Name

Instruments

Reviews

Line-ups

Violin

Michael Sweeny

Acoustic violin

Michael is a classically trained violin player and experienced in Irish traditional fiddling.His qualifications include HND professional traditional music performance and B-Mus (Hons) degree in music.

Michael is one of Elaine's  Kindred Spirit duo partners & also plays in trio /band line-ups

Gavin Jones

Electric violin, acoustic violin

Gavin is a highly trained, technically superb, classical violin player, even training at the Yehudi Menhuin School. He is also gifted at improvisation and compared to Nigel Kennedy. He uses guitar effects with electric violin to create extra special sound scapes and rock distortions.

Gavin is one of Elaine's  Kindred Spirit duo partners & also plays in trio /band line-ups

Phil Martin
 

Electric violin / guitar

 Phil is a wonderfully melodic player and a very easy person to work with.

Phil is one of Elaine's  Kindred Spirit duo partners & also plays in trio /band line-ups

Sim Jones
 

Electric violin, electric guitar, viola

Sim is one of Elaine's  Kindred Spirit duo partners & also plays in trio /band line-ups
Sim plays in ceilidh band "Tanglefoot".

Flute/Sax

Emily Nash
 

Flute / keyboards

Emily is a super flute player and keyboard player. She also sings and plays guitar.

Becky Menday
 

Whistles/saxes/
contrabassoon

Becky is an excellent contrabassoon, sax family and whistle family player. She is also a very good singer!

John Harries
 

Flute/sax/
wind synth

John is a super wind player. His main instrument is saxophone but he also plays flute and wind synth brilliantly. He has been performing with legendary group "Clayson and the Argonauauts since the 70s!

Susie Fison
 

Flute

Susie is a charismatic and accomplished flautist. She is classically trained and currently plays in the Henley Symphony Orchestra as well as the wonderful Moody Blues tribute band, “Blue Onyx”, and occasionally in the Tanglefoot Ceilidh band.
You can see Susie in action with Blue Onyx from the You Tube clip below:- Legend of a Mind video clip

Susie is one of Elaine's  Kindred Spirit duo partners & also plays in trio /band line-ups
Susie was the Moody Blue's tribute band (Blue Onyx's) flute player and occasionally deps in ceilidh band "Tanglefoot".

Bass

Paul Critchfield

Bass guitar

Paul plays mostly in the trio and band line-ups

Chris Ross
 

Chris is an experienced bass player who is a dep. bass guitar player.

Chris plays mostly in the trio and band line-ups

Tim West
 

Bass guitar (also key- board, sax and drums)

A multi-instrumentalist, as well as a singer / songwriter, Tim is mainly depping on bass guitar playing for us along with Joey.

Tim plays mostly in the trio and band line-ups

Drums

Alan Barwise

Drums & Percussion

Alan is a seasoned professional player.

Alan only plays in the band line-up

Chris Goode

A multi-instrumentalist, as well as a singer / songwriter, Chris is mainly depping on drums for us.

Chris only plays in the band line-up

Sean Quinn
 

Drums

Sean is a natural drummer and multi-instrumentallist. He has played guitar, sang and acted since an early age. Played in punk bands in the ‘80s around which time he started song writing and learnt to play drums and bass. He has been a youth worker for over 10 years giving all kinds of music workshops to children. He is also a DJ and stage manager, having managed at Glastonbury, Earthheart at Sunrise and the Big Chill.

Sean only plays in the band line-up

Russell Morgan
 

Drums

Russell is a very experienced drummer and band leader of a well respected fuction band as well as a rock school teacher. In order to devote more energy to his own band, Russell is taking a step back from our main drummer to a dep player.

Russell only plays in the band line-up