Live music in Westbourne

Very pleased with the gig at The Porterhouse in Westbourne, Dorset.

 

The pub is under new management and doing a great job at bringing in a selection of live acoustic music. It is a traditional local pub but with a really appreciative audience: that environment makes me happy to share my songs!

August and September were full of music festivals

Wickham Music Festival

Bankes Arms Studland Festival

Music and Merriment Festival at Spetisbury Rings

Purbeck Valley Folk Festival

Swanage Folk Festival

Long tradition of live music

There have been many changes in the last few years affecting the amount of live music venues in UK. One music venue that has stayed true to offering regular live music is The Boot Inn Weymouth.

Performing there again on Sunday 27 March – Easter Weekend; always good fun…come rain or shine!!

It is important for people to go and check out what local talent there is in their towns: down at the grassroots level.

BBC newsbeat quoted regarding UK’s small music venues “The British music industry is worth £3.8bn. All that money starts from when somebody takes their first step onto a grassroots venue stage.”

#KeepMusicLive

Three Lions Farncombe

Real Music, Real Ale, Really great live music pub: Shepherd Neame Pub of the Year 2015

Performing my singer songwriter set Friday, March 11th 2016. Musicians can always relay on the landlords to promote the gigs and rely on the audience to show up and have a good time.

Fun for all this weekend

One of the top UK live music festivals in October – bring on the Blues! Great praise to Steve Darrington for the great organisation of Swanage Blues Festival.

I will be performing at Tawny’s on Friday 2nd October 2015 – 2 sets: at 6pm AND 8.15pm. Always a great acoustic gig on The Isle of Purbeck; I really enjoy playing the blues!

Sounds about right!

Top festival that Purbeck Valley Folk Festival. A great place to test out some new acoustic fingerstyle arrangements. Many in the audience will be some of my good friends and it will be a joy to catch up with them.

I will be playing this Friday 28 Aug at 17:40 – 18:20 in the Long Barn. The festival is being held at a different location this year, so we will all be very interested to check out the new Purbeck Valley Farmhouse venue. Big up to Catherine Burke for all her hard work in organising everything.

Hats off to Wickham

Record crowds, great line up, lovely audience and perfect weather!

Good to see some old friends – and make lots of new ones! Big Ta to The Alistair Goodwin Band for getting me on the bill…..

Obviously the music…

The great location on The Isle of Purbeck, the vast array of beers, the huge audience…

…and getting to hang out with my great music friend, Jim Etherington. Pippa at The Bankes Arms invites us to play on the same bill just so we can catch up.

Very Pleased!

Seems my multi-skilling worked: #musician, MC, bouncer, audience directions, roadie, sound, PR, sweeper, babysitter…good fun!

Karen Laird did a great job organising so many local talented musicians to play…and we all got paid! Lovely Wimborne Minster Folk Festival

Always great to perform outdoors in Summer

Just can’t always guarantee it will be warm…better keep my hat on!

At The Boot Inn in Weymouth…always a great audience!