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Some of you may remember the Sheffield Folk Festivals of the 1970s, based around the Crucible Theatre and Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet. These were funded by BBC Radio Sheffield and the City Council, and when the money dried up, so did they. A few years later, the over-ambitious Hallam Wakes festival came and went, and Annie Waller's brave attempt at a virtually single-handed revival only lasted two years.Local performer Jim McDonald felt that it was time to try again, and a group of like-minded people are busily engaged in planning a weekend festival to take place from Friday 29 to Sunday 31 October. Full details are yet to be finalised, but events will include dance displays, sessions and singarounds, a ceilidh and two concerts; one at Sheffield University's Firth Hall in association with the Music Department there. Also supporting the Festival organisation are the South Riding Folk Network and Sheffield University Ceilidh Society. Telephone: 0114 231 4596 (Mike Steel)Fundraising Ceilidh: Friday 14 May The Festival's first fund- and profile-raiser will take place at the Blind Institute, Mappin Street, Sheffield 1 (just off West Street). The Institute is a well-known dance venue, and frequently used by the university's Ceilidh Society, who are co-promoting the event. Dancing will be led by popular local band Trinculo with caller John Brown, and there will be performance spots from various local musicians and dancers. Real ale bar subject to license: 8 pm till late. More details: http://www.sheffieldfolkfestival.org/news.php
April 2004
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