Bristol Troubadour Club

In the late 1960s and early '70s, a thriving contemporary folk music scene in Bristol was centred on the short lived but influential Bristol Troubadour Club in Clifton village, the student quarter above the city centre. The club was considered by some as the liveliest and most creative outside London.

The club hosted some of the premier folk artists of the day including Al Jones, Fred Wedlock, Pigsty Hill Light Orchestra, Ian Anderson, Mike Cooper, John Renbourn, Bert Jansch, The Incredible String Band, Roy Harper and Al Stewart who had a residency there, and mentions the club in his song "Clifton in the Rain".

The Troubadour was opened in Waterloo Street, Clifton, by returning Australian emigree Ray Willmott, on Friday 7 October 1966. The first act to play there was Anderson Jones Jackson (Ian Anderson, Al Jones and Elliott Jackson). Other regular performers included Guyanese calypso singer Norman Beaton, and actor Chris Langham who performed as "Wizz" Langham (inspired, no doubt, by Wizz Jones). From 1967 the "Folk Blues Bristol and West" club, founded by Ian Anderson met on the first Sunday of each month at the Troubadour but became so popular that it had to move to larger premises, firstly at The Old Duke in King Street and, later, to the Full Moon on Stokes Croft.

In 1967, the singer Al Stewart name checked the club in his track "Clifton in the Rain" from his first album "Bed Sitter Images":

And all along the way

Wanderers in overcoats with

Collars on parade

And steaming in the night

The listeners in the Troubadour

Guitar player weaves a willow strain

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