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ABOUT US...
We usually meet on the first Sunday of the month doors open at 7pm, finishing around 10.15pm. Singing starts at 7.30ish
EXPECT....
intense and intimate nights with great singers and musicians!
Our residents are Sarah and Ian and the 7 piece harmony group Shötley Crüe, followed by floor singers. Put your name down on the list at the door if you want to sing.
Our guest singers and musicians will do 2 sets, the first starting shortly after 8pm.
LOCATION
We are upstairs at The Castle pub, 280 Crystal Palace Road, East Dulwich, SE22 9JH
The pub is a 20 mins walk from East Dulwich station or get a bus to Crystal Palace Road. Parking is a lot easier on Sunday!
ENTRANCE is usually £10 or £12, pay on the door.
CONTACT
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Our events are organised by and are responsibility of Dulwich Folk, not The Castle Pub
Monthly Folk night in Dulwich
At the Castle Pub, Crystal Palace Road
On 5 May at 7.30
VRI
Amazingly this phenomenal group, the best Welsh group I have ever heard, is coming to Dulwich! Aneirin, Jordan and Patrick play cello and fiddle. Half the time they play music sublimely; in the other half they sing in Welsh as well.
“VRi are not just three stunning musicians; they summon up a magic chemistry that is absolutely bewildering, mesmerising and thoroughly addictive." Mick Tems , Folk Wales.
When I saw VRI for the first time last year it was one of those rare gigs that change your understanding of what folk music is and can be, up there with the first time I heard the Watersons, and the Chieftains, so I feel very privileged to be able to bring VRI to a South London audience.
VRI are Jordan Price Williams (cello, vocals), Aneurin Jones (violin, vocals) and Patrick Rimes (viola, violin and vocals). They draw their creative inspiration from the incredible story of the oppression of Wales’ traditional music by the Methodist chapels of the 18th and 19th centuries and the suppression of the Welsh language.
VRï’s music takes hold of the remaining strands of tradition and the music subsumed by the chapels, adds to them by discovering long lost tunes and songs and blending them into a joyous celebration of Welsh identity, sung in the Welsh language, combining the energy of a rowdy pub session with the style and finesse of the Viennese string quartet.
All three members of the band are crossover musicians . One one hand they are all members of 20 strong Pentevig known for their mash-ups of Welsh folk and rock, funk, rap and electro on the other they have represented Wales at the Last Night of the Proms !
Check VRi out at www.vri.cymru
Entrance tonight is £15.
JUNE 2
DEBBIE ARMOUR
Debbie is half of Burd Ellen but tonight armed only with a shruti box she is expecting to sing mainly traditional songs in Scots Gaelic and English. She will be supported by the Dulwich Scottish music group usually seen on our "after Burns" night.
JULY 7
BITTER BLOSSOMS
Take three female voices, one from England, one from Bulgaria and one from Norway. Add folk song , add harmonies. A unique sound!