folk music Archives - Brockley SE4

Paul Simon in Catford, August 1965 (and other Catford folk)

Aug

22

2026

Simon and Garfunkel released their first album, 'Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.', in 1964 but at the time this did not generate a lot of interest. While Art Garfunkel went off to college, Paul Simon came to the UK and honed his craft on the folk music scene, playing in folk clubs all over the country.One ...

Paul Simon in Catford, August 1965 (and other Catford folk)

Aug

22

2026

Simon and Garfunkel released their first album, 'Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.', in 1964 but at the time this did not generate a lot of interest. While Art Garfunkel went off to college, Paul Simon came to the UK and honed his craft on the folk music scene, playing in folk clubs all over the country.One ...

Music Monday: Martin Carthy celebration (and rehearsals in New Cross Road)

Sep

29

2025

A lovely night at EartH in Dalston on Saturday to celebrate the life and songs of folk legend Martin Carthy.The event was organised by Jon Wilks and Campbell Baum (Broadside Hacks), with the stage set up as a mythical pub, The North Country Maid, where musicians sat at tables and refreshed their glasses at the ...

Music Monday: Martin Carthy celebration (and rehearsals in New Cross Road)

Sep

29

2025

A lovely night at EartH in Dalston on Saturday to celebrate the life and songs of folk legend Martin Carthy.The event was organised by Jon Wilks and Campbell Baum (Broadside Hacks), with the stage set up as a mythical pub, The North Country Maid, where musicians sat at tables and refreshed their glasses at the ...

Bermondsey Folk Festival 2025

Sep

16

2025

Bermondsey Folk Festival is back on Saturday, 27 September 2025 in the Blue market (SE16 3UQ) from 12 noon to 5 pm, in an event that will feature Jacken Elswyth (amazing banjo player with Shovel Dance Collective), Cunning Folk (launching new album Folk Process 2), Bity Booker, Indika Akuus, Gemma Khawaja, Okinawa Sanshinkai and others.The ...

Goblin Band and some South London folk nights/open mics

Feb

9

2025

Goblin Band were great at the Goose is Out last week (Friday 31st January 2025) at the Ivy House, bringing a new energy to traditional folk song including not one but two versions of Widecombe Fair, a song which as they note they have resurrected after it being out of fashion for years. Excellent support ...

Goblin Band and some South London folk nights/open mics

Feb

9

2025

Goblin Band were great at the Goose is Out last week (Friday 31st January 2025) at the Ivy House, bringing a new energy to traditional folk song including not one but two versions of Widecombe Fair, a song which as they note they have resurrected after it being out of fashion for years. Excellent support ...

The Water Chorus/Third Revival at Acoustic Anarhchy

Nov

1

2024

Another great line up this weekend at Acoustic Anarchy, the regular night at waterintobeer in Brockley (209-211 Mantle Road, London SE4 2EW):'The next acoustic anarchy on Saturday November 2nd, sees two of our favourite folk groups combine for what promises to be a special night. Third Revival take a mix of traditional songs and their ...

Thomas McCarthy at the Goose is Out

May

22

2024

An Irish flavoured event coming up at the Goose is Out at the Ivy House pub next week (31 May 2024) with headliner Thomas McCarthy. I first heard Tom sing at another fine South London folk night, one of Kit and Cutter's great events at the Old Nun's Head way back in 2011. Since then ...

Music Monday: Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger and the Critics Group in Beckenham

Jan

22

2024

In musical terms the folk singer Ewan MacColl (1915-1989) is associated in most people's minds with the Salford where he was raised (the subject of his song Dirty Old Town) and the Scotland of his parents with which he so strongly identified. But many of his most creative years were actually spent in the outer ...

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