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Welcome to the official blog of the Dragon Folk Club, which meets for a singers night every Friday at The Bridge Inn, Shortwood, Bristol. Everyone is welcome whether you sing, play or just listen.

Showing posts with label Positively 4th Street. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Positively 4th Street. Show all posts

Monday, 30 May 2022

The Octogenarian

Bob Dylan at Azkena Rock Festival
in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, in June 2010

We were only four at last Friday's Dragon Folk Club session but we got through twenty nine songs which isn't too shoddy.

Colin as MC started the evening with Jez Lowe's The Lazarus Dance.

The main theme that emerged was driven by Geoff who sang exclusively songs by octogenarian, Bob Dylan, for his birthday:

Simon added one to the Dylan count with The mighty Quinn.

There's one more thing to mention before signing off and that is that Colin Colin sang a song which doesn't seem to know its own name. I think Colin thought of it as Wimoweh, possibly after the version by Karl Denver (or possibly not). Younger readers may know it as The lion sleeps tonight, possibly from the version by Tight Fit. It was however written in 1939 by Solomon Linda under the title Mbube.

It was also Colin who finished the session with Three Jolly Fishermen (roud 3496).

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

(Number of people present - 4 of whom 4 performed)

Thursday, 13 December 2018

Contemptible or unaccomplished?

We look forward to seeing hoards of you this Friday for our slightly early Christmas themed session. Come ready to perform songs, tunes, poems, monologues, stories or jokes on the subject of Christmas, Yule or Bah-Humbug, or anything really that takes your fancy. There should be mince pies for the interval.

Last week's session had no theme and the contributions were quite varied as you will see from the usual "selection" link at the bottom of this post. MC, Colin started us off on a theme of leather on willow with The Cricketers Of Hambledon (Bruce Blunt, Peter Warlock).

Geoff followed on with Nowhere Man (Lennon-McCartney) making life very easy for this scribe to find a video. Slightly more difficult to find is Derek's Three Wee Glasgow Molls (Roud 6960). Colin was the only one this time to sing a song I couldn't trace at all which should probably be an embarrassment since Mike clearly knew it and I think Derek may have known it too.