Cambridge Folk Club 16th March 2007

There are talented clubs and talented clubs - this is a club full of talent. Rob and I made the long journey to do just two numbers but it was worth it. First, we got to see a lot of new performers who we hadn't come across before - too many to mention but the stand out for me was a cover version of a Karine Polwart song by an exceptionally good female singer - and second, the organisers were kind enough to offer us the opportunity to return and do a 25 minute slot to finish the night off on June 29th -which is a chance we will jump at.

Such was the demand to play, that there were regular slots of 10 minutes from 8.00 - 10.30pm, with a raffle for Red Nose Day in bewteen (which Rob went and won!). Then the evening was finished off by the very talented band Tu, finishing the night off. Tu comprise Carolyn Causton (ex Shave the Monkey) and Shani Eliraz - a very talented multi-instrumentalist. It was nice to do a CD swap with Shani.

We did an old favourite of ours, 'The Maid of Culmore', and we followed this with the French sea-shanty 'Three Bonny Ships' which seemed to go down well and goes tto support the notion that our French project is really winning friends. We got some really excellent feedback afterwards, which made the unusually incident free journey back to St Albans that much more bearable. 'In flight entertainment' was the excellent French Canadian band Genticorum.

Back to fairly hard rehearsals now for our seesion in Wewun Garden City next Sunday and then for our first full booking at Reading Folk Club the Sunday afterwards. We are very excited about both opportunities.