This year the Salt Town Poets are celebrating ten years of existence with a couple of
special events at M-FAB 2005. Our ever-popular Festival Open Mike session this year is
on Friday evening at the Boar's Head and, as always, all and sundry are invited along
to sing, play, recite or just listen and enjoy a few pints. We will, incidentally, be an-
nouncing the second winner of the John Brunker Trophy during the evening.

On Sunday morning we'll be back at the Boar's Head with our old friend and col-
league Les Barker for an event which has become something of a tradition in recent
years – Breakfast With Barker.

Then, on Sunday afternoon, we'll be reviving an old event in a new (to us) location with
'Poetry & Pints' at the Golden Lion in Chester Road. We'll be welcoming old and new friends to help us
celebrate our first ten years, including very special guest Guto Dafis of Toreth. See the
M-FAB website and fringe guide for starting times:
www.middlewichfestival.org

Well-known Middlewich Historian Alan Earl will be joining us at the Golden Lion on the 19th
June to perform some of the poetry of C.F. Lawrence, who was clerk to the Middlewich UDC
at the end of the nineteenth century and himself a noted local historian.

Also invited are

Richard & Mark aka The Mohair Twins aka The Trent Vale Poet and Rudy Tunes

Pennant Roberts (no relation)

Charlotte Peters Rock

Mike and Sue Appleton

Karen Wheatley

Jacki Jackson and friends

Monologue John

...and everyone else who has appeared with and supported us over the last ten years.

Also joining us (and, no doubt, others) over the weekend will be Simon Cliff, the talented
young singer- songwriter and regular at MOM Nights and the Boar's Head Saturday sessions.

Simon will be with us for the MOM session at the Boar's Head on Friday 17th June.

Thank you for your time

Dave, Ian and Mike
The Salt Town Poets