SANDWICH FOLK AND ALE FESTIVAL 2019
Yep - we've been booked again to sing at the fabulous Sandwich Folk and Ale Festival 2019. We're on the Guildhall Square stage at 4pm on Saturday 6th July. Really looking forward to it. Our line-up will be: Bob Carling, on guitar, mandolin, mandola and vocals Dave Woodward, on guitar…
Support for Weird Cousins
Anton French's band Weird Cousins and the Acoustic Architects are playing at The Phoenix this coming Saturday – in support of Kent MS Therapy Centre (KMSTC). Looking forward to this - it's been a loooong time since we've done a public gig. Hope to see many of ya'all there. 'Tis a…
Sandwich Folk & Ale programme
There we are - on at Sunday 8th July, 3pm Guildhall Stage - www.open-sandwich.co.uk/events/folk_and_ale_weekend.htm (that website says 9th July but they mean 8th July!)
Sandwich Folk and Ale 2018
We've been booked again for this fabulous festival - this time at 3pm on the Market Square stage on Sunday 8th July... We've undergone a bit of a line-up change, this time joined by the brilliant Debbie Sowter on keys and vocals and the equally multi-talented Chunta on drums and…
Our CD, Blueprint
We're running low on stocks of our CD, so just looking into getting a new more copied. If you haven't got your copy yet, then you can order it here... And rehearsals are going well. Watch this space for announcements about where we're next appearing!
Where does the time go?
Yes, where indeed? The last posting I put up here was June of 2016! Agh! The reason is that we've been busy with the "Hopping Down in Kent" project, a folk opera that me (Bob) and Dave concocted. It's been great fun - and we want to do summat similar…
Sandwich Folk and Ale Festival 2016
We've been booked to play at the wonderful Sandwich Folk and Ale festival again. We're on the Market Stage at 11 a.m., Saturday 9th July. There'll be more details here and here soon and there's photos of us playing last year here.
Another sponsor for Hopping Down in Kent
Great news! We have been given permission to use Screen Archive South East footage from the DVD "In the Hop Fields of Kent" (which we have been showing at the various Workshops) at the show on 26 November. That means changing all of the promotional material to add in their logo – but…
Hopping Down in Kent
It now feels concrete - the venue has been booked, posters and tickets are being printed and Shepherd Neame have a webpage about the event on their website - see: http://www.oldbrewerystore.co.uk/events/hopping-down-kent-community-folk-opera Many thanks to Shepherd Neame and Ideas Test for sponsoring us. Tickets will be available later this week from…
Update on Hopping Down in Kent
It's been a while... We've been busy getting this new musical project - a 'Folk Opera' - off the ground. It's all very exciting! We're just about to have our 6th Workshop on the project and loads of people have been coming along to the workshops, generating new ideas,…