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The Bath Folk Club
Marick and Louise are pleased to announce the Launch of the Bath Folk Club Bringing the Best Accoustic Acts to Bath
Our main aim with the folk club is to raise the profile of the excellent Folk Music Scene here in Bath and to bring outside
acts to the city. We will be providing a platform in a great venue for guests to perform and listen to each other and an opportunity
to hear bands and artists that often wouldn't be heard here. We Aim to bring gigs of the highest quality and greatest fun
to you with a chance to be involved as well.
We wish to include Instrumental music, Singing, and Dancing, and hope to include workshops some time in the Future.
We will be running a Big concert every month. These will always be on a Friday although not necessarily the same Friday
every month as our bookings are subject to the availability of the Bands.
We will also be running a singing Group every month which will be hosted by Nancy kerr, and supported by Louise Baxter
Jennifer Crook and Sue Hart. They are all singers with a wealth of experience behind them and will using this night to share
songs and traditions and to get everybody singing together. These will be at the Widcombe Social Club on the third Wednesday
of every month. It will cost £3 for singers and £4 for listeners.
Our Venue is Widcombe Social Club right in the heart of Bath which is easy to get to by road and just minutes walk away
from the train and Bus stations. It's a nice, friendly, clean venue with a really nice sound and cheap beer.
The Address of the venue is:
Widcombe Hill
Bath
Avon
BA2 6AA
We are also really pleased to announce that we are now being sponsored by Hobgoblin Music, Who are a chain of Music shops
that specialise in instruments CDs and sheet music for all forms of traditional/folk music. We are very thankful and welcome
for their support and hope to be working more closely with them in the future.
We thoroughly recommend you check them out by clicking on this link.
www.hobgoblin.com
We are currently looking for a few more sponsors to help with the running costs of the club. In return we can provide advertising
and a link to any sponsors websites. If you think you maybe interested then please contact us.
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| Cyser will be performing next month at the Bath Folk Club |
http://www.myspace.com/cyser
We'll we have just had a very successful Launch for the Bath Folk club, which were very pleased with. The turn out was excellent,(we
estimated it to be about 120 people)and the Atmosphere was electric. We felt there was a perfect balance of informal action
and an organised concert, with everybody coming together which is what we want it all to be about. This is a club where everybody
is involved and we want to offer something for everybody. A few people described it as feeling like a festival, which we took
as a compliment.
Crucible played a fantastic set, that Stunned the whole audience, and we will definitely be having them back. They are
a band that have really studied their craft with lots of care. The tunes are arranged with a real sense of art and energy
that
shows the potential of the English tradition fully realised. James Fagan and Nancy Kerr were also fantastic and the concert
ended with them joining crucible for a huge finale. We could not have hoped for a better start to kick things off. We hope
that we can keep this kind of momentum and build on it. Hopefully you will all continue to support the club and feel involved.
We would like to thank first and foremost everybody who came and made the night feel so good. We would also like to thank
the Following people for there support which Made the Whole night Possible.
Bob and Dawn who run Widcombe social club, for opening their doors and welcoming us in.
James Fagan and Nancy Kerr, Whose input and support has been really invaluable from the first concepts and are continuing
to put there huge wealth of experience into the club (They have played over 300 folk clubs together).
And the Following people who pitched in on the night, It would have been impossible without you all:
David Garner
Phil Allen
Josh Clark
Alan Burton
I'm really sorry if any one has been forgotten. But thanks to everyone involved
Next Month, (Friday 9th of May) we have Cyser booked to play. They are one of the Southwest's most accomplished and established
bands in the French Dance Music traditions, Performing Music from Central France and Brittany as well as many of their own
Compositions. we will have a big space for Dancing, and we are really looking forward to having them play. The line up includes
Bagpipes, Hurdy Gurdy, Accordion and Violin. They are Absolutely Excellent and you can check out their music on www.myspace.com/cyser.
We have just heard that Cliff Stapleton of the Excellent Primaevil (and formerly of Blowzabella) will be coming to play
a short set. This is making us all very excited indeed.
The format of the Club will be doors opening at 8pm with an informal session to start things off which all are welcome
to join in. We only ask that players play with respect and care for other peoples music (Standard session etiquette applies).
This will go for about half an hour and will then be followed by informal floor spots where guest will invited to come on
stage and sing.
Other's who wish to perform a guest slot can do so by arriving Early and signing in. If you can let us know your technical
requirements as you sign in that will be great as all the time we can save will be valuable. Guests can do either two short
songs or one long song. There is only a 45 minute window for this so it might not always be possible to accommodate everyone.
If you are coming from a long way away and wish to perform and think it might be impossible to get there early then get in
touch and we'll see what we can do to fit you in. Again this is subject to space and time available.
the band will run between 9:15 and 11pm. we then will have an informal session and dancing between 11pm and 1am which
every body is welcome to join in on. The club is also open for drinking till 1am.
We are looking forward to seeing you all there.
Tickets are now available from the Bath Festivals Box office priced £7.
Bath Festivals Box Office, 2 Church Street, Abbey Green, Bath BA1 1NL (near the Tourist Information Centre)
Tel: (01225) 463362
Fax: (01225) 310377
Email: boxoffice@bathfestivals.org.uk
Web: www.bathfestivals.org.uk
Open: Mondays - Saturdays 9.30am - 5.30pm.
Click on this link to go direct to buy tickets
www.bathfestivals.org.uk
http://www.kerrfagan.com
It is also confirmed that Inu will be Launching there Album "The Thousand Mile Journey" on Friday 13th June.
We are pleased to be playing a gig in our home town for the first time in ages. This should be an enormous Party and we are
hoping see many friends old and new. Again Tickets are £7 available from the Bath festivals Box office.
Other Acts Due to be scheduled are Jennifer crook, A full set from James Fagan and Nancy Kerr With Rob Harbron We Hope
and Malarchy. We are currently talking with many other Acts as we speak so the future program is looking really Exciting.
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