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Busker in Oxford (Photo: Simon Meeds)

Colin was ploughing a lonely furrow at last week's Dragon Folk Club session. While we may ask "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" we should probably trust that Colin did indeed sing some songs and he says he may sing some of the same ones this Friday when he hopes there will be someone to hear them.

In fact he did pretty well to sing a total of eleven songs before calling it a night - and presumably draining his glass. I clearly wasn't there, so I may have incorrectly guessed some of the songs he sang, but here goes nothing:

• Caledonia (Dougie MacLean)
• Sinner Man (African traditional)
• Aragon mill (Si Kahn)
• Somebody's grandmother / The Kugelsburg bank (Charlie King, Lu Mitchell)
• The South Medomsley Strike (Tommy Armstrong)
• Preab San Ól (Riocard Bairéad)
• Bucketful of mountain dew (roud 938)
  
• The gaol song (roud 1077)
• The dancing / It's Saturday night at the Adam Smith hall (Andy Shanks, Jim Russell)
• Bruton town (roud 18, laws M32)
• Goldwatch blues (Mick Softley)

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

(Number of people present - 1 of whom 1 performed)