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A selection of the Guests seen Every Wednesday At 9pm Throughout The Year

	Guest	Date	Details
	Les Barker	21 Nov 2001	Born Manchester, Les writes strange poems. He was an accountant before he became a professional idiot and has written more than 50 books. He began his career as assistant to a small hairy mongrel, that became famous as Mrs Ackroyd, the only dog ever to own her own recording label.
	Loctup Together	14 Aug 1997	LocTup Together are Chris Lock & Ian Tupling, a good value entertainment package: strong & well defined voices & a good sense of fun. Close harmony singing, songs you can join in with, from unusual sources, accompanied & unaccompanied, delivered to a good appreciative audience.
	Lynn & Barrie Hardman	14 July 2004	Lynn & Barrie are as politically hard hitting as ever, singing songs to make you think, in their own style which values Lynn’s powerful voice and Barrie’s excellent harmonies. This popular couple have played the club many times, their enthusiasm and well crafted arrangements of songs is a winning combination.
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	Maggie Boyle	4 June 2003	Maggie has a hauntingly beautiful voice, exquisite flute playng & an impressive catalogue of live & recorded work, she has performed with the best. "Her 'Gweebarra', is a cracking album!" Mike Harding. Amazingly good performer, the standard of her shows is very high.
	Mark Atherton	26 Mar 1997	Marks singing is passionate & quite compelling. The songs are catchy, well presented, interesting, original, brimming with good ideas & intelligent lyrics. Appearances at 40 Folk Clubs, theatre/festival venues, Granada TV, BBC GMR, toured the continent, featured in local/national music papers.
	Martyn Wyndham Read	20 Oct 1999	Martyn Wyndham-Read is a fine exponent of Australian folk song. He is one of the select band of performers who let the music do all the talking. Eric Bogle has said of him "Martyn is gifted with a strong expressive voice an extremely effective guitar style".
	Maurice Dickson	3 Sept 2003	This top quality musician returns with his an acoustic guitar to the tiny stage of the intimate room in the Barn of the Cross Keys to present real, live & spellbinding music, with strumming, plucking & tap-tap-tapping on the guitar, with blues-based numbers & a most convulsive series of banjo jokes.
	Mick Bramich	12 Feb 1997	Plays Anglo concertina, guitar, melodeon, specialises in traditional songs and ballads. He will be familiar to many as a dance band leader, teacher of the Irish concertina style as accompaniment to songs, ballads and dancing. Regularly visits the north of England to provide concertina workshops.
	Mike Nicholson	5 Nov 2003	Mike has been involved in the folk music scene since 1989 combining a traditional singing style with contemporary material. Those who have heard Mike Nicholson sing will not need me to tell them what a delightful experience that is.
	Mike Raven & Joan Mills	28 July 1999	Mikes poetry & his songs mean the most to him, known as a dynamic solo guitarist, arranger & editor with 80 collections of his music in print. Joan is an exceptionally gifted singer. She has a lyrical, lilting voice that is immediately appealing, & which she uses very expressively.
	Mike Silver	15 Mar 2000	A singer’s singer, natural song-writing ability, remarkable guitar & vocal style. Silver can rock but there will be ballads, songs of social/political comment with hard hitting lyrics & strong melodies. He delights in sharing a joke/story, the audience goes home having spent an evening with a good friend.
	Monkeydoyles	7 July 1999	Years ago in Wigan, a lady used to call her cheeky grandson ' you monkeydoyle!' when he misbehaved. This is Anglo-Irish for you little devil! Medieval sounds, traditional songs, celtic reels, Parisian jazz & good time acoustic R'n'B, the 6/7 members of Monkeydoyles are well worth a listen to.
	Mundy Turner	6 Oct 2004	Cath Mundy & Jay Turner, are an internationally-touring acoustic, original songwriting duo based in Brisbane, Australia. Both performers are impressive vocalists. Cath, lyrical violin & piano, Jay, versatile guitarist. Their live performances are strong with original material, harmonies, humorous stories.
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	Nancy Kerr & James Fagan	23 Jan 2002	A well-loved duo with an international following. NANCY Fiddle, Viola, Voice, Guitar: JAMES Guitar-bouzouki, Voice, Piano. A spectacular & unforgettable performance. Rich singing both as soloists & in harmony. Rarely are duos so full in sound.
	Nick Bold	9 July 2003	In the 1980s Nick Bold had an advance of $1.2 Million when Atlantic Records agreed to a recording contract for his band Virginia Wolf. Queen drummer Roger Taylor produced the first album. Nick has had his work produced by Mike Rutherford (Genesis/Mike & the Mechanics).
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	Pat Ryan & Ken Howard	4 Feb 2004	Prior to their forthcoming Australian Tour Pat will perform traditional & contemporary songs. Her strong guitar style is augmented by Ken Howard's sensitive accompaniment on cittern, guitar & mandolin. Pat has appeared with "Jolly Fine Company Company" in "The Old Lamb & Flag" on BBC TV, on local & national radio. These two tailor their performance to ensure a rapport with their audience & to keep them entertained.
	Paul Cherrington & Pamela Ward		Pamela has a great voice for folk songs, Paul is a competent guitar player in a variety of styles. What's on offer here is really very good. Ward and Cherrington are high calibre musicians, the duo experiment with everything from blues to calypso, ragtime, vaudeville, blues and folk.
	Paul Downes	10 June 1999	Paul Downes has a rich musical background that has progressed through working with Phil Beer, and Pete Seeger. However it's in solo performances that his skills as a multi-instrumentalist and singer as well as a great entertainer are really shown to best advantage.
	Paul Tiernan	28 Apr 2004	Following on from his recent tours of Ireland, & Germany with Kieran Halpin Paul Tiernan, once singer with a band who in their heyday had a string of hit singles in Ireland, has toured as guitarist for Donovan, Hot House Flowers & Mary Black, his work has been described has "daring". A musical tightrope walker.
	Pauline Cato & Tom McConville	28 June 2000	Superb Music & Song from the North East's finest, Pauline & Tom are the foremost Northumbrian Pipes & Fiddle duo around. They have toured extensively & delight audiences wherever they go. Paulines playing is exciting, ,Tom is one of the leading fiddle players in the British Isles.
	Pete Abbott	14 Apr 2004	Anthony John Clarke has recorded two of Pete's songs says: "Pete Abbott writes a truly beautiful ballad. I really love his songs." Pete has a great voice & is also a fine guitarist, able to provide the perfect accompaniment. Ken Nicol of Steeleye Span says: "Pete is one of those rare artists. His precise guitar style & is not often found."
	Pete Castle	12 July 2000	A professional singer of traditional songs & teller of traditional tales for nearly 20 years! He is able to please both the most serious of folkies & the lay-person who would not usually go to a folk event.
	Pete Coe	1 Sept 2004	One of our most versatile and impressive performers, step-dancing whilst playing and singing. He is simply the most entertaining & exciting performer about. His dry wit, strong voice and his instrumental versatility is a sheer delight from start to finish.
	Pete Morton	12 Mar 2003	Excellent performer for 2 decades, intense, dynamic, stories, humour, songs of hope and tradition. Originally from Leicester, he’s a singer-songwriter who’s fallen passionately in love with traditional ballads, His stage act is now half traditional and half his own songs.
	Phil Hare	21 Apr 2004	Fine, beautiful acoustic guitarist/songwriter, rich, husky voice, humorous stage banter. Widely regarded as one of the finest and most distinctive acoustic guitarists working on the current folk music circuit. The New York based magazine DIRTY LINEN wrote: 'The songs are British, maybe even Northern English, but this guy is clearly a world class player'.
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	Quartz	Date	Quartz have, since the early 1980's earned themselves a reputation for fine unaccompanied singing. They enjoy both traditional and contemporary songs - not forgetting their extensive repertoire of "Sunday Songs".
	Queensberry Rules	5th May 2004	The Queensberry Rules formed in September 2001, the trio produce a set of songs that are accessible, exciting & infectious. A new breed of young folk artists the band convert the world with a wry lyric & an exhilarating live show. The Queensberry Rules are about to be huge, catch them while you can!
	Quicksilver	15 Sept 2004	Hilary Spencer's voice is worth crossing deserts & mountains to hear (That Voice in Artisan). Grant Baynham ex-'That's Life!, guitar-playing & writing, comic songsmith to the stars. QuickSilver are so named because the initials H & G form the elemental symbol for mercury. Superb musicianship, entertaining presentation & exceptional quality of material combine to provide one of those nights that you know you are going to remember for a long time.
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