Sadly we are not meeting in person for the time being. The Christ Church Centre closed temporarily at the end of March. Live events have been postponed to 2021. Check the events page for details. We are still sharing musical posts on our facebook page.
We are now meeting for an online song session every Friday evening. If you would like to join us, please email via the form on the contact page for more info.
Stay safe and we look forward to seeing you sometime soon!
For more than 50 years Martin Carthy has been one of folk music’s greatest innovators, one of its best loved, most enthusiastic and, at times, most quietly controversial of figures. His skill, stage presence and natural charm have won him many admirers, not only from within the folk scene, but also far beyond it.
Martin is a ballad singer, a ground-breaking acoustic and electric-guitarist and an authoritative interpreter of newly composed material. He always prefers to follow an insatiable musical curiosity rather than cash in on his unrivalled position. Perhaps, most significant of all, are his settings of traditional songs with guitar, which have influenced a generation of artists, including Bob Dylan and Paul Simon, on both sides of the Atlantic.
Due to the current national situation THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED TO EARLY 2021.
Legendary melodeon-player Tony Hall brings his talented band to Norwich Folk Club – an opportunity to hear these local stars in a folk club concert setting. Self-taught, Tony has a unique, ground-breaking style of playing. This stalwart of the Norfolk folk scene appeared on the Silly Sisters album and accompanied Maddy Prior and June Tabor on their tour, as well as being part of Nic Jones’ Penguin Eggs album.
Tickets £8 (£11 non-members), available on the door, can also be reserved by emailing via our contact page. Bring your own drinks. Teas and coffees available in the kitchen.
The Norfolk Broads are a four-piece female ensemble who enjoy singing low-pitched folk songs about love, despair and dastardly boyfriends.
The Broads supply their repertoire of traditional stories with a very contemporary verve and energy, using old songs to fuel new takes on the lives of women both past and present.
‘Young female quartet the Norfolk Broads are strong story-tellers … Their close harmonies brought a witty feminist take to a well-curated set of tales of impotence, greedy landlords, and the joys of a single life.’ The Guardian
Tickets £13 (£10 members) can be saved by emailing via the contact page. Bring your own drinks. Teas and coffee available in the kitchen.
International star of the 60s and 70s, Julie Felix will be our guest on Friday 13 December. Four years after her arrival in the UK from California, Julie was given her own BBC series, with an array of guests, including Spike Milligan, Richard Harris, Leonard Cohen, Dusty Springfield, Donovan and Jimmy Page. What began for Julie as simple home entertainment, as her father and his friends played Mariachi music into the small hours of the morning, has become this remarkable woman’s vocation for half a century.
Tickets £13 (£10 members) can be reserved by email via our contact page. Please do let us know if you are planning to come along to be sure of getting a seat. Bring your own drinks. Teas and coffee available in the kitchen.
Folking.com Soloist of the Year 2019, Reg Meuross is a fabulous singer-songwriter. The breadth and depth of his material is unparalleled in contemporary folk, with songs about forgotten heroes, famous names, folk legends, the climate emergency, tales from the kitchen sink and news from the world stage. If something needs to be sung about then Reg Meuross has a song for it.
Mark Radcliffe introduced Reg Meuross on the BBC Radio 2 Folk Show as a ‘brilliant singer-songwriter and true troubadour with a social conscience’. As well as story songs that bring characters from history to life and comment on life around him, Reg also writes some of the most heart-aching love songs. ‘An insight into the human spirit and empathy with the plight of ordinary people.’ FRoots Magazine.
After the collaboration of his 12 Silk Handkerchiefs project, Reg’s new album RAW sees him return to the solo performance style that audiences across the land are so familiar with. Accompanying himself on his ’44 Martin six-string guitar, a tenor guitar, banjo, dulcimer and harmonica, RAW is the sound of one man and his songs.
Email us via the contact page for tickets £11 (£8 club members). Bring your own drinks. Teas and coffee available in the kitchen.
British folk and roots duo Honey & the Bear combine delicately interweaving vocal harmonies with emotive and evocative songwriting. With a diverse range of sounds and textures, and rhythms that flow from the fast and furious to gentle ballads, their live performances are spirited and dynamic. Conjuring stories in song, they tell tales of Suffolk folklore, courage, passion and heartbreak.
The multi instrumentalist pair, comprised of songwriters Jon Hart (guitar, bass, bazouki) and Lucy Hart (guitar, ukulele, bass, banjo, mandolin & percussion), have been writing and performing together since early 2014.
Reserve tickets £11 (£8 club members) by email via our contact page. Bring your own drinks. Teas and coffee available in the kitchen.
Colin & Malle are a husband and wife duo who have only been playing together for about five years, though married for over 40. Colin (lead vocals, guitar, piano) and Malle (backing vocals, accordion, piano) will be performing songs written by Colin, which can loosely be described as social commentary and protest songs.
Colin & Malle will be performing two extended spots within the song session. This is a free event. Please bring your own drinks, songs and tunes. Teas and coffee available in the kitchen.
Returning to Norwich Folk Club on Friday 5 July we welcome The Teacups Trio, a fantastic young harmony group who we last saw in June 2015. As you may already know, The Teacups formed as a foursome while studying at Newcastle and offer unadorned, gutsy singing of traditional and contemporary material. Not to be missed!
Tickets £11 (£8 club members), can be reserved by emailing via the form on our contact page. Bring your own drinks. Teas and coffees available in the kitchen.
In the meantime, the showcase guest at the song session on Friday 21 June is the popular local singer, melodeon player and guitarist Roger Gamble. A veteran of the folk and acoustic scene for over fifty years, Roger helped set up the first Norwich Folk Clubs at the Unthank Arms and the York Tavern and still regularly performs at sessions and clubs in Norfolk and Suffolk. Over the years Roger has happily absorbed influences from Dylan to Knopfler, from the Blues to the West Coast, but Norfolk song and humour are always likely to break through. This is a free session. Bring songs and tunes as well as your own drinks.
Jez Lowe has long been one of the UK’s busiest folk performers, playing for audiences the world over, either solo, (with guitar, cittern and harmonica accompaniment), or with his band The Bad Pennies. His Men At Words tour of North America saw Jez joining forces with James Keelaghan and Archie Fisher for much-acclaimed concerts across Canada and the USA. And as part of The Pitmen Poets (with Bob Fox, Benny Graham and Billy Mitchell), Jez has helped to rekindle the fire in the tradition of mining songs and culture of his native region in a series of sell out theatre performances around the UK.
Over the last couple of decades, the likes of Fairport Convention, The Dubliners, The Unthanks, Wizz Jones, The McCalmans, Mary Black, The Duhks, Bob Fox, The Young Uns, Enda Kenny, Cherish The Ladies, Tom McConville, The Clancys and scores more, have queued up to adopt his songs for their own repertoires. No wonder no less than Richard Thompson has called him, ‘The best singer songwriter to come out of the UK for a long time’.
Our events start at 8 pm. Tickets are now SOLD OUT. Bring your own drinks. Teas and coffee available in the kitchen.