Steve arrived back on the folk scene in 2004 after a twelve year absence, having been a profesional singer for eleven years through the 80's. His singing and concertina playing are now widley acclaimed with great reviews, his fifth album "The Whirligig of Time " was long listed for the 2008 BBC folk awards.

Martyn Wyndham-Read has been involved with folk music for over forty years. In his late teens he left his mother's farm in Sussex and headed off, with his guitar, to Australia where he worked on a sheep station Emu Springs in South Australia. It was while he was there that he heard, first hand, the old songs sung by some of the station hands at Emu Springs and he became captivated by these songs and the need to know more of them and where they came from grew.
Martyn is currently working with Shirley Collins on a production called 'Down the Lawson Track' featuring stories, poems/songs of the great Australian Poet of the People, Henry Lawson with Pip Barnes, Iris Bishop, Gary Holder and Jackie Oates.

John Conolly together with Gordon Wilson and friends, presents songs and poems of the River Humber, as part of "The Humber & The Tees; unlocking the collection." project. Paintings of the Tees region by North Yorks artist, Len Tabner, will be exhibited in the Muriel Barker Gallery at the Heritage Centre until January 2012.

Gordon local poet and author delves the depths of Grimsby's past to write a verse history of the town's fishing apprentices, an account rich in characters and characterful voices, a book of salt tears and frozen shame.
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John is an internationally-respected songwriter who has based his style firmly in the folk tradition. He has also been commissioned to write songs for radio, television and the stage – the highly-acclaimed play The Northern Trawl carried his songs to theatre audiences throughout Britain, Iceland and Scandinavia, and his songs and singing were featured in the Yorkshire Television mini-series Lincolnshire Legends.

This evening is sponsored by the "Unlocking the Collection Project" Lottery Award