November 11, 2017

Ray’s chat 29

Hi Folks It’s RAYS CHAT again TWENTY NINE Those of you who were lucky enough to be at the Club on November 3rd; Had a WONDERFUL Evening with SAID THE MAIDEN. What a Truly Superb Trio they are. GREAT NIGHT. November Is a sort of […]

November 8, 2017

Ann-Marie Sanderson Feature Guest 17th November

You need a great artist to follow in the footsteps of our last featured guest and we have managed to find one in Ann-Marie Sanderson. Her voice is evocative of birds in flight – soaring, gliding, swooping – and it finds its home among the […]

October 25, 2017

Ray’s chat 28

Hi Folks It’s RAYS CHAT TWENTY EIGHT Before I start I want to say this to you: If you Only Manage to watch and listen to ONE song.. PLEASE make it the last song AND THE BAND PLAYED WALTZING MATILDA. It is the MOST moving […]

October 22, 2017

3rd November Said The Maiden

Said The Maiden are Jess Distill, Hannah Elizabeth and Kathy Pilkinton, three friends who discovered a mutual love of folk music when they reunited several years after spending their school years together in Hertfordshire.  After tentatively performing a few songs at their local Redbourn Folk […]

October 10, 2017

Sam Shemmell Featured Guest 20th October

I don’t know how we do it sometimes but our next Feature Guest at the Shirley Folk Club at the Red Lion is the enormously talented Sam Shemmell.  He has appeared at the Club a few times but this will be the first time he […]

October 8, 2017

Ray’s chat 27

Hi Folks Here we are in October. Summer just a memory. Autumn leaves and darker nights. So relax and enjoy some GREAT Folk Music. In the past; I have chatted a lot about how the New Wave influenced the Folk Scene, in the 50’s. The […]