Reg Meuross at Lewes Saturday Folk Club
Reg Meuross at Lewes Saturday Folk Club at Westgate Chapel, Lewes
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About the show
A compassionate & insightful songwriter, Reg’s quiet resistance & storytelling remind us of our shared humanity. Recently named one of FATEA magazine’s 2025 Artists of the Year, Reg is a rare & vital voice. His career spans five decades & he has made seventeen albums. He is driven by a profound sense of compassion & a compulsion to sing about social injustice, inequality, courage, & heroism – above all, a desire to tell people’s stories. His study of the slave trade, Stolen From God, with Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne, Modou Ndiaye & Tim Walker, was a packed-out highlight of Whitby Folk Week this year. Reg will give us two forty-five minute spots and the rest of the evening is filled by members of the audience performing a song or tune if they wish. Everyone is welcome, especially if you'd like to sing or play. We mostly sing and play traditional music from the British Isles, but we enjoy other styles as well. We always start off with some English dance tunes for anyone with an instrument to join in. We have a loyalty card. Six visits earn you £5 off an evening of your choice. It's £12 cash tonight. Email valmaigoodyear@aol.com to reserve places, bring cash on the night. This is a Bring Your Own Booze (& glasses) venue. Bring bottles or collect draught Harveys from the excellent Brewers Arms next door. Westgate Chapel, 92a High Street, Lewes BN7 1XH
Featuring - Reg Meuross
Reg's imaginative and finely crafted songs have earned him the title of Master Storyteller (Pennyblack Music), and prompted Mike Harding to introduce him onto the stage of The Royal Albert Hall as 'one of the finest singer-songwriters this country has produced'. Reg is a true modern day troubadour – commenting on life as he sees it, with some of the most beautifully disarming songs and lyrics ever written.
Reg Meuross
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“…sounds like a forgotten, American 60s classic with echoes of Dylan, Tom Paxton & Leonard Cohen” Robin Denselow, The Guardian
“There’s something special about the way he writes and delivers a song” Townes Van Zandt.
In the mid-1980s Reg Meuross formed the Panic Brothers with Richard Morton, mixing Americana with humour and slick harmonies. Then came the Flamingos, Hank Wangford, and now 11 highly acclaimed solo albums have established his songs as ‘the hinges upon which swing the doors of perceptive English folk’ (Folkwords).
Reg’s songs comment bravely on life as he sees it, bringing wide ranging stories from the ghosts of WW1 soldiers to the ravages of dementia, and some of the most beautifully disarming songs and lyrics ever written. Reg has that rare gift of being able to touch people, through his songs and performance, on a really human level. His words and music paint pictures that remain with the listener long after the song has been sung.
“Meuross, quite simply, is one of the best” Malcolm Carter, Pennyblack Music
“Powerful and moving songwriting” Martin Chilton, The Telegraph
“A mighty songwriter and an equally fine singer” Martin Carthy
'Magnificent, powerful & moving' (Pete Townshend).
'Intelligent and thought-provoking songs, beautifully made and skilfully delivered' (The Times).