Mike Ruff - Dealing With Death

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Death in all its forms is often celebrated in music, whether choosing music for the funeral or wake, writing a masterpiece in someone’s memory, right through to ghostly tales or humorous verses.Folk Music is strong on death, anything from shipwrecks to cold blooded murder, so much so that in some folk clubs it is not unknown for a singer to apologise for a “low body count” within a song!

For this event Mike will be performing songs from a wide repertoire that look at death in different ways with hopefully something for everyone and more than a few light hearted moments amidst the tragedy. There will be English and Irish Folk Songs, Tudor and Victorian songs and quite a few more.

Mike Ruff is a noted folk musician, dance teacher and author renowned for Barn Dances and Maypoles as well concerts and talks. Successful bands and groups have included Quicksilver, Allcock and Brown and the mAy team. In recent years he has recorded a CD of songs for the Farmland Museum (Princess Anne has a copy!), performed Music Hall and run dance workshops at the Cambridge Museum of Technology. Also, during lockdown he produced a webinar linking Folk Music and Song to that Museum’s collections of Print Machinery, Steam Engines and Audio Technology.

Come to be entertained. Expect the unexpected and a few laughs along the way