From: Sheila Miller [sheilamiller55_at_yahoo_dot_co_dot_uk]
Sent: 23 November 2016 13:04
Subject: Cellar Upstairs folk club: programme for January to June 2017 -
NB: ONLY ONE VENUE
Here is the programme for the Cellar Upstairs from this Saturday
to June 2017. There is good news: our evenings are no longer divided between
two venues: all our nights will now be held in the Calthorpe Arms, 252 Gray's
Inn Road, WC1X 8JR (on the corner of Wren Street; 020 7278 4732). King's Cross,
Russell Square and Chancery Lane tube stations are about 10 minutes' walk away,
and various buses go down (and up) Gray's Inn Road.
On Saturdays, I leave a message on my
answerphone giving information about the club - who's on, the pub's address,
times, prices, etc.
No tickets are needed for any of these nights: people just pay on
the door for all of them. As always, floor-singers are welcome.
I hope we'll see you at the club in the
not too distant future.
All the best
Sheila
26 Nov: DONAL MAGUIRE (virtuoso singer from County Louth via
Rossendale; performs traditional and other Irish songs, some with guitar and
other instruments) (C)
3 Dec: ROY BAILEY (popular singer of songs about politics and
relationships; great voice) (C)
10 Dec: NEW DEAL STRING BAND (Tom Paley, Joe Locker and Ben Paley
- possibly the best old-timey band in the UK; American songs with guitar, banjo
and fiddle. Tom, now 88, has played with an astonishing range of performers,
from Woody Guthrie to Tom Jones) (C)
2017
7 Jan: ROBIN GILLAN (fine singer, fiddler
and banjo player performing old-timey songs) (C)
14 Jan: COPPER FAMILY (famous singing
family from East Sussex with great repertoire
and centuries-long history of singing)
(C)
21
JAN: JAMES FINDLAY (young West country singer, fiddler
and guitarist, previous winner of the BBC Young Folk Awards; mainly traditional
songs)
28
JAN: THOMAS MacCARTHY (great
Irish Traveller singer with distinctive style and repertoire of songs not often
heard, most from his family in County Offaly)
4
FEB: ROBB JOHNSON (popular singer of political and
other songs; wrote Rosa's Lovely Daughters, 6B Go Swimming, Red and Green and
Going Home and many others)
11
FEB: VICKI SWAN AND JONNY DYER (traditional and
other songs and tunes on small-pipes, guitar, nyckelharpa and other instruments
from popular young duo)
18
FEB: DAMIEN BARBER AND MIKE WILSON (Norfolk singer
and concertina player and the youngest of the famous Wilson family; fine,
powerful singing and entertaining chat)
25
FEB: ALICE AND DAVID WYLDE (singer from the
Appalachians and her English husband; first-class singing of old-timey and
other songs, unaccompanied and with guitar)
4
MAR: FRANKIE ARMSTRONG (much-admired feminist singer;
traditional and other songs)
11
MAR: RATTLE ON THE STOVEPIPE (Pete Cooper,
Dave Arthur and Dan Stewart in great old-timey band; traditional American songs
on fiddle, banjo and guitar)
18
MAR: MARIANNE McALEER
AND MICHAEL SHEEHY (prize-winning Irish singer and excellent
accordion player share the night to celebrate St Patrick's Day a day late)
25
MAR: RADIE PEAT (great young Irish singer from
popular band Lynched - now Lankum - on a rare solo gig)
1
APR: THE SPIERS FAMILY (Tom, Maggie and Emma, first-class
Aberdeenshire singers; Tom was in respected groups the Gaugers and Shepheard,
Spiers and Watson)
8
APR: KATE LISSAUER (champion fiddler, singer, banjo
player and guitarist, originally from Maryland; traditional American songs from
the mountains and elsewhere)
15
& 22 APR: closed for Easter
29
APR: ROSIE STEWART (great, popular singer from
Fermanagh with a large repertoire of serious and funny songs)
6
MAY: JOHN KIRKPATRICK (traditional and his own songs and
tunes from popular English singer, master of the concertina and accordion)
13
MAY: to be arranged
20 MAY:
LONG HILL RAMBLERS (old-timey songs on various instruments
from Ben Paley, Tab Hunter, Laura Hockenhull and Dan Edwards) (to be confirmed)
27 MAY closed for
bank holiday
3
JUNE: to be arranged
10 JUNE: to
be arranged
THEN closed until early
September
ENTRANCE: Members: ?6, non-members: ?8
(unwaged ?1 less), except on nights marked *, when it will be ?7 and ?9. Membership:
?4. Information: 020 7281 7700.
Resident performers: Gail Williams &
Jim Younger, Peta Webb & Ken Hall, Sue Williams & Frankie Cleeve, Bob
Wakeling
PUB phone number (Calthorpe Arms): 020
7278 4732