The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #158955   Message #3763408
Posted By: Vic Smith
07-Jan-16 - 06:32 AM
Thread Name: The Critics Group: Who is still Alive ?
Subject: RE: The Critics Group: Who is still Alive ?
Members of the Critics Group...... Not named above but I wonder if Jim remembers Tony & Jenny Dunbar as being active in the group? They lived in Sussex and I saw them quite frequently in Sussex folk clubs. They certainly talked as though they were closely involved with the group but I have never seen their names mentioned, so perhaps they were only peripheral. I was very close to Isabel Sutherland up until her death in 1988. She was a resident at a club that I ran for many years. Later she and her husband Joby started a club in Groombridge and asked Tony & Jenny to join their rota of resident singers.
I was puzzled at this for in every conversation with Isabel, it was not long before her antipathy towards Ewan & Peggy and everything that they stood for was mentioned.
I asked her, "Why would you want members of the Critics group involved in your club after all you have said about Ewan & Peggy?"
She answered, "It's always good to know what the enemy is up to!"

Can Jim help me on T&J's involvement?