Since winning the Wiltshire awards, the sisters have taken the folk scene by storm, performing at festivals and folk clubs across Britain. Whitby Folk Festival 2003 saw the launch of their long awaited debut album "This Close…"
Play or Sing, read a Poem, tell a Story, listen, fetch the beer, anything
Julian is well-known in Sussex and is steadily making a name for himself in the rest of England after returning from Los Angeles, where he lived and sessioned for a number of years. Heard at the Solent Folk Festival recently, he delighted everyone with his well-judged and captivating technique. With vocals, guitar and cittern he treats his audience to traditional songs and music of the British Isles, 'using the style of those he admires most to put his own interpretations on songs that we would want to hear again' (Ted Comben's words in Folk On Tap). His (many and varied) influences include Carthy, Jansch and Renbourn and he certainly does his masters proud.
Play or Sing, read a Poem, tell a Story, listen, fetch the beer, anything
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Carolyn Robson and Paul Tabbush' three wonderful daughters Anna, Freya & Nonny [Veronica] have been singing since they were little (or even younger) and feel they have been saturated in the atmosphere for ever. They have developed a wonderful series of harmonised arrangements to traditional and other familiar songs that excite both mind and body - so young and fresh, so skilful, so accomplished, so new without being 'trendy'. The few who have come across them at Wherwell and elsewhere (they won the Wiltshire Young Folk Award a couple of years ago) will know what we mean - don't miss this treat. Listen out in particular for their hair-raising 'Lavenders Blue' and 'Elsie Marley'.
Since winning the Wiltshire awards, the sisters have taken the folk scene by storm, performing at festivals and folk clubs across Britain. Whitby Folk Festival 2003 saw the launch of their long awaited debut album "This Close…" | |
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