Watch YouTube videos of some of our Guests for the 2024 - 2025 Season.
A Walm Welcome Awaits You
Previous Guests
Mar 13th. Martin and Shan Graebe.
Author: Paul Ryan
2019-2020
Martin and Shan Graebe
We welcome back Martin and Shan Graebe to the club. They are held in high esteem for their knowledge and research into folk music in general, and in Martins case the work on the Sabine Baring Gould collection in particular. Tonight though it is the performance side of folk song that you will hear, as both are fine harmony singers and soloists. At ease on stage they will have no problem coaxing you into joining in the choruses.
Jeff and Elaine Gillett are collectively known as Discovery and it is your chance to see them perform for us for the first time in this guise, although Jeff is no stranger to the club as he has performed here many times with Ron Taylor. They have a vast range of songs garnered from the length and breadth of this country. We are expecting duets and solos, plus I’m sure a few tunes from Jeff, who is an outstanding guitar soloist as well as an excellent accompanist.
We welcome back Keith Kendrick and Sylvia Needham from Derby who can be relied upon for fine harmony singing, coupled with some wonderful concertina playing They are equally at home with a ballad, shanty or a Music Hall ditty. They will be lots of opportunity for you to join in. (This replaces Barrie and Ingrid Temple who have had to cancel due to illness. We shall rebook them later in the season).
Sound Tradition hail from the East of England and comprise of Linda Baddley, David Bartlett, Catherine Legge and Moose. They are well known to some of you from seeing them at festivals, but they are right at home in a folk club as well. What can be expected are lovely harmonic arrangements of fine traditional and contemporary songs of both the land and the sea.It is lovely to see the interaction between them as they share the introductions and leads. Don’t worry all you joiner inners, you will have plenty of opportunity to participate.
The nights are drawing in so gather round the radiators while we take you back in time with a return visit from The Nightwatch. Featuring Andy Casserley and Ian Pittaway, two fine instrumentalists and singers,bringing you tunes and songs from early times right up to date with songs from the century before the century before last. They will perform on a variety of instruments to suit the repertoire. Can you join in? Of course you can, but make sure to get it right.