Directory: CLASSICAL & TRADITIONAL MUSIC

 
     _{CHORAL & EARLY MUSIC:}

::  Ceramic City Choir.

::  Barbara Walton Singers.

::  The Leek Phoenix Singers.

::  The Stoke-on-Trent Bedford Singers.

::  Audley Male Voice Choir.

::  The Pugin Singers - a chamber choir of around 30 mixed voices which was established in 2000.

::  Keele Bach Choir.

::  Stoke-on-Trent Festival.

::  Piva - a Leek-based early music ensemble.

::  Keele Philharmonic Choir.

::  Churnet Valley Male Voice Choir.

::  Cheadle Choral Society.

::  The Early Music Man.

     _{SYMPHONY & OPERA}

::  Keele Philharmonic Orchestra - a touring Orchestra that is open for membership to staff/students of Keele University.

::  North Staffordshire Operatic Society.

::  Stoke-on-Trent Festival.

::  Greenways String Group - an amateur string group based in North Staffordshire.

::  Newcastle Operatic Society.

::  The 18th Century Concert Orchestra - international concert orchestra based at Staffordshire University.

::  Stoke-on-Trent City Music School.

::  Friends of Newcastle Music - a dedicated voluntary group which runs a wide range of classical music training sessions for young people, and puts on concerts.

::  Denise Leigh - well known opera singer, from Audley nr. Newcastle-under-Lyme. Winner of Operatunity, 2003.

::  Clonter Opera Theatre - the famous 400-seat opera venue, eleven miles from Stoke, in the countryside near Congleton. Their musical director is Anthony Legge, director of opera at the Royal Academy of Music.

::  Staffordshire Chamber Orchestra.

     _{TRADITIONAL FOLK}

::  Leek Folk Club.

::  Potteries Folk Club.

::  North Staffordshire Folk Diary - quarterly newsletter, comprehensively listing all venues and gigs. Subscriptions cost just five stamps per year.

::  The University of Keele's Dept. of Continuing & Professional Education offers short courses in Folk Music Composition.

::  The Traditional Drama Research Group keeps an online record of all folk plays performed in Staffordshire since 2001, and has notices of forthcoming performances.

::  The Eric Cox has a regular column in The Sentinel newspaper, covering the lively local folk scene.

     _{WORLD, ROOTS & FUSION}

::  The Boat Band.

     _FLUTE

::  Farnham Haywood - a flute-player and spiritual drummer, who's working on his second album.

::  Josephene Sheldon - based in Leek. Professional solo flute player, her repertoire includes modern Celtic, traditional Folk, & Classical.

     _{BRASS, MARCHING & ACCORDIAN}

::  Audley Brass Band.

::  Staffordshire Knights Drum & Bugle Band.

::  North Staffordshire Accordian Club.

     _{CLASSICAL GUITAR}

::  Stoke Classical Guitar Society.

     _{ORGANS & BELL-RINGING}

::  North Staffordshire Association of Change Ringers.

 North Staffordshire Organ Society.

     _{TRADITIONAL DRUMMING}

::  Farnham Haywood - a spiritual drummer.

::  Planet Sound - based in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. Offers drumming workshops for community events and festivals.

     _{JAZZ & SWING}

::  The Fat Cats - "One of the most exciting live bands around - the new generation of swing" says London's 100 Club.

::  The Rachel Rimmer Band - based & performing in North Staffordshire.

::  The Old Fashioned Love Band.

::  Mr Will - Newcastle-under-Lyme photographer specialising in live music, particularly jazz.

 Keele University Jazz Club.

 The Old Brown Jug, in Newcastle-under-Lyme - a popular local venue for intimate jazz performances.

     _{PRIVATE MUSIC & SINGING TUTORS}

::  Sally Rivers - a highly experienced vocal and singing coach, based in Trentham, Stoke-on-Trent.

     _{INSTRUMENT MAKERS & REPAIRS}

::  Barleycorn Concertinas - a maker of hand-crafted concertinas, and can also repair violins.

::  Eric Moulder of Leek - expert maker of authentic Renaissance woodwind instruments. See also: the Leek-based early-music group Piva.

     _{SHEET MUSIC}

::  Musical Lines - based in Leek. Sheet-music specialist.

     _{LISTINGS & FESTIVALS}

::  North Staffordshire Folk Diary - quarterly newsletter, comprehensively listing all venues and gigs. Subscriptions cost just five stamps per year.

::  Penkhull Festival, Stoke. This has been one of the main annual cultural events in Stoke for nearly 40 years.

::  BBC Shropshire Folk Diary - awesome diary which lists all folk music events in the Midlands, plus selected gigs as far south as Oxfordshire and as far north as Manchester.

::  BBC Staffordshire cultural listings service.

     _{SUPPORT, COLLECTORS, ARCHIVES & RESEARCH}

::  City Music and Performing Arts Service for Stoke-on-Trent.

::  The Staffordshire Multimedia Archive.

::  Unit for the Study of Musical Skill and Development - based at Keele University.

     _SCHOOLS

::  Staffordshire Music Net - from the County Council, a site aimed at teachers in school and colleges.