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Mervyn Penny, the founder
of Swindon's White Horse Folk Club,
who died recently at the age of 90 |
Before we started the session this week there was much reminiscing by Derek, Mike and Maggie S about the traditional singer,
Fred Jordan. Derek in particular remembered a story about him being taken to an art gallery to see works by
Constable and
Stubbs, showing rural scenes and livestock. Fred took to complaining about the accuracy of the paintings: "that cart will tip over" or "I wouldn't buy that horse". After a short while he had a crowd of people round him lapping up his every word. Soon the word got round that he was an art critic and when he left he was given an appropriately respectful send-off.
We were joined this week by Rose, who we hadn't seen at the club for a while, and a non-singing visitor, Bob.
There was no official theme to the session this week but Derek explained he had searched for "March" to remind himself of what he might sing of relevance to the new month. The issue was that it threw up a lot of songs about marching, so that ambiguous search became the basis for his song selection.
