The na-mara autumn 'tour' continues apace. The 4th October saw a much appreciated return to the excellent St Neots Folk Club after a 20 month gap. Roger and Patti are always very welcoming and appreciative of our material, as are the many club regulars. It was also very very pleasing to see some of our friends from the Cambridge Folk Club taking the trouble on a midweek night in October to drive over from Cambridge to come and see us.
The club room at the Priory Centre was reasonably full and Roger performed a brief set of rousing and popular songs, and really got the evening off to an excellent start. Other than that, there was just one other floor singer who performed, singing some interesting songs unaccompanied. This meant we had two good length sets to present our repertoire.
We had planned in advance to introduce some new material into this and the following night's performances. Here, for the first time in a folk club setting played The English Penny. The St Neots FC audience is a very keen singing audience. They joined in wonderfully with The English Penny and made it a lovely rendition. Determined to have it take it full place in our current set, we again played the relatively new The Silver Duro and, if I say so myself, we played it well.
The rest of the evening went really well and we were more than happy to oblige with an encore at the end - always an honour to be asked! We have been trying to get some decent video footage of recent gigs and we hope to have something to put on the web-site in due course.
Despite wrapping up reasonably quickly, it was an hour’s drive home – so it was late to bed and early to rise for work the next day. So, it was quite a challenge to cope with another late night the following evening.