Claret two decades of experience, barn dances/ceilidhs with caller, subtle folk/roots for restaurants, folk clubs, festivals. Jazz standards, ballads for receptions.. CLARET
Roots/Celt with hints of jazz.
Solo Guitarist, Trio/Duo with vocals. Diverse and different wedding receptions
cocktail parties! Festivals, Concerts, Major Supports, Pub
Gigs, St Patrick's
and
St George's theme sets,
Cultural Events, Session Work, Ceilidh/Barn dances catered for plus caller, own
full PA
We have made several festival appearances, pub and folk club guest spots,
and .... a lively, performance engaging their audience is guaranteed.....
Diverse and Different! They perform over a wide genre of music with
jazz undertones on folk roots material, including music for ceilidh/barndances
with freelance callers
“Experienced performers
at all sorts of venues, of folk to roots great vocals from Sandra, with
interesting, introductions and solo items on flute, bodhran/percussion, whistles
and even Nepalese flute, and accompanying guitar, and Tim’s brilliant finger
-style acoustic/electric guitar, and indeed a soloist in his own right, on
accordion and mandolin. Claret’s repertoire, provides light, shade, and
atmosphere, contrasting with rousing numbers, underpinned by solid bass
playing, from Bryan with, sensitive rhythm and soloing, and accompanying vocals
and a few lead songs too.”
Claret’s
Birmingham Connections....
All
members of Claret are Birmingham born and bred. Performing as a duo and trio,
with a bassist, (Tim Robinson in his own right as solo guitarist, and finger
stye acoustic guitar tuition), long established, Sutton Coldfield’s Claret have
made several festival appearances, cultural events, pub and folk club guest
spots, around the British Isles, (even once in Nepal and once in France too!!),
with a handful of radio appearances. Following near 20 years organising the
Birmingham Guitar club (featuring up-coming artists, and the more famous Gordon
Giltrap, John Renbourn, Barney Kessell, Birelli Lagren), collaborating with the
then Jazz and Bell and pump Folk club hosting atits like Barbara Dickson, at the
now demolished, Old Philipian’s, club once opposite Perrott’s Folly, Waterworks
Rd, Edgbaston. The Folly being the inspiration for their CD Album, ‘Perrott’s
Folly’ with title song of the same name written by band member Sandra Robinson,
relating to its history. Their Folk/roots music club, established in Hopwas,
provides a concert platform for local artistes, and professional guests too.
Appearances have been over much of the Midlands, ten years of Birmingham’s
Artsfest, ‘Folk afloat on Sam’s boat’, Gas St Basin, including the brilliant
Fiddle and Bone venue now sadly closed, hailing a great loss to Birmingham’s
live music scene. Claret made a main stage appearance too at Moseley Folk
Festival in 2008. They perform a wide genre of music and songs,
multi-instrumental, all their own arrangements, with jazz undertones based on
folk/roots material, including music for ceilidhs and barn dances with
freelance callers.... a lively performance engaging their audience is
guaranteed.....Diverse and Different!
Brief note history concert and short
descript.
Performing as a duo and trio, with a bassist, (Tim
Robinson in his own right as solo guitarist), long established, Sutton
Coldfield’s Claret have made several festival appearances, cultural events, pub
and folk club guest spots, around the British Isles, (even once in Nepal and
once in France too!!), with a handful of radio appearances. Their Folk/roots
music club, established in Hopwas, provides a concert platform for local
artistes, and professional guests too. They perform a wide genre of music and
songs, multi-instrumental, all their own arrangements, with jazz undertones
based on folk/roots material, including music for ceilidhs and barn dances with
freelance callers.... a lively, performance engaging their audience is
guaranteed.....Diverse and Different! More information on Facebook follow links to Myspace and Facebook .Claret
perform locally, every
Thursday at their Music Club, in Hopwas, off the A51
running for 20 years, Sandra was Concert Director for the The Lichfield Folk
Festival, which is primarily and dance festival..
Claret’s diverse and eclectic, mix of roots/folk
influenced repertoire from the British Isles to Europe on a fascinating array of
instruments, always sparks a talking point from audiences. The sensitive
arrangements of their music and song have an individuality, with a jazz-slant
thrown in, not to be pigeon-holed! Claret are always in contact with their
audiences, getting them to join in with the music, which is a must, at any
event.
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