Rose is an occasional visitor to the Dragon Folk Club since she comes quite a long way but she has been coming since 2000. She usually plays guitar and sings, though she is learning bouzouki and banjo.
Rose used to sing in choirs, starting with the school choir, moving on to various choir-type groups thereafter including singing songs from the shows. She first sang unaccompanied folk song in 1999 at the White Horse Folk Club, Highworth: Bushes and Briars, which she learned from Julie Christie playing the part of Bathsheba Everdene in the film Far from the madding crowd.
The first folk club Rose ever attended was The Garland Ox in Bodmin, run by Vic Legg in the 1970s and still run by him (2014) though now at a different venue. It took her years to realise she could perform herself. A few years ago on holiday in Cornwall, Rose made a return to Bodmin Folk Club and felt privileged to perform with her daughter Alice to a packed house.
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