Welcome to this week’s Dreamers Newsletter.
A quieter night at the Club last Sunday with a number of regulars away or unwell so Robin as MC had to work hard – well done. It would certainly be good to see lots folk there this coming Sunday, 19th October for the guest visit of the Shackleton Trio who have visited Dreamers before but then had to postpone another visit due to illness.
This is part of a long tour (including several gigs on a Norwegian leg last month). Georgia Shackleton, Aaren Bennett and Nic Zuppardi are celebrating their tenth anniversary together with a wholestring of Festival, Club and media appearances behind them as well as lots of recorded material – for more see their website The Shackleton Trio. Lots of different instruments and influences but still rooted in East Anglia. This should be a great evening – don’t miss it!
The following Sunday, 26th December, is the return visit of Bodmin Folk Club. They have promised to bring lots of their members and performers for what should be another good evening – hopefully the weather will be much better than when we visited them earlier in the year in dreadful wind and rain which (not surprisingly) put most Dreamers off the journey.
I’ve been contacted by a new name (to me anyway) in the Water Chorus, a London-based folk band who play traditional music said to range from the raucously celebratory to the eerily affecting. They’ve got two gigs in Cornwall – on 7th November at 7.00 at the Red Wing Gallery in Penzance (with Duncan McTaggart ) (tickets from https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/water-chorus-band-tickets-1752994406459) and supporting Tamsin Elliot for the Lostwithiel Concert Series at St Bartholomew’s Church in Lostwithiel at 7pm on 8th November. (https://dandelion.events/e/november-lcs). It would obviously be good to encourage folk to continue to bring their music here.
On line, a reminder that Live to Your Living Room features Jez Lowe tonight 17th November at 8.00. A performer who really needs no introduction from me – if you haven’t seen him, you’re bound to have heard some of his songs performed by pther artists.. Buy tickets – Jez Lowe – Zoom
And something a little different in a new episode on Folk on Foot featuring the harpist Cerys Hafana and her new album “Angel”, inspired by the story of an old man who goes for a walk in the forest and hears an angel singing so beautifully it makes him fall asleep for three hundred and fifty years. The episode goes for a glorious summer walk with Cerys near Corris Uchaf in mid Wales, when they stumbled across a strange concrete replica of an Italian village and the remains of disused mines as well as sitting by tumbling streams to experience the subtle beauty of their singing and playing. Cerys Hafana at Corris Uchaf
We do sometimes have the pleasure of a harpist at the Cornish Zoom Folk Club which goes back to its normal 4th Saturday date which will be on October 25th.
That’s all for now Club for the Shackleton Trio on Sunday evening
Stay well (or get well if you are recovering!)
Nigel