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| Date | Artist | |
|---|---|---|
| 20th August 2009 | Closed | |
| 27th August 2009 | Closed | |
| 3rd September 2009 | Possum Lickers + Chris Bluestreet | Welcome back! We start the season with our annual helping of old-time blues, hillbilly ballads
and cowboy curiosities, from the little band with the best goldarn name in this here terri-tory.
Plus an extra dash of the blues from our other resident bluesman. |
| 10th September 2009 | Magpie Lane | Traditional English songs and dance tunes performed on fiddle, cello, concertina, whistles and percussion. Powerful vocal harmonies are one of the band's trademarks. Featuring long-time club favourites, Andy Turner and Mat Green (who will probably not be capering this time, owing to lack of space onstage). |
| 17th September 2009 | Jeff Warner | "Jeff Warner sings traditional songs, specializing in music that illustrates the American past. Using instruments like banjo, guitar, concertina, Jew's harp and rhythm bones, Warner brings past events to life. If you're lucky, you can see him do a little clogging, too." The Wire |
| 24th September 2009 | Arcadia + David Campbell | Fiddle-driven quartet exploring the dance music of England, France and a little way beyond.
Traditional and original tunes skilfully arranged to seduce the ears as well as the feet.
Plus a surreptitious swig of our erstwhile resident, concentrating, probably, on his English repertory. Unaccompanied traditionalish singing, anyway. |
| 1st October 2009 | Julie Arnott & Gavin Atkin | Popular songs of the last century, with voice and Jeffries duet concertina. |
| 8th October 2009 | Moth Broth + Kate Locksley + Andrew Shaw | A melange of melodeon, mouthorgan and spoons from Simon Booth of the Ran Tan Band and Major Katastrofi, of whom it has been said. Plus a young traditional and contemporary singer from Cambridge and a fine new voice from the floor of London folk clubs gives us unaccompanied traditional English song. TRAD2MAD event. |
| 15th October 2009 | Jim Bainbridge | Legendary north-eastern melodeon player and singer. |
| 22nd October 2009 | Chris Wood | "The renaissance man of English folk." Say no more. Come early. |
| 29th October 2009 | Rún | Five female voices, with Celtic harp, perform songs in the ancient language of Erin, plus Scots Gaelic and Breton, maybe. "Refreshingly different to anything else that's around at the minute." The Irish World |
| 5th November 2009 | Brian Peters | Traditional songs and music from England, with virtuoso anglo concertina, melodeon and guitar.
"No singer outside Nic Jones and Martin Carthy has embraced the tradition and used its wellsprings in as vivid
and ingenious a way." Rock'n'Reel.
This evening is dedicated to the memory of Rosie Turner-Bisset. |
| 12th November 2009 | Knapp Brita Pettersson, Knapp Maria Pettersson & Jon Holmén | Three young, talented Swedish fiddlers who will play tunes from their home villages of Boda and Rättvik. Guaranteed to be a tuneful evening with some powerful violin playing and resonating harmonies. |
| 19th November 2009 | Laura Victoria | A voice and a cello - that's about it. Intense, edgy, light-hearted, melodramatic and honest songs, brought to life by unusual cello playing that veers between moving melancholy airs, punchy rock riffing and slap bass. |
| 26th November 2009 | Martin Carthy | No introduction needed. Come early. |
| 3rd December 2009 | Reuben's Train | More weird and wonderful songs from the lugubrious men in black. Mostly American songs, some traditional and some not so traditional, from the darker side of life. Guitar, banjo and two-part harmony. |
| 10th December 2009 | Peta Webb, Ken Hall & Simon Hindley | One of England's finest and best-known singing duos perform songs in harmony - Irish, British and American - with Simon Hindley, our own resident bluesman, on guitar. |
| 17th December 2009 | Christmas Party | Free sandwiches! Pass the parcel!! A chance to perform your party piece, however eccentric. |
| 24th December 2009 | Closed | Happy Christmas! |
| 31st December 2009 | Closed | Happy New Year! |
| 7th January 2010 | tba | |
| 14th January 2010 | tba | |
| 21st January 2010 | Rebetiko band | |
| Notes by Alex Szyszkowski |
If you're interested, here is a list of previous guests, since 1997.
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Page created by Martin Nail. Last revised 22nd September 2009