St Leonards fundraiser 17th Oct at 7:30pm

Driftwood are playing at the 'Music & Song' evening fundraiser for the repair of this historic church in in Upper Deal (part of it dates back to 1180, but it got a bit of everthing from the last 900years!)

As well as Driftwood there will be other local folk singers, hand bellers and the 'beaux and belles'

Saturday 17th October at 7:30 - tickets £5 from Sound House or contact Lynda on 01304 361 586

Organised by the 'Friends of St Leonards':
http://www.stleonardsdeal.co.uk/

We have a baby!

Yes, Mrs Gadget (aka Rosie) has a new micro roland bass amp  ....  purchased from our excellent music shop 'Mark-One' in Deal ... letter of apologies in the post to all neighbours

yet another thing for the poor roadie to carry ....

Celebrate Your Deal - Landmark Centre 25th Oct 10am-4pm - Think Global, Act Local!

Driftwood are supporting and doing a session at the 'Celebrate Your Deal' event organised by our local green group 'Deal with it!'

The day aims to raise local awareness of environmental and sustainability issues and encourage everyone to discover all that is being made or marketed in and around Deal in order to keep this a thriving town. There will be 30 plus stalls of independent businesses and local producers, creative workshops, community groups, presentations, music, seed swap, competitions, exhibitions, free tastings, gardener’ Question Time, and entertainment for the children as well as the rest of us

Driftwood will be on at 2:30...and we will be recycling our songs

Check the Event website at http://www.transitiondeal.blogspot.com/

Email  celebrateyourdeal@yahoo.co.uk

or email dealwithittoday@yahoo.co.uk for the campaign

Driftwood playing at St Leonards 17th October 7pm

Driftwood are on the bill on the fund raiser for St Leonards Church in Upper Deal. Starts at 7pm on Saturday 17th ... more details to follow

Driftwood & Friends - Busking Deal High St 3rd October

Driftwood and friends are busking on Deal High Street on Saturday 3rd Oct for the repair fund for St Leonards Church in upper Deal - Starts at 10am. Contact Sue or Rose or Lynda for details

New David Rovics Album - Ten thousand miles away - due October 2009

Two of Driftwood's most popular songs at the recent Deal Maritime Folk Festival were David Rovics's 'Black Flag Flying' and 'The Pirates Song'.

David is a singer/songwriter with unequivocal passion for social justice and change. His new album which you can hear online is really good - as a fully paid up member of the anti-best-western-league I love his song 'travel lodge' (Viva B&Bs!) and the Eureka Stockade is a corker!

David is never going to be a millionaire - his downloads are all free. So make a donation or order a few copies from 'Sound House' in Deal High Street. You can find his songs at http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=111310

He will be touring in the UK again in May 2010 .... so watch this space

David's Website: http://www.davidrovics.com/

of course all IMHO ... Roadie

Deal Maritime Folk Festival 2009 - Monster Busk

Despite the weather whch was cloudy and threaten rain - we had a very successful Monster Busk on open area in front of the kings head.

At its height there were some 25 local musicians, bands and singers jamming along on a variety of folk standards....

There will be some videos posted to ou site latter on...

Roadie

Driftwood Deal Maritime Folk Festival - Videos now on YouTube

Driftwood videos from the Ship Inn at now been posted on YouTube

www.driftwood.uk.net/video.html

Driftwood Deal Maritime Folk Festival - Shillelagh Ceilidh sesson Sat 9pm 19th Sept

Third sesson of the day - this time in support of Chris & Geoff (and Lynda) at the Ceilidh.

They did three songs in one of the breaks of the dancing - Gotta to Travel on, David Rovics's Pirate Song (Got the whole hall to join in) and Last thng on my mind - went down well and well played.

Now got two dutch fans who shared our table ...

Lizzie did some excellent numbers on her piano and jammed with the dance band

Roadie + a very tried Driftwood...

Driftwood Deal Maritime Folk Festival - Ship Inn sesson Sat 3pm 19th Sept

Driftwood kicked off the One & Half hours set at the Ship Inn, in Middle Street with a stonking version of  'Bad Moon Rising'. It certainly woke the place up and apparantly it could be heard in Dover! Who needs amplification!

Lots of friends turned up for this one, including John+June from West Kent and Louise, Gill and Arthur from SE London, plus friends from Deal Folk Club.

All the standards like the Black Velvet Band & Wild Rover (which the band had only recently learnt) went down well and  good sing-along (or bang-along) was generated. Some of the songs which are not well known like Karine Polwart's 'I'm gonna do it all' and Kipling's 'Smugglers Song' (featuring dave on flute) were really well recieved. In fact they had requests from people wanting to buy their CD (which does not exist... well not yet)

Another very good set but the band was tried by the end ...

Roadie

Driftwood Folk Festival Deal - Pier sesson Sat 12pm 19th Sept

The band made a good showing  at the open area at the front of Deal pier. Only enough amps for four mikes so the instruments were not balance - but good despite that. You could hear the 'Black Flag Flying' being belted out in the High Street!. The crew were were fully kitted in Pirate attaire, ther new band pirate flag and Sue had a scary tattoo which I hope washes off!

First public outing of David Rovics's 'Pirates Song' - one my favorites and they call it a childrens's song bah! - which went down well and they ended on another of his 'Black Flag Flying'.


Great weather and a great set... IMHO Roadie

Photos can be found off their website - www.driftwood.uk.net/snaps.html

New Driftwood Pirate Flag arrives

Hurrah just in time for the festival and it looks good...

Final Driftwood practice before Saturday Festival gigs

The band will be having an all day session at the village hall at Lyden on Friday... We have several friends coming to the Ship Inn session on saturday ....


The Ship is at
141 Middle Street
Deal
01304 372222

Driftwood.uk.net now indexed

Google are now indexing the site - that's a relief, 5 days to go the band's busy weekend

http://www.driftwood.uk.net/

Marathon

did not make it yesterday - bad night and woke up at 6am feeling exhausted! Decided to pass on this ... today I feel fine and ran over the cliffs to st margarets nr dover....

3toGo Marathon 12th Sept

running my 31st marathon tomorrow - well hopefully, felt bad today very tried ... we shall see what tomorrow morning brings.

This a small marathon down the lee river valley to the 2012 Olympic Park ... off roadish but flat

Driftwood Folk Band Deal Kent UK, acoustic folk by the sea ...

http://www.driftwood.uk.net/ is still not being indexed by google - god knows what i have done!

Possible gig date the 'Deal with it' event in October

More details to follow - check the http://www.driftwood.uk.net/

Only a week to go Deal Maritime Folk Festival

Everything kicks next friday 18th Sept - check the web site for gig details
http://www.driftwood.uk.net/

Driftwood Folk Band site news

completed the move of the http://www.driftwood.uk.net/ site to plus on Wednesday. Email working fine - still issues on searching