DESPITE a year of pandemic-related curtailment on the Island's live music scene, local folk singers John Hacker and John Bentley have organised five online folk music events in the past 12 months.
Three of these featured spots from a number of nationally well known professional singers – Eliza Carthy, Miranda Sykes and Vicky Swan and Jonny Dyer.
In the course of these events more than £2,000 was raised to support Newport's Quay Arts.
In order to keep the music going they have organised another online Quay Folk Club evening which will take place at 7.30pm on Sunday (February 28.)
Featuring a range of local and mainland folk singers, the evening is being run as a fundraiser for the club itself.