Clive and Matt Ryder are based in Coventry, and have released one CD called String Band Music. They are a father and son duo.
Matt plays guitars,bass guitar, mandolas and banjo. Clive plays guitar, slide guitar, mandola, accordian, bouzouki. He also plays Northumbrian pipes and playedmixture of bluegrass and Northumbrian tunes and songs.
“The Kittiwakes craft timeless and magical acoustically dappled folk treats - gentle and alluring ostensibly Gaelic in sound texture and gorgeously flighty braided as they are by corteges of mandolins, accordions and violins.” - Losing Today
“Absolutely wonderful. I cannot recommend highly enough catching them live if you get the chance” - Folk and Roots Online £6 on door.
BBC Radio 2 Finalists 2008, Charlie (fiddle) and Jack (guitar and vocals) have done the opening support for Swarb and Martin Carthy at Birmingham Red Lion's folk club; more recently they played with Bella Hardy at the Musician in Leicester. Their first album is full of their own penned tunes and songs, and frankly,
Workshy Profits are a trio of musicians from North Lincolnshire who perform a dazzling fusion of traditional and contemporary music from around the world. They combine elements of traditional British and European Folk, Jazz, Latin, Flamenco, Gypsy and contemporary music in an exhilarating harmonious combination.
Sally is a local legend. English singer and songwriter. Originally from Barrow, and having been in the fantastic band The Poozies, we are honoured that she has been able to include our club in her "Joni Mitchell Project" tour. (web site)
Friday Jan 22nd 2010
Feature Night with Simon Jackson and Jim Walker
Simon and Jim are 2 great local musicians: Simon is a very fine guitarist, singer, writer and arranger and Jim is one of the best fiddlers around these parts. Their recent teaming has proved highly successful and they have received excellent reviews wherever they have played. They performed a great selection of traditional and contemporary songs and tunes including some penned by themselves.
Well, what a fantastic night we all had on 11th December with many thanks to the mighty Pete Morton, Maggie Boyle and Chris Parkinson for their spectacular Christmas Special set, not to forget Mike Helmy on the uillean pipes, Nigel Lawson on harmonica, Bethan and Jessica Mackie for their songs and dancing and the great duo Jim Walker (fiddle) and Simon Jackson (guitar and vocals)
Friday Nov 13th 2009
Feature night with Martin Tabraham & Lesley Dolman
Martin Tabraham on vocals, guitar, lowland bagpipes, low whistle, concertina, together with Lesley Dolman on piano accordion
June 12th 2009
Tim Garland (of Fieldwork) with Nitin Odedra
Tim is a great singer of traditional and contemporary songs - many self-penned - and a gifted instrumentalist. He is accompanied by Nitin on tabla and dholak, with Tim playing cittern, guitar and fiddle.
At the club they will be performing an exciting and unique selection of mainly traditional songs and tunes.
