17 Oct
2013
17 Oct
'13
6:32 p.m.
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