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Tennessee Twin / Craig Joiner
April 9, 2025
7:30 pm Free entry
Cambridge-based Tennessee Twin are a multi-award winning country music duo. Victoria and Geoff met in a recording studio in 1997. From that moment on, their musical journey took an upward trajectory, connecting them on a personal level and captivating audiences around the world.
In 2018 their song ‘Wings Of Red White & Blue’ won the British Airways/Nashville Music City song-writing competition, taking them to record in Nashville, Tennessee and their debut EP ‘Tips In A Jar’ went straight into the iTunes UK Country Chart at No.1 the following year.
Today, celebrated as a well-loved singer-songwriter duo in the UK Country and Americana world, they are driven by shared interests, inspiration, determination, and a love of performance & storytelling through music.
Performances include: C2C Country Festival at London’s O2, the British Country Music Festival at Blackpool’s Winter Gardens, Cambridge Folk Festival, The West Country Music Festival, various Foodies festivals, Country on the Coast & Nashville Calling and overseas (Nashville, Denver, and Amsterdam).
Co-headlining this evening will be singer-songwriter Craig Joiner. Whether recalling a love lost, celebrating the calming beauty of nature or relating the epic tale of a struggle at sea, Craig’s songs are informed by experience, observation, vivid imagination and a desire to take his music “deeper into folk”.
As a dextrous and highly accomplished guitarist, Craig is fully equipped to play out his compositions against an acoustic musical backdrop which perfectly suits his subject matter and vocal delivery. “My hope is that my music will help people escape the pressures and the madness of the world we all now live in and provide them with…a kind of calm, if only for a short while,” says Craig.
Craigs new album, ‘A Kind Of Calm’, is a collection of new songs with storytelling is at its heart, including the focus track ‘The Wedding Day Of Eliza May’ , a romantic lament of ‘it should have been me…’
Boxwood Chessmen + Barry Goodman + A Sailor Among Tailors
April 23, 2025
Tonight we’re celebrating traditional English music in honour of St George’s Day and we have some of the very best practitioners of the art performing for us this evening.
The Boxwood Chessmen are a semi-acoustic, four piece band from East Anglia and Middlesex, comprising: Penni McLaren Walker on lead vocals, guitars, bouzouki, whistles, kazoo, accordion and percussion, though not necessarily all at the same time; Hector Ringtone, AKA Steve Collins on vocals, melodeon, ukulele, harmonica, guitar, kazoo and percussion; John Campbell Armer on vocals, bass, guitars, percussion; and Bryan Causton on vocals, mandolin, guitar, bouzouki and percussion.
The band plays a variety of styles includingraiding Folk, Americana, Angliana, hokum and a light dusting of swing all delivered with panache and fun ….. Pretty much anything goes into the pot. But this evening they’ll be leaning into their English Folk repertoire, just for us!
Barry Goodman is a great friend of the club and has been involved in the folk music scene for the past fifty years! Barry sings songs from the English tradition as well as some of his own compositions and songs from other writers, accompanied by melodeon, concertina or guitar, and lots of humour!
A Sailor Among Tailors are a folk duo based in Leeds. The band is made up of Rowan (Guitar, Bass & Percussion) and Perseus (Harmonica & Piano). The band play traditional folk tunes from the 16th Century to the modern era. Rowan met Perseus whilst performing at New Roots 2023, they reconnected at Sidmouth Folk Week where they both also performed. Rowan is a current Leeds Conservatoire student on the Popular Music Course whilst Perseus graduated from the Fold Course there in 2024. Rowan and Perseus have been performing up and down the country for a few years playing at a number of major folk festivals. They have also had a few performances as a duo in the West Yorkshire area as well as performing together at New Roots 2024, Chippenham Folk Festival, Sidmouth Folk Week and Ottley Folk Festival (all three in 2024).
The Tangler’s Irregulars at The Robin Hood Pub
The Tanger’s Irregulars will be back playing at the lovely Robin Hood and Little John pub in Codicote on Sunday, 6th April. Irish Traditional Music, Americana, Old Time and Country, Irish and Scottish songs, with the odd popular classic thrown in. Why not come along and join us? Free entry, and a lovely way to spend a Sunday afternoon!
Our regular club nights take place at The Orange Tree, Norton Road, Baldock, SG7 5AW every other Wednesday and are free unless otherwise stated. However do please bring some cash for the whip round for the performers – they’ve had a hard time recently and need our support! Doors open at 7:00pm, music starts at 7:30pm.
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