To book tickets email folkatthebarlow@gmail.com ring/text 07427 613783 or use the onsite booking form
Folk at the Barlow is a not-for-profit organisation. Our aim is to encourage people of all ages and backgrounds to enjoy and participate in folk music and song. Both the folk club and the Festival are run by unpaid volunteers. There is a singaround on the first Friday of each month and a concert on the third Friday of each month.
Concert tickets are £12.50 each. Children's tickets (16 and under) are free and students 21 and under are half price. The Barlow is a fabulous venue with a great stage which has state-of-the art sound and lighting. There is a separate bar serving local ale etc.
December Events
Fri 5 Dec 8pm First Friday Singaround (Reading Room)
Our monthly singaround, - all welcome, whether performers or audience. Tunes, songs, monolgues poems, jokes are all welcome We go round the rooom and there are always a variety of styles and genres. No actual charge but we have a whip-round to hopefully cover the cost of room hire. Christmas items allowed!
Fri 19 Dec Third Friday Concert John Kirkpatrick
Support Act : Mike Cosgrave
Tickets are £12.50 each. email folkatthebarlow@gmail.com
to book or use the form below
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Click on this pdf icon to download our Christmas Carol book. Sorry, there aren't any prizes for spotting the typos!
Click on the Word icon to get a list of the keys we play the Carols in. The tunes are the standard ones that most people know!
Christmas is upon us again and we will be treated to John Kirkpatrick's Christmas Show "Carolling and Crumpets"- which promises to be varied, funny, poignant, raucous and relaxing. Come and enjoy the fun and be entertained by this squeezeboxing legend. ..... but not before you've consumed mince pies and mulled wine and sung Christmas carols (accompanied by our house band of course) in the bar. Our Carol book is below in case you want to practise. Carols start at 6:30pm, concert at 8:00pm and you are welcome to arrive at either time BUT the doors to the Hall will NOT be opened until the Carols finish so missing them doesn't bag you better seats!!
Supporting John will be singer Mike Cosgrave from
Manchester, Mike is a multi-instrumentalist playing Cittern, Weissenborn slide guitar, pedal steel and Mandolin. With a strong traditional Irish background, Mike has an eclectic mix of influences from The Chieftains to Darrell Scott and the broad swathe of Irish, Bluegrass and Americana plus a few songs and tales of his own to add to the mix.
Mike still finds time to run his Film and Music production company focusing on the wealth of talent from the local folk scene and beyond.
Youtube.com/totemike
At our Christmas concert, we always take a collection for Bolton Hospice, and our Christmas raffle proceeds go there too, so some cash would be useful!
Other Events from friends of Folk at the Barlow
LOCAL PUB SESSIONS
We are pleased to tell you that the monthly sessions are back, with the Tunes session on the third Monday in the Rose and Crown from 8.00 - 11.00 (next on 15 Dec) and the song session on the first Monday in The White Horse from 8.00 - 11.00 (next on 1 Dec
