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Mat Green: fiddle
Andy Turner: anglo-concertina, melodeon, vocals |
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Mat and Andy are both founder members of Magpie Lane
providing the instrumental drive at the heart of the band's dance music
repertoire.
Mat was born and bred in Bampton in Oxfordshire, and has been dancing
and playing for the morris for over 30 years. He has developed a unique,
utterly danceable, quintessentially English fiddle style. As well as
playing in Magpie Lane, he is a member of the justly popular ceilidh
band, the Woodpecker Band.
Andy also has many years' experience playing dance music, most recently
with Geckoes. He has a punchy, rhythmic concertina style, but is also
able to play in a slower, smoother style to accompany his own fine
singing.
Together, Mat and Andy play mainly traditional
English dance tunes. They specialise in little-known tunes from
eighteenth and nineteenth century village musicians' tunebooks, but
essentially will play any good dance tune from almost anywhere!
The tunes are interspersed with songs - again, mainly from English
traditional sources, but with some surprises like the occasional Hank
Williams number. |
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To book Mat and Andy for folk clubs or festivals, please contact
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"However good they might have been at the
Chichester gig, nothing - not even 'Hit Me Baby' - could surpass the vision
of Mat Green doing a Morris jig complete with really high slows along the
whole length of the upstairs room of the Horseshoe in Islington tonight
while fiddling 'Princess Royal'. It takes two magpies to bring joy and Andy
Turner - that truly wonderful box player and singer - was there too, doing
just that. If you can't get all 6 magpies together, see these two and be
amazed...
Islington FC hasn't seen a better night since - oh at least 18 months ago
when the 2Js were last there".
'Countess Richard' on the
Spiers & Boden message
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