There you go Martyn.. hope it cheers you up a wee bit.. I wrote the last tune for The last Para Handy series!

The Bluejay etc.

Here is a preview of what is to be expected from our latest album, 'Cherry Jam'. Available soon! 

Track List:
Old West Side
Poor Old Horse
Cou Cou
Oh Susannah!
Liddle's Wood
Wagon Wheel
Wylam Dilly
Sway
Waiting for the Federals
Hard Times
Jambalaya

Cherry Jam Preview

Some tracks from me and the lads.. happy times. Me, Foss Paterson, Davey Paton, Neil Hay, John Henderson, Kevin Wilkinson, Taj Wyzgowski.. in various configs. 

05 Theo's Lullaby

12 My Lily

Written in the 1980s by Tom Fry, my elder brother.
It's kind of 'Byker & Western'

The Old Wooden Netty

Caledonia Sample

Two hornpipes played on the a Hohner Liliput melodeon which had been restored and re-tuned to DG

High Level Hornpipe + The Pear Tree

Dave

There’s a building there where it shouldn’t be
It’s not an old folks home or a factory
It’s a block of flats facing out to sea
Where the old bay used to be.

There was a place in Cullercoats, a lovely old hotel 
And if you knew it, then you knew it
And I knew it well

A place to go, a place to be, and folk with tales to tell
And if you knew it, then you knew it
And I knew it well

So when the word was going round that this old place would soon be down
I booked a night upon the second floor.
And in the morning it was there, a view that made me stop and stare.
At the sunrise lighting up the harbor walls
Just a memory now but mine forever more.
 
But then they called last orders and they rang time with the bell
They locked the doors, turned out the lights and bid us all farewell,
But as long as I remember I’ll still have this tale to tell
And if you knew it, then you knew it,
And I knew it well.
If you knew it, then you knew it,
And I knew it well
Yes if you knew it, then you knew it,
And I knew it well.

The Old Bay

A radical history tour of Hexham revealing revolting peasants, a cookery class war, slavery, fascism  and much much more. written by Mark Benjamin as part of the first Tynedale Transformed festival in 2020. for more go to www.tynedaletransformed.org

The Trouble with Hexham. Audio Tour

Folk singer from Northumberland.
Plays Accordion and English Concertina.
Special interest in old Tyneside songs.

The Old Wooden Netty

Stephen W Fry

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