https://www.facebook.com/137099706914646/

Four Rivers Folk Club

Home
United Kingdom
Hertford
Four Rivers Folk Club

The Four Rivers Folk Club is based in the Hertford Club, Bull Plain, Hertford SG14 1DT. Featuring headline acts and performers from the local area.
(3)

The club runs twice a month on the second and fourth Wednesdays. Acoustic Music

19/11/2024

Cambridge Folk Club have asked that myself and Peter Crossley, on fiddle, perform a support set this Friday, 22nd November, at The Golden Hind, Milton Road, Cambridge. We will be performing a set of mainly original songs but may throw in one or two written by others.
The headline act will be Hunter Muskett well worth making a trip for!
Thanks to Cambridge Folk club for the invitation to play.
Hope some folks we recognise can make it!

16/11/2024

Advance warning about last Four Rivers Folk Club outing for 2024...This time it's me with an evening of my songs with some (maybe my only?) friends accompanying me. More anon....

15/11/2024

A busy week coming up ...on the 27th we have as our main act "The Kevin Hunt Band" who'll be drifting down to us from Cambridge and aa wee reminder thet we're having an Americana night on the 28th November which was previously advertised.
The Kevin Hunt Band combines the Samba Bass of Colin Dewar with the Jazz Cajon of Rob Kerr to complement and counterbalance the ebb and flow and driving rhythm of Kevin Hunt’s Guitar and soulful powerful voice.
Kevin Hunt’s shows are celebrated for their unique melding of intimacy and raw energy. With musical roots in his native Ireland, Kevin has been crafting songs for over a quarter of a century, refining his lyrical expression via the fluid, ever-evolving concept of his live act.
The interplay between musicians is dazzling yet unobtrusive. There is a freedom and lightness to the musicianship throughout, an understated familiarity that accords a sense of privileged insight.
Themes of redemption, anguish and acceptance proliferate evoking music’s potential as a therapeutic force in a long tradition of existential singer-songwriters or as Kevin prefers to put it: ‘original songs about the same old problems.’ The finesse of the writing points towards the influences of the past, yet these are undoubtedly songs of our times, a reckoning of optimism and despair.

Kevin and company will be more than adequately supported by Paul Hilder, Bill Tarran, Peter Hart and Peter Crossley. See you then!

05/11/2024

First advert for The Americana ( whatever that is) night on Thursday 28th November. Ye hah y'all!

29/10/2024

Greg Camburn and myself will be performing a few songs at the Acoustic Club, Bishops Stortford on this thursday evening the 31st. It's taking place in the Belgian Brewer..details at The Acoustic Club. Should be SPOOKY!

29/10/2024

Next up at Four Rivers Folk Club is something a wee bit different.
I saw Jennifer Reid supporting Eliza Carthy at St. Andrews Church a wee while ago and thought "she's just what we need at Four Rivers to get us back on track as "FOLKY"".

This is what she says about herself

"Folk music has lost its way, and people have lost track of their geographical heritage. The working classes made music as a provocation and this is a tradition Jennifer continues. She is a performer of nineteenth century Lancashire dialect and Victorian broadside ballads.
Jennifer plays the character of Barb in Shane Meadows’ period drama The Gallows Pole. She has recently supported Pulp, John Cooper Clarke and latterly Eliza Carthy for a sold out tour."

Supported by some non folkies...Peter Crossley, Colin Frid and Why Not? and there may be time for me?

See you soon in deep, dark November...brrr!

Late revision to the line up, I met Mike Excell in Sainsbury's food aisle today where we, seemingly, had been sent by our better halves to get in some vittels. Serendipity, I think it's called, so Mike has been added to the support performers..there may not be enough time for me but that'll be good for a wee change.

23/10/2024

Late News....just to unforeseen illness Causto Walker have had to cancel as tonight's headline act. So I've deciced to have a singers night with 6 acts with 4 songs each.
Cheers Pat

11/10/2024

On the eve of the "Bob Dylan Special" on the 23rd October (anniversary of the Battle of El Alamein in Egypt during WW11) at Four Rivers Folk Club we have the absolutely wonderful Causton Walker returning to our small stage at the Hertford Club. Great singing , musicianship and material. We've had them a few times over the years (not in the Biblical sense of course) and they are a very welcome headline....it's all on the poster 8pm start as usual...see you then!

11/10/2024

Another "special" Bob Dylan Special coming up this month featuring local favourite performers and also featuring favourite and some rarities from the Nobel Laureates catalogue. No songs will be duplicated. An early start for this one at 7:30 pm on Thursday 24th October...see y'all.

Just back from short break away from computers. revised poster for this event.

27/09/2024

OK then I've been persuaded , without the financial contribution I was hoping for, to continue Four Rivers Folk Club, it's the only club that would have me anyway!
Here is the revised listing including dates into 2025...so soon..."The days grow long and the years go fast..the future you looked for is soon in the past..." from "One wrong turn by Greg Brown" ...highly recommended!

Thanks for all the support from performers and listeners.

26/09/2024

So then folkies what's next, or who's next?
That'll be M G Boulter then. I caught M G at The Acoustic Club in Bishops Stortford a few months ago and invited him along to entertain us. Here is a brief bio
"Serving his apprenticeship in numerous bands in the hotbed of the Southend-on-Sea music scene M G has been quietly working at creating rich and evocative story songs since 2013. Garnering praise from reviewers like Uncut describing his work as “gorgeous in a word” and R2 listing him as “a weapons grade songwriter. M G’s songwriting creates vignettes of ordinary life and seaside communities. This writing is no better shown than in his 2021 album Clifftown, a themed album based on his personal experiences and the wider hidden histories of his hometown, Southend-on-Sea”. Well then aren't we going to be lucky!
M.G will be accompanied by a big bassist...will we have the required head room you may well ask?
We shall have more than ample support from the floor from Peter Crossley Singer Songwriter, Ryan Davies and The SeeQuinns. I hope Peter will accompany me on his fuddle...he needs the practice!!
Keep bringing the notes for the old hat which was rediscovered again today in the wheelie...I suspect the missus!

See you soon...pip, pip...Pat

26/09/2024

Great night last night with wonderful performances from our supports of Peter Crossley Singer Songwriter, Paul Hilder, local poet Peter Hart as well as myself accompanied by Peter Crossley on fiddle or fuddle as he calls it.
Not forgetting a huge thanks to the audience for their appreciation in applause and contributions in the hat for our amazing headline of Jessica Brett. Superb singing , songwriting, musicianship and performance. THANKYOU JESS!

21/09/2024

Peter Crossley and myself are playing an hours set at The Plough in Shepreth this afternoon between 3 and 4 pm.....and we practised!
Also tomorrow about midday we're performing math Eco Fest at Hertford Castle.

Hope some can make it... cheers Pat

27/08/2024

Very late modified poster for tomorrow evening. Jess Brett, SeeQuins, Paul Hilder and Graham Moss are performing as well as that famous boy band "The Junkyard Dawg Jugband" without junk and no jug!.
Should be fun.....now where did we put our Zimmer frames???

14/08/2024

Junkyard Dawg coming to town in a couple of weeks

19/07/2024

Next Wednesday we have as our headline at Four Rivers Folk Club Chris Wright. Chris is from the Stevenage area but his guitar style is definitely rooted in the USA. He's a great finger stylist with a wonderful selection of songs too.

"Chris Wright is a Stevenage-based guitarist specialising in folk, country and bluegrass. His warmth and precision shines in every performance, inspired by classic greats including Bob Dylan, Tony Rice, and Glen Campbell, as well as contemporary guitarists like Tommy Emmanuel, Molly Tuttle, and Billy Strings. Chris performs regularly across Hertfordshire at venues including Baldock Folk Club, Four Rivers Folk Club, and Southern Maltings, and is beloved by audiences for his toe-tapping renditions of familiar favourites and lesser-heard gems alike."

Currently support is from Steve Ingrey, Sally Vinson and Leia Coral. I'll be egging them on!

Although the club is nominally free I do expect that donations in the hat, all going to the main act, will be in paper form but no IOU's please.

See you then.
Cheers Pat

Problem with uploading poster..will try later

10/07/2024

A few notes about tonight's Four Rivers Folk Club.
1. A small change to the programme with our token male dropping out due to family commitments, watching tonight's football with his dad (?) but being more than adequately replaced by the wonderful "Why Not?" and why not indeed!
2. Due to tonight's football match we are going to run the club out of the Chauncey Room upstairs at the Hertford Club and hope we won't be too disturbed by the cheers, or tears, from the bar below.

Maybe see some of you then.

01/07/2024

On the 10th July we have the wonderful Melody Coles joining us for a headline spot.
Cambridge based singer-songwriter Melody Coles has lived and breathed the music scene for a number of years and has gained past radio support from local BBC including Radio 1. Melody is enjoying being back to performing after having two children and is ready to take the stage with her folk infused and emotive storytelling songs.

Melody will be accompanied on some of her material by multi-instrumentalist Bryan Causton.

BUT, in addition we have even more female performers with Nuala o'Halpin and Leia Coral. Ryan Davies will be providing some maleness to our proceedings. There may be also some songs from me if there's time.

See you soon, cheers Pat

Address

Hertford Club, Bull Plain
Hertford
SG141DT

Opening Hours

8pm - 11pm

Website

facebook.com

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Four Rivers Folk Club posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.