Local Group Report – Chichester – Thursday 15th August 2019

On Thursday night ten of us met at the Chichester Inn to sing a song or two of our lovely Sussex folk songs.  It took us a while to get going as there was a lot of chatting, but we eventually made our way through the set list for our slot at Arundel Festival on Saturday.  Chris read out a funny story he had come across in an 1846 Worcestershire newspaper item, involving a fight over a dog.  We then invited requests for songs and sang Green Grows the Laurel and then Turtle Dove which we had learned at the Belloc, Broadwood and Beyond workshops.  Sharon and Julie sang a slightly different version of Turtle Dove which they had also learned recently. As with many a folk song, it had a different title (Ten Thousand Miles), a different tune and slightly different words!  After Stephen sang a funny ‘folk’ song from the ’50s we tried a couple of sea shanties, but got a bit muddled with Mingulay Boat Song.   We did better with John  Kanaka!