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 Directory: CLASSICAL & TRADITIONAL MUSIC
CHORAL & EARLY MUSIC:
:: Ceramic City Choir.
:: Barbara Walton Singers.
:: City of Stoke-on-Trent Male Voice Choir
:: Churnet Valley Male Voice Choir.
:: The Leek Phoenix Singers.
:: The Stoke-on-Trent Bedford Singers.
:: Audley Male Voice Choir.
:: Newcastle-under-Lyme Male Voice Choir.
:: Keele Early Music Concert Society.
:: Keele Bach Choir.
Reported to be... "one of the top small choirs in the Midlands".
:: Stoke-on-Trent Festival.
:: Stoke-on-Trent City Music School.
:: Piva, a Leek-based early-music ensemble.
Loudmouth Women - a 25-strong all-women choir,
singing music from around the world, and available for bookings.
Meet regularly on a Tuesday evening in Newcastle-under-Lyme.
:: Keele Philharmonic Choir.
Churnet Valley Male Voice Choir.
Cheadle Choral Society.
:: Making Music - West Midlands
supports amateur choirs & orchestras in the region.
:: Midlands Early Music Forum.
SYMPHONY & OPERA
:: Keele Philharmonic Orchestra -
a touring Orchestra that is open for membership to staff/students of Keele University.
:: North Staffordshire Operatic Society.
:: Bella Musica String Quartet
- a professional ensemble based in North Staffordshire & South Cheshire.
:: City of Stoke-on-Trent Chamber Orchestra.
:: North Staffordshire Symphony Orchestra.
:: The 18th Century Concert Orchestra
- international concert orchestra based at Staffordshire University.
:: Stoke-on-Trent
City Music School.
:: Friends of Newcastle Music
- a dedicated voluntary group which runs
a wide range of classical music training sessions for young people, and puts
on concerts.
:: Denise Leigh - well known
opera singer, from Audley nr. Newcastle-under-Lyme. Winner of Operatunity, 2003.
:: Clonter Opera Theatre
- the famous 400-seat opera venue, eleven miles from Stoke,
in the countryside near Congleton. Their musical director is Anthony Legge,
director of opera at the Royal Academy of Music.
Staffordshire Chamber Orchestra.
TRADITIONAL FOLK
:: Leek Folk Club.
:: Potteries Folk Club.
:: North Staffordshire Folk Diary
- quarterly newsletter, comprehensively listing all venues and gigs.
Subscriptions cost just five stamps per year.
:: Folk acts in North Staffordshire include: Alf Alfa,
His Worship & The Pig,
EFSB (cajun & zydeco), Jim Moray,
and Bit on the Side.
:: The University of Keele's Dept. of Continuing
& Professional Education offers short courses in Folk Music Composition.
:: The Folk Arts England
and the Association of Festival Organisers
are two of the main national folk organisations - both are based nearby, just over the Peaks in Matlock Derbyshire.
The South Riding Folk Network
also has a strong interest in the folk culture of the nearby Peak District National Park.
:: The Traditional Drama
Research Group keeps an online record of all folk plays performed
in Staffordshire since 2001, and has notices of forthcoming performances.
(Folk fans in North Staffordshire are also well served by BBC Radio; with four hours per week
on BBC Radio Stoke (Sundays 8pm-10pm),
two hours from the BBC Derby/Nottingham FolkWaves programme,
plus the national BBC Radio 2 programmes.
And if that lot can't satisfy you - then a great many summer folk festivals are held near to Stoke too.)
ROOTS & FUSION
:: The Boat Band.
FLUTE
:: Farnham Haywood -
a flute-player and spiritual drummer, who's working on his second album.
:: Josephene Sheldon
- based in Leek. Professional solo flute player, her repertoire includes
modern Celtic, traditional Folk, & Classical.
BRASS, MARCHING & ACCORDIAN
:: Audley Brass Band.
:: Staffordshire Knights Drum & Bugle Band.
:: North Staffordshire Accordian Club.
CLASSICAL GUITAR
:: Stoke Classical Guitar Society.
ORGANS & BELL-RINGING
:: North Staffordshire Association of Change Ringers.
North Staffordshire Organ Society.
TRADITIONAL DRUMMING
:: Farnham Haywood -
a spiritual drummer, who's working on his second album.
:: Planet Sound -
based in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. Offers drumming workshops for community events
and festivals.
JAZZ & SWING
:: The Fat Cats
- "One of the most exciting live bands around - the new generation of swing" says London's 100 Club.
:: The Rachel Rimmer Band - based & performing
in North Staffordshire.
:: Jive, Swing and
Blues in North Staffordshire and Cheshire. "The leading
organiser of 'A-List' Modern Jive Workshops."
:: The Old Fashioned Love Band.
:: Mr Will - Newcastle-under-Lyme photographer specialising in live music,
particularly jazz.
Keele University Jazz Club.
The Old Brown Jug, in Newcastle-under-Lyme - a popular
local venue for intimate jazz performances.
PRIVATE MUSIC & SINGING TUTORS
:: Sally Rivers, a highly experienced vocal and singing coach,
based in Trentham, Stoke-on-Trent.
INSTRUMENT MAKERS & REPAIRS
:: Barleycorn Concertinas
- a maker of hand-crafted concertinas, and can also repair violins.
:: Eric Moulder of Leek -
expert maker of authentic Renaissance woodwind instruments. See also:
the Leek-based early-music group Piva.
:: Dominic Ball Woodwind.
SHEET MUSIC
:: Musical Lines -
based in Leek. Sheet-music specialist.
LISTINGS & FESTIVALS
:: North Staffordshire Folk Diary
- quarterly newsletter, comprehensively listing all venues and gigs.
Subscriptions cost just five stamps per year.
:: Early Music West Midlands - Events.
:: Penkhull Festival, Stoke. This has been
one of the main annual cultural events in Stoke for nearly 40 years.
:: BBC Shropshire Folk Diary - awesome diary
which lists all folk music events in the Midlands, plus selected
gigs as far south as Oxfordshire and as far north as Manchester.
:: BBC Staffordshire cultural listings service,
which includes a very good Classical section.
COLLECTORS, ARCHIVES & RESEARCH
:: The English Folk Dance & Song Society holds the
North Staffs. branch archives, 1921-1976.
:: The Staffordshire Multimedia Archive.
:: Stoke-on-Trent Recorded Music Society
:: Unit for the Study of Musical Skill and Development -
based at Keele University.
SCHOOLS
:: Staffordshire Music Net -
from the County Council, a site aimed at teachers in school and colleges.
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