Article, Friday, 30 July 2010
At the Foggy Furze Folk Club in the Travellers’ Rest, Stockton Road, we’ve had a rousing couple of weeks, with this Tuesday turning into an impromptu hooligan music night. During the next two weeks we’ve got a spot-light on Alan’s wonderful harmonica playing on 3 August, followed on 10 August by Cliff Healey with a full evening’s entertainment. Cliff is a great singer, a human juke box with a vast repertoire.
Well, as we told you last time, there was no Headland Folk Club this last fortnight but there is a one-off on Friday, 6 August 2010, a ‘pre-festival warm up’. All good self-respecting festivals have a warm-up evening so this is a good precursor for the whole Tall Ships weekend.
Now whilst we’ve had no Headland Folk Club during the last fortnight, we have had a fund raiser over at the Nursery this Monday, which was well supported by local groups and the purpose was to send a young volunteer teacher away to India with funds in her back pocket to purchase stationery once she arrived there. I really enjoyed the ‘Skyran-ish’ set, with the boys getting down and heavy whilst Angela enjoyed a well-earned break.
Hopefully during the next fortnight you’ll find out just how much grass roots music there is available in this town and will thoroughly enjoy what has been prepared for you by the various organisers, one of the primary ones being Sean Cooney of the Young ‘Uns. He’s really worked hard with the programme so we know it’ll work. But don’t forget you’re always welcome at any of the local clubs, whatever the season and it’s only £1 to come along to the FFFC each Tuesday from 8.30. keep in touch with folk events on www.foggyfurzefolk.com or catch me on kay@foggyfurzefolk.com.
