Driftwood Video @ the Astor

Driftwood played the Astor Cellar sessions during the recent Deal Maritime Folk Festival - This Video is by Martin GoodSmith



Just in case you cannot see the Video here is the link http://youtu.be/wuRguEZywT8

Deal Maritime Folk Fest 2010 - We are Driftwooded out!

What a great weekend ! So many acts and great music throughout Deal this last weekend. We reckon there was about 100 performers (there were a lot of dancers on saturday) all doing their stuff for free.

Sue is busy building her own 3 string Nuru Bass after a pretty amazing concert at the Astor with Nuru Kane & the BFG.

A massive thank you for all of you who supported us at our eight sessions - especial thanks to Pat & Lin from London, the lovely Lynda, Jan & Peter for the photos, raffle & support... We totally enjoyed all the sessions we caught - what a lot of talent there is in Deal & Kent!

Video of us in the Ship is >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehd_55O6UgU

Hope to get our flickr pics later in the week

Trevor & Hannah-lou video of Deal Folk Festival FolkSong Competition 2009

The Deal Maritime Folk Festival held an competition for new folksong in Sept 2009. This was won by Trevor Moss and Hannah-Lou  for their excellent Alottment Song.

I have just found the brilliant video they made of the event - Can you spot the Deal landmarks and persons of note? Hint there are at least two members of Driftwood in the audience of this deserved win...


If you cannot see the embedded video follow this link:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KdN497zaEE

All IMHO
Roadie

PS If you look carefully you can tag the Cocos Lovers busking in high street....
PPS Isn't funny how Deal & Folkies look better in Black&White....

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

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

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/