Welcome to this week’s Dreamers Newsletter.
We had a cracking night last Sunday with plenty of people and everyone on good form including some welcome visitors. This Sunday, of course, clashes with the European Football Final so the pub may be a bit noisier than usual but we are going ahead with the Dreamers session and hope there will be enough folk there to make a good evening of it, perhaps including some visitors (who we couldn’t warn if the Club was cancelled).
No Newsletter next week as we have visitors so an early notice of the next Cornish Zoom Folk Club which will be on Saturday 27th July when we hope to have a similar great turn out to the one we had in June.
A new episode of Folk of Foot (Frankie Archer in Consett (and other parts of County Durham) (folkonfoot.com). Frankie Archer brings traditional folk tunes rushing into the 21st Century. The singer, fiddle player and electronics wizard made an acclaimed appearance on Later With Jools Holland, who described her music as “astonishing”. In this episode, Frankie takes a walk in Consett and the surrounding countryside, pausing to set up her loop pedals and perform in the lee of an abandoned crucible, the engine shed of the world’s oldest railway and in front of a spectacular view across the fields to the Newcastle skyline.
Sidmouth Festival’s latest missive focusses on what’s planned for the smaller stages there – quite an array of performers including Jim Causley and Miranda Sykes (with “Ghosts, Werewolves and Countryfolk”, their celebration of Victorian song collector and author Sabine Baring-Gould), Robb Johnson, Jez Lowe, Geoff Lakeman & Rob Murch, The Wilderness Yet and the Wilson Family to name but a few. These are smaller venues so liable to sell out early – more details and tickets at Tickets 2024 – The Sidmouth Folk Festival
Cornwall Folk Festival have followed the lead of Sidmouth Festival in producing an A-Z about the Festival, its past and present. So far they’ve got at far as “G” – it’s at the A-Z of the Cornwall Folk Festival (mailchi.mp).
That’s all for this week, back in 2 weeks time, take care and hope to see you on Sunday
Nigel