Atherstone Folk Club

Sally Ironmonger & Brian Carter

Sally is a singer-songwriter based in Medway, writing and performing with Brian Carter, her long suffering husband, guitarist, and musical director. Their aim is to entertain, with songs that make you laugh, or cry, or just think – and make a connection with listeners and audiences.

They tend to get categorised as folk musicians – I guess because what they do tends to be stripped down, unplugged, story based.  Let’s not get into a debate about what folk music is, suffice to say that what they do is contemporary, with a nod to traditional themes. And they often sing stuff that people like to join in with.

Brian has worked as a professional and semi-professional musician all of his adult life. Over the years he has developed a style which fuses jazz, folk & Latin to produce a unique mix of melody and bass rhythms. Sally only really found her wings since they met in the 1990s – although she always loved to sing, and strummed guitar to accompany herself, it was Brian who promised to ‘put Sally’s name up in chalk’.

Over the years they have written commissions for BBC documentaries and Broadstairs Folk Week, and have been supporting artists for Belshazzar’s Feast, Barbara Dickson, Jacqui McShee, Chris Wood & Jez Lowe. They also won the Milkmaid Folk Club Folk Song competition in 2016.

Sally Ironmonger & Brian Carter

Support TBA

Floor Singers booked to perform on the night …

TBA

And your hosts, of course, are

Finger In The Jar

Formed especially as the host group for Atherstone Folk Club in June 2013, Finger In The Jar are Anne & Steve Beeson and Phil Benson.

Finger In The Jar perform as a group, as duos and as solo artists, depending on the songs being sung.

… and there are still floor-spots available!

Just email Phil and ask.

phil @ atherstonefolkclub.org.uk