left to right
Barry Archer
Carol French
Kay De'ath
Jan Hall
Ian Ferguson
taken on 8th Nov 2005
picture from Mike Hall
thanks Mike.
CHAIRPERSON
Jan Hall
Jan, a founder member of the club has served as club treasurer from the start and now combines her duties with chairing the weekly meetings. Jan plays guitar and sings along with being a published poet she also composes her own songs. Jan also runs a folk workshop once a month, watch this site for details.
Barry Archer
Barry, a founder member has served as guest night support, general 'doer' and now vice chair. Barry plays guitar and sings and has a natural flare for comedy. He is also a member of Lindon Green a local folk band
Kay De'ath
Kay served as the first vice chair and now books our guests, a stalwart of the club Kay sings accapella, sings in Tandem with hubbie Ian De'ath,plays the whistle,beats a bodhran,shakes maracas and is learning guitar,
Carole French
Carole is the newest member of the team, already has designed club shirts and stuck notices all over town, her enthusiasm knows no bounds,Carol plays guitar and sings
Ian Ferguson
Ian is the club founder and first chairman and has now taken a back seat but still active as Web manager and promoting events. Ian sings, plays guitar and harmonica and shakes an egg
Foggy furze folk club was born one night in February 2003 on the way home from a night at the Wellington folk club in Wolviston where the travelling rogues had just finished a guest night. Ian had the idea of forming our own club, so with the backing of the manager at the Travellers Rest the rogues with Ian Jan and Mike started every Tuesday night. Eventually playing every Tuesday got too much for the Rogues and they decided to stop. Fortunatly on their last night Neil Gibson had come along that night and prevailed upon Ian to keep it going, and from then on the club grew and went from strength to strength. the name was chosen because of the location of the Travellers Rest. Ian ran it, Neil became guest organiser, Jan treasurer, Diane Kidd did the publicity and Kay De'ath became Ian's deputy. After a year or so the club democratized and an election was held for the chairmans posititon, Ian was elected and became the first official chairman. Ian resigned in July 2005 and Kay De'ath took the club to election in October when Jan Hall was elected the second chair of the club.
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The club is run in a cabinet style democracy with the chaiperson appointing the volunteer officers to assist running the club, the club is for like minded people to meet socially and play folk and accoustic music with a particular emphisis on helping and encouraging people to achieve there ambitions musically.
