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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 January - June 2008
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12 JAN: ROBB JOHNSON (energetic singing and guitar-playing from writer of Rosa’s Lovely Daughters, The Herald of Free Enterprise and many other songs)
19 JAN: BALLAD EVENING: PETA WEBB, KEN HALL, GAIL WILLIAMS, JIM YOUNGER, BOB WAKELING, SUE WILLIAMS AND FRANKIE CLEEVE
(a night of Child ballads and other traditional story-songs from our fine singers)
26 JAN: ROY BAILEY (ever-popular singer of songs of the personal and the political)
2 FEB: SEAN MONE (comic and tragic songs from County Armagh singer, who wrote Trimble's Pimple, Lovers and Friends, Jack and Rosalita, Willie McCrea, etc)
9 FEB*: CHRIS WOOD (fine singer, fiddler and guitarist and Folk Awards winner) Admission tonight will be £6 for members, £7 for non-members and £1 off for unwaged)
16 FEB: ANDREW FRANK AND MICHAEL HEBBERT (welcome reunion of duo, fine tenor and virtuoso concertina player; music hall, 30s and 40s and other songs)
23 FEB: BESKYDY (seven-piece band, made up of fine musicians and lovely singer, with rousing dance music and lyrical songs from all over eastern Europe)
1 MAR: KATE LISSAUER (old-timey songs authentically and sensitively performed by American singer and fiddler)
8 MAR: ROGER WILSON ( talented singer-fiddler-guitarist)
15 MAR: PHIL CALLERY (long-awaited visit of Dublin singer, the central tenor voice of the much-missed Voice Squad, with traditional and other Irish songs)
22-29 MAR: closed for Easter
5 APRIL: JANET RUSSELL (Scots feminist singer of traditional Scottish songs and others written by herself and others serious and comic, political and not)
12 APRIL: LEON ROSSELSON (UK's greatest songwriter? Makes you laugh, cry and think)
19 APRIL: TOM PALEY: 80 YEARS + 1 MONTH (belated birthday celebration for legendary American singer, guitarist and banjo player and and he will be playing those)
26 APRIL*: FRASER SISTERS (Jo Freya and Fi Fraser, of the Old Swan Band, Token Women and many other groups, with songs and tunes on fiddle, saxophone and voices) (Admission tonight will be £6 for members, £7 for non-members and £1 off for unwaged)
3 MAY: THE OTHER BAND (Marilyn Bennett, Irish Bishop and Gary Holder, from Sussex; traditional and contemporary songs on various instruments)
10 MAY: MICK RYAN AND PAUL DOWNES (new duo, two great performers, singer formerly with Crows and musician from Downes and Beer and the Arizona Smoke Review)
17 MAY: KATHLEEN O'SULLIVAN, KAREN RYAN and PETE QUINN (three of the London Lasses [sic] with Irish songs and tunes on fiddle, whistle and keyboard)
24 MAY: closed
31 MAY: RAY FISHER; support SAM LEE (return of great Scots singer and wit, after long illness; ballads, lyrical and comic songs; support from fine young English singer)
7 JUNE: BRIAN PETERS (mainly traditional songs well sung with various instruments)
14 JUN**: MARTIN CARTHY (no more need be said) (Admission tonight will be £7
for members, £8 for non-members and £1 off for unwaged people)
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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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