Middlewich Boat and Folk Festival

I've been neglecting this blog mainly because of the increase in the amount of time my musical career is now consuming. Well I can combine my boating and musical life this month because of my appearance at one of boating and music's foremost summer events...

The Middlewich Boat and Boat Festival is in the top Ten music festivals in Britain (The Guardian) and is possibly the most family-friendly one as it has many other things going on besides the music including craft stalls, historic boats, boat horses, face-painting, floating gardens and so much more….see http://midfest.org.uk/mfab to give you some idea or you can see some piccies I took at last years event here.

I’ve been going to the festival as a punter on and off for many years and am really chuffed to bits to be playing for the first time this year. The schedule is as follows…


Midddlewich Boat & Folk Festival Appearances

Friday 19th June 8PM - Acoustic Tent, Main Field
Saturday 20 June 1 PM – Kings Lock, Lewin Street
Saturday 20 June 6 PM - Acoustic Tent, Main Field

My music website is here.


In addition;
Emma Burgess and Simon Taylor from the band may be playing with me at some or all of these shows…..stay tuned.
I may also put in an appearance in the open sessions at the White Horse on Sunday the 21st.

Be folk’n there!

J xxx

Feeling Drained ?

I don't know if this is by accident or design....but it's interesting to look at;

and yet more snow!

What a great winter we're having!

S N O W !

...and no it's not cold in winter.

Christmas Walk

Christmas usually means some walks in the familiar territory of my home village of Tarvin in Cheshire. The so-called “Roman Bridges” are an essential part of this, though in spite of being a long way from the boat, I am still strangely drawn towards the canal, this time the Shropshire Union in Waverton.

Frosty The Snowman...

The effects of a frozen mist being gently blown across the canal.

It's been a while and as you can see by the foliage this is a shot from a few months ago but it's the gorgeous steam boat Emily Anne

New Bike

A boat without a bike is like a spaceship without a landing pod.

My old bike is somewhere in the bottom of the canal near Wheelock if anyone fancies their chances with a grappling hook!

Rain is good for the 'Garden'...

Very Much Alive....

Still here....and I have boatie pics to upload eventually. In the meantime check out some of my newish and not-so-newish songs here.

At risk of generalising.......(oh dear)...I'm assuming the average boat-blog reader might be a little middle-of the-road in their outlook so go for "Pleasure Machine" which is kind of Doorsy or bluesy and/or "Jewel" which is a kind of love song to the Earth.

(If not...try "Taught" which is kind of about the rape of the planet, among other things....and not so cheerful).

The start of the Macc canal...

The Macclesfield officially used to start at the stop lock, Scholar Green (from the footbridge)...

...and looking the other way (Cosmos getting a drink)...

Ramsdell Hall from the boat...

Finally on my way to my favourite canal - The Macclesfield!

This is somewhere on the way out of Rode Heath me thinks....

....and yes I've been playing with the negative facility on my camera/phone again. The gardens of Ramsdell Hall on the canal at Kent Green.