John Burke's a-Musings

We've had a couple of gigs so far this year. The first I'm featuring here was in Garstang at the Banqueting Suite by the canal. I...

Last night found us driving out to Garstang to play for a Golden Wedding party for two lovely people who have booked the band in the past, s...

Last Friday night saw us at the Wyrebank Banqueting Suite, Garstang, to give a concert as part of the annual Music & Arts Festival. T...

Last weekend the band were out at Garstang Golf Club to play at a birthday party. It was a big affair, formal dress and a sit down buffet f...

What a weekend we have just had!!! After the summer we have (not) had, I suppose we couldn't have expected anything else, particularly w...

What a wonderful fabulous time we had last night! We were out at Garstang Golf Club for a 70th birthday party, playing a country and west...

Such a shame. We had played around an hour or an hour and a half and then the heavens opened at Garstang's Music and Arts Festival yest...

We wondered how we would get on yesterday, but apart from one very short period where we had to cover up, the rain skirted round us and the ...

Last night Creeping Bentgrass played at a wedding at Garstang Golf Club. We set up our gear and then managed to have a sit down for a while ...

This year we have been booked for 3 days at the Garstang Arts & Music Festival. You'll be able to see us on Saturday 20 August, Satu...

A couple of gig reports. Fran hadn't picked her camera up for the first one but yesterday David gave me a disk of photos taken by Jeann...

What a brilliant night we had last night! It was one of those nights where we could do no wrong! Garstang's Tithebarn was full to the r...

It's been our final appearance at the Garstang Arts & Music Festival for this year today. Today was rain free I'm glad to say. ...

It was a busy old day yesterday! From performing for several hours at the Arts & Music Festival we took a couple of hours break and the...

Yesterday afternoon we were in our usual spot at the Garstang Arts & Music Festival. The weather had been very mixed and indeed after an...

Another day another gig! We were back in Garstang today for our second spot at the festival. It was a busier day than Saturday and lots of ...

Our flight back from Corfu landed more or less on time last night at around 11:35pm. We were just a little thankful not to have been faced ...

Ooh, ahh, agh my back! Sigh, it was a long afternoon and now I've carted all the equipment back into the house from the car I'm rea...

Were we lucky or what?!? At 6:30am this morning the Heavens opened and as the radio news came on half an hour later it was all about floods...

I'm just starting my annual summer break. Fran's still working this week so it's my catch-up-with-all-the-things-I-haven't-d...