Rolling Hills Folk Club

16/10/2026

Tonight is the night when we sing
'Happy 20th Birthday' to Rolling Hills Folk Club in Darnick Village & of course, celebrate with cake!
BYOB to add to the celebration as usual & chance your luck on the raffle!

We're really looking forward to 2 guest slots from dear friends Elsa Lemaitre & Erika Douglas and of course an array of floor singers & musicians & raconteurs.

£3 entry/pay what you can/ accompanied under 18s free.
Doors open 7.30 pm for 8pm start.

06/10/2026

Rolling Hills Folk Club is turning 20 this month and of course we're celebrating with an extra special Club Night!

Get along to Darnick Village on Friday October 16th to the beautiful village hall on Abbotsford Road. (the heating is fixed-hurrah!)

Our first ever guests, Elsa Lemaitre & Erika Douglas will perform two guest slots, delivering their beautiful unaccompanied harmonies and of course we will have celebratory cakes!

As usual for a Club Night we welcome floor singers and musicians as well as our spoken word friends & joke tellers.

And of course......a raffle!
BYOB.

Doors open 7.30 for 8pm start.
£3 or whatever you can afford.

03/10/2026

Check this out & there may still be opportunities to sing and also to volunteer to host sessions.
Paul from F'ocsle in Southampton is part of the organising committee and can provide more information but this link should help.
It's the weekend of Friday October 23rd to Sunday October 25th.

03/10/2026

Huge thanks to everyone who joined our Zoom Rolling Hills Folk Club last night.

What a great night, enhanced by the enthusiastic hat wearers/ sometimes with several hats/ wigs/multiple changes. This was all in support of Sandy Watson losing his hat to a railway line due to a gust of wind on our last Zoom day BUT thanks to the efforts of Network Rail & others, Sandy joined us with his recovered hat last night! Order has been restored!!

Thanks to everyone for all the songs and all the fun and thanks to Paul for co-hosting to help restore mute-order!!!

I'll post the link separately to 'FallSong26' which Paul brought to our attention. It's happening later this month, streamed from Portland, Oregon and sounds brilliant.

Next Zoom is Friday November 6th.

19/09/2026

What a great night we had at Rolling Hills Folk Club to start the autumn season and thanks very much to everyone for coming and thanks to Sue for the delicious cakes.

We enjoyed great songs & ballads, wonderful musicianship & some very amusing spoken word pieces
AND thanks to the electric heaters we stayed warm without extra layers & without the noise of the boiler!!!

Remember we're celebrating our 20th birthday at the next Club night on Friday
October 16th with guests Elsa Lemaitre and Erika Douglas who were our first ever guests when we started up in Melrose.
We can't wait to celebrate 20 years of our beautiful musical community 🎼🎵🎶

05/09/2026

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04/09/2026

Just wanted to thank everyone who joined Rolling Hills Folk Club on Zoom tonight, opening up the autumn season in style.
Remember that hat-wearing on Friday October 2nd is compulsory (well, almost.....) as a tribute to the traumatic hat-loss incident experienced by Sandy Watson today, Friday September 4th. The date will be ever etched in his brain.(and probably ours...).
It was last seen as shown, lying on the track at Brunstane Station.
Has Sandy discovered the real reason why the train always slows down just after leaving that station before heading for Waverley?? Is it for the collection of assorted artefacts blown onto the track by the biting platform wind......
Anyway, thanks to Sandy there was much hat-related hilarity tonight to lighten moods and a great mix of material as usual.
This included a good number on the theme of the passing of summer and the arrival of autumn as the weather changes and one specifically mentioned clothing for the fall- so grab those hats but remember the chin strap!!!
Phew-just made it before midnight!!!

02/09/2026

Hello to all our regular Rolling Hills Folk Club Zoomers & we're looking forward to welcoming everyone back on-line from far & wide on Friday September 4th.
You should all have received the joining information & as usual the waiting room will open at 19.30 GMT and the evening will get started at 20.00 GMT.

And a reminder that our first live Rolling Hills Folk Club is on Friday September 18th in Darnick Village.

26/06/2026

A belated post to THANK everyone who made our June 5th Zoom and our June 19th live Rolling Hills Folk Club nights so special before our summer break.

Our Zoom club ran until 10 pm to give us an earlier finish after Jenny's 22 elbow staple removal experience in Edinburgh. An impressive scar and physio exercises are now the order of the day in between enjoying summer!
Our Zoom contributors as usual delivered a great variety of material and we are all so lucky to be able to share in this musical joy across the miles.

Our live club in Darnick Village saw us welcome Dave and Mair Hytch to our beautiful venue after their stay in Perth. Dave is a regular Zoom contributor from his North Wales home and it was wonderful for everyone to hear his deep voice and great guitar playing in Darnick Village Hall. Dave & Mair were very impressed by the warm welcome and friendliness of our club and hope to return for more! We really hope so.

In spite of holidays and illnesses we had a good turnout and great songs, tunes and renditions including nostalgic remembrances from several regular performers. And Graham's jokes kept us on our toes too!!
The evening was made extra special with the singing of a beautiful Shetland lullaby sung as a first ever contribution at the Club by Liz from St Boswells. Her mother sang this and her research has failed to find any formal recognition of this though a Shetlander has kindly provided the notation. Between us all we hope to get this checked and included in various archives, including The Roud Index and Kist O Riches
(Tobar an Dulchais).
The gems that arise through our shared musical connections continue to reveal a treasure trove for everyone to enjoy.

The other very significant highlight of our evening was to have Ron Anderson back in the room and singing well after his scary few months, which is involving a lot of strength and resilience to get back to everything he loves!
So the evening was extra special in so many ways!

And another bonus, after her health issues, was to have Jenny Anderson with us to deliver a Pam Ayres' poem in style!

The Andersons want to thank EVERYONE who supports the club in any way, both live and on Zoom to keep music happening.

We have also really appreciated all the individual support through our challenging moments!

Looking forward to welcoming everyone back to Zoom on Friday September 4th and to the live club on Friday September 18th.

In the meantime, stay safe, enjoy summer in whatever way you can.
Hopefully that can involve some live music or watch from home some of the many festival streams on-line with a cool drink in your hand🎵🎼🎻🪕🪗🎶

18/06/2026

Quick reminder for our live Rolling Hills Folk Club tomorrow night, Friday June 19th, in Darnick Village Hall.
This is your last opportunity before we close for July and August.
Please bring your songs, jokes poems or tunes.
And of course we also value our appreciatuve audience so no pressure to perform!
There will of course be the legendary raffle and tea or coffee is available for a donation.