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TIME OF YOUR LIFE The English Country Dance
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ABOUT THE
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Time of Your Life
is an English Country Dance Band based in the Herts.,
Beds. area, with a vast amount of experience of
playing E-Ceilidhs and barn dances for all sorts of
dancers from beginners to the very experienced. A
five-piece band (melodeon, flute, guitar, bass & drums) with a lively,
exciting style of playing, Time of Your Life plays
tunes for dancing from within the English tradition, as well as tunes
composed in the traditional style by band members, The
band has been working since 1984, and has travelled as far afield as
Yorkshire, Herefordshire (The Putley Ceilidhs), Norfolk & Kent. As
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PERSONNEL
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TIME OF YOUR LIFE are: |
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BARRY GOODMAN Ø
Castagnari Tommy D/G Melodeon Ø
Caller A writer of dances and tunes and a
founder member of Time of Your Life, Barry is well-known as a caller, musician, dancer and singer.
Barry is a member of Redbornstoke
Morris and half of the song duo Life and Times together with Graeme Meek. He has
been a musician for the innovative Outside
Capering Crew,
performing at major festivals including Sidmouth, Chippenham, Warwick and Towersey, He has also been
an MC at Sidmouth, Chippenham,
Towersey, Active in folk song and dance since the
early 1970s, Barry runs folk song workshops, promotes the English folk
tradition in education and organised regular music and songs sessions near
Hitchin, Herts., at The Greyhound, St. Ippollitts
for eight years until they moved to The Fox at Pirton.
In 2006 Barry won Hertfordshire’s Bill Ranscombe Award for services to folk music
locally. He has been described as a Folk Polymath. Ø
Barry
is a member of the E.F.D.S.S., Folk Arts England and FolkWISE See www.myspace.com/musocallersinger
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GRAEME MEEK Ø
Epiphone Thunderbird IV Bass Former co-organiser of Luton Folk Club and
Luton Folk Festival and another founder member of Time
of Your Life, Graeme was the presenter of BBC Radio Bedfordshire’s Three Counties Folk and has
been active in folk music since the early 1970s. Graeme played in a band with
(now pop star) Paul Young in the early 1970s
and also worked with Henry Thomas of BBC2’s Rock
School. He has been involved in folk dance since
the formation of Time of Your Life and
written a number of jigs, polkas and hornpipes which regularly feature in the
band’s repertoire. Graeme founded the song group Life & Times
in 1983 with Ø
Graeme
is a member of the E.F.D.S.S., Click here |
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DEBBIE CHALMERS Ø
Violin Debbie was a
pupil of fiddle player, Joe Broughton, and now teaches and repairs violins
between performances with Time of Your Life, various
other bands and orchestras with whom she plays and a clog dance display team
in Camden of which she is a member. Noticeably the youngest member of the
band, her violin playing features on Life & Times’ CDs Charivari,
Where The Working Boats Went and Marston Vale. (see Life & Times recordings
webpage.) Debbie is also a member of Suntrap
and has performed on many occasions with Bella Hardy. |
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STEVE POORE Ø
Rickenbacker 480 Electric Guitar, Ø
Washburn Electro-Acoustic Guitar Steve played in rock bands and a folk duo
with Graeme in the early 1970s and was coaxed out of musical retirement to join
the band in the early 1990s. Steve is also the band’s resident electronics
expert and a dab hand with a computer and a soldering iron! Steve recorded
Life & Times’ community project CD Marston Vale in
March 2009. |
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HOWARD NEWTON Ø
Drums Howard Newton plays drums, joining the
band permanently in 2004. Howard’s distinctive drumming ranges from a subtle
background whisper to a driving foot-stomping thunder. Howard was formerly
with another local band Easy Weasel, and prior
to that, the well-known and much missed Bedfordshire-based band, Wide-Eyed Jack. Howard originates from Scarborough. |
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JANE ARCHER (The Band’s 6th
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Flute Jane is effectively our sixth member. She
is a classical musician who primarily performs orchestral music and is also a
woodwind teacher. The sound of her flute adds an extra layer to the tunes,
combining with the melodeon to create a very special melodic texture. Jane
having a young family has meant she has been unable to perform regularly with
the band. However, when Debbie is not available for any reason, we are more
than pleased to welcome her back to stand in. |
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LISTEN TO TIME OF YOUR LIFE
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To
hear some of Time of Your Life’s music go to these websites: All
the tracks on the websites above are taken from the CD Keep Dancing, a recording by Hertfordshire District
EFDSS of dance music for use in schools, which is now available. To
hear some of Life & Times’ music go to these websites: Violin
accompaniments on these recordings are provided by Debbie Chalmers, schooled
by Joe Broughton. Recordings made at SRT, St. Ives, Cambridgeshire, April 2001. Debbie
is a member of our dance band TIME OF YOUR LIFE Once
on the website, click on The Film and
then Music |
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PREVIOUS MEMBERS
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Previous members of the band include: Greg Lindsay
(flute) Brian Scowcroft
(bass guitar, caller) – Former Albionette Paul “Thug” Milner
(bouzouki) Sara Hack
(flute) Peter Salt
(drums) – Formerly with rock band Walking
on Ice …and a host of other musicians
who have “sat in” at various times in the band’s
existence... |
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