• The mid-month tunes session this month is at the Goudhurst Club on Wednesday 26th February, starting at 1.30pm. Last month this timing and the venue worked out well, and it was pleasant to sit with a pint for a chat in the bar when it opened at 4pm!
• For the regular tunes meeting, I’ve booked the bar area at the Club for 10.30am on the 3rd March, and because the group needs to rehearse for an April gig at Tenterden, I have prepared two new tunes only – the pretty slow air Height of Cader Idris (as requested by tunes group members) and The Leeds Polka, a lively three-part polka that I think the group will enjoy.
• Finally – and very importantly! – we’ve booked the downstairs room at the Club for another barn dance on Saturday the 26th April. We’re still working out the details, but will get a caller sorted out shortly and a tune list will follow, once we’ve consulted. Please put the date in your diaries and bring friends and family if you can!

Download volume 1 of our collected tune book here and volume 2 here!

• 6 January – u3a tunes group tunes meeting at the Goudhurst Club, 10.30am
• Mid-month mainly English tunes session: 1.30pm at the Goudhurst Club. There will be a £2-3 collection to pay for the room Email gmatkin@gmail.com for info
• Julie and Gav’s mainly traditional-leaning singaround-tunearound, 7.30pm, 19th January. Email gmatkin@gmail.com for details

I’ve been asked to tell people about a remarkable gig at Frittenden with Irish singer Rioghnach Connolly on Saturday 18th January at 8pm. (I believe it’s pronounced ‘ree-err-nahh’, btw.)

Originally from Armagh, Rioghnach was voted BBC Radio 2 Folk Singer of the Year in 2020 – we don’t see many singers round here with that kind of accolade!

Here’s a link to her singing, which sounds pretty spectacular to me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3af0T7FQCS8

Tickets are available from the Bell & Jorrocks pub or www.frittendenevents.co.uk .