Bodmin Folk Club

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Bodmin Folk Club The home of traditional folk song in Cornwall. Established 1968. They decided to start a club to raise funds for British folksingers to visit Cornwall.

In the Late 1960s a tide of contemporary American folk music was sweeping Britain and several clubs in Cornwall featured this material. However, in 1967 a small group of traditional singers, including Vic Legg and Lar Cann started meeting for weekly sessions in the Masons' Arms, Bodmin. The first recorded club night of the Bodmin Traditional Folk Club, as it was then, was on 31st May 1968 in an upper room at The Barley Sheaf.

Absolutley brilliant evening from Anne Lamb and Graham Bell at Bodmin Folk Club . Superb songs, great humour, a first...
09/10/2026

Absolutley brilliant evening from Anne Lamb and Graham Bell at Bodmin Folk Club . Superb songs, great humour, a first class evening.

BODMIN FOLK CLUBST PETROC'S PARISH CENTRE PL31 2DP JEZ LOWEFRIDAY OCTOBER 23RD...
07/10/2026

BODMIN FOLK CLUB
ST PETROC'S PARISH CENTRE
PL31 2DP
JEZ LOWE
FRIDAY OCTOBER 23RD 2026
Ticket reservation [email protected]

Lovely to see Tim Laycock at Bodmin.
19/09/2026

Lovely to see Tim Laycock at Bodmin.

Superb evening with the very talented Bob Wood. A wide selection of songs from old favourites to the more recently wri...
19/09/2026

Superb evening with the very talented Bob Wood. A wide selection of songs from old favourites to the more recently written, delivered in Bob's inimitable style - restrained yet powerful. And the guitar! Well. Just gorgeous. Lovely to welcome Bob and Maggie to our gadderee.
Some great songs from everyone else. Good to see old friends, including a most welcome appearance by Tim Laycock.

Happy birthday to our fantastic club secretary, Sylvia Watts . Have a great day x
19/09/2026

Happy birthday to our fantastic club secretary, Sylvia Watts . Have a great day x

13/09/2026

Keslowena, Congratulations to Ben Lang, for an excellent presentation to The Traditional Song Forum on the song The Rose in June, telling of the tragic end of the fishing vessel with all hands.
You did yourself, and the Club, proud.

From songs about circumnavigating cats, to waltzing with his guitar to a song in praise of the Blobfish, to the last Abo...
11/09/2026

From songs about circumnavigating cats, to waltzing with his guitar to a song in praise of the Blobfish, to the last Aboriginal singer from Tasmania including a recording of her another great set from Bruce Watson, on tour from Australia and making a return visit to Bodmin Folk Club.

This coming Friday, 11th September sees a return visit by the amazing Australian singer songwriter, Bruce Watson. Bruce ...
08/09/2026

This coming Friday, 11th September sees a return visit by the amazing Australian singer songwriter, Bruce Watson.
Bruce is an icon of the Australian folk scene. He has appeared at almost 200 folk festivals across Australia since the 1990s. He plays regularly at festivals, folk clubs, house concerts and other venues throughout Australia.

Performers of the calibre of Eric Bogle, Joe Dolce, Greg Champion, Blackwood and a host of other Australian and international performers have covered Bruce Watson's songs.

Bruce has received the Declan Affley Memorial Songwriting Award at the National Folk Festival for the song Amazon, which has been recorded by Eric Bogle and many other Australian and overseas artists.

Other awards include Port Fairy Folk Festival’s Lawson-Paterson Songwriting Award and Maldon Folk Festival’s Roddy Reed Memorial Songwriting Award.

He has produced seven albums of original songs, plus a songbook of his own compositions: “101 Songs”. He also appears on more than 20 compilation CDs alongside artists such as Eric Bogle, Roy Bailey, Archie Roach, Yothu Yindi and Christine Anu.

Bruce has a keen sense of the absurdities of life. Nothing is sacred, but many things are precious. A concern for people, the environment, reconciliation and for life's mysteries and ironies runs through his songs. His serious songs are both moving and challenging, and he is not afraid to tackle the hard issues.

The humour can be sharp - or at times just plain silly. Victims of Bruce's satirical pen range from Leonard Cohen to Pauline Hanson. Don't miss songs like Save the Hippy, I Shared a Urinal with Martin Ferguson, The Rules of English,The Wando Vale Annual Sheep Dog Trial, and Toddler with Attitude!

His act is one to be seen as well as heard, with plenty of audience involvement and usually a few surprises. Bruce will make you laugh, cry – and think.

We meet in an upstairs room but there is a stairlift. byo alcohol but we do a great line in tea and chocolate biscuits

05/09/2026

Sitting in the Gorsedh concert tonight, a lady came up to me and thanked me for the great night she had at Bodmin Folk Club last night and how welcome we had made her and what a friendly club it is.

What an amazing night at Bodmin Folk Club! Our guests Mike O'Connor and Barbara Griggs gave us an evening of songs an...
05/09/2026

What an amazing night at Bodmin Folk Club! Our guests Mike O'Connor and Barbara Griggs gave us an evening of songs and tunes from, and inspired by, Cornwall. Mike's lyrics, soaring fiddle playing and concertina sat hand in hand with Barbara's fine harp giving a blend of light and shade, songs to join in with and evocative tunes.
Lots of visitors to the club and one guest commented that we must have some of the best floor singers anywhere in the country!
Overall a very fine night.

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St Petroc’s Parish Centre
Bodmin
PL312DP

Opening Hours

8pm - 10:45pm

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