The Great Eastern Ceilidh Company is a five-piece Cambridge band, some of whom live in Milton, who’ve been playing ceilidhs and barn dances in East Anglia for around thirty years. Over that time, they’ve played most of the village halls in Cambridgeshire as well as many of the Cambridge Colleges. They play an exciting mix of English, Irish, Scottish, Northumbrian and Shetland tunes.

On Sunday, 18th October, they are playing at a Cambridge Folk Club event at The Golden Hind, Milton Road in support of Mike Tickell (and Daughter).

In the mid ’80s, Mike Tickell and his teenage daughter Kathryn travelled around the length and breadth of the UK discovering wonderful small music venues crammed full of like-minded music lovers. There was a connection with those audiences that they loved – a unique feeling in the air often lacking in bigger venues. With a hankering to rekindle that experience, ‘a dad and his lass’ return to Cambridge Folk Club for one of a limited number of ‘back to grass roots’ shows, to share stories, songs, tunes and memories, and meet today’s audiences.

Entry: £12 on the door, £11 in advance from the club web site, £10 for members.

The performance starts at 8:00pm, doors open at 7:30pm.