club review

Hiya gang, Singer's nights are getting better each time, recently an old friend from the Cleveland Folk Club last time round found us again, by googling "Folk on Fridays!". Well know Scottish singers Jack McCully and his son Gordon were great fun with Jack singing broad Scottish Folk songs, which no one could understand, to humorous Lancashire songs. Plus Jack had forgotten his hearing aid, so on occasion it was hilarious as Gordon had to repeat what we were telling him lol! Gordon played and sang some of his own songs, which really were excellent, but we missed our very own Ian Sproson, who will be back on September 6th. Steve Woolley also joined us and sang, trying to play his 12 string guitar, it turned out to be a really good night, Jack said he was going to go home to polish up on his repertoire of Lancashire Folk songs, lol! The next club night is September 6th when our guest is Steven Ireland accordion player extraordinaire, club starts at 20:30 hope to see you there, luv L xx

club update

Hiya gang, just a short note to remind you Friday is club night. This week is a Singer/Musician/Poet's night so anyone is welcome to come and perform and as there is no guest any performer will have longer to play. Unfortunately, Ian 'Sproggy' Sproson won't be able to make it so if anyone would like to help and be our 'Stand in' resident singer lol! Club starts 20:30 hope to see you there, luv L xx

club review

Hiya gang, all I can do is reiterate on Roydan's and Ian's comments on the club's facebook page The New Cleveland Folk Club Unplugged and although there was a din downstairs, which was booked in error, it really couldn't be heard upstairs. It really was a fantastic night with Ian, Roydan Styles and his wife Nicky, Garron Frith who got quite carried away dancing around the room while playing, lol! As well as father/son duo Jack and Gordon McCully who have supported the club over many years but lost touch, but were quite pleased when they found us online last week. Jack sang for us and Gordon threatens to in the future, thank you to you all! I'd like to point out our guest for the night should have been Phil Hare, however he failed to materialise, I understand he sent a text to a club member who he had asked to get him a booking at the club some time ago and agreed to the terms, conditions and fee. It's a shame he didn't have the common courtesy to inform me he wasn't going to turn up in a reasonable time to arrange an alternative. I can only assume his failure to attend his booking was because I was unable to arrange accommodation for him, requested by his wife two days before his performance.

The next club night is on the 23rd of August, club starts at 20:30, hope to see you there, luv L xx

club update

Hiya gang, just a note to let you know that the new Cleveland Folk Club will be back this Friday. This is a guest night featuring the brilliant Phil Hare. He hasn't been to the club for a long time, so come and enjoy the evening with us. Club starts at 20:30 so hope to see you there, luv L xx