Cockersdale - Whitby Lifeboat Charity Evening

With such an immense amount of talent and a wealth of great songs it is indeed a pity that Cockersdale don't perform as often as they once did. So to see them live at tynefolk was a privilege.

Val Marsden, Graham Pirt and John O'Hagan had travelled a long way to support a charity evening organised at tynefolk in aid of the RNLI and particularly the Whitby Lifeboat.

Giving their time for free, they delivered a stunning evening of the works of Keith Marsden who died prematurely in 1991 but who left his legacy in a sackful of great songs which will never die.

Great harmonies, in which the audience were able to participate, made for a wonderful, never to be forgotten experience. The melody and tight harmonies of Cockersdale, accompanied by a room full of harmonious singers, certainly lifted the rafters of the Black Bull and the Whitby Lifeboat fund has benefitted to the tune of in excess of £400 as a result of the evening.

And to round off the evening a finale of I Remember Morley and the rousing Bring us a Barrel.

A superb night, will we see them again?...who knows. But I sincerely hope so.

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Cockersdale performed for over two hours and gave us: