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Folk at the Drum
Club / Singers' Nights
Past Guests include:
"HOOK, LINE AND SINKER" 5th December 2019 8-00 pm Well people certainly took my last sentence to heart as, for the first time since we lost the back part of the room to the office we ended up playing musical chairs as using the seats of artists performing still left people standing at the back! The performance certainly matched the numbers so "Hook Line and Sinker" will be coming back in two years rather than the usual three! In the meantime if you get the chance to see them elsewhere don't miss tehm! As one club member put it in an e-meal to me the morning after: "They just get better and better!"
Chrissie, Sue and Karen are well known to the club, they are members, and I am delighted that they will be our guests in December! If you like harmony singing they are as good as anyone on the folk scene today. This is a night not to be missed!!
"BORDER CROSSING" 14th November 2019 8-00 pm A thoroughly enjoyable evening with "Border Crossing", sadly Sean was unwell and unable to make it, we wish him well! However we know John and Dean of old and they gave us a terrific evening with great songs and highly skilled guitar work by Dean! Their performance was clever, funny and cheerful which left all of us with a smile on our faces. I shall be booking them to return in two years time rather than the normal three!
"Border Crossing" are a local Kent group, not to be confused with the London based group of the same name. The name is due to the fact that the original line up of Dean Tanio and John Matthews had one who was Scottish, John, and one who was not, Dean! They have since been joined by Sean Wholihan, I hope I have his name correct! Dean was a regular at the club but had a long way to travel and he then teamed up with John and they were occasional floor singers with us and finally I have managed to give them a long overdue booking!
GRAEME KNIGHTS & HEATHER CHAPMAN 31 October 2019 8-00 pm
A most enjoyable evening was had with this father/daughter combination and we shall welcome them back in the not too distant future I am sure!
SI BARRON www.sibarron.eu/ 5th September 2019 8-00 pm
He plays guitar, dulcimer and harmonium and mainly sings English traditional song, the only kind of music that never gets old! Mike Harding says:
I think he's a really, really fine guitarist and an even finer interpreter of traditional and contemporary folk songs. The Living Tradition Magazine calls him: 'A true aficionado of the genre'!
MARTIN CURTIS https://www.martincurtis.co.nz/ 25th July 2019 8-00 pm Just as he did in 2015, Martin gave us a thoroughly enjoyable evening and even those of us who have spent time in New Zealand learnt a great deal about that wonderful country fom this highly accomplished singer and song writer! Sadly this is likely to be his last trip to UK performing but his music is still available via his website!
Martin Curtis, New Zealand Singer and Songwriter, lives in Cardrona in the foothills of the Southern Alps, a place that has become the inspiration behind much of his music.
He has been writing and singing songs about his adopted country for over 30 years, and has recorded and released 10 albums, many of them celebrating New Zealand and the people who helped make it what it is today. He has toured extensively nationally and internationally – particularly in the United Kingdom – as well as Australia, Hong Kong, Austria, Norway and even Nepal.
BOB KENWARD 27th June 2019 8-00 pm I wasn't going to miss this one so I got a pass out of hospital, which took a bit of persuasion, but as always with Bob doing a lot of his well known songs which we all thoroughly enjoy and as usual the audience sang along lustily! As with all of Bob's gigs there was plenty to amuse as well!
"NOTTS ALLIANCE" http://www.nottsalliance.org.uk/ 9th May 2019 8-00 pm Unfortunately I missed this one to my intense frustration but all reports were of a really enjoyable night with a highly accomplished group!
HELEN NORTH https://www.helennorth.com/ 11th April 2019 8-00 pm A great night was had with Helen who pointed out that technically she was standing in for Isla StClair. She gave us a very varied and highly accomplished performance, this may have been her first gig with us but it certainly will not be the last!
Helen is a Kent based singer and songwriter with a strong, practical, maritime background. In other words she does it as well as sing about it unlike most of us with a maritme music bent, with the exception of Chris Roche, who tend to keep our feet dry! However Helen is very far from being "a one track pony" Bob Kenward sums it up perfectly in his recent review of Helen's second CD "Honest and Poor" when he says: "If you had Helen's work filed under 'seafaring', think again: here you'll find a body of melodic songs from a writer branching out, performed with a powerfully gorgeous voice and leaving you with a host of memorable phrases which hit you when you least expect them. Riches!"
Singing both traditional and self-penned songs her captivating performances have her audience in gales of laughter at one moment, and in rapt attention the next. Her songwriting is out of the first drawer, don't take my word for it if Mick Ryan and Paul Downes regard it sufficiently well to include her song "The Midshipman's Boast" as the opening track of their album "The Passing Hour", it is playing as I type, then I think that is sufficient evidence! A night not to be missed, come and sing along with a very fine performer.
MIKE NICHOLSON 7th March 2019 Illness hit the audience quite hard but those who did make it had a thoroughy enjoyable evening of music and amusement!
A very fine singer of songs at their best. www.mikenicholson.me.uk
JOHN & DI CULLEN WITH IRIS BISHOP 21st February 2019 8-00 pm We had an extremely enjoyable night with John, Di and Iris, we had some particularly funny "turns" in particular in, "Me 'usbands Got No Courage in 'im"
"PORCH SWING BLUES" 17th January 2019 8-00 pm A great night was had with the two usual suspects but this time they had brought their bass player with them. Sadly I missed it owing to ill health!
STEVE TURNER 6 December 2018 8-00 pm Steve's wonderful mastery of the concertina tends to be thought of his main achievement but he is equally skilled in playing stringed instruments and in the art of singing! He was very realxed as he felt he was among friends and indeed he was! This combination led to a thoroughly enjoyable evening of entertainment for both artist and audience with a variety of songs both traditional and more comtemporary song
ARCHIE FISHER 15 November 2018 8-00 pm A master class in Scottish folk music from a man who is completely relaxed in his presentation and conveys this to his audience as pure enjoyment! A most memorable and thoroughly enjoyable evening with Archie Fisher was had by all and is thoroughly recommended to all!
MIKE WILSON & DAMIEN BARBER 25 October2018 8-00 pm What can you say about an evening that, through nobody's fault, had to be postponed for a year but that it was greatly anticipated and more than matched that anticipation! Sometimes in the past the balance of song and story may have fallen in favour of the latter with these two wonderful singers but certainly not on this occasion! We had as many songs as could possibly be crammed in to two 45 minute sets performed with gusto and pathos, according to the subject matter of the song, in a highly accomplished manor. What more could you ask?
"MORRIGAN" 6 September 2018 8-00 pm An evening with a difference was had with Morrigan! Having taken part in a workshop with them at Tenterden Folk Festival the previous October where they were adding the audience in to their four part harmony in Vaughan Williams songs, as he collected them, I was keen to add some of this to our evening. Neither they nor I was sure how this might work in a Folk Club but we thought nothing ventured nothing gained so we decided to try and our members loved it! Many of them had not tried anything like it before. In addition a sublime performance of both their harmony singing and instrumental work was thoroughly enjoyed by performers and audience alike. The fact that they are such an accomplished and delightful group of people adds so much to the ambience!
PETER COLLINS 23 August 2018 8-00 pm A very gentle evening of wonderful singing and discourse was had with the man with the deep bass voice! Peter is a great friend of the club but is probably best known for running the "Singalong" session in "The Neptune" at lunchtime during Broadstairs Folk Week along with Mike Nicholson".
GEOFF HIGGINBOTTOM 12 July 2018 8-00 pm As a great all round entertainer who earns his living as both an actor and singer Geoff likes nothing better than to return to his roots as a traditional folk performer. This he was able to do both at Faversham the night before and with us! It was smiles and compliments all round at the end of an evening of thoroughly enjoyable folk song with great asccompaniment from a variety of instruments. Geoff responds very well to requests and if you can get them in beforehand by e-mail as I do it is even better! Geoff is too often and unfairly pigeon holed as more of a comedian and purveyor of modern songs, which is very unfair and does not do justice to his great talent as a highly accomplished folk performer.
KEITH KENDRICK & SYLVIA NEEDHAM 14 June 2018 8-00 pm As always this highly professional duo produced a varied exhibition of great tradtitional folk song with accompaniment from guitar and a variety of concertina acompaniment plus great instrumental pieces in addition!
This fine English duo has been praised as being amongst the finest interpreters of traditional English songs. Four decades of performing have taken Derbyshire born-and-bred Keith all over the U.K., Europe, the U.S., and most of the globe, even Japan where he spent six months, no not hard labour! He and Sylvia have now been performing together for more than ten years. In addition to their recorded work, they have been featured on the BBC and are a celebrated fixture at folk festivals around the World. They have been acclaimed for "breathtaking harmony work that leaves the listener gasping." Drawing from a wide-ranging repertoire, the duo's performances combine humour with a deep respect for the songs and tunes of their native land. While known for their a capella harmonies, Keith and Sylvia also frequently accompany themselves and play tunes on three different systems of the only English-invented chromatic musical instrument – the concertina!
SUE WATSON AND CHRISSIE HOLMES 17th May 2018 8-00 pm Lovely harmony singing was definitely the order of the day, or more accurately the evening! We had a great variety of songs with the main emphasis on trditional folk songs but also contemporary songs mostly in the traditional style but also some music hall in addition, all of which added up to a thoroughly enjoyable evening of excellent singing. Now there is an even greater treat to be had in future as Sue & Chrissie have added a third voice in the person of Karen and they have dubbed themselves as "Hook Line & Sinker"! They already have bookings at local clubs in their new line up. I hope to book them before too long!!
At very short notice, two days, Sue Watson and Chrissie Holmes have agreed to stand in for "Notts Alliance who were to have been our guests but have had to cancel due to illness. They say every cloud has a silver lining and in this case that is true because they were due to appear as a duo last August but on that occasion, unfortunately, Chrissie was unwell so she was unable to attend! However, Sue being the trouper that she is filled the bill magnificently on her own and with a little bit of help from her friends! The silver lining here is that we are now able to have them back as a duo! Anyone who was in the club in April 2017 when Isla St Clair was our guest will know how superbly Sue & Chrissie performed in their floor spot that night with superb
harmony and a wide range of songs. They have relatively recently renewed a singing partnership which started before Sue started singing with Avril
Cameron as "Suave" which is best described as just "a long time ago". They have been working up their repertoire steadily and have now done several floor spots both at FATD and Deal Friday Folk Club which have been extremely well received and I am delighted to be able to book them as a replacement for our May Guest Night!
DEREK "GIFF" GIFFORD 5th April 2018 8-00 pm A really great evening was had by all with "Giff" in really good form and we had the added bonus of his lovely wife, Janet, doing a floor spot for us as she is a great singer as well! "Giff" is so versatile that he can put his hand to a variety of different subject matter in the Folk World!
Derek Gifford has been singing folk songs for over 30 years and is a full time folk performer known throughout the folk World as "Giff". He is an old friend of the club having performed at FATD both in his own right and as part of "Three Sheets to the Wind". His style is based on the tradition but much of his repertoire includes contemporary songs which are written in the traditional idiom. Giff has set a number of Bury poet Keith Scowcroft's poems to music including 'When All Men Sing' which is fast becoming a folk song 'standard' across the world. Whether accompanying himself on guitar or bowed psaltery, which his wife hates, or singing unaccompanied Giff's enthusiasm becomes contagious. He also gives talks and workshops on the music to a variety of audiences. 'Birds in Folk Song' is a talk that Giff has given at both Broadstairs and Tenterden Folk Festivals, the latter only last month, October 2017, as he is a keen "birder", not a twitcher! Doubtless when he is staying with me for this gig he will be out at Dungeness RSPB before breakfast! Relaxed and confident, with sea songs, shanties and other chorus songs a speciality, Giff's festival and club performances are a real treat to encounter. This will be a fun gig, don't miss
TOM McCONVILLE 15th March 2018 8-00 pm What a fantastic evening we had with Tom as our guest, I had forgotten just how good he is, not having seen him for a while! Not only is he a talented musician and great singer but he is so much fun and a considerable part of the evening was spent in helpless laughter!
Tom was born on Tyneside and brought up in a pub on the famous Scotswood Road with clientele drawn from the Irish and Scottish communities. This is where he first experienced traditional singing and fiddle music Tom's musical journey started in the North East folk clubs in the early 70s. Turning professional in 1974 he joined Bob Fox in a duo then folk/rock band Magna Carta to play all over Europe. Every new venture brought great success and immense respect from his peers and public alike. Throughout his many collaborations he has continued his solo show at venues large and small. "A sandpaper-dry wit, eye-watering skill on the fiddle, great vocals... you just can't help feeling that a performance by Tom is like visiting an old friend" is how one folk club organiser describes him. Renowned for his musical accompaniments, Tom has played on hundreds of albums. The list includes: Barbara Dickson, Richard Thompson, Allan Taylor and Lindisfarne. Whilst he has shared stages throughout the world with Stephan Grappelli, Sean McGuire, Mark O'Connor, Paul Brady and The Chieftains, Tom has never forgotten his roots and is as happy in the intimate atmosphere of a small folk club as he is at the largest festivals. Tom McConville is a world class act! We are delighted to have him back for his second appearance at FATD!
"SILK PURSE" 15th February 2018 8-00 pm We had a delightful, if long overdue, thoroughly enjoyable evening with Sue and Lyndsey giving us a good variety of instrumentation, considerable variety of songs in both style and content and all professionally delivered! I've heard that they rather enjoyed themselves too!
From the link to their website you can click on to a YouTube clip from Otford but be warned the recording is of poor quality and should only be viewed to understand their style.
Silk Purse brings together two strong and distinctive female voices in powerful and haunting harmony. Sue and Lyndsey Rule were familiar faces on the Kent and Sussex folk circuit for many years as part of the wonderful family folk group Pig's Ear. As Silk Purse, they give their own stamp to an eclectic mix of traditional, contemporary and self-penned material. Between them, they play an impressive range of instruments - guitar, bouzouki, mandola, fiddle (Sue); flute, recorders, whistles, concertina, (Lyndsey). Alternating the two lead voices with a-capella harmony, Silk Purse offer you the sweet and the silly, choruses and ballads, delivered with zest and style. They are very much associated with the "Pigs Ear Folk Ale" which in 2018 runs from 31 May to 3 June. It is a superb festival and I have very much enjoyed Sue and Lyndsey's contribution to the festival in recent years just as I enjoyed the performance of "Pigs Ear" for many years before. I am delighted to have been able to book them and I am really looking forward to their long overdue appearance at FATD!
LYNNE HERAUD & PAT TURNER 11th January 2018 8-00 pm As ever, we had a great night with Lynne & Pat. Just a thoroughly enjoyable evening with a variety of songs beautifully presented!
Individually, and in combination with a variety of well-known singers and bands, Lynne Heraud and Pat Turner have both served long apprenticeships on the shop-floor of folk music. Between them they play guitar, recorder, English concertina and a variety of whistles (including swanee, policeman's and referee's), list a spoons workshop in their hall of fame, and are not in the least averse to dressing up or dancing when a song requires it. They both agree, however, that their voices are their most important instruments. Their resulting style is a unique blend of stunning song and harmony, and a humour which takes their audience on a roller-coaster ride - "everything from high tragedy to ingenious smut in glorious vocal harmony!" Lynne and Pat are no strangers to FATD and are also well known at Broadstairs Folk Week. Great fun fabulous singers and superb harmony sum up their wonderful skill as folk performers but it would only be fair to say "I wonder what is coming next!"
BRIAN PETERS 30th November 2017 8-00 pm We had a great night with Brian, lots of fun and variety. The best laugh of the night was the Child Ballad, or his version of it called "Six Nights Drunk" which he had kindly re-learned for the occasion!
Brian Peters is one of the English folk scene's great all-rounders: a compelling singer, a first-rate squeezebox player and a skilled guitarist. Brian is one of the country's best anglo-concertina players and is just as good on melodeon, while he's also internationally-known as a leading performer of the great 'Child' ballads. Although best known for traditional folk songs and lively English dance music, Brian's act is full of variety and might include newer songs and tunes or wild squeezebox excursions into ragtime and blues. Add his energy and dry humour on stage, and you have a truly entertaining performer.
"SAID THE MAIDEN" 16th November 2017 8-00 pm What a brilliant evening we had with these three lovely ladies! Brilliant harmony singing, great songs from the tradition and self penned songs telling great stories and sounding traditional! Add to that excellent accompaniment that was just that, not too loud so we could still hear the words. A thoroughly enjoyable time was had by all!
Said The Maiden are Jess Distill, Hannah Elizabeth and Kathy Pilkinton, three friends who discovered a mutual love of folk music when they reunited several years after spending their school years together in Hertfordshire. After tentatively performing a few songs at their local Redbourn Folk Club, the group soon gained a great deal of interest on the local and national folk circuit, securing major support and headline slots at folk clubs and festivals around the country. I saw them last year at Deal Friday Folk and decided to book them there and then!
SUE WATSON AND CHRISSIE HOLMES 24th August 2017 8-00 pm Unfortunately Chrissie was unwell so unable to attend but Sue being the trouper that she is filled the bill magnificently on her own and with a little bit of help from her friends! We would hope to have them back as a duo before too long!
Anyone who was in the club when Isla St Clair was our guest will know how superbly Sue & Chrissie performed in their floor spot that night with superb
Cameron as "Suave" which is best described as just "a long time ago" They have been working up their repertoire and I was delighted to be able to book them for our August Guest Night!
ROY CLINGING 13th July 2017 8-00 pm Once again we had a great night with Roy, who had kindly stepped in at short notice.
Roy is a fine singer, guitarist, concertina player and songwriter with a wealth of knowledge concerning the traditional songs & dance music of his native Cheshire. However, his repertoire extends over a wide range of folk styles. He has performed at most of the UK's major folk festivals, be it in Mick Ryan's ballad operas, with the Cheshire fiddle player Neil Brookes or as a solo artist. He never ceases to surprise us with the variety of his programme.
BRAM TAYLOR 15th June 2017, 8-00 pm We had a great night with Bram as always and he will be back with us next year as part of a charity tour mainly based in Deal!
Bram Taylor is an entertaining artist with a distinctive voice and relaxed stage presence who gives an evening "Taylored" to suit his audience. With a constantly healthy gig sheet, annual tours of the USA and appearances at the 2007 & 2009 Mariposa Folk Festival in Canada (alongside Don McLean, Gordon Lightfoot, The Proclaimers and Buffy-Sainte Marie). Bram continues to be a constantly reliable and entertaining performer.
Bram is Fellside Records' longest serving artist with 10 solo albums and almost an equivalent number of compilation recordings to his credit. His latest Fellside release 'Jokers & Rogues' was extremely well received by the British Folk Music Press.
BARRIE & INGRID TEMPLE 4th May 2017 8-00pm
Geordie humour and great songs As usual a superb night of singing playing and fun was had by all
ISLA St CLAIR 20th April 2017 8-00 pm ISLA WAS THE CLUB'S SPECIAL GUEST FOR 2017!
Isla St Clair is known to millions for her numerous television appearances including The Royal Variety Show, The Morecambe and Wise Show, and most notably as co-host with Larry Grayson on the BBC's long running The Generation Game which won her `Best Female TV Personality'. Her television series The Song and the Story won the coveted European award `Prix Jeunesse'. Born in Scotland Isla is one of Britain's foremost traditional singers, noted for the depth of feeling she brings to her country's music. At twelve she recorded the first of many traditional ballads for the School of Scottish Studies, and which are still used as reference works. Still in her teens Isla was soon in the top rank of British folksingers, winning several awards including `Best Female Folk Singer', and touring the world. Recently she received an honorary degree as Master of the University of Aberdeen for her contribution to traditional music. Isla takes a keen interest in teaching children the importance of traditional music and performs her specially prepared programme for educational establishments at home and abroad. Isla's talent has also matured to encompass other aspects of the entertainment business and she continues to be busy with, television, radio, stage, presenting and touring in her live shows.
I think this short biography tells you a lot but as well as visiting her own modest website I strongly recommend that you visit her Wikipedia page as well.
www.islastclair.com
Isla St Clair Wikipedia Page
If you only know Isla through her television work then I strongly suggest listening to her on You Tube. I had some problems loading some of her songs but I am fairly confident that this link to her singing "Farewell To Tarwathie" will work:
Farewell To Tarwathie
DEBRA COWAN 30th March 2017 8-00 pm
Debra is a great American singer and guitarist,with a special folding guitar! She left a career in Education to pursue a career as a folksinger and has spent considerable time living and working in UK including holding the Monday night residency at Sandy Bell's Bar, Edinburgh's premier folk music pub. She is Included in many compilations, notably the 2006 Free-Reed Records box set "RT-The Life and Times of Richard Thompson" and she has worked with many prominent musicians! For those who haven't seen her before I strongly recommend that you listen to some of the sample tracks on her website.
www.debracowan.com
"CAPELLA" 16th February 2017 8-00 pm A delightfully enjoyable night of song and laughter was had by all, as was only to be expected!
Tony and Lesley Petty are two of the finest exponents of traditional Song from the British IIsles as well as some from America, France and further afield in wonderful harmony. They have travelled England and Wales, playing at clubs and festivals, and have also appeared in France, Holland and the USA. They hold a house concert once a year, held over a weekend, in the middle of the fields of North Kent, in the house if chilly or in the barn if warmer. The concerts and singing are augmented with BBQ, horse shoe throwing (highly competitive!), boules (even more competitive!!) and SPLOT. They have, until recently, lived up to their name and sung largely unaccompanied, except with an occasional bodhran, but, shock horror, last week at Faversham Folk Club Tony played a guitar on one song is this an indicator of more accompaniment to come?!
They were to have come to us in July 2017 but they have very kindly stepped into the breach at short notice.
TOM LEWIS 12th January 2017 8-00 pm Another great night with Tom!
I am delighted to have Tom back with us again, as he showed at Deal Friday Folk last month he is an incredibly versatile and exceptionally knowledgeable folk performer and it would be entirely wrong to label him as a purely maritime performer! Tom is a 24-year veteran of Her Majesty's Royal Naval diesel submarines; although now he's comfortably located on dry land, well he is living on a narrow boat!. His maritime songs cover a wide range of nautical topics, from life on board H.M. ships, through the loneliness and lure of the sea, to traditional shanties and classic nautical poetry, set to his own, and others' melodies. Having been based in Canada for twenty plus years with regular visits to UK he is now doing it the other way round! It is great to have him back at the club.
www.tomlewis.net
STANLEY ACCRINGTON 1st December 2016 8-00 pm
Stanley has appeared at Folk At The Drum on two previous occasions, once on a regular booking some time ago and more recently as an emergency replacement for a booked guest who fell ill at the last moment but very kindly found his own replacement! What can I say about Stan, he is an amazing performer in all senses of the word and you would do best to visit his website (following the link above) to get a flavour of all his humour and singing ability. He is a very funny man with a huge fund of stories and songs, some serious, but all cleverly crafted. This is really one who must not be missed as he will give you a great start to your Christmas period! As I predicted we had a hilarious night with very clever songs written and performed by a master craftsman!!
JOHN & DI CULLEN 10th November 2016 8-00 pm
John and Di Cullen have been described as "an inspirational music partnership" performing contemporary and traditional material with harmony, humour, guitar and bowed psaltery. Their first CD, " Moonlighting", is available plus their second, "Two For The Road", which was released in November 2015. I have known them for a while through both Tonbridge Folk club and formerly when they ran "The Beacon" at Tunbridge Wells where they ran a very fine pub and were deeply involved with the running of the fortnightly Beacon Folk Club with Peter Collins. Two nicer people you couldn't wish to meet and their highly entertaining and accomplished performance is thoroughly enjoyable! Sadly I missed the night as I had to be elsewhere but I know that everyone thoroughly enjoyed themselves!
BARRON BRADY 13th October 2016 8-00 pm. Refreshing new self-penned songs mixed in with wonderful renditions of traditional song and a mix of instruments including two different harmoniums, or should that be harmonia? The larger of the two is over 100 years old and has a glorious sound. All this led to an extremely enjoyable and entertaining evening by two delightful people.
Barron Brady are Si Barron and Ros Brady, I saw them in 2014 at the Teignmouth Folk Festival when they were the support act for Martyn Wyndham-Read and I knew almost instantly that I wanted to book them. It is difficult to define what drew me to their music so quickly but I think it was their respect for traditional music and the traditional folk sound. If you look on their website you will see phrases like "interpreters of traditional English Folk Songs" and "contemporary songwriters". These are phrases that would normally make me wary but I am glad to say that from a personal and FATD perspective their performance dispelled any concern which I may have had on that score. Their musicianship and singing are excellent and their songs, whether traditional or self-penned tell stories on wide ranging subjects which really hold ones attention. Guitar, whistles and harmonium accompany their singing but the song takes precedence not the accompaniment which, in my view, is just the way it should be!
Follow the link to their website and I recommend that you look on the reviews page at the words of Kathy Dunn the Swanage Folk Festival Director who has summed them up perfectly. Then I suggest you go to the Listen page and do just that, I strongly recommend that you listen to all four tracks to get the range of their work!
I am confident that we shall have an extremely good evening with these two highly skilled young performers as our guests.
NICK DOW 15th September 2016 8-00 pm. Nick entertained us all with stories of his life in song collecting and working with wood and Gypsy caravans in particular. The previous night at Faversham he had promised not to repeat any songs whilst he was with us and he was true to his word with a highly entertaining evening of superb guitar playing and singing story songs.
Nick Dow has been a professional musician since the mid seventies and has many LP's to his credit. His career began in South London where he was a regular at The Bird in Hand folk song club, in Forest Hill. Nick is an all round professional Folk Singer and Folklorist whom I have seen on several occasions, most recently at the Teignmouth Folk Festival in 2015. I have always thoroughly enjoyed what he does and the way he introduces and presents his songs. Not only is he a great performer but he is also a great craftsman whose work building and repairing Gypsy Caravans is greatly admired. As a consequence he is a fascinating man with whom to talk when time permits.
Nick doesn't have a website so I have used the hyperlink on his name above the picture to link to him singing "Through Bushes and Through Briars" on You Tube. If you follow the link you will find lots of other songs by Nick but also some of his Gypsy Caravan activities and an interview with him on Radio Lancashire about the caravan he refurbished as a present from Ronnie Wood's wife for her husband.
JIM RADFORD 18th August 2016 8-00 pm. A highly entertaining evening was had by all when Jim came to entertain us with stories and songs from his amazing long life.
Jim is the youngest member of The Normandy Veterans Association, he was just fifteen on his first trip to sea on 6 June 1944 when he found himself as a galley boy on an ocean going rescue tug, "The Empire Larch", off Gold Beach on "D Day" ! Since then he has been an activist in many areas of life, in particular as a peace campaigner. He became a folk singer and later a song writer when he first went back to Arromanche on an anniversary of "D Day". This moved him so much that he wrote his first and most famous song "Shores of Normandy", I first heard him sing it at the Walton-on-The-Naize Maritime Song Festival in 2004 and it moved me to tears. Jim has been a friend of mine for more than twelve years since we met at The Yarmouth Maritime Festival over several years singing Sea Songs and Shanties in The Beer Tent along with Capstan Full strength who ran the singaround. The festival guests came to us and we didn't have to move, close to my idea of Folk Heaven!! Since then Jim has moved on to greater things having twice sung "Shores of Normandy" at The Royal Albert Hall in 2014 once at The British Legion's own festival and then later in the year at the Festival of Remembrance in front of the Royal Family. Last year he came to our Lifeboat Concert at Dungeness and sang it there. Most recently he was guest at the "Pig's Ear Folk and Ale" on 4th and 5th of June this year. Jim has his own Wikipedia page which is very interesting and you will find a number of his songs on You Tube, including his performance at The Royal Albert Hall which has had over 91,000 hits!
JOHN WATERSON AKA "FAKE THACKRAY" 14th July 2016 8-00 pm. What a great night we had with John, not only does he perform Jake's songs superbly but he is a highly talented performer in his own right. There were tears before the end of the evening, tears of laughter!! We shall definitely be having him back before too long!
I first saw John Waterson, aka Fake Thackray, live at "The Pigs Ear" Festival in 2014 and his performance confirmed the view I had formed by listening to clips on You Tube, I wanted to book him as his presentation live is outstanding!
John has performed the songs of Jake Thackray at festivals, concerts, clubs, after dinner venues and – most especially – to members of Jake's family.
Jake's songs are exquisitely funny, satirical, incisive, irreverent, witty and gloriously un-PC – and sometimes all of these at the same time. Jake was a one off, his poetry broke the rules yet worked beautifully. He was a true craftsman of the English language, and his legacy of scores of songs continues to delight audiences of all ages today.
Here are a couple of appreciative quotes:
"My family and I really appreciate your approach to Dads work and hugely enjoy watching your performances, which, whilst in your own entertaining stage style, are very reminiscent of Jake - particularly in your timing and rhythm. Thanks very much for keeping Dads songs alive."
Sam Thackray
"Wonderful stuff, bringing some of Jake's long-forgotten gems back to life. Brilliantly performed songs, with uncannily precise enunciation, and accurately capturing the unique Thackray guitar style. If Jake was right, and there really is an afterlife, he'll undoubtedly be looking down and giving his gruff approval".
Victor Lewis Smith, Producer 'Jake on the Box' BBC 4
RIBBON ROAD 16th June 2016 8-00 pm We had a lovely night with this very gentle style of protest song and the harmonies were every bit as good as I remembered!!
"Ribbon Road " is a Family Folk Group who hail from the Border Country of Northumberland consisting of Husband and wife team Geoff and Brenda Heslop and their daughter Jill. Brenda is a wonderful songwriter, she and Geoff play guitar, Jill plays keyboards and all three sing with lovely harmonies. I saw them at Broadstairs Folk Week in 2014 and knew immediately that I wanted to book them for Folk at The Drum! I saw them several times at the Festival and became even more determined to book them. For over twenty years Brenda has been one of the underground talents of songwriting, she has a captivating voice which draws the listener into her stories of life in its many guises. Her songs are stunningly beautiful conveying compassion, triumph, sorrow and hope mixed with anger at those who abuse their power. She is also a working shepherd looking after hundreds of sheep on the hills of Northumberland! Geoff may be better known to you than you think having produced over a hundred folk albums in the last forty years with performers like Bert Jansch, Dick Gaughan, Allan Taylor and many others. A recent review of their album "No Redemption Songs " of 2012 states: "The overriding quality of the album comes from the strength of the vocals from the three members of the group. There is some understated instrumental accompaniment underpinning the songs but never distracting from the stories which are being woven." I say "Amen" to that as for me that is the very essence of Folk Music and it was exactly the reason that I was instantly attracted to their performance. On top of that they are three really nice people!! Do not miss this rare appearance in the South of England.
BOB KENWARD 12th May 2016 8-00 pm A terrific night with Bob who had kindly stepped in at short notice!
NANCY KERR & JAMES FAGAN 14th April 2016 8-00 pm As was only to be expected with twice winners of the Radio 2 Folk Awards "Best Duo",
We had a superb night with these two thoroughly professional and delightful performers!
JON HESLOP 17th March 2016 8-00 pm
Cornish resident JON HESLOP has been recognized as a major force in contemporary songwriting for over a quarter of a century. His songs are full of powerful beauty set to tunes firmly rooted in the British tradition, picked up and passed on wherever singers gather. In the UK and Ireland, and from St Austell to Australia, he and his songs are known and loved. Jon has also been a member of the Cornwall Songwriters collective since their inception in the 1990's, appearing in all three of their 'docu-dramas'. The Cry of Tin, Unsung Heroes and Cornish Lads as well as pursuing a successful solo career.
His stage presence is quiet and gentle, belying a sharp wit and droll sense of humour which surfaces in his between song chat – and even in some of his songs! Equally at home accompanying himself on guitar or bouzouki or singing a cappella, Jon's idiosyncratic approach has made him a much loved and respected character in the world of folk music.
You may not have heard of Jon Heslop but if you regularly attend folk clubs or festivals you will have heard his songs. His latest album, "NOW and AGAIN" is selling well to both established fans and newcomers to his work.
Both serious and very funny" Folk Diary (Sussex) Jon can be contacted on 07531255914 or at hslpjnthnhslp@aol.com
TROTWOOD 25th February 2016 8-00 pm We had lots of fun with this lovely French Family!
This delightful French family group have been to Deal Friday Folk many times and to other Kent clubs including Tonbridge but this is their FIRST
appearance at FATD! Having spent some time in Ireland, and returned frequently to top up their experience the family play and sing wonderful Irish tunes and songs. They also do some Scottish songs and delightful renditions of both The Skye Boat Song and "Wild Mountain Thyme" can be found on You Tube. The easiest way to access these and other "Trotwood" items on You Tube is to go to their website either by double clicking on their name above the picture or copying the link below into your browser. Once in their website click once on their name in the line
of buttons at the top of the page and this will bring up a link which takes you directly to one of their performances on You Tube
ttp://www.trotwood.eu/?babrw=trotwood-english-website
PORCH SWING BLUES 14th January 2016 8-00 pm A brilliant evening was had by all!!
Dave Ferra and Chris Berry need no introduction to Folk At The Drum! They combine to produce authentic good time music from New Orleans and beyond. http://www.daveferra.co.uk/porch-swing-blues-duo
THE CAPTAIN SWING BAND 3rd December 2015 8-00 pm They delivered a highly entertaining and educational evenings performance!
The band came together to perform the Captain Swing Show about The "Swing Riots" in Kent, a project devised, written and driven by Bob Kenward with a team of his friends who have sung with him in various guises over the years. First is Roger Resch who sang with Bob as "The Wealden Ramblers" for many years next is Sue Watson who runs Deal Folk Club and who has sung with Bob on many occasions, then comes Liz Randall, a highly accomplished singer and musician who is a stalwart of the Tonbridge and the former Beacon Folk Clubs and is well known throughout Kent and further afield. Last but by no means least is Alan Castle "Mr Tenterden Folk Festival" and mastermind of the Tenterden Folk Club. Alan is the narrator for the Captain Swing Show who provides the links between songs. Bob himself is a singer songwriter well known and highly respected throughout the country and many fine singers are proud to include a Bob Kenward song in their repertoire. Bob found he was struggling to find traditional songs about Kent, he is a Man of Kent, so he set out to write some and after many highly successful songs he came to the Captain Swing project, highly enjoyable songs which shed light on some important Kentish history!
GRAEME KNIGHTS & JIM MAGEEAN 19th November 2015 8-00 pm www.graemeknights.net Good as ever!!
Graeme was in the area recently when he ran the Dungeness Lifeboat Shanty and Sea Song Concert on 23 May 2015 which was also a memorial for our friend and his, Kerry Hearn. Jim and Graeme performed at FATD in November 2013.
Although Jim and Graeme had worked together many times over the years they officially started singing together in 2002 at Whitby Folk Week. Jim had been running the Shanty Sessions there for over 30 years and Graeme kindly offered to help out (it's a tiring and thirsty job singing shanties for 2 hours every day of the Festival) and Jim was glad to accept.They've been running these sessions together ever since and also running similar events at other Festivals around the country - Barnsley, Bedworth, Bromyard etc (and that's just the B's).
The two singers are mostly known in association with the late, great Johnny Collins who sadly passed away in July 2009 (whilst on tour in Poland with Jim). Jim had been singing in a duo with Johnny since 1975 and Graeme had also been singing with Johnny since 1999. Sometimes the three singers performed as a trio (they toured Canada as such in 2008) and the last recording Johnny made was the CD 'Good Times' with Jim and Graeme - so named because they always had such good times together.
Like Johnny, Jim and Graeme specialize in unaccompanied chorus songs. Sea Shanties, Work Songs, Union Songs, Mining Songs, Drinking Songs etc. Anything to get the audience to join in and 'Make the Rafters Roar'.
Bring your singing voices with you!
TATTERDEMALION 29th October 2015 8-00 pm A great night was had by all!!
Alistair Bailey and Roger Davenport need no introduction locally, they have been stalwarts at Folk At The Drum (FATD) for about seven years! They have also headlined at Crabble Mill Folk Nights and at The Star on Romney Marsh and they were also heavily involved in Folkestone's centenary efforts for the First World War writing some superb songs for that event. They have written songs on many other local issues and perform both these and other traditional songs with splendid harmonies and clever instrumentation. See them perform 'John Barleycorn' through a beer glass on the Admission page.
Our only puzzle for this long awaited evening is guessing just how many instruments they will have between them!!
STEVE TURNER 15th October 2015 8-00 pm http://www.steve-turner.co.uk
Steve has been to the club before but not for a while. After a break of thirteen years he started to perform in Folk Clubs and Festivals again in 2005. His latest CD, "Rim of the Wheel" was released in 2012 and is very highly regarded. His website is well worth a visit. This gig will be a must for all folkies.
MARTYN WYNDHAM-READ 17th September 2015 8-00 pm http://www.martynwyndhamread.com
Martyn needs no introduction, he played at FATD in 2013 and he has been around on the UK and Australian Folk Scenes for a very long time but he is still as good as ever, one not to be missed.
VICKI SWANN & JONNY DYER 16th July 2015 8-00 pm http://www.swan-dyer.co.uk
A really good and very versatile duo who have provided us with a brilliant night of entertainment on two previous occasions. They are well known in Kent and all over the UK.
BRAM TAYLOR 27th August 2015 8-00 pm http://www.bramtaylor.com/
LAURA SMYTH & TED KEMP 25th June 2015 8-00 pm http://lauraandted.co.uk What a great night we had!
MARTIN CURTIS 14th May 2015 8-00 pm www.martincurtis.co.nz An extremely entertaining evening!
THREE SHEETS TO THE WIND 16th April 2015 8-00 pm www.keithkendrick.com/sheets.htm
Our Major Guest for 2015!
Three Sheets To The Wind
Derek Gifford (Of the velvet tonsils) and Geoff Higginbottom (The Symphonic Foghorn)
Sea songs and shanties and all things maritime.
Derek (Captain) Gifford, Keith (rank & vile)) Kendrick and Geoff (cabin boy) Higginbottom are: Three Sheets to the Wind (Well – most of the time!) and sing and play authentic traditional sea songs and shanties for the delectation and delight of all and sundry, mostly in rowdy but harmonious form (tho' less so in the latter as the drink takes effect!) acapela or with various instrumental accompaniment.
Giff can often be seen with 'Vile' strolling down Lime Street in search of a Liverpool Packet……….Dunno about the cabin boy…..
Anyone attending their performances should be prepared to be shanghaied or press-ganged and be partial to rum and ship's biscuit (teeth and constitution permitting!)
Avast there, ye swabs!
ROY CLINGING 19th March 2015 8-00 pm www.royclinging.com
He never ceases to surprise us with the variety of his programme:
MAUREEN JONES 12th February 2015 8-00 pm
Our Own Great Local Singer and Song Writer.
LYNNE HERAUD & PAT TURNER 15th January 2015 8-00 pm
Great friends of the club, it will be great to see them back again, lots of fun and great harmony: www.lynneandpat.co.uk
JIM BAINBRIDGE 16th October 2014 8-00 pm
Jim needs no introduction having visited FATD several times. Here he is seen playing the melodeon and leading a miners' gala.
TOM McCONVILLE 18th September 2014 8-00 pm
Highly skilled fiddler and singer, first time at FATD www.tommcconville.co.uk
TOM LEWIS 21st August 2014 8-00 pm
Now back in the UK to stay, it was great to have this formerly Canadian based singer back at the club. www.tomlewis.net
MIKE NICHOLSON 17th July 2014
GEOFF HIGGINBOTTOM 12th June 2014
Geoff needs no introduction, a great friend of the club.
SCOLDS BRIDLE 15th May 2014 8-00 pm
These Lancashire lasses gave us a great night. www.scoldsbridle.co.uk
DEBRA COWAN 8-00 pm, Apr 10th 2014
Great American singer and guitarist visiting on her own this time.
NANCY KERR & JAMES FAGAN 8-00 pm, Mar 13th 2014 Nancy and James will be with us again 2016!
Fantastic internationally known duo. - http://kerrfagan.com
BARRIE & INGRID TEMPLE 8-00pm February 20th 2014
Geordie humour and great songs. - http://lfd.org.uk/temples/
PORCH SWING BLUES 8-00 pm, Jan 16th 2014
Dave Ferra and Chris Berry needed no introduction to Folk At The Drum!. http://porchswingblues.tripod.com
GRAEME KNIGHTS & JIM MAGEEAN Nov 2013
Maritime, union, mining and drinking songs at their best. www.graemeknights.net
PETE CASTLE Oct 2013
"A storyteller who sings half his stories." www.petecastle.co.uk
MARTYN WYNDHAM - READ Sep 2013
Wonderful, legendary performer. www.martynwyndhamread.com
KEITH KENDRICK & SYLVIA NEEDHAM Aug 2013
Great concertina and fabulous harmonies. www.keithkendrick.com/sylvia.ht
SUE WATSON & LIZZI STEPHENS Jul 2013
Local songstresses with a great variety of songs.
VICKI SWANN & JONNY DYER Jun 2013
Lots of different instruments and great voices. www.smallpiper.co.uk
May 2013 STANLEY ACCRINGTON
An excellent singer/song writer/humourist who stood in at the last minute after Steve Turner fell ill. www.stanleyaccrington.me.uk
April 2013 CAPELLA
Wonderful arrangements and harmonies.
March 2013 DEREK GIFFORD
'Giff' is a good friend of FATD. He has a fine voice and accompanies himself on guitar & bowed psaltery or sings unaccompanied. www.derekgifford.co.uk
Feb 2013 ROY CLINGING
A strong vocal style and adept use of the English concertina and acoustic guitar have confirmed Cheshire-based Roy as a highly respected performer and interpreter of traditional music in contemporary settings. www.royclinging.com
Jan 2013 MAUREEN JONES
We know her so well and tonight will be an opportunity to hear a lot more from this first class poet and songstress.
Dec 2012 LYNNE HERAUD & PAT TURNER
Playing guitar, recorder, English concertina and whistles (including policeman's, swanee, and referee's) they still find time to sing. www.lynneandpat.co.uk
Nov 2012 PAUL SIRMAN
Traditional and contemporary maritime songs at their best.
Oct 2012 JIM BAINBRIDGE
He has collected songs and tunes to sing and play (melodeon) from all over these Atlantic isles. See this Living Tradition article to learn more.
www.livingtradition.org.uk/tutors-jimbainbridge
Sep 2012 LOCTUP TOGETHER
An evening of folk and maritime songs with two great singers and lots of harmony. It's their twentieth anniversary. www.loctuptogether.co.uk
Aug 2012 HILARY SPENCER
Wonderful singer, great humour. The voice of 'Artisan' www.hilaryjspencer.f2s.com


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The Friends of 440 is a collegial group focused on the community of workers' compensation interests. Each year it hosts an annual Awards Banquet, and recently celebrated its fiftiethyear. This year the banquet will be October 24, 2015 at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida. The RWVP date is October 10, 2014. The Friends are honoring four individuals for their dedication to the workers' compensation marketplace and the organizations. This year's honorees are Barry A. Pemsler, Esq., Robert J. Rodriguez, Esq., Mark A. Touby, Esq., and Joan I. Valdes Esq.
This kind of announcement reminds me that workers' compensation in Florida is more than a practice, it is a community. It is populated by some really fine people who strive to make Florida a better place. I am proud of the many members of The Florida Bar who contribute to their community, our state, and this area of practice.
For more information on the Awards Banquet visit: http://www.440scholarship.org/portal/south-florida-division.


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The British mobile phone provider Vodafone is further expanding its machine network (NB-IoT) for the Internet of Things.
In the Lower Rhine region, the expansion of the machine network is already well advanced. The infrastructure in ~25 cities in the region has already been expanded to the extent that they could become smart cities. Among them large cities such as Düsseldorf and Mönchengladbach – but also smaller communities such as Kleve, Dülmen or Uedem.
By autumn 2018, Vodafone hopes to have completed the expansion of the NB-IoT network to 90% of its existing LTE infrastructure. This is an ambitious goal, but one that could offer many companies new opportunities.
As the name suggests, narrowband IoT is not designed to transmit huge amounts of data at high speeds, but to transmit small amounts of data relatively rarely reliably – even in "difficult" environments (cellars; remote locations) and over long distances.
The limitations of the data rate and transmission frequency in this narrowband method make it possible to set up and network terminals on the Internet for things that consume extremely little power and can function with a battery set for ten years or longer.
Since the transmissions to and from end devices get by with the low bandwidth, several 10,000 IoT endpoints can also be covered by a single radio cell.
NB-IoT offers the possibility to connect household appliances, industrial machines, means of transport and even people who could not be connected before. But of course all for the cost to depend on a mobile provider and its tariffs to keep the machines communicating.


There was an important new development in Somalia on September 1, 2014. The supreme commander of al-Shebab, Ahmed Godane Brawa, was killed by an American air strike while he was in his motorcade not far from the group's key strong point in Brawa.
Godane was a total tyrant and megalomaniac. Not only did he assassinate suspected opposition within the movement, he got rid of his closest associates. He also gave the movement an external focus, preferring to do terrorist attacks outside of Somalia in order to enhance his reputation in the international "Jihadist" movement. The majority of al-Shebab militants want to work within Somalia in order to establish their "Sharia" state there first.
I can't prove it, but I am sure that he was betrayed by someone close to him, probably the nominal second in command, Muktar Robow who had essentially been sidelined.
Godane's designated successor, Ahmed Umar Dirieh, has already been installed, and has sworn to take revenge against the Americans.
All this is happening against a background of slow but significant military defeats of al-Shebab by AMISOM, the coalition of African Union troops from Uganda, Burundi and Kenya. Shebab has lost most of its sources of finance and re-supply of arms.
I believe the time might be right for neutral Somali elders to reach out to some of the leaders of Shabab to try and arrange a peace deal that would grant amnesty to bring some of the leaders into the mainstream political system that is slowly taking shape in Mogadiscio. It is a long shot, but I can't think of better timing.


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Your GP will often be able to diagnose allergic rhinitis from your symptoms and your personal and family medical history.
They'll ask you whether you've noticed any triggers that seem to cause a reaction, and whether it happens at a particular place or time.
Your GP may examine the inside of your nose to check for nasal polyps.
Nasal polyps are fleshy swellings that grow from the lining of your nose or your sinuses, the small cavities inside your nose. They can be caused by the inflammation that occurs as a result of allergic rhinitis.
Allergic rhinitis is usually confirmed when medical treatment starts. If you respond well to antihistamines, it's almost certain that your symptoms are caused by an allergy.
If the exact cause of allergic rhinitis is uncertain, your GP may refer you to a hospital allergy clinic for allergy testing.
Commercial allergy testing kits aren't recommended because the testing is often of a lower standard than that provided by the NHS or an accredited private clinic.
It's also important that the test results are interpreted by a qualified healthcare professional with detailed knowledge of your symptoms and medical history.
In some cases further hospital tests may be needed to check for complications, such as nasal polyps or sinusitis.


Your cat is likely flatulent all the time and you probably haven't even noticed. However, if you start seeing or smelling gassiness in your cat, then that is probably an indication that you need to do something about it. It may not be a major problem, but it could mean that your cat needs a change of diet or some minor medical help to right their gassy tummy.
Excessive gas can be a danger to your cat, especially if it smells bad, as that usually indicates a gastrointestinal issue that needs to be dealt with.
Flatulence can be caused by a high fiber diet, a diet that consists of greasy or otherwise unhealthy foods, lactose intolerance, hairballs and poor eating habits. So, just because your cat has gas, that doesn't mean you have a major problem on your hands.
Treatment varies based on what is causing the gassiness in the first place. Your cat's vet may recommend that you change out the diet or that you just encourage different eating habits from your cat.
You may be told to get your cat out more and ensure that your furry friend exercises regularly. Just keep in mind that you should not try to fix the problem on your own, and professional advice can go a long way toward getting rid of the gassiness.
One of the most overlooked causes of cat gassiness is food allergies. If dairy disagrees with your cat, then your feline friend may start experiencing gas.
You may see bloody stool, bloating, a disinterest in food, vomiting, diarrhea and other signs that the food your cat is eating isn't agreeing with it. Dairy is one of the big culprits, but there are others.
Grains, such as rice and wheat, can trigger food allergies in cats. Your cat may also be allergic to soy, potato or even fish.
The veterinarian will likely ask that you cut a few things out of your cat's diet and then slowly introduce them one at a time to determine what is causing the indigestion, gassiness and other health problems.
Cat food allergies are more and more common these days, simply because of all the artificial flavors put into cat foods, the same ingredients being used in most commercial cat foods and the prevalence of pesticides in growing the ingredients that make up cat food.
If you aren't sure what is causing your cat to have indigestion, then get an expert on it and get your cat on a healthier diet right away.
There are some foods that are specially designed for gassy cats, and we want to show you a few of the best ones. Let's start with the dry options.
One of the biggest causes of cat flatulence is food allergies, and a limited ingredient cat food like this can be the perfect way to cut out those allergens and give your cat a more pleasant meal. Wholesome meat and veggies make up for the grains, creating a balanced meal that has all the nutrients a growing cat needs. There are also some great flavor varieties among the different options, so it should not be too hard to find something that's palatable to your cat.
You won't be able to make every cat happy with the same food, though. The limited ingredients mean that your cat may not be used to this kind of food and may reject it. Thankfully, the manufacturers will give you your money back if you aren't satisfied (or your cat just doesn't like it). If your cat does enjoy it, though, the they will be treated to a food that's nourishing and that gives them a sleek, shiny coat.
BLUE has created a limited ingredient, grain-free option for cats that keeps allergens to a minimum while providing a balanced diet for cats. It's ideal for cats that have digestive issues and may not be able to eat a lot of different foods, and it gives you a way to limit irritants while providing your cats with everything they need.
It utilizes only natural ingredients, so you won't find artificial flavoring, colors or preservatives anywhere in the ingredient list. Natural components tend to make the food more palatable and more easily digestible for your cat, as well as providing a healthy weight for them. All of BLUE's products are tested rigorously, making them some of the safest and most proven products on the market.
This specially formulated dry cat food is designed to have only a few protein sources to keep allergens and irritants to a minimum. The ingredient list contains no grains, no artificial flavoring and no artificial colors. The ingredients that are included are there for specific reasons- to provide ample protein for an active cat, to meet the dietary needs of your pet and to provide it with a glossy, healthy coat of fur.
Limited ingredients are a great option for gassy cats with wet cat food as well, and Natural Balance has a few options for you there too. As with their other limited ingredient foods, there are no grains in this, and it is made from the highest quality products. Wild meats like venison give your cat taste of meat they might not otherwise be able to enjoy if you just fed them commercial cat food. The lack of artificial ingredient ensures clean, natural food for your cat that is less likely to cause indigestion or trigger allergies.
Natural Balance has a reputation for safety testing, and each of their foods, including this one, is put through nine different tests to ensure it is right for your cat. Of course, that doesn't mean your cat is going to be happy with it. The exotic meats, wholesome ingredients and lack of artificial flavoring can actually make the food less than appealing to cats why have been raised on nothing but the biggest brands in commercial cat food. You may want to go for the smaller sizes until you are sure your cat likes this.
Nature's Variety produces this limited ingredient cat food with about every meat flavor you can think of. Even the pickiest cats ought to be able to fall in love with one of their options. Duck, rabbit, salmon, lamb, beef and chicken give your cat a huge variety of healthy, grain free food.
There are no potatoes, corn, soy or wheat in these products, making them ideal for cats with digestive problems. This diet variety may not be right for every cat, though. If your cat is already looking a bit thin, then you may want something with more carbs for them. High energy cats may require something with more protein as well, but most cats should be fine with the nutritional value and energy provision of this cat food.
Buyers should note that the formula changed recently, and that can mean that cats that loved this food or did well on it before may not be so amenable to it anymore. Most cats do just fine with this diet option, though.
With ZiwiPeak cat food, you always get grass fed meat and a host of natural ingredients. This cat food is always of very high quality and made without the use of artificial components. If you aren't sure how sensitive your cat is to certain foods, then this can be a great product to start with.
The chunky loaf style of the meat is very attractive to cats, as it gives them food that's appealing to bite into instead of mushy food that they can't get much enjoyment out of. There is no filler here, and you really do get a lot of value for your money, as you won't find a bunch of gravy taking up the space in the can.
On the downside, not all cats are going to like it, but that's true of even the finest cat food. Some cats will just be picky about what they eat, and ZiwiPeak's offerings may not be to their liking.
There are lots of ways to help your cat get over their gassiness, but it often comes down to dieting.
Giving your cat the right kind of food can make a huge difference in not only how gassy they are, but also how much energy they have and how they feel. If you want your cat to live their best life, then you will try to eliminate gassiness.
Hopefully, some of the cat food options we have detailed for you here will be palatable to your cat and affordable for you.
We tried to pick out the best choices for gas-eliminating foods, but each cat is different, and we do recommend that you take your cat to the vet if you think it has a flatulence problem.
It could be that they need more than just a change in diet, and only your cat's vet will be able to determine that.
You should realize, though, that gassiness can be a serious problem and it needs to be addressed rather than ignored in hopes that it will go away on its own.
Pay attention to your cat and ensure that it is getting the proper diet for a long and happy life.


Guwahati, February 13: Thousands of protesters across northeast started celebrations on Wednesday afternoon after the Rajya Sabha was adjourned sine die without tabling the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016.
Wth both Houses of Parliament being adjourned sine die – with no appointed date for resumption – on Wednesday, the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016, is likely to lapse. The Budget session was the last Parliament session of the present government as the Lok Sabha polls are due this summer.
The CAB, which seeks to grant citizenship to non-Muslims from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan, was passed in Lok Sabha last month and was expected to be tabled in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.
Protests against the proposed legislation had roiled the Northeast over fears that it might lead to surge of migration from Bangladesh to the region. Several of BJP's allies in the region including chief ministers of two BJP-ruled states had expressed reservation on the bill.
As soon as news broke that the Bill was not tabled in Rajya Sabha, members of All Assam Students Union (AASU), who were protesting against the proposed legislation, burst crackers and distributed sweets at the student body's head office in Guwahati.
Similar celebrations took place at several other locations where protesters took to the streets to celebrate the "historic win".
"It is a historic day and victory for democracy. Due to the protests, the government didn't dare to table the legislation. We have got a temporary relief," said AASU general secretary Lurinjyoti Gogoi.
In Assam where a BJP-led coalition is in power, close to 100 organisations and groups belonging to indigenous communities have been protesting for past few months against the Bill.
"We have won and the people of Assam and NE have won. Indian democracy and its secular credentials have won. We thank all parties and groups who supported the protests against the legislation," farmers rights activist Akhil Gogoi told journalists in New Delhi.
BJP's ally in Assam, Asom Gana Parishad, had withdrawn support to the coalition last month in protest against CAB as it felt the legislation would go against provisions of Assam Accord of 1985, which sought identification and deportation of illegal immigrants who entered the state after March 24, 1971.
While the development was welcomed by most groups, organizations of Bengali speakers in Assam, mainly in Barak Valley where there was support for CAB, blamed the BJP.
"The Centre has been fooling Bengali speakers for a long time. They (BJP) knew they didn't have majority in Rajya Sabha, so why did they not go for a joint session?" questioned Shantanu Mukherjee, coordinator of Bengali United Forum of Assam.
On January 29, ten political parties from the region including several past and present BJP allies had formed a joint front to oppose the CAB and lobby in Delhi against it.
Manipur chief minister N. Biren Singh who is heading a BJP-led coalition tweeted, "On behalf of the people of northeast and in particular Manipur, I would like to profusely thank PM Narendra Modiji, (BJP) President Amit Shahji, and HM Rajnath Singhji for not tabling the CAB and opting for consensus driven approach. We deeply appreciate your affection for NE".
Manipur had witnessed large scale protests in recent weeks against the CAB with the government clamping curfew in two districts and suspending internet services.
"We appeal to BJP to withdraw it completely for it is a question of our identity and we will not sit quietly if it is pushed again," said SM Jalal, one of the convenors of Peoples Alliance Manipur, an umbrella group protesting the legislation.
National Peoples Party president and Meghalaya chief minister Conrad Sangma who had convened the meeting of regional parties in Guwahati to oppose the CAB has emerged as the hero of the moment.
"This is a great moment for all citizens of northeast as we all stood united to oppose the CAB. I would like to thank all the people who have been working tirelessly to oppose the bill and all political parties across the country who supported our cause," Sangma said.
But senior BJP leader and Assam minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, a staunch advocate of the Bill said its non-passage would be detrimental for the state.
Dimapur, February 13: With both Houses of Parliament being adjourned sine die – with no appointed date for resumption – on Wednesday without tabling the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016, the North East Students' Organization (NESO) has termed it as a 'moral victory' for the indigenous people of North East.
NESO comprises of the Khasi Students' Union (KSU), All Assam Students' Union (AASU), Naga Students' Federation (NSF), Mizo Zirlai Pawl (MZP), Twipra Students' Federation (TSF), All Manipur Students' Union (AMSU), Garo Students' Union (GSU) and All Arunachal Pradesh Students' Union (AAPSU).
"…we can achieve in stalling this Bill is only because of the united continuous movement of the people," it said.
Stating that this also goes on to show that the Government of India will not concede to our demands on a platter but we have to fight and struggle for the protection and survival of the indigenous people of North East, the NESO also gave a strong warning to the Government of India not to adopt, implement policies which is detrimental to the interest of indigenous people of North East.
Meanwhile NESO has thanked all the component organizations who have worked very hard and sacrifice a lot to oppose the draconian Bill, and also thanked the different state governments of the North East who have taken a bold stand on the issue, notably the State Government of Meghalaya led by Conrad Sangma, Government of Mizoram led by Zoramthanga, the different students' unions, social organizations, women organizations, etc. It also expressed gratitude to Nitish Kumar, Chief Minister of Bihar and his party the JD(U), Shiv Sena, Congress (I), SP, BJD, TMC, DMK, SAD, NPP, AGP,TDP, BPF and other political parties who have extended their support in opposing the Bill.


All men (and their sons), please join us after the Good Friday service, April 19, for the annual Men's Watch. Jesus asked his disciples in the Garden of Gethsemane, 'Could you not watch with me one hour?' It is from this question that the Men's Watch has been established.
This year, Brad Gregory will be leading us through a series of teachings and meditations on the meaning of the cross as we seek to center our hearts on the importance of Good Friday for our faith. Through a study of key passages from Paul's letters we'll explore what the crucifixion reveals to us about ourselves, our sin, and who God is.
Bring a Bible and a journal! Also bring friends! We also want to challenge men outside of our All Saints' congregation, and encourage them to join our fellowship in Loving, Growing, and Serving the Lord!
The watch will end around midnight.


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An ambitious young man (Harman Baweja) hatches a scheme to dethrone the top gangster and take his place.
Dishkiyaoon is a Bollywood crime action film written and directed by debutant Sanamjit Singh Talwar, and produced by Shilpa Shettyand her husband Raj Kundra along with Eros International. The film features Harman Baweja, debutant Ayesha Khanna, Aditya Pancholi, Sunny Deol and Prashant Narayanan in the lead roles. The storyline is based upon the Mumbai underworld. Originally set to be released on 10 January 2014, the film experienced delays and was eventually released on 28 March 2014.


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The perennial favourite Aga – October is here and its time to crank up those Agas. This course is one of our most popular every year. Helen Manning is now a familiar face to us as she assists Paul in the finer points of Aga cooking. From hearty stews and casseroles to baking and slow cooking, this is the course that shows you how to make the most of your Aga. Followed by lunch.


In this sense, for Canali, working environment is a key field to focus on. Therefore, he gives priority to the needs of the people who are going to live in the spaces designed by him. It's not strange to discover in his designs trees and bushes in rooftops and stairs, as well as terraces and interior gardens, being his reinterpretation of the archetypical patio of a Roman domus.
Teaching has also been another of Guido Canali's focal points. Once a lecturer at the Parma University, he is currently a full professor of architectonic composition at the Architecture Department at the Ferrara University.
Nevertheless, the name Canali has become so well-known thanks to the iconic knob he designed for Smeg®. This handle sets aside other conventional serigraphic brands, as his creator developed them with functionality and practicality for the final consumer in mind.
For more than 30 years, Guido Canali has contributed his genius and his broad knowledge of architecture to the esthetic design of kitchen appliances for the renowned Italian brand. The architect, for whom the beauty of the art is not at odds with the ingenuity and technological pragmatism, is also the artificer of line "Classic" by Smeg®. This product line, made up of items characterized by the timelessness and elegance of its lines, compact volumes, strict forms, sober and essential design, makes any kitchen take center stage.
His ability to conceive the design of parts and objects and his understanding of the space won him a vast number of awards and acknowledgements, among which: the Piranesi Prix de Rome (2011), Venice Biennale, Padua, Monaco and Mainz; Architecture Gold Medal, Triennale di Milano (2003, 2006 and 2009), Fritz Schumacher Preis (2004), Gold Compass (2004) and Inarch Award (1989-1990, 1991-1992), to name a few.
Enjoy an interview Smeg® made to a star architect at their own headquarters! In this video, Canali shares insights into his creations for the brand, as well as his esthetic concept of design and functional architecture.


A great book for children of all ages! A great book for anyone who is learning English! The Giraffe's Neck is fun to read from the beginning to the end. When we finish reading the poems, we just want to ask for more. The poems are colorful and full of life, and we can see the characters as if they were jumping out of the pages. Enjoy The giraffe's neck again and agian. You'll never get tired of it.


a banjo man kind of day | is there any more pie?
Posted on February 24, 2018	by is there any more pie?
Last Saturday I told Banjo Man I was taking him on a Mystery Ride, but in order to do that he would have to be ready to leave the house by 9:30 AM.
Such a thing is not in Banjo Man's Saturday nature. He usually does paperwork in his office and then rushes to the dump at 2:30. After that he is ready to prowl around two or three grocery stores.
Such things are not in my Saturday nature. Hence the idea of doing something together was a real occasion.
To add to the perfection of "his day", we loaded the car with stuff to donate to big Brothers & Sisters, plus a load of garbage to take to the dump. I had my coffee; he had his water. Mini road trip!
Once that was done and the car was empty, we headed north to the Navy SeaBee museum. We'd tried to go there a couple of other times but it was always closed. This time I had looked up the winter hours and discovered they were open from 9:30-2:00 Wednesdays and Saturdays. It's in North Kingstown, close to the Davisville site of the original SeaBee base.
He operated much bigger equipment than this in Viet Nam, but I made him pose in front of it anyway.
See the hat and gloves? He still has–and uses–his.
I hoped to find patches I could use to personalize the quilt I'm working on for him.
Kohl's is next door to the museum and we hit the Early Bird President's Day Sale, buying $32 shirts for $9 each.
Banjo Man was filled with joy (he is a bit of a clotheshorse). We ate salads at Subway, picked up a few groceries at Walmart and headed home.
Dinner with Jeff and Angela was next, with Banjo Man's perfect day capped off with four hours (!!!!!) playing cards after dinner. Accompanied by a lovely bottle (or two, ahem) of wine.
I'm not sure what I'd do or where I would go on "my" day. But it would probably involve fabric, pepperoni pizza and live music.
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No better gift than time together. So thoughtful of you, K. Love the photos.
He loved posing for those pics! It was such a fun day, from start to finish. We need to do more Saturday trips together. Thank you for commenting!!!


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Waller trains first runner for Aquis Farm
Chris Waller will welcome Aquis Farm as a new client when Colosimo debuts for his all-conquering stable at Randwick.
Colosimo, a promising two-year-old filly, lines up in the ATC Member For A Day Handicap after being switched from Eagle Farm trainer Steven O'Dea.
"Aquis are starting to spread their wings, they've got a serious management group there now, they've got good systems in place," Waller said.
"It is a privilege to be one of their trainers."
Colosimo won on debut at the Gold Coast in November and the following month scored over 1200m at Eagle Farm.
She then finished ninth in the Group Three BJ McLachlan Stakes on New Year's Eve.
Since arriving at Waller's stable, Colosimo has won both her barrier trials, an encouraging pointer as the TAB's $3.80 second favourite prepares to step out in a small field.
Waller is also challenging gelding Gresham to break his duck when stepping up to a Saturday-grade race for the first time.
"He ran really well first-up at Kembla Grange, but it's a bit ambitious taking on the Saturday horses," Waller said.
Gresham was a $7 chance on Thursday while the Peter and Paul Snowden-trained Dracarys leads the market at $3.50.
Waller's Randwick team also includes consistent three-year-old Aquatic, a $6 chance in the Schweppes Handicap.
"Coming back in distance is my only concern but he's racing really well."
Waller will double in the #attheraces Handicap with Hollywood Bound ($51) and Dubaiinstyle ($8) as they continue their comebacks from long-term injury lay-offs.
"Dubaiinstyle's run was just a little bit sharper than Hollywood Bound first-up," Waller said.
"That suggests he could run in the top three, but whether he's got the rock-hard fitness to win, I don't know."
Randwick was rated in the soft range on Thursday with sound prospects of an upgrade.

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So following on from my first YouTube video showing the main instrument panel all lit up I thought that now the engine LEDs were all soldered up and the engines glued up I had better test the LED's were still working!
As you can see they're all running fine, the one on the bottom right is sitting a little further back in the engine that the others but I don't think that it is worth trying to pull apart the engines now the glue is set to adjust, other than that there is still some light bleed where either I didn't get an even coat of the metallics inside the engines or I have thinned the wall too much. What ever the cause I am hoping a couple coats of my new AK Primer with Microfillers will solve the issue.
With the cockpit all painted up It was time to route the cables and fibre optics. I know the pilots helmets not right and it will be fixed but anyway here's a couple of pics of where I'm at. Now I'm off to get some LEDs wired up and get some tests run.
So I tested an LED in situ and there was significant amounts of light bleeding through the bare plastic so I have painted the insides of the engines with a couple of coats of metallic paint to try and reduce this effect, I still have some spots that I am concerned about due to the wall thickness but I am hoping using a primer on the outside that contains micro fillers should sort that out… fingers crossed!
So I have dry fit the main components to see where I need to remove material to make way for the LEDs and running the wires. I also drilled the holes in the instrument panel for the fibre optics!
So there's not much room in this in little kit for putting lights in so here are the main parts that are going to need butchered.. err I mean modified to make room, as you can see I have already made a start by removing the front locating pin in the engine nacelle, I think I am going to have to thin the walls a little too in order for a 3mm LED to fit.
Ok so I am kind of determined to get a model kit lit up with some LED's but I don't really want to build any of my larger scale stuff at the moment so off the back of the relatively quick building TIE Fighter I thought I might try my hand at Revell's 1:112 (what kind of scale is that?) X-Wing Fighter and I am going to try chucking a few LED's and some Fibre Optics at this one to see what great disaster I can conjure up with a soldering iron and model kit!
Its's a cheap kit, very simple to build but if I can pull the idea in my head off it should look reasonably good I think. Anyway I forgot to take a sprue and box shot before I starting cutting parts off the sprues so heres a much prettier picture of the box than I would have ever managed.


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California cuisine complements an extensive wine list.
: Longtime owners Chick, Ron and Debbie Marshall have kept much of the restaurant's original décor, which now seems outdated, with kitschy '70s art and horseshoe booths. Through it all, chef Scott Raczek continues cooking up his signature and seasonal dishes, as well as baking artisan breads and growing herbs for his sauces. Regulars start with the grilled day boat scallops, served with roasted carrot purée, picked red onions and micro greens. The soft shell crab salad tossed in a balsamic vinaigrette makes for a good transition into the main course. It's hard to find good lobster in OC, so don't miss out on adding a tender and smoky lobster tail to your Prime New York steak, rack of Colorado lamb or prime rib. With a 25,000-bottle cellar, Mr. Stox has an extraordinary wine list featuring bottles from around the world. This restaurant is a draw for conventioneers and out-of-towners, as well as having one of the busiest event schedules in town.


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Viola Davis as Annalise Keating in ABC's 'How to Get Away with Murder'
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How to Get Away with Murder, a new ABC legal drama produced by Shonda Rhimes (famous as the woman behind the popular Grey's Anatomy and Scandal), is gaining popularity quickly in the ratings and at FHS.
"I would want to watch the show because it seems so popular," said Emily Mariano, "And many people have told me it's really good."
The show stars Viola Davis, an actress with two Academy Award nominations, including one for her role as Aibileen Clark in The Help, as defense attorney and law teacher Annalise Keating. Keating selects five students from her Criminal Law 100 class to work at her firm, and they fight each other while working on Annalise's cases for her favor.
The story goes between the students working at Annalise's firm and in class, taking on cases with the background of the murder of Lila Stangard, a student from their school, and to a night several months later, where four of Annalise's students (Wes Gibbins, Michaela Pratt, Laurel Castillo, and Connor Walsh) have murdered Annalise's husband Sam and are trying to cover their tracks.
FHS students will recognize Alfred Enoch, famous for his roll as Dean Thomas in the Harry Potter movies, in his role as law student Wes Gibbins.
How to Get Away with Murder uses similar elements from Grey's Anatomy, including soap opera-like suspense and sexual intrigue. Like other law shows, the legal procedures are dramatized, but entertaining.
Rhimes's diversity in characters also carries over into How to Get Away with Murder.
The main cast includes four black characters: Davis's Annalise Keating, Enoch's Wes Gibbins, Aja Naomi King's Michaela Pratt, and Billy Brown's Nate Lahey.
"I think there's becoming more racial diversity on television, especially in kids' shows" said junior Emily Bauer.
The show also has a large number of diverse female characters including Annalise, Michaela, Liza Weil as Annalise's associate Bonnie Winterbottom, and Karla Souza as Laurel Castillo.
"I think the genders are being treated the same on more shows, because the goofy characters or the main characters tend to be split between the genders." said Bauer.
Contributing to diversity in sexuality, Jack Falahee's Connor Walsh, an ambitious and openly gay student, is shown explicitly to be in several relationships with other men, something rare on television and in movies (Grey's Anatomy also has several gay and bisexual characters).
Matt McGorry, from Netflix series Orange is the New Black, also stars on the show as the fifth law student, Asher Millstone.
Metacritic gives How to Get Away with Murder generally favorable reviews, and although other reviews are mixed, nearly every critic agrees that Viola Davis's incredible performance makes the show.
How to Get Away with Murder airs Thursdays at 10/9c on ABC.
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