The Goose Is Out!

What a great evening. Thank you to everyone for coming along and making our first night at The Castle such a lovely night. Some fantastic singers and songs. See you again on Sunday 10th August.

July Singaround, The Goose Is Out! Upstairs at The Castle 280 Crystal Palace Road, East Dulwich SE22 9JJ, Sunday 13 July. We welcome everybody to our Singarounds to sing or to listen. Songs can be accompanied or unaccompanied solo or duo or more, any genre. It isn't an open mic evening, we don't use mics! This is our first time at the Castle. Please buy yourself a drink when you arrive. 🙂 If you need help getting up and down the stairs please let us know via our website. We will arrange for someone to meet you and help you up the stairs. First to sign up first to sing, just sign up at any time during the evening at the list on the ticket table. Everybody gets one song and if there's time we start again. Doors open 7pm, singing starts at 7.15 prompt. £5 on the door cash or BACs. More info here: https://www.thegooseisout.com/faq

Shanty & Sea Song Night with The Hog Eye Men, The Ivy House 40 Stuart Road, Friday 27 June, 6.30pm. Tickets: https://wegottickets.com/thegooseisout Following the great success of our Shanty and Sea Song Night in aid of the RNLI (Lifeboats) last year (we raised over £2000) we have asked The fantastic HogEye Men back to headline another night - not a charity night this time. This is what they say: "The HogEye Men are London’s Premier (probably ) Sea Shanty Crew, with a huge repertoire of shanties and sea-songs. We sing them as they used to be sung; simply, boldly and loudly." Well, we can't disagree with any of that, and we look forward to another great evening with lots of audience participation! https://youtu.be/dArrFhPD9aE?si=7P_fhmGdPkNR36Vl Support will be from local singers Chris Lamb, Creeping Jane, James Eagle, John Haseler, Tom Kelly and Trista Selous. Creeping Jane are Nyge and Sue, who run The Goose Is Out! and Chris, James, John, Tom and Trista are all fine singers who come to our monthly Singarounds. At The Ivy House, London’s first community-owned pub. Tickets are £10 advance, £12 on the door (cash or BACS only) Door 6.30pm. Live music starts 7.30pm and finishes 10.30pm. This concert will be half seated, half standing, so come early if you want to be sure of a seat! Please be aware that whilst our events are held in The Ivy House's beautiful Grade 2 listed ballroom, this is a pub, so there may be some background noise from adjoining bars. We and the pub management have done our best to minimise this, however as this is a listed building there are restrictions on what kinds of soundproofing can be done. We hope you understand.

June Singaround, The Goose Is Out! The Ivy House 40 Stuart Road SE15 3BE, Sunday 8 June, 7pm. We welcome everybody to our Singarounds to sing or to listen. Songs can be accompanied or unaccompanied solo or duo or more, any genre. It isn't an open mic evening, we don't use mics and we don't use the stage. First to sign up first to sing, just sign up at any time during the evening at the list on the ticket table. Everybody gets one song and if there's time we start again. Doors open 7pm, singing starts at 7.15 prompt. £5 on the door cash or BACs More info here: https://www.thegooseisout.com/faq

Tomorrow Night . There are still tickets available, they will also be for sale on the door. Doors open at 7pm. 🙂

May Singaround, The Goose Is Out! The Ivy House 40 Stuart Road SE15 3BE, Sunday 11 May. We welcome everybody to our Singarounds to sing or to listen. Songs can be accompanied or unaccompanied solo or duo or more, any genre. It isn't an open mic evening, we don't use mics and we don't use the stage. First to sign up first to sing, just sign up at any time during the evening at the list on the ticket table. Everybody gets one song and if there's time we start again. Doors open 7pm, singing starts at 7.15 prompt. £5 on the door cash or BACs. More info here: https://www.thegooseisout.com/faq

The Goose Is Out! Americana Night with JackDaw, Jack Harris, Dan Raza, The Ivy House 40 Stuart Road SE15 3BE, Friday 30 May 7PM. Tickets https://wegottickets.com/thegooseisout JackDaw is an acoustic gathering of Rob Anderson, Gaby Szabo and Lyle Zimmerman. Sometimes joined by Charlie Austen and/or other friends, they play a combination of songs written by Rob, his old bandmate, cult 1970’s Oregon songwriter Wayne Drury, and beloved others. The 2023 release, ‘Ghost InThe Big House’, began as a lockdown project with Rob working out songs, emailing vocal and acoustic guitar tracks to Lyle, who sandpapered, waxed and weeded a band-and-a-half’s-worth of dusty twang and jangle from his home studio’s instrument menagerie. Drums from Jay Shaw and Dan Purtell and plush harmonies from Gaby, Charlie and Lizzy O’Connor, were added, ending up with an album that RnR magazine described as “Neil Young reworking the Rolling Stones’ ‘Wild Horses’”. Their intimate live performances strip the songs down and bring forward dusty roots and harmonies. RnR magazine... Four stars…dusty but lucid high desert stories” Americana-UK magazine November 2023 - “ A joyful confident album … a sage-like quality to the songs” https://fb.watch/y6ZNYnd2cI/ Steeped in myth and mystery Jack Harris's songs bring the narrative tradition of folk and blues music into the here and now. His debut album 'Broken Yellow' received great acclaim in song- writing circles. Influenced by the old country blues masters (and folk singers of the British Isles), his performances are a riveting display of soulful, smoky vocals and intricate, finger-style guitar playing. "Jack Harris is a priest of song who holds himself to a rigorous ancient code of beauty most of us have forgotten exists" - Anais Mitchell https://youtu.be/ZlyiriRai0U?si=GLzoWRX6dwJZSHKC Dan Raza has kindly agreed to replace Joe Wilkes who can no longer do the gig. Plucked while still a student to tour with Joan Armatrading, and championed by Neil Young on his ‘Living With War’ website, Dan Raza has spent the first chapter of his career weaving folk troubadour magic around the clubs and halls of the UK, America and Europe while quietly building a reputation as one of the UK’s best-kept musical secrets. ‘The real deal’ – Huey Morgan, BBC Radio 2 “Killer songs” -Tom Paxton “A writer who has matured into one of this country’s finest” – Country Music Magazine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gznPmeFFD3U

There will be tickets available on the door. Hope to see some of you there. 🙂

John Kirkpatrick, Lucy & Hazel, Matt Milton, The Goose Is Out! The Ivy House 25 April The Ivy House 40 Stuart Road SE15 3BE, 7PM. Tickets: https://wegottickets.com/thegooseisout We're delighted to have John returning to The Goose! Tonight will be the LONDON LAUNCH OF HIS NEW SHOW "200 YEARS OF THE SQUEEZEBOX"! "Folk music" as we think of it was the popular music of the people when those songs were originally written, and John will be highlighting the hits of the day from the time that squeezeboxes first appeared in the 1820s! Expect a fantastic variety of tunes and songs ranging way beyond John's usual "folk roots"! They will include themes from the classics, well-loved songs, dance music of all kinds and the occasional lugubrious hymn by way of contrast, all played in John's inimitable style on the Anglo Concertina, the Melodeon and the Button Accordion! https://youtu.be/8zSa1eElxNE?si=SWFc6ruUQT4ORGZa "Lucy & Hazel are surely the queens of the new vibe of British folk to be emerging from the radical activist left. Folk music just got very exciting!" - Sam Lee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP3xB5CPOY4&t=21s Matt Milton sings traditional folk and blues songs, and plays guitar, fiddle and banjo. He has played in many folk clubs all over London, and has supported John Kirkpatrick, Andy Irvine and many other well known figures in the folk world. https://youtu.be/2sgCwf1YLgQ?si=oS11cMX9eUd4hhAV