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Thanks to everyone who came to kick the new year off into 2019 at Loudhailer Acoustic. We're into our ninth year of Loudhailer Acoustic nights now and it was a lovely night as ever. Super entertaining performances,. highlights including Gifford Rolfe with a lovely new song, Joan Foye's haunting Americana, Catherine Scott's terrific unexpected delivery, … Continue reading Loudhailer Acoustic January 2019
Thanks to everyone who came to this month's Loudhailer Acoustic, a lovely evening. Rich and I opened with a couple of autumnal songs, it's our favourite time of year. We welcomed Gifford and Joan, Jim, Catherine, Dez, Roy K, Roy L, Mike and Val and enjoyed an evening full of super performances. Thanks to everyone … Continue reading Loudhailer Acoustic September 2018
Back from a fabulous Loudhailer Seaside Special weekend at Filey Folk Festival. Big thanks to everyone who came along, we had wonderful performances with magic moments throughout the weekend and terrific audiences. Thanks to the Filey Folk Festival crew, especially Ian Kennington, Dave and Megan at Africa Studios and John Colling and everyone at the Masonic Hall … Continue reading Loudhailer Saturday Afternoon at Filey Folk Festival
It was a lovely chilled evening at Loudhailer Acoustic this time with time for three songs from all the performers in the first set and even another round after the break. We took the opportunity to open the show with our new Dark Guitar and a swinging set. Joan took some photos of us rockin' out. Gifford Rolfe … Continue reading Loudhailer Acoustic June 2015
I was honoured to be asked to play bass on Gifford Rolfe's latest album, Between that Ocean and this Sky. It's full of gorgeous evocative melodies and lyrics. The album's sea theme is punctuated by beautiful love songs, wistful nostalgia, pirates, and Gifford's signature biographical political songs, this time the story of Anna Politkovskya - which called for … Continue reading Between that Ocean and this Sky – Gifford Rolfe
Snow and ice outside still and it seemed like far longer than a month since the last Loudhailer Acoustic, so Rich and I were really looking forward to the evening – and what a brilliant night it turned out to be. A big thanks to a great audience, it was great to see so many … Continue reading Loudhailer Acoustic February 2015