30-Jun-09 David Ferrard at Cramlington Folk Club

We were one of the two support acts for David Ferrard, a singer-songwriter based in Edinburgh. He sang a number of self-penned songs and some traditional songs interspersed with stories about where the songs came from. There was a good crowd in tonight and he went down well.

Club organiser Keith got proceedings underway almost bang on 8:00 pm - club policy is to start on time even if it means latecomers may miss some of the early music... good on you Keith, we enthusiastically support this initiative. First up were Gerry Tapscott and John Redpath, who were joined by John Baston on harmonica for one of their songs. For our 4 songs in the first half we did all self-penned numbers with the trademark jiva setup of Val playing 12-string (Missy) and Jimmy playing 6-string (Rio):

• Different Dreams (jiva)
• Some Way Home (jiva)
• When (jiva)
• One More Song (jiva)

It was great to hear the Cramlington choir with us on all our choruses. However, the sound gremlins were at play again, despite taking our own balanced cables, as Jimmy had great difficulty hearing his own guitar but Val could hear everything! We were assured that the sound out front was very good... so maybe Jimmy's hearing is the culprit.

For our second spot we swapped to the alternate set up of Val playing 6-string (Nams) with Jimmy also on 6-string (Rio). We sang:

• Louise (Paul Siebel)
• Sonny (Ron Hynes)

Mike Jessop wrote a full review for the Cramlington Folk Club website - read it here.

Links
jiva website
jiva MySpace
Cramlington Folk Club
David Ferrard website