Celebrations all the way for the H-Bar-C’s 26th Anniversary, and Martin Ruddy to ensure that there was an excellent party atmosphere, playing mostly very popular tunes, mixing country music like Beautiful Body from the Bellemy Brothers with sing along songs like Delilah. Read More...

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Froggie, as his loyal fans always call him, was promoting his latest album Blue and Gold.
He has written so many great songs in Pop and Country that one is played every minute somewhere in the World. That makes him a National Treasure, not that he imagines himself in a museum. The night Froggie came to my area, it was to the Maltings in Farnham, an exciting and lively community arts centre offering a vast array of activities for adults and children alike and housed in the historic brewery buildings by the River Wey.
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In a stage setting me very much of the song writers at the Blue Bird Cafe in Nashville, Matraca Berg, Gretchen Peters and Suzy Bogguss visited the Anvil Theatre in Basingstoke on their nationwide tour of the UK. It felt quite intimate, with the wine flowing from bottles on the little tables perched between their seats.
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Voted Best Band of the Year 2008/09, we were pleased to welcome back, John McCane and his backing band called Last of the Breed. Paul Burgess who normally plays with the band, had rejoined 10 CC for their current tour, so Paul Crow stood in tonight and fitted in perfectly. Read More...

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Mustang as always play in the Irish style, linking sets together of 2 or 3 songs of the same tempo and keeping the dancers on the floor.
Pat Nugent expressed his delight of playing at our club and this was apparent when he long overshot the finishing time and kept on singing to a very happy crowd. Read More...

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