May 26th People are strange, When the Waters Rise

May 26th at Havering Folk Club ( HFC ) after missing a week for no particular reason.

People Are Strange - The Doors

A cover of the Doors song People Are Strange

When The Waters Rise

When The Waters Rise

San Francisco

After the interval at Havering Folk Club there was time to do one more song each and I decided to play San Francisco the song by Mazime Le Forestier

San Francisco - Andy Roberts song by Maxime le Forestier

San Francisco by Maxime le Forestier has been a favourite for me to play for a long time now, I learned this song when I was staying with a friend in Poitiers, France in 1974. I used to play it in the Paris metro whenever somebody complained about me singing in English. Uploaded to Andyrobertsmusic account on youTube from the live session on Tuesday evenings at 7.00pm on uStream.tv

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Around the World with Havering Folk Club

Last night at Havering Folk Club we were treated to songs and tunes from many different countries, which is not unusual by any means. In the past we've had songs from Russia, New Zealand, Argentina and Scandinavia to name but a few places I can recall.

So having finished the evening the week before, I got to kick off proceedings this week and decided to play one intrumental - Andy Roberts Narrow Boats followed by a song in French by Maxime le Forestier from the 1970s which I've played once before:

San Francisco



The theme of foreign language and world tunes continued with Peter Waters singing some opera songs in Italian, some Spanish guitar tunes from Smolowik gigs and reels from the Orkneys and something from Sweden.

Return to Havering Folk Club

After a week's absence I returned to Havering Folk Club brandishing my yard of japanese plywood with NEW STRINGS which was great.

I played two of my own songs, both of which have never been played live before:

Mondura Dam

and

Winter in Andalucia

Then I got a chance in the second half to play one more - Maxime le Forestier's

San Francisco