London folk clubs

Sweet Thames online reminiscence event with Martin and Eliza Carthy

On Thursday 11th May 2023 we will be hosting our second Sweet Thames: The London Folk Club Heritage Reminiscence Event on Zoom between 6:30pm and 8:30pm. The main purpose of this is to include club audiences, regulars, hosts and performers, who are now situated outside of London, in the Sweet Thames project. It is also …

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Sweet Thames performance & final celebration event with Ewan Wardrop

Kennedy Hall, Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent’s Park Road, London, NW1 7AY Saturday 3rd June, 2023. Doors open 6:30pm with a 7pm start. This fun-filled performance event draws on the twenty-five recently collected oral history interviews for the Sweet Thames project hosted by Star Creative Heritage, funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and supported …

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Sweet Thames exhibition launch 11th February 2023 – report

We had a full house for the Sweet Thames exhibition launch on Saturday at Cecil Sharp House in Storrow Hall, coincidentally where one of the earliest London folk clubs ‘The Cellar’ began in the mid-1950s. The project team had fun setting up the exhibition banners, folk club bunting and audio posts in good time for …

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Sweet Thames Online Reminiscence Event with special guest Peggy Seeger

On Friday 23rd September we will be hosting a Sweet Thames: The London Folk Club Heritage Reminiscence Event on Zoom between 6pm and 8pm. The main purpose of this is to include club audiences, regulars, hosts and performers, who are now situated outside of London, in the Sweet Thames project. It is also open to …

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