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Traditional and old fashioned songs, dances and tunes in mid-Kent

Frittenden sessions for 2014/15

28th September – Roger Resch

26th October – John Morgan

30th November – Rosie Davis and Jerry O’Reilly (great singer and dancer from Dublin)

28th December – Peter Collins (great local singer)(also we’re planning to revive some lost local carols that night)

25th January – Ruairidh Greig (singer and fiddler from Lincolnshire, and a Lincs material scholar and collector)

22nd February – Matt Quinn (he probably needs no introduction, but I’d just like to mention that his dad’s from Lincolnshire)

29th March – Annie Dearman and Steve Harrison (great friends at the Frittenden session, Annie’s a smashing singer, Steve is a lovely accompanist on melodeon, banjo and tenor guitar, and a cracking mouthorgan player)

26th April – Mike Hebbert (the Jeffries duet concertina player’s Jeffries duet concertina player, if I may coin such a phrase)

The autumn dance with the Horsmonden tunes workshop providing the music, party games and turns at the Bell & Jorrocks is on the 29th November. Our lovely caller for the night will be Fee Lock. Please put it in your diary!

Traditional and old fashioned songs, dances and tunes in mid-Kent

It’s all starting again – why not join us, as most things we run are free, and they’re all fun?

  • The first Tuesday evening song workshop of the season at the Gun, Horsmonden is from 8pm on Tuesday 2nd September
  • Horsmonden tunes workshop – free tunes workshop led by multi-instrumentalist Gavin Atkin. Gun & Spitroast, Horsmonden, from 8pm on the 24th September at the same pub
  • Mixed tunes and songs session at the Bell & Jorrocks, Frittenden, with guest Roger Resch, 28th September from 8pm
Will Duke

Will Duke at the Frittenden session, 27th April

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Will Duke CD cover drawn by melodeon genius and Norfolk master cartoonist Tony Hall

Mighty singer and anglo concertinist Will Duke is our guest at the next Frittenden session at the Bell & Jorrocks pub on the 27th April from 8pm. (It’s also our last session night for the season – so don’t come along expecting something similar on the last Sunday in May!)

It will be a night not to miss. Here’s what Rod Stradling has said about Will’s performing:

‘Will is a superlative anglo concertina player, with an unusual repertoire drawn manily from the musicians of his home county of Sussex – and particularly from the playing of Scan Tester.

‘If Will’s consumate concertina playing isn’t enough for you… I think he’s one of the most accomplished of English revival singers, and possessed of a unique (or certainly, individual) style. He’s a quiet man with a lovely dry sense of humour’

These cracking sessions take place on the last Sunday (usually) in the month from September to April, from 8pm at the Bell & Jorrocks (TN17 2EJ).

What you get is an entertaining old fashioned and traditional pub evening with songs and tunes, and plenty of variety and good humour. If you’ve got a song, a tune, a stepdance or story, enjoy joining in with a chorus or just like listening in the bar, please come along. We go on until it’s time to close with Nellie Dean the old way – just as people used to before the telly and the computer.