Guest night at Croxdale Folk Club with Acoustica (Andy & Cath) - it was a grand night with quite a number of performers in the audience who had come along especially to see them. There was us, Brother Crow, Chris Milner, Phil Graham, Kyle and John Brindle. Marie Little was there too but she didn't play this evening.
MC John Kelly was away on holiday and the evening was ably run by Jackie and Mark who managed to give everyone two songs either side of Acoustica's two sets. We'd had a request from Andy to play Ralph McTell's 'Maginot Waltz' and we gladly obliged and then Jimmy swapped to the 12-string for 'No Telling' (Linda Thompson).
Acoustica by name, acoustic by nature... no PA tonight. We thoroughly enjoyed Andy and Cath's performance - accomplished musicians and talented writers with introductions peppered with good humour. Jimmy finally got his wish - to play a 'shakey egg' accompaniment to their rendition of 'Old Dan's Records' (Gordon Lightfoot) segued with 'Squeezebox' (The Who), and we had great fun yodelling along through 'If I Can't Live Without Her How Come I 'Aint Dead' (Tim O'Brien).
It was good to catch up with Terry Ferdinand, unfortunately no Catherine tonight as she was feeling unwell - get better soon! And... jiva won second prize (bottle of white wine) in the raffle and very generously, Marie Little who won the first prize (bottle of red wine) donated her prize to us as a present for our forthcoming marriage! Thank you Marie.
Links
jiva website
jiva MySpace
Acoustica website
Croxdale Folk Club MySpace
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