Bob Wood – 9th August

Happy New Year to all. We look forward to a year of good live music. We start off with a change to our programme. Due to a misunderstanding The Lauren Collier Band will not be appearing at Irvine Folk Club on 11 January.
However we are delighted to say that Stephen and Pernille Quigg have stepped in and will be our guests next Wednesday.
We look forward to this.

Irvine Folk Club meet tomorrow night 14th December with North Sea Gas for our Christmas Night.
The Lauren Collier Band will start off the new year on 11th January. Check their website laurencollier.co
Merry Christmas to everyone and best wishes for 2023.

North Sea Gas (northseagas.co.uk) will be the guests at Irvine Folk Club on Wednesday 14th December. Looking forward to seeing them again.
They’ve played the club before but it was a long time ago. This will be our Christmas Night so we’ll have Mince Pies and a special raffle. Come along and enjoy live music.

We look forward to a return visit of Winter Wilson. Check their website winterwilson.com
We were all shocked to hear of the death of Rab Noakes. Rab was a good friend to Irvine and who can forget him representing Irvine Folk Club on the Quiz Show Eggheads. Our thoughts are with his family.

Kenny Speirs will be the guest at Irvine Folk Club on 16th November. Kenny has visited Irvine many times before and has always gone down well. Dominic Boyce’s pal we can expect some surprises.

As part of the Year of Stories 2022, The Scottish Maritime Museum and Irvine Folk Club invite you to join them for an evening of folk music inside the historic Linthouse Building. The concert will start at 6pm and will finish at 7.30pm. Tickets available online at Maritime Museum or pay at the door. Anne and Stevie will start the concert and then Irvine favourites Haggerdash will entertain until 7.30pm. Tickets are priced £8.50 / £6.50 concessions. The ticket enables you to visit the exhibition any time from 4pm onwards.

Maurice Dickson will be the guest at Irvine Folk Club on Wednesday November 2nd. It’s been four years since Maurice last appeared at Irvine and we look forward to seeing him back. The club is going well. Floor singers are always welcome so if you feel like giving us a song or two just make yourself known at the door.

Fraser Bruce and Gavin Paterson are the guests at Irvine Folk Club on Wednesday 5th October.
After the concert at the Gaiety we look forward to hearing them again. Fraser’s book The Folk River will
be on sale priced £25. It’s a good read and certainly brings back memories for those of us at a certain age.
Because of Covid we were unable to launch the book 50 Years of Marymass Folk Festival. I have 9 copies left if
anyone wants to purchase at the very reasonable cost of £20.

Tonight the guest at Irvine Folk Club will be Steve Turner. Steve has been at Irvine many times before. Check out his web page
steve-turner.co.uk

10th August sees the welcome return of Celine and Neil to Irvine. Favourites at Irvine this is a night not to be missed. It is also the last club night before the Festival. Tickets will be on sale priced £20 Saturday night, £10 Sunday night.
A friend of mine is selling a Fender Acoustic Guitar FA235E. He has to sell due to health problems and the guitar is in new condition. Complete with amp connection, instruction books and accessories. £150.00. If you are interested let me know.