12-May-09 Adrian Nation at Cramlington Folk Club

We had a busy time at Clennell Hall Folk Festival - four scheduled performing slots and session hosting/MC-ing... unfortunately this meant that our slots clashed with the timings for some people that we particularly wanted to see - so we didn't manage to catch Adrian performing at the festival. But, as luck would have it, he was the guest at Cramlington Folk Club (our local) the following Tuesday... so we happily went along to watch and to listen.

The night began with support slots from Jimmy & Carol followed by Gerry Tapscott & John Redpath. Then Adrian took to the floor and, after a brief hiccough with the sound system, wowed the guitarists with some dazzling dexterity on the fretboard. He played his own songs and was then joined by Vicki Guillory (a regular performer at the club in its earlier days). Together they did more of Adrian's material and some traditional songs too - Vicki even did a solo a capella song.

After the break there were more songs from the support acts big band - John & Gerry assisted Jimmy & Carol on two numbers then Jimmy & Carol assisted Gerry & John on two songs - before Adrian came back on for his second set. Still dogged with sound problems (was it his guitar? was it the lead? was it the equipment? we'll probably never know) he conjured up more guitar wizardry and introspective songs, joined again by Vicki for half of the set.

And guess who won the raffle? Yes, jiva! After the encore we went to claim our prize and chose one of Adrian's CDs.

Links
jiva website
jiva MySpace
Cramlington Folk Club
Adrian Nation website