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UK - Sessions in Liverpool & Durham area

01 Jul 02 - 06:40 PM (#740330)
Subject: UK - Sessions in Liverpool & Durham area
From: Skipjack K8

My good friend and polymuso Mike set me a bit of a poser tonight by ringing me from the wrong side of the Pennines to ask what sessions are on in Liverpool and Durham, or environs.

He's looking for any Liverpool sessions tomorrow night (Tuesday) and anything in the Durham/Darlington area on Wednesday night.

I've tried the Prof, and another couple of sites, but where better to ask than here?

Thanks in anticipation.

Skipjack


01 Jul 02 - 06:42 PM (#740335)
Subject: RE: UK - Sessions in Liverpool & Durham area
From: GUEST

Which is the 'wrong' side of the Pennines?

Your answer will directly effect the amount of help that I might give.


02 Jul 02 - 12:55 AM (#740518)
Subject: RE: UK - Sessions in Liverpool & Durham area
From: Noreen

Liverpool area selection follows, Skippy, courtesy of Joan from Wigan's compilation: (What's he looking for exactly?)

Tuesday 2 July 2002

> Atlantic (Banjo Bar), 162 Regent Rd, Liverpool : Atlantic Irish Night 9pm. 0151 922 9815

> Bull & Dog, Liverpool Rd Sth, Burscough, Ormskirk: Singers Night 8.30pm. 01704 894418

> Johnson's Acoustic Circus: Performers Night, Red Triangle Boxing Club, Everton Rd, Liverpool 7pm. Roy Johnson 0151 286 2974

> Liverpool Folk Club: Singers Night Ship & Mitre, Dale St, Liverpool 8.30pm. Helen Hebden 0151 727 0088

> Maghull Folk Club: Singers Night Maghull Community Association, Green Lane, off Liverpool Rd Nth 8.30pm. Tony Gibbons 01695 424327 or Joe Ryan 0151 531 9273

> Ring o' Bells, Farnworth Street, Widnes: Chris & Carol (Prospect) 8.30pm. Jean Finney 0151 424 3672

> Stamps, Moor Lane, Crosby: Open Mic with guest Anna Kashfi The Acoustic Engine presents The Tuesday Night Music Club with regular guests, hosted by Steve Roberts and/or Dan Dean 9pm. Free (£1 donation to Children of Chernobyl Charity welcomed). Tel 0151 286 2662; email: acousticengine@blueyonder.co.uk


02 Jul 02 - 01:05 AM (#740521)
Subject: RE: UK - Sessions in Liverpool & Durham area
From: Noreen

(I picked out the ones in the L'pool area; if he's willing to travel further afield there are of course more to choose from.)


02 Jul 02 - 01:08 AM (#740522)
Subject: RE: UK - Sessions in Liverpool & Durham area
From: Noreen

e.g. > Waggon & Horses, Coppull Moor Lane, Coppull: Musicians Session (mostly Irish, but it depends on who turns up)


02 Jul 02 - 04:24 AM (#740561)
Subject: RE: UK - Sessions in Liverpool & Durham area
From: Skipjack K8

I like the cut of your tops'l, Guest. The wrong side for me to be any help to the poor man.

Noreen, should've PMd you straight orf. Thank you, my dear. After that exhaustive list, what about the land of the Prince Bishops, or is it Bishop Kings?

Skipjack


02 Jul 02 - 11:58 AM (#740751)
Subject: RE: UK - Sessions in Liverpool & Durham area
From: Skipjack K8

Refresh


02 Jul 02 - 02:46 PM (#740849)
Subject: RE: UK - Sessions in Liverpool & Durham area
From: Joan from Wigan

Thanks, Noreen, for copying that info from 'Folkal Point'. Folkal Point covers part of NW England, and the listings part of it can be found on Graham Dixon's Trouble at' Mill website: Folkal Point.

I can't find anything folky in the Durham/Darlington area on Wednesday. There's a folk night at The Wayfarer in Durham on Fridays, and on this Saturday/Sunday there's the Hartlepool Maritime Festival, but there doesn't appear to be anything midweek, unless I'm looking in the wrong places...

Joan


02 Jul 02 - 03:36 PM (#740871)
Subject: RE: UK - Sessions in Liverpool & Durham area
From: Skipjack K8

Thanks, Joan, I'll commune with said Mike.

Skipjack


02 Jul 02 - 08:30 PM (#741055)
Subject: RE: UK - Sessions in Liverpool & Durham area
From: GUEST,Jim I

Unfortunately the Tuesday night singaround at the Ship and Mitre in Liverpool has been discontinued due to falling attendances.


03 Jul 02 - 04:47 AM (#741237)
Subject: RE: UK - Sessions in Liverpool & Durham area
From: Joan from Wigan

Thanks, Jim, I'll amend my records.

Joan


03 Jul 02 - 06:16 AM (#741272)
Subject: RE: UK - Sessions in Liverpool & Durham area
From: nutty

Birtley Folk Club (NEAR DURHAM) is on a Wednesday. Still hosted by the Elliott Family it has been running for 40 years.


03 Jul 02 - 01:38 PM (#741579)
Subject: RE: UK - Sessions in Liverpool & Durham area
From: NoMattch

If you're in Liverpool's city centre, sometimes you can catch a session during the week either downstairs or upstairs in Flannigan's Apple on Matthews Street. There's an acoustic group there on Sundays. They have welcomed others to play along in the past.


04 Jul 02 - 08:10 AM (#742096)
Subject: RE: UK - Sessions in Liverpool & Durham area
From: Mr Happy

for sessions in liverpool & other areas try folk orbit

: folkorbit@yahoo.co.uk