Red City Folk Nose Club Day - March 18th

Red Nose Day - the Comic Relief headline day - falls once again on a Friday! The 18th of March, in fact. By a strange coincidence, the City Folk Club will be meeting at the Guide Hall that evening. The Red Nose Day fund-raising theme is "Do Something Funny for Money", but, seeing as most of what goes on in the club is already funny (either ha-ha or peculiar!), you needn't feel obliged to do anything especially funny (although you can if you want to!) - just come along with some spare cash. If you want to dress up, or sport Red Nose Day merchandise (visit Sainsbury's, Oxfam and other stores, or buy from http://shop.rednoseday.com/), well, you'll probably be thought very silly - but go ahead!

Now, we know how marvellous you were back in November, raising an amazing £500 for Children in Need, so we're not making a big thing of Red Nose Day. The City Folk Club is primarily about making music, not raising money for charity. However, we thought Red Nose Day couldn't be passed-over completely, so, we intend to:-

a) have an official Red Nose Day 'Pick a Pose' sweepstake - £2 a go, with half the proceeds to the winner, and the rest to Comic Relief;

b) have Spot Prizes - but the categories won't be announced until the night! (but - if you were thinking 'red'/ 'silly hat'/ 'most lugubrious interpretation of a Shakespearean joke set to music': secrecy would forbid us to comment);

c) the usual £2 admission in the 'collection pot' will go to Comic Relief - plus, of course, any other contributions you care to make.

Comic Relief helps people in the UK and Africa. See the BBC site at www.bbc.co.uk/rednoseday Please, please also watch the two-part documentary "Famous, Rich and in the Slums", where Lenny Henry, Angela Rippon, and others are sent to live in Nairobi's Karibe slum - Africa's largest - home to 1 million people, without proper sanitation. Part One is viewable on http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00z6dnn , Part Two is on BBC1 on the 10th of March. Lenny Henry's harrowing account of his experience there is in the 5th-11th March edition of Radio Times. You will find it difficult to view/read these and not be moved. We don't know how lucky we are, really.

Looking forward to seeing you for the usual fun - and more - on the 18th (if not before!) for Red City Folk Nose Club Day.