Being Friday the 30th of March, 2012 ...

26 wonderful people turned out on a fine spring evening to make music at the City Folk Club.
Every carefully arranged chair was occupied!

The seats look a bit like this:

This chair is known as 'Ronnie': available on-line, with free delivery at £21.50 + VAT.

Paul wielded the bell-tree at 20.15 hours and 43 seconds, (precisely!) and we got on with it ...

The Week Before Easter: Paul & Colin
High Germany: Lynda
I Like to Lie in the Sun: Tony
Bold Princess Royal: Roland
I Just Want to Dance with You: Les
Eriskay Love Lilt: Elayne, Angela & Colin
Leaning on the Everlasting Arms: Jane R.
Leaves of Life: Roger
Girl with April in her Eyes: Dave
Brisk Young Butcher: Laura & Colin
A Place in Me: Greg
A Spring Song: Lorna & Laura
The Nutting Girl: Nick
I Gave my Love a Cherry: Pat
Hey Sandy: Mike
Old Rugged Cross: Nigel
Sammy's Bar: Jane W.
Bermuda Triangle Exit: Mick
Awake, Awake, You Drowsy Sleeper: Angela
Sunday Morning Coming Down: Paul
Rare Old Times: Lynda
Knee Deep: Les
Fooling Love: Elayne
My Night Turns into Day: Greg
Ohio River Boat Song: Jane R.
Adieu, Adieu: Roger
Matty Groves: Dave
The Heart is True: Colin
Rakes of Mallow: Lorna
Benjamin Bowmaneer: Laura & Colin
Mazurka (Saint-Saëns): Nick
Kumbaya: Pat
House of the Rising Sun: Mike
Imagine: Nigel
Alll My Trials: Jane W.
Kilmona Barn Dance: Mick & Mike
In the Pines: Angela & Paul

"What's a mazurka?" someone asked ...

Please remember: we won't be here next week, 6th April.

More about April ...

Now for the really Special Event …

THE CITY FOLK CLUB'S
SPRING CELEBRATION

Saturday 28^th April, 3.00 - 6.00pm.

We have booked the hall during the afternoon for an indoor 'picnic' in anticipation of May Day.

What will we do?

Eat, drink, be merry, make and enjoy music, of course!


Catering?

The club will supply a simple buffet of sandwiches and savouries.

Please bring along some of your own culinary delights to share: sweet things, cakes, puddings etc.
Such contributions will be gratefully received … and, doubtless, enthusiastically consumed by a ravenous horde of revellers!

As always, it’s a ‘bring-your-own-beverages’ affair, but the kitchen will be available for tea/coffee-making.

How much?

FREE!!!

Dress-code?

The following images are just suggestions from the May Day tradition ...

May Queen

Jack-in-the-Green

Of course, all that is entirely optional, and if you would like to bring along some flowers and greenery, Angela has generously offered to make garlands/headdresses for you to wear.

Be warned: if you are not there, the pagan gods are unlikely to bless your summer harvest!

Being Friday the 23rd of March, 2012 ...

A splendid evening during which we were entranced, enchanted and entertained by this wondrous instrument ...

 No, it's not a model boat!
It's Nick's exquisitely decorated and finely tuned lute-back hurdy-gurdy!

Hear this ...

Recorded and engineered by Beresford Greene of Bognor Road Studios.

Berry successfully confused some of us by proceeding anticlockwise around the gathering.
Of course, this is considered by some to be unlucky - even unholy:
In folklore there are tales of people being transported to Elfland after running around a church widdershins, (Childe Rowland).

However, we're not superstitious.
Thunderbolts did not descend from the celestial realm, so we just got on with it ...

Passing Through: Roger
You Look Wonderful Tonight: Nigel
Over the Lancashire Hills: Mike
Rick-Rack: Mick & Marion T.
Seashore: Mick W.
The Daisy Song: Mave
The Dancing: Marion & Mick T.
A Russian Folk Song: Mark
Little Yellow Roses: Angela
A Sheep Shearing Song: Elaine
Star of County Down: Lorna
Where Have all the Flowers Gone: Margaret
Lonely When I'm with You: Eddie
The Water is Wide: Pat
Le Ruban Bleu: Nick
Bourrée Carrée de Saint Chartier : Nick
Verdant Braes of Skreen: Colin
End of the World: Lynda & Paul
Mole in a Hole: Paul
Devil Woman: Berry
If I go Ten Thousand Miles: Angela & Paul
The Owl and the Pussycat: Roger
Booley-House Jig/The Butterfly: Mick W. & Mike
Stately as a Gallion: Mave
Sweet Thames Flow Softly: Nigel
Black is the Colour: Margaret
Morecombe Bay: Mike
Not the Tennessee Blues: Mick & Marion T.
Brown Dance: Mark
Caledonia: Elaine
Glen o' Maddy: Lorna
The Night is Young: Eddie
Dark-Eyed Sailor: Pat
Bourrée Carrée de Vouvray: Nick
Moorlough Shore: Colin
Andrew Lammie: Lynda
If I had a Hammer: Paul
From a Jack to a King: Berry

Now, shall we all bourrée?

Things You Need to Know about April ...

On Good Friday, 6^th April our meeting is cancelled because The Guide Hall will be occupied by Guides.

On Friday, 20^th April it will be another prompt-start-and-early-finish event.
Doors open at 7.30.