Poppy Folk Club

12/12/2024

Our Christmas Folk Night with Supper is coming up on Friday night. What do you need to know?

1. Please 🙏🏻 purchase your tickets 🎫 by NOON on Thursday 12/12, so that we know how many to cook for!

2. We’ll have a bar of soft drinks 🥤 for sale, but please bring your own alcoholic drinks 🍷 if you wish to have them with dinner.

3. Most importantly, get ready to get jolly with the Poppy Folk Club and friends! 🎶

03/12/2024

Come and hear us at any of these venues. Ticket needed for St John's Carrington - see church website. https://www.tickettailor.com/events/pccofstjohnscarrington/1471917

23/11/2024

As you begin to plan your Christmas festivities, make sure you diary in this event down at one of our local churches, St Giles's in West Bridgford. The music has been arranged by Jenny Bell, one of our Poppy stalwarts. The Poppy Folk Carol Singers will be performing a selection of Village and Folk Carols on Friday 6th at 11am, followed at 12 by a set from our very own AJAR! And many of the other people you see at the club are performing at some time over the weekend, plus lots more excellent musicians of various styles and genres.

20/11/2024

We're releasing a new album next year!

It’s full of new songs and tunes and we’re really happy with how it’s sounding! The album is well on its way but we’re asking you for a little help to get it out into the world!

We’re crowdfunding via Kickstarter to help us cover all the costs, and it’s all-or-nothing - if we don’t hit the target we won’t receive any funding - so we really appreciate any contributions, and any shares as well!

We’ve got loads of rewards on offer to suit any budget including pre-orders, prints, online lessons, tune commissions, song requests, and house concerts! Head over and have a look! (Link in comments)

Can’t wait to share this music with you! Thanks so much!

[ID: Photo of Lewis, George, and Cohen onstage playing their instruments. It's clearly a lively tune as they're all a little contorted. Lewis has one foot raised at shin height, Cohen has one foot raised at knee height, and George has his leg level with his waist, above the neck of his guitar]

19/11/2024

19/11/2024

Kris Drever - Poppy Folk Club - Nov 15th 2024

This was a record breaking concert for the Poppy Folk Club. We had been persuaded to put tickets on sale a full six months before the concert date. We were reluctant at first - it gets complicated when you're selling tickets for several concerts at the same time - but we gave way to pressure. We need not have worried. Three days later we had sold out!

Another concern was that, with tickets selling nationally, our regular local folks might miss out. But on the night there were lots of regular, familiar faces in the audience to enjoy what was an awesome concert.

Born in the Orkney Islands but now based in Glasgow, Kris is a multi-award winning musician, blending traditional songs with his own songs influenced by traditional and contemporary styles. He has performed alongside a host of the biggest names in music: Phil Cunningham, Karine Polwart, Mark Knopfler, Jack Bruce, among many others. His guitar playing is incredible, yet seemingly calm and easy. Teamed with his relaxed vocal style the effect is somehow laid-back yet exciting and, often, astounding.

Kris has recently released a 36 track 'Best of' album, and what a collection it is. Much of the evening's concert (of an uninterrupted hour and a half!) was drawn from this catalogue, with just a few 'new songs' added almost apologetically ("You have to sing new songs or they never become old songs").

Most of Kris' best loved songs were there, including 'Catterline' (an appreciation of the artist Joan Eardley); 'If Wishes Were Horses' (then Beggars Would Ride); 'The Call and the Answer' (more briskly than I've heard it before); and, with the audience singing strongly, a rousing 'Farewell to Fuineray'.

We had a further special treat for this concert too. Kris is touring at the moment with a fine young Glasgow-based singer/songwriter, Heather Cartwright, and to start the evening Heather gave us 35 minutes of her clear vocals and clever guitar work.

To close the show, Kris called upon Heather to rejoin him to perform his song about the scuttling of the German fleet at the end of WW1: 'Scapa Flow 1919' , before giving us an encore of 'The Isle of France'.

All in all, this was a night to remember!

11/11/2024

Not too far from the Poppy!

29/10/2024

Here you are: that's 2025 in the bag!

05/10/2024

AJAR, Bistro 66, 3.30pm.

02/10/2024

And here's a little bit of Phil Langran's song 'Injury Time', played by his band and featuring lovely extra harmony vocals from Plumhall.

Phil Langran Band at the Poppy Folk Club, September 2024.

02/10/2024

Here's a video of one of Phil Langran's songs, 'Another Moving Day', peformed by the band last Sunday night at the club.

Phil Langran Band at the Poppy Folk Club, September 2024.