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Blues Night, 16th
October 2008 |
North Cotswold Branch of the Campaign for Real Ale |
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On Thursday
16th October North Cotswold Branch of CAMRA made their annual
outing across the border to Worcestershire visiting the excellent Crown
&Trumpet GBG pub at Broadway for their Blues Night. The Crown &
Trumpet is also listed in the Good Pub Guide and has been run for 25 years by
Landlord Andrew Scott, previously Bar Manager at the nearby famous Lygon
Arms, also Social Secretary of the Shakespeare Branch of CAMRA in the 1980’s. Thirteen NCB
members and friends turned up and were entertained by Sons of the Delta who
were making their annual visit to the Crown & Trumpet, Broadway. They
only play venues with good beer they tell us ! |
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The duo are
Mark Cole, of Maxwell Street Blues Band fame, who sings and plays harmonica
and guitar and guitarist Rick Edwards, who is well known at the Cotswold Beer
Festival at Postlip each year for his performances with the Blueshounds and
who is himself an ex Cirencester CAMRA member. They play a raw, passionate blend of
traditional and original acoustic juke joint and street corner delta blues
flavoured with the many roots music styles from the southern states of the USA.
From their opening Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee number, through Robert
Johnson, Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf and some of their own compositions they
provided us with an effervescent mix of Blues and Country music. These guys
don’t
just play the blues, they feel it, breathe it and simply live it ! |
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During the
interval Peter White, our well known Blues music correspondent and North
Cotswold Branch Chairman, did a little poaching on Shakespeare territory and
presented Andrew Scott with the Locale Ale certificate and pump clip badge
for the local Stanway Wizard Beer. Stanway Beers are always on offer in this
pub. This is a new CAMRA initiative to
encourage the sale of locally produced beers within 25 miles of the outlet.
The well kept Stroud Tom Long, and Jack O Lantern came via the Ale Trail from
Gloucestershire and the Timothy Taylor Landlord travelled somewhat further to
this excellent pub just awarded CAMRA’s Worcestershire County Pub of the Year
2008, the previous evening. |
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Report by Peter White and Roger Price. Photos
by Max Messenger