10:53am Wednesday 17th March 2010
MULTI-talented Bernard Wrigley is the guest artist at Folk on Friday's next meeting which starts at 8.30pm on Friday, March 19 at the Conservative Club, Railway Road, Leigh.
From starting in folk clubs, and then writing & performing at the Octagon theatre in Bolton, the Bolton Bullfrog's career has always combined singing and acting. From TV programmes and films such as Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Phoenix Nights, Dinner Ladies, Alan Bennett films, Brassed Off, My Son The Fanatic and Coogan’s Run, to the many radio plays and programmes he’s presented or been a guest on, there has throughout been a steady stream of LPs and CDs - 15 to date, and his early ones all now remastered to CD.
Bernard's 2008 book of daft one verse poems, The Longs & The Shorts Of It, complement his first book Shorts For All Occasions published two years earlier.
Folk on Friday visitors are in for a treat from the man whose CV includes reading a series of very silly customs on the Mark & Lard show on BBC Radio One, then being a prisoner in a television advert for sausages and being murdered on TV in Harbour Lights.
They'll enjoy his side-splitting humour and unmistakable sound. Once heard, never forgotten!
Admission is £7 at the door.
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