It may be your idea of hell, but we have a monthly concertina session - a mix of around a dozen anglo and english, the players being beginners to more advanced.
The tunes are very much Irish biased, but Northumbrian and good old-fashioned English tunes also feature.
Sundry concertina anoraks, experts and repairmen also attend so this is the place to pick their brains.
The date is usually the third Tuesday 8pm-11.30pm and details are posted on concertina.net beforehand.
The view is superb over the valleys, the beer is first-class, guest beer(s) always on and the home-made pies are the attraction (some 30 odd different ones). Don't all rush at once for food, the kitchen is being rebuilt during Spring 2005. In the interim, the concertinists do eat elsewhere beforehand.
The first Sunday is folk-club night.
The pub also continues the Sheffield tradition of singing local carols during the month of December.
You will all be pleased to know the kitchen is now kitted out and food is now available.
It was intended to be alternating English and Anglos,
fortnightly, but the Anglo players read dots and play English faster than the practised English players so the English players seem to have wimped out - so it is "Anglos Rule" at the moment - 6 Anglos last night (a quiet night!! ha ha) + 2 English.
Still as much Irish played.
Monthly Concertina session
It may be your idea of hell, but we have a monthly concertina session - a mix of around a dozen anglo and english, the players being beginners to more advanced.
The tunes are very much Irish biased, but Northumbrian and good old-fashioned English tunes also feature.
Sundry concertina anoraks, experts and repairmen also attend so this is the place to pick their brains.
The date is usually the third Tuesday 8pm-11.30pm and details are posted on concertina.net beforehand.
The view is superb over the valleys, the beer is first-class, guest beer(s) always on and the home-made pies are the attraction (some 30 odd different ones). Don't all rush at once for food, the kitchen is being rebuilt during Spring 2005. In the interim, the concertinists do eat elsewhere beforehand.
The first Sunday is folk-club night.
The pub also continues the Sheffield tradition of singing local carols during the month of December.
# Posted on May 18th 2005 by geoffwright
But what's the dungworth?
# Posted on May 20th 2005 by GaryAMartin
Food
You will all be pleased to know the kitchen is now kitted out and food is now available.
It was intended to be alternating English and Anglos,
fortnightly, but the Anglo players read dots and play English faster than the practised English players so the English players seem to have wimped out - so it is "Anglos Rule" at the moment - 6 Anglos last night (a quiet night!! ha ha) + 2 English.
Still as much Irish played.
# Posted on April 12th 2006 by geoffwright