Morris Folk Club: Our Folk Club is on the last Tuesday of the month, 7.30pm-10.30pm-ish.
** LATE VENUE CHANGE for March 2023 folk club!
Morris Folk Club for March is Tuesday, 28th. 7.30pm-10pm-ish,
in the basement of Ryan's N16 bar (https://www.ryansn16.co.uk/), 181 Stoke Newington Church Street N16 0UL.
Free entry, as usual.
Come join us, sing, play, listen, enjoy! **
More information on the Morris Folk Club page.
(Lately we've been holding it where we rehearse, at St Barnabas Mission upper hall (entrance in courtyard), Shacklewell Row, Dalston E8 2EA.)
Upcoming events: For future events, keep an eye on our gigs page, or sign up to our emailing list.
More about us
Since 2008 we have been coming together to learn sea-shanties, murder ballads, protest songs, work songs, love melodies, folkified non-folk songs, and good old knees-up tunes, from all across the centuries and from all over the world. We learn tunes and harmonies by ear (ability to read music is not required).
Our repertoire reflects the inclusive, internationalist, outward-looking nature of folk music: treasuring songs which have their roots in the tradition of local and national communities but which belong to anyone and everyone, embracing songs from one another's traditions, and understanding that anything that has roots is living, growing and changing.
Our thirty members, from all over London and from all kinds of backgrounds (all are welcome), are led by choir director Michelle Woolfenden, and range from seasoned singers to those who hadn't sung since school.
And we don't just sing: our choir ensemble can include banjos, guitars, fiddles, concertina, mandolin, ukelele, recorder, cello, shruti box and a host of random percussion instruments.
Interested in joining?
Our choir is currently fairly full - but if you can sing or would like to, or can pick a guitar, fiddle a fiddle, blow a harmonica or tap a bodhran, contact us to see how things stand at the moment. We are currently full for both male and female voices.
Our thirty members, from all over London and from all kinds of backgrounds (all are welcome), are led by choir director Michelle Woolfenden, and range from seasoned singers to those who hadn't sung since school.
And we don't just sing: our choir ensemble can include banjos, guitars, fiddles, concertina, mandolin, ukelele, recorder, cello, shruti box and a host of random percussion instruments.
Interested in joining?
Our choir is currently fairly full - but if you can sing or would like to, or can pick a guitar, fiddle a fiddle, blow a harmonica or tap a bodhran, contact us to see how things stand at the moment. We are currently full for both male and female voices.
If you aren't able to be part of the choir for now, everyone is welcome at our Morris Folk Club, we always encourage people interested in the choir to come along to folk club, where they will get an idea of what we're like and what we're about...
(We are active online and on social media, and in public performance, so choir members should expect to appear in publicly-shared photos and audio/video recordings of the choir.)
Rehearsals: We meet weekly in term-time on Tuesdays except on Folk Club nights (last Tuesday of the month). We have moved from online rehearsals back to our location in St Barnabas Mission upper hall, in Dalston (unfortunately there is no disabled access to the hall). (More rehearsal info here, for members.)