Barn Dance sponsored by Co-op

Tenterden Folk Festival

The English Barn Dance sponsored by the Co-operative group

For the second year running we are very grateful to the Co-operative group for sponsoring the festival’s very popular English barn dance

The band for the barn dance is Jezreels which was formed in the 1980’s and has been playing ever since. The line up will comprise four musicians who are all well known in their own right; Steve Moreham on fiddle and vocals, former Fiddlers Dram member Chris' Taylor on melodeon, banjo, guitar and harmonica, Doug Hudson on electro-acoustic vocals and guitar and Mike Peters on bass and vocals. Doug also calls the dances. Their powerful musical attack is complemented by Doug’s individual calling style which never fails to get people up and dancing. Steve also played fiddle on the “Keys of Canterbury” CD which was launched at one of the early Tenterden Folk Festivals.

Jezreels are the resident band for Kentish Evenings at Leeds Castle where they have played to royalty and have played for the British Grand Prix, the Kazakhstan Ambassador and at many corporate functions. They have also played in the British Embassy in Brussels and in festivals in Hungary, France and Belgium. Between dances, the band provides a strong song base to entertain so that an evening with Jezreels is a night of non-stop entertainment.

This year’s English Barn Dance takes place in Tenterden Leisure Centre on Saturday 2^nd October. Tenterden Folk Day Trust will be providing the real ale bar and food will be available from the Leisure Centre. Tickets for the barn dance are available from Tenterden Folk Day Trust priced at £6.00 for adults and £4.00 for under 16’s. Tickets will be available from Ashford and Tenterden Tourist Information Centres in due course.

The Co-op will also have a “Fairtrade” stall in the High Street on Saturday.

The FAIRTRADE Mark is an independent consumer guarantee awarded by the Fairtrade Foundation, to individual products that meet Fairtrade criteria regarding terms of trade and conditions of production.

Fairtrade guarantees a fair price for producers in the developing world. What they're paid covers the cost of production and a basic living wage, plus they receive an additional social premium.

The social premium contributes towards providing the basics of life - health care, clean water and education. The community democratically decides how to invest the extra income they've received thanks to Fairtrade.

Fairtrade transforms the lives of producers and their families. It is an honest and fair way of doing business, which gives producers the respect they deserve and the control they should have, of their lives and their businesses.

Fairtrade coffee uses only the best beans, grown on small, family farms - often by democratically run co-ops - to high environmental standards. We are sourcing our beans primarily from five co-ops, four in Central and South America (Colombia, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Costa Rica) and one in Tanzania, East Africa.

In the UK alone we drink around 30 billion cups of coffee a year. Imagine what a difference it would make if consumer power meant that in the not too distant future it was all Fairtrade!

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Last updated 14^th August 2004

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