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Sunday
Evenings at 8 pm (doors open 7:45) at:
The Normandy
Centre Denne Road, Horsham,West
Sussex RH12
1JF
Acoustic folk club - Licensed bar
Admission varies between £2 and £8 (discounted for
members):
Under 21s get free admission to all events.
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For reviews
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Sunday 10th March |
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Open Floor |
Our open floor nights are an opportunity for anyone to try a song, a tune or a poem knowing they have a sympathetic audience, although there is no obligation to perform, and those who simply like to listen are welcome.
Admission: Members £2; Non-members £4 |
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Sunday 17th March |
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Open Floor & SPOTLIGHT
on Moonshine Lane
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Our open floor nights are an opportunity for anyone to try a song, a tune or a poem knowing they have a sympathetic audience, although there is no obligation to perform, and those who simply like to listen are welcome.
Tonight Moonshine Lane will have the Spotlight to themselves for a while.
Martin Littleboy (guitar, uilleann pipes and vocals) and Danny Cahill (fiddle,
mandolin, percussion and vocals) have been playing music together for almost ten
years. As Moonshine Lane they now focus on songs, both traditional and contemporary,
in the Americana genre and on traditional Irish music as a fiddle/uilleann pipe duo.
This performance will be on St.Patrick's Night and so we hope they will
include a good helping of 'Irish fare' in their set.
Admission: Members £2; Non-members £4 |
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Sunday 24th March |
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Doves Vagaries
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Dove's Vagaries' core instruments are melodeon with a big bass drum.
They sing and play some ancient music from the 12th and 13th centuries and up to music hall numbers and the 19th century. Some songs are accompanied and others are in acapella harmony. Instrumentals are played on a variety of instruments including melodeon, concertina, dulcimer, smallpipes, cornamuses, hulusi, whistles, flutes - not a guitar in sight!!!
Admission £10 (Members £7) |
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Sunday 31st March |
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Open Floor |
Our open floor nights are an opportunity for anyone to try a song, a tune or a poem knowing they have a sympathetic audience, although there is no obligation to perform, and those who simply like to listen are welcome.
Admission: Members £2; Non-members £4 |
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Sunday 7th April |
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Song and Dance |
Songs, tunes and poems from members & visitors plus dancing to our excellent ceilidh band.
Beginners and experts alike are welcome and our experienced callers ensure everyone can work their way through the dances with enjoyment. Admission: Members £2; Non-members £4 |
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Sunday 14th April |
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Open Floor AND
Sixties night!! |
Our open floor nights are an opportunity for anyone to try a song, a tune or a poem knowing they have a sympathetic audience, although there is no obligation to perform, and those who simply like to listen are welcome.
Tonight we invite you to sing, play or recite something from the sixties - perhaps connected to a particular event in your life. Or not, for those who are too young to remember, or don't remember for other reasons, as you choose.
Admission: Members £2; Non-members £4 |
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Sunday 21st April |
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Open Floor and
Desert Island Folk with
Bonnie Flitney
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Our open floor nights are an opportunity for anyone to try a song, a tune or a poem knowing they have a sympathetic audience, although there is no obligation to perform, and those who simply like to listen are welcome.
Tonight Caroline Thomas will be grilling Bonnie Flitney about the music in her life.
Admission: Members £2; Non-members £4 |
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Sunday 28th April |
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Copper Viper
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Copper Viper is an acoustic folk trio from London, comprised of prolific songwriter and guitarist Robin Joel Sangster, fiddle/mandolin player Duncan Menzies and banjo picker Dana Immanuel. Drawing inspiration from the British folk and American country/bluegrass traditions, Copper Viper's music marries haunting melodies and intricate vocal harmonies with searing instrumental passages to create a stylistic blend that is at once familiar and unique.
The group recorded their debut album "Cut It Down, Count The Rings" at Bear Creek Studio in Woodinville WA, USA with platinum-selling producer Ryan Hadlock (The Lumineers, Brandi Carlile). Mastered by Grammy-winning engineer Gavin Lurssen ("O Brother, Where Art Thou?" Soundtrack, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss), the album flows smoothly between lyrical ballads and foot-stomping barn-stormers, mixing melancholy, hope, tension and joy in equal measure.
Since the release of "Cut It Down, Count The Rings" in April 2019, Copper Viper have toured extensively in the UK, Europe and Canada, performing at venues such as London's prestigious Green Note, Glastonbury Festival and the Cambridge Folk Festival where they were nominated for the Christian Raphael Prize for new artists.
Admission £10 (Members £7) |
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Sunday 5th May |
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Song and Dance |
Songs, tunes and poems from members & visitors plus dancing to our excellent ceilidh band.
Beginners and experts alike are welcome and our experienced callers ensure everyone can work their way through the dances with enjoyment. Admission: Members £2; Non-members £4 |
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Sunday 12th May |
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Open Floor & SPOTLIGHT
on Dick Streeter
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Our open floor nights are an opportunity for anyone to try a song, a tune or a poem knowing they have a sympathetic audience, although there is no obligation to perform, and those who simply like to listen are welcome.
Tonight Dick Streeter will have the Spotlight to himself for a while.
Admission: Members £2; Non-members £4 |
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Sunday 19th May |
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Rawbones
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Rawbones are 4 guys and 2 gals singing and playing guitar, bass, banjo, mandolin and Appalachian dulcimer from the deep south of Surrey county. Drawing inspiration from a wide range of genres for a unique choice of songs from traditional old timey, bluegrass, and gospel music to folk and pop.
There should be something for everyone.
Admission: Members £5; Non-members £7 |
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Sunday 26th May |
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Open Floor |
Our open floor nights are an opportunity for anyone to try a song, a tune or a poem knowing they have a sympathetic audience, although there is no obligation to perform, and those who simply like to listen are welcome.
Admission: Members £2; Non-members £4 |
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Sunday 2nd June |
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Open Floor & SPOTLIGHT
on Anne and Alan
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Our open floor nights are an opportunity for anyone to try a song, a tune or a poem knowing they have a sympathetic audience, although there is no obligation to perform, and those who simply like to listen are welcome.
Tonight Anne and Alan will have the Spotlight to themselves for a while.
Anne and Alan started singing folk music together around 1990 with two guitars and harmonies. Anne danced with ladies Morris side, Magog, and Alan took up the melodeon to play for the side. Anne introduced whistles and recorder to enhance the accompaniments.
Together, they formed Cotillion with Bonnie Flitney and have continued with this line up to sing and play at every pub on the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight Folk Festival among others. Cotillion wrote and performed themed Folk Shows of songs, tunes, prose and poetry with narrator Linda Nichol.
Admission: Members £2; Non-members £4 |
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Sunday 9th June |
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Emmanuel Pariselle,
Didier Oliver and
Nathalie Oliver Selsis
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Emmanuel and Didier have played – and sung – together since 1975, and both are experienced and entertaining teachers. Emmanuel is one of France’s finest players of both the melodeon and concertina, while Didier (La Base Duo) is also a superb fiddler and also plays equally well mandolin, boha (Gascon) pipes and guitar.
Nathalie Oliver Selsis: Born into a traditional Gascon speaking family – her grandfather was a traditional singer – Nathalie was introduced to traditional dance at a very young age. Having discovered traditional dances, she went on to research traditional dance and song from collections from the 60s, 70s and 80s.
Passionate about sharing, Nathalie teaches the different dances of Gascony with a playful pedagogy that allows everyone to approach the different dances practiced in the dances of the South West of France. Trained in music therapy, Natalie wishes to transmit the benefits of music and dance in her workshops.
Her sharing of dance has taken her to different regions of France but also to different countries including Spain, Italy and Portugal.
Admission £10 (Members £7)
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Sunday 16th June |
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Open Floor |
Our open floor nights are an opportunity for anyone to try a song, a tune or a poem knowing they have a sympathetic audience, although there is no obligation to perform, and those who simply like to listen are welcome.
Admission: Members £2; Non-members £4 |
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Sunday 23rd June |
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Open Floor |
Our open floor nights are an opportunity for anyone to try a song, a tune or a poem knowing they have a sympathetic audience, although there is no obligation to perform, and those who simply like to listen are welcome.
Admission: Members £2; Non-members £4 |
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Sunday 30th June |
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Song and Dance |
Songs, tunes and poems from members & visitors plus dancing to our excellent ceilidh band.
Beginners and experts alike are welcome and our experienced callers ensure everyone can work their way through the dances with enjoyment. Admission: Members £2; Non-members £4 |
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