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Folk At The Club – October 06, 2025

The Singers

  1. Will Craswell ……..… From Blackthorn Buskers
  2. Thomas Owen
  3. Veronica Love
  4. Rod Livings
  5. Alex Evans
  6. Karl Jennings
  7. Ivor Keates …………… From Blackthorn Buskers
  8. Ken Langsbury
  9. Rich Whitehouse
  10. Richard Booth
  11. Eden Tanner …..……..From The Kings Shilling
  12. Annie Tincello
  13. Bill Taylor ………………From ReBil

 

The Songs

  • Bright Blue Rose (1/7)(G/Bod)
  • It Blowed Away (2)(B)
  • The Cruel Mother (3)(U)
  • The Last Thing on My Mind (4)(G)
  • The Last Leviathan (5)(G)
  • Travelling Back Home (Own Song)(6)(Uke)
  • One More Pull (7)(C)
  • Matty Groves (8)(U)
  • We Need Each Other Now (9)(G)
  • The Bell Ringing (10)(U)
  • Horn Fair (11)(U)
  •  Come All You Fair And Tender Ladies (12)(G)
  • The Dimming Of The Day (13)(G)
  • Ballad Of St Anne’s Reel (1/5/7/9)(G/W/Bd/B)
  • Babylon Is Fallen (2)(B)
  • Bold Bonny Boy (3)(U)
  • Barabara Allen (4)(G)
  • The Lock Keeper(5)(U)
  • Devon Gypsy (Own Song)(6)(Uke)
  • The Parting Glass (7)(U)
  • The Fire Brigade (8)(Song & Story)
  • Half English (9)(U)
  • Come Landlord Fill The Flowing Bowl (10)(U)
  • Tavistock Goosey Fair (11)(U)
  • Dabbling In The Dew Makes The Milkmaids Fair (12)(G)
  • Success To The Farmer (13)(G)
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Irish for the English – September 29, 2025

Attendees – Sheelagh Allen, Trevor Valentine, Richard Booth, Alex Evans, Fiona & Gary Langdon, Veronica Lowe, Rich Whitehouse, David Pitman, Bill Taylor, Sam & Eleanor Simmons, Hugh Tarran, Will Craswell & John Bent-Marshall

Sheelagh Allen gave us a short talk on how to pronounce the Irish language when you come across it in singing. Sheelagh has been a member of Folk At The Club since October 2019, born in Ireland she spent some time in Spain before returning to England.

Beginning with the Irish alphabet, we were taken through the various pronunciations and accents with a sprinkling of songs and funny stories to illustrate them. We were all given one of Sheelagh’s CDs and the workshop ended with a question and answer session followed by a sing around which was mostly Irish songs and closing with Sheelagh singing the Irish national anthem in Gaelic. A great night – thanks Sheelagh.