Hertfordshire
Hitchin Folk Club The Sun Hotel Sun Street Hitchin Herts SG5 1AF www.hitchinfolkclub.co.uk
Hitchin Folk Club, was started in 1963 and has utilised many venues in the area, although The Sun Hotel has been it’s home for some time now. So 2008 it celebrates it’s 45th Birthday. For 41 of those years the acts have been booked by Maureen Jones. She is helped by resident sound man, compere and husband, Keiron Jones. The club is now run as a concert style venue and Maureen has made a lot of friends and acquaintances in the folk world, over the years and has supported lots of musicians from their early days. This support is often paid back with surprise visits back to this venue. In recent years this has included Seth Lakeman and Show of Hands (who both can now fill large auditoriums and festivals).
Shows are on every Sunday, with a short summer break in August and a couple of Sundays in December/January. Doors usually open at 7:30pm and the evening starts at 8:15pm. Another friendly venue run professionally with help from a handful of volunteers. Well worth the visit.
Town
Venue / Promoter
Address
Telephone
Web Address
Genre
Baldock
Baldock & Letchworth Folk Club
The Orange Tree, Norton Rd, Baldock SG7 5AW
Baldock and Letchworth Folk
Folk
Bishop’s Stortford
Stortfolk
The Church Hall behind All Saints Church, Stansted Road, Bishop's Stortford, Herts, CM23 2DY
www.beerfordbury.co.uk
Folk
Hatfield
The Forum
the Forum, University of Hertfordshire, College Lane
Hatfield, Herts, AL10 9AB
01707 285008
01707 285000
www.forumhertfordshire.co.uk
Music and Club
Hemel Hempstead
The Old Town Hall
The Old Town Hall, High Street,
Hemel Hempstead, HP1 3AE
01442 228091
The Old Town Hall
Theatre and Music
Hertford
Hertford Corn Exchange
39 Fore Street Hertford SG14 1AL
01992 442992
hertfordcornexchange.co.uk
Some Music
Hertford
The Hertford Marquee
The Marquee Centre Railway Street
Hertford SG14 1SH
See Web site
www.marqueehertford.co.uk
Web site and venue closed
Indie
Hitchin
Club 85
74 Whinbush Road Hitchin Herts
SG5 1PZ
See Web Site
www.club-
85.co.uk
Indie
Hitchin
Hitchin Folk Club
The Sun Hotel Sun Street Hitchin, Herts, SG5 1AF
www.hitchinfolkclub.co.uk
Folk, Acoustic.
Hitchin
The Victoria
The Victoria, Ickleford Rd, Hitchin, Herts, SG5 1TJ
SoundARC Sunday Sessions
Local Artists
Letchworth
Letchworth Arts Centre
2 The Arcade Letchworth Garden City SG6 3EW
01462 670788
www.letchwortharts.org
Community, some music
Letchworth
Plinston Halls
Broadway, Letchworth Garden City, Herts, SG6 3NX
01462 672003
www.plinston.com
All Types
Redbourn
Redbourn Folk Club
The Hollybush Public House, Church End, Redbourn (near St Albans) Herts AL3 7DU
Redbourn Folk Club
Folk
Royston
Minstrel Court
Minstrel Court, Wendy, Royston
Herts, SG8 0AB
01223 208937
www.minsrelcourt.com
Music
St Albans
St Albans Arena
Civic Centre St Albans Hertfordshire
AL1 3LD
01727 844488
www.alban-
arena.co.uk
All Types
St Albans
The Horn (Public House)
Victoria Street St Albans Herts
AL1 3TE
01727 853143
The Horn St Albans
Music every night
St Albans
The Maltings Art Theatre
The Maltings St Albans Herts AL1 3HL
01727 844222
www.myspace.com/maltings
Theatre, some music
Stevenage
Gordon Graig Theatre
Stevenage Arts & Leisure Centre Lytton Way Stevenage Herts SG1 1LZ
08700 131 030
Gordon Craig Theatre
Theatre, some music
Stevenage
The Red Lion
Red Lion, High St, Stevenage, Herts,
SoundArc Sessions
Local Artists
Stotfold
Walkern Music
Now Closed!
Timbers Live Music Taylors Road
Astwick, Nr Stotfold, SG5 4AZ
See web site
www.walkernmusic.co.uk
Venue now closed
Blues
Tring
The Court Theatre
Station Road Tring Hertfordshire HP23 5QY
01442 823130
The Court Theatre
Theatre, some music