Jim Causley and Bill Murray come to Widecombe for a proper Sailing Club doo on March 22nd 2019. This is going to be a ground-breaking gig for us as, for the first time, we're going to be in the Cafe on the Green on a Friday evening. Hells bells!!! Can you stand the excitement?
Jim Causley is known to many of us (if not all of us) partly because he's a lovely local chappy, based in South Zeal, and therefore performs a lot in our part of the country (including at Widecombe Fair) but mainly because he came to the Sailing Club in December 2016. Everybody loved his show so we decided to ask him back and this time, we asked Bill to come along as well.
Bill Murray has been singing songs from the northern slopes of Dartmoor for over fifty years. Songs about country life, most of them humorous, learnt from older generations of singers at get-togethers in village halls, fairs and inns. Songs like Widecombe Fair, Tavystock Goozie Vayre, The Bellringing and Down ‘pon Ole Dartmoor. He is a founder member of The Dartmoor Folk Festival and plays many of the old dance tunes on the English concertina at pub sessions all over the Moor. He also recites many very funny dialect stories and anecdotes from Devonshire and beyond that he has gathered over the years, from various sources. He has performed many times on television and radio as a singer, musician and storyteller, as well as at Widecombe Fair with Jim.
And for those who don't know Jim: More than simply a folk-singer, multi award winning singer-songwriter, musician and proud Devonian, he is an all-round entertainer and during the past decade Causley has been nominated no less than six times for a BBC Radio 2 Folk Award. Last year he was nominated as Singer of the Year at the 2017 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, he won the Spiral Earth Singer of the Year award in 2014, presented his own folk music show on BBC Radio Devon and in 2015 he worked with BBC TV historian Dr Sam Willis to create the music for his show ‘Highwaymen, Outlaws and Villains‘ and was asked to perform his song about Dartmoor tin mining ‘Pride of the Moor‘ on BBC TV’s Countryfile – Dartmoor Special.
We haven't discussed the menu for that evening yet, and we don't know the nitty-gritty about pricing, but if you'd like to come to this do - no commitment yet - please let me know and I'll add you to the list, which means you'll be emailed nearer the time with all the relevant information. The contacts page (top right) is probably the easiest way to do this.
Jim Causley is known to many of us (if not all of us) partly because he's a lovely local chappy, based in South Zeal, and therefore performs a lot in our part of the country (including at Widecombe Fair) but mainly because he came to the Sailing Club in December 2016. Everybody loved his show so we decided to ask him back and this time, we asked Bill to come along as well.
Bill Murray has been singing songs from the northern slopes of Dartmoor for over fifty years. Songs about country life, most of them humorous, learnt from older generations of singers at get-togethers in village halls, fairs and inns. Songs like Widecombe Fair, Tavystock Goozie Vayre, The Bellringing and Down ‘pon Ole Dartmoor. He is a founder member of The Dartmoor Folk Festival and plays many of the old dance tunes on the English concertina at pub sessions all over the Moor. He also recites many very funny dialect stories and anecdotes from Devonshire and beyond that he has gathered over the years, from various sources. He has performed many times on television and radio as a singer, musician and storyteller, as well as at Widecombe Fair with Jim.
And for those who don't know Jim: More than simply a folk-singer, multi award winning singer-songwriter, musician and proud Devonian, he is an all-round entertainer and during the past decade Causley has been nominated no less than six times for a BBC Radio 2 Folk Award. Last year he was nominated as Singer of the Year at the 2017 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, he won the Spiral Earth Singer of the Year award in 2014, presented his own folk music show on BBC Radio Devon and in 2015 he worked with BBC TV historian Dr Sam Willis to create the music for his show ‘Highwaymen, Outlaws and Villains‘ and was asked to perform his song about Dartmoor tin mining ‘Pride of the Moor‘ on BBC TV’s Countryfile – Dartmoor Special.
We haven't discussed the menu for that evening yet, and we don't know the nitty-gritty about pricing, but if you'd like to come to this do - no commitment yet - please let me know and I'll add you to the list, which means you'll be emailed nearer the time with all the relevant information. The contacts page (top right) is probably the easiest way to do this.