TENTERDEN FOLK CLUB

Now at

The Woolpack Hotel

Folk song and music sessions

on the second Tuesday of every month


The regular song and music sessions in the bar of the Eight Bells in High Street, Tenterden, ran from 1992 until the Bells closed in March 2007 when they moved to The Vine Inn for a short time before relocating to The woolpack Hotel.  The sessions are run in conjunction with Tenterden Folk Day Trust, the annual Tenterden Folk Festival and local singers and musicians.

Many of you will remember the evenings at The Bells when numbers regularly reached 30 or even 40 people and the exceptional evenings when there were so many singers and musicians there that we were forced to move up stairs. Were you there on the evening when we had about 25 Italians all wanting to sing all the evening, or the evenings when groups of Dutch, German, Slovakian, Canadian or other tourists played and sang with us?  Not forgetting those very memorable, and more typical, evenings when the likes of Tan Tethera, SkynFlynt, Bob Kenward, Bo Foaks, Ray Styles, Sean and Trooper, George Frampton, Les Boorer, Margaret Gibson, Bob Piggott and Mick Lynn, Galliard, Peter Collins, John Barden, No Worries and many, many others, held the crowded bar spell bound.

A typical evening sees between 10 and twenty folk singers and musicians from Kent and Sussex gathering in the Bells from around 8.00 p.m. and the music starts at about 8.30 and continues to 11.00.  All folk singers, musicians, story tellers and poets are welcome to come along and join in or you can just come and listen.  The music is mainly traditional English but also includes contemporary, blues, Irish, Scottish, European music, music hall, acapella and in fact most good acoustic music with a smattering of stories and poems.

 

Text Box: The Woolpack Hotel High Street, Tenterden (Next to the Town Hall) Tenterden Folk Club is on the move again! With immediate effect our regular monthly meetings will take at The Woolpack Hotel in Tenterden High Street, next door to the Town Hall. We will continue to meet on the second Tuesday of every month gathering after 8.00 for an 8.30 start. The format will remain the same free, informal sing-a-round session in the bar. All singers, musicians, storytellers, poets, step dancers, etc are welcome to join us. The Woolpack is more like our old home of 15 years, the Eight Bells, in that it is a traditional English public house with plenty of character including wooden floors and beams. With the barn at the back, the marquee in the garden and the Town Hall next door The Woolpack is also ideally situated to be the centre point of the annual Tenterden Folk Festival. Also The Woolpack regularly runs a real ale beer festival and hog roast for the festival. 2007 13th November 11th December 2008 8th January 12th February 11th March 8th April 13th May 10th June 8th July 12th August 9th September 3rd to 5th October – Tenterden Folk Festival 2008 14th October 11th November 9th December

 


Tenterden Folk Club is promoted by Tenterden Folk Day Trust and Tenterden Folk Festival

Registered charity No 1038663

How to contact Tenterden Folk Club

You can contact us in any of the following ways;

E: info@tenterdenfolkfestival.org.uk

W: www.tenterdenfolkfestival.org.uk or www.folkspots.co.uk

Telephone 01233 626805

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