Welcome, once again, to the Dreamers Newsletter. Looking back, these started, not quite in the current form, around the beginning of lockdown in March 2020, some 30 months ago, when we could see that we wouldn’t be able to get together for a while. Obviously, we do meet more now and the Newsletter has evolved to share news of other folk activities as well as our own. I hope it’s useful
Another great night at the Club last Sunday with some very welcome visitors once again. I hope (and think) some of them will still be around for this coming Sunday. The following weekend (7th to 9th October) sees visitors for the Falmouth Voice Tour and Dreamers has often benefitted from some of them coming on for the Sunday night of that weekend.
The Cornish Zoom Folk Club last Saturday was also a good evening. Numbers performing were a bit down on the usual (with 3 performers who were present but not able to perform because of technical/signal issues or laryngitis) but we still had quite enough for a good evening with some great songs. It was good to welcome and to hear Beth, a very versatile musician from Mendocino, California. She certainly enjoyed it and plans to come again. We’ve also heard from Bruce Watson in Melbourne that he definitely aims to come along again when British Summer Time has ended.
Online sessions of one sort or another are well-established now. It was good to see Pete Grassby again on Saturday – his zoom sessions, now called “Pete’s Alternative Singaround” are every other Friday – there’s one this week so contact pdgrassby52@gmail for the link. A regular perfomer at our zooms is Ray Nicol who runs the well-established Borders Sessions on zoom, apparently quiet and friendly. There’s a facebook site at https://www.facebook.com/groups/bordersmusic and the link to the actual Borders Online Music Sessions (every Mon & Wed) is https://us02web.zoom.us/j/72019462970?pwd=ck0xNGVYdVJpcG16RW5oZkNobXZXUT09
More news of past Dreamers guests. On Monday 3rd October at 8pm Live to Your Living Room hosts Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith Jimmy and Sid are embarking on an anniversary tour this autumn to celebrate a decade of music-making. This session presents a retrospective show with songs and tunes taken from across their 4 albums, plus a few new offerings to kick off the next 10 years. The duo’s live performances are a celebration of traditional music, but there is also a deep integrity and sincerity that stems from their passion for the social themes within the music. Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith | Live to Your Living Room
Finally – and sorry for the short notice – Seth Lakeman and Benji Kirkpatrick are at the National Maritime Museum in Falmouth this Friday 30th September. Tickets at National Maritime Museum Falmouth, Tickets for Concerts & Music Events 2022 – Songkick
That’s all for now, take care
Nigel