Nailsea Folk Club were pleased to host a sell out fundraising concert for HMD North Somerset at The Tythe Barn on 22 January 2023 with Reg Meuros supported by Double Measure.

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In his 27 years as a solo artist, Somerset-based award winning singer-songwriter Reg Meuross has tackled a wide array of historical based subjects in songs exposing injustice and inequality or celebrating heroism and courage. He has written paeans to the NHS, Emily Dickinson, Victor Jara  and Sophie Scholl, shed light on how miners were unjustly vilified as cowards when they were ordered to continue their work rather than serve during the war, turned a critical eye on contemporary England  and told of the tragic fates of murdered or separated lovers and of the ignominy heaped upon unmarried mothers and prostitutes even after death.

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After a short address after the interval by Rosie Thyer from HMD North Somerset, Reg's performed  For Sophie (What a Beautiful Day) which tells the story of Sophie Scholl  German Anti-Nazi Campaigner and founder of The White Rose movement, Sophie Scholl, a courageous young woman who, at the age of 22 dared to stand up to a brutal dictatorship when none of her country folk were brave enough to do so. Her efforts, and those of her brother Hans and their few student friends from Munich University were considered so lethally damaging to Hitler’s regime that they were executed by guillotine within hours of being found guilty of treason. 

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