Barry Goodman and Nick Lawrence

English folk supremo Barry Goodman returns to the club to lead our special St George’s Night celebration. Tonight Barry and Gill will be giving their illustrated talk “Down the Canal”, the story of Britain’s canals with original songs and pictures interspersed throughout.

From foot-stomping folk to heartfelt ballads to historical commentary and story telling, Nick Lawrence draws from the well of traditional and contemporary folk to compose his songs. His compositions evoke images of centuries gone by, be that wassailing in the winter, the re-telling of Viking raids in Kent, or spurned love.

In this past year, Nick has travelled around the UK performing at festivals such as England’s Medieval Festival, UK West Coast Folk Festival, Ely Folk Festival (where Nick won the Spotlight Competition), Filey Folk Festival, Sandwich Folk & Ale Festival and Rochester Sweeps Festival.