Tag Archives: Andy Cutting

The original music from the Celtic Isles has been given among its most active settings by Fernhill. Having a repertoire which includes pre-Christian dance music and passionate ballads, the Wales-based quartet offers mixed virtuosic instrumental abilities, heartfelt vocals and an ethnomusicologist-like reverence for musical customs to generate an infectious, soul-inspiring, …

Driven from the drones of hurdy-gurdy and bagpipes, Blowzabella forged probably one of the most dynamic noises in the annals of Celtic music. Acquiring their name from the main topic of the original tune “Blowzabella, Me Jumping Doxie,” the group crafted a lively, Wall-of-Sound mixture of English, French, Flemish, and …

The diatonic button accordion is transformed right into a contemporary, emotionally-rich, instrument by Andy Cutting. Although rooted in traditional music, Slicing has brought a brand new method of the traditions. Based on Q magazine, Slicing “offers helped to blow aside some of the cobwebs that surround traditional music”. Folk Origins …

United kingdom instrumental folk trio Leveret feature melodeonist Andy Lowering, concertina player Robert Harbron, and fiddler Sam Sweeney. Veteran players all, each has a lengthy set of instrumental credits with prominent British folk performers like Martin Simpson, Bellowhead, June Tabor, and the entire British. At one stage, the three discovered …