THE CUCKOO'S NEST FOLK CLUB

2011/2012 Concert Season
(Our 18th Season at Chaucer's)
(artists and dates may be subject to change)
Map to Chaucer's (click here)

Brian Pickell & Friends (Shane Cook & Jake Charron)

Sun. Feb. 5, 7:30 pm
Chaucer's, 122 Carling Street, London
$15 Advance/ $18 Door

Advance tickets can be purchased at
Centennial Hall Box Office, Chapters North (Masonville), Grooves, The Village Idiot, and Chaucer's/Marienbad Restaurant
TO PURCHASE ON LINE - Click on the ticket ==>

Brian Pickell has been playing and composing traditional music for over twenty-five years. In the 1970s, he was a founding member of the Humber River Valley Boys who played from Atlantic to Pacific and produced three vinyl albums. They played all of the major Folk and Bluegrass festivals. For several years, Brian has been involved with the teaching of composition, guitar and mandolin at venues such as the Goderich Celtic Roots Festival, Northwest Fiddlefest in Smithers, British Columbia, and AlgomaTrad Music & Dance Family Camp. Brian’s compositions are now being played and recorded widely: Deaf Shepherd (Scotland), Tony McManus, arguably the greatest guitarist in Celtic music (Scotland), Liz Doherty (USA/Ireland), Pierre Schryer (Canada) and numerous others. Brian's tunes are clearly fresh sounding, yet very friendly to old-time and traditional music.

Shane Cook "rates at the top of the short list of the finest fiddlers in the world today." He is a master at merging his versatile Canadian old-time fiddling with a wide variety of fiddling styles that include Cape Breton, Irish, Scottish, French-Canadian, Texan and Bluegrass. Shane tours regularly in Canada and the USA as a member of the production Bowfire, "an unforgettable performance by the leading names in each genre of modern violin playing." Some of Shane's past tours have seen him perform from coast to coast in Canada and the USA as well as in Germany, England and Taiwan. As a competitive fiddler Shane has an impressive record having earned over 250 awards including the top honour at all four of the most prestigious fiddle competitions in North America.

Jake Charron (piano, guitar, whistles) continues to build a reputation as one of Canada’s finest accompanists for fiddle music. He has become a much sought-after musician for traditional styles, playing piano and guitar with artists across the country. Jake has performed with fiddle champions Shane Cook, Mark Sullivan, Pierre Schryer, Louis Schryerand many others including his younger brother Kyle. Jake has recently enjoyed working with Stephanie Cadman's Celtic Blaze, and also with fiddler/stepdancerDan Stacey. He has been the house pianist at the Canadian Open Fiddle Championships in Shelburne for the past 6 years. Jake has also worked with Cape Breton tenor Tom Leadbeater, and regularly performs Brian Pickell & Shane Cook, and also has toured with ECMA winner Troy MacGillivray (fiddle, piano).

Traditional Irish Music with a Twist
Cairdeas
(Steafan Hannigan & Saskia Tomkims with Marsala Lukianchuk)

Sun. March 11, 7:30 pm
Chaucer's, 122 Carling Street, London
$15 Advance/ $18 Door

Cairdeas are an Ontario-based Irish Traditional trio who sing and play Traditional music from Ireland with some spice from around the world thrown in! Steafan Hannigan and Saskia Tomkins have played at many European and North American festivals as a duo and with their Family band Indeed they have worked with many of the traditional music Greats including , Sheila Stewart, Roy Bailey, Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick, The Cheiftains, Michael Flately, Paddy Keenan, Lasairfhíona Ní Chonaola, Sin E .and Lammas.

AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS
IN BODHRAN & FIDDLE ARE AVAILABLE
Sun. March 11, 2:30 - 5:00 pm
Upstairs at Chaucer's
Cost $30 per person
Call 519-473-2099 or e-mail folk@iandavies.com to register

All concerts at begin at 7:30 pm and are held at Chaucer's, 122 Carling Street, London, ON N6A 1H6
(unless otherwise indicated)

Please note: Only Centennial Hall and on-line ticketing accept Credit Cards .... all other outlets are CASH ONLY

Special Advance $60 Multi-Ticket Available only at the Concerts $60 = 5 Concerts for the Price of 4
(applies to regular priced concerts only)

Sun. Dec. 11 - Christmas Concert featuring SCALLYWAG plus our annual Tacky Gift Exchange
We had a food drive for the London Food Bank & 123 lbs of food was donated at the concert - Thank You !

Sat. Jan.21 - "A Night Robert Burns Would Have Enjoyed" with Ian Bell, Donald McGeoch & Robin Aggus

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