Jolene: A Country & Western Clubnight by Candlelight

Hold onto your hats for Jolene, a country and western clubnight playing the outlaws and the classics, the ballads and the beauties upstairs at the saloon-swinging Walthamstow Trades Hall. 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 time Merle Haggard saw Johnny Cash play his San Quentin prison set as a prisoner with stripes around his shoulders, singing every word and shooting 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. The Trades Hall is our old saloon for the night, sat where the tumbleweeds blow down Tower Hamlets Road (or is that a lock of Willie Nelson's hair?). Saddle up and hold on tight. Direct any requests beforehand to jolene.countryandwesternclub@gmail.com. Doors: 7pm - 11pm This night is hard drinking and hard dancing, no novelty.