NEW MOORINGS

Dedication to John Masefield (1878-1967)

Format and Rhythm as his famous and much-loved poem “Cargoes”

Long and lanky tanker with her bridgeworks aft’ards, Cutting through the ocean like a lean sharp dart, With a cargo of crude oil, won from a shalebed -Lifeblood for the beating of the new, hungry heart.

Giant steel container, travelling as a unit, Moving from a lorry, to a train, to a ship, With but scarcely the need for a man’s hand to touch it, Right from the start to the end of the trip.

Heavy duty crane hook, swinging from a gantry, Long and snaking hoseline from the ship to the shore; The cargoes of new times have need of new havens -They can’t use the moorings of old any more.

Havens of yesteryear turning to marinas, Or filled up with rubble when they’re drained and they’re dry: Just a turn on the wheel in the voyage of progress, The new growing old in the wink of an eye.

Aluminium cutter with her man-made mains’l, Warping from the basin on the floodtide’s flow; As children of venturers clear their new moorings, The ghosts of the tall ships watch as they go.

Handsome Tudor galleon, raised up from the seabed, Looking down the Solent to the Channel, to the sea, While the last British coaster with her spring-cleaned smokestack Nuzzles at her fenders by a timeworn quay.

Long and lanky tanker from the Quinquirime waters, Homeward bound to haven by the Estuary shore, Blows a toot on her hooter to scatter the small ships That sail where the tall ships went sailing before.

Tonbridge Folk Club (Nellie’s)

Ye Olde Chequers Inn, 122 High Street, Tonbridge, TN9 1AS

First and third Mondays of each month, 8 - 11 pm

Subject to the Covid 19 emergency, please check our website for the latest information tonbridgefolkclub.org

3rd April Martin Ledner

17th April Caroline Kendall

15th May Paul McGladdery

5th June Border Crossing

19th June Milton Hide

3rd July The Twagger Band

17th July Tony Wilson

Tel: 01892 822945 info@tonbridgefolkclub.org www.tonbridgefolkclub.org

Singdanceandplay.net

• Julie and Gavin Atkin sing and play mainly trad material. Julie is a fine singer with a repertoire of songs about women’s lives. She also plays piano. Meanwhile Gav is a multi-instrumentalist, a sensitive accompanist, and plays and sings lots of tunes and story songs (serious and silly)

• Our first and third Sunday night Zoom sessions are free, friendly, fun and safe. Email to join us!

• Gavin runs a tunes session at The Peacock Inn, Iden Green, on the first Monday of the month, from 8pm, and a twice-monthly tunes-playing meetings with Goudhurst U3A on Mondays

Email for details!

• The Tonic barn dance and ceilidh band: ‘A great band – music that makes you want to get up and dance! So good that we book them every year!’ John Sweeney, dance organiser

• Contact: gmatkin@gmail.com

Farnborough Social Club

6 Pleasant View Pl, Farnborough, Orpington, BR6 7BL

APRIL

6th, 13th, 27th Singers & Musicians Nights

20th Liz Simcock

MAY

4th Dave Plane

11th, 18th, 25th Singers & Musicians Nights

Orpington Folk Music and Song Club exists to promote folk music and song. It is a non profit making organisation and is for those who wish to listen to or take part in an informal evening of folk music and song. For those who wish confirmation of guest(s) nights they can call any of the telephone numbers below.

Thursdays @ 8pm

01959 532 754 020 8325 6513

Website: www.orpingtonfolkclub.org.uk

E-mail:orpingtonfolkclub@hotmail.com

CD Reviews

Milton Hide - The Holloway

A most enjoyable second album from Josie and Jim Tipler. Right away we are in acoustic folk settings, reflecting their rural Sussex home near Wilmington. There’s a fresh, live feel, just like seeing them in person as I’ve had the pleasure of doing at Sweeps and at folk clubs: I wish more recordings were as crisp and honest. There are hints of overdub, sure, (some bass, violin and electric guitar) neatly mixed; however it’s the strength of lyric and match to words which stands out. All Gone South and Cuckmere are both appropriately warm and contemplative. Josie’s clarinet adds verve, as does Jim’s nifty fretwork, which befits a duo whose live act is well considered and entertaining. They’ve written all the songs and there is humour and variety- from Widow’s Revenge to The Happiest Man On Earth. Their first album, Temperature’s Rising, was full on and excellent in its own right. The Holloway takes us into territory much closer to home and has absorbed the atmosphere of Sussex Downland- a more measured delight. Check it out- it’ll be time well spent.

The Trials Of Cato - Gog Magog Self Release

Wanted

LPs, EPs, 45s, CDs

Folk, blues, reggae, jazz and rock

Collections or smaller items

Best prices paid

Bob Kenward

Ring Collin 07860 354 135

WANTED

LPs, EPs, 45s, CDs

Wanted

LPs, EPs, 45s, CDs

Folk, blues, reggae, jazz and rock Collections or smaller items

I rarely quote press releases, however Trials Of Cato’s is spot on. ‘Awash with a spray of styles… unexpected instrumental explorations of the outer edges of folktronica & trad-jazz… swallowing the folk tradition whole and completely reimagining it in a contemporary context… demonstrating the Trials’ unique ability to push the boundaries of their genre…’ 12 tracks here, feisty percussive banjo, lyrics to interpret, reminiscent of the outer reaches of Yes … virtuosity where the only constant is that things will change before you can get hold of them. The standout track is Aberdaron, which is sung in lyrical Welsh- the arrangement is gorgeous. The Huckleberries came to mind in the repetitions of riff and the absorption of world rhythms- as Phillip Larkin said in All What Jazz of Miles Davis, some of it must have been quite hard to do. ‘Thrilling, bold, unexpected… sashays and struts… a musical furrow all of its own…’ You might, as I did, find yourself agreeing and disagreeing track by track. New directions

Best prices paid

Ring Collin 07860 354 135

Folk, Blues, reggae, jazz and rock Collections or smaller items, best prices paid

Ring Collin 07860 354 135

Bob Fox & Billy Mitchell

Saturday 1st April, Barham Village Hall

The Young Uns

Thursday 13th April, St Mary’s Sandwich www.ashfordcommunitylottery.co.uk/

Meets every last Tuesday of the month, from 7.00 pm. All welcome.

No paid guest performers, just residents, itinerants and wayfaring strangers (rich or poor).

PA available if you need it. Hat collection (if you need one).

Contact details: Jerry ‘Hatrick’ Crossley

Phone - 07387 382050

Facebook - EgertonFolkandBluesClub

LewesSaturdayFolkClub

TraditionalmusiceverySaturdaynight Elephant&Castle,WhiteHill,LewesBN72DJ8.00–11.00 www.lewessaturdayfolkclub.org valmaigoodyear@aol.com

01273476757

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April1TheWilsons GloriousvocalharmonyfromTeesside Emailtoreservetickets.

All-dayvocalharmonyworkshop–emailtobook

(10.45am–4.45pm£452under25-year-olds£22)

April8EasterComeAllYe Bringsongs&tunestosuitthe theme.Home-madeEasterbiscuits.

April15OldSpot USOld-timefromRowanPiggot(fiddle,voice)& JoeDanks(banjo,gourdbanjo,voice)

April22GeorgeSansome&MattQuinn Tradsongsfromthe BritishIsleswithmandolin&guitar

April29Will&PippaNoble Trad&newersongsfromYorkshire& beyond.Emailtoreservetickets.

All-dayballadforum–emailtobook

(10.45am–4.45pm£452under25-year-olds£22)

May6ComeAllYe:TheLifeoftheCommonPeople

May13ComeAllYe:notheme

May20BrianPeters Britishtradsongswithmelodeon,anglo concertina,guitar.Emailtoreservetickets

All-daymelodeonworkshop–emailtobook

(10.45am–4.45pm£452under25-year-olds£22)

May27ComeAllYe:notheme