Craig & Willoughby: Shammick Acoustic

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No strangers to North Devon audiences, this is a rescheduled date for Cathryn and Brian, due to the death of Cathryn’s father just before their last intended visit to Shammick Acoustic. A much-in-demand Nashville recording sessions singer, American Cathryn has worked with The Righteous Brothers, Bobby Bare, Tom Paxton, Emmylou Harris and Chet Atkins, amongst many others. But she’s also a very fine songwriter, and interpreter of American traditional songs, prompted particularly by the discovery that her grandfather’s songs were collected by the famous English song collector Cecil Sharp. Brian began his guitar-playing career with Mary Hopkin, and then spent twenty-six years as lead guitarist with The Strawbs, working all over the globe. And for fun, he plays locally in a pub band which goes by the name of The Three Must Get Beers! He is a wonderful acoustic blues/rock guitarist, and a very sensitive accompanist, who can turn his hand to accompanying almost any style of song – including recent involvement in a set of sea shanty CDs! Together, they gel beautifully – with Cathryn’s distinctive voice and emotional involvement in the songs, and Brian’s sympathetic and effortless playing, one can’t help but love them!