Dave & Julie Evardson
Dave and Julie started performing at the club in the early seventies, and have been regulars for most of the
intervening years. Encouragement from established performers like John Conolly, Bill Meek, Frank Singleton
and Paul Bellamy spurred them on to expand their repertoire of harmony, local and comic songs. Following
John & Bill’s example, Dave went on to write songs of his own, several of which have now been recorded by
leading folk performers. Dave & Julie like to keep their repertoire evolving, and are always keen to learn
new songs for the Grimsby audience – they hope it’s a recipe for staying young!
Paul Bellamy & Lynn Haynes
This brother & sister duo started performing at Grimsby folk club when they were teenagers. They were both
members of The Galley and Force Four, groups sadly no longer performing together. They stopped singing
together for a time while Lynn branched out into other areas of music and Paul joined with local musician
Mark Campbell and together performed at various folk clubs and Cleethorpes Folk Festival. Paul also spent
many years playing fiddle with the Broadside Ceilidh Band and now plays regularly with The Little Band.
Lynn and Paul have both appeared in many musicals at the Grimsby Auditorium with Silhouettes Operatic
Society, often playing major roles. Lynn is also a member of the Grimsby Philharmonic choir.
Now they are singing together again at the folk club with a repertoire of contemporary & traditional
material accompanied by Paul on guitar.
Geoff Turner
Geoff returned to the Grimsby area in January 1983 and since then has been a regular performer at the
Grimsby folk Club, in recent years becoming a Resident and MC. Before that he had been a regular at
The White Horse Folk Club in Beverley.
He sings traditional and contemporary material, usually unaccompanied and has a penchant for the
'traditional' style songs of writers like Keith Marsden, Graeme Miles, Peter Bond and Jim Hancock.
As well as performing as a solo singer, Geoff is a member of the group 'The Roaring Forties', who mainly
perform material with a maritime flavour.
Geoff is well known as a host of singarounds and folk clubs at folk festivals. Over the years these have
included Beverley, Moor and Coast, Saddleworth and the evening singarounds at Willys, Cleethorpes. With
the Roaring Forties he has also appeared at numerous maritime festivals, including Lancaster, Hull, Plymouth,
Mumbles and Maryport.
For one Saturday every January (and, in recent years, in June/July as well) Geoff dons a wig, dress and other
female adornments, blackens his face, and tours various locations in North Lincolnshire as Dame Jane in the
oleby Plough Jag. To contact Geoff, Tel: 01472 505184 or E-mail geoff.turner23@ntlworld.com