Christchurch Folk Music Club

50th Weekend

Finding our folk at the Christchurch Folk Music Club’s 50th celebrations. Thank you Warren Watson for recording these wonderful memories.

Thank you to Tony Hale for selected captions

Morris Dancers

Barrie McDonald

Frank Povah

Sophia Bidwell and Russell Gillies

Vicki Smith and David Lloyd

Ian Costello Band

Fab Poetry

Early Hear-Ye Editors

Martingale

Eileen Marciana Reid

The Morris Band

Kay Reid Hudson

Liz Nicol

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Baby Marrow (Lyn de Groot)

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Slim Pickin’s

Ian Costello

Dueling Banjos

Sarah Lawrence

Sue Galvin

Charlie and the Band

Liz Nichol and Eileen Marciana Reid

Presidents Past and Present

Baby Marrow

Gary Elford with Paul Trenwith

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Marg Layton and John Hooker

All Kilted Up

Life Members

The three surviving Life members L-R Russell Gillies, Libby Stuart and Mike Long enjoying themselves and being appreciative of the weekend

Andy Thompson

Barry Smith

John Stafford

Kristina Godfrey

Lawrence Morritt

Liz Nicol

Manuka Hunnies

Marg Layton

Mary Cathrine Chetty of Baby Marrows

Peter Morgan

Rob Ferris

Roger Lusby

Rusell George

Sue with the original Rimu Rattlers posters

Tony Hale and Jon Hooker

Wayne Robinson

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Roger Lusby

Rob Ferris Music Variety Show

9 November 2025
For his Seventh Musos Variety Show for The Chch Folk Club, Robin B Ferris has invited another very experienced, multi talented and versatile team of professional Musos to perform a wide plethora of musical numbers carefully selected from the 1960s to the present day just for you!

Fingerpicking Delights X

23 November 2025
Tony Hale takes great pleasure in announcing the 10th in his series of guitar concerts. This year’s theme illustrates how British Isles fingerpicking styles came to Christchurch.

Charlotte Yates + Show Pony

30 November 2025
One of our most potent songwriters’, Charlotte Yates, is a singer-songwriter with a decent sized catalogue of solo and collaborative work, including four poetry-to-song projects devoted to the work of James K Baxter, Hone Tuwhare, Witi Ihimaera & Katherine Mansfield.

The Groomsmen

19 April 2026
Collectively joining forces to form ‘The Groomsmen’ these boys are looking to
take the bull by the horns and deliver the goods at every show.