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Andy Turner fell in love with traditional music in the late seventies, and has been performing it ever since. He is a fine singer of traditional songs, and a leading exponent of the anglo-concertina.

Andy is a member of Oxfordshire group Magpie Lane and the dance band Geckoes.

He performs solo, and in a duo with fiddle-player Mat Green. He has also worked with Chris Wood, the Oyster Band and the Mellstock Band.

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Andy Turner comes in a variety of exciting flavours

Andy Turner - solo
a few choice instrumentals on anglo-concertina and one-row melodeon, but mostly traditional songs - some gloriously unaccompanied, some with (surprisingly tasteful) concertina accompaniment.
"Good songs and tunes... beautifully sung or played with infectious drive and rhythm" Dave Arthur, English Dance and Song

Mat Green & Andy Turner
founder members of Magpie Lane providing the instrumental drive at the heart of the band's dance music repertoire.
Mat has been dancing and playing for the traditional morris in Bampton for over 30 years; he has a unique, utterly danceable, quintessentially English fiddle style. Together, Mat and Andy play mainly traditional English dance tunes, interspersed with songs . They specialise in little-known tunes from eighteenth and nineteenth century village musicians' tunebooks, but essentially will play any good dance tune from almost anywhere!

Magpie Lane
6-piece acoustic band specialising in traditional English song and dance tunes. Six critically-acclaimed CDs on the Beautiful Jo label - the seventh is being recorded right now. Magpie Lane have performed at the top English festivals like Sidmouth, Towersey, Fylde and Chippenham. They also put on annual Christmas concerts in the Holywell Music Rooms in Oxford which have become something of a local tradition...
"this Oxfordshire sextet represents the very best in the English country dance and song tradition" - Sing Out

Geckoes
In the front rank of the bands on the English Ceilidh scene. Evolving out of the country dances of the British Isles, Europe and America, this style of dancing is typified by its exuberance and Geckoes' music has all the energy and style that it takes to fill a floor with hundreds of delighted - if somewhat sweaty - dancers. Geckoes are a favourite attraction at dance clubs such as Haddenham and Oxfolk, and have for many years been regular performers at major folk festivals including Sidmouth, Towersey, Chippenham, and Whitby.

Chameleons
3-piece barn dance / ceilidh band based in the Oxford area with a flexible line-up, drawn from the membership of Geckoes.

Christminster Singers
Oxfordshire's West Gallery choir, and amongst the country's leading exponents of this robust, vigorous style of singing, which flourished in English country parishes during the 18th and early 19th centuries; directed by Dave Townsend.