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Artist: Vic & Tina Smith Email: Website: www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~tinvic/other.htm Description: TINA SMITH -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vic and Tina Smith VIC SMITH Vic has been involved in folk music activities for more than 30 years as singer, folk dance band musician and caller, club, festival and event organiser, broadcaster, journalist, critic and writer and magazine editor Along with Tina, he has been running folk clubs in Woolwich, Blackheath, Brighton, Isfield and Lewes. The current very successful venture at the Royal Oak has been running since 1992. He has played and called with a number of successful folk dance bands and for the last eight years he has been playing mandola and guitar with a very busy band, The Sussex Pistols. Along with Jim Marshall, he organises and edits "The Sussex Folk Diary and has been doing so for over 30 years. Again in partnership with Jim, he was presenter/producer of Minstrels Gallery the weekly local radio programme which catered for folk music enthusiasts in the south of England for 25 years. He writes for a range of folk and traditional music publications including Musical Traditions and Folk Roots. Tina has been involved with folk music for over 30 years, both as a musician and an organiser. She was co-resident and organiser at two London folk clubs in the mid-sixties and at clubs in Brighton, Isfield and Lewes from 1968 onwards. She was one of the organisers of the popular Lewes Folk Days and has been involved in many other Sussex folk events both as performer and organiser. She was one of the residents at the Coppersongs folk club in Peacehaven. Up until 1975 she was one of the founding presenters of the BBC Radio Brighton folk music programme, Minstrels Gallery. Tina sings and plays English concertina. She has been in two concertina bands - Nigel Chippindales "Creepy Crawley Concertina Combo" and The Dodgy Button Band. She has played in several barn dance bands including The Lewes Band and Four Piece Suite". Her current band is The Sussex Pistols formed in 1992. This band has a cassette No Fushias" available from Tina, price £ 4.00 plus 50p post and packing. Address on Contact page. Apart from being resident performer at the Royal Oak in Lewes, she does a lot of behind-the-scenes work which contributes to the smooth running of this successful club. She can also be heard singing and playing the concertina at various sessions in the area.

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