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Concert Players Players appearing at the 18th Convention Evening Concert starting a 8 pm will include Graham Clark, Pete Cooper, Robin Gillan, Chris Haigh, Emese Hruska, Karen Ryan, Bob Winquist, and others, plus Richard Bolton (guitar) and Bernard O’Neill (bass).
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Graham Clark, more detail forthcoming |
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Richard Bolton (Guitar/Cello). Richard is known as a guitarist and cellist in both the Jazz and Folk/Roots worlds for his performances and recordings with Pete Cooper, Billy Jenkins, June Tabor, Joe Townsend and Sir Willard White |
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Pete plays, composes, teaches and writes about fiddle music. He performs in a duo with cellist/guitarist Richard Bolton. Their current CD Turning Point has been praised in The Living Tradition as "a delight from start to finish... as close to a ‘Must Buy’ as it gets." Pete also plays with Dave Arthur and Chris Moreton in RATTLE ON THE STOVEPIPE. His own latest CD of both new and traditional fiddle music, LONDON SESSIONS, has been called "unmissable if you're a fiddler, enjoyable if you're not"
It’s as a fiddle teacher and workshop leader that Pete is best known to many. A stalwart of HANDS ON MUSIC WEEKENDS ands in Witney, Oxfordshire, he’s also been a popular tutor at †FOLKWORKS events in the north-east of England since 1996, inspiring many of the new generation of brilliant young performers on the British folk scene. He coaches the Stockport-based FOSBROOK youth group, and in 2004 performed with them in China. He runs his own LONDON FIDDLE SCHOOLondon at Cecil Sharp House, sharing his enthusiasm for the traditional music of England, Ireland and Scotland, as well as Old Time, Scandinavian, Eastern European and other styles.
Pete has written three books. His latest tune collection, IRISH FIDDLE SOLOS, is published by Schott in Europe and by Mel Bay in America, while the COMPLETE IRISH FIDDLE PLAYER (Mel Bay, 1995) remains a bestseller. He writes a regular column in Fiddle On magazine, and reviews for fROOTS and Musical Traditions. www.petecooper.com |
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Robin Gillan, more detail forthcoming |
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Chris Haigh is an experienced and highly versatile fiddle player who has worked with artists as diverse as Alison Moyet, All about Eve, Riverdance, Morcheeba, Oumou Sangare, Zumzeaux , Tziganarama and his own band,The Kremlinaires. He has appeared on over 60 albums. He is a prolific composer, and his tunes have had worldwide use on film and TV. He has written two books, “FIDDLING AROUND THE WORLD"and “ANY FOOL CAN WRITE FIDDLE TUNES", published by Spartan Press. He runs one of the world’s leading fiddle websites, www.fiddlingaround.co.uk |
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Emese Hruska, more detail forthcoming |
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Bernard O'Neill (Bass) A versatile bass player, Bernard has played with Rufus Wainwright, Sinead O'Connor, Jeff Buckley, Natasha Atlas and a variety of World Music artists. Bernard is one of the founders of the London Fiddle Convention. |
Karen Ryan started playing Irish music at the age of 9 - she comes from a very strong Connemara (Co. Galway) tradition of melodeon players and traditional singers. Karen has spent much of her time in the last 12 years, passing on the tradition to young and old in North London as a teacher with MEITHEAL CHEOIL. She is a founding member of the internationally renowned six piece traditional Irish Band THE LONDON LASSES and PETE QUINN.
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Bob Winquist hails from Canada and has worked in London as a freelance viola player since the 1970's. He has worked with, amongst others, the BBC Concert Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet, the English National Ballet, the London Mozart Players and many other ensembles in London. Bob has extensive experience in the field of Baroque music, notably with the Hanover Band, the London Classical Players and the London Handel Orchestra and other, smaller, Baroque ensembles. He continues to be active in playing chamber music. In the late 1970's Bob re-connected with his Country/Bluegrass roots, gradually becoming part of the British Bluegrass scene, attending festivals and, from the 1980's onward, playing in bands like the Bluegrass Ramblers, Hickory Swing and Grassfire. He is presently a member of A Band Like Alice, which is considered to be one of the foremost UK Bluegrass bands. Bob has toured the UK with Jim Eanes (a one-time Bluegrass Boy), twice with Rose Maddox (of Rockabilly fame) and last year with Kathy Chiavola, a fine singer from Nashville who is much loved in this country. In 2002 Bob was co-director of music in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of THE WINTER'S TALE, which involved co-ordinating Bluegrass music with the theatrical side. This production played first at the Roundhouse in London and later in the year at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-on-Avon. Bob is one of the founders of the London Fiddle Convention
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