Jolene: A Country & Western Clubnight by Candlelight at Walthamstow Trades Hall

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Howdy all, hold on to your hats for the next Jolene country and western clubnight round your way, taking place on Friday December 6th at the Grand Ol' Walthamstow Trades Hall. Join us once more as the sweet upstairs saloon bar and dancefloor rings to the sounds of the outlaws and the classics, the ballads and the beauties...

It's a night for sitting around with a whiskey (double) under candlelight, looking at the stars through the bottom of a glass, talking about the 'snow on Raton' and the time Merle Haggard saw Johnny Cash play his San Quentin Prison set with stripes around his shoulders, singin' every word and shootin' it up on the ol' dancefloor.

We play everything from The Carter Family to Cash, Dolly Parton to Neko Case and Don Gibson, Hank Williams to Lucinda Williams, Kitty Wells to Glen Campbell and Laura Cantrell, Patsy Cline to John Denver, Tammy Wynette to Taylor Swift, Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys to Townes Van Zandt, anything with a sweet pedal steel guitar and drunken fiddle swing, and the ballad of your broken dreams.

Direct requests beforehand to jolene.countryandwesternclub@gmail.com.

The Trades Hall is our ol' saloon for the night, sat where the tumbleweeds blow down Tower Hamlets Road (or is that a lock of Willie Nelson's hair?).

*This night is hard drinking and hard dancing, no novelty.