TRADarrr

It’s 50 years since Liege & Lief almost single-handedly created the genre folk-rock. Since then, that simple marriage of traditional music and electric instruments had been suborned and sidetracked, dissected and documented, Oystered, Albioned and Steeleyed. Time for a fresh approach. Enter TRADarrr.

Featuring familiar faces from the Fairport Cropredy stage Guy Fletcher, PJ Wright, Marion Fleetwood, Mark Stevens, Gregg Cave, Gemma Shirley and Brendan O’Neil, the range of instruments which they play – and play commandingly it must be stressed – means within the septet are not only folk and rock, but also a brass section, a string quartet, several jazz groupings, a fiddle trio, a full saxophone section and six lead vocalists.