Folk winter show with unaccompanied carols and seasonal tunes played on fiddles, viola, hammer dulcimer, accordion and hurdy gurdy.
Narthen bring Icicles and Inglenooks to the Fenton Town Hall Café on Friday 11 December, part of The Potteries Folk Club's winter season. It's a night of carols and seasonal songs, and the title gives you a fair idea of the mix: the cold outside and the warmth inside.
The set is built around two different moods. On one hand, there are polyphonic, unaccompanied carols from Yorkshire and beyond — the kind of singing that holds its own without any instruments. On the other, there are lively tunes meant for dancing, alongside a few irreverent songs about pheasants and other seasonal fare. The carols provide the quiet, the tunes provide the energy, and the songs in between keep it from feeling too formal.
That sound comes from a wide spread of instruments: fiddles, viola, hammer dulcimer, diatonic accordion and hurdy gurdy. It's a full, acoustic texture that carries the whole thing. Before the main act, floor singers fill the gaps, so the music starts well before Narthen take the stage. The line-up for the night is Narthen with Jo Freya, Fi Fraser, Sarah Matthews and Doug Eunson.
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It's an open night — everyone is welcome and you don't need a club membership to get in. Doors open at 19:15, with the music starting at 19:45 and running through to 22:45. The venue is the Fenton Town Hall Café, Albert Square, Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 3FA.
