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Sunday 13th May |
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Open Floor -
Spotlight NOT on
Leonie Mansell
BUT ON
The Rockin Bankers &
The Backet(te)s
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Our open floor nights are an opportunity for anyone to try a song, a tune or a poem knowing they have a sympathetic audience, although there is no obligation to perform, and those who simply like to listen (and taste the excellent and inexpensive beer) are welcome.
Tonight the Spotlight should have been on Leonie Mansell but unfortunately she's not well and has had to cancel. We all wish her a speedy recovery and we'll plan to put the Spotlight on her as soon as she declares herself fit.
Meanwhile, fresh from the success (or otherwise) of their concert on the bandstand on Sunday morning, we will instead have the Rockin Bankers (Dick, Jeff and Peter) with their fantastic backing singers The Backet(te)s (Sally, Sylvia and Malcolm) - acoustic rock and roll as you've never heard it before. Mostly sixties because they can't remember anything else.
Admission £2 (members £1) |
Sunday 20th May |
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Bond of Union
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Bond of Union celebrate the great English tradition of unaccompanied folk harmony singing.
Brighton-based Richard Inman, Benjamin Board and Johnny Hewes sing about heroism and injustice,
struggle and superstition, soldiers and revolutionaries, but always about the bonds of union that
connect us, which are strengthened in their singing.
Admission £6 (members £4) |
Sunday 27th May |
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Open Floor |
Our open floor nights are an opportunity for anyone to try a song, a tune or a poem knowing they have a sympathetic audience, although there is no obligation to perform, and those who simply like to listen (and taste the excellent and inexpensive beer) are welcome. Admission £2 (members £1) |
Sunday 3rd June |
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Open Floor - Spotlight on Rodney Wright
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Our open floor nights are an opportunity for anyone to try a song, a tune or a poem knowing they have a sympathetic audience, although there is no obligation to perform, and those who simply like to listen (and taste the excellent and inexpensive beer) are welcome.
Tonight the Spotlight is on Rodney Wright. In his own words: Geriatric, late developer
baritone with an eclectic taste and range of unaccompanied and accompanied
songs with genres ranging from light classical/operatic through swing,
blues, folk ancient and modern, to love songs from the musicals & classic
pops. Seeks audiences to help him find out if he can actually handle this
stuff. Likely to involve other Folk club members as partners in crime, in
being alternately serious, sentimental or just plain silly. Previous form
with HAODS, Trinity Church Players, Unity Players & Kammeo Singers. You
have been warned.
Admission £2 (members £1) |
Sunday 10th June |
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Song and Dance
(Gardeners are on leave) |
Songs, tunes and poems from members & guests plus dancing to our excellent ceilidh band.
Beginners and experts alike are welcome and our experienced callers ensure everyone can work their way through the dances with enjoyment. Admission £2 (members £1) |
Sunday 17th June |
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Dave Webber &
Anni Fentiman
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Dave and Anni joined forces in 1985, after spending many years around the folk club scene, in which time they featured on several albums made by other performers.
Within a short time they teamed up with friends Charley Yarwood and his wife Cathy to form the acapella harmony group Beggars Velvet. The group were very soon in demand for clubs and festivals and recorded their only album, Lady of Autumn. They made two tours of the USA in 1990 and 1991 before they stopped performing together in 1993 after eight very successful and happy years.
Since then Dave and Anni have continued to work as a duo, making their duo debut on stage at the Eisteddfod Festival in Dartmouth Massachusetts in 1993 to begin a very successful career as a harmony duo, working largely acapella and featuring mainly traditional and traditional idiom material. Although Dave and Anni perform substantially at home in the UK they also make at least one trip each year to the United States, where they have an established following and have also performed in Holland, Denmark and Finland.
Anni has developed a specialist repertoire of songs originating from her native North East, and Dave has been writing songs in traditional vein since 1982 many of these are widely sung and have become part of the general song repertoire of singers all over the world.
"If you love traditional music delivered with strength, clarity and simplicity, you certainly won't be disappointed with this duo" - Cornwall Folk Festival
Admission £8 (members £5) |
Sunday 24th June |
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Open Floor |
Our open floor nights are an opportunity for anyone to try a song, a tune or a poem knowing they have a sympathetic audience, although there is no obligation to perform, and those who simply like to listen (and taste the excellent and inexpensive beer) are welcome. Admission £2 (members £1) |
Sunday 1st July |
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Song and Dance |
Songs, tunes and poems from members & guests plus dancing to our excellent ceilidh band.
Beginners and experts alike are welcome and our experienced callers ensure everyone can work their way through the dances with enjoyment. Admission £2 (members £1) |
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SUMMER! |
Sunday 9th September |
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Trials of Cato |
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Sunday 23rd September |
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Mean Mary |
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Sunday 7th October |
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Brian Willoughby & Cathryn Craig
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Sunday 14th October |
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Stepling |
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Sunday 28th October |
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Damien Barber & Mike Wilson |
Sunday 11th November |
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Jody Kruskal |
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Sunday 18th November |
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Steve Turner |
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