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The Cellar Upstairs Folk Club
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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
ENTRANCE: Members: £5, non-members:£6 (unwaged £1 less) except on nights marked *, when it will be £6 and £7. Membership: £2 for the year.
ACCESS: The club room is up a short staircase.
RESIDENT PERFORMERS: Peta Webb, Ken Hall, Gail Williams, Jim Younger, Bob Wakeling, Sue Williams, Frankie Cleeve
Programme September 2008 - January 2009
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6 SEPT: PETE COOPER (master fiddler and singer, who also teaches fiddle and writes the odd song and tune; traditional and contemporary songs and music)
13 SEPT: KITTYHAWKS (old-time band with songs and tunes from foot-tapping stomps to dark laments, on banjo, mandolin, fiddle, guitar and bass)
20 SEPT: FRANK WESTON AND DAVE STACEY (great old-time duo with wide repertoire of songs and tunes played on banjo and guitar)
27 SEPT: WHITE TOP MOUNTAIN BAND (excellent old-time band from the US; songs and tunes on various instruments; highly recommended by old-time aficionados)
4 OCT: closed why not try Vaughan Williams celebration at Cecil Sharp House.
11 OCT: ADAM McNAUGHTAN (Scotland’s wittiest songwriter – Oor Hamlet, Cholesterol, etc – also writes great serious songs, eg, Yellow on the Broom)
18 OCT: GORDEANNA McCULLOCH and CHRIS MILES (two of Scotland’s best singers of traditional and other songs, some in harmony). Presented in association with the Musical Traditions Club.
25 OCT: ROSIE DAVIS, JOE LOCKER AND BOB WINQUIST (old-time songs and
tunes, plus dancing, from well-known performers, veterans of various bands)
1 NOV*: NANCY KERR AND JAMES FAGAN (popular young duo; fiddle and guitar). Please note admission tonight will be £6 and £7
8 NOV: ROBIN LAING (an evening in two halves from fine Scottish singer: songs of love, Burns songs, etc, and his whisky show, with free samples of whisky)
15 NOV: closed for Bert Lloyd event, Cecil Sharp House
22 NOV: DAVE SEALEY (former half of Cosmotheka, singing music hall and other songs)
29 NOV*: DICK GAUGHAN (popular Scots singer of mainly political songs). Please note admission tonight will be £6 and £7
6 DEC: STANLEY ACCRINGTON (funny, inventive and wonderfully silly songwriter and performer)
13 DEC*: DAVE SWARBRICK (brilliant fiddler, who used to play with Martin Carthy, Fairport Convention, Whippersnapper, the Ian Campbell Folk Group, etc). Please note admission tonight will be £6 and £7
2009
3 JAN: DUCK SOUP (Dan Quinn, Ian Kearey and Adam Bushell; songs and tunes on various instruments from former members of Oyster Band, Gas Mark 5, etc)
10 JAN: VICKI SWAN and JONNY DYER (talented young duo, traditional songs and tunes on small pipes, flute, guitar, nyckelharpa, accordion and double bass)
17 JAN: KLEZMER KLUB (popular band playing Jewish traditional music and songs)
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Some other local clubs
Musical Traditions Folk Club meet monthly on a Friday in The King and Queen, Foley Street, London.
Court Sessions meet weekly on Friday.
Walthamstow Folk meet weekly on Sunday in Walthamstow.
Islington Folk Club meet weekly on Thursday in The Horseshoe,Clerkenwell Close, London EC1.
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