The Club was formed more than thirty five years ago, and became The Marsden Inn Folk Club after settling into that venue, but now that we've moved out of The Marsden we've reverted to the original name. The South Shields Folk Club's current home, The Old Ship , is at the junction of Marsden Road and Sunderland Road, about half a mile south of South Tyneside College. We like to get there early to have a music session before the singing starts, and we've got some excellent young resident musicians who are well worth coming from miles around to hear.
New faces are always welcome, and old and new performers especially so.
Our resident singers' and musicians' material is mostly traditional, as are most of the guest performers we book, but we do like to hear other kinds of music as well, and very much appreciate visitors who perform contemporary, country, blues, or their own material. We keep our admission charges as low as we can, because South Tyneside isn't rolling in money, and we don't want our door prices to exclude anyone. It's a great venue and there's a bunch of excellent musicians to play alongside, or listen to. The Alum House is near the ferry landing. You can't miss it.