We made sure we were on the road bright and early to travel across Hertfordshire to play once more at the excellent Stortfolk. Organisers Jon and Hilary McNamara (no relation) and Stortfolk club members have always been most welcoming and appreciative of our work, and it was great to be seeing them all again.
An early arrival allowed us a brief time to have a wander around the centre of this very pretty town before the folk club got underway. After about 30 minutes exploring we returned to the car, picked up our instruments and made it over to the club.
Stortfolk is held in a cosy, garden facing, room in the British Legion club which filled up steadily to provide an intimate space for the evening. A number of club regulars provided a variety of folk and songs and whistle tunes, and Jon played one of his speciality music hall songs. All very enjoyable.
Our own set proved very popular and we had a lot of great feedback through the evening. Indeed, one of the club members quietly asked me at the end of the evening whether I was aware that we were her favourite folk band. It really doesn't get better than that and makes all the hard work writing and rehearsing very worthwhile!
We mentioned that a lot of our material that evening would be on our forthcoming album and Jon very generously asked us if we would return to the club later in the year to promote and make the album available to club members. This is something we would of course be delighted to do.
Many thanks to Jon, Hilary and all at Stortfolk for again being such wonderful hosts. We look forward to returning later in the year.