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Ken Wilson
01740 601064


 


 


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 Guest Nights £2.50
Other Nights £ 1.00



 

Wellington Inn - Wolviston - Billingham - Cleveland -TS22 5JY

Every Thursday 8.30 pm

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  New Wilson Family CD
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 "A Grey Lock or Two"
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 The Wilson Family
 launch new WEB site
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 Ken Wilson releases solo
 CD "Not Before Time"
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The Welly Folk Club Archive Album

  FUTURE GUESTS 
2011 

27th Jan - Jim Macfarland

Jim is one of Ireland’s finest traditional singers, with a voice and repertoire admired by many. He has travelled extensively, guesting in Ireland, the UK, Europe, North America and Canada. His talent also lies in collecting and is no stranger to Inishowen, having co-produced 'My Parents Reared Me Tenderly’ a collection of Inishowen songs in the 1980s. Jim runs a singing session in Derry and is a stalwart supporter of the Inishowen Traditional Singers’ Circle. He has produced 1 solo CD, 1 CD with Jackie Boyce and has featured on a number of compilation CDs.

 ALL OTHER WEEKS
 SINGERS &  MUSICIANS NIGHTS

28th April - Pet Coe
Pete is a prolific songwriter and his songs include Joseph Baker (performed by   The Chieftains), The Wizard of Alderley Edge (an early classic), The Alimony Run (recorded by   Token Women), Sold Down the River Again (recorded with Red Shift), The Jackdaw, The Waves of Tory (a comment on the Thatcher Era in Britain), Bring the New Year In (on the Long Company album) and numerous others .

 

Ankie van der Meer was born in 1959. Music was in her soul, if not practiced in her family, and at 14 she took up the guitar in order to accompany herself in song. In her late teens she was invited to join a Frisian folk group led by Nanne Kalma. That was the beginning of a life long career in music as well as a life long partnership with Nanne.

Nanne Kalma, born in 1949, grew up in Leeuwarden, the capital of the province of Friesland. After playing rock and roll for several years in the 1960s, his musical interests veered more toward a gentler, acoustic sound and the early 1970s found him performing folk music. He began setting lyrics of Frisian poets to music, expanding the repertoire of Dutch folk song. Ankie joined the group he had formed - Irolt - in the mid ’70s and, as Irolt parted ways 11 years later, they formed Kat yn ’t Seil with Marita Kruijswijk and Marian Nesse.

17th Feb - Nanne Kalma and Ankie van der Meer
Known as "Shanty Jim" for many years, his knowledge of sea songs, infectious enthusiasm, and powerful singing made him the obvious choice to set up a Tyneside shanty group. The first influence on him was Louis Killen, resident at the Bridge in Newcastle in 1963, where Jim started singing. A little later he met "The Master", Stan Hugill, a man who is almost single-handedly responsible for the high profile of shanties in the folk revival. In 1975, he moved to London where he was resident at several excellent clubs, notably Dingle's, the Herga, and The Cellar in C Sharp House. He also teamed up with Johnny Collins to create a formidable singing duo.
24th March - Jim Mageean
Traditional Irish singer Len Graham offers traditional irish songs in English mostly from the North of Ireland, with memories from a lifetime ofLen Graham collecting and singing. Len’s extensive repertory of irish songs covers the whole gamut of themes and human experience as portrayed in early classic ballads, broadside ballads, local songs, come-all-ye’s, lyric folksongs, music hall pieces; songs on politics, murder, love, emigration and much more.
26th May - Len Graham
30th June
Jim Eldon
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