Calling all boaters interested in Folk Music

[tony collins]

Some of you might already know that the annual Folk on the Water Music festival will be touring the canals of South Warwickshire between 25th June and 10th July 2016. all the gigs are free entry (you have to buy your own beer)and all are at canalside pubs. Just turn up, moor and pile into the pub. A full list of gigs and locations are given below. The whole festival is to support "Zoe's Place" The only baby-specific hospice facility of its kind in the Midlands, a very worthwhile cause. the gigs are as follows:

 

25th - 26th June, The Cuttle Inn, Long Itchington, (GU)

30th June - 1st July, The Fusilier, Leamington Spa (GU)

2nd - 3rd July, The Cape of Good Hope, Warwick (GU)

9th - 10th July, The Folly Inn, Napton, (South Oxford)

 

Artists are coming from all over the country to take part and provide high quality entertainment for discerning music enthusiasts. Details of which artists will be at which venue will follow in a couple of days.

 

Regards to all

 

Tony Collins.

[Bugsworth Tippler]

An excellent venture. I wish you every success with it. Unfortunately I'll be travelling to the Bromsgrove Folk Festival from 'up North' on those dates.

 

Is the festival always in the same area?

[tony collins]

Yes. It is an excuse for the promoters to have a holiday on the boat and listen to some good music. I should add that at the first location it will co-icide with a cider festival with lots of craft ciders available for testing(!).

Edited May 20, 2016 by tony collins

[IanM]

Had a brilliant evening at the Admiral Nelson during last year's FOTW and then at the Folly a few days later.

 

Will try and get to the Folly this time around too.

[Kwacker]

I went to a couple of the venues, Napton and Long Itchington the year before last. The performers were excellent, but it was spoiled by the lairy behaviour of the local drinkers especially at The Folly.

I'd happily go again if they've sorted it.

[tony collins]

Kwacker, I've checked and since then the performers have moved out into the marquee at the Folly and moved pubs in Long Itchington, both of which seem to have solved the problem. No bother last year at all.

[Kwacker]

Excellent, thanks for the update, I'll try again

[tony collins]

An extra event has just been added to the Folk on the Water Festival. This is at the Boat Inn above Stockton Top Lock on the GU. It will take the form of a Singaround, where budding amateur musicians can come along and demonstrate their skills. So if you play, sing, can recite a poem, tell a joke, or otherwise entertain, or if you just want to listen, come along. As per the normal FOW practice, the event is free entry, but there will be a collection for the charity, Zoe's Place, the only baby specific hospice in the Midlands.

 

Venue: Boat Inn, Birdingbury Wharf, Rugby Rd, Birdingbury, Rugby CV23 8HQ (by bridge 21 GU)

Phone:01926 812657

Date: Thursday 7th July start 7.30pm

Plenty of good ales to be had and the pub are putting on a BBQ for the event,

Fancy it?