Bodmin Folk Club is so pleased to be able to welcome the amazing Marianne Macaleer to the club.
The daughter of Irish emigrants who made their home in
London in the 1950s, Marianne was raised singing 
Irish songs
and has been carrying her parents’ tradition ever since. She is
a multi award winner at both the All Britain and All Ireland
Fleadhanna Cheoil. Well known in folk clubs all over the UK
and in Ireland, Marianne has performed in venues as diverse
as the Irish Embassy in London, Bristol’s Old Vic theatre, the
Bishop’s Palace in Hereford – and memorably, the queue for
stamps in Belmullet Post Office in faraway Mayo.
A resident in Somerset for the past forty years, Marianne
leads workshops in traditional singing at folk festivals. Her
influences include Dolores Keane, John Tunney and a raft of
young singers encountered at Scoil Éigse down the years.
She has recorded two CDs: “The Sweet Nightingale” in 2002
and “Charmed” in 2014.
We meet in an upstairs room but there is a stairlift if needed. Byo alcohol but we do a great line in tea and biscuits
