Hekety

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other things we're involved with:

crucible (www.cruciblemusic.co.uk)

Crucible are Richard, Jess and Gav (from Hekety) along with Helena Reynolds (from Jabadaw). All play and sing, performing songs and tunes mainly from the English Tradition.

pecsaetan (www.pecsaetan.co.uk)

Pecsaetan morris (pronounced ‘peck-suh-tan') are a women's Cotswold morris side from Sheffield. Jess (as a dancer) and Richard (as teacher and musician) were two of the founding members of the side, which formed in 2001.

minnie moosika (www.minniemoosika.co.uk)

Jo also performs with Minnie Moosika; Minnie Moosika play frenetic foot stamping music for dance, from Eastern European and Klezmer traditions. Clarinet, fiddle, double bass, mandola, voice and guitar - tight melodies, sharp arrangements that will whisk you away......

trinculo (www.trinculo.co.uk)

Nige's 'other' band is Trinculo, a five piece english ceilidh band featuring Nige on guitar, with saxophone, melodeon, fiddle and bass.

glorystrokes (www.glorystrokes.com)

Featuring Gav, Richard and Nige. Possibly the world's only traditional english metalcore dance band, GloryStrokes bring together some well known names from the UK folk dance scene with a cataclysmic dash through their skeleton riddled musical closets.....bridging the barrier from barn dance to mosh pit.

outremanche (www.outremanche.com)

Breton dance music for weddings, concerts, festivals and dances, Fest-Noz/Fest-Deiz and bals folkloriques. Outremanche are Gwenaelle Ambuhl on harp, Jo Veal on clarinet and Graham Knapp on percussion.

fool of the warsaw ghetto (www.jewishmusic-jmd.co.uk) (www.shonaleigh.f9.co.uk)

Jo also performs with storyteller Shonaleigh, interweaving music and word. Fool of the Warsaw Ghetto is an original story created by Shonaleigh, with traditional stories within. It tells of the journeys of 3 children travelling from the Warsaw Ghetto to Auschwitz. Traditional and original music performed by Ilana Cravitz, Jo Veal and Mike Layward.

 

other ceilidh bands:

all blacked up (www.allblackedup.co.uk)

florida (website)

jabadaw (www.jabadaw.com)

random (www.randomband-agency.com)

whapweasel (www.whapweasel.com)

committee band (website)

 

 

 

useful links, interesting organisations:

ceilidhsoc (www.ceilidhsoc.org)

Sheffield University folk dance and music society and the meeting place of Hekety and many other bands.

srfn (www.folk-network.com)

The South Riding Folk Network is an organisation dedicated to supporting the folk arts in the South Yorkshire area and beyond. Their site contains comprehensive listings of local bands and events.

webfeet (www.webfeet.org)

The Webfeet site contains information about dance and dance music in the UK, diaries of events and brief reviews.

efdss (www.efdss.org)

The English Folk Dance and Song Society home page.

Curbow instruments (www.curbow.com)