Welcome to the Dorking Folk Club website and our programme page.
Membership can now be renewed for 2024, either on the door when you attend or via TicketSource at https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/dorkingfolkclub/
We continue to have some restrictions in place following the Covid pandemic. Currently:
- People should not attend the club if they have any symptoms (no matter how mild) of any acute illness that could be Covid. These include symptoms associated with the common cold, flu, raised temperature and / or digestive upsets.
We will post updates here so please check the website regularly.
Please note that admission to the Club is by card payment only and that this is also the preferred method of payment at the bar.
For all evenings, doors open at 8pm and the entertainment commences at 8:30pm.
We cannot admit dogs or other pets to the Folk Club. Guide and assistance dogs are permitted and we would be grateful for advance warning of these.
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Many thanks to all those who came to and supported my bike ride for Cancer Research. We reached the wonderful total of £1195. Which means the total money raised thus far on the bike ride is just over £2000. If you weren’t able to be there on the night you can still respond to the appeal by going to - https://bit.ly/cancer45 All the best - Mick |
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04 December 2024 Singers’ Night Entrance £3 Our singers’ nights are open to anyone wishing to perform one or two acoustic items for the enjoyment of all. Each floor spot should take no more than 10 minutes. Our regular singers' nights are often well attended. Although the MC tries to accommodate all performers, this cannot be guaranteed on busy nights. If you are keen to perform, please arrive in good time and let the door person know. |
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11 December 2024 Singers’ Night – Christmas themed night Entrance £3 Our final evening before the break – the Club reopens on 8th January 2025. Our singers’ nights are open to anyone wishing to perform one or two acoustic items for the enjoyment of all. Each floor spot should take no more than 10 minutes. Our regular singers' nights are often well attended. Although the MC tries to accommodate all performers, this cannot be guaranteed on busy nights. If you are keen to perform, please arrive in good time and let the door person know. |
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Break until the New Year – returning on 8th January 2025 with a singers’ night. |
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08 January 2025 Singers’ Night Entrance £3 Our singers’ nights are open to anyone wishing to perform one or two acoustic items for the enjoyment of all. Each floor spot should take no more than 10 minutes. Our regular singers' nights are often well attended. Although the MC tries to accommodate all performers, this cannot be guaranteed on busy nights. If you are keen to perform, please arrive in good time and let the door person know. |
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15 January 2025 Bob Wood Entrance £10 Bob Wood is a Scots-born folk singer and excellent finger-style guitarist from London. He performs with an easy-going sense of humour which is very entertaining. His guitar arrangements and song interpretation have been described as displaying rare sensitivity, lightness of touch and technique. |
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22 January 2025 Singers’ Night Entrance £3 Our singers’ nights are open to anyone wishing to perform one or two acoustic items for the enjoyment of all. Each floor spot should take no more than 10 minutes. Our regular singers' nights are often well attended. Although the MC tries to accommodate all performers, this cannot be guaranteed on busy nights. If you are keen to perform, please arrive in good time and let the door person know. |
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29 January 2025 Enda McCabe Entrance £10 A Dubliner by birth, Enda spent 24 years in England. He worked as a full-time musician from 1989 until he returned to Ireland in 1998. His show contains songs, music and tales tall and short which he performed in Folk Clubs, Festivals, Libraries and Arts Centres. He released his first recording "Dreams of Carrickfergus" in 1991. Whilst in England, he worked with the best of young musicians. |
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05 February 2025 Singers’ Night Entrance £3 Our singers’ nights are open to anyone wishing to perform one or two acoustic items for the enjoyment of all. Each floor spot should take no more than 10 minutes. Our regular singers' nights are often well attended. Although the MC tries to accommodate all performers, this cannot be guaranteed on busy nights. If you are keen to perform, please arrive in good time and let the door person know. |
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12 February 2025 John Kirkpatrick Entrance £12 A welcome return to a club favourite. John is an accomplished singer, songwriter, accordion and concertina player. He is well known in folk music circles, not only for his own music, but for his work with such greats as Martin Carthy, Steeleye Span, Albion Band, Richard Thompson and many others. His visit is not to be missed. A great evening in prospect. |
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19 February 2025 Singers’ Night Entrance £3 Our singers’ nights are open to anyone wishing to perform one or two acoustic items for the enjoyment of all. Each floor spot should take no more than 10 minutes. Our regular singers' nights are often well attended. Although the MC tries to accommodate all performers, this cannot be guaranteed on busy nights. If you are keen to perform, please arrive in good time and let the door person know. |
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26 February 2025 Four Gone Confusion Entrance £10 Four Gone Confusion are a four-piece band based in East Sussex. They perform a very eclectic range of material accompanying themselves on various instruments. They also perform some songs acapella using various harmony combinations. Mick saw them at Croydon Folk Club last year and was so impressed that he booked them for Dorking Folk Club on the spot. Believe me you won’t be disappointed. |
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05 March 2025 Singers’ Night Entrance £3 Our singers’ nights are open to anyone wishing to perform one or two acoustic items for the enjoyment of all. Each floor spot should take no more than 10 minutes. Our regular singers' nights are often well attended. Although the MC tries to accommodate all performers, this cannot be guaranteed on busy nights. If you are keen to perform, please arrive in good time and let the door person know. |
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12 March 2025 Delarre and Rose Entrance £12 James and Saul have been making music together for a long while. They personify the timeless combination of fiddle and box, breathing new life into traditional tunes. James Delarre is a fiddle player and is in great demand within the traditional English folk scene and beyond. Saul Rose is a melodeon player, a long-time member of Waterson-Carthy and is a founding member of Eliza Carthy’s The Wayward Band. An evening not to be missed. |
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19 March 2025 Singers’ Night Entrance £3 Our singers’ nights are open to anyone wishing to perform one or two acoustic items for the enjoyment of all. Each floor spot should take no more than 10 minutes. Our regular singers' nights are often well attended. Although the MC tries to accommodate all performers, this cannot be guaranteed on busy nights. If you are keen to perform, please arrive in good time and let the door person know. |
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26 March 2025 Si Barron Entrance £10 A welcome return to Dorking Folk Club. Last time he played at the club he impressed us with his vocals and his excellent guitar playing. Si’s approach to Folk Music - “As a self-taught guitarist I try to keep the accompaniment out of the way of the words and melody, it’s the songs that matter I am a folk fanatic - this is exciting, moving and relevant music, hallowed by time. I celebrate that and hope I demonstrate my love for this powerful music every time I sing”. Well, Amen to that Si, we are really looking forward to hearing you again. |
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02 April 2025 Singers’ Night Entrance £3 Our singers’ nights are open to anyone wishing to perform one or two acoustic items for the enjoyment of all. Each floor spot should take no more than 10 minutes. Our regular singers' nights are often well attended. Although the MC tries to accommodate all performers, this cannot be guaranteed on busy nights. If you are keen to perform, please arrive in good time and let the door person know. |
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09 April 2025 John Clachan and Friends Entrance £10 No stranger to the club. For tonight’s session, John is joined by other familiar musicians who play regularly at Dorking Folk Club. John took up song writing in 2017 and quickly built up a collection of his own songs to add to his wide repertoire of material. Accompanying himself on the keyboard or Irish 'flat back' bouzouki, in his own unique style, he has the ability to draw an audience into his own musical world. This will be a great gig to end our guest line-up before the Easter break. |
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16 April 2025 Singers’ Night Entrance £3 Our singers’ nights are open to anyone wishing to perform one or two acoustic items for the enjoyment of all. Each floor spot should take no more than 10 minutes. Our regular singers' nights are often well attended. Although the MC tries to accommodate all performers, this cannot be guaranteed on busy nights. If you are keen to perform, please arrive in good time and let the door person know. |
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Break for Easter – returning on 30th April. |
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