At the >Folkstation Festival (10th-12th July), as well as the two stages of live music, there will also be an AV Room hosting various activities for festival goers to get involved with.
On the Saturday afternoon headline act, Limited Edition, will be holding a ‘meet the band’ workshop.
The band has been pulled together by the renowned fiddle player Tom Leary and features a group of musicians whose pedigree is pretty impressive to say the least.
The workshop will be a chance to meet and chat to the band who are all well known in the world of folk music.
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Tom Leary on Fiddle. Tom has worked extensively live and in the studio with many of the great names from the folk and rock scene. He’s worked with members of Fairport Convention, Jethro Tull, Humble Pie, The Electric Light Orchestra and the Albion Band appearing on many albums with these and many more.
Tom is a member of the legendary ‘Feast of Fiddles’ with Dave Mattacks (Fairport Convention, Mary Chapin Carpenter), Peter Knight (Steeleye Span) and Chris Leslie (Fairport Convention). He is famous within ‘Feast of Fiddles’ for his laugh amongst other things, his mirth is highly infectious.
The last five years have been spent playing live with Kevin Dempsey, Phil Bates (E.L.O), Little Johnny England (of which he was a founder member) and touring with Feast of Fiddles.
He has also recorded two solo albums. ‘Calm Waters’ (1997) and the most recent release ‘Off the Rocks’ (2002). Tom’s latest project is his new band Tanna’ with Peter Knight (Steeleye Span) and Kevin Dempsey (Whippersnapper). Tom also plays regularly with the well known Oxfordshire Ceildh Band ‘The Hookey Band’.
P J Wright on Guitar. PJ Wright is best known as guitarist and lead vocalist with ‘Little Johnny England’, slide and pedal steel guitarist with the ‘Dylan Project’, and long time sideman with R’n’B legend Steve Gibbons.
Feted as a guitar virtuoso, this Leicester-born musician is also a talented songwriter penning folk-rock inclined songs and socio-politically concerned lyrics about the working man and the daily grind, with the odd relationship number thrown-in for good measure. Compositions such as Johnny England and Forty Years On meld a poetic sensibility and an understanding of traditional song.
Graeme Taylor on Guitar (Gryphon, Albion Band) – founder member of ground-breaking early 70s eclectic band Gryphon, which Melody Maker dubbed ‘The 13th-Century Slade’. Graeme has also played with an assortment of rock and R’n’B bands from the mid 70s through the 80s including ‘The Albion Band’ and ‘Home Service’. More recently, he has been Rolf Harris’ unashamedly loyal guitarist now for twelve years,. Rolf’s band, ‘The Roo Brothers’, has appeared three times at Glastonbury festival, since Rolf’s hit in 1993 with Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven
Jon Davie on Bass (Gryphon, Home Service) – bass guitar player with British folk rock bands including ‘Gryphon’ and ‘Home Service’. Under the name John Thomas, Jon was also a member of ‘The Banned’, a British punk/New Wave outfit in the late 1970s.
Tickets
There are a range of tickets available so check out the official Folkstation Website for more details and how to book.
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