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Folk club ready for an encore
2:20pm Friday 20th March 2009
THE famous Trowbridge music venue, the Village Pump Folk Club, is to reopen and start hosting live music once again.
The venue, which gave rise to the Trowbridge Village Pump Festival now held in Southwick every summer, once hosted some of the greatest names in folk, blues, comedy and jazz. In the 1970s it hosted Ralph McTell, Pig Sty Hill Light Orchestra, Tannahill Weavers, Long John Baldry, Fred Wedlock and even Stephane Grappelli.
But after being closed for years, it is to reopen on April 3 with a grand opening night featuring some of the best performers who regularly played there in the old days.
After that it will be open every Friday night and a full list of acts are already booked to play including Fred Wedlock, the Cleverly Brothers, Marton Carthy and Show of Hands.
The old mill building behind The Lamb Inn in Mortimer Street, where the club used to be held, has been refurbished and the organisers hope the old spirit of the Village Pump will be brought back to the place.
Tickets can be bought in advance or on the door. Contact John Alderslade on 01225 707346 or Pete MacGregor on 01225 865107 for tickets or to book open mic and floor spots.
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moonrakin wurzel, TROWBRIDGE says...
9:12pm Fri 20 Mar 09
Vox Pop wrote:Seconded - the WT seems to have great difficulty getting stories correct.
The usual shoddy standard of WT journalism, and especially copy by Charley Morgan. The Village Pump Festival is of course held annually in Wingfield and not in Southwick.
The WT also indulges regularly in cringeworthy toadying on stories relating to local councils and the NHS..... the arbitrary and unexplained deletion of comments is also telling - but I suppose, the populace gets the paper it deserves......
Pat Drinkwater with John Alderslade at the renovated old mill building
Village Pump founder Pat Drinkwater with the original pump
Pat Drinkwater, John Alderslade and fellow founder Alan Briars in Seventies band Stonegallows
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Vox Pop, Trowbridge says...
2:57pm Fri 20 Mar 09