Folking.com _at_ The Maltings 2008 line
up…
What’s
New…
Food… One of the frustrating things I
find when I head off to a music event is that the venue doesn’t offer any food
before the show. So I’ve had a word with Anna who runs Anna miller food about the
possibility of offering a pre show dinner service. Anna runs the Riverside
Café at the Maltings and is responsible for all the catering in the building
and the food is excellent. To make it worth Anna’s while she will need to seat
at least 20 people in the Riverside Café form 6.30 to
7.30pm. Please email me if you
are interested in the idea and if I get enough interest then I’ll contact Anna
and get a menu made up (Maltings Café prices). I will then email it out to the
interested parties and set up a booking system (please note – you will need to
have purchased a concert ticket before a booking can be
placed).
On-line ticket
ordering… You can now order your tickets on-line by credit card or
switch for any of my Cellar Bar shows at any time of the day or night via the
http://www.folking.com/maltings/
website (or go to www.folking.com and
click on the folking.com live link in the yellow menu on the left)
End of an
Era… I wanted to write a few words about
this as over the years I have got to know many of you and wanted to explain
the current dilemma I find myself in with regard to the Cellar Bar shows. My
last 3 folking.com Cellar Bar concerts all lost money (which I had to fund
myself). The main issue is that the Cellar Bar is a function room that holds
200 people (bar area and concert area) and the hire costs reflects that space,
add the cost of PA hire, PRS charge, paying a sound engineer, the artists
guarantee and you need about 60 to 70 people each show to break even. With the
best will in the world I’m not hitting anywhere near that mark so I have
decided that April will be my last Cellar Bar show for the time being. I still
plan to do the odd big concert in the Great Hall and may be looking for
another smaller venue in Farnham like, for example, a pub with a function room
that suits the level of audience. It’s all food for thought…The main thing is
that I still get a big buzz out of bringing live music to you in Farnham and
it’s something that I definitely want to continue doing. I just need to tailor
the venue to the audience size form now on. Anyway enough of my rambling…
Let’s get on and tell you about our Cellar Bar programme for February, March
and April 2008…
Wednesday 20th February
2008 – Cellar
Bar - KEITH JAMES and RICK FOOT -
LORCA - A Concert of Federico Garcia Lorca's Poetry set to music
- PLUS THE FILM “A Death in Granada ” an informative
bio-documentary about the life and death of Garcia
Lorca.
The Poems will be mostly sung in English
with some verses in Spanish. To add to the ambience the evening will also
include courageous material by those who followed Lorca, namely, Leonard
Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Tim Buckley and of course Nick Drake....
Wednesday 19th March
2008
-
BILLY MITCHELL in
concert – Cellar Bar
Newcastle’s favourite son makes
a welcome return to the Farnham Maltings to share his warm humour and
extensive back catalogue of songs with us. Expect gems from his solo career,
the Lindisfarne back catalogue and personal favourite
songs and tunes...