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News

		New Venue Rages On Item added Tuesday, June 17, 2008 Its about five months since the folk club moved to St Lees Restaurant and it has been a great success. Our audience numbers are up, our visiting performers regularly comment on the marvellous environment and everyone clearly enjoys sitting round drinking wine , beer or coffee, listening to great music and meeting with each other. By way of supporting the performers we have recently introduced a microphone and speakers. This has been done in a way that still retains that treasured "acoustic sound". We are grateful to Steve Barkman for the loan of his sound equipment and to John Stevenson of St Lees for his continued support. Light meals are available at the restaurant from 6pm on Sundays and all tap beers are $5 all night.


		Great Show rounds out our stay at the Station Item added Friday, July 06, 2007 People are still raving (no pun intended) about the concert of Rhonda and the Ravers and The Chaps on July 1st as we said goodbye to our venue of almost a year. Check out the Audio Downloads for a sample of the concert finale!


		Batties go off! Item added Friday, June 08, 2007 Well, we did it. We pulled off the biggest concert we have ever run - and what a concert it was! The Battlefield Band were in fantastic form. Our own Ben the Hoose stepped up in support and showed that they are right up to the international mark! They joined the Batties for the encore in a furious set of reels that left everyone gasping. A big thanks to the DCC Grants authority with their underwriting support - early estimates indicate that we may well be in the black, or close at least.



		Battlefield Interview Item added Wednesday, May 16, 2007 You can listen to an online interview with the Battlefield Band here. It's 13Mb so those with dial-up will need to be patiient. Also, Batties newsletter and album flyers are available in the downloads (Resources) area.


		Battlefield Support Item added Sunday, May 13, 2007 We're pleased to announce that, in addition to the sterling performance of the Battlefield Band, we also have NZ Folk Music Award "Tui" winners Ben the Hoose performing as support. Three-times Tui winer Bob McNeil along with Orkney fiddler Kenny Ritch bring their inspired guitar and fiddle combination to the Regent proscenium. Book now online or book at the Regent Ticketek.



		Battlefield Band tickets now on sale! Item added Tuesday, May 08, 2007 You can book tickets online here but if you're a club member, you'll want to go to ticketek (currently in the Forsyth Bar building, Lower Stuart St.) with your membership card. Members can buy tickets for $30 on presentation of their card.


		Whitestone Registration Item added Monday, April 16, 2007 Download this form for all your information and registration details for the Whitestone Winter Folk Festival. Festival runs from the evening of Friday 1st June to the following Monday morning.


		It's Official! Item added Thursday, February 08, 2007 The NEFC will be hosting a one-only concert of the Battlefield Band, Thursday, June 7th. Go to the Downloads Page for their latest newsletter.



		Year starts with a bang! Item added Monday, January 29, 2007 Great clubnight last Sunday with the astonishing young harper and singer from Skye, Kathleen Graham. There must be something in the water there, they produce such fantastic musicians! Good turnout too, lovely floor spots from Phil Corfield, Steve Gelfer and others including a couple of fantastic new original songs from John Egenes. There's plenty on the club calendar and it's filling up fast. There are a few surprises in the pipeline too! Keep popping back to this website for updates. In the Meantime DON'T forget to mark the 17th Feb in your Dairies - a rare chance to see perhaps the most legendary of Irish folk musicians, Andy Irvine.



		Ben the Hoose: Best Folk Album 2006 Item added Monday, January 29, 2007 Announced at the Auckland Folk Festival, 28th January. Bob McNeill and Kenny Ritch win the RIANZ Tui award for their album "Little Cascade".



		Your club needs you! Item added Saturday, January 13, 2007 The club committee is looking for a keen, competent person with good organisational skills to join the committee. If you think this might be you, please let us know - info(at)nefc.org.nz. We have monthly meetings and each committee member has clubnight duties about once every 6 or 8 weeks. Nothing too onerous. We have a lot of great concerts (including one real biggie, which will be revealed soon) and events coming up and the load is spread a little thin for the existing committee members.


		Club Performers Page Item added Wednesday, November 01, 2006 We've started a club performers page in recognition of those members who have contributed much to folk music in Dunedin and Otago. If you have any additional information, or a good digital photo of the people we're listing, please feel free to email it to info(at)nefc.org.nz (obviously, replacing (at) with @).



		Congratulations, Anna MacDonald! Item added Thursday, October 05, 2006 One of our youngest performers and last year's youth guest at Whare Flat, Anna MacDonald has won the prestigious "Play It Strange" national songwriting competition with her song, Blue Butterfly with judges saying things like, "...the next Joni Mitchell," and "watch this space!" There were 339 entries with 55% being female songwriters. More at Play It Strange.



		RIP Geoff Simpson Item added Thursday, August 10, 2006 Suddenly and without warning Geoff Simpson suffered a major stroke and died on July 16th. Apart from the devasting effect on wife Lois and his family, it was also the end of an era for the club. Geoff and Lois were benefactors of the New Edinburgh Folk Club in more ways than you could guess. They gave us their restaurant, Tull, as our club venue every Sunday, they were there to open and close, to cook and make coffee, to participate in every level of of the club from performing to committee. Goeff and Lois did a "loaves and fishes" act for us every year at our folk festival, cooking amazing meals for crew and guests. Geoff will be missed fiercely by us all, he was larger than life, always happy, loud and willing.