The Sweet Thames exhibition banners can be loaned out for free to folk clubs and venues across London and other educational, musical or heritage organisations. The six pull-up banners are relatively easy for two people to erect, take down and pack away and they will come with instructions on how to do this carefully and …
On Thursday 11th May 2023 we will be hosting our second Sweet Thames: The London Folk Club Heritage Reminiscence Event on Zoom between 6:30pm and 8:30pm. The main purpose of this is to include club audiences, regulars, hosts and performers, who are now situated outside of London, in the Sweet Thames project. It is also …
Sweet Thames online reminiscence event with Martin and Eliza Carthy Read More »
Ongoing archiving If you have items related to London folk clubs you wish to donate to the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library (VWML), even after the official end date of the Sweet Thames Project, the team there would love to speak to you. It is best if you contact them first, either by email or phone …
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Kennedy Hall, Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent’s Park Road, London, NW1 7AY Saturday 3rd June, 2023. Doors open 6:30pm with a 7pm start. This fun-filled performance event draws on the twenty-five recently collected oral history interviews for the Sweet Thames project hosted by Star Creative Heritage, funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and supported …
Sweet Thames performance & final celebration event with Ewan Wardrop Read More »
We had a full house for the Sweet Thames exhibition launch on Saturday at Cecil Sharp House in Storrow Hall, coincidentally where one of the earliest London folk clubs ‘The Cellar’ began in the mid-1950s. The project team had fun setting up the exhibition banners, folk club bunting and audio posts in good time for …
Sweet Thames exhibition launch 11th February 2023 – report Read More »
Saturday 11th February, 2.30pm-4.30pm, Cecil Sharp House Sweet Thames: The London Folk Club Heritage Project has recorded twenty-five oral history interviews for the project and we have been drawing on these and our archival research to produce a transportable exhibition. The exhibition explores a number of themes which were highlighted during the interviews, including early …
These two interactive workshops will run in the Committee Room, Cecil Sharp House, 6-9pm on Thursday 17th November and Thursday 24th November 2022. Get involved in the Sweet Thames project and register now to join our wonderful volunteer team for these workshops. Places are limited. Please book your place here. In these workshops we will …
Sweet Thames: The London Folk Club exhibition curation workshops Read More »
In July 2022 we ran four oral history training workshops for twenty project volunteers to learn interviewing skills in order to record at least one interview for the project each. The workshops were fun and engaging and we established a cohesive team of volunteers, making friends along the way. The interviews took place over the …
Sweet Thames: The London Folk Club Heritage Project Oral History Interviews. Read More »
On Friday 23rd September we will be hosting a Sweet Thames: The London Folk Club Heritage Reminiscence Event on Zoom between 6pm and 8pm. The main purpose of this is to include club audiences, regulars, hosts and performers, who are now situated outside of London, in the Sweet Thames project. It is also open to …
Sweet Thames Online Reminiscence Event with special guest Peggy Seeger Read More »
Monday 15th August 2022. 12:30 to 4pm The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library (VWML), Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent’s Park Road, NW1 7AY We are recruiting now for our Sweet Thames: The London Folk Club Heritage project volunteer team who will receive free training to assist us in conducting archival research at the VWML. We will …
