Songwriter - Poet - Playwright
Feb 2025 over 100 in Cottingham attended the first performance of my new one-hour presentation with music and poems: "What D'You Mean, Yorkshire?" This is now on offer in Yorkshire and beyond, and was well received at "Big Ideas By The Sea" in Scarborough in May.
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I sang some of my songs on 21 June at Scalby Fair Day in the Methodist Church, and will next appear on Sat 2 August at the new "Thriddingsfest" in the evening at St John's Church, Ben Rhydding
On August I returned for a 3-4pm hour at Scarborough's Mojo's Music Cafe.
​In September I returned to Saltaire Festival, revivng a musical/watery walkbout with Steve- Scott-Bottoms
The Scarborough Folk Club has recovered from Covid, and is renamed Folk Around the Room (with a Facebook page) now at the Westover Club, YO12 5AA 7.30pm on the 3rd Sunday evening of the month.
An Event close to my heart. My sig
tune is "Bradford Beck"
Sat Feb 3 2024, sang my originals at Mojo's Music Cafe in Scarborough and returned on Sat 31 Sept 2025 3 to 4pm and will return later in 2026
My music has twice been used for sound effects in Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream at Bradford Cathedral .
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Recent performances:
Sang my "Scarborough Jazz" and some Fats Waller at the Cask in Scarborough at the Jazz Club's Jam Night. Will be there again 16 April '25 with a live contribution
For an hour I was "Ringing Bells for Brontës" at the piano at Leeds Playhouse, as part of their 1001 Stories project. Film of this event now on Brontës page.
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That's me on the left on board the "Southern Star" in Scarborough Harbour for a folk session with friends. They no longer do music aboard the ship, which is now dedicated fully to a super marine project called Seagrown, which is worth knowing about - here's my song about it.
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​​My play "AIREY TALES" was premiered at Saltaire Festival in September 2021, on Theatre page and on my YouTube channel
TRACKING THE BRONTES has by now completed 50 performances, starting out in West Yorkshire and now in the East Riding and North Yorkshire, including Scarborough's Woodend, Whitby Fine Arts Society Ryedale U3A, Hull and Kirby Misperton U3A, was also seen by a packed Memorial Hall at Beverley, and went to Guisborough U3A, to Friends of Scarborough Library and to E Yorks Family History Society. It's been to Cottingham Methodist Friendship Group, to St Martin's Scarborough, and thence to South Cave U3A, to Swanland and to the Probus Club in Pickering. Driffield too. Available for more bookings for yoruo organisation, just ask.
Have appeared at SCALBY FOLK WEEKEND at the Nag's Head singing some of my originals, and at SCALBY FAIR .
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Sang some of my "Yorkshire" songs at the National Dialect Festival , Bridlington.
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"Salts Waters" popped up again at Bradford Rowing Club (this is an excellent guide to a walk from and back to Saltaire), and I brought a new presentation "Saltaire and Scarborough" to St Andrews Church Fellowship Scarborough. That also has been to Osgodby Community Centre, and its next outing was for Scarborough Civic Society in November 2025 at Woodend, Scarborough
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"Two Tykes on t'Loose" has been on t'loose at St Peter's Church Hall Shipley, at Dewsbury U3A and at Shaggy Dog Storytellers, Stubbing Wharf, Hebden Bridge, and a version of this appeared at Scarborough Library not long ago.
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My "What D'You MEAN, Yorkshire?" has several bookings for 2026 and is available for more.
