THE PETE CASTLE GIG LIST

Updated January 2012

 APRIL 2011
     
Sun 10th CROMFORD, Derbys. Daytime. Cromford Mill Craft Fair. A stall selling CDs, books etc  
     
Sun 17th CROMFORD, Derbys. in the Gothic Warehouse on Cromford Wharf. 2.30 - 4pm. Derbyshire Folk Tales. Pete tells and reads some stories from his recent book and adds a few songs. Your chance to ask questions. Free! but you need to reserve a place. email steel.carpet@tiscali.co.uk or phone 01773-822829  
     
Sun 17th. evening: DERBY: Mumpers Ceilidh Club, Meadows Inn, Chequers Road, Derby, DE21 6EP  
     
Wed 27th ST ALBANS, Watling View School. Storytelling workshops
  
 
MAY 2011
     
Fri 13th DERBY, talk to Derby Stroke Club  
     
Thurs 26th DERBY, Derby Theatre (was the Playhouse) Pre-performance music in the bar for Alison Utttley's Country Child.
     
Fri 27th DERBY, Derby Theatre (was the Playhouse) Pre-performance music in the bar for Alison Utttley's Country Child.
     
Sat 28th DERBY, Derby Theatre (was the Playhouse) Pre-performance music in the bar for Alison Utttley's Country Child.
     
JUNE 2011
     
Sun 12th FRANCE: Trad en Fête (Festival) in Louhans
     
Mon 20th NORTHAMPTON, school workshop. details tba  
     
Tues 21st  DERBY, school workshop. details tba  
     
JULY 2011
     
Sat 16th CROMFORD, DERBYS: World Heritage Site event  
     
Mon 25th CROMFORD, DERBYS: World Heritage Site event (official reception)  
     
Fri 29th ASHFORD, Kent. Highworth School. Summer scheme workshops  
     
AUGUST 2011
     
Wed 24th DORSET: Sting in the Tale Storytelling Festival. Family bonfire at Sandy Balls Holiday Centre, Godshill, Fordingbridge, SP6 2JZ
     
Thurs 25th DORSET: Sting in the Tale Storytelling Festival: The Bold Little Tale-er storytelling for all. 11am at The Horton and Chalbury Village Hall, Wimborne, Dorset, BH21 7JA: 2pm West Parley Memorial Hall, Ferndown, BH22 8SQ
   
Fri 26th DORSET: Sting in the Tale Storytelling Festival. event tbc  
     
Sun 28th DETHICK, nr Matlock, Derbys. Manor Farm. An Alison Uttley Festival hosted by Simon Groom. The festival is on from Thurs-Sun and is free. I am doing a performance from 12-2pm on Sunday. (email me for more details)  
     
SEPTEMBER 2011
     
Thurs 15th WIRKSWORTH, Derbys. Festival Fringe. Across the Stones Story Walk: 10.30am start. £5/£4
click HERE to download booking form and further details
     
Sun 25th  WIRKSWORTH, Derbys. Festival Fringe. Across the Stones Story Walk: 10.30am start. £5/£4
click HERE to download booking form and further details
     
Fri 30th Tenterden, Kent: Folk Festival
     
OCTOBER 2011
 
Sat 1st / Sun2nd Tenterden, Kent: Folk Festival – a nice, friendly little festival which I do every year and really enjoy. I've some interesting spots lined up this year. See the web site for details.
     
Wed 19th WORCESTER: as part of the 7th Worcester Children's Storytelling Festival: Elgar's Birthplace Museum, Crown East Lane, Lower Broadheath, WR2 6RH Workshop for schools.  
     
Fri 21st DERBY: Court Room, University of Derby Kedleston Rd Campus. Launch event for the Derwent Valley World Heritage Site Discovery Days 2011  
     
Fri 28th BELPER, Derbys: The Unitarian Chapel, Field Row, DE56 1DH. Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site Discovery Days Festival. A concert: Singing Round the Seasons – the year in songs and stories. Pete Castle, Keith Kendrick, Sylvia Needham. 7.30-10pm £7/£5 This will be a great concert in a great venue! We've worked there before and it's a very atmospheric place with box pews built in 1788. To ensure a place pre-book on 01629 536831
     
Tues 25th BELPER, Derbys. Lion Hotel. Cats in Need AGM. Pete doing the entertainment!  
     
NOVEMBER 2011
     
Tues 1st FINDERN, Derbyshire. Findern Primary School. Storytelling for Book Week.  
     
Tues 8th DARLEY DALE, Derbys. Evergreen Club: talk  
     
DECEMBER 2011
     
Sat 3rd HOLLOWAY, nr Matlock, Derbyshire. The Florence Nightingale Memorial Village Hall DE4 5AR. 7.30 -10pm Pete Castle and Joyce Varty present their annual Christmas entertainment 'CHRISTMAS WITH ALISON UTTLEY' We’ve done this annually for about 10 years now! It’s an evening of readings about the Derbyshire countryside in the Christmas period gleaned from the many works of local author Alison Uttley (1884-1976) and I punctuate it with traditional songs and carols, some of which Uttley mentions or quotes in the text. Tickets £5. (Tea, coffee and mince pies available for a small donation.) Advance booking is essential—it sells out! This one you can book through me email steel.carpet@tiscali.co.uk, phone 01773-822829  
     
JANUARY 2012  
     
FEBRUARY 2012  
     
Fri 3rd BELPER, Derbys: Strutts Centre, Derbys Rd. DE56 1UU. Links With Lit. A performance for National Storytelling Week. The oral tradition has always influenced and been influenced by the written word. Pete will perform songs and stories which have links with works of literature including writers like Shakespeare, Chaucer, Hardy and Keats. 7.30pm £5 on the door.
     
Sat 4th WIRKSWORTH, Derbys. Scarthin Book Shop DE4 3QF. A free event to relaunch Pete's book Derbyshire Folk Tales. It was published in 2010 and very quickly sold out. Now it has been reprinted. 2.30 - 4pm . Pete will tell stories from the book, sing a few songs, read a story or two. Also questions and discussion.
     
MARCH 2012  
     
Mon 12th DERBY: Micklover WI. Talk  
     

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If you run a folk club or are involved with Village Hall entertainments; if you are a teacher or a librarian or if you may be interested in using Pete in any way, as either a musician or a storyteller, whilst he is in your area then please don't hesitate to get in touch. He's always willing to consider opportunities and to do a deal on fees, particularly if it's a 'good cause' or something different and interesting.

Pete Castle
Steel Carpet Music and Facts & Fiction: 42 Mill St. Belper, Derbyshire, DE56 1DT, (UK)
Email steel.carpet@tiscali.co.uk or phone 01773-822829

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