In the following scramble to find and collect as many bohemians and enlightened poets as we could, it took a long session of merciless tickling of Tommy before she gave up her skill in saxophone, piano, and all round art. Although all multi instrumentalists, none of us could play the drums. Hope came in the form of Sick Boy: tall and pretty, with a total lack of self-restraint and, most importantly, her own drum kit.

Stuck with a lack of cash, space, and time... let the new age begin.

Cambridge Ukulele welcomes ukulele enthusiasts of all abilities. We meet fortnightly on a Sunday 2-5pm at The Portland Arms in Cambridge to strum through an eclectic collection of songs, ranging from traditionals to chart toppers.

No membership fee - just turn up with your uke!

If you're just beginning, you'll get lots of help from club members and even though you might not be able to keep up with everything straight away, you'll still be able to belt out the songs, and you'll catch on quickly to the chords with practice. 

See http://www.facebook.com/cambridgeukulele for more info (you don't need to be a facebook member to access this page). If you are on facebook, 'like' us to receive all our updates.

For more than 30 years Norma Waterson and Martin Carthy have been at the forefront of the English folk scene.

Martin Carthy is a much loved and enormously influential figure in English folk music and has been for over 40 years. He has appeared and recorded solo, as a duo with fiddler Dave Swarbrick, and as part of bands The Watersons, Steeleye Span, Brass Monkey and Blue Murder. Awarded the MBE in 1998, Martin has been the subject of various TV documentaries and has received a spectrum of BBC Folk Awards.

Norma Waterson, another BBC Folk Award recipient, is a founder member of groundbreaking harmony group ('the Folk Beatles') The Watersons, and a fellow member of Blue Murder. Norma has also been awarded the MBE, and was the first folk artist to be nominated for a Mercury Music Prize when she famously very nearly pipped Pulp to first place.

Chris Parkinson has played music since the age of five, starting with the harmonica, and moving on to piano, guitar, concertina, tin whistle, melodeon, piano accordion and keyboards, and even a little time playing the fiddle. He plays traditional folk music of UK, Europe and beyond, and is also no mean hand at blues, rock & roll, and even a bit of jazz.
February 2006 saw a somewhat historic milestone, it was just 50 years since Chris first played harmonica on stage.

This will be an open air gig, so lets hope that the weather continues to be fine!
There will be wine, beer and BBQ available for those who wish to really relax of an evening, and be sure to bring a blanket to snuggle under.

Cell Block Tango are Ella, Sharzad and Sam, local musicians, so please come along and support you local cause!