Ann: New folk Night in London

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Usually held on the first Monday of every month in Clerkenwell, our
next date being 7th December with featured guests Rún, Steven Finn,
support slots by 'Laura Victoria' and 'You Are Wolf' and a surprise or
two or three or more perhaps.

See www.folkonmonday.co.uk or www.myspace.com/folkonmonday for details

Rún collect and arrange old folk songs written in the ancient language
of Erin. So far, thanks to Nora from Donegal, they have a nice wee
collection of well-known ditties and are now adding to their
repertoire with some unusual old forgotten songs from the province of
Ulster. Rún are five fantastic lassies who perform four-part vocal
arrangements of old Gaelic songs like ’An Cailín Rua’ (the red-haired
girl), ’Casadh an tSúgain’ (twisting the hayrope) and ’Bo Na Leath
Adhairce’ (the one-horned cow). Rún is the Gaelic word for ’secret,
wish or love’ (cf. rune). See

Steven Finn’s ears were filled with the music of Count Basie, Benny
Goodman, Johnny Cash and old time country music. Aged 15 he began
teaching himself the guitar, learning songs like Leadbelly’s
‘Bourgeois Blues’ and Charlie Daniels’ ‘The devil went down to
Georgia’. On hearing Bob Dylan songs Finn started to write his own
words and in doing so found a lifelong passion for Jazz and Folk
Blues, a getaway car he could drive.