Barnsley Folk and Acoustic Night   Folk, Roots and Acoustic Music   Mondays, The Shaw Inn (upstairs room)   Racecommon Rd, Barnsley S70 6AE   Every Week: - Music Session 8 – 9pm all abilities.   Open Floor Singers and Solo Musicians 9 pm    All Welcome, Occasional Gigs   Run by Barnsley Folk Club

BOM-Fest is on again this year 19th July - Line up to be announced soon -  Sponsors and volunteers are still needed - see the BOM Fest website for further details;   

Mondays are now 'Folk and Acoustic Nights',  no change to the evenings, just that the name reflects better what happens, but 'we' are still Barnsley Folk Club, if that makes sense.....
 
We have another BFC website - on myspace -   http://www.myspace.com/barnsleyfolkclub

The Shaw are now selling Acorn Brewery's award-winning Old Moor Porter again, which has made Sarah very happy

 
Guests / Events
as well as the weekly sessions ....

Mon 12th May - George Papavgeris

Mon 23rd June - Tom Bliss

Non-BF&AN promotions .....

What to expect:

Normal Monday Nights

8 pm - Music session from 8 to 9 pm, everyone welcome from beginners to professionals. Mainly trad British tunes, some American.

9 pm -Singers and Musicians - Open Floor - Everyone who turns up gets the chance to perform or you can just listen.
 

All styles of music are welcome - from traditional songs and tunes to Blues, original material, Ragtime, 60's folk, covers of contempory songs, Cajun, anything really,including the occasional bit of Jazz (not had any death metal yet though- difficult to do death metal acoustic).  Live music is what it's all about we're not going to argue about what's folk music and what isn't  (cue a quote I've completely forgotten from Louis Armstrong).

The environment is ideal for new singers and musicians to practice performing in front of a friendly audience, or for experienced performers to try out new songs. The room we meet in has a domed ceiling, giving excellent acoustics (buffalo horns now sadly missing).

There is no admission charge, but Ray's hat gets passed around at half time and most people put a pound in, or what they can afford. Barnsley Folk Club is a not for profit organisation, money raised goes towards paying for the performers on guest nights.

 
Guest Nights (about every six weeks)

Guest nights are really informal gigs, the artist usually does two sets, with short open mike slots before each one and a break in the middle.

We take pride in providing a broad range of quality acts at an affordable admission price (unless it's one of our occasional ticketed events at the KEEL). Again there is no formal admission charge, we normally suggest a contribution of £4, or whatever people can afford. Doors open 8:00pm, music session until 8:30.

Who Comes?

Everyone is welcome. You don't have to be a member - the 'members' are the people that run the club, choose guests, etc - if you are interested, let us know and we'll tell you when the next meeting is

Disabled Access - The room we use in upstairs and therefore, regrettably, very limited in terms of disabled access.  We are, however, attempting to address this and have started holding some singers nights downstairs (it depends on whether the pool team is home or away!).

Where to find us:

By road: Junction 37 of the M1 (Barnsley) – follow signs to Barnsley for ¾ mile, turn right into Shaw Lane, continue to the T-junction (2/3 mile) the pub is on the LHS.

From Barnsley Transport Interchange: its about a 15 min walk - email webmaster for directions.
 

Mailing List

If you want to get the occasional email with upcoming guests and events, please send a quick email to the contact address
 

Contact: barnsleyfolk@sandlizard.f9.co.uk
 

Links:

Our logo was designed by Artist  Viv Owen

Barnsley links

Barnsley Links  - Links to Barnsley related sites

Barnsley Soundbites - Aternative music listings site for Barnsley

BOM Fest Barnsley Original Music Festival

Barnsley Campaign for Real Ale - Organise visits to pubs and breweries around
 
 
Folkie Links

 The South Yorkshire Festival of Music and Dance

 South Yorkshire Folk

Yorkshire Folk Arts Website

South Riding Folk Arts Network

FYRISH - Folk Duo, and BFC regulars

Mudcat - Folk website with bulletin board - to find Barnsley threads, put 'Barnsley' and '1 year' in the filters and you will find them

Treebeard - Sheffield based 'Heavy Wood' as they call it, folk, rock and very silly hats.  Play mainly social clubs around the Sheffield area + some fests. They do a mean version of The Devil Goes Down to Georgia.