About
our venue
The Chanticleer is now
firmly settled at the Social Club, Friends Provident, Dorking,
Surrey. This venue has proved very popular with visitors and
performers alike. There is a full stage, luxuriously comfortable
seating, plenty of space and a bar with extremely cheaply priced
drinks! We do not know of any other Folk Club in the region with
such excellent facilities.
There is a door charge
for entry, varying from £2 to £7 according to the
programme. An annual membership fee (currently
£8) gives a reduction on the entry charge to all guest
nights.
How to get there. The Social Club is in the grounds
of the Friends Provident complex and is accessed off Pixham Lane
(linking the A25 and A24 on the north-eastern side of Dorking).
The club is down the first road on the left as you enter the
complex.
For Map click here
History of the club.
The Chanticleer
Club was formed in May 1976 and has been successful in bringing
the acoustic and traditional music to Surrey now for 30 years.
The club meets weekly on
Wednesday nights from 8.30 to 11.00 pm and provides a venue within
central Surrey where the very best British traditional and acoustic
musicians, small bands and singers can be heard. The club endeavours
to provide as broad a cross-section of music as possible, to
highlight the diversity of different styles that constitute traditional
music. Over the past few years we have had Colombian, Welsh and
Irish harpists, the famous Irish band Clann McPeake, ragtime
and blues guitarists John James, Wizz Jones and
Duck Baker, singers from the English tradition such as
Martin Carthy, John Kirkpatrick and John Renbourn,
singer/songwriters Anna Ryder, Mike Silver and
Allan Taylor, vocal trios such as Artisan, the
Music Hall specialists Cosmotheka, the acrobatic skills
of The Old Rope String Band, and a whole host of well
known artists. In addition the club also has a role in encouraging
local musicians and singers to get
together and perform traditional music through its more informal
'singers nights'.