Sad Ballads & Crazy Salads
Sun 09 Nov
|Helston Old Chapel
Sweet music well-played and an intriguing selection of readings, well-read.
Time & Location
09 Nov 2025, 19:30 – 21:30
Helston Old Chapel, Meneage Rd, Helston TR13 8BH, UK
About the event
Sad Ballads & Crazy Salads
with Elaine Claxton & Rick Williams
A night of miserable music and (not so) wise words with Rick and Elaine... Rick and Elaine think they met about 18 years ago and since then, along with Rick's brother Grev, they have become friends and have sung together at various traditional music sessions in West Penwith and Bodmin folk club. It’s something of a standing joke that the songs are largely about drownings, murder, unrequited love, grinding poverty and other such cheerful subjects.
So when Rick and Elaine decided to put together and evening of music and readings, “Sad Ballads” came to mind. The “Crazy Salads” part of the title is a quote from a poem by Yeats, commenting on the odd choices some “fine women” make. So the show will be a mixture of mainly sad songs, and very varied selction of readings by or about women who…