Double Header: Annown and Du Glas @Launceston Folk Club | |

Annown are a ‘dynamic duo’ who write and perform original songs derived from old Cornish historical traditions. They have released 5 albums to date, 2 of which have been ‘Albums of the Week’, one on Blues and Roots Radio and the other on The Richard Harris Blues and Folk show. In 2019 Tom Robinson on his BBC Radio 6 ‘Fresh On The Net’ show selected an Annown track, ‘Isolde’ as one of the 12 best spoken word tracks of the year. In 2021 Visit isles of Scilly used ‘If Wishes Were Horses’ from Annown’s first album to advertise their holidays. In all, the duo has racked up well over 100 radio plays on various stations and appeared at many festivals, including Cornwall Folk Festival, Rock Oyster Festival, 3 Wishes Fairy Festival, Firefly, Tide Over and Sea View Folk festivals
Since 2016 Du Glas have been rocking their way across the south of England including Wimborne Folk Festival and Chickenstock. They haven’t neglected their homeland either, wowing crowds (if leaving them slightly shell shocked) at the Cornwall Folk Festival, the St Ives September Festival, Penlee Park Open Air Theatre and the Acorn Theatre. Songs of miners, mutiny and murder; starvation, sirens and smugglers, that’s what you get when you leave this bunch of Cornish renegades alone with a load of wood, strings and drum skins for too long!! Du Glas offer their own brand of original roots music, combining influences from Americana and British folk-rock (and whatever else takes their fancy at the time). Their energy, humour and love of gin has incited such madness that audiences have thrown away their pints, danced in a downpour and bounced on the bar like a Bruckheimer film (you know the one we mean) You’d be a fool to miss it!!
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Event FAQs
For the Keep Audio Co. venue:
there are some parking spaces available around the town centre roads, during the evenings. There is also the Westgate Street multi-storey car park, and Race Hill (nearest) car parks. These are usually free of charge in the evenings.
For the Eagle House Venue:
There is a very small public car park in front of the gates. The Eagle house private car park is off Castle Hill and you can access it by driving past the front of the hotel, towards the Castle gates and take a sharp left up the hill or via Castle Street. If the car park is full, there is another public car park at the top of Castle Street and also at Westgate Street multi storey which is just a short walk through the castle grounds.
If you have paid an annual subscription for Folk Club membership, you are a member. If you have not done this, you can purchase a General Admission, non-member, ticket. Folk Club membership can be purchased at events and then you will be charged a member price for your ticket. Your membership status will be checked at the ticket desk, via the member checklist.