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Beyond attending my regular Club, The Wayfarer, in Haswell Village every Friday night from 8.30pm, I have visited a great number of other Clubs and Festivals in the North East. The links below will take you to the Clubs Web-site (if they have one) or will give you contact details if they don't I can not be held responsible for any changes the organisers may make to their meeting times or venues, but these are current at the time of going to press. For full listings of all of the clubs on a chosen night - Please click on the night you are looking for from the entries below:
Monday: Easington My own club. Runs every Monday at Easington Miners Welfare Hall (Billy Elliot - Film Location) in Easington Colliery (Multimap Link). We run from 7pm and usually concentrate on a music workshop for the first hour or so and follow that with a singaround session. The beer is cheap and the atmosphere is welcoming. We run an anything goes type of club, so if you prefer rock, pop, blues or jazz that's fine too. Contact John Barlow 0191 5861639 E-Mail johnedc@hotmail.co.uk Web Site: www.john-di.co.uk Locomotion Formerly the Piercebridge Folk Club. Another great club which I don't get to as often as I would have liked. Great songs, Great people and always a lovely supper. Contact Dave (Hutch) Hutchinson 01325 315117 Stockton Probably the longest established Folk Club in the North, celebrating its fortieth anniversary this year, on the 1st April. A large room with excellent acoustics, a great ambience and a friendly atmosphere. Another great club for taking a first timer under their wing and making them feel like a professional performer. Meet at the Sun Inn on Knowles Street. Contact Ron Angel 01642 869697 Tuesday: Candlelight Each session meets at 8.30 in Newton Aycliffe. This tends to be one of the anything goes type of clubs, with Folk, Blues and Jazz willingly applauded. Specialist guest nights are usually on a Friday or Saturday night, as they like to try and reserve the Tuesdays for the regular Singers and Musicians sessions. The beer is cheap too. They meet in a Club. Contact Neil & Babs Mason - 01325 301534 Croxdale Meet at the Daleside Arms in Croxdale, between Durham and Spennymoor on the A167. Friendly people and good food and drink. Great club for first timers, as you are made to feel welcome and the gang soon take you under their wings. Contact John Kelly - 01388 815162 Foggy Furze At the Travellers Rest on Stockton Road in Hartlepool. Another great night. All are made welcome and any type of music goes. Web site: www.foggyfurzefolk.com For further details contact Ian Ferguson 0n 01429 294979 or E-Mail ianferguson@foggyfurzefolk.com or janhall@foggyfurzefolk.com Wednesday: Beamish Mary Acoustic Club every Wednesday Night from 8.45pm. However best to arrive early if you intend to play or sing during the evening. Admission £1 on Singers and Musicians nights and from £2 to £5 on guest nights. At the Beamish Mary in No Plce (near Beamish Museum) Contact Rita Mawson - 01207 504882 Thursday: Darlington Arts Centre At the Arts Centre on Vane Street every Thursday, alternating fortnightly between Singers and Musicians night and Guest appearances. This venue also has an accommodation block, so you can book to stay for a few days. To book accommodation or advance tickets contact the Arts Centre 01325 486555. For Folk Club Info Contact Tom Hughes 01325 261179 Durham City Meet in the Grange Foundry Pub. Always a welcome. Contact Ian McCullogh 0191 3844160 Tynefolk Formerly Ryton Village FC. Only been to this club once but it was a fantastic night with excellent local singers and a group called 'Roots Quartet'. If you ever get the chance to go and see these to girls with great harmonies please do so. Club meets in the Black Bull at Blaydon every Thursday from 8.30pm. Contact Danny McLeod 0191 4148867 dannyandjoyce@blueyonder.co.uk & Eddie Stewart 0191 2675623 e.stewartt@blueyonder.co.uk Friday: Trimdon Traditional Singers and Musicians nights. Tends to be on the 1st Friday of each month, but ring one of the contacts before your visit to confirm. Good night with good songs and atmosphere. Contact Bill & Judith Garbutt - 01429 262055 or 0831 338237 (Bill) or try Peter Brookes on 01429 881237. E-Mail peter@brookestrim.co.uk or billgarbutt@aol.com Saturday: Davy Lamp Meets in the Biddick Arts Centre in Washington. The club has been established for 30 years this year and is planning a special event on the 5th June (more details to follow in the Folk Roundabout magazine) The club now has a web site at www.davylampfolkclub.co.uk which I am reliably informed is up and running. For the less Computer orientated, the contact details are: Terri Freeman 0191 4166999 or the Arts Centre on 0191 2193455 Sunday: Hartlepool My next favourite haunt after the Wayfarer. Brian and the rest of the regulars make you feel welcome and the Landlord has occasionally been known to sing a few. Good mix of Traditional songs and a few less traditional thrown in just for good measure. Web site http://homepage.dtn.ntl.com/brian.colley/ South Shields Meets in the South Shields and Westoe Club, corner of Dean Road and Sunderland Road, and has the claim of being one of the longest established clubs in the North East, I can remember going there, in the mid seventies, albeit not the same venue. The club has never really changed the people are still just as warm and friendly as they were then and the music is still brill. The have some great guests to come this year - for details see the entries on their web site at http://www.southshieldsfolkclub.co.uk/ or E-Mail ssfc@talus3.plus.com Again the more traditional contact details are Penny Kennedy 0191 5871617 or Bill Redhead 0191 4564450 Full Listings of Folk Clubs by Night of Meeting:
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