The Six Bells Folk & Blues Club, Chiddingly, East Sussex
  • Home
  • About
  • 2025 Programme
  • Blog
  • Contact

The Six Bells Folk & Blues Club  Blog

It's all back to normal at the 6BF&B Club!

27/4/2022

0 Comments

 
Picture
Lia and Jeff
Picture
Clint Westwood
PictureDuncan and Stella
It was great to be back to the post Covid way of doing things. The sound desk, performers being introduced instead of just going on and the generally relaxed atmosphere of normality. Just like the old days when an evening at the Six Bells Folk & Blues Club was simply “a good night out”. The evening was further enhanced by some new performers and audience members. Thanks to Lisa, Jason and Heather for doing great work in promoting the club in recent weeks.

To start the evening off I sang “Here’s to the feet” a boisterous pirate ballad. Following this the Willie Nelson classic “Good Time Charlie's got the Blues” and finally “Otto the Nine Foot Giant Lizard”, a nonsense song that I wrote for my daughter all those years ago.

Then came the inimitable Lance who managed to come up with two songs in a row about dog poo. It seems this is something of an obsession in the Maleski household. Two songs featuring this subject in a set of three is probably a world first and remember – it happened in Chiddingly! Lastly, and to the relief of all, his final song “There’s no Going Back on Love” came as a pleasant finale. Lance spent most of the evening running the sound desk and helped in packing it away later. Thanks Lance.

Next up was Clive, he likes to find a song appropriate to the time of year and tonight was no exception. What better than the "Padstow May Song", an important part of the famous Padstow 'Obby 'Oss festival. I hardly liked to mention that we were still in April. This was followed by "The Path of Love" and lastly the Canned Heat classic “On the Road Again”. Clive also helped Lance with the sound desk.

Clive was followed by Helga. It’s nice to see Helga back and to hear her flute. She started with a piece by Bach and was then joined by Manus for some improv blues. Lastly, she accompanied Lisa and Jason on one of Lisa’s own songs “Fancy Man”.

Now came the turn of some very welcome newcomers, Duncan and Stella. Duncan played Mandolin and won the prize for the most colourful trousers of the evening. Stella played the accordion; it is so nice to have a change from our usual guitars. To start the 17c Irish “Planxty John Irwin” by the blind Celtic harper Turlock O’Carolan, then a Romanian traditional melody “Tintarouil de Laslovat”. These were followed by two French tunes “Gnossienne No.1” by Erik Satie (19c) and “Le Petit Bal de la Marine” by Francois Deguelt. Lovely.

Then came our resident duo Jason and Lisa, starting with the Tom Waits 1970’s classic “The Heart of Saturday Night”. Helga joined them for “Simple Smiling Face” (an early Jason song) followed by Dylan’s “Girl from the North Country” and last “Blackbird” by Sir Paul McCartney. Great harmonies as always.

Next, we had Manus our cool jazz-master. He gave us “Little Wing” by Jimi Hendrix, “I Ain’t Superstitious" by the Jeff Beck Group and lastly a guitar solo improvisation of Henri Mancini’s “Days of Wine and Roses”.

It was nice to see a return of Lia and Jeff, we saw them last summer when we played in the garden A father and daughter team, Lia sings and Jeff is a very fine guitarist. They started with “Happier Than Ever” by Billy Eilish, then “On my Mind” by Georgia Smith and “Don’t Know Why” by Norah Jones. Jeff ended the set with an instrumental “The Burren” a traditional Irish tune. It sounded great from where I was sitting. With a little reverb through the desk, it filled the room with a haunting Irish lilt, beautiful.

We were fortunate next to be entertained by a man with many names, tonight he was known as Clint Westwood and as the name would suggest, his music had a strong country influence but with his own twist. Clint started off with his interpretation of the Johnny Cash song “The Devil Went to Georgia” followed by John Denver’s “Grandma’s Featherbed”. Finally, a song I assume Clint wrote himself “Dead Man on a Train”. Slick, amusing and great guitar, Clint is a polished performer – we want to see him come back!

Finally, we had a song from a regular at the Six Bells and a keen Morris Man, Cliff. He sang for us an unaccompanied song “The Watercress Girl”. This rounded off the evening nicely.
Thanks to all of those that came to play, those who came along to watch and listen and to those that helped me pack everything away afterward. Next time our host is Keith, I hope to see you all again then.

Simon

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    The person that runs the evening writes the blog

    Archives

    December 2024
    October 2024
    September 2024
    August 2024
    July 2024
    June 2024
    May 2024
    April 2024
    March 2024
    February 2024
    January 2024
    December 2023
    November 2023
    October 2023
    September 2023
    August 2023
    July 2023
    June 2023
    May 2023
    April 2023
    March 2023
    February 2023
    January 2023
    December 2022
    November 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    December 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016

    Blogs 2015
    Blogs 2014
    Blogs 2013
    Blogs 2012
    Blogs 2011
    Blogs 2010


    Note - You can leave a comment - by click ing on the blue "comments" link at the top and bottom of the blog.


We hope to See you Soon at The Six Bells Folk & Blues CluB - Chiddingly, East Sussex


  • Home
  • About
  • 2025 Programme
  • Blog
  • Contact