Folk Pubs in England

Subject: RE: Folk Pubs in England
From: Pied Piper
Date: 07 Apr 03 - 12:36 PM

Not visiting Manchester hey?

Well then, I shan't tell you that we have sessions ever night and more than one on some days, or that there are lots of folk clubs that you can find out about here
So there.
PP

Subject: RE: Folk Pubs in England
From: GUEST,Peter from Essex
Date: 07 Apr 03 - 12:27 PM

Next to the bus station, set back from the road. Old theatre convered to cinema, cafe and some function rooms. The festival used it for workshops a couple of years ago.

Back to the topic - for the Bury St Edmunds area check the Mardles magazine web site. NB sessions can be very transient so do phone the organiser before makinga special journey.

Subject: RE: Folk Pubs, B&Bs & cider
From: Hester
Date: 07 Apr 03 - 12:19 PM

Thanks for all those great suggestions!

McGrath: Whitby sure does sound like a happenin' place!

I'll also be dropping by Robin Hood's Bay. Surely there must be a folk pub there, as that's where the McCarthy-Watersons live? Any good suggestions where to stay in RHB (with a private bath)?

Oh, and any suggestions for the best type of cider to order? Here in Canada, I drink Strongbow (because that's basically all the liquor store or the pubs sell).

Cheers, Hester

Subject: RE: Folk Pubs in England
From: IanC
Date: 07 Apr 03 - 12:07 PM

Didn't think Whitby had a cinema!!!

Subject: RE: Folk Pubs in England
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 07 Apr 03 - 11:41 AM

Basically you stand in Whitby and head for the sound of music...

Subject: RE: Folk Pubs in England
From: MairSea
Date: 07 Apr 03 - 09:43 AM

Hi there

In the Portsmouth area (within a radius of 15 - 20 mins drive)

Mondays: The Railway at the Alma Arms Portsmouth

Tuesdays: Nonsuch at the Working Men's Club, main car park square Bishop's Waltham
          Chichester Folk Club
          Ringwood Folk Club

Wednesdays: The Broadside at the Old hOuse at HOme
            The Famous Willows at Arundel - always worth a visit

Thursdays: ?

Fridays: The Fo'c'sle in the Duke of Wellington Southampton (follow the sounds os the campanologists
          **Woolston and Netley at the Prince Consort, Netley

All the above can be linked from www.barrattfolk.co.uk or on their respective websites except ** which isn't up and running yet.

Hope you have a great visit and maybe see you at one of the above venues - hope you can get through on the web link.

Love and peace

Subject: RE: Folk Pubs in England
From: gnomad
Date: 07 Apr 03 - 09:42 AM

Whitby now has a Tuesday session too, at the First In, Last Out. There is also a good club at Mickleby (just a few of miles away) on Saturdays.

Add three weekends of folk activites per year to the week-long festival in August and you will see why so many folkies know the town well.

Hester: If you PM me a couple of weeks ahead I'll try & point you towards any one-off events that might suit.

Raggytash is right, Saturday was a good one.

Subject: RE: Folk Pubs in England
From: GUEST,Raggytash
Date: 07 Apr 03 - 09:20 AM

The Black Horse in Whitby has a session on a Sunday afternoon and is well worth a visit in it's own right as it is a cracking little bar. The Endeavour also has sessions, althought these tends to be spontaneous and therefore cannot be pinpointed to a particular date and time .........but the one on Saturday night just gone was BRILLIANT

Subject: RE: Folk Pubs in England
From: GUEST,Mr Red
Date: 07 Apr 03 - 07:34 AM

If you are travelling north from Bath on a monday there is an English music session in Stroud that Rod Stradling runs. Let me know if you plan to be there I go quite often myself. Are you fussed

Subject: RE: Folk Pubs in England
From: GUEST,Mr Red (at library)
Date: 07 Apr 03 - 07:30 AM

For Bath try my site. cresby.com. I am told that the Rising Sun (near Poultney Bridge) on a Sunday is Irish. And the Crown on Wed is open mike, Bell Sat lunch. If you have transport there are a few entries in the locale, eg Freshford,Pensford. But use the tel listed to check, these things change when you least expect it.

I have posted threads on Scotland about two years back try a search.

Subject: RE: Folk Pubs in England
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 06 Apr 03 - 11:51 AM

There is the Plough on Wednesdays, but Derek Elliot runs a club in the Tap and Spile on Sundays.

Kitty

Subject: RE: Folk Pubs in England
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 06 Apr 03 - 11:29 AM

Would the Tap and Spile in Whitby be the pub outside folk festivals? The Whitby folk club meets in The Plough, almost next door. Here's a site with details of a fair number of sessions and clubs up that end of the country.

Subject: RE: Folk Pubs in England
From: Teribus
Date: 06 Apr 03 - 09:36 AM

Portsmouth:

The Railway Folk Club - If memory serves me right every Monday night now based in a pub called The Alma.

The Broadside Folk Club - every Wednesday night at The Old House at Home

Subject: RE: Folk Pubs in England
From: selby
Date: 06 Apr 03 - 08:07 AM

We have a wandering session on a Wednesday night therefore a date will allow us to point you to which Pub. We have a large Mudcat clan within our session, so it would be nice to put faces to names.
Keith

Subject: RE: Folk Pubs in England
From: Jock Morris
Date: 06 Apr 03 - 04:45 AM

In Edinburgh it depends just what type of folk music you want as to what pubs to go to. If you want a good going music only (very rare to hear a song) session then head to Sandy Bells pretty much any night of the week. If you want to hear more songs then The Royal Oak is probably a better bet; again pretty much every night of the week. On Thursdays there is a very good mixed session in the Antiquary. There are other sessions and performances on and the best place I know for getting info of them and the addresses for the pubs named above is gig guide

Scott

Subject: RE: Folk Pubs in England
From: breezy
Date: 06 Apr 03 - 03:52 AM

dont bother with St Albans then!!

enjoy your visit

ignore strupag, didnt read your initial posting, or failed to understand.

Subject: RE: Folk Pubs in England
From: Greycap
Date: 06 Apr 03 - 03:12 AM

Bradford, The Topic Folk Club, - Thursdays, The Melborn Hotel, can't recall the street, but it's easily found in the middle of town.
Ripon - Sundays, 17 miles North West from York - The Oak Treem Copt Hewick ( just outside Ripon). Small but great.

Subject: RE: Folk Pubs in Britain
From: Hester
Date: 05 Apr 03 - 08:54 PM

Vectis & Ray:

Thanks for the info!

Ta, Hester

Subject: RE: Folk Pubs in Britain
From: Hester
Date: 05 Apr 03 - 08:52 PM

Andy:

Sorry for the misunderstanding. It was actually an editing error. You'll notice that I DID, in fact, use the term "Britain" in my subject heading. However, I forgot to change the higher thread heading from just "England" to the more inclusive "Britain" when I decided to add some Scottish cities to the list in my question (which I had originally intended to be just about Whitby & area).

Unfortunately it does not appear to possible to edit a thread heading in Mudcat once it has been posted.

I'm half English and half Scottish by descent. I do understand the difference.

So, if you'd actually like to suggest some Scottish pubs, that would be very nice.

Cheers, Hester

Subject: RE: Folk Pubs in England
From: BanjoRay
Date: 05 Apr 03 - 07:42 PM

York - The Maltings, tuesday nights
       The Golden Ball, Sunday nights
Cheers
Ray

Subject: RE: Folk Pubs in England
From: Strupag
Date: 05 Apr 03 - 06:51 PM

Right Hester!
Here's your first tip!
Never Never Never refer to Edinburgh, Aberdeen or Inverness as England.
I'm sure that, if you ammend the title to your thread you will get a good hospitable response and welcome from us Scots folk.

Slainte

Andy

Subject: RE: Folk Pubs in England
From: vectis
Date: 05 Apr 03 - 06:39 PM

Tap and Spile in Whitby I believe. It's opposite the station.
The Railway in Portsmouth has been there for more years than I can remember.

Subject: Folk Pubs in Britain
From: Hester
Date: 05 Apr 03 - 05:30 PM

Hi, all:

I'm planning a trip through England & Scotland next year, and I'm trying to remember the name of the folk music pub that everyone recommends in Whitby, Yorkshire.

I'd also love to hear local recommendations for folk pubs in or near various other places that I'll be visiting:

Bury St. Edmunds
Portsmouth
Bath
Nottingham
Bradford
York
Pickering
Newcastle
Edinburgh
Aberdeen
Inverness

As you can see, we're planning a pretty wide sweep, from the south to the north, we're driving, and our itinerary's flexible, so if you know of any odd little folk hideaways you think worth checking out, please let me know.

I'd also be interested in any folk revival history sites (e.g. places where Anne Briggs or Nick Drake performed, etc.)

Cheers, Hester