Feast of Fiddles – NEWS UPDATE
11th October 2009

The summer’s gone and like the tour before it – in a flash! Our appearance at the Great British Beer Festival went down a storm and we all enjoyed the adequate supply of refreshment! Sophie Crabtree joined in to add a little glamour and friends from as far afield as the USA, Canada and Germany turned up to enjoy the show. We then moved on to our Cropredy warm up gig at Woodford Halse Social Club and had a very good turn out for the show. Our sincere thanks to everyone at WHSC but especially Maggie and Aunty Shirley who both did us proud. Thanks girls, same again another time?!

Our Cropredy set was just fantastic and the crowd was really supportive. The Good Mr Cutler got stuck on the M25 and with 30 minutes to go we had to put Miss Crabtree on notice again to add glamour and tone…and set up Ian’s gear! Ian joined us one number in but we decided to keep Sophie on as honourary FoF member. Our grateful thanks to Bridge Instruments for lending her a fiddle for the performance. A real Cropredy moment occurred at the end one song; we handed over to the crowd at the end of “Ivor the Knight” – and they carried on singing the chorus long after we’d finished! I’m afraid we got the timing a bit wrong at the end but no matter, we all had a ball and the inclusion of our fabulous brass section really wowed the audience…as well as us!

An almost full band then performed at the annual Megabash Party at Reading Rugby Club before various band members setting off for tour overseas.

This autumn we are finally getting to record our first 100% studio album. This will feature much of the 2009 tour set and we hope to have it available to launch during our Spring Tour next year. You can find final details of all the dates here now.

Please contact us through the Contact Us link if you have comments or questions – we’d be delighted to hear for you. And please keep checking out our site as we expect to add some special offers and features in the New Year. But most of all, please come and see us during the tour which will include our first venture into Wales and a welcome return to the West Country. Don’t forget to “drag along” your friends and family as I am sure we can guarantee another night of musical entertainment that caters for everyone’s tastes – even if it does feature rather a lot of fiddles!

We’re also booked for the End of Pier Festival in Cromer in May and expect to put a couple of other gigs around that date – Sunday 9th May 2010. These are likely to be in East Anglia which has felt a bit left out apparently. No matter, get your tickets for Cromer and we’ll see you there!