01-Dec-09 jiva at Croxdale Folk Club

We've been to Croxdale many times, either doing floorspots or watching some of our favourite performers, or both... but it's especially nice when a club organiser asks us to top the bill. And so it was we journeyed to Croxdale for our guest night.

We were all so busy nattering that there was no time for floor singers before our first set. We got the night underway with our first 40-minute set. We'd had to set our Bose L1 system up in a corner (rather than the usual directly behind us) but no problems, the Bose has such a small footprint with less cables and clutter than conventional systems... and the the sound was great as usual - warm and clear at comfortable volume for performers and audience alike.

For our first set we sang:

• Love At The Five & Dime (Nanci Griffith)
• Best Friends (jiva)
• Dream On (jiva)
• Galway To Graceland (Richard Thompson)
• No Telling (Linda Thompson)
• Back Again (Allan Taylor)
• Small Town (jiva)

There was the obligatory raffle ticket selling in the break and we even won a bottle of wine!

Phil Graham, John Brindle and Chris Milner started second part of the night... thanks guys! For our second set we sang:

• Back Home To You (Allan Taylor)
• When (jiva)
• All Day Every Day (jiva)
• Two Old Friends (Chris Simpson)
• Jimmy's Song (Allan Taylor)
• Different Dreams (jiva)
• Some Way Home (jiva)

It had been a grand night and after shouts of "more" we finished off with 'Silent Night' (Christmas Carol) - segueing this, much to everyone's surprise, with our own 'One More Song'.

Thanks to John Kelly for asking us to be guests... we'll be back.

Links
jiva website
jiva MySpace
Croxdale Folk Club MySpace