The Serenaders will be back in town – that’s Lichfield – tomorrow, Saturday 9 September, busking in Market Street outside the Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum (opposite Waterstones). As the weather is forecast to be warm (I nearly wrote unseasonably warm there, which is ridiculous on the face of it but a lot nearer to the sad truth of an English summer), we will be playing a little earlier: between 10am and about 11.30am or when our voices and fingers give out, whichever comes sooner. I’m delighted to announce that, although we will be shy of uke maestro Ian Doleful and tambourine maestress Mandy Down-Heel, we will be delighted to welcome, on guitar, Phil OhNo. We might even be joined at some point by part-timer and complete diva Harriet Bleak.

And on Sunday 17 September we’ll be trying to squeeze in a song or two in between the proper musicians appearing at Folk On The Farm, the annual Lichfield Arts visit to the country as part of its Lichfield Festival of Folk. It’s at Woodhouse Farm and Gardens, the postcode is WS13 8QG, and all we hope for is that the rain will hold off and that we’ll see a few familiar faces there.

The line-up of proper musicians includes Farefield, Chase Mist, The Durkins and the community big band ASpire, which will include a couple of Wayside Serenaders pretending they know what’s going on.

For full details and booking (it’s £10.78 for adults, children under 12 free, which appears to include a barbecue), just click on the image above.