Tenterden Folk Festival 2009
Friday 2^nd to Sunday 4^th October
The guest list for the Tenterden Folk Festival 2009 includes; (some still subject to contract)
List of Guests List of dance sides and display teams List of special events
Guests	And the hard working regular guests who we cannot do this without
Band of Two Bob and Gill Berry Pete Castle Colin and Karen Cater Craig, Morgan, Robson Paul and Liz Davenport Phil Drane Geckoes with caller Will Hall (Friday evening Barn Dance) Derek Gifford Janis Haves Geoff Higginbottom Mo Keast (Cornwall) Keith Kendrick Graeme Knights Jim Mageean The Millen Family Sylvia Needham One Sheet Short Brian Peters Vic and Tina Smith Nibs Van der Spuy (South Africa) Viki Swan and Johnny Dyer Three Sheets to the Wind Tinkers Bag Ticklish Allsorts Show Andy Turner Jeff Warner (USA) Trefor and Viki Williams (Wales)	John Barden Marian Button Peter Collins Bob and Kathy Drage Les Elvin Bo Foaks Bob Kenward Marsh Warblers Dave Mason Adrian O’ Roger Resch Chris Roche Simon Hopper Band (t.b.c.) Andy Smythe Spare Parts Concertina Band The Travelling Folk
And hundreds of floor singers which could include you!
JOHNNY COLLINS will be in our thoughts as he was booked for this year’s festival Johnny Collins, who died in July, was a familiar and welcome figure at most of the world's foremost maritime venues and festivals since the mid 1950’s since when he toured extensively from the U.S.A. to Australia and across Europe including Belgium, Brittany, Germany, Holland, Poland and France. He also sang regularly at events and venues as diverse as the Cutty Sark Tall Ships Race, festivals and folk clubs. He had a vigorous style and a supreme ability to get audiences to join in choruses, which was unrivalled. Although he was best known for singing shanties, sea songs and maritime ballads, his repertoire was much wider and included other work songs and ballads. I first met Johnny in Lacock on a very wet day in the early 1970 and cannot imagine the folk festival scene without him: he will be sadly missed. JOHNNY COLLINS was booked to appear at TENTERDEN FOLK FESTIVAL from 2^nd to 4^th October and his close friend and frequent singing partner, Graeme Knights, has offered to present a short tribute to Johnny.  Graeme will be joined by Jim Mageean who sang with Johnny for many years. This has provisionally been named as “Remembering Johnny” and will take place immediately before the “Shanty and sea song session” which Johnny and Graeme were programmed to take part in on Saturday afternoon.  Further details will be announced in due course. Alan Castle 6^th July 2009
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Dance sides and display teams confirmed include;
Please contact Gordon Newton T: 01622 862330 E:cnewton25@aol.com if your dance side, display team, etc. would like to an invitation for 2009 or 2010 as space is limited
Annies Fantasies     ~ Essex Berkshire Bedlam    ~ Berkshire Bishop Gundulfs Morris ~ Kent Borderline    ~ Berkshire Bullnose Morris ~ Essex Cinque Ports Morris ~ Kent Dacre Morris ~ London Dead Horse Morris ~ Kent Frog Island Morris ~ Kent Gong Scourers ~ Kent Harwich Morris ~ Essex Hunters Moon Morris ~ East Sussex Invicta Morris ~ Kent Kits Coty Morris ~ Kent Knockhundred Shuttles ~ Hampshire Loose Cannons ~ Hamphire Loose Women ~ Kent MacLennan Scottish Dance Group ~ Kent Mad Jacks Morris ~ East Sussex Maenads ~ Kent Marlings Morris ~ West Sussex Minster Mayhem Maypole and Morris Dancers ~ Kent Morena Slovak Dance Company ~ Slovakia Offcumduns ~ Kent Old Palace Clog ~ Surrey Oojah Kappivy ~ East Sussex Pump House Clog ~ Hertfordshire Pretty Grim Morris ~ Suffolk Priory Morris ~ Essex Ravensbourne Morris ~ Kent Rising Larks ~ Essex Royal Liberty Morris ~ Essex Sandhurst Primary School Maypole Dancers ~ Kent Shalesbrook Ladies Morris ~ East Sussex Shinfield Shambles ~ Berkshire St Clement Clog ~ Kent Stockport Morris ~ Cheshire Tanglefoot Appalachian Cloggers ~ Kent The Wild Hunt ~ Surrey Wolfshead and Vixen Morris ~ Kent Woodchurch Morris ~ Kent Woodvale International Folk Dance Group ~ Kent Wychling Hoodeners ~ Kent
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Special shows for 2009 include:
Oysters Girls and Hovelling Boys – Folk songs and music from Kent with Marian Button, Pete Castle, Bob Kenward and Roger Resch, Dave Mason, The Millen Family and Andy Turner
Folk songs from Wiltshire with Tinkers Bag and Bob and Gill Berry
Remembering Johnny Collins lead by his close friend Graeme Knights
The Woolpack marquee stage - Various showcase spots including; Les Elvin, Simon Hopper Band, Andy Smythe and more to be announced
Details of further special shows to follow shortly
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