Ben Walker & Rob Harbron

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Having thoroughly enjoyed playing together for their recent EFDSS project The Lost Tunes, Ben Walker and Rob Harbron will be offering audiences an evening of spellbinding music and the stories behind it, combining solo sets with a selection of traditional and original tunes played together.
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Ben Walker was recently hailed as ‘one of the best acoustic guitarists in the world’ by Total Guitar magazine. A BBC Folk Award winner, a versatile producer as well as a celebrated instrumentalist, he has a passion for putting old jewels in new settings, for bringing together traditional and contemporary music and for playing it like no-one else.
With six critically acclaimed albums as a duo with singer/songwriter Josienne Clarke and more than fifty as a producer of other artists, Ben’s signature style as a composer and arranger has been sought after from punk to Proms. His music has been described as 'thoughtful' (Guardian), 'deft' (Telegraph) and even 'legendary' (Morning Star). His first solo EP – The Fox on the Downs - was released in 2018. Reviewers pronounced it ‘jaw-dropping’ (Folk Radio UK), and ‘almost obscenely good’ (Fatea), calling for a solo album soon to follow.
www.benwalkermusic.com
Rob Harbron is a uniquely skilled player of the English concertina, described by the Guardian as a ‘concertina wizard’ and renowned for his highly individual and harmonic style of playing. He is a member of Leveret (alongside Sam Sweeney and Andy Cutting), with whom he has toured extensively and released three landmark albums.
Known for his work with a wide range of artists including Jon Boden and the Remnant Kings, Emma Reid and The Full English, he has also worked extensively with the National Youth Folk Ensemble and the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Now he is exploring solo playing with a repertoire which includes settings of rediscovered traditional tunes as well as many of his fine compositions.
Rob’s debut solo album will be released in June 2019.
www.robertharbron.com