5016700116328

A Handful Of Sky

Nick Wyke And Becki Driscoll

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Format: CD

Cat No: WGS401CD

Release Date:  14 July 2014

Label:  Wild Goose

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  5016700116328

Genres:  Folk  Folk  

  • Description

    Nick Wyke & Becki Driscoll are highly respected musicians, composers and workshop leaders from North Devon. Their passion for English traditional music and the violin has led to the development of their unique style. Becki's melodic, emotive violin and viola blend with Nick's driving fiddle chords and powerful vocals to create a rich, captivating sound. "...lovely, inventive playing" fRoots The duo's compositions and their interpretations of traditional English tunes and songs are influenced by a wide range of musical cultures: "We are inspired by the people we meet and the places we've been. We like the idea of a global approach to the English tradition." Becki composes many of the new tunes for the duo, drawing on her interest and knowledge of traditional English and Western European music for inspiration. After training with Wren Music as a community musician, Nick began to explore the traditional fiddle-music of the area, particularly the tunes of William Andrew of Dartmoor. He writes many of the arrangements for the duo and is usually found happily chugging away on the chords...

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Rambleaway
      • 2. Regent's Fete / Take a Dance / Darby Kelly / Cock of the North
      • 3. A Handful of Sky
      • 4. The Cornwall Apprentice
      • 5. The Bridgwater Hornpipe / The Dorchester Hornpipe
      • 6. The Cruel Mother
      • 7. Terra da Lua / John of Paris, The New Way
      • 8. Bridge House
      • 9. The Torrington Ringers
      • 10. Dance with Ease / The Dressed Ship
      • 11. Mrs Lovetts Pies / The Prince of Arabia
      • 12. The Exmoor Ram