Bill Whaley and Dave Fletcher

Bill Whaley and Dave Fletcher

to appear at Tenterden Folk Festival 2005

Friday 30^th September to Sunday 2^nd October

“Bill and Dave, ……..two of the best voices in folk music”… ....Harvey Andrews

Bill and Dave’s style can be summed up as mostly reeds, mostly choruses, mostly Traditional-ish. Hence they fit very well into the programme for this year’s Tenterden Folk Festival. They are well known throughout their native county of Lincolnshire, both for their work in folk clubs as a duo and also as members of the Higgledy Piggledy band. Bill and Dave present a fine blend of voices mellowed by twenty years of singing together. Their selection of songs encompasses both ancient and modern accompanied in traditional style on English and duet concertina, harmonium, and melodeon, with enough choruses to satisfy a Tenterden Folk Festival audience.

The pleasure they get from singing is obvious and since the release of their excellent debut album "…Their Fine Array" they have taken their music further a field in clubs from Kent to Lancashire and festivals including Chippenham, Saltburn, Holmfirth and Four Fools, Chorley.

Bill and Dave have also been involved with Martyn Wyndham-Read's "Song Links Project" and appeared on the first CD and at the premiere concert at Sidmouth International Folk Festival and the CD launch concert at Cecil Sharp House, where I first met them. In fact Tenterden Folk Day Trust was one of the sponsors of the first “Song Links” album, a celebration of English traditional songs and their Australian variants. They also feature on several tracks on "Song Links 2" which compares English and American versions of English folk songs.

Bill and Dave’s third album "Less Sprightly" was also released recently and includes such well know songs as Female Drummer, Foggy Dew, English Ale and Follow The Drum. Bill and Dave’s appearance at Tenterden Folk Festival is sponsored by Hobgoblin Music.

Alan Castle

Trustee and Festival Director

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