Welcome to the Dorking Folk Club website and our programme page.
Membership can now be renewed for 2025 on the door when you attend.
We continue to have some restrictions in place following the Covid pandemic. Currently:
- People should not attend the club if they have any symptoms (no matter how mild) of any acute illness that could be Covid. These include symptoms associated with the common cold, flu, raised temperature and / or digestive upsets.
We will post updates here so please check the website regularly.
Please note that admission to the Club is by card payment only and that this is also the preferred method of payment at the bar.
For all evenings, doors open at 8pm and the entertainment commences at 8:30pm.
We cannot admit dogs or other pets to the Folk Club. Guide and assistance dogs are permitted and we would be grateful for advance warning of these.
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26 November 2025 Christina Alden and Alex Patterson Entrance £13 Christina and Alex are multi-instrumentalists and songwriters from East Anglia. Their music is rich with intertwining harmony, sensitive accomplished musicianship and creative song writing. Deeply inspired by the world around them, they have a keen environmental eye to craft stories with the natural world at its heart, reflecting on the relationship between humans and the wild. They have toured widely and headlined at some of the most prestigious folk festivals. They have recorded four albums and have had over a million streams on Spotify. An evening not to be missed. |
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03 December 2025 Singers’ Night Entrance £5 Our singers’ nights are open to anyone wishing to perform one or two acoustic items for the enjoyment of all. Each floor spot should take no more than 10 minutes. Our regular singers' nights are often well attended. Although the MC tries to accommodate all performers, this cannot be guaranteed on busy nights. If you are keen to perform, please arrive in good time and let the door person know. |
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10 December 2025 Christmas Theme Singers’ Night Entrance £5 Our singers’ nights are open to anyone wishing to perform one or two acoustic items for the enjoyment of all. Each floor spot should take no more than 10 minutes. Our regular singers' nights are often well attended. Although the MC tries to accommodate all performers, this cannot be guaranteed on busy nights. If you are keen to perform, please arrive in good time and let the door person know. |
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Break until the New Year – returning on 7th January 2026 with a singers’ night. |
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07 January 2026 Singers’ Night Entrance £5 Our singers’ nights are open to anyone wishing to perform one or two acoustic items for the enjoyment of all. Each floor spot should take no more than 10 minutes. Our regular singers' nights are often well attended. Although the MC tries to accommodate all performers, this cannot be guaranteed on busy nights. If you are keen to perform, please arrive in good time and let the door person know. |
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14 January 2026 Shackleton and Bennett Entrance £13 A talented duo bringing us songs, tunes and stories from their native East Anglia. Georgie Shackleton is a skilled fiddle player and Aaron Bennet an excellent guitarist. This will be a captivating way to get going on our guest list for 2026. Hope to see you at the club now the excitement of Christmas is over. |
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21 January 2026 Singers’ Night Entrance £5 Our singers’ nights are open to anyone wishing to perform one or two acoustic items for the enjoyment of all. Each floor spot should take no more than 10 minutes. Our regular singers' nights are often well attended. Although the MC tries to accommodate all performers, this cannot be guaranteed on busy nights. If you are keen to perform, please arrive in good time and let the door person know. |
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28 January 2026 Chathasaigh and Newman Entrance £15 Máire, steeped in the traditions of her native Co. Cork, is a recipient of Irish traditional music’s most prestigious award, Musician of the Year. She is the great innovator of modern Irish harping, a player of outstanding technique and imagination. Máire is an absolute legend. Chris is a “dazzling” acoustic guitarist, who has toured and recorded with such luminaries of the folk and jazz world as Boys of the Lough and Stéphane Grappelli. He is a magnificent tour-de-force on the guitar. Their performances are a breathtaking blend of traditional Irish music, hot jazz, bluegrass and baroque. You really don’t want to miss their visit to the club. |
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04 February 2026 Singers’ Night Entrance £5 Our singers’ nights are open to anyone wishing to perform one or two acoustic items for the enjoyment of all. Each floor spot should take no more than 10 minutes. Our regular singers' nights are often well attended. Although the MC tries to accommodate all performers, this cannot be guaranteed on busy nights. If you are keen to perform, please arrive in good time and let the door person know. |
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11 February 2026 Dave Ellis and Boo Howard Entrance £13 Dave Ellis and Boo Howard simply exude class. With Boo’s wonderful voice and Dave’s stunning song writing and guitar playing, they are always classy, imaginative and engaging. Dave and Boo cover the full range of emotions in their songs, from the quirky and funny to the ethereal and deeply moving. A perfectly balanced sound that works in every corner of their fantastically varied repertoire. A fantastic evening in prospect. |
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18 February 2026 Singers’ Night Entrance £5 Our singers’ nights are open to anyone wishing to perform one or two acoustic items for the enjoyment of all. Each floor spot should take no more than 10 minutes. Our regular singers' nights are often well attended. Although the MC tries to accommodate all performers, this cannot be guaranteed on busy nights. If you are keen to perform, please arrive in good time and let the door person know. |
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25 February 2026 Robb Johnson Entrance £13 Robb Jenner Johnson is a British musician and songwriter who has been called "one of the last genuinely political songwriters". He is known for his mix of political satire and wit. He has his own record label, Irregular Records, and has released more than 40 albums since 1985, either solo or in several collaborations. Come and hear him you will not be disappointed. |
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04 March 2026 Singers’ Night Entrance £5 Our singers’ nights are open to anyone wishing to perform one or two acoustic items for the enjoyment of all. Each floor spot should take no more than 10 minutes. Our regular singers' nights are often well attended. Although the MC tries to accommodate all performers, this cannot be guaranteed on busy nights. If you are keen to perform, please arrive in good time and let the door person know. |
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11 March 2026 North Sea Gas Entrance £13 North Sea Gas are a Scottish folk music trio founded in 1980. The current lineup is Dave Gilfillan, Grant Simpson and Ronnie MacDonald. The music includes their own compositions, as well as arrangements of traditional Celtic and worldwide songs. Most songs are in English, with some in Scots or Gaelic. We were fortunate to be able to book them. Guaranteed to be a great, lively, evening. |
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18 March 2026 Singers’ Night Entrance £5 Our singers’ nights are open to anyone wishing to perform one or two acoustic items for the enjoyment of all. Each floor spot should take no more than 10 minutes. Our regular singers' nights are often well attended. Although the MC tries to accommodate all performers, this cannot be guaranteed on busy nights. If you are keen to perform, please arrive in good time and let the door person know. |
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25 March 2026 Liz Simcock Entrance £13 Liz Simcock is a British singer-songwriter known for her autobiographical and emotive songs, who began gaining recognition in 1999 when she appeared on the "Playpen Album of New Acoustic Music" alongside artists like Eliza Carthy and Billy Bragg. She has a strong reputation for live performance and has been called one of the country's finest female singer-songwriters. A welcome return to the club. |
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Closed for Easter – club resumes on 8th April with a singers’ night. |
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