31 July 2010

• Finished our North West Expedition with floor spots at:
  • Northwich Folk Club
  • Folk At The Manor
  • Midway Folk Club
     
• Performed at singers nights in the north east:
  • Cramlington Folk Club
  • G String Acoustic Club
  • Beamish Mary Acoustic Wednesday
  • Friday Folk Club, Guisborough
     
• Played at Bristol for Music In Hospitals panel
   
• Played at two care homes - one new to us
   
• Played at Nature's World 18th Annual Folk Festival
   
• Saw Ewen Carruthers at Cramlington Folk Club
   
• Saw few broth at the Blyth Bandstand
   
• Did some 'field recording' at two Northumberland schools and also at Ford Castle, capturing performances of some Jim Wigfield songs by the younger generation for possible inclusion on his planned 'Jim4kids' album
   
• Got a new bone saddle for 'Missy' Taylor 855 12-string (and raised the action slightly), and had the action lowered on 'Rio' Taylor 910CE-L7 6-string... many thanks to Mark Challinor, great craftsman luthier and friend too!
   
• Started work on an Anthony John Clarke promo CD with music tracks, discography, bio, review, etc.

We also did some work helping fix up a friend's PC and laptop and transferring old files from a Windows 3.11 PC... eek!

Val even managed to fit in some temping work as well as organising more care home performances.

We also enjoyed experimenting with Val's new super duper pocket digital camera - Canon Ixus 100, major plus points are viewfinder as well as LCD screen (rare these days in pocket digitals) and great HD video quality... few broth and Fools Gold can vouch for the latter.

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