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NOTE:
(Unless otherwise stated entrance =
(£6 Members / £7 Non-Members)
PLEASE NOTE:- Doors Open
at 7:30 Music starts at 8:00
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And
Booked So Far - 2024
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AUGUST
2024
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Closed for the Festival Season
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4th
September
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Enda McCabe
(£8 / £9)
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Enda
McCabe lived in Faversham for over twenty years, before returning to
Ireland in 1998. He recently
completed an M.A. in Irish Traditional Music Performance at the University
of Limerick and lives in Conamara, an Irish speaking area of County
Galway.
Enda
performs a mxiture of traditional and new songs
in Irish and English mixed with some short and some tall tales. He is currently working on a new album
“Full Circle” with Dublin fiddler Colly Moore.
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18th
September
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John
Conolly
(£9 / £10)
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JOHN CONOLLY is an
internationally-respected songwriter, who has based his style firmly in the
British folk tradition. His most
popular song, “FIDDLERS’ GREEN” – a fisherman’s vision of Paradise – is
performed and loved all over the
world.
John’s childhood was spent not far
from the docks in the English fishing port of Grimsby, where the River
Humber joins the North Sea, and where his grandfather and great-grandfather
learned their trade as shipwrights in the riverside dockyards. As the fishing
industry declined, following the “Cod Wars” with Iceland, John watched the
local fishing fleet limp into oblivion, and began to chronicle the lives
and labours of the men who worked on the trawlers
and along the waterside. “FIDDLERS’ GREEN”, written in the 1960’s, was popularised by folk artistes like the Dubliners and the
Clancy Brothers, and has become firmly embedded in the canon of maritime
music.
John’s first contact with folk
music was in Primary School, where he recalls being marched into Morning
Assembly to the tune of Percy Grainger’s “COUNTRY GARDENS” – although he
didn’t know it was folk music at the time! His interest in creative
writing, however, was sparked off at Clee Grammar School, where he was
encouraged to write poetry by an enthusiastic English teacher
(affectionately known as “Killer” Sleigh), and his first published work
(inspired by a Spike Milligan joke) appeared in the School Magazine – here
is a mercifully-short extract from John’s “ODE TO A DOOR -KNOCKER”. . .
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25th
September
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Reg Meuross
(£11 / £12)
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Reg Meuross is an English singer and
songwriter based in Somerset. He has released 15 solo albums. His
song-writing contains narrative, protest and commentary.
Meuross
first appeared on the British acoustic music scene in 1986 when he formed
The Panic Brothers with comedian Richard Morton. He made an album called In
The Red, produced by Clive Gregson. "The
Brothers" appeared regularly on TV, including on Friday Night Live;
and at Edinburgh, Sidmouth, Glastonbury and other
festivals.
Following his work with The Panic Brothers, Meuross formed a roots band, The Flamingos, featuring
former Graham Parker guitarist Martin Belmont, Bob Loveday from the Penguin
Café Orchestra and Bob Geldof's band, and Alison Jones of The Barely Works.
The Flamingos recorded an album, Arrested, in 1991.
Meuross
toured until 2009 with Hank Wangford and The Lost
Cowboys as a member of the band, and also as a solo artist with Hank Wangford on the "No Hall Too Small" tour.
Meuross's
solo recording and touring career began in 1996. He has released 15 albums
as a solo artist. In a review in The Guardian in 2016, Robin Denselow described him as "one of the more
versatile, under-sung survivors of the English acoustic scene."
He co-wrote Seth Lakeman's first single, "Divided We Will
Fall", from the album The Well Worn Path,
released on the Cooking Vinyl label in November 2018.
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16th October
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CJ & Dave Reay
(£8 / £9)
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When the pair met as drummer/vocalist and guitarist in the
gypsy jazz ska band, Gypskazz, each had no idea
that the other shared a passion for folk and country, but once the secret
was out, they knew they had to try out some songs!
The result, now with some successful festival appearances
under their belt, is CJ & Reay, providing a set of Americana, acoustic
covers and originals that encompasses the energetic and the lyrical,
delivered with passion and a little humour.
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30th October
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Hunter
Muskett
(£9 / £10)
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Hunter Muskett is an acoustic/electric 3-piece playing
distinctive original songs in a folky, bluesy sometimes Americana vein.
Formed in 1968 the band played at home and abroad until 1974
producing two, now collectable, albums: Every Time You Move with bassist
Danny Thompson and the Keith Relf produced Hunter Muskett.
Doug Morter went on to carve out a career as the ‘go-to’
vocalist/guitarist of the folk-rock scene performing with the likes of:
Magna Carta, Albion Band, Maddy Prior, Michael Chapman and Jerry Donahue...
Since resuming touring in 2010 Hunter Muskett has released two
further CDs of new material: That Was Then This Is Now and Unafraid and
Sober.
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6th November
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Paul
Walker &
Karen Pfeiffer
(£9 / £10)
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With “two grand voices – individually and in
harmony” (Folker-German Folk Magazine), the Anglo-German duo Paul Walker
& Karen Pfeiffer offer a versatile miscellany of self-penned and
imaginatively arranged songs, delivered with guitar, woodwind instrumentation
and occasional percussion.
“I’ve never seen our audience so spellbound!”
(Malc Gurnham, Folk Club promoter)
So, what is it that makes this internationally
touring pair so irresistible?
Whilst Paul Walker & Karen Pfeiffer are acclaimed
for their image provoking songwriting, expressive vocals and authentic
musicianship, they are frequently recalled for their warmth, humour and their remarkable ability to engage with
their audience. Karen’s natural theatricality and life affirming playful
energy compliment charmingly with Paul’s calm geniality and combined they
magically turn a great performance into a real event. In brief: enchanting,
entertaining, uplifting.
“Great show!” (Graham Norton)
Based in Staffordshire in the UK, the duo has
toured its shows extensively taking in New Zealand, Australia, Germany,
Ireland and most corners of the UK, wooing audiences with Karen’s southern
German accent tinged with an ‘oatcake induced’ North Staffordshire dialect
from Paul’s heritage. Their latest show ‘Auf Wiedersehen, Me Duck’ was a
huge success at the 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
The pandemic has seen them focusing their
attention on writing, recording and developing their online presence. Their
live stream ‘Afternoon Tea with Paul & Karen’ is now in excess of 100
shows and still attracts a dedicated international following. The new album
‘Auf Wiedersehen, Me Duck’ was released in May 2022 and received a great
amount of radio play, video attention and glowing reviews:
"Eclectic, performed with passion and with
excellent musicianship." Folk & Honey
"Charming, varied and fun" Irish
Music Magazine
Overall, “A first-class experience.” (Bietigheimer Zeitung)
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20th
November
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Christina Alden &
Alex Patterson
(£11 / £12)
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Christina Alden & Alex Patterson are
multi-instrumentalists and songwriters from East Anglia. Their music is
rich with intertwining harmony, sensitive accomplished musicianship and a
creative song-writing style that is both delicate and moving. Deeply
inspired by the world around them, they have a keen environmental eye to
craft stories with the natural world at its heart, reflecting on the
relationship between humans and the wild.
They have toured extensively in the UK and Europe including a
twenty-three-date concert hall tour with Show of Hands (including Union
Chapel and St David’s Hall Cardiff), a show at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
for Celtic Connections, headline and main stage performances at some of the
UK’s most prestigious folk festivals and performances in Norway, Belgium,
France and Ireland. They have written and self-released four albums,
composed music for a BBC Radio 4 documentary series and have had over a
million streams on Spotify.
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4th December
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The
Medlars
(£9 / £10)
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Originally formed in 2009 The Medlars are folk trio
from Essex, performing songs and tunes originated and rooted in the folk
tradition, revisiting and creating new arrangements of classic English folk
songs with a contemporary feel. Its
current line up formed from a chance encounter at Folk East 2017, The
Medlars are now Alie Barnes - vocals, Emma Hardy - fiddle/vocals, Tom Hardy
guitar/vocals.
Alie grew up with the influences of the East Anglian fens in
her blood and has been performing and running folk clubs since the
mid-1980s. Emma has a classical music background and Tom is a self-taught
guitarist, with a wide range of influences from folk to punk. Whilst
original influences remain, these have expanded, drawing in ideas from
within and outside the tradition. The Medlars have performed at festivals,
such as Bobbing Barn, Moira, The White Horse, and Upton, and Folk Clubs
including Colchester, Hadleigh, Loughton, The Hoy at Anchor, Waveney, and
Wivenhoe.
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18th
December
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Phil Beer
(£15 for all)
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The Truth…
Whilst that may be the perception, I would actually take issue
with that statement. I didn’t write it.
I’m very good at what I do. The trick is to design what you do in
order to accommodate your limitations. Thats why I don’t teach. I leave
that to the pros. I’m too busy gigging or making albums anyway. Please stop
asking me! The perpetual problem of being a Z list muso/celebrity is how to
describe yourself. The most onerous task of all is trying to big yourself
up and exaggerate past exploits. I’ve now been ‘on the road’ for 45 years.
I’m amazed I’m still standing. I’ve made hundreds of albums with bands/singers/ musicians and done gigs with them. Some are
world famous, some you’ve never heard of. The dumbest and most pathetic
thing in existence is to see a musicians C. V. that lists the people that they may just
have been with on the same bill on the same day at some festival as people
that they’ve ‘worked with’. Whilst I ache in the places I used to play (L
Cohen!), I’m still up for what is about to happen, not what has been and
gone. Hopefully, myself and my compatriots have more to contribute yet
before we shuffle off.
This is why my catchphrase is…
Phil Beer. Plays guitar and fiddle, sings a bit. Sums it up.
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25th
December
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CLOSED
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All Wednesdays
without guests.
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Singers Nights.
Admission £2 for
everyone.
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Bring your instruments, poems, stories
and particularly your favourite songs and join in - or just listen or sing
the choruses.
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Contact PAT
on 01795 423674 to book seats or for information
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