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Thread #126764 Message #2821259
Posted By: GUEST,Peter Stockport
25-Jan-10 - 02:59 PM
Thread Name: Folk Clubs, Greater Manchester 1960-99
Subject: RE: Folk Clubs, Greater Manchester 1960-99
"Geoff Higginbottom was one of the residents at Annie Morris's club at the White Swan Fallowfield, which Brian mentioned. I was another. John O'Hagan of Cockersdale was also a regular. There were other excellent singers, but I'm struggling to remember any more names." There was loads of them, Annies was a spring board for lots of people. Like a youth academy for folkmusic. By the time it was ready to move from the White Swan the other names were Me!! Peter Hood, Also Tom Travis, Lesley-I forget her second name but a lovely singer...and Maggie Billington. The club then entered a new phase at The Gateway. I enjoyed a couple of really good years there until it closed which I think was just at the end of the Nineties! Peter Stockport