Support: John & Dave and John & Dave

John & Dave began with 'Lord Franklin', then, especially for jiva, the Allan Taylor song 'Songdance' (with the added harmonics of Dave's mobile phone!). They continued with 'River Of Love', and 'Wine & Roses' finishing with the James Taylor song 'Sweet Baby James'.

Then it was time for the guests - Mark Canning who provided the rhythmic guitar accompaniment, Frank McGuire on bodhran, assorted percussion and whistle and, arguably one of the world's finest, Lynn Tocker on accordion. Together known as Lyra Celtica, they performed a number of jigs and reels of traditional and contemporary origin including tunes written by Lynn herself. Particularly memorable was the lovely tune 'Floating From Skerrie' which was inspired by a Shetland boat crossing Lynn had taken to the Skerries some years before. The haunting whistle of Frank on some tunes was spine tingling. Also, we were treated to some fine singing from Frank with 'Eyes' and 'As I Roved Out'.

After the break and obligatory raffle it was time to kick off the second half. John & Dave returned and this time sang 'Somewhere Along The Road', the Jez Lowe song 'The Bergen' (first time out at the club), 'Wild West Romance' and the Robin Laing song 'Black Clothes'.

The guests returned and gave us a great second half with more tunes and stories. There was a fine rendition of the Rabbie Burns song 'Ye Jacobites By Name' (which had the Cramlington choir in full voice) and 'Tushielaw', also known as 'The Earl Of March's Daughter'.

At the end of the evening Frank 'challenged' jiva to get the spelling of the names of the tunes right! So rather than get them wrong all that needs to be said is get yourself along to a Lyra Celtica gig - you won't be disappointed.