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On the A629 - Penistone Road, Birdsedge Huddersfield, West Yorkshire Get Directions
Contact Jacey Bedford on 01484 606230 for details and tickets.

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Saturday October 10th 2009.

A FolkWISE workshop afternoon for working and aspiring folk musicians 2.00 - 5.00
Price £10 (limited to 30 places)

How to Get Gigs

followed by

A FolkWISE Showcase Concert
featuring six fantastic acts

Doors open 7.00 for 7.30 - Tickets £10

Bar and Food

 
ac logoWe would like to acknowlege financial assistance from the Yorkshire Musicians in Residence scheme of Arts Council England for underwriting concerts in previous seasons from 1989 to 2008 by Artists including: Simon Mayor and Hilary James; Maire ni Chathasaigh and Chris Newman; Artisan; Maggie Boyle Steve Tilston & Chris Parkinson, Pete Coe and the Brian Bedford Band. Sadly the funding has now been cut from this excellent twenty-year scheme and we - and all other Yorkshire-based vanues - lose a valuable source of underwriting for gig fees for Yorkshire based artists. I expect the athletes at the 2012 Olympics will be grateful for our sacrifice. If you abhor the cuts in arts funding why not let the Arts Council know about it? They say no arts funding will be cut to support the Olympics coming to London. Yeah, right!

The New Hall is OPEN!

  
The New Hall Concert

 

 

    

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Birdsedge is on the A629 between Huddersfield and Penistone, just half a mile south of the crossroads with the A635.(Look to the bottom left hand side of this map.) The Village Hall is on the main road in the middle of the village, right on the roadside, near the school and the mill. The car park is for disabled users only, but we have permission to use the school yard for parking for events outside of school time.. You can also park off the main road, up the lane by the school. The turning is within 100 yards of the hall. If you are travelling to the south, turn first right after the hall. If travelling to the north, turn left before the hall.

Please note that if you park on the main road, outside the row of cottages, or on the hard standing opposite, you will upset the residents--and we would like to keep them as our friends. Also the main road is a 40 limit and it is illegal to park without lights after dark.

Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.

Artisan -- Birdsedge's Resident Performers 1985 - 2005

All set to reunite (briefly) in summer 2010
Harmony trio Artisan travelled the world for twenty years, taking their own particular brand of songs and humour to Britain, Germany, Canada, the USA and -- Birdsedge. Why Birdsedge? Well, everyone has to live somewhere and two thirds of Artisan call Birdsege home. When they first started performing together in 1984, the Village hall was their first venue. In 1989, when they gave up the day-jobs and made music their full-time career, they didn't lose their links with the village hall, and for the past twenty years they have given their services to keep a series of music nights in this small rural hall. Artisan disbanded in November 2005 - after a hugely successful international career (see endnotes) - but Jacey will continue to run Birdsedge Live (and run her agency) and Brian will continue to do sound for the shows (and run his studio).

Artisan has been persuaded out of retirement for ten weeks in Summer 2010. Full story here.

To: Birdsedge Village Festival West Yorkshire, UK

This page was created by Jacey Bedford on 1st January 1999 and updated on 17th May 2009