Forthcoming Guest
Nights 2010
(Unless otherwise stated entrance = (£5 Members / £6
Non-Members)
| FRIDAY 3rd Sepember |
The Hot Rats (£7 / £8) |
HOP FESTIVAL SPECIAL There is a change of guest for our special Hop Festival concert on Friday, 3rd September. Due to entirely unforeseeable circumstances, Craig and Willoughby have had to cancel BUT the good news is that THE HOT RATS will be replacing them to help us kick-start the festival. The Rats play what Traditional Music Maker has described as the most exciting Celtic style folk/rock/world roots music in the South East and feature Ian Cutler, a fiddler of such energy and dexterity that it's amazing his fiddle doesn't catch fire! In addition to the exciting, foot-tapping stuff there are songs a-plenty, some traditional and some penned by Doug Hudson who is the lead singer and guitarist. All this is driven along by the powerful bass playing of Mike Peters who also contributes the vocal harmonies.
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| 15h September | John Connolly | John Conolly found folk music, like a lot of people of his age at that time, through the skiffle route! He went on to write great songs that we all know and love - and we want to learn! - The Librarian, Fiddlers Green, The Emigrant, Punch and Judy Man, The Bionic Fisherman - the list of songs is endless. Conolly moves audiences alternately between laughter and tears by his personality and all those exquisitely-crafted songs. Expect an excellent night. |
| 29h September | Mike Silver | Mike’s 15th release
Heaven in Mind, is fantastic! It is
essentially an
amalgam of Mike’s
great songs from the past, ‘Midnight Train’ ,‘You’,
the poignant ‘Wrong Side of Midnight’ and standards
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| 13th October | Roger Sutcliffe | Roger was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire (sometime ago). Studied music at St. Mary's College in Twickenham. Qualified as a music teacher, and then decided to teach Geology at Bradford college instead. Roger ran guitar classes for many years in Bradford and Ilkley. Throughout this time he continued to perform as a professional singer/guitarist in folk and blues clubs, concerts and festivals throughout Great Britain and Europe. he has also toured the USA. He has occaisionally appeared on Television and Radio and has made several recordings on Vinyl and CD. In 1999 he produced a book of guitar transcriptions entitled "Living with the Blues" Roger now lives in Whitby, North Yorkshire and is available for concert performances all year round.
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| 27th Octobr | Peggy Seeger (£10 all) |
Paggy has written several hundred songs of which the best known are Gonna Be an Engineer (which has become one of the anthems of the womens' movement) and The Ballad of Springhill (about the 1958 Springhill, Nova Scotia, mining disaster). 149 of her songs appear in her songbook, The Peggy Seeger Songbook, Warts and All (Oak Publications, 1998). The companion book to her own songs is The Essential Ewan MacColl Songbook, a complete and comprehensive anthology of the songs written by Ewan MacColl (Oak Publications, November 2001). She held her 70th birthday in London's Queen Elizabeth Hall in 2005. The event is commemorated in a 2-CD distillation, THREE SCORE AND TEN (Appleseed 1100). |
| 10th November | Sara Grey & Keiron Means (£7 / £8) |
"Sara Grey is one of that rare breed of singers who have been involved with traditional music over many years and absorbed its vital essence. In Sara's performance, the art of the singer and that of the story teller merge to produce a web of tales and songs capable of transporting an audience from the concert hall or club room to the intimacy of a kitchen fire side." Brian Peters Kieron has such a tremendous passion when he sings, it goes right to the very core of himself, he's totally immersed the songs. He is a terrific performer on account of just that passion. His voice is especially striking, achieving the rare combination of a high lonesome edge with a warm richness of timbre, and it has a power to move the listener that few of his generation can match. His guitar playing is unconventional, its spareness a mile away from any notion of fancy picking, but it's highly effective, while his stage presence is charismatic, yet laid-back. His songs range from old-time, through the blues - which he sings with startling conviction - to the work of tradition-influenced songwriters, and his own compositions have people, who know a good song when they hear one, nodding in approval.
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| 17th November | Dave Swarbrick (£8 / £9) |
Dave is a British folk musician and singer-songwriter. He has been described by Ashley Hutchings as 'the most influential [British] fiddle player bar none' and his style has been copied or developed by almost every British, and many World folk violin players that have followed him.[1] He was one of the most highly regarded musicians produced by the second British folk revival, contributing to some of the most important groups and projects of the 1960s, he became a much sought after session musician, which has led him throughout his career to work with many of the major figures in folk and folk rock music. His work for the group Fairport Convention from 1969 is usually credited with leading them to produce their seminal album Liege and Lief (1969) which initiated the electric folk movement. This, and his subsequent career, helped create greater interest in British traditional music and was highly influential within mainstream rock. After 1970 he emerged as Fairport Convention's leading figure and guided the band through a series of important albums until its disbandment in 1979. Since then he has played in a series of smaller, acoustic units and engaged in solo projects which have maintained a massive output of recordings, a significant profile and have made a major contribution to the interpretation of traditional British music. |
| 24th November | Martyn Wyndham Read (£7 / £8) |
Martyn Wyndham-Read has been involved with folk music for over forty years. In his late teens he left his mother’s farm in Sussex and headed off, with his guitar, to Australia where he worked on a sheep station Emu Springs in South Australia. It was while he was there that he heard, first hand, the old songs sung by some of the station hands at Emu Springs and he became captivated by these songs and the need to know more of them and where they came from grew.
He headed off to Melbourne and became part of the folk song revival there and throughout Australia during the early1960’s.. Back to England in 1967 where he met up with the renowned singer and song collector Bert Lloyd, who himself had spent time in Australia. Martyn was asked by Bert Lloyd to be part of the album ‘Leviathan’ on the Topic label and soon after he started recording for Bill Leader and touring extensively worldwide. In the early 1970’s Martyn started the ‘Maypoles to Mistletoe’ concerts which portray the seasons of the year through song, music, dance and verse and illustration. Martyn is also the instigator of the well known Song Links Project, Martyn is currently working with Shirley Collins on a production called ‘Down the Lawson Track’ featuring stories, poems/songs of the great Australian Poet of the People, Henry Lawson with Pip Barnes, Iris Bishop, Gary Holder and Jackie Oates. His CD Jackeroo portrays his life so far through songs both old and new.
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| 15th December | Lynne Heraud & Pat Turner |
Lynne Heraud & Pat Turner are two of the most experienced and established harmony singers on the folk scene. They have a leaning towards traditional English material, but occasionally diversify and perform their own material and Victorian/Edwardian songs. Their interpretation of both contemporary and traditional material is sensitive, moving and has plenty of humour.
Lynne and Pat have trespassed, touted, marshalled, organised and appeared at clubs and festivals in careers spanning two millennia. |
| All Wednesdays without guests. |
Singers Nights. Admission £1 for everyone. |
Bring your instruments, poems, stories and particularly your favourite songs and join in - or just listen or sing the choruses. |
Contact Mary on 01795 534368 or 07980 203992 to book seats or for information