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Chris has played music since the age of five, starting with the harmonica, and   moving on to piano, guitar, concertina, tin whistle, melodeon, piano accordion and keyboards, and even a little time playing the fiddle. He plays traditional folk music of UK, Europe and beyond, and is also no mean hand at blues, rock & roll, and even a bit of jazz.
February 2006 saw a somewhat historic milestone, it was just 50 years since Chris first played harmonica on stage. For more information on this, see Links page.

The discography is quite impressive too -
7 House Band albums, 2 solo albums, plus  sessions on approx another 54 albums, 21compilations, a video tutor for the absolute beginner on  piano accordion, a DVD tutor on Celtic Guitar Accompaniment (playing the tunes on melodeon & piano accordion for Alistair Russell to accompany on guitar, in case you were wondering) and DVDs by The Working Party, Ralph McTell & also an appearance on a Guitar Maestros DVD with Steve Tilston.

Chris is also a founder member of the much travelled and highly acclaimed "The House Band". He is in great demand both for live performance and studio session work, and has  worked with countless people from the folk scene and beyond - Martin Carthy & Norma Waterson, Ralph McTell, Mike Harding, Steve Tilston, Martin Simpson, Steve Phillips. Steve is a very highly highly regarded blues singer and guitarist, and also a member of the world-renowned Notting Hillbillies.
Chris has worked with Steve for many years in The Rough Diamonds.
(see Discography page)

A while back Chris did an unusual sort of gig. It was with Charles O'Connor (fiddle player with Irish band Horslips) at a secret location not too far from Whitby, for the supermodel Elle Macpherson, who was entertaining a select group of friends. It was an Italian theme evening and the accordion and violin music went down a real treat.
The food did too...
There have been more "secret location" solo accordion gigs more recently where guest of honour was actress Uma Thurman, but unfortunately, there is no more information on that.

Chris has worked with Ralph McTell & Billy Connolly on the BBC TV series :-
" Billy Connolly`s  World Tour Of England Ireland & Wales"
I have lost count on the number of times this series has been screened

Latest touring was with Pete Morton & Maggie Boyle from 27 Nov - 22 Dec 2010 on the Magical Christmas Tree tour.

For more information see Links page.

www.chrisparkinsonmusic.co.uk

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