Club Info
Newport Folk Club
Blues to Bluegrass
Lindisfarne to Led Zeppelin (well OK no Led Zeppelin)
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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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