The Countrymen have a string of concert dates this weekend on the 10th to the 12th September. They are at St Austell, Bude and over the border in Tavistock (which raised a few eyebrows). We’re also excited to be announcing…
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The response on social media for The Countrymens forthcoming open air performance on Looe Seafront has been very encouraging. It will be the bands first return to Looe since their fee-free performance at Looe Saves The Day in 2018 when…
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Our efforts to try and create even just a few Covid-friendly social distanced gigs with limited numbers has been in vain. Sadly all possible bookings up to the beginning of June have now been cancelled or postponed and whilst it’s…
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Well we’d never have thought “The Countrymen” and “TikTok” would have been used in the same sentence but these are strange times and seeing as Shantymania has hit social media but in particular TikTok, we thought we ought to get…
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It is with immense sorrow that we must announce the passing of our good friend Bob Johns MBE, founder of our chosen charity, The Robert Johns Leukaemia Fund. More often than not, he would turn up to our live performances…
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Simon (bass guitar / vocals) has just set up our very own YouTube channel. With live entertainment still relatively hard to come by, you might want to spend a moment and take a look. It’s called… The Countrymen Official To…
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With virtually no planning possible at present, we have decided to start planning next year in the hope that some form of ‘new’ normality will be possible by then. Dates for 2021 are predominantly deferred bookings that have had to…
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With the deadline to send in audio tracks for the virtual choir project approaching, it will soon be time to promote the end result as a download in aid of The Royal Cornwall Hospitals Charity. After some discussion, it was…
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An idea hatched by Steve Cooksey, the socially distanced project involves (virtually) gathering together as many of the people of Cornwall to sing Harry Glasson’s “Cornwall My Home” in recognition of the NHS staff and key workers who are out…
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We’ve made a third socially distanced music video and inevitably after so long in isolation, we’re starting to lose it a little! This one is certainly a light relief on the raw emotion of “The River Rolls On”!