New venue is launched for all things folk!
NATIONAL Forest Folk are set to welcome a musical duo to their new venue in Moira.
Moira Village Hall, on Daybell Road, is the new venue for all things folk in the National Forest and duo Winter Wilson will be performing on Friday, May 10.
Due to the change of venue it means there is no bar so gig goers are being asked to bring their own bottle.
“Apart from the exciting fact that we are in a new venue, there will be no bar, and so you are invited/ encouraged to come with a supply of your preferred drinks, and cups, so that you can self-cater all night,” organisers said.
“If you forget or under-estimate what you need there is a Co-op just a few hundred yards down the road.
“We look forward to welcoming you, and are so excited to be introducing our loyal audience to such a musical phenomenon.”
One half of Winter Wilson, Kip Winter was born in West Germany and raised in Holland, Germany, England, Scotland, and also lived in France for a while.
Music always featured in her life, and she learned to sing harmonies on long family car journeys back to the Outer Hebrides every summer.
Having learned piano from age 9, she took up the flute and has subsequently “pootled”, as she puts it, on guitar, tenor guitar, bass, piano accordion and tenor ukulele.
But mainly she loves to s ing - anything from classical and jazz to soul, but especially folk and blues.
Dave Wilson is a much more local lad, born in Sleaford, Lincolnshire.
He bought his first (Yamaha) guitar aged 17 and taught himself to play from the David Bowie song book.
He started writing songs regularly when he began attending Boston Folk Club in the early 1980s and hasn’t looked back since.
Dave’s songs have been covered by musicians all over the UK and beyond, the best known being Storm Around Tumbledown, which has been recorded by Vin Garbutt and Anthony John Clarke amongst others.
Tickets are available from: www. nationalforestfolk.com
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