Songs from school and many more

At last Friday's session it was great to see Rob return for a second helping of the Dragon Folk Club. Happily he had also persuaded his friends Andy P and Pat P, newly moved to the South West of England from Scotland, to join us. We were therefore reasonably quorate despite lacking a couple of the usual faces.

Unfortunately as has become a habit recently, I am a bit short of time to do this report, so it will be light on commentary, but you can follow the "a selection" link below to hear some version of all but two of the performances. Also, in line with tradition, I will mention all of the performances of our two first time visitors. Pat P is a poet and gave us just one of her amusing pieces. Andy P made a full and excellent contribution throughout the evening.

Colin, being MC, started the evening. He said he had decided to look out some songs he learned at school and got the ball rolling with Bobby Shafto (roud 1359).

Andy P:

• Willie o' Winsbury (roud 64, child 100)
• Kit's tune / When a knight won his spurs (the former by Martin Simpson; the latter Jan Struther) - following Colin's ad hoc theme of songs learned at school
• On Raglan Road (Patrick Kavanagh)
• When these shoes were new (Michael Marra)
• Hollow Point (Chris Wood)

Pat P:

• Remember remember (poem by Pat Popplestone)

It fell to Andy P to finish off the evening, which he did with One too many mornings (Bob Dylan)

This Friday (6 May 2022) will be another session with no theme, so anything goes as long as it's acoustic. See you there.

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

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