RIP George Papavgeris

George Papavgeris (1953-2026)

Your scribe wasn't present at last week's Dragon Folk Club session, but it sounds as though it was a varied and enjoyable affair albeit with one sad message, that being the death of singer/songwriter George Papavgeris, who I didn't know, but whose songs I had often enjoyed.

An appropriate theme for this Friday's session would seem to be Mothering Sunday, so songs of the mother church, and of mothers will be on topic, as well as anything else tenuously linked, but as always the theme is optional and anything goes as long as it's acoustic.

Last week Colin, MC as usual, kicked off with Dona Dona (Sholom Secunda, Aaron Zeitlin. English lyrics by Arthur Kevess and Teddi Schwartz).

Paul followed with Friends like these in honour of the recently deceased writer, George Papavgeris.

Denny completed the first rotation with The road to Dundee (roud 2300).

There were five songs new to the Dragon database last week:

• Paul - The bard (* Steve Thomason)
• Denny - Kitty Kane (* John Warner)
• Paul - Mollymauk (* Bob Watson)
• Colin - Lady Jane (* Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)
• Paul - I mean to get jolly well drunk (* roud 3466)

Colin finished the evening off with a good sing-along Roll the old chariot (roud 3632).

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

(Number of people present - 3 of whom 3 performed)

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 (#).