Re: [Tower Ravens] Folk London article

Hi Ffion, This looks great! Just one question at this time; did 13th January correct as it is a Monday, or should it be 16th? Joanna Sent from my iPad On 17 Oct 2013, at 17:32, Ffion Mair Dean <ffion_coch(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > 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…ring. 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 > _______________________________________________ > Tower Raven's mailing list > team(a)towerravens.org.uk