FolkStation Social Event

An American supper / jam evening will be held on Friday 9th April at Porchfield Village Hall. Anyone interested in FolkStation is welcome to come. There is no charge, but please email sandy.hector@googlemail.com or call 01983 882269 as entry will be by ticket only.

Thanks for your support

Thanks to everyone who supported our fundraising event held last month. With your help we raised £60.15 which will go towards setting up the Craft Village for this year's Festival.

Forthcoming Fund Raising Events: 

Saturday 6th March at 10.30 - 2.00
Quay Street Methodist Church Hall, Newport. Teas, coffees and light refreshments will be available.
If you have any unwanted puzzles to donate please call Kate Seward on (01983) 883967 or Elaine Butler on (01983) 292705.

Spare Parts Concertina Band

Concertina playing workshops will be lead by Spare Parts Concertina Band. They will also be performing on stage. Click here to visit their website and sample their music.

Stewards and Helpers

If you would like to help make the Festival run smoothly, please click here for information about stewarding.

School Projects

The FolkStation organisers are keen to expand the interest in folk music and so have started a number of projects in local schools. So far we have a quite well defined project with a Middle School and another project in the early stages of collecting ideas at a High School. We hope both of these projects will result in more interest in folk music amongst the young people and may even result in some interesting performances at future FolkStation festivals.

FolkStation Buffers

A group of our friends got together recently to form a band of helpers who will organise next year's Festival. The group's train of thought about a name for the group took up quite a bit of the evening - and of course we were looking for a name with a railway theme. Some of the more printable suggestions were:

• The Sleepers - maybe accurate in some cases, but didn't seem to give the right image
• The Gantry - sounded a bit too lofty
• The Platform Staff - might confuse the actual platform staff at Havenstreet Station
• The Buffers - this seemed to be the eventual choice

The Buffers have now taken away a host of tasks that we hope will make the 2010 Festival even more enjoyable ... If you would like to get involved please call 01983 882269.