2012

May

7th - Queen St Mill Burnley,afternoon

8th - Clitheroe U3A

June

1st - Hilldale Lancs. Night

3rd - Cromford Mill afternoon

6th - Moorcock Folk Blacko

15th - Barlow Institute Folk Night

19th - Burscough Wharf Lancs Night

July

17th - Rochdale Central Library

21st - Rochdale Town Hall

August

3rd - 10th -on holiday in the pubs of Sidmouth!

18th - 24th - Whitby Football Club

September

1st & 2nd - Fylde Festival

5th - Tameside Library

15th - People's History Museum, Manchester

22nd - Barlow Institute, Edgeworth

25th - Touchstones Museum, Rochdale

October

5th -6th - Barlow Institute Folk Weekend

20th - National Dialect Day, Morpeth Town Hall

26th - Grand Charity Barn dance - Walmer Bridge

BLOGGY BIT! April 2012

Welcome to the Merry Month of May!!

I’ve been invited to join a cast of thousands to help celebrate the 10th birthday of Ali O’Brien’s “Sounds of Folk” on Oldham Community Radio. This is at Greenfield Conservative Club on Sunday 20th May, 7.30 onwards and it’s only £5 to get in! More info on 0161 628 0997.

After that I’ve a couple of Lancashire gigs with Mark Dowding, Friday 1st June at Hilldale Nr Parbold and Sunday 3rd at Cromford Mill, miles away in Derbyshire where we’re going to tell the tale of the Lancashire Cotton Famine in songs from the time.

Anybody up in the far east of the County should make a note that the first Wednesday of every month is Andy Clayton’s Folk Night at the Moorcock in Blacko. This is a good do, in a pub with good food and beer, and I get there as often as I can to give ‘em owd Lancashire stories and songs. I’ll be there in June.

Rochdale Libraries are holding a couple of events in July. I’m in the Library on Tues 17th, 11.00am – 2.00pm and then, on Saturday 21st, 5.00 – 9.00pm, Mark and I, accompanied by a string quartet and the mighty Town Hall organ, present an authentic concert by Edwin Waugh, originally performed in 1875.

“Summer is a’comin’ in” and I’ll be off to Sidmouth and Whitby Folk Weeks as usual. Back home for Fylde in September and owt else you want to know is in the diary on the left.

See you around

SID