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Members of the English folk rock band The Albion Band, including its incarnations as The Albion Country Band, The Albion Dance Band, and The Albion Christmas Band. Pages in category "The Albion Band members"
The Albion Band, also known as The Albion Country Band, The Albion Dance Band, and The Albion Christmas Band, is a British folk rock band, originally brought together and led by musician Ashley Hutchings. An important grouping in the genre, it has contained or been associated with a large proportion of major English folk performers in its long ...
Pegg and Nicol took over arranging duties on an instrumental medley and the band turned to sometime Albion Band members: jazz and folk violinist Ric Sanders and singer-songwriter Cathy Lesurf. They also had the help of ex-member Richard Thompson. Thompson and Lesurf contributed songs and took part in the recordings.
In 1994 Julie Matthews rejoined the band and the 1995 release Albion Heart included two tracks penned by Chris, as well as the While/Matthews collaborations of 'Man in the Bottle' (with Ashley Hutchings) and together on the title track, which became something of a group anthem and was the first evidence of a fruitful musical collaboration. [5]
The Albion Band produced four albums during Nicol's time in the band: Happy Accident, Before Us Stands Yesterday, The Christmas Album and Road Movies. In December 2002, Nicol joined the folk-rock band Steeleye Span on their UK Reunion Tour. In 2004, Steeleye Span released two albums: They Called Her Babylon and Winter. This was also the year of ...
He was a founding member of three noteworthy English folk-rock bands: Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span and The Albion Band. [1] Hutchings has overseen numerous other projects, including records and live theatre, and has collaborated on film and television projects.
In 1977, he joined the Albion Band in the National Theatre productions of Lark Rise and The Passion. Caddick later collaborated with Tim Laycock and Peter Bond in a stage show and album about circus life, called A Duck on his Head. About this time, he wrote songs for radio and TV, and performed his own songs in a film about the Tolpuddle Martyrs.
She has been a member of bands in the 1970s such as Oyster Ceilidh Band, Fiddler's Dram, and The Albion Band. [1] [2] [3] She released a solo album, Surface, in 1985, the same year that she appeared as a guest vocalist on the Fairport Convention album Gladys' Leap. [4] She created and ran the World in 1 County festival from 2002 to 2007. [5]