Sullow are an improvising trio of intersecting Venn membership with The Greater London Banjo Trio: Jacken Elswyth, Daniel S. Evans and Joshua Barfoot form a rolling off shoot from their group Shovel Dance Collective. Inflected and informed by traditional music, they negotiate an improvisation that has been variably described as ‘farmyard’ and ‘rodeo’. Repeated patterns rise and fall in quick attacks, short decays and dense bursts of momentary composition.

They have released on Mossy Tapes & Betwixt & Between Tapes and shared bills with Sun City Girls’ Sir Richard Bishop, Eric Chenaux & The Sprigs.

The Greater London Banjo Trio

During the early years of the 20th century there were up to 100 banjo manufacturers in Britain - most of them in London - ranging from individual craftsmen to factories employing scores of workers. By the 1990s only the devotees of the B.M.G. Federation, the 'Banjo Times' and ‘Banjo Broadsheet’, and Reading Banjo Festival kept the dying flame flickering. The old London Banjo Club, by now renamed the Westminster Banjo Circle, was also in extremis. In January 1992 the Banjo Circle began publishing their journal and decided that the way forward was to present the banjo to the public at every opportunity. To this end they commended holding regional banjo rallies. Thirty years later, The Greater London Banjo Trio was formed.

Fohn & Norman Church

New project brings together two stalwarts of the Bristol scene.

Fohn - Violin, Guitar, Synth
Norman Church - Appalachian Dulcimer

FFO: Shovel Dance Collective, Milkweed, United Bible Studies, Córas Trio, Davy Graham,

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