Walthamstow Folk
Walthamstow Folk
Every Sunday from 7:30pm
The Plough Inn, London E17
Tel.07740 612 607

The finest in traditional and contemporary acoustic music from the UK and the world.

"London's friendliest folk club" ~ Folk and Roots

Latest News

Next Season
Well we finished off this years program with a great Futureproof last Sunday. Read more

St Andrews Day Suggestions?
I'm currently putting the finishing touches to the Autumn program and I still haven't filled the 29th November, which just happens to be St Andrews day. Read more

Sammy's Bar
Here's the rather strange and beguiling version of Cyril Tawny's classic "Sammy's Bar" that Kevin was talking about at the club last night. Read more

   
6th September 2009 - Damien Barber & Mike Wilson
Damien Barber & Mike Wilson

Two of the finest voices in folk team up for a powerhouse evening of traditional song.

13th September 2009 - Dana & Susan Robinson
Dana & Susan Robinson

Dana and Susan are two of the most spellbinding performers around. Self-penned and traditional songs are woven into a sound of shimmering beauty accompanied with guitar, fiddle and banjo.

20th September 2009 - Robb Johnson
Robb Johnson

Perhaps the finest songwriter of his generation, Robb's songs of the personal and the political are at once moving, inspiring and intensely entertaining.

27th September 2009 - Hunter Robertson
Hunter Robertson

California born Hunter is establishing a name as one of the finest clawhammer banjo players to have emerged in recent years.


"Songs for the Masses is for neither the masses nor the timid. But if you're up for a walk through the lonesome valley that stretches across the moonless landscape of the old, weird America, Robertson will show you the way." ~ Jerome Clarke for Rambles.Net

4th October 2009 - Bill Caddick
Bill Caddick

Bill Caddick is one of the great underrated English songmakers, crafting sensitive songs which seem to be both timeless and of their time.

11th October 2009 - Rubens Train
Rubens Train

Reuben's Train are a duo performing mostly American songs, some traditional and some not so traditional, from the darker side of life.

Once seen, never forgotten.

18th October 2009 - Mawkin:Causley *
Mawkin:Causley

With the release of their debut album "The Awkward Recruit" Mawkin:Causley have firmly established what we all already knew - they are the most fearsome band on the folk scene today.

You have nothing better to do this evening.

25th October 2009 - Duck Soup
Duck Soup

Dan Quinn, Ian Kearey and Adam Bushell team up for an evening of superb and rather eccentric musicianship. Includes phonofiddle!

1st November 2009 - Pete Morton
Pete Morton

A fine singer songwriter.


"Pete is everything we want our singer-songwriters to be. Fiercely creative, proudly independent, skilful, talented, and, further reinforced by the evidence of Casa Abierta, terminally unpredictable." ~ Alan Rose, Tykes News.

8th November 2009 - Expatriate Game *
Expatriate Game

The mouthwatering combination of singer Maggie Boyle, guitarist Dick Baker and the incendiary fiddle playing of Ben Paley is something not to be missed.

A real folk supergroup!

15th November 2009 - The Askew Sisters
The Askew Sisters

Emily and Hazel Askew are a young duo making waves on the folk scene with their energetic brand of English folk music. Using fiddle and melodeon, they play and sing with an infectious enjoyment and love for the music.

"Simply fantastic traditional music - look out, England - the sisters of stomp are heading your way!"
- James Fagan and Nancy Kerr

22nd November 2009 - Woody Guthrie – Hard Times and Hard Travellin
Woody Guthrie – Hard Times and Hard Travellin

Will Kaufman's Woody Guthrie: Hard Times and Hard Travellin', is a captivating 'live documentary' that sets the songs of Woody Guthrie in the context of the American 1930s - the Dust Bowl, the Depression, the New Deal and the state of popular music itself.

Altogether the show highlights the blending of music and radical politics that marks Guthrie's most powerful work.

29th November 2009 - Fraser Nimmo
Fraser Nimmo

A St Andrews Day special. Fraser Nimmo is a singer/songwriter who mixes Scottish traditional material freely with his own songs.

You may also have seen him supporting Fairport Convention on many occasions.

"He radiates good humour" ~ Marlo Rellch, The Scotsman

   

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