Because they know how significant French music is to our repertoire, our good friends Al and Sue Hewson, who run the Baldock and Letchworth Folk Club, invited us to support the Sheffield-based band Heretique – who, like us, also focus very strongly on French material.
We certainly enjoyed their material - which is more instrumental and less vocally oriented than ours - and from their feedback, they seemed to enjoy ours. They certainly play a marvellous array of squeezable, blowable and turnable (Hurdy-Gurdy, what else!!) instruments and do some excellent three-part vocal harmonies.
There was a definite sense of an audience bolstered by French music enthusiasts and French teachers – so I hope they felt French with my Middlesbrough accent was decent enough!