A dollop of ketchup

(AI image by Stable Diffusion)

This Dragon Folk Club report is a bit different to the usual. It's what Iain Tyrrell calls a "ketchup", his jokey way of introducing a catch-up on his YouTube channel. The reason for this ketchup is that I was away for a couple of weeks recently and didn't write reports. I'm not going to go back and write full-scale reports for the missing weeks, but I did want to credit a few things, mainly an occasional visit and all the songs that were sung and new to the Dragon database - though as usual, not necessarily new to the club.

6th September 2024

It was good to see that occasional visitor Malcolm swelled the ranks. These are the songs from the evening that were new to the database, not in the order sung:

• Denny - Half past eleven square (Cicely Fox Smith)
• Malcolm - Ev'ry time we say goodbye (Cole Porter)
• Malcolm - Minstrel of dawn (Gordon Lightfoot)
• Malcolm - Slate grey (Malcolm Perrett)
• Sue and Bob - God put a smile upon your face (Christopher Anthony John Martin, Guy Rupert Berryman, Jonathan Mark Buckland, William Champion)
• Sue - Killing me softly with his song (Charles Fox, Normal Gimbel, Lori Lieberman)
• Sue - Puttin' on the style (Dawes-Hughes)

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

(Number of people present - 6 of whom 6 performed)

13th September 2024

MC Colin was on his own for this one - it happens occasionally. As is his wont on these occasions, he drifted well off the folky piste at times, but then we often do that at the Dragon. These are the songs he sang that were new to the database:

• From a distance (Julie Gold)
• Tim Evans (roud V32851 - Ewan McColl)
• Suicide is painless (Mike Altman, Johnny Mandel)
• Hava nagila
• It must be love (Labi Siffre)
• Pictures of Lily (Pete Townshend)
• Sunny afternoon (Ray Davies)
• Hymn for nations (Josephine Daskam Bacon, Ludwig van Beethoven)
• If I had a hammer (the hammer song) (Pete Seeger, Lee Hays)
• Breme (the long way home) (Steve Knightley)
• Which side are you on? (roud 15159 - Florence Reece)
• Three acres and a cow (roud 24484)
• Heave away my Johnny (roud 616)
• When this old hat was new (roud 1693)

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

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