Cherry Potts, Writer

Tag: Lester Simpson

  • Join In: Folk Song Workshop for Winter

    LESTER SIMPSON FOLK SONG WORKSHOP SECULAR WINTER SONGS LEARN AROUND 5 SONGS SATURDAY 28TH NOVEMBER 2015 12:45- 17:15 ST HILDA’S CHURCH HALL COURTRAI ROAD SE23 1NL bus routes 122, P4, 171, 172 stop on the corner. train to Crofton Park or Honor Oak Park 10 minute walk. advanced booking required Book Here £25 INCLUDES REFRESHMENTS all…

  • Pretending poetry, songs of liberty and Ursula le Guin

    The thing about running your own business is that holidays become almost entirely theoretical. It’s a holiday to leave the computer for long enough to hang out the washing on a sunny day, it’s a holiday to take the long way to the post office, it’s a holiday to read something that isn’t for work,…

  • Celebrate 800 years of Magna Carta in song

    Join Lester Simpson of Coope Boyes & Simpson in celebrating 800 years of Magna Carta with Songs of Liberty A Folk Song Workshop St Hilda’s Church Hall Courtrai Road London SE23 1NL Saturday 18th April 2015 12:45- 5:15 £25 Tickets available here advance booking essential  

  • Listening between the notes

    Monday Night, Croydon Folk Club, Coope Boyes & Simpson gig. I know I spend a lot of time writing about music, but there is method in it. In the right circumstances, and these were they, being in the front row, singing along with professional musicians who encourage joining in, not only do the spirits lift,…

  • Festive Spirits

    Christmas is all about singing for me, either performing, or in the audience.  This year was no exception, starting with a superb workshop of traditional folk carols with Lester Simpson on the 1st December. We learnt Adam Lay ybounden (15th Century),  Dunstan Lullaby (very simple, very effective) and a couple of variants of While Shepherds…

  • Gearing up for Yule

    I don’t care how many shopping days, what matters now is, how many singing days are there til the Solstice? And how many reading days? My evenings are  split roughly equally between singing and promoting the books between now and Christmas. Rehearsals every Monday for Vivaldi Gloria at Blackheath Halls Christmas Concert Tuesdays at the…

  • The Singing Season

    Not that the singing season ever went away, it’s a bit like football, the break gets shorter all the time; but we didn’t do Sing for Water this year because of A’s broken leg, so larynx and lungs feeling a bit under used. So the good news is that Raise the Roof is back next…

  • Lester in Brockley (and Croydon)

    Light relief from nursing A (she wouldn’t agree I’m nursing, but that’s shorthand for everything I wouldn’t normally do, and am now doing at high speed and with one arm strapped up and the other coming out in sympathy) five happy hours, round the corner at St Hilda’s church hall, learning new songs with Lester…