Halloween 2023

Stanton Drew stone circle and church
(Photo: Simon Meeds)

Last week's Dragon Folk Club session was our annual Halloween themed evening. This Friday (3rd November) will be Guy Fawkes, Bonfire Night, Campfire Songs and anything else related that you can think of. Yes, we really are in theme season with more to come very soon.

Back to last week, there were seven singers, which isn't too shabby. A good variety of songs were sung including plenty on theme or close to it. I won't attempt to comment on who hit the theme and who didn't because in some cases it would be debatable anyway. In any case I'm short of time so it's a brief report this week and I suggest you give the playlist linked below from "a selection" a listen and see for yourself what we did.

A brief run-down of the first rotation gives us:

• Chris - The lark in the clear air (roud 24791 - Sir Samuel Ferguson)
• Roger - Woad (roud 24978 - William Hope-Jones)
• John - Satan, your kingdom must come down (roud 5737)
• Colin - The devil's nine questions (roud 161, child 1) - a version of Riddles wisely expounded
• Paul - Sweet William's ghost (roud 50, child 77)
• Denny - The wizard of Alderley Edge (Pete Coe)
• Simon - The souling song (roud 304)

Songs new to the Dragon database, but not necessarily to the club were:

• John - Into the mystic (Van Morrison)
• John - Where the streets have no name (Bono, U2)
• Colin - The cockroach that ate Cincinatti (Doug Drill)
• Colin - Farmer's curst wife (roud 160) - an American version of The devil and the farmer's wife

Simon finished the evening with the challenging sing-along which is The burning times (Charlie Murphy).

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

(Number of people present - 7 of whom 7 performed)