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Vic Gammon
Senior lecturer in Popular and World Musics at University of Leeds. Composer of music for
plays and documentaries. Performer on anglo and duet concertinas, banjo and melodeon; English traditional song and dance music.
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
Telephone: 01484 424465
Email: v.a.f.gammon@leeds.ac.uk
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Vin Garbutt
Solo singer and songwriter. Traditional and contemporary songs and tunes with guitar and whistle.
Cleveland
Contact: Pat Garbutt
Email: vingarbutt@boltblue.com vin@vingarbutt.com
Website: http://www.vingarbutt.com/
Agency website: http://www.speakingvolumes.co.uk/
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Robin Garside
Solo performer, workshop leader and songwriter. Singer (traditional); guitar, fiddle, mandolin. Music workshops. Player of many years standing, traditional and self-penned songs and tunes.
Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Telephone: 0114 2347143 / 07890 910653
Email: robin@garside.f9.co.uk
Website: http://www.robingarside.co.uk/
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Sally Goldsmith and Chris Foster
Touring shows of new songs, readings and projected images reflecting people's lives and experiences. Current show is Plotters about allotments and allotment gardeners, researched on allotments in Sheffield. Also As We Walked Out about walkers and walking.
Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Telephone: 0114 2550019
Email: goldsally@googlemail.com
Also songwriting workshops
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Richard Grainger
Solo singer, guitarist. Original songs and traditional material. Available throughout the region, the UK and internationally.
Whitby, North Yorkshire
Telephone: 01287 660060
Fax: Fax: 01287 660200
Email: richard.grainger@onyxnet.co.uk
Website: http://www.richardgrainger.co.uk/
Also songwriting workshops
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Grace Notes
Traditional and contemporary song. Three part harmony. Maggie Boyle (vocals/flute/bodhran), Lynda Hardcastle (vocals/recorder), Helen Hockenhull (vocals/keyboard).
Three's Company, PO Box 152, Keighley, West Yorkshire BD21 0YT
Telephone: 01535 661991
Email: maggieboyle@hotmail.com
Websites: http://www.threescompany.org.uk/
http://www.maggieboyle.co.uk/
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Granny Knot
Two poets, Adrian Spendlow and Tony Morris, blending their very different styles with the soundscapes created by Tony's improvised multi-instrumental music.
Contact: Tony Morris
Telephone / Fax: 01904 413381
Email: artformsinteractive@tiscali.co.uk
See also: Tony Morris Spendlow
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Great Northern Road Show
Pauline Cato, Tom McConville and Terry Docherty. Northumbrian pipes, fiddle, guitar and song. Traditional and contemporary repertoire.
Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Telephone: 01535 658392
Email: concerts@tomcatmusic.com
Website: http://www.tomcatmusic.com/
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Bob Hall
Bob Hall is the UK's top-rated blues pianist, singer and song writer in the idiom.
The Bob Hall Show performs mostly original blues, boogie and gospel. Themed shows:
"Good Liquor, Hard Times" and "The All-star Medicine Show". Also available as a duo with Hilary Blythe.
Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Telephone: 0114 236 3309
Email: prospect@boogie.demon.co.uk
Website: http://www.boogie.demon.co.uk/
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Jim Hancock
Unaccompanied songs from the agricultural, industrial and maritime traditions.
Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire
Telephone: 01724 844241
Email: jim@guestlist.freeserve.co.uk
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Harri Watts Band
Duo: vocals, guitars, violins, mandolin. Original material. Workshops available.
Hull, East Yorkshire
Contact: Dave Watts
Telephone: 07980 282266
Email: davewatts@dall.karoo.co.uk
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Jon Harvison
Singer/ songwriter, plus traditional song, accompanied and unaccompanied. Songwriting
workshops.
Keighley, West Yorkshire
Telephone: 01535 654836
Email: jonharvison@drive-on.co.uk or jonharvison@lineone.net
Website: http://www.drive-on.co.uk/
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Mick Haywood
Traditional ballad monger. Unaccompanied Yorkshire, humorous, drinking and sea songs.
Whitby, North Yorkshire
Telephone: 01947 601963
Email: mick.angi@btinternet.com
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Henwen
Four women a cappella group. Own arrangements of traditional, contemporary and self-penned songs.
Robin Hoods Bay, North Yorkshire
Contact (1): Rowena Sommerville
Telephone: 01947 880109
Email: rsommerville_ca2@hotmail.com
Contact (2): Fay Gillanders
Telephone: 01947 897642
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Simon Heywood
Singer of traditional and original songs, guitarist, spoken word.
Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Telephone: 0114 232 3948
Email: srheywood@ukonline.co.uk
Website: http://mysite.freeserve.com/SimonHeywood/
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Fay Hield
Unaccompanied singer of mainly traditional songs. Formerly with Witches of Elswick.
Sheffield, Sheffield Yorkshire
Email: f.hield@shef.ac.uk
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High Force
A recently formed folk trio featuring an Englishman, a Scotsman and an Irishman. Mainly traditional folk music. Instruments include whistles, harmonica, violin, recorder, guitar (6 and 12 string) and keyboard.
Contact: John Hunt
18 Victoria Road, Barnard Castle, County Durham DL12 8HW
Telephone: 01833 690467
Email: john@huntbc.freeserve.co.uk
Website: http://bcfolk.webng.com/
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Ian Hill
Mainly traditional tunes and songs with a leaning towards Irish and Northumbrian. Guitar and mandola, occasional mandolin, cittern, banjo. Also unaccompanied songs.
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Telephone: 0113 267 1858
Email: ianhill@hotmail.com
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Keith Hinchliffe
Solo acoustic guitarist/singer. Traditional English, Celtic, American contemporary songs.
Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Telephone: 0114 2669896
Email: keith.hinchliffe@lineone.net
Website: http://www.keithhinchliffe.com/
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Graham Hodge
Solo acoustic guitarist/singer. Wide ranging cross-section of styles.
Selby, North Yorkshire
Address: 68 Hull Road, Cliffe, Selby, North Yorkshire YO8 6NH
Telephone: 01757 638046
Email: graham_hodge@hotmail.com
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Rob Holden
Relocated Lancashire singer and guitarist playing folk, blues and beyond.
Bradford, West Yorkshire
Contact: Rob Holden
Telephone: 01274 730 443
Email: robholdenmusic@yahoo.co.uk
Website: http://www.myspace.com/robholdenmusic/
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Honeydrum
Brazilan Samba and Cuban Folkloric Rhythms, Songs and Dances for Festivals and Parties.
Leeds, North Yorkshire
Contact: Phen
Telephone: 07932 012 787
Email: honeydrum@yahoo.co.uk
Website: http://www.honeydrum.co.uk/
see also tuition and workshops
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House Band
Whitby, North Yorkshire
Contact: Chris Parkinson
Telephone: 01947 601971
Email: Info@chrisparkinsonmusic.co.uk
Website: http://www.chrisparkinsonmusic.co.uk/
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Brian Howard
Uilleann pipes, whistles. Solo or with others.
Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Telephone: 0114 296 7272
Email: shop@howardmusic.co.uk
Website: http://www.howardmusic.co.uk/
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The Howes Band
Family busking band available for small events and parties. Accordion, fiddle, guitar, bongos, ukulele. Available with caller for ceilidhs.
Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Contact: Claire Howe
Telephone: 01909 515068
Email: claire@beggarsbelief.fsnet.co.uk
Website: http://thehowesband.co.uk/
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Idle Road
Traditional music and song from British Isles and beyond. Tenor banjo/ mandola, guitar, bodhran.
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Contact: Tom Napper
Telephone: 0113 2680963
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Instruments of Torture
Trad instrumental. Duo or trio depending on occasion.
Skipton, North Yorkshire
Contact: Brian Stafford
Telephone: 01756 798285 / 07968 826191
Email: iot@stafford.uklinux.net
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James Cannon and the Sinners
5 piece traditional irish folk band with loads of energy.
Barnsley, South Yorkshire
Contact: Pat
Telephone: 07773 076711
Email: info@thesinners.co.uk
Website: http://www.thesinners.co.uk/
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Jig For A Kiss
Four piece Celtic folk band. English, Welsh and Greek song with bowed psaltry, concertina, guitar, whistles.
Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Contact: Andy Bowdin
Telephone: 0114 2665197
Email: slipjig@ntlworld.com
Website: http://www.play-on.org/
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Alice Jones
Piano and whistle. Ceilidh band player.
Ripponden, West Yorkshire
Telephone: 077333 20077
Email: allaia_jones@hotmail.com
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