Folklife Quarterly FQ 40: Jan 2014 Folklife Quarterly, web version | Page 18

v FQ 40, Jan 2014 p16 NEW FOR 2014 Beacon Songwriters Group 1st & 3rd Wednesday each month starting 5th March Details [email protected] The Beacon Centre Central Avenue Nuneaton CVll 5BB We welcome news from all our Members ! columnists, performers, club reports, or just a line or two ~ we’d love to hear from you ! Not a Member? ~ just over £1 month ! only £14 a year for your news, listings, & FQ posted - see page 3 or www. folklife-west.co.uk/info.html Deadline 20 Feb for Apr quarter v Clubs & Venues, England Ü West Country Ü West Midlands Ü Other Areas WARWICKSHIRE, continued ® ATHERSTONE FOLK CLUB, Church End Brewery at Ridge Lane, Nuneaton CV10 0RD. 3rd Wed, revised start time now 8pm; all year Hosts Finger in the Jar. We aim to have something for everyone; traditional, modern, shanties, comedy, dance and sessions just for musicians. Entry free, with a collection for the guests that night and a free raffle. We look forward to meeting many old friends and making many more new ones. Floor singers wishing to perform, please contact Phil Benson at [email protected] in plenty of time, please.  We fill up fast! ® Phillip Benson, [email protected] 01827 711514, www.atherstonefolkclub.org.uk A new club … ® MEREVALE FOLK CLUB,  Horse & Jockey (01827 715236), Coleshill Road, Bentley, Atherstone, Warks CV9 2HL. 2nd Sun, 7.00 pm, all year   A new club for the Atherstone area, run by hosts Finger in the Jar. Starting in January 2014, another chance to hear excellent music in a convivial atmosphere. Entry price will vary, but charges will be kept as low as possible, whilst enabling us to bring top-notch performers to the venue. ® Phillip Benson, [email protected] 01827 711514, www.atherstonefolkclub.org.uk  Another new venue … ® FOLK AT THE LARDER, The Larder, 50 Long Street, Atherstone, Warks CV9 1AU.   1st Wed, 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm, all year Folk in a café (The Larder), run by anyone who turns up. (Well, not quite, but it gives the flavour.)  Singaround format, for the most part. Starting 4 December 2013, those who find themselves at a loose end on the occasional (1st of the month, 2nd in January) Wednesday afternoon are welcome to come and join a few friends just singing for the joy of it. Free Entry, although you will not want to miss out on the food and drink available in this 1940s themed eatery, served by contemporarily-attired waitresses. See www.facebook.com/TheLarderAtherstone ® Phillip Benson, [email protected] 01827 711514, www.atherstonefolkclub.org.uk And another! ® BEACON SONGWRITERS GROUP, The Beacon Centre, Central Avenue, Nuneaton CV11 5BB 1st & 3rd Wed, This new group will meet on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month, starting from 5th March. The Beacon Centre is on Central Avenue, off Corporation Street, at the junction of Graham Street & Bath Road. More information from John Harris, 02476 394737 or email [email protected] www.the-beacon.org.uk BIRMINGHAM ® BLACK DIAMOND FOLK SONG CLUB The Globe pub, corner of Manchester Street & Blews Street, Birmingham. • Fri, 8.30pm (advert on right) The Black Diamond Folk Club began its FIFTIETH YEAR (!!!!) with a visit by Nancy Kerr and James Fagan (30 August). Nancy led confidently on the fiddle, singing many of her own songs, and James kept accurate pace on the guitar, though he also did some singing. One fine song was that old favourite: Annie dear, don’t wait for me. Martin Wyndham-Read (20 September) hooked in the audience with the opening lines of his first song: As I was a walking to Birmingham Fair, I spied pretty Nancy a-combing her hair. Next came: I drew my ship into the harbour. From then on, it was plain sailing. Geoff Higginbottom (4 October) delivered a cracking evening of entertainment. ‘The Voice’ treated his audience to a varied repertoire of songs interspersed with some very funny repartee. He had everyone joining in with favourite passages including sad lines about the vanished past, typified by: And the last train to Fleetwood has gone. The room was packed for a visit by some members of the Stream of Sound youth choir (1 November) and their musical director Caroline Price. Of these, only three were old enough to have been present on the choir’s first visit. They sang some popular numbers including Chicken on a Raft and the Prickle-Eyed Bush, but their most outstanding song was an African one, Ga-Gona, sung and delivered in that unmistakably enthusiastic African way. A few days away made me miss a visit by Janet Russell (8 October), but I was there for Peter and Barbara Snape (15 October). The Lancashire flavour of their songs was at its funniest with: John Willey’s performing newt. What a belter! What a dancer! * Following the mid-November closure of the Globe, the club relocated temporarily to the Lamp Tavern in Highgate. Check the website to find the location. ® Geoff Davies Contacts: Paul Ryan ✆ 0121 358 2665 8 [email protected] Phil Cross ✆ 0121 357 4098 8 [email protected] : http://blackdiamondfolkclub.org.uk We have problems with our venue! Please telephone or consult website to confirm location 3 Jan 14 17 Jan 14 31 Jan 14 14 Feb 14 28 Feb 14 14 Mar 14 28 Mar 14 4 Apr 14 to be confirmed Roy Clinging Pepper's Ghost Jeff Wesley Lynne Heraud & Pat Turner to be confirmed Judy Cook Askew Sisters all other Friday's are Singers' Nights Contact Paul Ryan 0121 358 2665 Phil Cross 0121 357 4098 e-mail: [email protected] http://blackdiamondfolkclub.org.uk