Our final folk club before the summer break featured a good selection of folk songs from our headliner, Pete Kiddle, and a wide variety of acoustic goodies from our floor singers.
Pete played songs and tunes that covered subjects as diverse as lost love, an outcast accidentally murdering his sisters, emigrating to China and General Wolfe. Pete has a great talent for arranging traditional tunes and in one of the most popular songs of the evening, "Ellen Taylor", he combined words collected in Wiltshire in 1914 with a tune commemorating a New York State town that was flooded to make a reservoir. Despite being unrelated, lyrics and music fitted perfectly.
Our half a dozen or so floor singers also provided enjoyable arrangements of songs that included ample opportunities to sing along. We were especially pleased to welcome back one of our regular singers, Ray, after a period of absence.
If you want to keep up to date with folk and acoustic music and learn about gigs taking place in the West Country a good place to start is Johnny Coppin's show on BBC Local Radio at 1pm on Sundays (or via http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p001d7z8).
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