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

club review

Hiya gang, well, what a brilliant night to end before the Summer Holidays. Ian started the night, nice to see him back to his old oops! young self lol! Then the wonderful Harry (Unfortunately we don't know his surname) but he's always uplifting singing great songs from Richard Thompson, Ralph McTell & The Kink's "Lazing on a sunny afternoon". Then great duets from Steve Woolley & Stuart Thompson despite the heat. Ian even a personal fan courtesy of the lovely Patsy, the photo will explain lol! Please note the club will be closed until Aug 9th when guest will be Phil Hare, enjoy the sunshine! We'll see you then, luv L xx

club update

Hiya gang, this Friday is a Singer/Musician/poet's night, it's also the last club night before the Summer Holidays. Anyone can come along and perform, we have our regular Singers and Musicians, but it would be nice to see you, club starts 20:30 hope to see you there, luv L xx

friday review

Hiya gang, well what a night, so sorry for the delay in posting the review. Thanks to everyone who made it on Friday and made it an excellent night, I was pretty sure Mike would be on top form and he didn't disappoint. As he mostly sings with a band it's only on his "Yearly solo gig" at our club he can sing what he wants to sing from his extensive repertoire. A big thanks to our lovely Ian "Sproggy" Sproson, unfortunately poor Sproggy had a problem with his knee last week and was taken to Hospital, although he put on a brave face and laughed and joked about, I could see he was in pain. So thanks sooo much Ian! It was also nice to see our "One man band" and superb accordion player, Steven Ireland, Steven's been busy with other things, plus still recovering from his hand injury some weeks ago. So I'm pleased to say he's back on form, plus we had regular singer/songwriter Steve Woolley, so they all contributed to make it a fantastic night. Next club night is July 19th, hope to see there, luv L xx