SUMMER 2010

Friday 4th June    

JOHN FOREMAN,   The Broadsheet King.

A rare performance by this master of mirth and drollery. Songs and paper tearing a specialty.  

Veteran performer John Foreman, born near Euston station, regards himself as a true London Cockney.  John's songs were learned from his parents or from visiting the old Music Halls, "whenever he had a bob or two". He got more from watching and performing at Unity Theatre, the working man's theatre.  In his early days he worked as a doorman at The Metropolitan in the Edgware Road, and as a bottler with a Punch-and-Judy man, Professor Alexander. John also used to be a busker, selling his song-sheets in Petticoat Lane. A printer by trade, he is known as ‘The Broadsheet King’, renowned for his song-sheets and broadside publications.  

(The link is to a recording which is tantalisingly unavailable!)

                                                                                                  With The Rakes.

Friday 9th July   The Mighty Quinns

DAN QUINN  plus son MATT sing  and  play English tunes on melodeon, fiddle and more, in their own inimitable way.           

 Plus special guest WILL DUKE, renowned for his traditional Sussex concertina playing and understated comic songs.

Recent recordings:

Mighty Quinns Thicker than Water Hebe Music HEBE CD 005

Will Duke Out of the Box  Country Branch CBCD 235       

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