MARTIN SIMPSON TRIO

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The multiple BBC Folk Award winner is respected as one of the finest and most adaptable finger-style guitarists in the world, having mastered a diverse repertoire of bluegrass banjo and slide blues as well as traditional British folk music forms. Performing in Trio, Simpson is joined by melodeon maestro and BBC Folk Award's 2008 Musician of the Year, Andy Cutting (June Tabor, Chris Wood, Sting, Chumbawamba) and double bassist and renowned producer, Andy Seward (Phil Selway, Kate Rusby, John Tams) to, who together take his music on to another level.

"Distinctive coiled-spring beauty and power. A revelation...Exquisitely at one with the All-English repertoire.. A master " - MOJO

Martin Simpson won the 2010 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards for Best Traditional Song, was the 2008 winner of Best Album for 'Prodigal Son' and Best Original Song for 'Never Any Good', won Album of the Year in 2002 and is twice-winner of Musician Of The Year.

Andy Cutting on melodeon is renowned for his work with June Tabor, Chris Wood, Kate Rusby, John McCusker and many others. He is a hugely respected, very popular recipient of the BBC Radio 2 Folk Award's Musician of the Year in 2008.

Andy Seward plays double bass with Kate Rusby's Band and with John Tams amongst many others. He is a much in demand producer of acoustic music from Kate Rusby to Phil Selway of Radiohead, and won a Sony Award in 2007 for his work on The Radio Ballads for BBC Radio 2.

Together this is an unstoppable combination of talent, which has taken Martin's music to a new level and is a thrilling band to see and enjoy.

www.martinsimpson.com
www.myspace.com/martinsimpson1

+ JOHN SMITH
Support from prodigious folk-blues guitarist and gruff-voiced singer, JOHN SMITH, who has inherited the licks and chops of John Martyn and Davey Graham, both of whom he toured with.

"The playing style he adopts may cause your jaw to hit the floor - he has all the flair for the gathering storm that made Jeff Buckley so attractive...one hesitates to mention Nick Drake but well, one already has done." - WORD

www.johnsmithjohnsmith.com
www.myspace.com/johnacousticsmith

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