Acoustic Cabaret ....

Firstly, the bad news. As those of you who were at the Cabaret for Ewan McLennan will know, it is with regret that we have decided that the December Acoustic Cabaret will be the last one. Falling audience numbers over the last couple of years have led to our losses becoming unsustainable.

We would like to thank all our regulars over the 10 years that we have going and we would also like to put on record our thanks to The Red Shed and it's various committees over the years for their help and support - indeed they offered to subsidise our running costs, but we felt that that was only applying a sticking plaster when something more permanent is required.

It won't mean the end of the Shed as a venue for live acoustic music as we may still put on occasional gigs, just not on a regular monthly basis. Because of this, with your permission, we will keep the mailing list going so we can still keep in touch and let you know when anything of interest is going on at The Shed or in the Wakefield environs (If you want to stop receiving this guff, just reply , saying "Stop sending me this guff" in the subject bar).
 

We will announce future concerts in the Events Diary.
If you wish to join the Acoustic Cabaret Mailing list to receive details of forthcoming concerts please click below
 

Recent guests at the Red Shed Acoustic Cabaret:

Martin Simpson, Ewan McLennan, Pete Morton and Emily Smith

How it all Began ....

Dave Hanvey gives a brief account of  the origins of the 'Acoustic Cabaret' phenomena :-

.... It was really all started by Nicky Howarth. 
Nicky has been running clubs, festivals and one off gigs for years really, in and around Wakefield. About five years ago, well before it was called the Acoustic Cabaret, Nicky ran a monthly concert at The Grove, it was a nice room but an awful pub. 
He asked myself and Grog(John Gregson) and my wife Moira if we would play there, as Grand Cru.  We said of course but we would like to be more involved and along  with another musician, Tony Dargan, we started to help run it.

 
Shortly after this we all decided that the venue was not attracting people so we moved to the Grey Horse.  This also wasn't good, but at the time, the Red Shed was looking to promote more music so we decided to go there and see how it ran.  It was of course successful there, a great atmosphere was generated, and we never looked back.

The aim is for a non profit making venue to promote live music, all the money from the door and raffle goes to pay the guests, one or two of the people who help out even pay !! 
I suppose the music is generally acoustic based,  but we have had bluegrass bands, blues players and poets.

We book nationally known names as well as top local people (many people round here fall into both categories).  We have had people like The Tannahill Weavers, John Strong, Dave Burland, Stanley Accrington, Jez Lowe, Gina Le Faux,  and many other well known names from the folk scene and beyond.
We have coming up, amongst others, Clive Gregson, Peter Bond, and Emily Druce ....

Information available on all our forthcoming
Concerts is now here in our Events Diary

Open Mike Night ....


On the last Saturday of each month we have an Open mike session run by Steve Cowan and Simon Meltham of the band "Three 19's" .

Starting time 8.30 pm (-ish) .
Admission Free - All welcome .

Bring along your voices and any musical instruments you would like to play and join in, or just sit, listen & enjoy !
 


Click here to view some our recent performers in action.

Blackstone Edge - Regular visitors to the Shed.

 
Monday Music Club ....

Alternate Mondays.

Why not meet up with us for an informal get-together to sing & play music, exchange ideas, chat and generally have an enjoyable evening.



Folk, Trad, Blues and popular music are some of our themes, everyone is welcome - 8:30pm onwards.

Ring Steve on 01924 250401 or 07951 320836 for more info.



Red Shed Readings ....

The Red Shed is currently hosting a series of high quality poetry events which commenced in May 2008.

Siobhan MacMahon was our first featured guest performer.
 
 
See our Events Diary for forthcoming readings.

Click here for more Information from the event organizer

Please Note :- We don't operate an age limit, but our events are best enjoyed by adults - Younger audience members who attend should be comfortable with a full range of language and subject matter, including death, sex, relationships and spats with bus drivers.
We suggest younger people over 16 will get most out of it.
 

Quiz Night ....

Quiz Night is a regular feature in the club diary .
It is every Wednesday evening , starting at 9.15pm.

Entry is 50p per person .
Winner gets a fistful of Red Shed beer tokens.

Library

Funded by the Red Shed Players Christmas 'Rantomine', the new Red Shed library is now available to all members.

It houses a fine selection of socialist titles, including books, CDs and DVDs and has expanded of late thanks to the generous donation of items by members and visitors to the club

Books can be 'signed out' by members using the record book provided.

Other Special Events ...       

For details of our one-off forthcoming Special Events

Please click here for our Events Diary

 

Souvenir Badge ....

Mark has come up with a smart pin badge for the Club.

Why not commemorate your visit to the Red Shed with one of these attractive badges?
Only £1 - ask at the bar for details.

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