“WINTER FOLK” Canopy Theatre, Hungate Church Beccles Saturday 14th December 7.30 p.m.
A 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
Silver Moon are husband and wife duo Martin & Sarah Lovett. Martin was a member of the 90’s folk-rock band Instant Chaos, and has also performed solo, in a number of duos and collaborated with many artists including The Lore Breakers,Penny & Stuart Mack, and Paul Gillings. He sings, plays guitar, tenor guitar, guitarlele and percussion and writes songs (including the “Anglian Tales”, project telling stories of real life, myths and legends of East Anglia, which was premiered at the Beccles Charter Day celebrations in 2017).
Sarah sings and plays percussion. She also plays flute and writes songs and stories many of which have been published in national and regional magazines, including “Woman’s Weekly” and “Let’s Talk”.
Martin & Sarah have been playing as a duo since 1999 with a wide range of styles from folk to Americana and pop, having performed at many venues across Suffolk as well as at fringe events at a number of folk festivals (including the Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival) and Lowestoft’s “Gig on the Green”.
The Goslings – husband and wife Dave & Dimmie – are very active across the folk scene in Suffolk and Norfolk, singing and playing guitar and ukulele, drawing on a wide range of styles. This will be their second appearance at the Canopy Theatre (and coincidentally their second time sharing a seasonal show with Silver Moon).
This is a “pay what you can” event (with a default price of £5) with tickets available from www.ticketsource.co.uk/martello-promotions and the Ticketsource telephone box office 0333 666 3366