When we hear of a re-opening date we’ll post that here too.

On a brighter note, following the session on 29th December, we have been offered “The Old Beams” in Stourport on Severn as our “2nd Friday” venue. The inaugural “Friday Session” will take place on 13th January 2012.

Directions (for those who haven’t been before):

From Worcester direction: A449 as far as “Mitre Oak” roundabout. Turn left onto A4025 to Stourport. When you reach Stourport, follow signs for Great Witley A451. Cross the river and take 1^st turn on the left (leisure centre and swimming pool) – Harold Davies Drive, “The Old Beams” is on your right.

From the “Rose and Crown” Shrawley/Holt Heath direction : Continue on the B4196 towards Stourport (approx 5mls/8 kms), and turn right to town centre at “T” junction with A451. Turn right by the pedestrian crossing into Harold Davies Drive (access road to leisure centre and swimming pool),approx 400 metres after joining A451. “The Old Beams” is on your right.

From Birmingham/ Kidderminster direction: Approaching Kidderminster on the A456, go straight over the traffic lights at “Land Oak”. Turn left onto ring road and follow A451 to Stourport and then signs to GreatWitley A451. Take the 1^st turn on the left (leisure centre and swimmingpool), as soon as you have crossed the bridge (by the pedestrian traffic lights), “The Old Beams” is on your right.

Pub address : Harold Davies Drive, Dunley Road, STOURPORT on SEVERN.: DY13 0AA Telephone : 01299 878 833

At the start of the evening the place was packed by the “Knitters and Natterers”, a friendly group of ladies who, er, well, natter whilst knitting. Several of them stay on for the session and clicking needles can sound quite like bones or spoons if you let your mind wander.

So all you ladies who are torn between knitting Fairisle jumpers and foot-tapping to jigs and reels, do come along and do the both!

There had been some kind of “do” during the day upstairs in the Falcon so we were lucky enough to get the left-overs. Quite a few home baked ham, smoked salmon or eggy butties were dished out but there superabundance of puddings was something to behold.

Highlight of the evening was a world exclusive (or more likely a Bromyard exclusive) of Aly, our exquisite whistle player, singing and playing a borrowed piano accordion. Hope she does more of that in future.

Overall a really enjoyable evening, good and varied music, great camaraderie, sticky puddings and well kept ale.

Every Tuesday – from 8.30pm – free entry – players and listeners most welcome, knitters too but from 6.30pm.

“You may recall I marked the above session with a “please check” notice due to there being an imminent change of landlord at the R & C. Kevin has let me know that there is indeed some doubt as to whether the pub will be open this coming Friday, and as a consequence there is a change of venue for this 2nd Friday session. Details are :

New venue : The Hundred House, Main Road, Great Witley WR6 6HS Tel : 01299 896 888 (hotel). The hotel is on the main A451 Stourport-Tenbury road at the junction with  the A443 Worcester-Tenbury Road.

If you need more info you can contact Kevin Sanders by texting to 07989 668263.

If anyone has more info or can post a review add a comment or email me.

It will be in the Bay Horse on Bromyard High Street every Wednesday evening and is being run by Matt Seabright from local band Orbitron.

I’ll let him describe what it’s about:

“Hi Tony, hope you are well.

Just a quick note about the acoustic sessions at The Bay Horse on Wednesdays. We have started playing there with the intention that anyone who can play or sing will turn up and do their stuff, whatever it is or whatever they play. Even if that person only knows a couple of chords it doesn’t matter, the best way to get on in music in my opinion is to play with other musicians. One big Jam and nothing too serious. Wind, strings and percussion welcome.

Any style of music also welcome.

Many thanks

Matt Seabright”

Either turn up or contact Matt for more info: matthewseabright@hotmail.com.

This session has gone from strength to strength over the past year and we decided a few weeks back to make it a weekly event. Lots of people commented “I meant to come but couldn’t remember which Tuesday it was on!”. So we’ve solved that issue once and for all.

We get a wide range of performers and although all acoustic music we get a wide variety of styles. Traditional English Folk, Irish tunes, Cajun, Bluegrass, Contemporary Folk, 60′s music, anything provided it’s acoustic. We perform in a sing around format and share the load pretty democratically. If you’re a newcomer and just want to busk along and/or do the odd solo number just say so.

We are going to introduce one night a month (maybe more in time) where we run more of a folk club format where one of our more experienced regulars will do a longer set at the end of the evening and the rest having 2 or 3 song floor spots earlier on. This is partly to give variety but also to give more experience in performance to those who want it.

We get very nice audiences to the session who generally listen rather than chatter and many a guest at the hotel has found that Bromyard offers more than they had expected.

More info on the Falcon Hotel, Bromyard

To ask any questions, email me.