Alistair Anderson & Dan Walsh
Friday 27th September 2013 - 8.00pm

Come-All-Ye
Friday 4th October 2013 - 8.00pm

Martyn Wyndham-Read & No Man's Band
Friday 11th October 2013 - 8.00pm

Jim Causley
Friday 25th October 2013 - 8.00pm

O'Hooley & Tidow
Sunday 3rd November 2013 - 8.00pm

Tom Lewis
Friday 8th November 2013 - 8.00pm

Debs Newbold
Friday 22nd November 2013 - 8.00pm

Come-All-Ye
Friday 6th December 2013 - 8.00pm

T.B.C.
Friday 13th December 2013 - 8.00pm

Come-All-Ye
Friday 10th January 2014 - 8.00pm

A Recital of English Folk Song Arrangements
Friday 24th January 2014 - 8.00pm

Bill Caddick
Friday 7th February 2014 - 8.00pm

T.B.C.
Friday 21st February 2014 - 8.00pm

T.B.C.
Friday 7th March 2014 - 8.00pm

Come-All-Ye
Friday 14th March 2014 - 8.00pm

T.B.C.
Friday 21st March 2014 - 8.00pm

T.B.C.
Friday 4th April 2014 - 8.00pm

Pete Coe
Friday 25th April 2014 - 8.00pm

The Wilson Family
Friday 9th May 2014 - 8.00pm

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Alistair Anderson is internationally recognized as the master of the English Concertina and one of the country's
finest performers on the Northumbrian Pipes. He has been a cornerstone of the English folk revival. Not only has
he been a leading ambassador for English traditional music, with no less than 37 tours of the USA, five trips to
Australia and countless European tours to his credit, but he also founded Folkworks (an organisation that helped
to change the face of folk music, with large numbers of young people discovering traditional music, song and
dance through their summer schools, workshops and education projects) and developed England’s first degree
course in folk and traditional music at Newcastle University.

Dan Walsh is a graduate of the course at Newcastle University. Those of you who saw him last year at the folk
club with Will Pound or at this year's Trinity Festival will know that he is one of the finest young banjo players in
the UK as well as being a superb singer, songwriter and guitarist. Dan has been described as 'the real deal' by
Uncut and as 'taking the banjo into the stratosphere' by fROOTS with his unique and eclectic style taking in folk.
funk, bluegrass, jazz, rock and even Arabic.

The coming together of these two consummate instrumentalists and musical enthusiasts is a marriage made
in heaven. Most definitely not to be missed.

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The success of our come-all-ye's last season demonstrated the quality of the singers and musicians
in the area and their enthusiasm for sharing their music with a welcoming audience. So we have responded
to numerous requests to provide more opportunities for everyone, who wishes to, to sing, say or play a song,
poem, story or tune. As well as the Institute folk club's regular singers and audience members the evening
provides newcomers with the opportunity to perform in a very friendly space.
Discerning audience members also very welcome :-)

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Martyn is one of the most popular performers on the folk scene and is probably best known to
club members for his annual Chirstmas show, Maypoles To Mistletoe, at the Electric Theatre.
In his late teens he left Sussex and headed off, with his guitar, to Australia where he worked on
a sheep station in South Australia where he heard, first hand, the old songs sung by some of the
station hands. Back in England in 1967 he met up with the renowned singer and song collector
Bert Lloyd, who himself had spent time in Australia, who asked him to be part of the album
Leviathan on the Topic label. The rest, as they say, is history.

We are very pleased to see him back at the Guildford Institute, this time accompanied by the trio No Man's Band.

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This will be young Devon folk singer Jim Causley's third visit to the club. He became involved with
traditional music from an early age via his family, the local folk scene and an historical tradition of
wassailing in his home village of Whimple, East Devon.

After studying Jazz & Popular Music at Exeter College he went on to study Traditional Music at the
University of Newcastle. His recording debut came in 2005 as part of Martyn Wyndham-Read’s
Song Links project and later that year he recorded the first of two solo albums with WildGoose
Records and was nominated for Best Newcomer at the 2006 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. Jim also
received great acclaim for his work as part of a cappella trio The Devil’s Interval whose album
Blood & Honey also received a BBC Folk Award nomination in 2007.

He has toured with Waterson:Carthy for six consecutive years as part of their annual Frost & Fire
Christmas show and recorded with them on their album Holy Heathens and the Old Green Man.

Causley has become renowned for his warm, rich and mature singing voice, his natural gift for
interpreting song and his wry and cheeky stage presence. He has recently recorded an album
of Devonshire songs and is currently working with the Charles Causley Trust to produce a CD
of Jim’s ancestor’s poems set to music.

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This will be the dapper gentlewomen of folk's second visit to the club. After hearing Belinda O’Hooley's
accompaniments on the club's Bechstein Grand and Heidi and Belinda's singing of their self-written,
reflective songs we have been trying to get them back at the club but so hectic is their touring and
recording schedule that we have only been able to squeeze them in by opening the club on a Sunday!

Belinda (who is a member of the Nic Jones Trio and was formerly with The Unthanks) and Heidi were
decsribed as the "best act of the 2012 Cambridge Folk Festival" by The Guardian and were nominated
at the 2013 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards for ‘Best Duo’. Their latest album, The Fragile, received 4-star
reviews from The Guardian, Mojo, Uncut and Songlines.

Championed by folk icon Nic Jones and BBC 6 Music’s Cerys Matthews; expect an irresistible
blend of thought-provoking songs, intricate harmonies, striking piano-led arrangements and
witty between-song chat.

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Described as "North America's finest exponent of contemporary nautical songs” (by the Canadian
Society for Traditional Music), Tom Lewis brings to the stage wry humour, button accordion, ukulele,
a great voice and his unique experience of more than forty years bridging the sea-going and folk-
singing communities. Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, then moving with his family to Gloucester,
Tom joined the Royal Navy as an Engineering Apprentice and was posted to a naval training
establishment in Scotland, where he soon started frequenting THE HOWFF Folk Club (in nearby
Dunfermline) and was exposed to such luminaries as Willie Scott, Alex Glasgow, Ewan McColl,
Archie Fisher, John Watt, Louis Killen, et al.

During a twenty four year naval career (mainly in diesel submarines) Tom managed to juggle the
requirements of the service with a growing commitment to participating in folk clubs, concerts
and festivals. Many of his self-penned songs have been recorded by others, including Jim Mageean
an Johnny Collins, and have entered into the 'tradition'. There are few Shanty Sessions that do not
include at least one of Tom's songs.

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This will be Debs' second visit to the club having, in between, told a selection of ghost stories
at Farnham Maltings and appeared three times at Guildford's Electric Theatre within a year,
telling "King Lear", performing her reworking of the ancient Selkie legend, "Under Her Skin"
and reprising her ghosts stories in January this year.

A unique, contemporary storytelling voice with one foot rooted in the tradition and the other
pointed firmly at the horizon, Debs writes and performs original and traditional stories.
Brimming with charisma, Debs can command an audience of 1000 at Shakespeare's Globe,
where she regularly tells and teaches, or light up the very tiniest performing space.

Tonight she will be telling a selection Medieval tales - “Merry Men and Wily Women” - a rollicking,
firecracking set of medieval banter, bawdiness and belly laughs where the women show the men
how it’s done and even Death himself manages to get the beers in!

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Tonight's come-all-ye falls on St Nicholas' Day so the ideal opportunity to bring out your midwinter songs,
carols and tunes to share with other musicians and a warm and receptive audience. You could even
rehearse your Christmas Mummers Plays! Once again this is the opportunity for everyone to sing, say or play
a song, poem, story or tune. As well as the Institute folk club's regular singers and audience members the
evening provides newcomers with the opportunity to perform in a very friendly space.
Discerning audience members also very welcome :-)

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The Assembly Room is blessed with a Bechstein grand piano, which is currently on loan to the
Guildford Institute, and the folk club is blessed with having Andy Johnson as one of its resident
musicians. It is Andy's regular performances of piano arrangements of traditional tunes and airs,
to welcome the audience as they arrive, that have inspired this very special evening of English
Folksong arranged by the likes of Vaughan Williams, Britten etc, for piano and soprano voice.

We ar delighted to welcome singer Joanna Bywater and pianist Matthew Rickard to to folk club
to perform a recital of English Folksong arrangements. Joanna sings as a lyric soprano for concert
and operatic work, directs the Constanza Chorus as well as other choirs and orchestras, is vocal
coach to the Farnham Youth Choir and singing teacher at Bedales School and the Royal School,
Surrey. Matthew read Music at the University of Surrey, where he studied the piano with Clive
Williamson. He pursued his postgraduate studies at the Royal Academy of Music, studying
with Michael Dussek and Graeme Humphrey, specialising in piano accompaniment.

As you will see from their websites Joanna and Matthew are extremely busy performing,
conducting, teaching and recording so we are very grateful to them for agreeing to come
together to devise this very special evening for the club. We will give full details of the
programme for the evening as soon as it is available.

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This will be Bill Caddick's long-overdue second visit to the club. He started singing in the 60s and
joined the innovative puppet and street theatre group Magic Lantern 1973. Two years later he left
to concentrate on solo performing and writing, releasing two albums of self-penned songs before
joining The Albion Band in the National Theatre productions of Larkrise and The Passion.

Shortly after this, and the release of a third solo album, Bill became a founder member of the legendary
folk-rock band The Home Service. He continued to work at the National Theatre, writing and appearing
in Don Quixote and A Country Calendar and the award-winning trilogy, The Passion, The Nativity and
Doomsday, based on the medieval Mysteries plays.

Since leaving Home Service Bill has released several further solo albums and has become widely
recognised as one of the Country's finest songwriters, having been recorded by the likes of June Tabor,
Chris Foster, Alex Campbell, The Yetties, Christy Moore, Peter Rowan, John Kirkpatrick, Artisan,
Coope, Boyes and Simpson and many others throughout the world.

(Bill is also a member of the ceilidh band All Blacked Up, who will be playing for our Barn Dance at
Godalming Borough Hall on Saturday 8th February.)

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Pete is one of the most popular and regular guests booked at the club. Described as a "one man
folk industry" Pete is a singer; songwriter; melodeon, banjo, dulcimer and bouzouki player; dance
caller; bandleader; arranger; broadcaster; teacher; step dancer; entrepreneur; folk club organiser;
sallow-faced wit and raconteur.

Pete began performing with Chris Coe in the '70's and the duo released several seminal albums
on the Leader label. During this period they were also members of the ceilidh super-group The
New Victory Band and the legendary Bandoggs with Nic Jones and Tony Rose. The duo were
renown for the clarity of their interpretation of traditional song and soon established themselves
at the very forefront of the folk club scene. Pete became one of the first folk artists of the era to
produce his own original material based on the style of the tradition when he wrote such songs
as "Wizard Of Alderley Edge" and "Joseph Baker" - songs often assumed to be traditional!

Since embarking upon his solo career Pete has continued writing powerful new material including
"It's A Mean Old Scene", "The Alimony Run" and "Rolling Down The Ryburn". As well as continuing
his career as a fine solo performer he is also an energetic activist for the scene, founder of the
Ryburn 3 Step folk development project, the organiser of folk clubs, dances and workshops in
the Ripponden/Halifax area as well as teaching music and dancing at schools.

(Pete will also be calling the dances at the Barn Dance at Godalming Borough Hall on 26th April.)

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The "Music Institute" folk club meets at
THE GUILDFORD INSTITUTE
Ward Street, off North Street, Guildford, Surrey GU1 4LH
(Nearest parking Leapale Multi-storey)

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