Valentine's Day 2024

(AI image from Stable Diffusion)

Last week's session saw us mark Valentine's Day albeit two days later than the rest of the world. A perfectly happy, not even too cold, band of four singers got the evening underway, only to be joined around the half-way mark of the evening by Keith G who we hadn't seen for a long time, and a welcome joiner he was. Keith said he hadn't played the guitar for a long time so we didn't hear his excellent playing, but he gave us some worthwhile, unexpected, unaccompanied contributions.

You can hear versions representing all of the songs sung by following the usual "a selection" link below.

Colin, MC as usual, started off the evening with The Eddystone Light (roud 22257).

I'll just give a mention to a few of the other contributions from the evening, a few of which were new to the Dragon database:

• Sue - Hey there Delilah (Tom Higgerson)
• Bob - Blue days black nights (Ben Hall)
• Simon - It was a lover and his lass (V18701 - William Shakespeare, Thomas Morley)
• Bob - Blues stay away from me (Alton Delmore, Henry B Glover, Rabon Delmore, Wayne Raney)
• Sue - My guy (Smokey Robinson)
• Sue - Eternal flame (Susanna Hoffs, Billy Steinberg, Tom Kelly)
• Keith - Better off without a wife (Tom Waits)
• Colin - Black Jack Davy (roud 1, child 200)
• Keith - Behind blue eyes (Pete Townshend)
• Keith - I'll get you (John Lennon, Paul McCartney)

Sue finished off the evening with In other words (fly me to the moon) (Bart Howard).

This week's Dragon session (Friday 23 February) will have no theme so as usual anything goes as long as it's acoustic. The next flurry of themes (just for fun) will probably be some more saints' days: St David (1st March on the nose), St Patrick (15th March for 17th), and St George (26th April for 23rd). We'll let you know if we come up with any more ideas. In the meantime you are welcome to join us any Friday evening from 8:15pm.

Now listen to a selection of songs sung during this session.

(Number of people present - 5 of whom 5 performed)