We'd not been to one of John Jeffrey's acoustic/folk nights since October 2009, so were pleased to be back in familiar surroundings among comrades in the local music scene. Although these nights did start as purely acoustic (ie no PA), Gerry Beldon has provided such gear for a few evenings now, and it looks set to continue in this vein. That's fine with us as long as (like the Comrades Club acoustic nights) it continues to be used to lift/enhance the sound slightly - we definitely don't like things too loud... apart from spoiling the ambience it can permanently damage the hearing of audience and artists alike.
OK - rant over...
John and Fraser got the first half started with 2 songs, accompanying their vocals with 6 and 12-string guitars. Then we had a solo performer doing a Ralph McTell song followed by Simon and Garfunkel's boxer. There were 3 banjos in the room and, in a somewhat strange running order, John decided to have all the banjo players perform their 2 songs immediately after each other. We didn't catch the name of the first guy, but the second and third were our good friends Doug Wood and Maurice Baker. Gerry finished the first half with 3 songs.
Then, after a short break, John asked us to start the second half with a 20 to 25 minute slot. This evening we had planned to do numbers with us both playing 6-string guitars so we performed:
OK - rant over...
John and Fraser got the first half started with 2 songs, accompanying their vocals with 6 and 12-string guitars. Then we had a solo performer doing a Ralph McTell song followed by Simon and Garfunkel's boxer. There were 3 banjos in the room and, in a somewhat strange running order, John decided to have all the banjo players perform their 2 songs immediately after each other. We didn't catch the name of the first guy, but the second and third were our good friends Doug Wood and Maurice Baker. Gerry finished the first half with 3 songs.
Then, after a short break, John asked us to start the second half with a 20 to 25 minute slot. This evening we had planned to do numbers with us both playing 6-string guitars so we performed:
- Love At The Five & Dime (Nanci Griffith)
- Two Old Friends (Chris Simpson)
- Best Friends (jiva)
- Dream On (jiva)
- Louise (Paul Siebel)
John and Fraser got up again to do 2 more songs, then John sang a solo a capella number before inviting Gerry back for another 3 songs before Few Broth finished the night in fine style with mostly Geordie songs that had people singing along with gusto.
Thanks for the invite, John... we can't make the next one, but will hopefully get to the one after that.
Links
jiva website
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