Guest Keith

Yes I do remember the club at the White Hart in Chelmsford. I think I started going not long before the club re-alocated to the Saracens Head. I certainly remember seeing The Yetties and Dave Burland there and seem to think it was one of the first gigs that either of these performers had done outside their own geographical areas.

The club at the Saracens Head was a much larger venue and had many fine guest singers over the years. I was then part of a group called The Riggers who did the residency at the club when the Halliard were off touring, which they ended up doing with increasing frequency.
Dave Moran was still running the club and also several other clubs in Essex including one at Braintree where I often played.

The Riggers and I also ran/ were resident singers at, clubs in Harold Hill, Collier Row and Hornchurch ( and later Upminster ) in the late 60's / 70's.

I still think of how lucky I was to be involved in such a vibrant and exciting period of Folk Music and   to have heard and shared a stage with so many great performers.