See Events section for more.

Thur 1 Sunrise- approximately 4.30 at the Longstone with Men of Wight

Sun 4 RUG Band (ukuleles) at the Ryde Bus Museum 14.00-16.00

April Highlights

Thur 3 Brighstone Barnacles and East Cowes Shanty at John Cheverton Centre Newport 19.00 Ticketed Event https://www.mountbatten.org.uk/Event/seashanty

Fri 4 Lindesfarne at the Medina Theatre Newport at 19.30. Tickets £33.50/£31.50 http://medinatheatre.co.uk

Sat 5 When I Paint My Masterpiece- journey into the genius of Bob Dylan with Hugh Wright Dick Taylor Art and Rick and friends at Quay Arts Centre Newport. Opens 18.00 performance starts 19.30

Fri 11 Music and conversation with Ian A Anderson at Medina Bookshop. £12.50. Booking essential http://medinabookshop.com

Wed 23 St George’s Day bash with The Crew at the Star Coffee and Ale House Ryde 19.00

Sat 26 One Night in Dublin at Shanklin Theatre 19.30. £ 26.50 http://shanklintheatre.com

Some highlights. See Events page and Clubs page for more.

Steve Love, Andy Roberts, Amy Joliffe and The AnyWhens at Kashmir Cafe on Saturday 8th, Shtum and Second Time Around on Sunday.

Advance notice for March

Happy New Year!

Fri 17 JC and Angelina Fun Trio Bugle Inn Brading 20.00-22.00

Sat 25 JC and Angelina at the Portland Inn Gurnard 19.30

Fri 31 Storytelling Tales of Darkness and Dread at CHOYD Yarmouth PO41 ONU 18.30 for 19.00. £8

Morris News

The morris display on Boxing Day at the Dairyman’s daughter was ‘the best since lockdown’ according to Anne Onlooker.

Wed 4 Green and Matthew’s Midwinter Revels at Quay Arts, Newport, 19.30 for 20.00. £12 in advance, £15 on door

Sun 15 Quay Folk Club Christmas Special with Vicki Swan and Jonny Dyer and The Cabal in support, 19.00. Christmas jumpers compulsory!!

After approximately 12 years of sterling service for the benefit of the Isle of Wight folk world, Debbie has decided to pass folkonwight to a new custodian -see below.

Debbie set up the site to help publicise our folk sessions and so that the many IoW folk music fans who are not on facebook could keep up to date. I am sure you would all like to thank Debbie and her assistant John Bentley for the time and expertise they have given on behalf of us all. They are both still admins for the Folk Music on the Isle of Wight facebook group and Debbie has kindly agreed to help me with emails.

I have decided to adopt a pen name -‘K’, for reasons which I am sure some of you will appreciate. I don’t promise to do updates as speedily as before, so send in information in good time, please.

Email – folkonwight@aol.co.uk

I have been making some mainly cosmetic changes while learning about the site, I hope you like them.

Interesting events in November – Lots more in the Events section

Sat 2 The Annual Playford Ball, East Cowes Town Hall, 14.00-17.00 . £8 on the door. Tea/coffee/squash provided, bring anything else. Wear what you like, period costume or modern posh is ideal. They walk through all the dances

Thur 7 An evening with Brighstone Barnacles at the Sun Inn, Hulverstone, 19.00 start

Thur 7 Have fun learning to dance the morris with Men of Wight (women welcome) at Newport Methodist Hall, Sea Street, Newport,  20.15 to 21:45.  Contact bagman@menofwight.org.uk

Fri 8 to Sun 10 Wight Walk and Fiddle Weekend, Northcourt House, Shorwell. Details bobhuxtable@btinternet.com

Sat 9 and Sun 10 Donal O’Riain with JC on guitar and Tom Ferguson on bodhran, Monkton Arts, 19.00. £15 http://ww.monktonarts.co.uk

Sat 16 Heidi Talbot and Boo Hewardine at Quay Arts Centre, 20.00. £16

Sun 17 Medina Tattoo -The Crew are taking part

Sun 17 Quay Folk Club at Quay Arts, Newport. Guests: Hunter Muskett. 19.00 Donations

Stan Boyd (Stan the Man) sadly passed away this week. Stan was always a popular performer at The Dairyman’s Folk Session . His Irish lilt and humour made many a song special. Stan was to be found in a number of folk bands, too, alongside Den Hillier and Andy Gibbs. He was part of ‘Well Oiled’, ‘Andy’s All Stars’ and ‘Withyskinners’.

Here is a message from Men of Wight morris side.

Want to keep fit this winter?  Don’t want to pay gym fees and get all sweaty?

Try dancing, or more to the point try Morris dancing!

Dancing has been recommend by the British Medical Association for many years. Morris is great fun, a very social and is a quite gentle, balanced form of exercise that stimulates not only your body but your mind as well.  

The Men of Wight Morris practice once a week, Thursday evenings – come and have a go. (Don’t be put off by the “Men” title, we are both sexes).

We welcome anyone over the age of 18, no previous experience of any kind of dance is needed, we give all the tuition you need.

Send us an email to get more details or just pop along to see what we are up to.  Practices start 17th October, Newport Methodist Hall, Sea Street, Newport,  8:15 to 9:45. 

bagman@menofwight.org.uk

The funeral for Brian Reeves will be on Friday the 4th October, at 1.30pm at Newport Crematorium. If you are able to attend then please be there by 1.15pm.

This will be followed by a wake at GG’s, down Staplers Road, 2 till 5.30 to dance, drink, sing and to celebrate Brian’s life.