Stalwarts of the dark winter months Betsy, Gavin and Trevor were there and there was the welcome return of Ian, John and Linda. We had songs in English, Dutch and Occitan ranging from blues to folk and jazz. My personal favourite songs last night were the spinning wheel and poverty knock sung by Ian and John respectively. I haven't heard either of these for a few years and it took me back to our folk club in England where they were sung regularly. The audience is coming on well too - not quite raising the roof yet but we had some good choruses last night.
It is also really gratifying to see the folk club is increasingly getting people together between events to work on music and songs to perform together. Last night Linda had joined up with Brian, Betsy played recorder and sang with Boris the young French guitarist, and Trevor had his new "band" (only kidding Charles and Anna!).
Talking of Charles - he is back playing the fiddle and clearly loving it - possibly ignoring medical advice but having fun - in fact his only complaint last night was that he hadn't been able to play enough! My advice though is to always leave the audience wanting more so they come back next time - hope you do.
The next club night is Thursday 25th April- hope to see lots of you there and if you want to entertain us contact Charles well in advance at chas5strings@orange.fr New performers are always very welcome but Charles does need to know who is going to be there so that he can arrange the programme.
(Oh and by the way, we do still need to hear your thoughts on summer venues, and any other ideas /suggestions you have about how the club should develop.)
Sue Carter
Val says liked the lights out at the back of the room and stage lit, worked well I thought. Thanks to Celia Berry for that idea.
