181:. The club was held upstairs at the Estonian Club in Cardiff and met on Thursday evenings. In the early days there was just a handful of attendees, but over time the club grew so popular they had to turn people away. Eventually they outgrew the Estonian Club so they moved to the British Legion club in Womanby Street. On their opening night at the new location, there were 500 folk singers and other guests in attendance.
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Harris started out in folk music by playing washboard in a skiffle group (a blues/jazz-inspired type of folk music with a blues or jazz flavour that was popular in the 1950s and 1960s) at small folk clubs in
England. He was stationed at RAF St Athan and met his future wife Elaine at a local dance in
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known for his role in the starting the folk club movement in southern Wales in the 1960s. He was often referred to as the “gentleman of folk song” due to his warm personality and congeniality as a folk club host. Harris primarily sang unaccompanied sea and military songs. Over the years Harris
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until 1959. It was during his military service that he first heard the song "McCafferty", which sparked his interest in folk music, especially in military songs. He later recorded that song and other powerful military songs on the album The
Rambling Soldier (Fellside Recordings, FE 017).
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Cardiff in 1993, his love for music continued and he continued to sing and do some performing until his death in 2016.
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Eisteddfod Award by the Folk Music Society of New York. The Eisteddfod award is given for dedication, inspiration, and service to the practice and dissemination of traditional folk song, music, and dance.
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