Folk Men Soon Win Support

by Janet McCallum

The folk music club, estab-lished only recently has al-ready achieved a television contract. A folk music series of programmes is at present being recorded by WNTVI The club provides choruse and audience for the pro gramme which will be on screen within the next month.

Officially started last Octo-ber. the ciub is a thriving one with 110 subscribing members Workshops, held every two weeks, provide opportunities to explore the potential talent of new members. There has been an active folk singins element at Victoria for some time within the con temporar arts club. A group of enthusi-asts led by Arthur Toms ar-ranged concerts and lunch hour performances.

The newlv formed separata club gave a successful major concert at the end of last year. Performers included many well-known training college and university singers.

Financially the club has worries as its concerts are popular and it has various engagements such as a weekly appearance at a youth club. Shows are also presented for charity in the clubrooms of various societies, such as the Plunket society, the Inter-national club and the Senior Suburban league.

As well as the regular activ-ities. a major concert a planned for the end of each term. The club intends to pre-sent an especially ambitious entry for arts festival includ-ing individual singers as well as groups.