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28 Feb 2011:  AT LAST - BUY WITH PayPal.
We are now able to accept internet card payments with PayPal.
What was previously called the Merchandising section is now snappily re-titled "Shop". Click onto the page concerned and get those numbers whirring!

We still accept sterling cheques by post, if you prefer to order in the old fashioned way by printing off our order form.

At gigs we happily accept cash or cheques, but not cards.

8 Feb 2011:  NEW CD - "GOD SPEED THE PLOUGH" - OUT NOW.
"GOD SPEED THE PLOUGH" -- the CD of the new show, "The Victorian Farmer's Year In Song", is now out on the Fledg'ling Record label - FLED 3084.

The album contains a selection of traditional songs arranged and adapted for the show, and apart from two instrumental tracks, the performances all feature solo voice and squeezebox, enhanced with some big chorus harmonies by the artiste and Sally Kirkpatrick - a repeat of the winning formula unleashed on "Carolling & Crumpets".

You can send for it now via the MERCHANDISING pages - and watch out for online payments with PayPal going live in early March.

TRACKS:
The First of May / The Thrashing Machiners / The Wassailing Bowl /
Peas. Beans, and Oats / Bean Setters & Bean Planting / The Carter's Song /
Sheeover Birds / Polly's Father / Drink, Boys, Drink / The Oxen Ploughing /
The Sweet Month of May / Speed The Plough / God Speed The Plough /
The Grumbling Farmers / What's The Life Of A Man? / The Farmer's Boy.

9 Jan 2011:  HAPPY NEW YEAR!
A Happy New Year to all our readers! And I don't know what it's been like where you are, but we've been having a bit of weather lately.

A total of four scheduled gigs had to be cancelled because of the recent wintry conditions, so I offer my apologies to the good people of Durham, Whitstable, Colchester, and Byfield for my dismal non-appearance. There comes a point where sanity and common sense overwhelm the inbuilt showbiz urge for the show to go on!

I hope replacement dates will be in the diary very soon - Colchester Folk Club have already slotted me in in February, and others are in the pipeline.

As always, the "Forthcoming Gigs" section of this website will keep you up to date with the latest information.

17 Oct 2010:  DENNINGTON VILLAGE HALL
I gather that I was advertised to appear at Dennington Village Hall in Suffolk last night - October 16th. I was offered a gig here several months ago, but as it was very close, both in time and geographically, to other appearances in the area, I understood that this date had been postponed, and we were waiting to arrange another gig at Dennington at a more suitable time.

As far as I was concerned, this had all been quite clearly settled some months ago. I am very concerned to hear that my name was still being advertised for this concert, and can only offer my apologies to anybody who went along expecting to see me.