A Happy New Year

Colin (Photo: Simon Meeds)

It was a quiet start to the new year last Friday at the Dragon Folk Club, but we have high hopes for a return to better numbers in the near future as long as COVID doesn't stick its oar in too much. The unofficial theme that emerged was naturally New Year with a bit of a Christmas hangover.

Colin, MC as ever, started us off with Peggy Seeger's Come Fill Up Your Glasses.

Simon got his New Year offerings in quickly before the people who usually sing them arrived (they didn't). From Derek's repertoire he picked Kind Country Lovers (roud 3483) which is associated with Twelfth Night. From Mike's repertoire he took Dave Goulder's The January Man.

Colin gave us quite a selection of Christmas parodies from The Kipper Family. Sid Kipper (Chris Sugden) understandably keeps recordings off the web as far as possible, but those Colin sang were:

• Death or Glory Wassail
• Good King Whence the Last
• We Will Rob You

Simon gave us another parody, though an untypically subtle one for Les Barker: Lord Franklin.

Colin led and we sang together Worried Man Blues (roud 4753).

The evening was closed with Simon singing a suitably wintry Down Our Street ().

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

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

New Year 2020

"Pop" by Simon Meeds (c1995)

Up one from the previous week and therefore just barely quorate, we were able to usher in the New Year in style with some appropriate songs and some, well... you will see. There will be no theme this Friday so anything goes and you would be very welcome to swell our numbers, whether or not you intend to perform.

Colin, back in harness as MC, started the evening off with The Day We Went To Rothesay O' (Roud 2142). Simon had brought several appropriate songs with him but he only managed to sing one before they were sung by others and that was Peggy Seeger's Come Fill Up Your Glasses.

Derek of course was well supplied with themed songs, starting his contribution with An Orkney New Year's Carol (Roud 4584), and Mike completed round one with Dave Goulder's The January Man.