DEPTFORD FOLK

We’re currently having some venue issues so please watch this space for further dates! 

Master of song Jim Murray is joined by Alex Szyzskowski (concertina, melodeon, mandolin) Davie Wooldrige (fiddle) Chris Dyer (fiddle, nyckelharpa) & Lis Stewart (duet concertina, fiddle & keyboards) to make lively music and plenty of laughs with a strong Geordie flavour.

There will be floor spots too, so get your singing shoes on!

Doors 7.30pm, music starts at 8pm. Floor spots should arrive around 7.30pm to put your name down. £5 entry

Upstairs at The Selkirk, 60 Selkirk Road, London SW17 0ES. Nearest tube is Tooting Broadway.

Made up of Hylda Sims, Simon Prager and Doc Stenson, they play an eclectic mix of Skiffle, Blues, Folk, and original songs with an occasional excursion into Rock n Roll, Country and Music Hall, and are named after the City Ramblers, a famous late fifties group of which Hylda was a member. They were regulars on BBC Radio, TV’s 6.5 Special and residents at Soho’s Skiffle Cellar in Greek Street.

The guest act for October is Tim Jones & the Dark Lanterns.  Influenced by the traditional singers and folk music of the UK, the band use this sound to help Tim Jones’ songs come to life. Whether a capella, shape-shifting fairy tales, or a boozy singalong, a sense of the stories and melodies that underpin folk music runs through all the songs. 

https://timjonesmusic.com/

There will also be floor spots, so come along sing a song/do a dance/read a story/play a tune! 

Doors 7.30pm, music starts at 8pm. 

Upstairs at The Selkirk, Tooting Broadway, London, SW17 0ES 

Entry £5 

After a smashing folk fest in June we are now having a break for the summer but will be back at The Selkirk on Saturday 3rd September!  And we are very excited to have bluegrass folk duo The Matchsellers as guest act, all the way from the USA!

The Matchsellers are Warsaw, Indiana native Andrew Morris and Julie Bates of Kansas City, Missouri. Playing down-home bluegrass and wild, gritty country-folk, they have been touring relentlessly across Europe and the USA for the last couple of years.

https://thematchsellers.com

There will also be floor spots as usual! Doors 7.30pm, music starts at 8pm. Entry is £5.

Upstairs at The Selkirk, 60 Selkirk Road, Tooting Broadway, London SW17 0ES

MAGIC CITY TRIO

THE BARA BARA BAND

GENTLEFOLK

CONRAD VINGOE

JOE WOOLLEY & TALI TROW (lords of thyme)

TIM JONES & THE DARK LANTERNS

UMBRELLABIRDS

BLACK SCARR

MR ISAAC’S MAGGOTS

CAZ FORBES & STE MONCRIEFF

Performing a mixture of American and British traditional songs as well as his own songs, Hertfordshire-born folk singer and banjo player Jimmy Grayburn will be accompanied by guitarist and fiddle player Tom Blackburn. Weaving dark folk tales and upbeat rootsy stomps, together as “The Lion’s Share” they are garnering quite a reputation throughout London.

We are proud to have the “Springsteen of the Sea Shanty” as our guest for April.

Often accompanying himself with button accordion or ukulele, former submariner Tom sings nautical songs of loneliness and the lure of the sea as well as traditional shanties and classic nautical poetry, set to his own, and others’ melodies.

Born in Northern Ireland, Tom’s Celtic heritage is obvious in his clear, strong voice, evoking quiet sorrow for a fisherman lost to the sea just as honestly as it powers out a shanty “to be heard above the gales”.