Friday 6th June
Brendan McGlinchey and Oliver Mulligan : two
All-Ireland champions
Fiddle- player Brendan, from Co. Armagh, is a master of decorative
style, renowned both for his technical virtuosity and his great feeling for the
old style music.
Oliver is originally from Co. Monaghan where his style and many
of his songs were learned, he later added Gaelic songs from the
West. Long resident in London, he is a much respected
singer in both English and Irish.
With Will Duke and
Dan Quinn plus poetry from special guest Racker Donnelly
FRIDAY 4th JULY Dearman,
Gammon & Harrison
Annie Dearman, Vic Gammon and Steve
Harrison perform English traditional songs and tunes in a robust and firmly
rooted English style, accompanied on various squeezeboxes, banjo and mouthorgan.
Their repertory comes from traditional singers and instrumentalists; from
folk song collectors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century; from
manuscript tune and song books , ballad sheets and songs they just happen
to hear and like. Their CD Black Crow White Crow has had great reviews:
'This
laid-back style serves the songs very well; there's breathing space here for the
words and music to work their genial spell.... ' (Stirrings)
'… powerful
lusty vocals from Annie Dearman, Steve Harrison's sensitive melodeon
accompaniment, distinctive unaccompanied singing of Vic Gammon.... What stands
out for me are the wonderful tunes to the largely traditional material ..'
(Shreds and Patches)
'A really rather splendid album.... Singers such as
Dearman, Gammon and Harrison are producing a new tradition - one based firmly in
the older traditions, but also one that displays its own vitality and
innovation.' (Musical Traditions)
With American songs to celebrate the
4th of July
from Peta Webb , Ken Hall and Simon Hindley
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Club closed August.
Re-opens Friday 12th September with the
legendary Danny Meehan