SINGERS NIGHTS & WHAT’S ON
December 2011
- 02 Dec:- FIRST FRIDAY SING : Local Singers
- 09 Dec:- SINGERS NIGHT : Local Singers
- 16 Dec:- Archie Fisher
- 23 Dec:- HOLBECK MOOR MUMMERS - Charity Night
- 30 Dec:- TWIXMAS WASSAIL PARTY NIGHT - Come sing out the Old Year!
January 2012
- 06 Jan:- FIRST FRIDAY SING : Local Singers
- 13 Jan:- SINGERS NIGHT : Local Singers
- 20 Jan:- Alistair Russell
- 27 Jan:- BURNS NIGHT SPECIAL with the Dogsbody Band & Local Singers
February 2012
- 03 Feb:- FIRST FRIDAY SING : Local Singers
- 10 Feb:- Valentines Theme Night : Local Singers
- 17 Feb:- SINGERS NIGHT : Local Singers
- 24 Feb:- PILGRIMS' WAY : Details later
- 02 Mar:- FIRST FRIDAY SING : Local Singers
- 09 Mar:- JOHN CONOLLY : Details later
- 16 Mar:- Irish Theme Night : Local Singers
- 23 Mar:- SINGERS NIGHT : Local Singers
- 30 Mar:- VICKY SWAN & JONNY DYER : Details later
- 06 Apr:- CLOSED FOR EASTER
- 13 Apr:- Roy Bailey & Ewan McLennan : Club's 50th Birthday Weekend
- 14 Apr:- TBA
- 20 Apr:- SINGERS NIGHT : Local Singers
- 27 Apr:- SINGERS NIGHT : Local Singers
March 2012
April 2012
GUESTS
Dec 16th 2011
Dec 23rd 2011
Jan 20th 2012
Friday Night when Local Singers Sing
Friday nights
‘Folk at the Grove’
has its own special atmosphere.
Expectancy is in the air when the lights dim ...
candles are lit ... the spotlight falls
and the first singer sings!
Roy Palmer has a new book
(Herron Publishing)
Available for purchase
Working Songs:
Industrial Ballads and Poems
from
Britain and Ireland, 1780s-1980s
Available from herronpublishing.co.uk
Drawn from a wide variety of sources ‘Working Songs’ is the first major examination of industrial folk song for over forty years since A. L. Lloyd’s ‘Folk Song in Britain’, and covers some two hundred years of working life in Britain.
Printed ballads (from England mainly, but also from Wales, Scotland and Ireland) are the principal source used, but the oral tradition is also represented.
He has drawn here on his earlier publications (some of them now out of print), but the most of the material in ‘Working Songs’ now appears for the first time.
Child labour, pit disasters, trade union struggles, strikes and lockouts from the Industrial Revolution to the Miner’s Strike, are all told through examples of songs and verse.
As the country’s foremost writer on folk song and broadside ballads, he has written extensively on every aspect of traditional song from shanties (‘Boxing the Compass’) to soldier’s songs (‘The Rambling Soldier’).
His contribution was recognised by the English Folk Dance and Song Society, who awarded him their Gold Badge in 2006.
For forty years, he has been fascinated by the importance of songs in social history and his anthologies, ever since the publication of ‘A Touch on the Times’ in 1974, have reflected this. He lives in Worcestershire with his wife, Pat.