If you were the first to give the Askews a gig we couldn't have been to far behind, Bryan....they got their first chance in Sept 2005 (support to Nancy Kerr & James Fagan) and their first headliner the following summer. We're also fully committed to giving young up-and-coming names a chance and have consistently done so...the first time Jim Moray came in July 2003 was the first proper gig he'd ever had in a folk club (before his debut album was released).

We have all sorts of folk evenings...some big concerts with major names but that's not all we do by any means. Last night we had a simple but wonderful singaround....during the course of the evening we had some Andean music by a Peruvian duo playing guitar and charrango, a primitive blues version of 'Who Do You Love' on resonator guitar, Gerry Milne playing traditional songs on his concertina, a ten year old lad singing Weird Al Yankovic's 'eBay' (a parody of a Backstreet Boys hit so I'm told). Everybody enjoyed everyone's contribution, embracing and celebrating the different music on offer....we even had Gerry Milne jamming along on a Everly's style close harmony version of a Razorlight song. No kidding! Eclectic...but all good!