South Shields Folk Club
The Customs House
Mill Dam
South Shields
NE33 1ES
Doors open at 7.00pm for a 7.30 start.


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SSFC resident singers' and musicians' material is mostly traditional, as are most of the guest performers we book, but we do like to hear other kinds of music as well, and very much appreciate visitors who perform contemporary, country, blues, or their own material. Even when our guest diary is full floor singers are especially welcome, as are new resident singers and musicians. It'll cost at least £5 each for admission to a guest night and £2 each for admission to a resident singers' and musicians' night. Membership is free and once you're on the list you'll get email updates etc., and you'll be at the beginning of the queue for special events tickets which may also be a special (probably more expensive) price.
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Our Diary    18/6/13 update

June   July

August   September   October   November   December
March!
 
Folk club contacts
History and Location
Festivals update 8/8/11
Other Folk Clubs' Links 10/3/13 update
The Ancient Mariners
Facebook and Twitter
Artists' Links
Some local breweries 29/5/13 update
Folk Roundabout
The Live Music Forum
Gateshead Ceilidh Club

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History and Location

Location first, and a good place to start exploring Tyneside is Jim Scott's website.

South Shields Folk Club was born in the early sixties as the Beacon Folk Club and met in the Beacon on the Lawe Top every Friday. Needing a bigger room, the club moved after a few years and for many years was known as the Marsden Inn Folk Club. We changed the name again after leaving the Marsden Inn, and for a few years before settling into the South Shields and Westoe Club we met at the Old Ship in Harton. From the 27th of January 2013 our new home will be the Customs House.


Metro trains are every 15 minutes on Sunday nights and these are the times of the last ones from South Shields:-
to St James 10.12 pm
to Manors 11.12 pm
to Regent Centre 11.27 pm
to South Gosforth 11.56 pm

http://www.nexus.org.uk/metro/timetables/south-shields

Find your way in Transport Direct

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Folk Club Contacts

By telephone; Keith Cunningham 0191 510 1589, Brian Hunt 07971 828 465.

By email: Keith Cunningham

Facebook page

and Twitter

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Our Diary
 

June the 23rd
Annie Dearman and Steve Harrison
Originally booked as Dearman Gammon and Harrison but Vic has had to cancel due to illness.
plus residents and visitors
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June the 30th
Sandra Kerr
plus residents and visitors
July the 7th
Resident and visiting singers and musicians
July the 14th
Paul Dalton
plus residents and visitors
July the 21st
John Conolly
plus residents and visitors
July the 28th
Chris and Steve Wilson
plus residents and visitors
August the 4th
Resident and visiting singers and musicians
August the 11th
Resident and visiting singers and musicians
August the 18th
Resident and visiting singers and musicians
August the 25th
Resident and visiting singers and musicians
September the 1st
September the 8th
Two Black Sheep and a Stallion
plus residents and visitors
September the 15th
Peter and Barbara Snape
plus residents and visitors
September the 22nd
Resident and visiting singers and musicians
September the 29th
Flossie Malavialle
plus residents and visitors
October the 6th
Tom McConville and Leonard Brown
plus residents and visitors
October the 13th
The Keelers
plus residents and visitors
October the 20th
Resident and visiting singers and musicians
October the 27th
Grace Notes
plus residents and visitors
November the 3rd
Gavin Davenport TBC
plus residents and visitors
November the 10th
TrioThrelfall
plus residents and visitors
November the 17th
Resident and visiting singers and musicians
November the 24th
Maggie Boyle and Paul Downes
plus residents and visitors
December the 1st
December the 8th
Scolds Bridle
plus residents and visitors
December the 15th
December the 22nd
Xmas Party?
December the 29th
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March the 3rd
March the 10th
plus residents and visitors
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Folk Roundabout is published quarterly and is a comprehensive guide to the region's gannins-on, with lists of venues, club diary dates, festivals, workshops, performers, and much more. You can buy it in many folk clubs for £1, or you can have four quarterly issues posted to your home for (price quoted in issue 166) £9.00.

It's a good place to advertise club and festival activities. Full page ad (130 x 188mm) rate quoted in issue 166 is only £20 with half and quarter pages pro rata.

It's edited by Trevor Lister, 24 Ambleside Grove, Middlesbrough, Cleveland TS5 7DQ. His phone number is 01642  821 776. I'll not put his email address in this bit in case he gets loads of spam from the link, but it's always on page 3 of the magazine.

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Festivals


fRoots Festivals Page
Folk and Roots festivals list
Auckland(NZ)Folk Festival
Darlington Spring Thing
Shetland Folk Festival
Moor and Coast Festival, Whitby
Clennell Hall Folk Festival
Orkney Folk Festival
Holmfirth Festival of Folk
Ireby Festival
Garway Folk Festival
Wimborne Folk Festival
Durham Folk Party
Leigh Folk Festival
Cleckheaton Folk Festival
Ely Folk Festival
Furness Tradition Festival
Priddy Folk Festival
Folk at Nature's World
Stonehaven Folk Festival
Rothbury Traditional Music Festival
Saddleworth Folk Festival
Maryport Blues Festival
Warwick Folk Festival
Sidmouth Folk Week
Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Saltburn Folk Festival
Bideford Folk Festival
Whitby Folk Week
Shrewsbury Folk Festival
The Split Festival, Sunderland
Fylde Folk Festival
Bromyard Folk Festival
Travelling by rail, bus, air, or broomstick? Try this
Or by road? RAC Route Planner

Or the AA planner

Or Transport Direct

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Bill Redhead and Eric Copeland are
The Ancient Mariners
They're shanty singers and will perform at your function if you offer a bribe.
Contact Bill on 0191 456 4450.
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Instruments for sale
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Links
The Pot and Glass Folk and Acoustic Club, Egglescliffe

Ashington Folk Club
The Black Swan Folk Club
The Bridge Folk Club
Cramlington Folk Club
Cutty Wren Folk Club
The Davy Lamp Folk Club
Durham University Folk Society
Edinburgh Folk Club
East Boldon Folk Club
Foggy Furze Folk Club, Hartlepool
Kelso Folk and Live Music Club
The Headland Folk Club, Hartlepool
Phoenix Folk, Ouseburn
Rothbury Roots
Stockton Folk Club
The Welly Folk Club
Tynefolk
The Old Town Hall Theatre, Hemel Hempstead
The Scottish Chamber Orchestra
The Northern Sinfonia and The Cobweb Orchestra
The Sage Gateshead

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The Customs House
The Marsden Writers
Gary Hogg's ToontoonS Site
http://itmusthavebeensomethingisaid.blogspot.com/
fRoots
Folk and Roots
Real UK Music
Robert Whitehead and the Danelaw Dance Band
Cuenet
The Studio, Hartlepool
Ron Angus ;  There's a lot of good stuff for acoustic guitarists on his website.
Dick Gaughan's Website
The Kitchen Musician Website
National Trust Surnames Website
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Artists' Links
Anna Shannon
Barrie and Ingrid Temple
Beeswing
Benny Graham
Bill Whaley and Dave Fletcher
Bob Fox
Bram Taylor
Brian Peters
Broadband
Bryony
Colum Sands
Claire Mann
Cloudstreet
Chris Milner
Chris Sherburn and Denny Bartley
Craig; Morgan; Robson
Dearman Gammon and Harrison
Dick Gaughan
Dick Miles
Dave Webber and Anni Fentiman
Debra Cowan
Derek Gifford
Doghouse Roses
Dogwatch
Donal Maguire
Eddie Walker
Ed Pickford
Ed Rennie
Flossie Malavialle
Emily and Hazel Askew
Geoff Higginbottom
George Welch
Grace Notes
Graham and Eileen Pratt
Gu4(Guffaw)
Hex
Jack B. Burness
Jeff Warner
Jim Bainbridge
Jiva
John Kirkpatrick
John Conolly
Jez Lowe
Jonny Kearney and Lucy Farrell
Judy Dinning
Keith Kendrick
Ken Wilson
Les Barker
Lowp
Lynne Heraud and Pat Turner
Lyra Celtica
Marie Little
Mary Humphreys and Anahata
Martyn Wyndham-Read
Nick Hennessey
Nancy Kerr and James Fagan
Pegleg Ferret
Peter and Barbara Snape
Peter Wood
Pete Coe
Pete Morton
Rallion
Robert Whitehead and the Danelaw Dance Band
Robin Laing
Roy Clinging
Ruth and Sadie Price
Sandra Kerr
Scolds Bridle
Simon Haworth and Andy May
Stanley Accrington
Stephen Snow
Steve and Kristi Nebel
Steve Tilston
Steve Turner
The Askew Sisters
Terry Conway and Liz Law
The House Sisters
The Keelers
The Wilson Family
The Young'uns
The Snapes
Tom and Barbara Brown
Tom McConville
Tom Lewis
Tony Wilson
Tim van Eyken
TrioThrelfall
Trish Winter
Two Black Sheep and a Stallion
Vic Gammon
Wendy Arrowsmith
William Pint and Felicia Dale
Waterson Carthy
Zoox
Di Henderson

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Here's a few session type tunes. They were recorded stone cold sober in broad daylight with the computer microphone so they have no feeling and they're a bit approximate. I tried to play them slowly enough for those who don't know them to pick up the tunes. More to come when I find the rest of the files.

Alexander's Hornpipe
Kid On The Mountain
Miss MacDermott
Ann Odd Reel
Another Odd Reel
Queen Of The Rushes
MacMahon's
Mack's Rambles
The Honeysuckle Hornpipe
Roxburgh Castle
The Merry Blacksmith
The Old Copperplate
The Shaskeen
The Silver Spear
Coleman's Cross
Farewell To Whisky
Father Kelly's
Kathleen O'Hehir
Nancy
Out On The Ocean
Over The Moor To Maggie
The Doon
Tobin's Favourite
The Tar Road to Sligo
The Humours of Tullyscreen
The Foxhunters Jig
The Battle Of Aughrim
Captain Byng


Years ago at Cramlington FC we formed a ceilidh band and these three reels were used for one of our sets.
Spoot Skerry (Fitful Head)
The Wooden Dolly, by Barrie Temple
A Shetland version of Soldier's Joy

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Cullercoats Brewery

Wylam Brewery

The Durham Brewery in Bowburn

The Big Lamp Brewery in Newcastle

High House Farm Brewery in Matfen

Northumberland Brewery

Ouseburn Valley Brewery

The Mordue Brewery in North Shields

The Darwin Brewery in Hendon, Sunderland

The Hadrian and Border Brewery in Newcastle

The Bull Lane Brewing Company in the Clarendon, East End, Sunderland

The Jarrow Brewery in the Robin Hood

The Tyne Bank Brewery

The Maxim Brewery in Houghton-le-Spring
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