St Albans Folk Music organises pub music sessions, a monthly
concert series, ‘Folk at the Maltings’, and an annual 'New roots' competition
for young musicians. It is a part of the 'Folk at the Festival' Committee which
organises the St Albans Folk Festival.
Folk at the Maltings
We thought the series of online
concerts had finished for the time being and hoped that Folk at the Maltings
would be back with live concerts. After a musically brilliant but sparsely
attended concert by Granny’s Attic on November 12, we put our December 3 concert
featuring The Wilderness Yet online and will continue online until times
change. Please watch this space for online concerts in early 2022.
Concert
and workshop with John Kirkpatrick, Sunday March 6
These events, featuring squeezebox
supremo, John Kirkpatrick ,will be run live in the church and hall of St Saviour’s
Church, 25 Sandpit Lane, St Albans AL1 4DF. The workshop will be on playing for
dancing on any instrument and will run from 2-5pm. The concert will start at
7.30pm and we hope to also live stream it. Booking details will appear here
shortly. If you want to be informed when tickets go on sale, please email info@stalbansfolkmusic.org.uk
St
Albans Folk Festival June 24-26, 2022
We hope to hold a full festival,
including a Day of Dance in June 2022. If you would like to help with the
organisation, email info@stalbansfolkatthfestival.org.uk
St Michael’s Street Folk evening
From 1988 to 2019, we held a popular event St
Michael's Street folk evening on the first Wednesday evening
in July, with dancing in the street and music everywhere. This could not happen
in 2020 or 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic. We hope to see you in St
Michael’s Street on Wednesday July 6 2022,
viruses and football permitting.
St Albans Folk Festival 2020
St Albans Folk Festival ran from September
25-27 and was mainly online. If
you missed the day of free music, you can still hear a great range of musicians
and singers in our online showcase performances on St Albans Folk Music’s YouTube channel
Further details including names of
performers are here.
New
Roots an event for young musicians who are under 25 and play or sing
folk, roots or traditional music.
New
Roots 2021/22 The closing date has been further postponed to January 31 2022 and the rescheduled final will be on Sunday
March 27 2022 at Trestle Arts Base, St Albans or if not possible, online. The
judges will be Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne, Ffion Mair, Valmai Goodyear and Andy
Stafford. For further details and information about how to enter, click here.
New
Roots 2020 The final of New Roots 2020 was postponed to Sunday
November 1 2020 from 11am to 5pm and
was online. The music can be heard on New Roots YouTube channel.
For further details, click here.
New Roots 21st anniversary celebration, Sunday June
28 2020
The first New Roots took place in 2000 and a 21st
anniversary event was held on Sunday June 28 2020,
with performances by some of the amazing singers and musicians who have taken
part over the years. This was an online event, with videos newly recorded by
over 30 past New Roots finalists. If you missed it, you can
still hear it on New Roots YouTube channel by following this link.
Sessions Mainly traditional Irish,
English, Scottish and other traditional music. All welcome to listen or to
play. Mainly tunes, but singers welcome.
Weekly sessions at 8.30pm on Wednesdays are at the Robin Hood, 126 Victoria Street, St
Albans AL1 3TG. Sessions at the Robin Hood have returned to the pub and have
moved back into the front bar now that it is too cold in the ‘Tent’ in the
garden.
Monthly sessions were held at the Great Northern, London Road at 6.00pm on Sundays, usually on the
fourth Sunday of the month. These have been suspended until further notice. We
have approached the pub about resuming but have yet to hear any news.
Links to other
regular events in St Albans
Contact Alison
Macfarlane
Tel 01727 852111
Email: info@stalbansfolkmusic.org.uk