C o n c e r t s - 2024
October 30th 2024 - Rob Barratt
Wrea Green Institute, Station Road,
Wrea Green, Preston, PR4 2PH
And now for something completely different - Rob Barratt is a Dudley-born comic poet, humourist and singer currently residing in North Cornwall.
His act combines clever word-play with satire, verse, song and audience participation. He deals with such important topics as second homes, squid, distressed furniture, data-driven education, Neanderthal politics and his relationship with potatoes but beneath the humour serious issues lurk.
He has appeared at folk, literature and arts festivals all over the UK and in Australia and Ireland.
He’s published three books: Men From Mars In ‘Bumping Cars’ (2010), ‘Distressed’ (2015) and ‘Earwhacks’ (2019), plus his CD ‘Rob Barratt Live at Boscastle Village Hall’.
“Not only clever but very funny!” Mike Harding
“His head is well and truly located in ‘Planet Barratt,’ clearly a place of wonderfully bizarre inspiration.“ Coventry Telegraph
“Mind-bending poetry” Twickfolk, London
“One of the funniest performers yet. His audience was with him from the moment he began!” Write Angle, Petersfield
Entrance £10 Doors 7:15 pm, start 8 pm - Support from Steve Canavan
October 16th 2024 - Vicki Swan & Jonny Dyer
Wrea Green Institute, Station Road,
Wrea Green, Preston, PR4 2PH
Vicki and Jonny are two of the most versatile musicians of the folk circuit today, a on stage – and now online, the duo are recognised for the high quality of their polished concerts; not only by their charismatic singing and playing but also by their involving, winning presence and easy rapport, their polished delivery that genuinely respects their listeners, and their lively, informed backstories.
Vicki is a multi-instrumentalist with more instruments than is interesting to list here, so the main ones are: Nyckelharpa, Scottish Smallpipes and Wooden Flute....
Composer and competition-winning guitar player, Jonny’s outstanding technical ability, coupled with a wide-ranging musical taste has made him
a tireless and forceful musical innovator. Jonny has been singing and playing choral music, soul, jazz and folk for as long as he can remember.
Vicki & Jonny can also be spotted at castles and properties around the country as medieval minstrels and at the other on the silver screen with recordings and appearances at the cinema for Holywood movies, Netflix, Channel 5, ITVx and the BBC!
Entrance £12 Doors 7:15 pm, start 8 pm - Support from Paul Whiteley
November 13th 2024 - Hunter Muskett
Wrea Green Institute, Station Road,
Wrea Green, Preston, PR4 2PH
Hunter Muskett is an acoustic/electric 3-piece playing distinctive original songs in a folky, bluesy sometimes Americana vein. Originally formed in 1969 they played at home and abroad until 1974 producing two, now collectable, albums: Every Time You Move with bassist Danny Thompson and then with Keith Relf of the Yardbirds who produced the album Hunter Muskett.
Doug Morter went on to carve out a career as the ‘go-to’ vocalist/guitarist of the folk-rock scene collaborating with the Albion Band, Maddy Prior, Jerry Donahue, and Richard Digance among many others. Since reforming in 2010 Hunter Muskett now tour again and have released two albums of new material: That Was Then This Is Now and Unafraid and Sober.
Entrance £12 Doors 7:15 pm,
start 8 pm
Support from Scolds Bridle