A Special Evening as part of Folk Against Fascism Week.

Folk Against Fascism is an organisation setup to counter moves by the BNP to co-opt elements of the English tradition.

As since Nick Griffin is running for MP in Barking it’s vital that the folk movement in East London makes it’s oppositon clear.

To that end we are proud to announce an evening of local mucisions, poets and performers plus a special guest appearence by Mawkin guitar wizard Dave Delarre.

Admission for this evening is just £3.

We were pleased with how the advance tickets worked for Martin Simpson’s recent visit so we’ve decided to use the system a bit more often!

So we’re pleased to announce that advance tickets are available online for the visit of the wonderful Bruce Molsky on the 11th April.

Click here to buy tickets for Bruce online

We’ve had a late surge in demand for advance tickets for the visit of Martin Simpson tonight!

This is great news but it does mean that the number of tickets available on the door is going to be extremely limited.

So if you’re hoping to get to see this wonderful musician in concert this evening and you haven’t bought your tickets in advance please make sure you arrive in good time.

And if you’re travelling a long distance you might like to consider rescheduling for another evening – we’d love to see you but we don’t want to waste your time!

Thank you..!

We’ll be having a charity fundraiser for the Wood Green Animal Shelter at the Plough on Friday the 26th February.

Performers will include loads of faces familiar to regulars at the Folk Club including  Other Theresa, Graham Larkbey, Al Neville, Roger Huddle and yours truly who is also MC for the evening.

Plus there’ll be loads of other singers and comedians.

Admission is free and it all kicks of at 8.

The organisers have also asked me to pass on the following…

“We would like donations of hardback books, dvd’s, videos, cd’s, Unopened tins/pckts animal/pet food, old duvets/quilts/blankets, etc, etc  if you have any to spare. We can then sell this and raise much needed funds for the charity. Telephone Dave on 020 8509 2635 if you would like any further information or may have something you would like to donate that is not on the list.  We will have a collection during the evening. ALL donations will go to the charity, NO ONE is recieving any money for performing or organising tonight.

So far we have sent the charity £230. Part of this money will pay for a primary school to be visited by members of this charity to educate young children in the upkeep and wellbeing of animals. “

Frankie reports the following squeezy opportunity….

“There is a weekend melodeon workshop with Issy Emeney being held in Grantham on  26th – 28th Feb.It’s full board and I can promise you the organisers know how to feed people! It’s an opportunity I would not miss if I were a melodeon player.

This is the website   www.jsarts.co.uk but it’s a bit lacking at the mo because they have just moved.  However, Jo’s phone no. and email are on there for you to enqire – mention Frankie told you to ring!”

We’ve got special arrangements in place for the visit of Martin Simpson on February the 28th.

We’ll be taking most of the seating out so the gig will be pretty much standing room only.

Advance tickets are available. They’ll be available at the club every Sunday from now and you can also order them online from here http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=370003&interface=.

Martin is one of the best acoustic guitar players on the planet and a wonderful live performer. His arrangement of “Sir Patrick Spens” won the award for best traditional track at this years BBC Folk Awards.

This is a very rare chance to catch him in such an intimate venue.

There’s a great looking gig at the Plough this Saturday (the 6th) featuring two great pals of the club.

Brighton are playing Orient at Brisbane road that day and famous Brighton fan and legendary performance poet Atilla the Stockbroker will be amongst the travelling fans.

He’s headlining a gig in the evening in a double header alongside our mates Steve White and Lol in Steve’s new band Steve White and the Protest Family.

It should be a great evening. It kicks off at 8 and admission is five quid.

Just to remind everyone that our first session of 2010 will go ahead tomorrow. We start at 8pm. Easy tunes played slowly for the first hour or so, anything goes after that. It’s a bit warmer now so come along to the Plough! All acoustic instruments welcome. Admission free.

Sorry – due to the weather we’ve decided to reschedule Bob for later in the year.

We do apologise for any inconvenience.

Come along anyway and we’ll make our own entertainment with an informal singaround!

Next Sunday (the 20th) is our Christmas Party!

We’ll be making our own entertainment this year so make sure you bring your best festive floorspots with you.

We are also proud to announce that the Folk Club will be taking on the Quiz Next Door in the very first Captain Birdseye’s Yuletide Challenge! No point in going into too much detail but suffice to say it’s a great oppotunity for us to kick some Pub Quiz arse!!

Admission is only £3. See you there!