Christmas 2022

Last minute Christmas shopping (Photo: Simon Meeds)

Those who didn't make the Dragon Folk Club's Christmas session last Friday missed a good sing... and some mince pies. As might be expected, most of the songs were more or less Christmas themed.

Colin as MC kicked us off with The Kipper Family's Good King Whence the Last, which you will understand is a parody of Good King Wenceslas.

We had a great variety of songs. Songs about wars like Christmas 1914 (Mike Harding) and Stop the cavalry (Jona Lewie), carols such as Gaudete (From Piæ Cantiones - Finland, 1582) and I saw three ships (William Sandys), the standard The Christmas Song (Robert Wells, Mel Tormé), songs from around the world like The Huron Carol (Jean de Brébeuf) and Mon Beau Sapin (Ernst Anschütz, Laurent Delcasso), and more comedy pieces such as Merry Christmas you suckers (Paddy Roberts) and Sam Small's Christmas pudding (Marriott Edgar).

I think that will do for this report. Please remember we are having a two week Christmas break this year and the next Dragon session will be in the usual place at the usual time on 6 January 2023. See you there!

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

(Number of people present - 2 of whom 2 performed)

In the Christmas spirit

This week's session was rather special since not only was it our Christmas party but also it was the first at what we have now decided will be the new venue for the Dragon Folk Club. Unfortunately we were a few down on the expected numbers due to illness but the seasonal buffet made the evening go well. We hope that the new venue will prove more conducive to lively sing-arounds and that we can persuade more people to join or rejoin us. If you are in the area on a Friday night please do drop by the New Inn in Westerleigh. But not too fast since we are having a week off; there will be no session on 26 December 2014 and we will be raring to go at this new venue on 2 January 2015.