CENTRE STAGE - Queens Road, BH2 6BE
between Bournemouth Triangle and Westbourne village centre

You're having a laugh!
NEIL INNES and
RICHARD DIGANCE
at Centre Stage - see below!


Festival tickets are available at folk club gigs

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TICKETS
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PICS
up to 26 June
REVIEWS
to July 2011
Sunday 5 February
shared bill !!
THE PAPER SHADES
THE DOUGLAS FIRS
PENNY RED
£5
Thursday 9 February
GLENN ROSS
+ Jojoca Trio
£5
Sunday 12 February

LATIN QUARTER
- home gig before European tour for 'Radio Africa' band

£5

Thursday 16 February
GLOWGLOBES
£5
SATURDAY 18 February
STEVE KNIGHTLEY
£17

Sunday 19 February
LESTER ALLEN
£5
Thursday 23
Febuary
SOLENT UNIVERSITY
Showcase of brilliant young musicians
£5
Sunday 26 February
CONTRABAND
bluegrass
£5
Thursday 1 March
O'HOOLEY & TIDOW
£10

Sunday 4 March
ALEX ROBERTS
£5
Thursday 8 March
INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY !!!
£5
Sunday 11 March
FEARNE
£5
Thursday 15 March
CHARLIE HOLE
£5
Sunday 18 March
ANDY STONE
£5
Thursday 29 March
TBA
£5
Sunday 1 April

Songs from John Anderson's folk musical "POACHER'S MOON"

£5
Thursday 5 April RORY McLEOD £14
Thursday 12 April
NEIL INNES
£14
Sunday 15 April tba £5
Thursday 19 April
THUNDERBRIDGE BLUEGRASS BAND
£10
Sunday 22 April
STEVE TILSTON
£10
Thursday 26 April tba £5
Sunday 29 April TINDERBOX £6
Thursday 3 May
RICHARD DIGANCE
£12
Sunday 6 May
PETE MORTON
£10
Thursday 10 May
KEVIN DEMPSEY
with young American fiddler
ROSIE CARSON
£10
Sunday 13 May
DJAMBO
£5
Thursday 17 May
HUNGRYTOWN
£10
Sunday 20 May
GALLEY BEGGAR
£5
Thursday 24 May
MARTIN SIMPSON solo
£15
Sunday 27 May
JIMMY LEE & the Edge of Chaos Orchestra
£10

Thursday 31 May
EMILY MAGUIRE
album launch!

£10

Bournemouth Folk Club closes for Summer -
re-opens Sunday only from 23 September 2012
24 - 26 August
PURBECK FOLK FESTIVAL
UPCOMING IN AUTUMN
Sunday 23 September - DJAMBO
 
Sunday 30 September - PIERRE BENSUSAN
 
Sunday 14 October - WHILE & MATTHEWS
 
Sunday 28 October - THE OLD DANCE SCHOOL
 
Sunday 4 November
- LUCY FARRELL & JONNY KEARNEY
 
Sunday 18 November - BOO HEWERDINE
 
   
   

2012

Sunday 5 February
three brilliant duo / trios

Two that we know well
THE PAPER SHADES
THE DOUGLAS FIRS
and
(from Bath, previously known as the Carousel)
PENNY RED


Thursday 9 February
GLENN ROSS
a brilliant local songwriter
with Gavin Lewis (cello)

support:
Jojoca Trio 
(world-jazz-folk) 
Jon Lloyd: soprano saxophone and bass clarinet, 
Cathy Stevens: electric viola, 
Jon Leadbeater: tablas and percussion.

Sunday 12 February
LATIN QUARTER

 
The video is from Top Of The Pops 1986.
Latin Quarter are re-forming and
play a home gig prior to their 2012
European tour

+ Catherine Burke

Thursday 16 February
GLOWGLOBES



+ Pete Thompson

admission £5 (students £3)

Saturday 18 February
STEVE KNIGHTLEY

Among England's greatest folk songwriters,
Steve is one of award-winning outfit Show Of Hands

Saturday 18 February
supporting Steve Knightley:

Philip Henry and Hannah Martin

stunning young duo from Devon on tour with
Steve Knightley

Sunday 19 February
LESTER ALLEN


The video is from Buckingham Palace
as part of BBC TV's "Goldie's Band".
Lester is a very talented and prolific songwriter.

+ Nick Evans (on UK tour from Berlin)
+ Alex Beds (of Fearne)
+ Damian Clarke (of Pressgang)

Thursday 23 February
SHOWCASE OF SONGWRITERS
Solent University special  
THE WIDOWMAKER
featuring Ian Easton - (above) headline
+ ++

Sunday 26 February
CONTRABAND
bluegrass band from Southampton

Thursday 1 March
O'HOOLEY & TIDOW

Belinda O’Hooley (The Unthanks) and Heidi Tidow are the dapper gentlewomen behind the groundbreaking Silent June; one of MOJO Magazine’s Top 10 Folk Albums of 2010. Hailed as pioneers of innovative chamber-folk, their music defies easy description, crossing folk and classical boundaries with a hint of burlesque theatricality. Their beautifully unusual songs touch on everything from dark folk tales, cross-dressing historical figures through to the invisibility of the elderly and the global economy, yet are always sure to tug on your heart-strings. Their new album The Fragile, released in February 2012, sees them touring the country with their irresistible blend of striking arrangements, sublime harmonies and cheeky Northern banter.

A MOJO Magazine Top 10 Folk Album of 2010
Striking and refreshingly ambitious. A bold, unsettling debut.’ The Observer

Sunday 4 March
ALEX ROBERTS
Here is an artist who represents all the best aspects 
of the songwriter’s craft. A casual observer of the 
world that surrounds him, he draws on its roots, its 
past and present; he is a story teller in the age-old 
tradition, a balladeer, poet and a writer of 
impressively prolific output.

Alex Roberts blends genres from baroque to blues, 
with a warm soulful voice, finger-style guitar, some 
fine lapsteel playing, mandolin, and a stompbox to 
boot.

Thursday 8 March


Celebrating women songwriters and musicians!

KRISTA GREEN
KIMARI RAVEN
THE DOUGLAS FIRS
FRANZISKA PRETSCH
KATIE McLEOD & YASMINE STEPHENS
+

Sunday 11 March

FEARNE

info soon!

Thursday 15 March

CHARLIE HOLE

INFO SOON!
HOT TICKETS
in April

Thursday 5 April
RORY McLEOD  

Rory Mcleod - ex-circus clown and fire eater. A one man soulband, poet and storyteller, singing his own unique upbeat dance stories. A modern travelling troubadour using tap shoes, acappella, harmonica, guitar, trombone, spoons, finger cymbals, bandorea, djembe and various percussion instruments!

Rory has travelled the globe for different reasons at different times, from Asia to the middle East from Gambia to Cuba, Central America, Australia, North America, Canada, Europe and other nooks and crannies of the earth.


 

Thursday 12 April
NEIL INNES  

This man's comic genius has graced
Bonzo Dog Doodah Band
Monty Python
The Rutles ....
And he can play a bit!

Do we need a biographical paragraph?

Neil's website

 

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