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The
12 Bar
Resting right at the
heart of New London, The 12 Bar is a small, single-level
club that's crammed to bursting point almost every
night of the week. Playing an eclectic mixture of
Blues, Country, Cajun, Zydeco and good old fashioned
Rock and Roll music, the bar also features a wide
variety of live music of the very highest standard,
and Open Mic nights that attract almost every aspiring
musician in the city and surrounding area.
The club was set up in the late eighties by failed
blues musician Charles Lenore, and it only came into
its own after his tragic death in a car accident in
1999, at which point the club passed on to Charles's
daughter Catherine, a dedicated and enthusiastic auburn-haired
girl in her early twenties. A talented singer with
a gutsy, bluesy voice, Cathy made the bar the place
to be in the New London nights, and still occasionally
treats customers to a set or two played with an ageing,
otherwise homeless blues guitarist that calls himself
Papa.
Done up in rich, polished wood and beer stains, with
signed prints of dozens of famous blues musicians
on the walls and a tiny dancefloor that never fails
to be crammed with the city's young, single and sultry,
The 12 Bar is the place to go on the weekend for most
of New London's residents.
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