Spare Parts Concertina Band

Spare Parts are based in Lewes, East Sussex. We write and play arrangements of British dance music on concertinas and fiddle. Valmai writes songs on Sussex subjects. They play for Magic Lantern shows, collaborations with Lewes History Group and Lewes Little Theatre, the ‘Shepherds Arise!’ collection of old Sussex carols and tunes, and the mysterious ancient sport of dwyle flunking. They help to run Lewes Saturday Folk Club, which meets every Saturday night and also puts on nationally-known workshops for folk musicians and singers (over 300 workshops to date). They also run monthly practice sessions for people wanting to learn tunes popular in local English tunes sessions, and helped compile the Lewes Favourites tune books which resulted from the practice evenings.