With The Plough Inn being closed for the time being, the fortnightly singaround session had its first session in the church hall of All Saints Thorpe Acre with Dishley, which is just round the corner on Thorpe Acre Road. It should only be a temporary venue but it worked pretty well.

Numbers were down a little so we each got to lead about four songs. I took my ukulele and I was going to kick off with a 1920s medley that I used on Thursday afternoon. However, before we started, another person asked me to back him up later and passed me the chord sheet for a different medley that included two of the same songs. Consequently, I just used the third (Yes Sir, That’s My Baby) as my opening number. On my next go, I went for another song that I’d assumed was from the 1920s but turns out to have been first released in 1949: Enjoy Yourself (It’s Later Than You Think). That had also been on my Thursday afternoon list.

One of the visitors to the session turned out to be a ukulele player who was just checking us out but, during the break, I persuaded him to join in using the “emergency uke” I keep in my office at the church. I picked the next song as one that would be easy for him to follow from my chord sheet – Folsom Prison Blues by Johnny Cash. That wasn’t on my Thursday list but the one I used for my fourth and final contribution was: This Little Light of Mine.

All in all, a good session in a new venue which served us well. I’m particularly grateful that I decided to take the ukulele this week and that I had a spare one on hand as both were factors enabling me to help extend a welcome to our guest and we hope we will see him again in future.