Highley Strung

John is a consummate instrumentalist playing anything with strings including banjo, guitar, mandolin, mandocello, autoharp, Appalachian lap dulcimer and fiddle. His first passion is Old time songs and tunes, Bluegrass music and Folk. He draws his influences from a wide sphere form Ewan McColl, Pete Seeger to current musicual luminaries Jodie Stecher and Tony Ellis and the wealth of Appalachian tradition that is Old Time Music.

Gill had been a mainstay of the Liverpool University Folk Club in the 'Augustus John' pub. She already had an enormous repertoire of folk\songs form singers such as Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan but was introduced to the wealth of Old Time music and Bluegrass ballads by John.She accompanied the singing by playing a 12 string guitar. Her currentinfluences include Alison Krauss, Stecher and Brislin, the Carter family,Iris De Ment to name a few.


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