Welcome - Dunedain. Chicken on a raft - performed by Dunedain. Dunedain Tapster 72. The Mudcat Discussion Forum. Programme (Seaford Folk Club) Gryphon - Discography - "Glastonbury Carol" HAT an extraordinary few years they were, to be sure, for all involved in the curious hybrid thing that called itself GRYPHON. Unless I have forgotten to remove the rose-tinted specs, much of the music arrived comparatively effortlessly, as we were not hidebound by any expectations as to what we should sound like. Has a wing-spinet ever been accompanied by a pair of bongos hit with timpani beaters before or since?
Or a folk melody rendered on 4 krumhorns in the manner of a Vaughan-Williams hymn-tune? The instrumentation on the first record was dictated very much by what we could lay our hands on: the serendipity of stumbling over the prototype "Yamaha harmonium" in a Central London Music Store, and the 37 minutes it took to coax it into the back of a Morris 1100. And how on earth did we find a keyboard glockenspiel made in Illinois? Spending nearly all our waking hours together, thus living in each other's pockets, became a crash-course in tolerance and consideration. Glastonebury Carol. CONCERTINA.net - Home. Peter Trimming - Music and Transport | I went to Sidmouth Folk Festival, for the first time, in 1985 as musician for Downes-on-Tour Morris .
We were not booked, but decided to go in order to showcase our talents. Walking along the promenade, on the Saturday morning, I was approached by a lady who said "That looks like a concertina case; have one of these! " A leaflet was thrust into my hand, and so I met Jenny Cox of the West Country Concertina Players . I had seen Jenny at at event a couple of months previously, but had a splitting headache (too much beer the previous night), was not feeling sociable, so did not speak to her. At that time, Jenny was the driving force behind the WCCP , and was hosting the concertina drop-ins at Sidmouth.
The result of that meeting saw me running Anglo workshops at Sidmouth (1986-95), plus others at Chippenham and Wadebridge during this period. A few months later, I received a telephone call from Brian Bibby of the WCCP . Old Palace Clog dancing at Westerham , Kent.