Fr iday September 25th 2026.
Our guests tonight were Grasta ( an Irish word meaning “Grace”). A 4 piece outfit of familiar faces but not in this combination.
Gus was playing guitar and doing the vocals; Ben had swapped his guitar for fiddle tonight.
Ian played flutes and squeezed his button accordion thingy and over the other end, Mark was playing whistles and beating a stretched goatskin and his wife’s best vase.
The night was done “Chieftains” style, seated on Ffordd Las’s dodgy chairs. Possibly the people at the back didn’t see all that much of them, but to be honest, they’re not Greek Gods.
It was a fairly gentle night, with a nice mix of songs and tunes.
Many of the songs were Gus’s with a mix of traditional and other contenporary thrown in. Constructive criticism – I think we’d all have liked a few more joiny-in oldies.
When gus suffered a broken string, he borrowed my Lowden, but had to hoover the dust from the top end of the fretboard (other vacuum cleaners are available).
The tunes were undoubtedly the highlight for many, as you’d expect from this collection of musicians.
Ian caried on gamely despite losing his right eye to Ben’s overenthusiastic bowing.
Judging by the cd sales they were well received all round (normally one person buys one and does copies for everyone else), and everyone went home with a smile on their face. Because we have a cheap website I can’t post video, but I’ll put a couple of clips on the Facebook page (Friends of Rhyl Folk Club).
At the very end we had a song from Keith Price (not the scouser), an original member of the club back in 1964, now a Canadian resident who therefore probably hates Trump even more than we do. Adam is still drinking Jack Daniels – shame on you!
There was a decent turnout of 3 dozen, with a lot of new faces. The Warbies were missing with Carole recovering from her op – hugs and lots of love from us all, wishing you a speedy recovery. There’s no club next week as it’s 1st Friday; ARJ should be back from France by the 9th, no doubt a stone heavier.
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