Newport Folk Club

Club Info

Newport Folk Club
Blues to Bluegrass

Lindisfarne to Led Zeppelin (well OK no Led Zeppelin)

Should I try a Folk Club ?

Club Rules

  • When singing fingers may be stuck in ear but nowhere else
  • Whenever possible songs should be started and finished in the same quay
  • No song to have more than 25 verses
  • Bagpipes are banned from indoor use
  • Banjos by appointment
  • Practise in your armchair but don’t bring it with you
  • Prior warning must be given if songs have more than 10 fatalities
  • Titanic songs banned especially the one with names and addresses
  • We like a good chorus, starting and finishing together preferred
  • Bohdran players welcome providing they use beaters supplied by the club

(Reg Patent 103457 to Razor sharp beaters Inc)

  • We like melodeons but they don’t give of much heat when set alight
  • Standard required = 3 chord trick with minor relative, or relative minor if you've no small siblings
  • Newport Folk Club has a constitution unless we could never do this
  • Morris dancers welcome, bring your own pavement
  • No stick dances allowed indoors
  • Tatty coats to be removed when near electrical appliances
  • P A always available with at least 1 deaf soundman occasionally 2
  • Artists once a month and none of them can paint

(Check website for details)

  • Crisps may be consumed in the club room providing they are soggy and silent

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Fb Maj Just like Newport Folk Club a great place for debate