In 2014 Pete Cooper and Dan Stewart ( both from Rattle on the Stovepipe ) got together with Peta Webb and Ken Hall for a concert at the South Bank focussing on how English Scottish and Irish tunes and songs travelled with emigrants to North America and how they changed (for example how “The trooper cut down in his prime” morphs into the “ Streets of Laredo”
Not surprisingly the concert was a great success given the musicians and singers involved and tonight Dulwich Folk are revisiting the concert!.
Pete Cooper is one of our leading fiddle players while Dan is acknowledged as one of Europe’s leading old timey banjo players . Pete teaches fiddle at Cecil Sharp House and was a guest at Dulwich folk’s second ever gig , (playing with Richard Bolton).
Peta Webb and Ken Hall offer superb harmony singing and an encyclopaedic knowledge of folk songs. Their Musical Traditions club was for 25 years the essential London venue to hear traditional singing .
This is going to be fabulous, fun and we will learn something too!
As always harmonies ( and silliness) from Shotley Crue and great harmonies from Ian and Sarah and songs/tunes from the floor .
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