Name: PHIL DURRANT’S ‘COMBINATIONS’ FEATURING MAGGIE NICOLS, SYLVIA HALLETT, JOHN JASNOCH, JOHN BISSET,
Start: 2025-01-13T19:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-01-13T22:30:00+00:00
Location: Café OTO

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PHIL DURRANT’S ‘COMBINATIONS’ – FEATURING MAGGIE NICOLS, SYLVIA HALLETT, JOHN JASNOCH, JOHN BISSET, ET AL
MONDAY 13 JANUARY 2025, 7.30PM
https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/phil-durrants-combinations/
£14 £12 ADVANCE £7 MEMBERS
Phil Durrant / mandolin, octave mandola, dulcimer stick,
Fara Afifi / violin, viola, vocals, perc
Douglas Benford / harmonium, tenor recorder, objects
David Birchall / guitars, banjo
John Bisset / lap steel guitar
Francis Comyn / frame drum, hand percussion, wind chimes, gongs
Adam Fairhall / accordion
Petra Haller / tap dance
Sylvia Hallett / violin, hurdy gurdy, electronics
John Jasnoch / guitars, mandolin, banjo, oud
Theodora Laird / vocals,
Maggie Nicols / vocals, taps, piano
John McGrath / guitar
Richard Scott / viola, fiddle, mandolin
Caius Williams / double bass
Throughout my career as an improvising musician, I have had an affinity with the UK/Irish folk music scene both musically and politically. Both scenes seemingly ‘kick against the systems’ and have healthy DIY aesthetics combined with a very supportive, caring, non-hierarchical approach to music making and organisation.
The chosen musicians for this performance not only all play ‘folk instruments’ but utilise material that is also heard in the ‘Alt Folk’ scene. My personal folk heroes start with Dave Swarbrick - both his violin and mandolin playing - and Martin Carthy and include more recent artists such as Lankum and John Francis Flynn who both include drones as part of their style.
I have chosen ‘Combinations’ as the title of this gig because not only does it reflect the structure - various small groups in an evolving soundscape - but also the fact that early Trade Unions were called ‘Combinations’. – Phil Durrant