Two really great nights on our last two meetings - JIM MacFARLAND was on outstanding form for the evening on March 25th and he attracted a sizeable crowd to hear and appreciate his wonderful way with traditional songs.

Then on 1st April, our ALL FOOLS OPEN NIGHT drew another good crowd and many performers. By cutting down the interval to a very few minutes and calling for snappy introductions for performers and songs, we just about managed to get everyone in for theit two items each before ten past eleven.

This coming Thursday sees another really excellent night in prospect with another return visit by the Askew sisters:-

April 8th * £6.00 * HAZEL & EMILY ASKEW
Traditional songs and music with melodeon and fiddle played with attack, verve and imagination

Our websites are at:-

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~tinvic/

and


http://www.myspace.com/royaloakfolklewes

At the Myspace site, you can hear the following tracks by coming guests:-

Emily & Hazel Askew - "Fare The Well, My Dearest Dear (April 8th)
Rosie Davis [with Joe Locker & Bob Winquist] - "My Blue Heart" - (April 15th)
Chris Coe & John Adams - "Peeler Creek Waltz/Dog In Difficulty" - (April 22nd)
Roger Watson [with Musa M'Boob] "Gulliver" - (April 29th)
Jeff Warner - "Come Take A Trip In My Airship" - (May 20th)Mat Green & Andy Turner - "Quicksteps" - (March 4th)
Debby McClatchy - "Charlie Poole's Ramble" - (May 27th)
Peta Webb & Ken Hall - "Yodel It Over Again" - (June 10th)
Chris Foster - "Lord Bateman" - (June 17th)
Bayou Seco - "Lazy Heart" - (July 1st)
Spider John Koerner - "The Danville Girl" - (September 2nd)

(After each gig the tracks will drop off to be replaced with another by an upcoming guest.)

There is also two photo montage videos of some of the best nights at the Royal Oak. One covering the club evenings during 2007 and the other between 2002 and 2006.
There are also video clips of some of our coming guests:-

ROSIE DAVIS JOE LOCKER & BOB WINQUIST April 15th
ROGER WATSON & MUSA M'BOOB April 29th
JEFF WARNER May 20th
CHRIS FOSTER June 17th
SPIDER JOHN KOERNER September 2nd
JOHN CONOLLY September 16th
THE CLAQUE September 30th
JOHN KIRKPATRICK October 7th