Our Aims continued ...

(usually out of tune) by the local Joni Mitchell wannabe. Now all that has changed and the folk scene is very much alive and well and spawning a wealth of young and exciting artists who have picked the music up by the scruff of it’s neck and dragged it into the 21 st Century. The songs and the tunes come from the same traditional background, but they have been given new life.

I first came to Salisbury in 1984 and over the years I have enjoyed some fine evenings of folk in the Arts Centre and the City Hall, and more recently in the Chapel Night Club.
I have always felt however that Salisbury needs a regular dose of folk, something that can establish itself on everybody’s calendar.
With this in mind, Dave Baker and I started promoting monthly sessions in the Winterbourne area of Salisbury, either in the Porton Hotel or in the Winterbourne Village Hall and we now have our programme booked until July.
Then for some inexplicable reason I decided to organise a whole weekend of folk in Salisbury and booked the City Hall for the 15th,16th,17th September – and Joe Soap Folk was born !

The idea of this website is not only to promote our own gigs, but also to bring you details of the entire folk scene in and around Salisbury.
I have had a lot of support and encouragement from many people, not least all the organisers of all the other events mentioned in these pages. If you know of anything we’ve missed please let us know .
In the meantime, enjoy the music, and we hope to see you at one or other of our events in the near future.

Keith Harris