What's On - April

Friday 28 April: Martin Carthy, Creeping Jane, Mark Whittaker

7:30pm – 8:30pm. Did you know that you can find north by looking at the bark of a London Plane tree? Or that the veins on a leaf can help you find water? In How to Read a Tree, you’ll discover the signs trees are giving you about their past and the landscape that surrounds it. And you’ll learn rare skills that can be applied every time you pass a tree, whether you are in a town or a wilder spot.

As the author of the international bestsellers The Walker’s Guide and How to Read Water, Tristan Gooley knows how to uncover the phenomena worth looking for. He has been instructing people in the art of reading trees for two decades. Unlike other books of this ilk, Tristan shifts the focus to what you can see. Once you have learned to see these things it is impossible to unsee them – you will never look at a tree the same way again!

‘An important book and a pleasure to read.’ –Raynor Winn, author of The Salt Path A Village Books and Alleyn’s Schools Enterprises event.

Junior School Hall at Alleyn’s School, Townley Road, East Dulwich SE22. Tickets can be purchased on: www.mct.alleyns.org.uk

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7pm – 11pm. We are delighted to be welcoming Martin Carthy back to the Goose! For more than 50 years, Martin has been one of folk music’s greatest innovators. His skill, stage presence and natural charm have won him many admirers, not only from within the folk scene, but far beyond it. Trailblazing musical partnerships with, amongst others, Steeleye Span, Dave Swarbrick, his award-winning wife Norma Waterson and his daughter Eliza Carthy have resulted in more than 40 albums. Martin is a ballad singer, a groundbreaking acoustic and electric-guitarist and an authoritative interpreter of newly composed material. His settings of traditional songs with guitar have influenced artists, including Bob Dylan and Paul Simon, on both sides of the Atlantic.

“Arguably the greatest English folk song performer of them all” - Q Magazine

Creeping Jane are Nygel Packett and Sue Whitehead, who started the Goose Is Out! fifteen years ago and have run it ever since. In 2008 we didn’t envisage finding ourselves singing together on stage supporting Martin Carthy, but hey, here we are. We try to give preference to good local singers to support our headliners, and Mark Whittaker is an excellent singer who comes to our regular Singarounds.

The Ivy House is London’s first communityowned pub and has a wonderful Grade II listed ballroom with a purpose-built stage. www.ivyhousenunhead.co.uk

This concert will be half seated, half standing, so come early if you want to be sure of a seat! Advance tickets £18 from: www.wegottickets.com/thegooseisout

Tickets on the door will be £20 (cash or BACS only, sorry!) Door 7pm. Live music starts 8pm.