Travelling musicians visit pubs near West Midlands canals
A group of musicians are making their way around the canals in a hire boat to perform in different pubs around the West Midlands.
Throughout September, they will be visiting 14 pubs to do acoustic sessions for spectators to watch or join in by playing an instrument or singing.
They will start at the Round Oak Inn in Wombourne on September 16 then play in the consecutive days at the Lock Inn at Wolverley, Wharf Inn at Fleet, Anchor Inn at Worcester, Bird in the Hand at Stourport, Navigation Inn at Greensforge, and end at Swan in Compton to finish the first week.
For the second week they will be at Cross Keys in Penkridge on September 23, Clifford Arms at Great Haywood, Swan Inn at Fradley Junction, Red Lion at Hopwas,Plum Pudding in Armitage, Radford Bank Inn at Stafford and end up at the Fox and Anchor in Wolverhampton on September 29.
The group, called Canal Boat Crew, is made up of eight musicians and singers who sign up for the trip and could be complete strangers until they set off down the canals together.
It is free of charge for anyone who would want to join in and each event starts at 8.30pm.
Neil Cardwell, 60 from Sheffield, organises it and started the trips a few years ago.
He said: "I've done these trips for quite a while but I generally do them in different parts of the country. It gets a great response from local people, we get a good crowd in the evening or most evenings and we play music and sing songs and have a generally good time and tell a few jokes."
