Mark is a well respected Accordion/Keyboard player who has been playing in bands since the age of 15. Over the years he has played with a variety of bands covering genres such as Ceili, Country, Folk, Irish, Pop & Rock. He is the current Midland Piano Accordion champion and a former All-Britain champion and currently plays with the popular 5 piece Birmingham based band 'The Father Teds'.
Keith Kerans
Keith is a fantastic all round musician and currently works with a Redditch based Medieval group of entertainers called Sloe Gin. www.sloe-gin.co.uk He is a regular performer at Warwick Castle and Blenheim palace where he entertains vistiors from all over the world. Keith's first love is Bluegrass music and this is plain to be seen from his 5 string banjo expertise, he also teaches Banjo, Mandolin, Guitar and any other string instrument on a Saturday in the Hobgoblin shop.
Kieran Young
Kieran is a young man who is addicted to Banjo and Resonator Guitar! Again a lover of Bluegrass and oldtime country playing!
Jamie Fekete
Jamie is a very talented young man who aside from being a highly acclaimed gypsy jazz and spanish guitar player is also an excellent mandolin player with Birmingham based bluegrass group 'The Toy Hearts'. Jamies latest venture is with local musical collective named 'The Destroyers', a fantastic group who play a range of balkin music to the highest of quality!
Alex Hinksman
Alex is the youngest member of the team and is a very competent Accordion, Ukulele and Guitar player. He plays a major role in his local Folk band who won many friends on their tour of Austria last summer.
Tony Russell
Tony is a very accomplished Guitarist covering a wide variety of styles. He is also a qualified studio engineer so has a very good knowledge of getting the best sound from instruments.
Welcome all to our Hobgoblin Birmingham myspace site. We were the eighth branch of Hobgoblin Music and opened in July 2003, at Birmingham’s Custard Factory. Since then the shop has grown in size and now boasts the largest selection of Banjo's, Mandolins, Mandolas, Accordions, Melodeons, Melodicas, Harmonicas, Concertinas, Bouzoukis, Ukuleles, World Percussion, Flutes, Whistles, Citterns, Guitars & Bodhrans under one roof in the Midlands. We also stock a range of more obscure instruments such as Bagpipes, Uilleann Pipes, Bowed Psaltrey, Bombarde, Chinese Ruan, Cuatro, Apalachian Dulcimer & Hammered Dulcimer!
The Custard Factory is at the site of the factories once owned by Alfred Bird, who received a knighthood for inventing custard in the 19th century. Over the last 15 years the once derelict site has been taken on by new owners, and already the Custard Factory houses music, art and drama studios, music and record shops, cafes and restaurants, and is also a popular venue.
As always, we offer you a unique range of unusual and exciting instruments from all over the world, as well as the best from British and Irish craftsmen. We have introduced many new lines in this edition, from new makers and newly discovered foreign sources. Every item is in the catalogue on merit, and we constantly review the range in order to be able to supply the best quality available at each price level. So give us a call, or visit one of our shops, and we’ll do our best to help you find the instrument you want.
We always do our best to be involved in promoting talent throughout the folk and acoustic world, this has been helped by the recent launch of our record label, Hobgoblin Records. We get the chance to meet lots of interesting muscians in the shop who cover a massive variety of musical genres, this site will hopefully give them the chance to become our 'myspace friends' and so provide an opportunity for even more people to hear their music.
You can contact us through myspace or on 0121 772 7780
Hobgoblin Music Birmingham's Friend Space (Top 36)
The Secret Music Club @ Nicole's happens every Wednesday night from 8.30pm.
Any musicians/poets...etc are welcome to come to perform in our open mic session. We'll buy a drink for anyone who does.
Each week, we also have a top quality "featured act". This coming Wednesday, it will be Gaz Twist (amazing percussive guitar style and layered looping sounds!).
Free Entry - Free drink for performers.
Best wishes,
The Secret Music Club @ Nicole's 18 Hall Street, Birmingham. B18 6BS (between St Paul's Sq and the Chamberlain clock)
Many thanks for doing me the honour , The songs on the profile are as fine as the Merchandise sold in your fine shops and as good as the service you provide, I admit I only make contact with Hobgoblin music once at year ( should be more often I know ) at the Cambridge folk festival. But I am never disappointed! So a record label, another quality service it sounds like to me! David
<KateGoes To The Teen Age; + Voluntary Butler Scheme, Tokyo Storm Warning + The Dead Fish
with records being played by Grandmaster Gareth and Teenage Projections from FilmFicciones.
THURSDAY 3rd APRIL
at the HARE AND HOUNDS BIRMINGHAM Kings Heath High Street, B14 7JZ
8pm - midnight £4adv/£5 door
Dress up as a teenager from any era. punks, hippies, teddy boys, goths, ravers, mods, rockers, bugsy malone, frenchie, the fonz, 80's kids, bboys, harry potter, any teenager etc
Best Costume wins a NEW KateGoes CD "Happy Dancing" exclusively available at FOPP music stores.
Thanks for the add and welcome among our friends. Thanks to Hobgoblin I finaly found the autoharp that I couldn' get in Denmark. No autoharps here apparantly. It's probably not from your shop, but anyway...
Hey thanks for adding us, I brought my Blueridge acoustic guitar from you guys some time last year and havn't looked back. Its a truly fantastic guitar and you were very helpful. Thanks again Amit - Mellow Peaches
