Grayshott Folk Club

www.grayshottfolkclub.co.uk

 

Grayshott Village Hall, Headley Road, Grayshott,

Nr. HINDHEAD, Surrey GU26 6TZ

 

CANADIAN NIGHT:

Saturday 18th January 2025 @ 7.30pm

 

SHOWMAN & COOLE on tour from Toronto, Canada.

https://lonesomeace.com/news

John Showman (Fiddle) and Chris Coole (Banjo), have played together in a couple of thousand shows over twenty years or more, with bands such as The Foggy Hogtown Boys and The Lonesome Ace String Band. They have developed a deep and instinctive musical bond. Their music lurks in a truly unique space that is somewhere on the outskirts of Old-time, Bluegrass, and Folk. The songs of John Hartford, Hank Williams, Dock Boggs, and The Band share space with the fiddle tunes of Eck Robertson and Ed Haley. The duo’s original songs and tunes take in all these vistas and paint something both personal and timely. Native Canadians, they have performed widely across North America and at many top European music festivals.

In addition to an extensive discography with The Lonesome Ace String Band, Showman and Coole have released two duet albums; “Afield” a collection of old-time fiddle tunes, and “Much Further Out than Inevitable – A Tribute to Some Music of John Hartford.”

“John Showman has made his mark as “one of the very best and most influential fiddle players in Canada”

(Steve Pritchard, CIUT 89.5 FM).

“Renowned for his clawhammer banjo picking, Coole now establishes himself as a gripping songwriter.”
(Roddy Campbell, Penguin Eggs Magazine

Watch them play here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/17Wt69vQn6ZUKLE8IoGL0Vlu7eEZUZQ1m/view

And here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ymd1cXHZpEM

 

+ Rube & Rake-on tour from Newfoundland, Canada.

https://rubeandrake.com/

We’ve grabbed these guys to come and play a short support slot for us, as they happen to be attending the UK Americana showcase event in London and wanted to fill up a spare afternoon/evening they have, while they are over here for a short visit.

ECMA 2022 Songwriter of the Year and 2020 Music NL Folk/Roots Artist of the Year award winners Rube & Rake, engage audiences with storytelling, intricate guitar work, and rich vocal harmonies. Based in St. John’s, NL, the Folk duo composed of Josh Sandu and Andrew Laite, have formed an intimate musical connection that comes across in every new song and performance.

Listen to the here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7_3m1MeTig

 

Tickets £18

 

Available now (in person only) from Grayshott Post Office

Or Des O'Byrne on 01428 607096

Online from Ents 24:

https://www.ents24.com/hindhead-events/grayshott-village-hall/grayshott-folk-club-introduces-showman-and-coole-of-the-lonesome-ace-string-band-rube-and-rake/7215267