Artist description Anahata Cello, melodeon, concertina Training in classical music on cello and piano at school Introduced to folk music by my student friends. Since then, have been involved with morris teams, ceilidh and other bands in Chelmsford, London, West Yorkshire and Cambridge. Currently involved with Angel Morris, Cheap Jack, pub music sessions anywhere, Our Northern Branch (an all string band based in Ripponden, West Yorkshire), and a regular performer at The Mayflower Folk Club. Bands Lumps of Plum Pudding (Chelmsford) Cobbler's Last, Ragwort (Cambridge) Medina Ceilidh Band (Suffolk) The Angel Band and Cheap Jack (N London, current, part time) Our Northern Branch (West Yorkshire, current, in which I play cello) Chris Amos Guitar, Songs Chris has lived all over the country before returning to his native Essex. Although mostly playing in electric blues bands he has had a life long interest in ethnic music of all varieties. More notable bands Sir Edwin Fuzz (Bristol, possibly the worst folk band ever) Soma (hull) a.k.a.Bats (Lancaster) Medina Rajneesh Ceilidh Band (Suffolk) Recently Chris has become a familiar face at the Islington Folk Club, which he now considers his home club, despite living in Grays, Essex.

Music Style Bitish Folk Music

Artist History History Chris Amos and I first met in the unlikely surroundings of the Medina Rajneesh commune in 1982. We were part of a ceilidh band formed with other commune members, and Chris and I also worked up some folk song arrangements for various musical events in the commune's life. After the commune split up in 1985, we didn't see each other again until late Summer 1998 when I walked into a folk club in Willesden Green and Chris was on the door selling the entry tickets. Soon after that we had agreed to get back and work on more tunes and songs together. Chris was looking for someone else to work with musically and particularly liked the sound of my Oakwood melodeon, and I was looking for a tame guitarist to provide some backing for the Balkan dance tunes that I was playing on concertina and melodeon. Our repertoire consists of traditional English songs, preferably songs or versions of songs that aren't usually heard, for which Chris does a huge amount of research looking though books from libraries, and tunes from all over Europe, including but not limited to England Ireland, Scotland, Norway, Macedonia and Bulgaria.

Location London, Essex - United Kingdom

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