DECEMBER 2023 UPDATE
Redbridge Green Fair Live Music Club 2023
Thanks to all the guests who played at our sessions between January and July this year - The Workhouse, Tony Hands, Alex Cambridge, Nigel Mear, Al Neville, Jason Rose, Marilyn Joy, Duad, Del Browne, Simon & the Astronauts, Steve Heath, St. Barnabas Band, John Drummond with Laura & Rob, RML On The Ocean, Ed Williamson, The Green Ray, The Othyrs, Dread Fury, Storm in a Teacup, Linda Moylan with Ian Montague, Chris Julien, Jacqueline Pert Jazz Trio, Loose Change String Band, Steve Rushton, The Spangles Gang, The Accidentals, Jetstone's Dark Surfers, Sue Holliday, L.A.Webber & Joanne Pooley with Gabriel Keen, Alex Keen and Ienne Hunter, Moorby Jones, Aliphi, Jane Lowery & Richard Johnson, Taking Notes, The Traveling Tilburys, Anything Goes, Wooden Hill, The Blue Hearts, This Circus Life, The Pinder Years and Claire. All these acts have contributed to an excellent first half of the 15th year of the Green Fair Music Club, each providing really varied and enjoyable sets of largely original music, as well as come great covers, which has been well-appreciated by all those people who have come along to support the Club and the musicians so far this year.
There are plenty more great acts scheduled to play over the coming months, continuing in October - watch this space for full details in the coming weeks
Events normally take place twice monthly on Friday evenings at the Cranbrook Castle Tennis Club
65 St.George's Road, (entrance in Pavilion Road) Ilford IG1 3PG (12 minutes walk from Gants Hill station down Cranbrook Road (towards Ilford), turn right along Cranbrook Rise, take second left into St George's Road; Buses 145 and 366 pass the other end of St George's Road as they travel along The Drive)
Each session features two or three diverse and talented acts in a friendly and intimate atmosphere, with a licensed bar. Great value and high quality live music entertainment!
MANY THANKS FOR AN EXCELLENT NIGHT'S MUSIC ON 22 SEPTEMBER TO THE GREEN RAY, SAM CASTELL-WARD and AYO BAMIDELE FOR KICKING OFF OUR AUTUMN SEASON FOR US!
If you missed it, check out the artists on-line:
THE GREEN RAY www.facebook.com/fragile.world1?locale=en_GB
SAM CASTELL-WARD www.samcastellward.com
AYO BAMIDELE www.ayobamidele.com https://www.youtube.com/@ayobamidele
https://ayobamidele1.bandcamp.com/
More information from Steve Collins: rgfmusicclub@gmail.com 07306 729555 www.rgf.org.uk
2023 PROGRAMME!
REDBRIDGE GREEN FAIR MUSIC CLUB
SHOWCASE NIGHT
Cranbrook Castle Tennis Club
St.George’s Rd/Pavilion Rd Ilford IG1 3PG (12 mins walk Gants Hill)
NEXT EVENT:
Friday 8 December 2023 7.45pm
PLEASE NOTE: Cash only event: admission & bar
Performers:
with Johnny Black, a respected songwriter in his own right as well as with Black Scarr; Steve and Brad from popular local band The Escape Committee, and Mark an experienced, versatile, solid-as-a-rock drummer. The band have a real passion for delivering a performance that does justice to Johnny’s powerful & hard-hitting songs, all offset by an irresistible vein of bleak humour running through the lyrics and the live show. Come along for the experience and you can tell all your friends that you’ve been well and truly ‘Per$ecuted’! https://www.youtube.com/@thepersecutedvideos/videos
THE LEYTON STONES
The Leyton Stones perform songs by Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, plus some blues standards.
Five-piece guitar band with sax & harmonica (bring your dancing shoes!)
NASHOBA DREAMS
A welcome return, now a trio with Johnnie joining Samantha & Robert, with a great variety of covers, (plus some originals?). They met and formed at Redbridge Music Lounge
LAURA Folk/soft rock/surf rock acoustic covers & originals, + seasonal twist!
Admission only £6 (Under 18’s £3, under 12’s free) cash only
Information: rgfmusicclub@gmail.com 07306 729555 www.rgf.org.uk/musicclub
Licensed Bar (cash only) No membership required Everyone welcome
***Please bring extra cash - Great raffle prizes to win in aid of MacMillan Cancer Support***
ALSO.....
Final session before Christmas: FRIDAY 22 DECEMBER 7.45pm to include:
"A CASE OF JONI" + GLADE COMMUNITY SINGERS + BOB GILBERT
Don't miss it!
ALSO A SPECIAL PRE-CHRISTMAS EVENT ON SUNDAY 10 DECEMBER:
CHRISTMAS CAROL-OKE @ Fairlop Waters
In partnership with: VISION REDBRIDGE CULTURE & LEISURE
SUNDAY 10 DECEMBER 2023, 2pm - 5pm THE BOATHOUSE, FAIRLOP WATERS COUNTRY
PARK, FOREST ROAD, BARKINGSIDE IG6 3HN
Redbridge Music Lounge & Redbridge Green Fair Music Club present: a FREE live music singalong of popular Christmas Carols for everyone to join in!
We are delighted to welcome Davida Robinson & Jason Rose, Singer/pianist duo, to host this seasonal feel-good participatory session for your enjoyment
Redbridge Midsummer Music Fest
2023 MMF weekend took place 24th and 25th June in Valentines Park - Over 30 great live music acts performed for YOUR FREE ENTERTAINMENT! Full details of acts below:
The event marked 20 years since our first event!
As in previous years we were very proud and privileged to welcome yet another stellar line-up of excellent performers to celebrate LIVE MUSIC IN REDBRIDGE in partnership once again between REDBRIDGE MUSIC LOUNGE and REDBRIDGE GREEN FAIR MUSIC CLUB!
This annual event has run every year since 2003 (except in 'COVID' years of 2020/2021), making this our 18th festival of 'Live Music for free, for fun, for everyone!'
As last year, both days of entertainment took place in Valentines Park, regularly voted as one of the top 10 'Green Flag' Parks in the country!
Full programme and location details below - as always totally free to attend on both days, each with a completely different roster of music acts.
Both days' events took place at the opposite end of the park to our popular 'Best of the Music Fest' monthly events (in the Walled Garden at Valentines Mansion, on the second Sunday of each month from April to October each year - the next free concert will be there on Sunday 8 October from 11am to 4.30pm as usual - details to follow shortly)
The closest Park entrance to the Midsummer Music Fest event is at the end of Melbourne Road Ilford IG1 4SB, but there are many entrances right around the park offering lovely walks to reach our informal music 'stages': On Saturday at the Music Lounge base in the Cranbrook Centre Garden (the former Cranbrook Bowls Club Pavilion, near the end of the Boating Lake, the opposite end of the lake from Cranbrook Road) and on Sunday at the nearby Valentines Park Cafe, ideal for a great family day out, beside the large Children's Playground, (and close to the public toilets).
We were really pleased to see many of you there during the two days, and for your support for, and appreciation of, the musicians who performed for free for your enjoyment.
Best wishes
Steve Collins and Chris Wyatt
(on behalf of Redbridge Music Lounge and Redbridge Green Fair Music Club)
(07306 729555)
SATURDAY 24 June 2023 – Cranbrook Centre Garden (former Bowls Club Pavilion), 100 metres inside Melbourne Road park entrance, (towards the Boating Lake) Valentines Park, Ilford IG1 4SB
11am to 7pm
ARTISTS APPEARING:
Steve Heath - Singer/guitarist with a selection of classic covers
Augenhaus - Indie Rock trio with original compositions
Bob Gilbert - Singer/composer rockabilly/pop/ballad/rock
Claire - Songs from various genres and decades
Ian Hollyer - Popular songs from past decades
Ellie Mason - Popular covers
Bernice - Solo singer, mellow jazz/pop standards
Dance to Inspire - Bollywood Dance troupe demonstration & participation! Marilyn Joy - Urban/experimental alt pop/rock with keyboard/keytar
Replay - Covers band – hits from across the decades!
RML on the Ocean - Jackie Flynn sings popular songs up to the 80’s
St. Barnabas Band - Community band play classical/folk/pop/jazz
Al Neville - Songs to make you laugh & cry, not necessarily at the same time!
Loose Change String Band - Bluegrass/Americana songs & music
Deja Vu - Beautiful songs of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
SUNDAY 25 June 2023 – Valentines Cafe, Valentines Park, Ilford (near Melbourne Rd park entrance 250 metres straight ahead beyond car park) 11am – 8pm
ARTISTS APPEARING:
Anything Goes - Guitar/violin duo cover romantic songs & tunes
The Workhouse - Guitar duo original music & songs in many genres!
Ayo Bamidele - Singer Songwriter acoustic soul and folk
The Traveling Tilburys - Classic rock/country tribute to Traveling Wilburys!
Sam Castell-Ward - Raw & original songs with an alternative edge
Nashoba Dreams - Male/female duo 70s/80s covers with acoustic guitar
James Harrison 2.0 - Original material/diverse influences
Laura - Folk, soft rock & surf rock acoustic covers & originals
Dread Fury - One Man Band acoustic/soul/funk/blues/hiphop
Ophelia’s Willow - Songwriter duo original & trad folk songs plus covers
Jane & Richard - Americana/folk/pop covers, vocal harmonies & guitar
Jetstone’s Dark Surfers - Guitar/drums duo play 1961 instrumental surf band!
Lizzie B and Malc C - Original songs & folk covers
The Blue Hearts - Energetic covers of popular rock, soul, R&B classics
Darklights - Melodic pop & jazz, vocal & keyboard duo
Moorby Jones - Soft rock song-writing trio (& 4th fab album coming!)
HUGE THANKS TO ALL THE ABOVE PERFORMERS AND OUR VOLUNTEERS FOR MAKING THIS GREAT EVENT POSSIBLE, AND TO ALL SUPPORTERS WHO CAME ALONG TO ENJOY ALL THE FANTASTIC FREE LIVE MUSIC - THE WEEKEND WAS AN ABSOLUTE BLAST!
Future enquiries from new music acts always welcome to Steve Collins 07306 729555 or Chris Wyatt 07929 071155
Best of the Music Fest
Redbridge Music Lounge and the Redbridge Green Fair Music Club completed our tenth season of FREE and diverse live music in October 2022 at The Walled Garden, Valentines Mansion and Gardens, Valentines Park, Emerson Road Ilford IG1 4XA
Our 2022 season of live music once a month in the Walled Garden at Valentines Mansion was completed on Sunday 9 October, our special event to raise money for the annual MacMillan Cancer Support fundraising initiative, (celebrated at events throughout the country). As in previous years, our volunteers ran a stall at our final concert last year.
THE AMAZING OUTCOME WAS £600 RAISED FROM THE COMBINED EFFORTS OF REDBRIDGE MUSIC LOUNGE AND REDBRIDGE GREEN FAIR MUSIC CLUB DURING SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER 2022! Thank you to everyone who supported and donated!
BEST OF THE MUSIC FEST 2023 SECOND SUNDAY EACH MONTH FROM SUNDAY 9 APRIL TO 8 OCTOBER
Best of the Music Fest
Redbridge Music Lounge and the Green Fair Music Club
Our 11th season of FREE and diverse live music
The Walled Garden, Valentines Mansion and Gardens
Emerson Road Ilford IG1 4XA
Sunday 8 October 2023 11am to 4.30pm was our last session this year
Performers included:
* Marilyn Joy Urban/experimental alt pop/rock with keyboard/keytar
* Steve Heath – Singer/guitarist with a selection of classic covers
* Loose Change String Band – Bluegrass/Americana songs & music
* Glade Community Singers – 20+ piece choir with popular songs
* The Blue Hearts - Energetic covers of popular rock, soul, R&B classics
* Joanne Pooley Jazz Trio – Gabriel Keen & Andy Hamill (keys & bass)
* The Leyton Stones – Rolling Stones, Dylan, & some blues standards
Today’s event supported by The Gardeners Cottage Café
All welcome – bring your picnic blanket or chairs! Some seating provided
All donations today to MacMillan Cancer Support
Please give generously
Future events planned:
To be announced - hopefully April 2024 until October 2024
(subject to funding)
Contact us: rgfmusicclub@gmail.com Phone 07306 729555
www.rmluk.org www.rgf.org.uk
2023 MONTHLY PROGRAMME IN WANSTEAD
We were pleased to provide four sessions of a new Live Music programme this year from June to September, (to coincide with the monthly Farmers Market in Wanstead High Street), at Christchurch Green Cafe, off the High Street, near Wanstead Underground Station on the first Sunday each month.
Sadly, following changes at the Green Cafe, Vision Redbridge Culture & Leisure have cancelled the final session scheduled for October.
However, at the request of Vision RCL, Redbridge Music Lounge in partnership with Redbridge Green Fair Music Club were pleased to present an alternative FREE live music programme of diverse popular music on Sunday 1 October 2023, as a follow-up to our successful initial event at Hainault Forest Country Park in May this year....
This event celebrated the continuing redevelopment of the facilities re-opened earlier this year at this beautiful Country Park.
Sunday 1 October 2023, 12 – 3.30pm at the 1856 BARN CAFE, HAINAULT FOREST COUNTRY PARK, ROMFORD ROAD, CHIGWELL IG7 4QN
ARTISTS PERFORMING:
* Darklights – Melodic popular & jazz music and original songs from male and female
vocal & keyboard duo
* Amanda Blue – popular covers and original songs accompanied on jazz keyboard by Aled Thomas
* St. Barnabas Band – multi-instrumental Community band playing classical/folk/pop/jazz songs and tunes
* Blue Roses with Bernice - jazz/blues/American songbook featuring
Gabriel Keen (keyboard), Terry Gregory (bass), Geoff Seeff (sax and violin)
Programme curated by Redbridge Music Lounge (07306 729555)
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REDBRIDGE GREEN FAIR MUSIC CLUB
SHOWCASE NIGHTS
Our Green Fair Music Club showcase sessions continue to run usually one or two Fridays each month. The format normally varies from month to month featuring some return appearances by popular previous acts as main guests, opportunities for young performers, debut appearances by acts new to us, and occasional themed nights. The programme always provides a host of class acts and fine live music as well as offering a platform for some of the brightest and best new talent, especially from the local area.
Expect the best of local rock, jazz, folk, blues, country & Americana artists (and more!) plus a diverse range of excellent support acts - watch this space (above) for news of our future programme!
Future programmes will continue to be open for new performers - please contact us at rgfmusicclub@gmail.com if you are interested in taking part in future. All musical genres welcome - solo acts, groups, ensembles
More information: Steve Collins 07306 729555.
Young people aged 16 to 25 years will always be welcome following our previous joint initiative with the Young People's Live Music Connections Project led by Redbridge Music Lounge which offered practice, support and performance opportunities for the borough's young musicians so please get in touch if you are interested
REDBRIDGE GREEN FAIR MUSIC CLUB
SHOWCASE NIGHTS
Our Green Fair Music Club showcase sessions continue to run usually one or two Fridays each month. The format normally varies from month to month featuring some return appearances by popular previous acts as main guests, opportunities for young performers, debut appearances by acts new to us, and occasional themed nights. The programme always provides a host of class acts and fine live music as well as offering a platform for some of the brightest and best new talent, especially from the local area.
Expect the best of local rock, jazz, folk, blues, country & Americana artists (and more!) plus a diverse range of excellent support acts - watch this space (above) for news of our future programme!
Future programmes will continue to be open for new performers - please contact us at rgfmusicclub@gmail.com if you are interested in taking part in future. All musical genres welcome - solo acts, groups, ensembles
More information: Steve Collins 07306 729555.
Young people aged 16 to 25 years will always be welcome following our previous joint initiative with the Young People's Live Music Connections Project led by Redbridge Music Lounge which offered practice, support and performance opportunities for the borough's young musicians so please get in touch if you are interested
BEST OF THE MUSIC FEST - the story so far....
Best of the Music Fest in the Walled Garden at Valentines Mansion began in 2013 but was unable to commence its 8th season of Sunday lunchtime/afternoon concerts in April 2020 due to the Covid 19 Pandemic - our annual season had previously run on one Sunday of every month from April until October from 11am to 4.30pm, providing free entertainment with a host of diverse live music, and normally features about 50 different acts over seven events in each year! In 2020 we eventually managed two events in August & September, and in 2021 we were pleased to be able to hold six events from May to October, and in 2022 & 2023, we were able to return to our full annual programme of 7 monthly events from April to October, bringing our total number of different live music acts featured since April 2013 to 180! Thanks are due to all those amazing and generous performers, and to our enthusiastic and appreciative loyal and ever-growing audience, and of course to our Redbridge Music Lounge volunteers who help to ensure our events continue smoothly and successfully.
Thanks very much for your continued interest in our events programmes. We hope to be able to sustain our programmes through 2024, and to continue our contribution to live music entertainment in Redbridge for another year. Take care of yourselves and our very best wishes to you. Please keep in touch, and, if you wish to be added to my e-mail group, just let me know by email or text message.
We will continue to help promote all our supporting musicians and music acts whenever and however possible.
Steve Collins & Chris Wyatt
(Redbridge Music Lounge & Redbridge Green Fair Music Club)
(07306 729555 (Steve) rgfmusicclub@gmail.com )
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