of you who owe the side
money:
Becky - 12
Janet - 12
Jo - 12
Josie - 38
Katherine - 16
Nikki - 15
You can pay me when you see me at practice or transfer to the Ravens
acct: account
number 00380515; sort code 070246. Many people have standing orders set up
which helps enormously.
Thanks all,
Rachel :)
Hi all,
I'm trying to find a good photo to send to Folk London. I don't think the ones I've taken on my ipad will be big enough - he asked for 1MB or more. Who has the one with us at the end of the first Farringdon crawl with Simon in the feather boa?
Ffion x
Please take a look at my blog on Welsh folk songs - caneuongwerin.wordpress.com
Hi all,
Enough people are not going to be able to be there tonight that practice is
officially cancelled. Sorry! I hope those of you who are in London will
make it home okay and look forward to seeing you all as normal next week.
Thanks,
Rachel x
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Ffion Mair Dean <ffion_coch(a)hotmail.com>wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Unfortunately I'm current stuck at home because there are no trains
> running on my line into London so I won't be able to join you tonight.
> Fortunately Rachel still has the keys and will be able to collect the spare
> set of swords from home before tonight so there will still be a practice.
> Sue's going to bring her fiddle for the music.
>
> I believe the dancers going tonight are Rachel, Jo, Becky, Hannorah,
> Katherine, Sue, Josie and possibly but probably not Laura. If any of you
> aren't going to make it please can you email and say so in case it means
> there won't be enough dancers to make it possible to practise?
>
> Hope you have a good evening and see you all next week, trains dependent!
>
> Ffion x
>
> *Please take a look at my blog on Welsh folk songs -
> caneuongwerin.wordpress.com*
>
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Hi All
I won't be at practice tonight, as I'm not in London. My train line has been down for the best part of the day, so have been working from home.
See you next week.
Hx
Hannorah Lee
Senior Manager - Corporate Partnerships
Age UK
Tel: 0203 033 1642 M: 0774 848 3654
W: www.ageuk.org.uk
Hi all,
Unfortunately I'm current stuck at home because there are no trains running on my line into London so I won't be able to join you tonight. Fortunately Rachel still has the keys and will be able to collect the spare set of swords from home before tonight so there will still be a practice. Sue's going to bring her fiddle for the music.
I believe the dancers going tonight are Rachel, Jo, Becky, Hannorah, Katherine, Sue, Josie and possibly but probably not Laura. If any of you aren't going to make it please can you email and say so in case it means there won't be enough dancers to make it possible to practise?
Hope you have a good evening and see you all next week, trains dependent!
Ffion x
Please take a look at my blog on Welsh folk songs - caneuongwerin.wordpress.com
Hi,
I'm afraid I won't be at practice tomorrow because we're visiting family for half term. I hope everything goes well and I'll see you next week.
Sinéad
Hi all,
A few weeks ago we discussed getting in touch with Folk London to see if they'd
like an article about us. I contacted them and they're very keen! They'd like a
half A5 page article, to put our December and January crawls in their diary and
to put a picture of us on their front cover!
Can you please:
A) Tell me what you think of the draft article below. Rachel and Nikki, do you
want to use your married or maiden names given you were unmarried at the time?
B) Fill in the availability for the December and January crawls which I've just added to the sheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvM6rY7GMmOGdF9vYVIwaXBmXzViSz…. Technically
our December one should be on Boxing Day so I’ve put 19 Dec in as a possible
alternative. Hannorah, could you suggest where these might be and maybe even
nominate a meeting pub which we could put in the Folk London diary?
C) Suggest a photo we have that meets these requirements - "Pictures need
to be high resolution colour jpegs (1meg or more) and in landscape format."
If we haven't got one perhaps we could take a nice one at the October crawl.
Tower Ravens - London's newest rapper
sword dance team
In April 2012 Thrales Rapper hosted DERT (the annual Dance England Rapper
Tournament) with the competition taking place in Soho pubs and evening events
at Cecil Sharp House. Although Thrales are a long established male team and
Hawksword formed a few years ago as a mixed gender longsword and rapper team,
there was no all-female rapper sword dancing team in London at the time. Three
young women (Rachel Sheridan, Lindsey Kennedy and Nicola Osborne) decided that
this needed to change and that DERT 2012 would be the best opportunity they'd
ever get to recruit some more women interested in dancing rapper in London.
18 months later and the group have a name - Tower Ravens - a musician, a number
of dancers, a set of swords (beautifully made by Jimmie Kilner) and two dances.
They crawl pubs in a different part of London on the fourth Thursday of each
month - see www.towerravens.org.uk for details - and always get a lot of
interest from the punters, and usually some loud cheers too! In March 2013 they
entered DERT coming a respectable 6th out of 13 in the open class.
In October they performed at their first festival in Tenterden and are hoping
for more opportunities to dance at festivals in 2014.
Tower Ravens practise every Monday evening at St Michael's church hall on
Cornhill, near Bank from 7.30pm until 9.30pm. They are always open to new
members - contact info(a)towerravens.org.uk or visit www.towerravens.org.uk for
more information. Catch the Tower Ravens in action at their next dance out
which will be in x area on x day in December.
Please take a look at my blog on Welsh folk songs - caneuongwerin.wordpress.com
