Salford Folk on Salford City Radio

31/03/2022

Greetings Folks,
This Saturday (2nd April), Dave and Pete will be performing along with twenty bands and artists at the Ukrainian Cultural Centre, 32 Smedley Lane, Cheetham, Manchester M8 8XB in a charity concert - 'Sing for Ukraine'. Obviously, all monies goes to the Ukrainian appeal fund and we don't know if the gig is a sell out yet but if you pop over to...
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/.../sing-for-ukraine-tickets...
You can book yourselves a ticket.

Dave and Pete have written a special song for Ukraine called FAR AWAY FROM HERE which they will perform publicly for the first time on Saturday. If you can't make it (or if you can) you can download a recording of the song by just following this link...
https://www.all-things-considered.org/corner-shop-1

Lovely to see you if you can make it on Saturday and thanks for all your contributions. x

22/02/2022

Looking for a spot of good news?

Bents and Bongs Beer Bash is back and....

Cracked Flag will be back there again on Saturday afternoon, 28th May

There will be the usual coachload going from The Height. So if you want a seat, get yourself in to the Wagon & Horses on a Thursday band night and let Dave know.🍺🍻🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🎸🪕🎻

12/12/2019

Uplifting folk and roots music to gladden your soul and get your heart racing.

19/09/2019

A little bit of spleen venting

07/09/2019

Thanks to everyone who turned up for the restart of our 'Salford Folk Friday's at The King's Arms, Bloom St last night. Such a lovely, relaxed and friendly atmosphere. The next singaround will be October 4th - it would be lovely to see you there.

03/06/2019

Just off Chapel Street, 100m from Salford Central Station, an easy 10 minute walk from Deansgate. The Kings Arms pub is home to music, theatre and comedy.

30/05/2019

If your looking for somewhere a little closer to home, we will be performing this saturday at 12.00 and again at 5.15pm at the the Wirral Folk Festival. Check their web site for full details.
www.wirralfolkonthecoast.com

30/05/2019

Now it is oft' said (and rightly so) that we're not the sharpest tools in the box when it comes to letting folks know where we're appearing. So this time we're giving everyone plenty of time to save up 'cos we have been booked to appear at COSTA DEL FOLK in IBIZA from 26th to 30th April 2020. Needless to say we are chuffed to little heatspots about it (Dave has already packed his bucket and spade!)
https://costadelfolk.co.uk

21/04/2019

Hi Folks
Really sorry about last Thursday's show going out 20 minutes late. Not sure what went wrong but we shall investigate.

27/03/2019

Anyone seen one of these knocking about the place? If so it could well be ours. Our lovely mobile home was stolen from its "secure" storage facility last Saturday. So right now we have a bit of a problem getting to the festivals we are booked in for this summer. Not going to let it get us down though and definitely not going to affect our concert at The King's Arms this Saturday where we will be sharing the stage with the fabulous Leeds based trio, The Tenmours. Dave probably has a few tickets left if you want to email him at [email protected] and reserve some.

08/09/2018

Dave channelling Man at C&A

12/07/2018

Dave and Pete live on air now (photo taken by Ellie!)

04/05/2018

Last night's show was given over to our good friends Sandra Twitchett and Steve Skinner aka Skinner & Twitch who royally entertained us live in the studio. You can listen again throughout the week on www.salfordcityradio.org
And for our local listeners, tonight is our monthly, Salford Folk Friday Big Singaround at The White Swan, on Worsley Road in Swinton. We would love to see you there if you can make it.

27/04/2018

It was good to get back live on air yesterday after last week's unexpected hiatus. More unexpected was the discovery that all our pre-records had been accidentally wiped by the station so there was no folk show aired on 19th April. Apologies for that! Anyway, yesterday we featured..... local acts, John Reed and Cracked Flag (whoever they are); ..played some Drop the Floor and Goldie McGoldrick ahead of their respective appearances at Bury Met in a fortnight's time;..aired Skinner and Twitch's latest single ahead of their coming in to the studio as our guests next week;..gave a nod to Anzacs Day by playing Eric Bogle's heart rending, ' The Band Played Waltzing Matilda';..gave a Northern premier to London band, The Salts;..and found time for some established folkies in the form of Martin Simpson and yet another Lakeman (Dad this time)
How do we fit it all into one hour? You can find out by using the listen again feature on www.salfordcityradio.org any time through the week.
And don't forget to tune up your instruments for another Salford Folk Friday Big Singaround in the White Swan, Swinton a week from today.

12/04/2018

On tonight's show, apart from letting you know about folk events in the locale this week (starting with our own Salford Folk Friday Big Singaround tomorrow night at The White Swan) we shall be joined live in the studio by the fabulous Richard Moss who has a new album out with his band, Drop the Floor (I'm sure Dave will get some live stuff out of him too) tune in tonight at 6.00pm 94.4fm or online at www.salfordcityradio.org

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10/04/2018

SALFORD FOLK FRIDAY BIG SINGAROUND
This Friday we return, after what seems an age, for a get together at The White Swan at the bottom of Worsley Road in Swinton. Bring along yourselves, your voices, your guitars, vilins, whistles and tambourines for a good old session starting at 8.15pm.

01/03/2018

So sorry folks! I've just been informed that our landlady has booked our room out (well- her room actually) for tomorrow night so we have to cancel tomorrow's Salford Folk Friday get together. If we can rearrange for later in March I will let you know.