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Folk London Diary - Updated 17 January 2012
Regular sessions and singarounds can be found in the venues list
| Tue 17 January | DARTFORD Barber Taylor and Reed PULL UP THE ROOTS Jonny Kearney and Lucy Farrell ROMFORD Singers Night SHARPS Singers Night |
| Wed 18 January | FAVERSHAM Dave Ellis and Boo Howard FOLK MOB A Murder of Rooks HAVERFOLK Open Session |
| Thu 19 January | ISLINGTON Blue Thursday LOUGHTON Dennis Homes ORPINGTON FOLK CLUB Mistaken Identity TONBRIDGE (NELLIES) Pig's Ear |
| Fri 20 January | FOLK UNION Alternative Burns Night with Babelfish GREEN NOTE The Long Notes KNEES UP Mr.Gubbin's Bicycle with caller John Kirkpatrick ORPINGTON FRIDAY Singers Night RAM CLUB Ashley Hutchins and Blair Dunlop |
| Sat 21 January | CELLAR UPSTAIRS Donal Maguire LEWES SATURDAY All-Day Sussex Singaround – see ad on page 39 |
| Sun 22 January | LEWES SATURDAY Ballad Session (noon to 3pm) OTHER EVENT Willesden Green Wassail - meet 14:15 at Willesden Green tube - email willesdengreenwassail@gmail.com TWICKENHAM Ruth Moody Trio WALTHAMSTOW Fake Thackery |
| Mon 23 January | CROYDON Burns Night Supper and Dance HERGA Open Evening OTHER EVENT Carolina Chocolate Drops at Cecil Sharp House WALTHAM ABBEY Jenny and Peter Beer |
| Tue 24 January | DARTFORD Joe Topping ROMFORD Singers Night |
| Wed 25 January | FAVERSHAM Singers Night FOLK MOB Open Mic HAVERFOLK Andy Roberts OTHER EVENT Traditions of Dissent in East London, a talk by John Marriott at Pages of Hackney, 70 Lower Clapton Road, E5 0RN |
| Thu 26 January | ISLINGTON Moth Broth + Simon Vaughan + Laura Smyth LOUGHTON Phil Hewett + Lizzie Shirley ORPINGTON FOLK CLUB Open Mic / Singers and Musicians Night UXBRIDGE Jim Causley |
| Fri 27 January | COURT SESSIONS Guest TBA EFDSS Cecil Sharp Project - including Jackie Oates, Andy Cutting, Jim Morray, Kathryn Roberts ELECTRIC VOICES (GI) Debs Newbold tells King Lear FOLK UNION The Memory Band ORPINGTON FRIDAY Claude Bourbon RAM CLUB Tannahill Weavers |
| Sat 28 January | CELLAR UPSTAIRS Jigjaw (Janet Russell, Rosie Davis, Kerry Fletcher and Frances Watt) EFDSS Kathryn Roberts and Caroline Herring GODALMING CEILIDHS The Watch with caller Sheena Masson LEWES SATURDAY Danny & Sally Meaney |
| Sun 29 January | FAB CLUB Al Neville and friends OTHER EVENT Rob Johnson at Willesden Green - email thelondonhouse(at)gmail(dot)comwith ROBB JOHNSON SECRET GIG in the title TWICKENHAM Venue closed for refurbishment (previously listed event cancelled) WALTHAMSTOW Pete Coe |
| Mon 30 January | CROYDON Bob Walton HERGA Open Evening WALTHAM ABBEY Singaround |
| Tue 31 January | DARTFORD 4 Square ROMFORD Cest la Vie SHARPS Crownstreet |
| Wed 1 February | FAVERSHAM Porch Swing Blues (note change from listing in December issue) FOLK MOB Open Mic HAVERFOLK Open Session |
| Thu 2 February | ISLINGTON Mary Humphreys & Anahata LOUGHTON Josienne Clarke ORPINGTON FOLK CLUB Dave Peabody OTHER EVENT Louise Jordan at the National Theatre Foyer (5:45) TONBRIDGE (NELLIES) Singaround TRAVELLING FOLK @ The Bricklayers Arms, Chipstead, TN13 2RZ |
| Fri 3 February | CAMDEN IRISH Paddy Keenan ELECTRIC VOICES (GI) The Old Fashioned FOLK UNION R M Hubbert and Friends ORPINGTON FRIDAY Fran McGilvray and Mike Burke RAM CLUB Lee Collinson |
| Sat 4 February | CELLAR UPSTAIRS Trio Threlfall HADDENHAM Dartmoor Pixie Band plus Jackie Oates and Karen Tweed in concert LEWES SATURDAY Hector 'Slow Burns' Gilchrist SEVENOAKS Acoustic Strawbs |
| Sun 5 February | TWICKENHAM Venue closed for refurbishment (previously listed event cancelled) WALTHAMSTOW Leon Rosselson |
| Mon 6 February | HERGA Wendy Arrowsmith SOUTH BANK CENTRE Transatlantic Sessions (RFH) TONBRIDGE (NELLIES) Geoff Higginbottom WALTHAM ABBEY Singaround |
| Tue 7 February | DARTFORD Jim Crawford HOY AT ANCHOR Vicki Swan and Jonny Dyer ROMFORD Singers Night SHARPS Singers Night |
| Wed 8 February | FAVERSHAM Wendy Arrowsmith FOLK MOB Singaround HAVERFOLK Open Session KINGS PLACE Tony Benn and Roy Bailey |
| Thu 9 February | CROYDON Singers and Musicians Night ISLINGTON Reg Meuross KINGS PLACE Martin Simpson with June Tabor and Dick Gaughan LOUGHTON David Gibb and Elly Lucas ORPINGTON FOLK CLUB Brian Cole Tribute Evening (note change) TRAVELLERS REST Pete Morton UXBRIDGE Dan Walsh |
| Fri 10 February | FILE GUMBO Colin and the Crawfish FOLK UNION Ruth Theodore Band + Nancy Wallace and Jason Steel KALAMAZOO CLUB Will Pound and Dan Walsh KINGS PLACE Chris Wood ORPINGTON FRIDAY Rosa's Daughters RAM CLUB Tim Edey & Brendan Power THE GOOSE IS OUT (MAG) Donal Magquire |
| Sat 11 February | CELLAR UPSTAIRS Long Hill Ramblers (Ben Paley, Tab Hunter, Laura Hockenhull and Dan Stewart) KINGS PLACE Martin Simpson with guests Bright Phoebus LEWES SATURDAY Gavin & Julie Atkin LONDON BARN DANCE Geoff Cubitt with Corporate Fiddle (Mollie + Vic + Christina) |
| Sun 12 February | CFA Spring Family Dance (2:30 - 5:00) EFDSS Family Barn Dance 3-5pm (no unaccompanied adults) TWICKENHAM Venue closed for refurbishment (back next week) VORTEX Michael Chapman WALTHAMSTOW Lucy Ward |
| Mon 13 February | CROYDON Maggie Boyle and Paul Downes HERGA Open Evening WALTHAM ABBEY Ollie King - New Roots Finalist |
| Tue 14 February | DARTFORD Brendan Power & Tim Edey HOY AT ANCHOR Bryony Griffith and Will Hampson ROMFORD Singers Night SHARPS Singers Night |
| Wed 15 February | EFDSS Hannah James and Sam Sweeney FAVERSHAM Singers Night FOLK MOB Brockley Rise Singers HAVERFOLK Open Session |
| Thu 16 February | ISLINGTON Wizz Jones LOUGHTON Grand Reunion ORPINGTON FOLK CLUB Feuding Lloyds TONBRIDGE (NELLIES) Greg Harper TRAVELLING FOLK @ Cardinal's Error, Lodge Oak Lane, Tonbridge, TN9 2EP |
| Fri 17 February | ELECTRIC VOICES (GI) Bryony Griffith and Will Hampson FOLK UNION Breabach KNEES UP Steamchicken with caller Mary Panton ORPINGTON FRIDAY Where's Spot? OTHER EVENT London Klezmer Quartet at The Cafe Gallery, 21 Old Ford Road, E2 9PL RAM CLUB Jackie Oates Band |
| Sat 18 February | CELLAR UPSTAIRS Tom Paley KIT AND CUTTER Phil and Cath Tyler LEWES SATURDAY Rosie Hood OTHER EVENT Essex Folk Association Playford Ball with Andrew Swaine and Sunbury Baroque at Woodford County High School, High Road, Woodford Green IG |
| Sun 19 February | TWICKENHAM Vicki Swan and Jonny Dyer WALTHAMSTOW Rory McLeod |