Those visiting the Web Site this week will have noticed that it’s a mess, believe it or not it’s organised chaos, and while I’ve made some progress in getting some of the key pages “live” in the new Mac friendly format, you can get to all the other pages via the link on the “Home” page in the top left hand corner. Please bear with me, be patient and the complete overhaul will soon be made.
I would point out that while visually it should be a little easier to read, and a little quicker to load, I would remind folks that the site remains reliant upon a third party for certain “widgets” and sometimes the load is slowed down by this.
However, the Menu Bar is much easier to read and view all the subpage links.
But in the main, it’s even cleaners and even more efficient at making the information available.
If you’ve not looked for a while, take a look HERE
Talking about Web Sites, Paul Newman, who’s Podcast we drew your attention to last week has launched his own Web Site, you can find it HERE well worth taking a look at.
So we march ahead with the planning for the Rotherham Open Arts Festival Gallery Concerts. You can find the finalised programme HERE What a programme it is to. My thanks to everyone who came forward to give of their talent and time to help make the events special and we hope a great success.
We hope to bring more News about events that will be running out of the Imperial Building, on Saturday 19th and Thursday 24th November very soon.
We’re still awaiting the final go ahead concerning the Pre-Festival All Inclusive Arts Busking Day on planned for the 29th October. Stand by your weapon of choice and await the order “GO”.
The Special Production of “Hearts of Steel” has been fixed for Friday 25th November.
Dates for Workshops to be conducted by Paul Davenport and Ray Hearne will be published within the next week.
Papa Legbas will be dedicating their performances at The Bridge on 29th October and 26th November to The Festival.
And of course there’s a major Fringe warm up at The Queens Rawmarsh when Acoustic Rotherham celebrates it’s Third Birthday from 1:00pm, on the 30th October. This promises to be a very special event, and if you take a look at the acts appearing you can see why it might be a good idea to get in early. Food will be available from the bar. The full line up can be found HERE
And I think I should say, that all this has been achieved with a budget of zero. So hats off to all those involved, more back slapping and names at a later date, at the moment we will protect the names of the innocent.
This year the main Festival Performances will be played out at Magna, featuring Ballet from Phoenix Dance Theatre on 19th November and the Retina Dance Company on the 20th November. Go HERE for more details and tickets.
All these and more Fringe Events will be published on our Diary Pages HERE
You can rely on the Acoustic Rotherham News Blog to bring you all the latest News and Events as they are published, you can make sure that you’re in touch with The Rotherham Open Arts Festival by joining our Mailing List – yes I know it says The Mashers – I hump all the News together from Acoustic Rotherham, The Myke Barritt Music Trust and The Mashers so that my fingers don’t get sore, and it saves your Inbox from being invaded too many times. You can find the Widget thing on nearly every Acoustic Rotherham Web Site page……….. so no excuses.
That applies to “Contact”. You’ll see that our Contact Page has been completely revamped. You’ll find all the Forms you’ll ever need – to make sure your information gets to me safely. So again, no excuses. See the new page HERE
You might have wondered as to what has been happening in the World of the “UK Folk Club Network”. Some of you will have been made to sit down and complete a survey as you travelled around the various Festivals, asking you questions about your “folk” type habits.
The early results from the survey and you can find them HERE (in PDF). Apparently responses from a couple of Festivals have temporarily gone astray so these should be read as “Interim”. I’ve not had a chance yet to study the figures so no comment from me this week.
An on line version of the survey will soon be available and we’re urging as many people as possible to take part.
As you’re all aware I’m a bit of cynic and that includes the growth of Web Sites offering to host your tracks and “promote” them. As you know only too well The Mashers and Acoustic Rotherham use Reverbnation extensively for promotion of activities, events and music. However, there is a new game in Town, Companies and Sites offering to “promote” your music on Facebook, for a fee. Personally I’m highly sceptical of these schemes, however as ever I’m prepared to be proved wrong. So I’d love to hear from anyone who has used these “pay to promote” schemes and whether or not they sold enough tracks to pay for the publicity programme.
Email me HERE
I have to say I find it rather strange given it’s our work etc. that fills these Web Sites with content in the first place, that they feel the need to charge us for any extra service, but that’s a personal view.
Yes, Acoustic Rotherham has content from many talented writers and musicians around Yorkshire, but we make no charges for either access to the music or to the artists. We like to keep it free.
All a bit dry this week, isn’t it? Programmes, surveys, Web Publicity. Sorry about that. I’m hoping that Mrs Masher will let me off the leash to get to Nellie Folk on Monday and of course on Tuesday we’re off to the Parkview Studio I Birdsedge to have Mr Roy Blackman recorded, I’m looking forward to both outings.
A little birdie has reported that Pocketful Of Now’t at Thawleys in Wombwell was another master piece in understated performance. They are back there again, supporting the Bar Steward Sons of Val Doonigan on Saturday 8th October. They’ve also asked me to mention that Thawleys also host an Open Mic Session on the last Friday in each month, compered by the BSSOVD (I’m not typing their full name again!) It’s good to see that another venue appears to be opening up for artists of all genre, and of course Acoustic Rotherham would say get down there and support the “live music”, these days we need all the venues we can find. Hats off to the Land Lords at Thawleys.
And so into the week ahead.
Of course you’ll be spending your time watching the Stock Market and wondering if Greece will be paying something into your Pension Pot. I heard the other day on the Radio that over the past fourteen months the average Pension Fund has fallen 14%. That’s a frightening thought.
But those of you like me having to throw themselves on the mercy of the Big Society when I retire, never earning enough to pay for a Pension let’s hide ourselves in the music.
Monday (today) it’s the monthly meeting of Nellie Folk (The Bridge, Rotherham), a must for the Folkies of Rotherham Town. On Tuesday it’s the Sheffield Folk Train, and Hillsborough Folk at Burton Street. It being the last Wednesday of the month I believe it has to be Open Mic Jazz at The Bridge in Rotherham. The Tenterden Folk Festival kicks off on Thursday, and on Friday, View From S62 will be rocking The Star at Rawmarsh, while Papa Legbas, seemingly trying to catch people out will be playing The Bridge in Rotherham – better check that the later though as I’m not convinced. Also Friday the Helmsley Folk Weekend gets under-way.
Details of all these events can be found by following the Links HERE
And on Saturday, something different and cultural at The Minster in Rotherham when the Heritage Master Chorale will be visiting. I’ve listened to a few tracks, and it’s a fantastic sound, and of course made even more relevant as Heather Woodhead of Acoustic Rotherham fame is a member of the Choir.
Ticket information by following the Link HERE
That covers it for this week folks, so whatever you’re doing have fun and KEEP IT LIVE.
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