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John Harrison, Paolo Pacifico - Silver City (Mance Lispcomb)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwDw8H_bKs0

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John Harrison - Bee's Wing (Richard Thompson)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJV2b0RyrP4

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John Harrison - Ladies and Gentlemen and Ramblin' Blues (Robert Johnson arr. JH)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jePTIp8ZOs

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Folk Club 113

The first virtual Folk Club Bonn

(That surely must be an oxymoron! Up until now, Folk Club meets have always been virtuous,

but never virtual)

I hope you are all sitting comfortably

This time a little quieter than usual........

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!!!!!!!

Mesdames et monsieurs,

meine sehr verehrte Damen und Herren......

Bonsoir et Bienvenue,

Guten Abend und Willkommen

Good evening and a very warm welcome indeed 

to Folk Club Bonn number 113 (virtual edition)

Let us begin....

Welcome to a new "normal" which will hopefully be fleeting and soon forgotten, 

so that we can revert to pumping the flesh and warbling the vocal chords.

Steve Perry has arranged a veritable virtual and virtuous musical delight for you  this evening in lockdown if you will please excuse the verbosity and stop grinning behind your face masks.

Without further ado, let us kick the programme off with a song that could never be more topical than on this particular day, an a cappella song by Dave Webber: “Hail! Hail! The First of May”

Willkommen in die neue "Normalität", die hoffentlich vergänglich und bald vergessen sein wird damit wir zum Klatschen und Singen und schöne Musik hören. zurückkehren können.
Steve Perry hat für Sie ein wahrhaftig virtuelles Musikvergnügen zusammengestellt ,wenn Sie heute Abend im Lockdown hinter Ihren Gesichtsmasken aufhören zu grinsen.
Beginnen wir das Programm kurzerhand mit einem Lied, das nicht aktueller sein könnte als an diesem Tag, einem A-cappella-Lied von Dave Webber: “Hail! Hail! The First of May”

Chorus: So, Hail! Hail! The First of May-o!

For it is the first summer’s day-o!

Cast your cares and fears away,

Drink to the old horse on the First of May!

Wintertime has gone and past-o,

Summertime has come at last-o,

We shall sing and dance the day

And follow the hobby horse that brings us the May.

Chorus 

Bluebells they have started to ring-o,

And true love, it is the thing-o

Love on any other day

Is never quite the same as on the first of May!

Chorus   

Never let it come to pass -o

We should fail to raise a glass-o!

Unto those now gone away

And left us the 'obby 'orse that brings the May!

Chorus   

Repeat first verse and chorus 

Here is a link to the song from Jon Boden's web page "A FolkSong a Day"

http://www.afolksongaday.com/?p=2817

Because we cannot meet in person we have put together from our YouTube archive and from living room/home studio presentations of John Hurd and our featured artist David Blair, a sort of virtual folk club.

You are invited to log into our website

http://folk-club-bonn.blogspot.de

and click on the Virtual Folk Club 113 option to open the program.

Enjoy!

Your Folk Club Team

Liebe Folk Club Freunde,
Da wir uns nicht persönlich treffen können, haben wir aus unserem YouTube-Archiv und aus Wohnzimmer-/Hausstudio-Präsentationen von John Hurd und unserem vorgesehenen Featured Artist David Blair eine Art virtuellen Folk-Club zusammengestellt.
Sie sind herzlich eingeladen, sich auf unserer Website einzuloggenhttp://folk-club-bonn.blogspot.de
und klicken Sie auf die Option Virtual Folk Club 113, um das Programm zu öffnen.
Viel Vergnügen!
Ihr Folk-Club-Team

Virtual Concerts During Coronavirus-COVID-19

Dear Folk Clubbers,

you have not had much opportunity to listen to music recently, so we were all the more grateful to have such a wonderful ten-year anniversary folk club edition with not only Four Fiddles as featured artists, but ten fiddles accompanying Jock Stewart, what now seems like way, way back in February, as the world seemed to be still relatively in order. With hindsight, we were very blessed indeed, with what we know now to have been able to have staged such an event at Dotty's in Dottendorf.

Some of the wonderful people who played on that evening though have managed to find inventive ways around the live musical embargo imposed upon us during the Coronavirus lockdown.

One example last Sunday was our good friend Cynthia Nickschas and Friends, who with the aid of Marco of "Scooter Joey" a new shop in the Koblenzerstrasse in Bad Godesberg adjacent to the post office, managed to stage a live concert on YouTube for their many fans. You can listen to it here, and hopefully, remind yourself of what you are missing:

Here you can join them for their live tone check in the middle of their unusual virtual performance and most of their set:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhlmn9X0_DI&feature=youtu.be&t=1181

Other local folk clubbers have been able to perform live music under the auspices of Bonn Live,
https://www.bonnlive.com/
 for example, Dennis Ledermann who played atop the Wetteronline building in Bonn Graurheindorf and even performed his own self-penned song entitled "Folk Club Bonn" which he premiered at the 10th-anniversary bash back in February. Many thanks for that one Dennis!

You can listen to this here:

https://youtu.be/g1_aHNbzI9k?t=1054


Makeda, like Dennis, also made a cameo appearance at the anniversary folk club in February and you can relive some of her Bonn Live performance on top of the Post Tower in Bonn:

https://youtu.be/h0bfgaCAmeA

So, these are indeed hard musical times, but there is light beginning to flash down towards the end of the tunnel. Thanks to everyone out there who is chipping in and helping everyone else to keep the music playing during these strange times. Stay safe and keep smiling in all your surreal musical minds, and hope to catch you soon.




(All photos courtesy of John Hurd 3SongsBonn)