Saturday Night Barn Dance
Again this year at Sir Harry Smith
Community College from 8:00pm till 11:30pm this time with Random and caller
Barry Goodman.
Tickets have sold out for this event.
"It is refreshing to hear such 'electric ceilidh music with guts' gracing the stage of the ceilidh world. We eagerly await more!"
The
six guys who are RANDOM, bring their vast experience of all kinds of folk and
dance music to this well-established band. Their gutsy, melodic, folk-rock
interpretation of tunes with traditional roots, creates scintillating but
subtle ceilidh music that will make you want to dance.
Saul
Rose who also plays with Waterson:Carthy & Faustus amongst others, joins up
with Paul Nye to bring two very exciting melodeon-playing talents together. Add
the classy bass guitar of Keith Holloway, the guitar rhythms of Ian Woledge,
the matchless bass trombone harmonies of Glynn Burch, and the rock-solid
drumming of Roger Smith, and you’ve got the unique RANDOM sound.’
RANDOM’s
debut CD ‘deviation’ released on the WildGoose label in July 2002 - WGS308CD,
and they also feature, along with 5 other top ceilidh bands, Whapweasel,
Florida, Hekety, All Blacked Up and Jabadaw, on a compilation CD - 'English
Ceildh Bands- a celebration of English ceildh music'- released in August 2003
on Coughing Dog Music - COF 010
Their
latest CD 'TOADSTONE', released at Sidmouth Folk Week 2005 on WildGoose
WGS328CD, has received critical acclaim and RANDOM are now in great
demand.
Listen
to some tracks at MySpace - go to www.myspace.com/randomceilidh
WORKSHOPS and that sort of thing!
RANDOM are very happy to lead 'Traditional
Music Sessions' and take part in 'Meet the Band' workshops - also SAUL ROSE can
lead Melodeon workshops; beginners, intermediate and advanced.
A member of Redbornstoke Morris and half of the folk song due Life and Times, together with Graeme Meek, Barry is also a musician for Rockhopper Morris and plays and calls in his own bands, including Random, Stomp, Grand Union, Moodance and Fendragon.
Active in folk song and dance since the early 1970s, Barry runs folk song and melodeon workshops, promotes the English folk tradition in Education, and has been involved in the development of the New Roots competition, encouraging young folk talent from all over the UK. He is a regular MC at the Cheltenham, Chippenham, Shepley, Sidmouth and Towersey Folk Festivals.
In 2006, Barry received the Bill Ranscombe Award from the Hertfordshire Folk Association for valuable services to English Folk Music, Dance and Song.
Recordings include Strawplait and Bonelace, Shropshire Iron, Charivari and Where The Working Boats Went (all with Graeme Meek as Life and Times). Barry’s tune, Four Up, appears on Ashley Hutchings’ Grandson of Morris On CD, and Time of Your Life feature on the EFDSS CD Keep Dancing
