Hi and welcome to the Dreamers Newsletter.
I hope all went well at the Club last Sunday, sorry to miss it but we had family visitors (part of a sequence during August!) who had to have priority. If it was anything like the last few nights it would have been great.
This coming Sunday, we have the visit of Nerida Cuddy, all the way from Canowindra in New South Wales. Nerida is on her first visit to this country and seems to be having a great time performing and holidaying all around from Scotland to Sidmouth so we’ll need to make sure to give her a proper Cornish welcome. There’s lots about her on her own website at Nerida.info | Music of Nerida Cuddy as well as the usual social media outlets.
After Nerida, we have a couple of weeks of Singers nights followed by the visits of Reg Meuross on 3rd September and then a series of other top drawer performers from the end of September through October. More of them nearer the time.
Of course we also have the Cornwall Folk Festival at Wadebridge to look forward to over the August Bank Holiday weekend. Full details are to be found at Cornwall Folk Festival – Brings Folk’s Best To Cornwall; Showcases Cornwall to the World! Happily, after some difficult years, some events are already sold out but there’s still plenty to enjoy. Let’s hope the weather is kind too.
This week is, of course, the week of the Sidmouth Festival. It seems they will be livestreaming lots of the concerts at the Ham this year via a new organisation called Folkscape Live (FolkScape Live). Gigs are available to watch live and on demand for 12 months, so if you couldn’t make it to Sidmouth in person this year, this is the next best thing. Tickets are available for individual gigs, or a Sidmouth Season Ticket is also available for £150 which gets you into all the gigs being livestreamed
Artists include Banter, Lizzy Hardingham, Le Vent du Nord, Ellie Gowers, The Brothers Gillespie, Saltlines, The Young’uns, Pete Coe, Leveret, McCusker, McGoldrick & Doyle, Lady Maisery, The Weaving, Breabach, The Eliza Carthy Trio, Jackie Oates & Jon Wilks, From Pub to Pulpit, John Tams, The English Fiddle Ensemble, The Brìghde Chaimbeul Trio and Angeline Morrison.
That’s all for now, plenty more coming up before long including the return of Live to Your Living Room after their summer break and livestreaming from the Shrewsbury Festival which also runs over the Bank Holiday weekend.
Look forward to seeing as many of you as possible on Sunday for Nerida Cuddy’s visit.
All the best
Nigel