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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
51 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, Martin Simpson, Steve Phillips,
(highly regarded blues singer and guitarist, and member of the world-renowned
Notting Hillbillies)
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, but unfortunately, they have to remain secret for now.
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