Club logo Sunday Evenings at 8 pm (doors open 7:45) at:
The Normandy Centre Denne Road, Horsham,West Sussex RH12 1JF

Acoustic folk club - Licensed bar
Admission usually varies between £4 and £10 (discounted for members):
Under 21s get free admission to all events.
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Sunday 1st June   Themed Open Floor -
CHORUS SONGS		 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 are welcome.
Tonight's theme is chorus songs, although if the song you particularly wish to sing hasn't got a chorus, sing it! We want to hear it anyway.
Admission: Members £2; Non-members £4
       
Sunday 8th June   Open Floor & SPOTLIGHT on
Mike Gigg
Mike		 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 are welcome.
Tonight Mike Gigg will have the spotlight to himself, and no doubt there'll be a few shanties amongst his chosen songs.
Admission: Members £2; Non-members £4
       
Sunday 15th June   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 are welcome.
Admission: Members £2; Non-members £4
       
Sunday 22nd June   Ramskyte
Ramskyte
 Ramskyte are a three-piece harmony group with a traditional “wall of sound” and interesting choice of material.
Demonstrating a strong, rich style of singing that gives credence to the assertion of, “the pioneers of square harmony”, their singing encompasses a variety of styles and origins, with material ranging from spirituals, traditional songs, modern classics, and a healthy smattering of original songs.
Always worth listening to, so be sure to bring your singing heads with you and join in with the plentiful choruses!
Admission £10 (Members £7)
       
Sunday 29th June   Song and Dance Songs, tunes and poems from members & visitors 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: Members £2; Non-members £4
       
SUMMER HOLIDAYS!      
       
Sunday 7th September   Song and Dance Songs, tunes and poems from members & visitors 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: Members £2; Non-members £4
       
Sunday 14th September   Open Floor and
SIXTIES NIGHT!!		 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 are welcome.
Tonight there'll be a sixties theme, which doesn't mean that you have to perform a song from the sixties - just that you have licence to do so if you wish!
Admission: Members £2; Non-members £4
       
Sunday 21st September   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 are welcome.
Admission: Members £2; Non-members £4
       
Sunday 28th September   Chris Moreton and Wendy
Chris and Wendy		 Chris is an award-winning guitarist with more than 40 years of guitar-playing experience. A multi-instrumentalist rated as the UK’s “best bluegrass guitarist” and as playing “truly world class lead guitar”. He is also a true entertainer.

“The standard of playing was first rate… We were given an incredible medley of Mozart’s greatest hits played at an incredible pace – on guitar!”
Arran Folk Festival
Admission £10 (Members £7)
       
Sunday 5th October   Song and Dance Songs, tunes and poems from members & visitors 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: Members £2; Non-members £4
       
Sunday 12th October   Open Floor and
Musical Odyssey with
Tony Elphick
Tony		 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 are welcome.
Tonight Caroline will be grilling melodeon and concertina wizard Tony Elphick about the music in his life, and extracting some of the enormous fund of knowledge that Tony has of folk music.
Admission: Members £2; Non-members £4
       
Sunday 19th October   Kit Hawes and Aaron Catlow
Kit Aaron		 Kit Hawes & Aaron Catlow combine musicality, virtuosity and vocal harmony. Using the folk music of the British Isles as a catalyst, they create dynamic interpretations as well as original songs, with guitar, fiddle and vocal duets. 
The duo tour extensively in the UK and internationally across Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. BBC 2’s Mark Radcliffe is a champion of their work, saying “Kit and Aaron are reminiscent of the late Dave Swarbrick and Martin Carthy… I can give them no higher accolade. They are at the top of their game”.
“Such dexterity, energy and passion.....mightily impressive” - R2 Magazine
Admission £10 (Members £7)
       
Sunday 26th October   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 are welcome.
Admission: Members £2; Non-members £4
       
Sunday 2nd November   John Kirkpatrick
John		 John Kirkpatrick has been dancing, singing, and playing his way around the English folk scene since he joined Hammersmith Morris Men in 1959 at the age of twelve. Displaying a rare skill on a variety of push-pull squeezeboxes - the melodeon, the button accordion, and the Anglo concertina - he has been fully professional since 1970, not only with vast amounts of solo appearances, but also in all kinds of duos, trios, and bands – including spells in Steeleye Span, The Albion Band, Trans Europe Diatonique, in a long term duo with Roy Bailey, Band of Hope, lengthy stints with Richard Thompson’s Band, The Sultans of Squeeze, and Brass Monkey. In the mid 1990s he led his own John Kirkpatrick Band. More recently he replaced John Tams as the lead singer with folk-rock band Home Service, and now Mr Tams is back in the fold again, the two Johns share singing duties. Since the demise of Brass Monkey, John appears in an occasional duo with Martin Carthy.
He is still an unrelentingly enthusiastic morris dancer, and started one of England’s most influential teams – The Shropshire Bedlams. And he still finds time to play for dancing, currently in a band with all his four sons – Kirkophany.
Out in the wide world John has contributed music, song, and dance to a great number of plays in the theatre, and to a lesser extent radio, television, and film. As a virtuoso session player his squeezeboxes can be heard on hundreds of recordings, and as a creator of new work in all these fields he has established an enviable reputation. But on his own live gigs you’re more likely to see him in his natural habitat pursuing his first love - traditional English music and song.
But we hardly need to say all this - just come and see.
Admission £10 (Members £7)
       
Sunday 9th November   Gatehouse
Gatehouse		 Roscommon based Gatehouse have been performing together since 2014, and boast a
top class line up of traditional musicians including singer Rachel Garvey, Jacinta McEvoy
on guitar and concertina, John McEvoy on fiddle and mandolin and John Wynne on flutes
and whistles.
Gatehouse’s exciting blend of flute and fiddle coupled with Rachel’s captivating singing
and Jacinta’s sensitive guitar playing delivers a heady cocktail of tasteful songs and
exciting instrumentals.
Since the release their highly acclaimed debut album, Tús Nua in 2016, Gatehouse have
been performing regularly at venues throughout Ireland and Europe. Gatehouse have
been variously described as: ‘An unerring delight’ (The Irish Times), ‘... a group at their
very best vocally and instrumentally’ (Irish Music Magazine), Altan’s Mairéad Ni
Mhaonaigh describes their 2019 album ‘Heather down the Moor’, as …’a joy to listen to’.
Admission £10 (Members £7)
       
Sunday 16th November   Song and Dance Songs, tunes and poems from members & visitors 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: Members £2; Non-members £4
       
Sunday 23rd November   Broadwood night
Broadwood		 Tonight the Broadwood Morris Men will...what?
Who knows?
But it'll be fun, entertaining and a splendid evening all round - guaranteed!
Admission £7 (Members £5)
       
Sunday 30th November   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 are welcome.
Admission: Members £2; Non-members £4
       
Sunday 7th December   Those Folk
Those folk

Lawrence Menard (USA) and Clare Quinn (AUS) are the transpacific-troubadours known as ‘Those Folk’. With Lawrence’s Cajun beginnings and Californian upbringing melding with Clare’s grounding in Australian folk music, their sound is diverse and inspiring. Vocal harmonies are featured alongside guitars, mandolin, banjo, accordion & banjo.
Charismatic, authentic and thoroughly entertaining, Lawrence and Clare met in Scotland in 2012. They have since travelled extensively and lived in the pine forest mountains of California. They now hang their travelling hats in Pomona, Queensland.
A partnership forged in the fires of folk music, Those Folk explore sounds from the 1960’s folk revival and contemporary Americana music. Breathtaking vocal harmonies are featured alongside rich instrumental work performed on guitars, mandolin, banjo and accordion. Lawrence & Clare are storytellers who make audience members feel like fast friends. As songwriters they delve into love, hope, belonging, and the human condition. As performers they enthral, enchant, and leave a lasting impression.
Admission £10 (Members £7)
       
Sunday 14th December   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 are welcome.
Admission: Members £2; Non-members £4
       
Sunday 21st December   Song and Dance and
CHRISTMAS PARTY		 Songs, tunes and poems from members & visitors 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: Members £2; Non-members £4
       
CHRISTMAS!!      
       
NEW YEAR!!      
       
2026!!      
       
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