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BROADSTAIRS FOLK WEEK 2010

This is Folk Week's 45th year displaying various events in a week.

The festival is a happy, community event and aimed that everyone who

comes to the festival- have a great time and enjoying the events in a terrific

athmosphere.

There will be music, concerts and dances. Concerts in the Concert Marquee in the Pierremont Part.

Folk/Country/Social Dancing Workshops at Upton School which include: Contra - a longways dances in the American style. Playford- 17th and 18th century English country dances, or modern dances in the old styles. Square- Four couples arranged in a square. Traditional dances - collected from English Villages with various formation and steps. Scottish Dances - traditional and modern, plus tea dances, evening dances and a play ball and some caller work shops of all standards.

Have the opportunity to learn to play instrument, or improve your techniques and repertoire. The tutors are competent and approachable which gladly accept participators of all ages. Workshops are open to everyone. Music worshop include: accordion, banjo, cajon, concertina, didgeridoo, fiddle, fiddle and singing, fretted instruments, harmonica, hurdy gurdy, melodeon, pocket instruments, rhythm, whistles and flutes, and guitars.

Let us use our voices, voice workshops include: African song, Beginning singing, Fiddle and singing, Pop song of the 20th century, Songs with humour, Toddlers' singalong, Unchained harmnony, and Vocal techniques for folk styles.

Welcome dance on Friday 6th August at Upton School from 19.30-2230. Opening concert- A little bit country music at the Concert Marquee at 20.00-22.30

Come and join the fun! - just come along and enjoy yourself.

2010 TIME 100: Most Influencial People in the World

TIME magazine list of the 100 most influential people in the world, naming a few includes:
Leaders

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Brazil)- President of Brazil

J.T. Wang (Taiwan)-CEO Acer Group/Chairman of Acer Inc.

Admiral Mike Mullen (USA) - CCS of US Armed Forces

Barack Obama (USA) - President of the US

Yukio Hatoyama (Japan) - Prime Minister of Japan Dominique Strauss-Kahn (France) Managing Director (IMF)Nancy Pelosi (USA) - Speaker of the US House of Reps Sarah Palin (USA) - former nominee for Vice Pres of the US

Heroes

Bill Clinton Former US Pres UN Special envoy to Haiti

Kim Yu-Na (South Korea) - Figure skater, Olympian

Mir-Hossein Mousavi (Iran) - Iranian opposition leader

Ben Stiller (USA) - Actor, founder of StillerStrong.org charity for Haiti

Temple Grandin (USA) - Animal scientist, noted for work in autism advocacy

P. Namperumalsamy (India) - Indian ophthalmologist, known for development of quick eye-surgery

Artist

Lady Gaga (USA) - Pop iconConan O'Brien (USA) - American talk-show host

Kathryn Bigelow (USA) - Film director, first woman to win an Oscar for direction

Oprah Winfrey (USA) - American TV personality

Valery Gergiev (Russia) - Conductor, head of St Petersburg's Mariinsky Theatre

Robert Pattinson (UK) - Actor, star of Twilight vampire saga movies

Thinkers

Zaha Hadid (Iraq) - Deconstructivist architect

Elizabeth Warren (USA) - Leads $700bn bailout of the US financial industry

Douglas Schwartzentruber+Larry Kwak (USA) Researchers for a vaccine against cancer

Michael Pollan (USA) - Food activist

Atul Gawande (USA) - for research on surgical procedures and health costs

Jaron Lanier (USA) - Computer scientist who pioneered Virtual Reality

It seems so many Americans on the list, yet TIME is an American magazine. Nevertheless, it's very interesting to read about so many amazing individuals.

Broadstairs Folk Week

Broadstairs Folk week is annually followed around the world via the internet with this year's festival's theme celebrating the American influence in the development of folk blues and root music. The Voice of America is covering many of the US plays that took place
here.

A blog on the Voice of America website features the events by a specialist reporter who has been to Broadstairs during the festival. The town is bustling and the atmosphere is vibrant with thousands of people from the UK and abroad taking part in gigs, workshops and events.

One of the final events was a band of 100 ukelele players playing the same song whilst marching from Bleak House to the Bandstand at Victoria Gardens at 2.15 on the final Friday afternoon. This display from The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain is the final major concert on the final Friday.