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Guest : John Connolly 08 April 2005 |
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Cleethorpes-based John Conolly guested at Bingham folk club on Friday April 8th and reinforced his position as one of the UKs most respected folk performers. Armed only with his trusty vintage Guild guitar and melodeon he ran through a range of his best loved compositions |
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including 'Willie Leonard' and, of course, 'Fiddler's Green', plus
humorous anecdotes of encounters on his musical travels (The American
at Mystic Seaport who wanted to know what 'shite' was; the Irishman
in Dublin who admitted composing a parody of 'Fiddler's Green' , which
turned out to be very good).
In the opinion of this reviewer, what makes Conolly so special is not just that he has the gift of writing songs that become instant classics, but that he performs them with a genuine sincerity and natural warmth that makes an audience feel good. It looks easy, but it isn't. He was even complementary about the pub's leftover Christmas lights (a string of bulbs around two walls) ''Hmmm, twice as many as we have at Cleethorpes !". Review by : Brian Spencer |
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