Sam Kelly & Jamie Francis - Twickfolk

Sam Kelly & Jamie Francis

Floor spots
Pip Collings & Paul Vile
Holly Rose Thomas

TwickFolk - The Cabbage Patch Pub, 67 London Road, Twickenham, TW1 3SZ
www.twickfolk.co.uk

4th June 2023

Sam Kelly & Jamie Francis are no strangers to TwickFolk audiences. Sam brought his trio to the Cabbage Patch in January of 2015 and as a duo they returned in January 2017. In the intervening period, Sam was presented with the Horizon Award at the 2016 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.

Pip Collings & Paul Vile

As a young child hailing from the depths of Norfolk, Sam’s only link to folk music lay in the Gaelic folk songs that his Irish grandfather taught him. Although many individual songs and tunes have been lost in the blur of childhood memory, Sam has never lost his love for the beautiful sounds of traditional music, and this passion pours out of him in every note he sings. The EP ‘Spokes’ landed Sam a nomination in the Best Singer category at the 2015 Spiral Earth Awards, and his debut album (The Lost Boys) was released the same year, to great acclaim. It received a four-star review in R2 magazine and was included in the Daily Telegraph list of best folk albums of 2015.

Holly Rose Thomas

Jamie Francis (on banjo, guitar and backing vocals) met Sam when they were studying music and playing at open mics in Brighton. Jamie fronts his own alt-blues trio called Stark and brings his own varied musical influences to bear on the songs he writes with Sam. He is building a reputation as a formidable banjo player.

Open Water - Twickfolk

Joanne Doolan

Open Water
Joanne Doolan
Jeff Alexander
Richard Rozze
Dave Whitford

Floorspots
Paul Vile
Holly Rose Thomas
Michael de Podesta

Michael de Podesta

TwickFolk - The Cabbage Patch Pub, 67 London Road, Twickenham, TW1 3SZ
www.twickfolk.co.uk

26th March 2023

Open Water are an acoustic trio based in the South East of England, their music is rooted in the British Folk Tradition with influences of Celtic and American Bluegrass.

Joanne Doolan’s unique vocals emanate from her Welsh musical roots. An award winning vocalist,  she started to perform as a jazz vocalist whilst training as an actress at the prestigious Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.  Since then Jo has developed her vocal style to embrace folk and country styles.  Open Water features Joanne’s intriguing lyrical writing, much influenced by the Romantic poets, Shakespeare, Virginia Woolf, Rumi and the lyrics of Joni Mitchell.

Dave Whitford

Guitars and other stringed instruments are played by Jeff Alexander and Richard Rozze. Also for this Twickfolk gig, the trio were joined by the doyen of jazz bass, Dave Whitford .

Jeff Alexander 

Jeff is an acoustic guitar specialist, particularly classical and flamenco styles. He has researched early music and plays the lute and related instruments, and has been heavily involved in folk and Latin styles. Jeff has recently been interested in developing his own guitar tunings to create haunting melodies and fascinating textures. An enthusiastic and much respected educator, Jeff has worked at Canterbury Christ Church University as guitar tutor and lecturer since 1979.

Richard Rozze

Richard’s influences stem from rock, blues and jazz traditions. He is a former Graduate of London’s Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he studied a Masters in Jazz. He currently teaches guitar and Jazz styles at Canterbury Christ Church University and has been involved in teaching on the Mehr Clef Jazz Summer Schools.

Paul Vile

Open Water were supported by floorspots from Paul Vile, Holly Rose Thomas and the Michael de Podesta.

Holly Rose Thomas