Thursday 12 November 8pm |
Play or Sing, read a Poem, tell a Story, listen, fetch the beer, anything
Emerging from a family of singers (and concertina players), Steve started his folk apprenticeship performing on the Manchester scene in the late 1960s. In 1970 he joined the Geordie band 'Canny Fettle', making 2 albums and touring Britain and Europe with them for 8 years. After winning the Melody Maker “Stars of the 80s” national competition in 1979, he turned professional, making 4 solo albums with Fellside and touring the UK (including Fo'c'sle) and internationally until 1991. He then spent 13 years out of the folk world building up his violin retailing business and and “diversifying into a more classical mode musically”. But folk music gets into your blood and 2004 saw Steve making a somewhat nervous return to the folk scene where he was warmly welcomed by audiences and found himself asked to make a 5th album (called 'The Whirligig of Time') at Ollie Knight's studio, Robin Hood's Bay, where he accompanies himself on English concertina, piccolo concertina, cittern, or tenor banjo, with guests including Martin Carthy, Nancy Kerr & James Fagan, Miranda Sykes, Gill Redmond (and others), resulting in his being the featured artist inside and on the cover of the Jan/Feb 2008 issue of 'The Living Tradition' Magazine. Already highly-regarded from his earlier “folk-life”, this album confirms him as a fine quality talented performer and the CD is deservedly receiving a lot of attention on mainstream as well as folk radio stations.
Thursday 26 November 8pm |
Play or Sing, read a Poem, tell a Story, listen, fetch the beer, anything