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Now looking for new dancers and musicians. (particularly musicians). Practice every Thursday evening in Crawley.
Always happy to teach Newcomers. Please contact Irene Scarratt for details

SEFAN member's new collaboration is shortlisted for PRS Foundations "New Music Award"
< http://www.prsfoundation.co.uk/newmusicaward/ >

"The Victorian Carousel “Standard 54” organ located on Brighton Beach is the finest of its kind in the country, if not the world, and yet not one original piece of music has ever been composed for this unique instrument.
Acclaimed musicians Eliza Carthy, David Thomas and Adam Bushell propose to collaborate together for the first time to create a new score, hand cut on cardboard books, to be performed by this organ as part of a large ensemble featuring internationally acclaimed performers, trained musicians and a local school orchestra as part of a public performance on the Brighton seafront.
An innovative reinvigoration of antiquated technology, this commission will also result in a new grammar book for the Standard 54 organ to be written, enabling composers worldwide with the tools to create a repertoire for this undiscovered musical resource.
Eliza Carthy is an internationally acclaimed performer, known for her interpretation, and extension, of the English folk tradition.  David Thomas was raised in Cleveland, Ohio and lives in Hove, just along the beach from the Carousel.  His international reputation rests on his role as founder of the rock band Pere Ubu, heralded as ‘inventors of the new wave’ in 1977. Adam Bushell is the Director of the new music ensemble Tacet Ensemble, based in Brighton.  The project was conceived by Ed Baxter, Programme Director of Resonance104.4FM, and is to be produced by London Musicians' Collective.
“The idea of a new work for the carousel at Brighton beach captured our imagination, alongside the involvement of musicians from many different disciplines.” New Music Award panel
Do you think that this is an innovative idea? Would you like to ride the carousel whilst this new piece was performed?
Click here to let them know your thoughts..."

LEWES ARMS practice sessions - 2008 dates

Lewes Arms Workshops - 2008

Acoustic Sussex receives PRS Foundation award
"For the second year running, we are delighted to have received recognition and a financial award of £1,000 from the Performing Rights Society Foundation in relation to our contribution to the performance of new music in the UK. The PRSF is the UK's largest independent funder of new music across all genres, achieved through its own funding schemes and partnerships with other organisations. In particular, it seeks to support music creators, performers and promoters who are involved in creatively adventurous or pioneering musical activity".

Congratulations to our Patron,
Ms.Shirley Collins,
on the award of an MBE for services to music,
in the 2007 New Year's Honours List.

"Shirley Collins is without doubt one of England's greatest cultural treasures" 
Billy Bragg
photo by permission of Katie Vandyck

for a further grant of £1,000 to support core activities and explore
links with Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Communities in the City