Author: Pam Johnson

Mockingbirds are really looking forward to playing at Bingley First Monday Folk Tonight – Monday February 6th. Ryshworth Club, Cross Flatts. Doors 7.00 p.m. for 7.30 start – no ticket but be ready for the raffle and the collection.  See you there!

Happy new year all!  Here’s to another year of music and Mockingbirds fun. Our first gig of the year will be at Bingley First Monday Folk on February 6th at Ryshworth Club.  Looking forward to it.

We’re very happy to say we’ve been able to donate £100 to Bradford Metropolitan Foodbank from sales of our Christmas CDs and downloads of our songs ‘No-one Does Christmas Like We Do’ and ‘A Christmas Yodel’.  You can still download the songs from Bandcamp  https://mockingbirds1.bandcamp.com/album/christmas-like-we-do

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Our gig planned for October 3rd has had to be postponed.  We’ll let you know as soon as a new date is announced.

Mockingbirds will be playing at the Craven Brew Co Taproom in Crosshills on Sunday 25th September at 4.00 p.m.  It would be great to see lots of you there.  Good music and good beer.  It’s a must!

Tap Room Craven Brew Co. Station Road, Crosshills, Skipton, BD20 7DT

It’s been a long break but we’re on our way back to playing live.  We’re kicking off with an acoustic ambient music session – we play, you dine – at The Lemon Tree Cafe & Bistro in Keighley on Saturday November 27th 2021.  It would be great to see lots of you lovely people there.  It’s not a ticketed event but you will need to book a table – contact the Lemon Tree at 01535 662825.  It will be in the upstairs dining room and there are only 24 seats so we recommend you book early!  Can’t wait!

We’re excited about a new Mockingbirds’ project  that we’re calling ‘Songs From Where We Are’.  New songs and stories from around where we live and life as we see it.  We’ll be doing regular updates on this page so keep an eye out for more info as the project develops.  Now where’s that pen ……..

How are you all doing in these tricky times?  Me and Cath are separated  by a virus and a couple of thousand miles at the moment so we’re song-writing remotely.  Ideas are flying backwards and forwards across the airwaves while we stay safe.  Hope to see you all before too long.  Stay well x

Well last week was quite a week. Started with a lovely gig at Bingley First Monday Folk at Chip n Ern, then packing in rehearsal time ready for the weekend and the always enjoyable music while you dine session at The Lemon Tree Cafe on Thursday evening. Friday it was Hellifield Village Hall, which was an absolute joy. Saturday we had an all day song-writing workshop with the fabulous Boo Hewerdine. it was a wonderfully friendly, engaging and productive day – two new Mockingbirds songs!! It was so good to have time to focus. We really enjoyed being in a room full of such talent and hearing the songs other people at the workshop had written – all different and all inspiring. Saturday evening we opened for Boo H at the Lemon Tree and he kindly lent us his song ‘Dragonflies’ which we love singing. Boo, as always, was fantastic – great songs, wry humour and so very generous with his talent. Great to see Mark Dennis get his guitar out and play a song with Boo. Excellent stuff! Sunday was special. Me and Cath aka Mockingbirds had a day with Boo to work through our recently written songs and re-work some older ones. Just a joy from beginning to end. Thanks Boo. On to the next chapter!

Really looking forward to opening for Boo Hewerdine at The Lemon Tree on Saturday 8th February.  We’re so unbelievably lucky to have this opportunity.  Can’t wait.

We’ve been busy adding events to our website and facebook page.  Lots coming up so please take a look at our listings below.  Big news for us is opening for Boo Hewerdine on February 8th at the Lemon Tree Cafe and Bistro after a week of gigs at Chip n Ern in Bingley, Hellifield Village Hall in North Yorkshire and the ambinet music session at the Lemon Tree in Keighley.  New songs and new instruments in the set now so we’re looking forward to a busy week.

Mockingbirds’ new CD ‘Find Your Dream’ is out now.  It’s a collection of our own songs and a few covers.  We’ve enjoyed every minute of writing and recording the songs and we hope you enjoy them.

Available at gigs from Pam and Cath, and by post and available as a download from Bandcamp.

Just £5 at gigs or £7 by post to the UK.  Please contact us via the FB page or our contact page.  Thanks.

Yes folks it’s that wonderful time of year and we’ve got copies of our CD ‘Christmas Like We Do’ available again.   Once again we’ll be fund raising for Bradford Metropolitan Food Bank.  Last year we raised a fabulous £850.  Let’s hope we can add to that this year. CDs are £5 and you can still download from Bandcamp.

We had a great time at The Castle in Bradford.  Thanks to everyone who came along and supported us.  We signed our poster and we’re on the wall with all the other acts who have performed there over the years.  Looking forward to playing there again next year.

Mockingbirds have been busy writing some new material and recording a few songs to see what works.  Maybe a new CD?  Watch this space.