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Thread #34893 Message #3197764
Posted By: Jack Blandiver
29-Jul-11 - 04:57 AM
Thread Name: Help: Folkworks Durham - recommended?
Subject: RE: Help: Folkworks Durham - recommended?
I believe it's up in Framwellgate Moor now, at the Tap and Spile, having been removed from its spiritual home at The Colpitts when the new licensing laws came in. As a Colpitts regular from 1988 to around 2000 (when I gave up smoking) I regard this as a great shame. That wee room at The Colpitts had the perfect containment on the chorus singing that we've rarely found anywhere since, though our brief stint in The Shakespeare came close, which is where we left it almost four years ago to relocate to Lancashire.
Durham City Folk Club has little to do with Durham Folkworks Gathering though - and vice versa - see the Durtham Folk Party thread for that. My wife and I met at The Colpitts around 1993, though we didn't get together until the Folk Party in 1999 - so twelve happy years of Rapunzel & Sedayne!