This is a re-branding as the group perform the works of Les Barker without Les. With Alison Younger, Hilary Spencer and Chris Harvey you get two wonderful singers and a superb musician creating a glorious evening of the master’s material performed with style panache and humour. Queen Victoria would be amused.

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Come along to a night with a difference, Pepper’s Ghost are a magic lantern show using an original 1890 brass and mahogany lantern. The whole evening is given over to nostalgia (“What’s different ”) I hear you ask? The glass plate’s slides are usually themed and you will get plenty of opportunity to join in as they come with music and song from this four-piece group. We have waited a long time to get this group back.

We welcome back this wonderful singer songwriter from the North East, Many of his songs have entered the genre. With 11 albums under his belt he has spotlighted both the heroes and the life and trades of the working class people of the area. Richard is also a fine shanty singer so there will be lots of opportunity to sing along.

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Cockersdale are Val, John and Graham. They can turn their hand to both serious and comic songs and a love for the tradition is self-evident. The rapport between them is a joy to behold, as is the humour and ease that belies the solid harmonies nurtured through the many years they have worked together. Look out for the songs that pepper their performance from the late great Keith Marsden. They have also agreed to perform some of the Sheffield carols.

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