A poor report of a promising evening

(Photo: Simon Meeds)

Sorry that the report of last week’s Dragon Folk Club session is rather late appearing, Blame it on the usual scribe being out of the country.

It wasn’t technically the greatest session since an Oasis tribute act was playing in the bar. This sort of thing happens from time to time, but isn’t a frequent occurrence. No doubt it was made worse by the ladies’ toilets still being out of action and therefore a steady stream of women making their way through our room. Nevertheless, every cloud has a silver lining and at least two of them contributes a song to the session.

I can assure you that we will be there again this Friday as we are almost every Friday from 8:15pm in the barn (just past the toilets) at The Bridge Inn, Bridge Road, Shortwood, Bristol (UK), BS16 9NG.

You will always find FREE ENTRY, a warm welcome, excellent acoustics, and a reasonably priced bar. Anything goes as long as it’s acoustic: a song, a story, a tune, a poem, a joke, a monologue, whatever you can come up with, and if you don’t feel up to performing eve in front of a small, friendly, crowd, then you are welcome to just listen, and maybe join in the odd chorus and some friendly banter.

Come and try us, we don’t bite.

(Number of people present - 9 of whom 8 performed)

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...and now for the addendum...

As usual, mentioning all songs sung by Dragon newcomer Amy:

• Wild mountain thyme (roud 541 - Francis McPeake)
• Who knows where the time goes (Sandy Denny)
• Follow the heron (Karine Polwart)
• Don't wanna fall in love (* Jane Child)
• Detectorists (Johnny Flynn)
• Who will sing me lullabies (* Kate Rusby)
• Dancing on my own (* Robyn, Patrik Berger)

Finally for now, here are the songs sung by others which were new to the dragon database:

• Colin - Goodbye to the sea (* Dave Boulton)
• Colin - Robert Whitworth (* Roz Kimber, Neil Kimber)
• Roger - Thinking of letting go (*# Roger Stanleigh)
• Helen - America (* Johnny Borrell, Andy Burrows)
• Helen - Bring me sunshine (* Arthur Kent, Sylvia Dee)
• Paul - The Galway drawl (*# Liz Draper)
• Unknown singer - Grace (* Frank O'Meara, Seán O.Meara)
• Unknown singer - I see the light (* Alan Menken, Glenn Slater)

Now listen to a selection of songs sung during this session (this week not in the order in which they were sung).

In the above report songs new to the Dragon database (though no always new to the club) are marked with an asterisk (*) and any songs not included in the "a selection" playlist are marked with a hash (#).