Pete Morton/Pete Kenny

PETE MORTON/PETE KENNY

Quorn Village Hall 26th September 2025

 Had a wonderful evening in the lovely Quorn Village Hall on Friday, a one off performance, supporting Papyrus, by Pete Morton and Pete Kenney.

Before the show there was already a warm feeling of love and anticipation in the room which grew as the evening progressed.

Pete Kenny was up first and delivered a lovely set of his own songs... The songs were excellent and delivered with assurance and style, his voice perfectly matching the quality of the songs... The one exception to the self-composed was a beautiful cover of Tom Waits' masterpiece, "Tom Trauberts Blues"... anyone who delivers a great performance of that song is top man in my eyes!!...

Lovely opening set

Next up was the phenomenal Pete Morton performing his "The Ghost of a Sailor Talking Blues" show... If you hadn't seen this show before and were expecting a normal set of Pete's great songs you may have had a surprise... this show is an absolute masterpiece of song and comedy hooking the audience in in the first seconds and keeping everyone singing and laughing to the end, some couple of hours later...

Pete plays the role of Ghost of a Sailor, shipwrecked in the 17th Century and enduring as a friendly ghost in a pub, meeting people, learning songs and stories all the way... and delivers the whole show non stop as a talking blues referring to historical figures and contemporary satirical issues, throwing in classic hits from the 17th century onwards... some obscure, most well known which have the audience singing from the first note of the song... it is impossible to list the songs, but the include such as. "Drunken Sailor" "My old Man said Follow the Van" "The Hokey Cokey" "Amazing Grace" "Sweet Caroline" and even "Nessun Dorma" a la Pavarotti... the final song, as the encore, was simply mind boggling... "Bohemian Rhapsody" in the voice and style of George Formby.

This show is just unbelievably fabulous... hugely uplifting, inspiring and a total joy... if you haven't seen it, do yourself a favour, and see it when you can...

Having said this, Pete is maybe the best singer song-writer we have and one of the very finest performers, whether delivering this show or his regular songs...

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But beyond that... remember that this was also a fund raiser for PAPYRUS... A charity seeking to prevent suicide in young people and supporting the bereaved... a hugely important and worthy charity... please look them up and support them where you can...