The House Band will kick off proceedings at 7.00pm followed by carefully assembled ensembles from the singers and players who turn up, all under the watchful eyes of Vera and Terry Duggan; the results are often magnificent.
Jammers
Sign in on arrival, ideally before 7.00pm, with name and preferred instrument. We'll supply the drums, keyboard, amps, PA, and DI box for the occasional acoustic instrument. We will endeavour to swap or cover mics, if requested, but singers are welcome to bring their own.
Queensbury Jamming Rules apply:
- the singer calls the tune, decides the key, and dishes out the solos;
- players: please unpack your instrument, tune up and have everything ready before it's your turn to play;
- solos are generally 2 verses long, unless the singer decides otherwise;
- sets are 3 songs (unless we're running out of time, or your songs are 10 mins long);
- if you aren't a drummer or keyboard player, bring your own instrument. Drummers, do bring your own sticks!
Audience members are also vital to the whole proceedings, and extremely welcome! Admission is free to all with ’the hat’ offered around for donations.
St Harmonica's at the Southgate Club
St Harmonica's is at the Southgate Club on Fridays - apart from the first Friday of the month. Instead of the first Friday of the month, St Harmonica's will be two days later, ie the Sunday after the first Friday (which in some months will be the second Sunday of the month).
St Harmonica's Blues Club is based at the
Southgate Club and Art Gallery, just 50m from Southgate Underground Station, with the entrance to the Blues Club in Crown Lane N14 5EN. Nominated, and twice finalists, for UK Blues Venue of the year St Harmonica's Blues Club has been providing the best blues in North London for over 20 years. Run by musicians for musicians and Blues fans we soon outgrew our humble beginnings in a small venue in Palmers Green; we then spent 10 years at St Monica's Parish Centre from which a play on words gave us our club name. Our view is that live music should certainly not be free but that it should be affordable and accessible to everyone, as well as of the highest quality.
With seating for over 100 and plenty more standing room the venue has a terrific bar and stage area for the bands. On Friday evenings (except the first Friday of the month) you will see performers from 8.30pm to 11.30pm while on the Sunday following the first Friday of the month we hold our monthly Blues Jam from 6.30pm with all welcome.
Our aim has always been to put on the best in UK, international and local Blues, making it available to all. To do this we need to have large and appreciative audiences, reward the musicians appropriately and ensure the survival of our home at the Southgate Club. As we are no longer bound by Covid regulations, from September 2022 we have returned to our previous model of £10 annual membership which then, with your membership card, gives you free admission to all our Friday and Sunday events. Our glamorous assistant moves through the crowd for donations into 'the hat' according to what you can afford and feel that the evening is worth; that’s how we pay the musicians. Annual membership with free admission each week runs until the end of the calendar year. (Non members are charged £10 admission on the door or encouraged to become members of course!)
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Coming up
DECEMBER
8 Sunday Blues Jam
13 Saints & Sinners
20 Dirty Weather Blues Review
JANUARY
5 Sunday New Year Blues Jam
10 Connor Selby Band
17 The Blues Chapter
24 Tim Penn & The Second Line
31 Jump 66
FEBRUARY
9 Sunday Blues Jam
14 JFK Blue
21 The 251s
28 House Red & The Blues Direction Electric Band (Double Header)
MARCH
9 Sunday Blues Jam
14 Big Mama's Door with Fiona McElroy
21 Dexter Shaw, The Wolftones & Dawnette Fessey
28 Mark Harrison Band
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