Folklife Quarterly FQ 40: Jan 2014 Folklife Quarterly, web version | Page 16

v FQ 40, Jan 2014 p14 v Clubs & Venues, England Ü West Country Ü West Midlands Ü Other Areas GLOUCESTERSHIRE ® STROUD SUB ROOMS, George St, Stroud, Glos GL5 1AE. various days and times See website for concerts and see Festival diary in this issue for our Folk & Americana festivals. : www.facebook.com/subrooms : https://twitter.com/SubRoomsStroud Tickets: online via : www.subscriptionrooms.org.uk ✆ By phone, Box Office: 01453 760900 In person: Tourist Information Centre (10-5 Mon - Sat) Glos Folk ® GLOSFOLK The Folk Diary of events (www.glosfolk.org.uk) is well worth a visit to keep up with what is going on in the county and nearby, with over 200 events listed most months. (and those are just the ones we know about!). If your concert, ceilidh, session, or club is not listed, then do let me know. Diary is now fully searchable for ease of use, and receives about 500 ‘hits’ a week! Membership/e-mail listing is free, entries in the Folk Directory, and Glosfolk Diary are also free. Glosfolk is also on Twitter, http://www.twitter.com/glosfolk ® Peter Cripps, Glosfolk : www.glosfolk.org.uk Bill Pullen’s Blues Bulletin Glos, Warks, & nearby Herefds & Worcs Free night at short notice (31/8) found me at ‘The Marlbank’ near Welland (first time for 25 years!) to see ‘Journeyman’: fine vocals/ fiddle from Zoe, percussion/flute from Paul Beadle, Mark (ex Roving Crows/Babbajack) on bass & Andy (Lindsay) on guitar & vocals Bill Pullen at the [former] Slip holding it all together: material included jigs Inn. Much Marcle, Herefds & reels, ‘Down where the drunkards roll’, ‘Mercedes Benz’, ‘It’s all over now’, more modern & original songs and a rousing ‘Sympathy for the devil’ to end with. Thanks to Andy’s brother Jim (a fine harp blower himself!) for tipping me off. At ® Forest Folk Club (1/9) again first time in years) met Chico (Warminster) & Hilary from Bristol who run Bath Acoustic Club (all welcome) plus old friend Roger Drury and Ian Harvey/Jan Vaisey - and Keith Hyatt! I won’t leave it so long in future. Winchcombe (Wooden Horse/Mumbo Jumbo, etc), promoted by Dave Wade, info www.facebook.com/winchcombelive ‘Yew Tree’, Conderton, under new management, paid gigs continue: I’ve no plan to re-start session, anyone else fancy it? Fox, Leafield, Oxon. Session, 8.30 pm start. And nice set from locals’ Red Shift, incl. Emma (Indigo Kings) Stone on reeds & saxes, of folk/ acoustic material, with some self penned songs, at revived Northleach Steam Rally (7/9). More venues: occ. Concerts (incl. folk & blues) at the Barn, Hellens, Much Marcle HR8 2LY. [email protected], 07854 798913; tickets www.orpheus-events.com/versatile-arts; and following Seth Lakeman’s successful gig at Gloucester cathedral, Friars folk & roots are presenting a series, incl. Gigspanner/St. Agnes Fountain/Sean Lakeman & Kathryn Roberts. Info/tickets from 08456 521823. Also in Upton: told ‘Wheelhouse’ last Friday, very intermittent, check before you travel, but bands (Barflys etc) every Saturday. R oger Davies (Upton Folk Fest, etc.) now planning a monthly (?) Session in ‘the Muggery’; and ‘the Morgan’ in Malvern has Sunday open session (4pm7pm approx.) to add to Wed. Open Mike (Tyler Massey). Shifting Sundays: new venue sought for 1st week as Ettington want to close on Sun nights - as has already happened at Farriers, Todenham, where 5th. Sunday changed to 5th. Friday! And Sun 15/9 visit to Coughton Court cheese & pickle fest. Found a beer tent song/ music session (due to rain) with Chipping Camden Morris men after they danced on the lawn, following Avoncroft folk dance group with 16th & 17th Century Promenades ........ and before Bedcote Morris (from Staffordshire moorlands) with dances across from their county, Shropshire, Lincs. & Norfolk! And Indigo Kings need a new guitarist as Christian O’Connell concentrating on blues - hopefully with YT sometimes! New session at ‘Welwyn Arms’, Much Marcle (Sun/Thurs?), pub for info., more as I hear it. Thurs monthly(?) Open Mike run by Perry Foster at ‘Chestnut’, Worcester, so plenty of blues - also best wishes to Annie who is poorly at the time of writing. Enjoying new Steve Tilston trio album ‘Happenstance’ (ha!) with comeback harmonica skills from Keith Warmington: and a look around Lady M.’s new home town - Leominster- found live Sun afternoon music (incl. Blues) at the ‘Grape Vaults’ (same also applies to the ‘Lichfield Vaults’ in Hereford) and the legend of Jenny Pipes· and the ducking stool (Priory church/ museum for more: I feel a song coming!), giving rise to ‘Jenny Pipes’ Morris’ ladies side, Thurs. 8.30pm at Stoke Prior village hall, Facebook, telephone [phone], email [email protected] Missed Arkfest at Malvern (prior engagement at Sankey marine, Evesham): any report from spectators/those taking part? (29/9). And Americana/roots/blues monthly 3rd Fridays at ‘White Hart’, ‘Folking Marvellous’ are putting on events in the north Cotswold / west Oxon border area, with international & local artists: the most recent being American old-timey band ‘The Blacktwig Pickers at Stretton on Fosse village hall nr. Moreton in Marsh. For more info check out Facebook, ring Gary on 07795 430403, or folkingmarvellous@ gmail.com, tickets from wegottickets.com or local outlets as advertised. Talking Moreton, first full gig of ‘Rough’n Ready’ (YT & Colin Rickards) for 20 years at ‘The Bell’ on 3/ 10 ! Scottish legends the Bully Wee band (I remember them at Granny’s Club in Chelt & the old Cherrytrees motel club in Alcester) are on tour in Jan 2014   ~ with a line up that includes fiddle maestro Ian Cutler (‘The Wicker Man’, Feast of Fiddles, etc): dates include South Petherton, Topsham, Bishop’s Cleeve, Nettlebed, & Great Torrington, with Phil Beer as a special guest on all but the last named. More from www.bullyweebaod.com Occ. Sun jam/open mike at Green Room, Chelt. Playhouse: enjoyed playing with Loz & Bill (‘Bell’, Bath Road session), Dave Lloyd & Dik Cadbury (Decameron, Dave Harper band, Millstream studios, etc) at opener. More info [email protected]. New Thurs fortnightly session at Great Malvern hotel (Ray & Paul), contact for info:  ???? Good audience for ® Colin Pitts/’Rough’n Ready’ at ‘Apple & Ale’ at ® ‘The Fleece’  barn (12/10). 1st Shifting Sunday session now at the Gate, Upper Brailes; new occ. old-timey/bluegrass gigs at Beckford village hall, info. 07584 550545 or [email protected]; and with OBB/Anoraks’ commitments reduced, I’m looking for a guitarist for ‘North~ and West~ over the border’ & ‘long haul’ Glos. Gigs as they occur - any interest out there? Mainly blues with a dash of folk/roots  ............. Finally, at a Norwood Arms house-band session recently, met a great cajun-style accordionist (his 1st visit, didn’t note his name) who joined YT and band for a rousing ‘Matchbox’ and ‘Citrus Fruit Song’! Future collaboration maybe? Bon Ton Roulez! Bill Pullen ® BILL PULLEN ✆ 01242 620204