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This evening is a benefit concert first and foremost, raising money for Rotherham Hospice, but also a little piece of nostalgia to be able to play in the barn at The Rockingham Arms in Wentworth, home of the once infamous and award winning Folk Club that ran there for over 30 years.

The money raised this evening is a thank you to the Hospice End of Life Care Team and all the other associated Healthcare professionals that make the most difficult final weeks and days of life bearable. With all the love, care and support that they provide to ensure a loved-one?s final days of life are peaceful and dignified. In the name of Adam and Linda Morawski.

Allan Taylor is one of the last of the travelling troubadours who came through the social and artistic revolution of the nineteen sixties and carved out a career as a solo singer-songwriter. Born in Brighton, England in 1945 he experienced the Beatnik times, the Skiffle days, the Mods and Rockers and the early Hippy days, all played out on Brighton Beach. At the age of twenty one he left home and became part of the vibrant folk music of London, playing all of the major folk clubs of the time (for example, the famous Troubadour Club) and then to Greenwich Village, New York, playing legendary clubs such as Gerde?s, The Gaslight, The Bitter End, The Mercer Arts Center. He embraced the issues, images and emotions of his time and used these experiences as the basis of his songs. Signed to the international record company United Artists and recording in London, Nashville and Los Angeles his albums were released world-wide. By the mid-seventies he returned to Europe to live and then started on the second part of his career, having now established his modus operandi ? collecting the stories for his songs in the bars and cafes of Europe and throughout the rest of the world. We are delighted that Allan is playing this evening and that he brings with him his friend and collaborator Rab Noakes.
www.allantaylor.com

Rab Noakes continues to be an unstoppable force to be reckoned with in the world of music in Scotland and beyond.
Recent years have seen Rab?s lifetime in music?n?song flourish as he continues to tour and record. In 2019 he has embarked on a 5-year expedition titled ?Distance No Object?. In recent years he has been receiving awards such as a Nordoff-Robbins Tartan Clef for Contribution to Music and a Hands up for Trad award for Services to Performance. He is delighted to have been included in the Fife Free Press 40 Fifers of 2018. Recent highlights in his professional life include the production of high-profile, commemorative concerts for long-time compadres Gerry Rafferty and Michael Marra. Amongst a number of solo outings, many of 2020?s shows will be in collaboration, in duo outings. The collaborators include Rod Clements, Barbara Dickson, Jill Jackson, Kathleen MacInnes, Allan Taylor and Brooks Williams. Tonight he will be playing a handful of songs alongside Allan Taylor.
www.rabnoakes.com

Rosalie Deighton is an English/Dutch singer and songwriter. Born in Breda, Netherlands to an Indonesian mother and a British father, Rosalie has been playing music since the age of three. She and her family moved to Barnsley, South Yorkshire when she was Eight. The Deighton Family were musicians and already successful practitioners of an eclectic range of Bluegrass, Cajun, Country and Folk, with Rosalie and her four siblings: Maya, Kathleen, Angelina and Brother, Arthur very much part of this musical entourage. Rosalie played spoons, then mandolin, before finally contributing vocals and her own song-writing skills. In 1993, Rosalie and her sister Kathleen collaborated with Kate Rusby, Kathryn Roberts, Julie Matthews and Pat Shaw to record an album called Intuition. At the age of 20, she left Yorkshire for London, where she continues to live and has had many successful collaborations, one notably with Welsh singer/songwriter Steve Balsamo, as well as a successful solo career. We are delighted that Rosalie is able to play this evening and has made it back up North to Yorkshire.
www.myspace.com/rosaliedeighton

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8 Main Street,

Wentworth,

South Yorkshire,

England,

S62 7TL.