Hello and welcome to the Dreamers Newsletter after a gap as we were away, mainly at the amazing Festival in Dublin, the 20th year this has been held, in memory of Frank Harte. Some fine concerts, sing-arounds and other events including a walking and singing tour of Trinity College. All of a very high standard. We were made very welcome, not least by folk who remembered friends from Cornwall including Niall and Kitty, Roger Bryant...

Welcome to this week’s Dreamers Newsletter. Apologies for the lack of one last week – and also next week as we’ll be away. Hopefully back for the beginning of October A very quiet night at the Club last Sunday with some regulars away and, quite likely, others put off by the awful weather forecast. On the plus side it was lovely to see Mary and Ken again and I gather they’ll be around to entertain us (and Mary’s other audiences in...

This coming Sunday, 21st September, we welcome “Milton Hide” to the Victoria Inn, Four Lanes at 7.30pm Milton Hide, Jim Tipler and Jo Church from East Sussex, weave eloquent, well-crafted story-based songs. Jim’s guitar and Jo’s clarinet blend perfectly with the duo’s pure vocal harmonies. Their music has been described by critics as “reminiscent of the Moody Blues” (Living Tradition), “a touch of Fleetwood Mac” and...

Hi, time for this week’s Dreamers Newsletter and, I suppose, the first of Autumn. Thanks to all for a good evening at the Club last Sunday with plenty of humour and good performances, notably Jonathan singing in Cornish for the first time, a great triumph. This Sunday we welcome our first September guests in the shape of Barron Brady. Ros Brady and Si Barron are contemporary songwriters and interpreters of traditional English folk...

Welcome to this week’s Dreamers Newsletter With all the other attractions around – Festivals and visitors to Cornwall for example, it was to be expected that attendance at the Club on Sunday would be lower than in recent weeks. However, the quality of performances was particularly high and it will be a challenge for those who were away to maintain that standard. We particularly welcomed the three members of the Lang family; without...

Hi and welcome to another week’s Dreamers Newsletter. A good evening again at the Club last week and thanks to Pip (Franklin) for stepping in as MC and for organising the evening so that everyone got their share of performance time. Two more singers nights before our next guests, Barron Brady, on 7th September followed, two weeks later, by  another duo in Milton Hyde. This coming weekend, starting tonight, is, of...