IN SEASON

A Kipper

Country Calendar

Sid Kipper, wiseacre and sayer of sooth, will take you on a side-splitting spin around the year in his improbable native village of St Just-near-Trunch.

From the New Year's hangover, through all the silly seasons with their feasts and festivals, to the bitter end of the year with the Scottish revels of Hog Monday, Sid notes each passing event with a song, a story, or a saying.

Easter is marked by a pancake song, 'Three Jolly Tossers'; haymaking by 'Sing Cuckoo Doodle-Do'; and Halloween by 'The Ghost of the Old Goat'.  We hear of curious customs like All Idiots Day, the Giving Of Bloomers, and Mucklemas; of unhappy anniversaries such as Old Soak's Day and Cyril Cockle's birthday; and seasonal labours from ploughing to harvest.  There's even a morris dance for June.

With choruses, curiosities, and cruel and unusual instruments, this evocative evening will reconnect you with nature's rhythms, remind you of high days and holidays, and make you grateful for modern conveniences such as inside bathrooms and tractors.

So join Sid for an Annus Kippernicus that you won't forget in a hurry.  Rather, you'll want to savour it for some time to come.

"Too often performers are described as hilarious when they are not,

but Sid Kipper is the real deal."

(Surrey Advertiser)

SONG FROM THE SHOW