From: Sheila Miller [sheilamiller55_at_yahoo_dot_co_dot_uk]

Sent: 01 August 2012 14:12

Subject: Cellar Upstairs: programme September 2012 to January 2013

 

Here is the programme for the Cellar Upstairs for September 2012 to January 2013. I hope we'll see you on some of these these dates.

All the best

Sheila Miller (club organiser)

 

8 SEPT: KAREN RYAN, PETE QUINN & BRONA McVITTIE (fine  Irish musicians and singer, three of the London Lasses' current line-up; mainly traditional songs and tunes)

15 SEPT: SISTERS UNLIMITED (strong quartet of women with traditional and modern songs, serious and comic)

22 SEPT: closed for Nic Jones concert, Cecil Sharp House

29 SEPT:  BESKYDY (eastern European music from excellent and popular band with fine singer)

6 OCT: NEW DEAL STRING BAND (the best American old-timey band living in the UK; Tom and Ben Paley and Joe Locker, with songs and tunes on banjo, guitar and fiddle)

13 OCT*: ALICE GERRARD AND BEVERLY SMITH (great American singers of old-timey and more modern songs; Alice was formerly in a famous duo with Hazel Dickens, and Beverly in another with Carl Jones)

20 OCT: STANLEY ACCRINGTON (one of the wittiest men on the folk scene; mainly comic songs, some leftist, and the odd serious one)

27 OCT: DAMIEN BARBER AND MIKE WILSON (powerful singing of traditional and other songs, accompanied and unaccompanied)

3 NOV*: MARTIN CARTHY (what more need be said?)

10 NOV: FELIX HOLT and LAURA SMYTH (young male singer-songwriter with traditional influences shares evening with young female singer of traditional songs, both excellent )

17 NOV: PETE MORTON AND ROGER WILSON (two established performers form new duo -  traditional songs from Roger, and Pete's songs; accompaniment on fiddle and guitar)

24 NOV: CRAIG, MORGAN, ROBSON (wonderful harmonies on traditional and other songs from Moira, Sarah and Carolyn, singing together again after a break of a year or so)

1 DEC: BRIAN DAWSON (veteran Lincolnshire singer with great traditional repertoire, including songs collected by, and unique to, him)

8 DEC: GAIL WILLIAMS AND JIM YOUNGER (mainly old-timey songs and tunes, some sung unaccompanied and others with fiddle, banjo or concertina; great singing and playing)

 

2013

5 JAN: MARY HUMPREYS AND ANAHATA (mainly traditional songs - most English and a few Welsh - and tunes on concertina, melodeon, cello and pipes)

12 JAN: VICKI SWAN & JONNY DYER (songs and tunes, traditional and modern, on nyckelharpa, smallpipes, guitar, etc, from youngish duo)

 

 

VENUE: Exmouth Arms, Starcross Street, London NW1 2HR (on the corner of Cobourg Street, near Euston and Euston Square stations; parking is easy), on Saturdays at 8.15pm

INFORMATION: 020 7281 7700; www.cellarupstairs.org.uk (PUB: 020 7387 5440)

ENTRANCE: Members: £6, non-members: £7 (unwaged £1.50 less), except on nights marked *, when it will be £7 and £8. Membership: £2 for the year

ACCESS: The club room is up a short staircase.

RESIDENT PERFORMERS: Gail Williams & Jim Younger, Peta Webb & Ken Hall, Bob Wakeling & Ellie Hill, Frankie Cleeve