Martin Hutchinson Folk music Irish

May 2010
Some photos just sent to me from a gig I played at the Music Star. A great evening in a great venue thanks to huge amount of work that Wolfgang and the crew put into runnig it.

Martin Hutchinson

The photos were taken by Ulf Woitakowski and you can see more of his work here (Click here)

Feb 2010 De Dolende Ridder

You can say what you like about the Dutch but they shure know how too build a Dike! While I was playing a storm... ahem!...another storm blew over Holland but we never notice a thing about it as this little theatre is sheltered by a strong, high 100% Dutch Dike. It was a grand afternoon and I felt the audience and myself were characters in a magic world that Leopold created. He has built everything here himself and this little place has that "something". Of course every fairy tale place has it's "big-bad-something-or-other" and in this case it's the local council.They want to close the place down for all the usual reasons: building is too old, not suitable etc,etc,. These days everything has to be located on the "Plaza". The theatre, the cinema, the restaurant and that all important parking garage are cleverly situated and fitted together for our convenience. I have nothing against all this -joy be with them- but places like the Dolende Ridder should also be supported and encouraged to exist.
Leo asks the audience to write to the local council to plead for the continuation and protest against his theatre's closing. Chris Bouma the man who took these photos has already promised to do just that. If you happen to read this and are from the area, visit De Dolende Ridder and I'm shure you'll be writing a letter to the local council too.
www.theaterdedolenderidder.nl/

Feb 2010 Theater Naatpiek

Martin Hutchinson

Photos by Hans Sommer.
'Thanks again for an enjoyable evening at
Naat Piek in Uden'
Sign

Hello Martin,
Thank you again for a wonderfull evening in Uden.
MAGGIE? is a great lady, thanks for singing it.
See you again, for the future :have nice music evenings.
My friends and I enjoyed the whole evening long.
Best regards
Rietje Uden / Holland
I'm looking foreward to being back there again
I can tell you!

Denmark Oct 2009

It was great to be back in Denmark again, to see Jean and Susanne Haller once again , to play in Ishoj and for the Musikforeningen Club in Drauget.
Also had a memorable gig at "Den Gyldne Løve" Aabenraa. Afterwards, back at his home, I spent a grand night swapping tunes with Nigel Ray Beck.
Check him out
http://www.myspace.com/nigelraybeck

Martin

Musikforeningen Drauget Dk Oct 2009 ... photo Kim Knudsen

Café Engelstede Sept 2009

While he was having a listen artist Gerrit Guldenhemel made this pen drawing of "yours truely" in the guest book of Café Engelstede.

And while Gerrit was doing that Henk Eggens took some photos. It was great to meet you both and thanks for letting me use these images.
If you'd like to check these guys out click here for Gerrit www.tekening.info www.guldenhemel.nl
and
here for Henk www.henkeggens.nl

Martin Hutchinson

Coffey's folk club April 2009

Last April I played a beautiful little gig in John Coffey's folk club in Clough, Co Kilkenny, Ireland. It was near my home stomping ground so a lot of my family, friends and enemies showed up for the gig.

Martin