Jim & Lynette Eldon

This past year, Jim and Lynette have been active with FolkLincs at Barton Ropewalk, where Lynette and Wendy Bolton lead fortnightly clog workshops with Jim playing fiddle. Jim’s fiddle puppet, Gerald, made the big time with a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it TV appearance when chef Andi Oliver’s ‘Fabulous Feasts’ visited Bridlington. Jim and Lynette entertained at Bridlington’s Sailing Coble Festival with local fisherman’s songs, tunes and step dancing. Jim and Corona Smith played and sang the Millington carols, along with seasonal songs from Jim’s stock of East Yorkshire farmworkers’ and travellers’ pieces, at the Beamish Christmas Fairs. Lynette learnt two new northeast clog steps when 100-year-old Doris Hawkes donned her clogs and rose from her wheelchair to contribute at Lynette’s Morpeth Gathering clog event. Together, Jim and Lynette played and sang with makeshift harbour band, The Sawmill Sidewinders, for Flamborough Sword Dancers on Boxing Day.