MICK LYNN & GEOFF DOEL

MICK LYNN & GEOFF DOEL
ILLUSTRATED TALKS ON TRADITIONAL CULTURE & FOLKLORE with music, songs, slides, readings

Mick & Geoff have lectured to audiences at many history and gardening societies including Shoreham, Goudhurst, Uckfield, Ticehurst, Kingston, Smarden, Tonbridge, Crowborough, Wadhurst, Folkestone, Meopham, Plaxtol, Otford, Bearsted, Hurst Green, Lewes, Farningham & University talks and Summer Schools.

Topics include:

• The Green Man in the Garden
• All the Year Round - Seasonal Customs of Kent/ Sussex or England
• A Kent/Sussex Christmas or The Traditional Christmas
• Hopping Down in Kent
• Mummers & Morris - English Traditional Dance & Drama
• Outlaws, Poachers & Smugglers - Anti-Heroes & Outsiders
• The Kent Hooden Horse
• A Dickens of a Christmas (The Victorian Christmas)
• Kent &/or Sussex Folksongs
• The Farmer’s Year in Song & Visual Images
• Ghostly Kent or Ghostly Sussex

Geoff lectures on Literature & Traditional Culture for the Universities of Kent & Canterbury and sings folksongs. He and his wife Fran have published many folklore books including The Green Man in Britain, Folklore of Kent, Christmas Past in Sussex & A Kent Christmas.

Mick Lynn lectures on gardening, bees and the Environment and is a singer, mummer, publisher and plays accordion, concertina & melodeon. Geoff and Mick have also co-authored The Kent Hooden Horse & are co-organisers of The Tonbridge Mummers & Hoodeners, a traditional drama group that performs in Midwinter.

For bookings please contact:-
Geoff Doel – tel: 01732 366857
geoffdoel@btinternet.com
Mick Lynn – tel: 01580 200503
mlynn@quarry-house.co.uk

This webpage is hosted by Tonbridge Folk Club