Guest artists booked for 2012
All events start at 8.00pm
| 16 January | Bernard Wrigley Bernard, The Bolton Bullfrog, will be entertaining us with great songs, comedy stories, skillful concertina and guitar playing. From starting in folk clubs, and then writing & performing at the Octagon theatre in Bolton, Bernard's career has alway combined singing and acting. From TV programmes and films such as Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Phoenix Nights, Dinner Ladies, Alan Bennett films, Brassed Off, My Son The Fanatic & Coogan's Run, to the many radio plays and programmes he's presented or guested upon, there has throughout been a steady stream of LPs and CDs - fifteen to date, the early ones all now remastered to CD.
There's a recent book (2008) of daft one verse poems The Longs & The Shorts Of It, to complement the first book Shorts For All Occasions, released in 2006. He loves the varied nature of it all, such as one week reading a series of very silly customs on the Mark & Lard show on BBC Radio One, then being a prisoner in a tv advert for Walls' Sausages, being murdered on TV in Harbour Lights and later going to Norway for a commercial. |
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| 17 February | Pilgrims' Way Refreshingly different, reassuringly traditional, Pilgrims' Way are a 3-piece band with a big personality and big sound. Playing their own particular brand of Folk music, they were brought together by a series of chance meetings at sessions around the North West of England, bonding over red hair and a shared love of traditional music, they have been shaking up assorted kitchens, public houses and folk venues ever since.
Their influences individually are many and varied but they share a deep respect for the tradition and take as their inspiration some of the most influential bands from the 60s/70s revival. Named for the Rudyard Kipling poem, set to music by the great Peter Bellamy, their aim is to present gimmick-free English folk of the finest kind. The band are Edwin Beasant, (melodeons, guitar, bass), Lucy Wright, (vocals, jews harp, second fiddle) and Tom Kitching,(fiddle, mandolin, reluctant vocals).. |
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| 16 March | Dave Townsend and Phil Humphries - "The Lost Chord" |
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| 20 April | The Askew Sisters |
For tickets, please phone 01204 852217