Another good week at the club, we hada good sing around and everyone was on fine form. well done to Lawrence for his new song about the tall ships, tis a goodun. Best wishes to Ian de’ath and Harry who are both ib hospital having surgery. we will see you in the next couple of weeks.
weekly news 31/08/10
September 2nd, 2010fools gold blog
August 23rd, 2010check out fools golds blog refering to there visit to foggy furze as well as others
weekly news 17/08/10
August 18th, 2010This week we were paid a visit by Ian Tyzach, Fools Gold all the way from Stanley and Durham and by our old friends Strings and Things. Pat and Ron were in fine form and it was a pleasure to see them both looking healthy and singing really good. Fools Gold are a trio from Stanley and Durham City, Steve and Carol Robson and there friend Steve. There instruments are double bass, 4 string guitar, 6 string guitar and flute and they play excellent music to a high standard, Carol on lead vocals has a charming voice easy on the ear and is complimented by Steve and Steve on the harmony’s. We were enthralled by there sound and have invited them to do a guest night for us on February the 8th,We enjoyed meeting Ian Tyzach and loved his music, i hope this minstrel wanders this way again soon. John brought his accordion for the first time, he admitted to being a tad rusty but he made a lovely sound to mix up the evening, Martin did his funny whaling song and Stan coughed up with a couple of funny poems, Alan did puppet on a string for the first time on his harmonica, all in all a great sing around night.
Weekly News 10/08/10
August 13th, 2010Cliff Healey did the guest night and was excellent. despite the tall ships festival in Hartlepool dragging on Late on tuesday there was still a decent turnout at the travellers to see Cliff perform. He was complaining of having a sore throat but for sure no one could tell as he ploughed through a varied set from Nancy Spain to the snow on Glen Coe. I cant wait till the next time Cliff is invited to guest here at the Foggy Furze Folk Club.
Next week is a sing around which is still going to be on even though the holidays will cause a dip in numbers so please come along and join us on Tuesday night.
weekly news 3/08/10
August 4th, 2010After a slow start the club filled up and we had a smashing night. Two new friends John and Martin came along and both did great with John doing a lot of tunes on a classical guitar, black waterside and even some Beatles stuff we totally enjoyed. Martin conjured up a couple of brilliant self composed songs that I would love to hear again and again. one serious dedication to anyone who has tread the boards and the other a totally humorous take on the rock and folk world which demonstrated Martins talent and witty slant on life. Alan did his 15 mins of fame on his gob iron, everyone was totally smitten as he rattled of old and new tunes guaranteed to satisfy our desire to hear him perform. Well done Alan and do it again soon mate. Next week we have Cliff Healey guesting and this excellent singer and guitar player is not to be missed, come along and join us at the Travellers Rest at 8 on Tuesday for an unforgettable night of folk and American folk/country music.
Weekly news 27/07/10
July 28th, 2010The sing around was slow to start this week, due in the main to illness and holidays, but we rallied to a good 16 before the beer break. Alans mouth organ was missing a note so he decided to do his 15 min spot next week, come along and have a listen, you wont be disappointed. Stan and his witty poems Kay and her beautiful folk tunes and Jean with Maddy singing Grace were the highlights of the evening. Harry Cosgrove went back to his roots and sang The Lampton worm without his guitar and had us all joining in with the rousing chorus, nice one Harry!
Kays Article 30/07/10
July 28th, 2010Article, Friday, 30 July 2010
At the Foggy Furze Folk Club in the Travellers’ Rest, Stockton Road, we’ve had a rousing couple of weeks, with this Tuesday turning into an impromptu hooligan music night. During the next two weeks we’ve got a spot-light on Alan’s wonderful harmonica playing on 3 August, followed on 10 August by Cliff Healey with a full evening’s entertainment. Cliff is a great singer, a human juke box with a vast repertoire.
Well, as we told you last time, there was no Headland Folk Club this last fortnight but there is a one-off on Friday, 6 August 2010, a ‘pre-festival warm up’. All good self-respecting festivals have a warm-up evening so this is a good precursor for the whole Tall Ships weekend.
Now whilst we’ve had no Headland Folk Club during the last fortnight, we have had a fund raiser over at the Nursery this Monday, which was well supported by local groups and the purpose was to send a young volunteer teacher away to India with funds in her back pocket to purchase stationery once she arrived there. I really enjoyed the ‘Skyran-ish’ set, with the boys getting down and heavy whilst Angela enjoyed a well-earned break.
Hopefully during the next fortnight you’ll find out just how much grass roots music there is available in this town and will thoroughly enjoy what has been prepared for you by the various organisers, one of the primary ones being Sean Cooney of the Young ‘Uns. He’s really worked hard with the programme so we know it’ll work. But don’t forget you’re always welcome at any of the local clubs, whatever the season and it’s only £1 to come along to the FFFC each Tuesday from 8.30. keep in touch with folk events on www.foggyfurzefolk.com or catch me on kay@foggyfurzefolk.com.
Kays Article
July 17th, 2010Article, Friday, 16 July 2010
Well there’ve been frolics in the folkie world this last two weeks. At the Foggy Furze Folk Club in the Travellers’ Rest in Stockton Road in Hartlepool, we welcomed the first ‘Jan’s Jukebox’, where one person selects songs for all the other players to perform. It worked really well without cramping anyone’s style so there’s another selection to be performed sometime in the future.
This week the FFFC were roundly entertained by Maggie Gee and her merry men on Irish and Northumbrian pipes, guitars, mandolins, penny whistles and a concertina. A jolly good time was had by all.
The next spotlight is Al on the harmonica and he should be on on 27 July. Our next guest is Cliff Healey, the human jukebox, 10 August 2010.
At the Cosmopolitan last weekend there was a cracking evening, people from all over the north-east entertaining one another. Now be aware that there’s no Headland Folk Club on 23rd but there is one on 6 August – that’ll be the last one for the summer.
This week has also seen the start of a shanty group in the nursery on a Wednesday (as well as the regular Monday evening folk and acoustic night) so why not pop down and see what’s happening?
You know you’re welcome at any of the local folk clubs, so why not pop in and enjoy a quiet drink while listening to your local folkies? Alternatively, you can catch up on www.foggyfurzefolk.com or get in touch on kay@foggyfurzefolk.com.
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July 8th, 2010next week get along to the foggy furze folk club on Tuesday night 13 July to see Maggie Gee and her mates doing the guest spot. only £2 for what will be a warm friendly folk night with an injection of laughter,
Kay’s article
June 30th, 2010Article, Friday, 2 July 2010
Things are rocking at the Foggy Furze Folk Club along at the Travellers’ Rest in Stockton Road, Hartlepool. Last week was so packed it was just real good fun and this week saw the launch of a new feature – ‘Jan’s Jukebox’. It starts next week all being well, we all know what we’re doing and it’s basically playing to our strengths.
Our next guest is to be Maggie Gee who is a great friend of the club and she appears on Tuesday, 13 July 2010. We were to have Joel and Friends but something’s cropped up and Maggie has stepped in to breach the gap. Thanks Maggie.
This Tuesday also saw the spotlight on our own Mike Hall with four well-selected pieces, two quite well known, two not so regularly heard but excellent choices nonetheless. Very well done Mike, everyone really enjoyed it.
