Friday night review

Hiya gang, firstly I glad to report, our resident singer Ian Sproson is feeling alot better and will be fighting fit for next folk night. Sproggy was really missed on Friday,  but the extremely entertaining Keep the change Bob  very kindly stood in for Ian to start off the night .Our guest was the superb and exceptionally talented Alun Parry, Alun wasted no time getting us joining in with all well known favourite's including 'The Dirty Thirty', 'Go to work on Monday' and two of my favourites 'If Harry don't go' and 'Waiting for the lovers' and more. It was nice to have an old friend of the Cleveland folk club from the first time around Walter Brown, Walter sang a beautiful song, 'A thousand miles away' about  a soldier in the armed forces, also 'Accrington station gates'. We also had our regular poet extraordinaire Simon Rusty, who  delighted us with parts of his repertoire including ' A brief hysterical rhyme by Prof  Stephen Hawkins' Simon has a book out with a collection of his poetry 'the Satical Verses'  by Simon Rusty,  please make sure you get the right one!! With a few songs from  regular club member Steve Woolly,  then  Alun finished the night with the folk version of  Nickleback's 'rockstar' 'I wanna be a folkstar' (check out facebook page for the club or youtube to hear this and some of Alun's performances)  and 'Oh Mr Cameron' which was partly written by Alun's mum!! On the whole a good night was had by all. With even more new faces that didn't know about the  club, who really enjoyed themselves, it's beginning to feel like it used to be. The next club night is 25th May, a singers and musicians night look forward to hopefully seeing you there luv Lxx