Winter Folk at The Canopy Theatre

“WINTER FOLK” Canopy Theatre, Hungate Church Beccles  Saturday 14th December 7.30 p.m.          

 Winter FolkA special seasonal show to raise funds for the Hungate Church weekly foodbank. Experienced local artists will feature original, contemporary and traditional songs for Christmas and the winter season, set against the backdrop of a full size Nativity scene and lit, decorated, Christmas trees!

Peter and Jane are a folk duo from Suffolk, who love making music. Their original songs and tunes are influenced by the broad spectrum that is the folk genre and their performances always include a joyful selection of traditional material, arranged to suit the duo’s voices and instruments. These instruments include flute, whistles, guitar, banjo and small pipes.

Whether playing Scottish airs, Irish jigs & reels, or singing bluegrass favourites, traditional ballads or one of their own songs Peter and Jane have an accomplished and thoughtful style centred around close harmony between instruments and voices.

They recently performed at the inaugural Bungay Folk Festival and supported Canadian singer/songwriter Dan McKinnon when he came to the Canopy Theatre in Beccles in October. Their set for “Winter Folk” will obviously contain different material to that performance. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClj0s2I7uFWT4pTiDnIWz7A  

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Wickham Skeith Country Dance Club

A new Country Dance Club in Wickham Skeith, near Diss, Suffolk


I have danced all my life, various forms of dance including ballet, jazz, stage, tap, clog dancing, Argentinian tango and of course country dancing. I started calling for our own band about 35 years ago while our children were young and also called at times for various other bands. I formed my own ladies north west clog team, Black Bull Clog and my husband Stephen played melodeon for Blackmore Morris for many years. I wrote some dances for the clog team and taught the dances. I enjoy teaching the dances and very much enjoy calling as I love to see people enjoying dancing and having fun.
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 We moved to Suffolk about 3 years ago now and I have missed dancing and calling. So when I got asked to call for a barn dance in the village I was very keen to do it. Those who attended absolutely loved it and asked when I would do it again. So that’s when I had the thought of running a country dance club myself. I have helped call at Theydon Bois Country dance club and Thaxted in the past so I knew what I was letting myself in for!  I would like this club to be open to everyone of any ability and age. This is going to be informal, friendly and great fun.

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Alden & Patterson at The Canopy Theatre

CHRISTINA ALDEN & ALEX PATTERSON – Canopy Theatre, Hungate Church Beccles   

Saturday 23rd November  8.00 p.m.

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Christina Alden & Alex Patterson are multi-instrumentalists and songwriters from East Anglia. Their music is rich with intertwining harmony, sensitive accomplished musicianship and a creative song-writing style that is both delicate and moving. Deeply inspired by the world around them, they have a keen environmental eye to craft stories with the natural world at its heart, reflecting on the relationship between humans and the wild.

They have toured extensively in the UK and Europe, including a twenty-three-date concert hall tour with Show of Hands (including Union Chapel and St David’s Hall Cardiff), a show at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall for Celtic Connections, headline and main stage performances at some of the UK’s most prestigious folk festivals and performances in Norway, Belgium, France and Ireland.

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The Chorus Cup

The Chorus Cup is back

Sunday 27th October, clocks back day, it’s the ‘Blaxhall Chorus Cup’ from 2pm to late.

Any group of singers, at least three but no more than six.

Music and song beforehand and afterwards makes a great party.

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