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Scalby Folk Weekend 2021

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Scalby Folk Weekend this year will take place 3, 4 and 5 September 2021 at the Nag’s Head, Scalby, YO13 0PT.

We have already staged three very successful weekends and have managed to raise over £6,000 for Martin House Children’s Hospice and St Catherine’s Hospice. This year our choice of charity will be St Catherine’s Hospice.

We will be producing a high program with a full page dedicated to each guest. In the past three years we have been lucky to be able to host an excellent guest line up for no performance fee. This year will follow the same model.

Our aim is to enjoy a few of days of excellent music, help to promote new artists and raise much needed money for worthwhile causes.

This year will not only feature excellent music but also have a good selection of craft beers, ciders and freshly cooked food. We will also be putting on open sessions and various workshops.

Current Covid guidelines will be rigorously observed.

Kind regards

The Nags Head Team @SFW 2021

All surplus proceeds to be donated to St Catherine’s Hospice.

Christmas Greetings from Scalby Fair

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Hello everyone,

Soon we will be saying “Goodbye” to 2020 and probably “Good Riddance“!
What an awful year it has been! Having to cancel the traditional Scalby Easter Monday Walk was painful. Having to cancel Scalby Fair in June was a catastrophe!! That has never happened before to the Fair going back more than 40 years. 

However, we must move on in the hope that mass vaccinations in 2021 will mean that things will get back to normal as quickly as possible. It is probably too soon to say with any certainty that the Scalby Easter Walk and Scalby Fair Week will happen but we must be optimistic. Public confidence has been badly shaken and this will need to be restored.

On a very positive note the Nag’s Head is in the hands of a very capable couple, James and Stacey, and the Fair committee look forward to working with the pub to make whatever we do in 2021 the great success the Fair normally is.

Best Seasonal Wishes to all Fair Committee Members, our wonderful stall holders and the thousands of people who enjoy Scalby Fair every year.

Tom Cathcart
Chairman of Scalby Fair

The Scalby Fair Christmas Tree in the High Street

Iiiitttt’s Christmas!

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The Scalby Village Christmas Tree has been put up today.

A team from Scalby Fair Committee was assembled on Saturday morning, 5 December to instal the new Christmas for the christmas Season.

The tree, a Nordmann Fir, from Pheasant Tree Farm at Ebberston, was purchased with a very kind donation from The Nag’s Head.

It is now helping to bring us all some much-needed cheer over the Christmas holiday period.

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  • First get your tree
  • Heave it into position
  • Left a bit … no, right … no, to me!
  • Unwrap and add lights
  • Finished!
  • Scalby High Street 2020

The Nag’s Head Inn

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Well, everyone, isn’t it brilliant that the Nags has now reopened thanks to the sterling efforts of James and Stacey!  James calls the Nags “The Beating Heart of Scalby Village”, and so it is. Whilst it was closed it felt as if the residents of Scalby had suffered some awful bereavement.

Scalby Fair wishes James and Stacey the best of luck in running the pub. Their obvious enthusiasm and experience is plain to see and has given them a wonderful start! Well done!

So now we look forward to Scalby Fair in June with an optimism that we didn’t have last November, to be honest. It is no exaggeration to say that the well-being of The Nags and Scalby Fair go hand in hand and therefore we members of The Fair wish James and Stacey every possible success for the foreseeable future.


Tom Cathcart
Chairman of Scalby Fair

The centre of the Fair
Scalby Fair Fun Run 2019 – the start

Season’s Greetings from Scalby Fair

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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, everyone, as Charles Dickens used to say.

I think our Scalby Fair Committee members will agree that year 2019 was a pretty good one where we have put in a lot of hard work, enjoyed ourselves and restored our bank balances. On the downside we have lost two doughty members in Sally and Jenny but, on the upside, they will both still be at Scalby Fair itself. Well done, ladies.

The Nag’s Head remains a problem for us because it’s closed for urgent repairs and renewals and will not reopen until Saturday, 18 January 2020. However the new tenant, one Richard Durham, is keen to take on a new lease and has already put up his window boxes! He is also very keen to continue the excellent relationship that The Fair has always enjoyed with all the landlords on The Nag’s over the last 42 years

The first casualty of the closure was the Christmas tree which Scalby Fair usually erect. This was never going to happen this year because we do not have insurance nor an electricity supply.

The first Fair committee meeting of the New Year will be held at 11am on Sunday 12 January and the venue is The Temperance Hall where we can have a little look around before the meeting.

Best wishes

Tom Cathcart
Chairman
Scalby Fair Committee