Glad to know I'm a friend, Kevin...

Tony Day has also produced a (much cheaper) book on the history of the Middle Bar Singers, which I purchased at the winter reunion last February.   There's a distinction between the start of singing and music in the Anchor (which started in 1975 or 76 when the anti-folk management left, and a sign suddenly appeared saying that folkies were welcome)and the later establishment of the Middle Bar Singers as an unaccompanied singing event with twig rules etc.   I distinctly remember Mike Price (who had been on the wagon) putting a tenner over the bar to buy a round, and singing for the rest of the week in what was then the Lower Bar, with Fred Rook and various Herga people....

The Ashby-de-la-Zouch folk club will be having its reunion singaround in the garden of the Volunteer on Friday 30 July.

Kitty