Carolyn Francis; Band leader, fiddle & border pipes
Peter Corkhill; fiddle
Heather Milligan; fiddle
Pat Malone; fiddle
Martyn Askew; fiddle
Pip Hall; fiddle
Phil Keen; fiddle
Scott Hartley; fiddle
Anna Lee; fiddle
Jackie Malone; fiddle
Ian Braithwaite; fiddle
Karen Lloyd; fiddle
Sally Robinson; fiddle
Phillipa Bull; fiddle
Claire Shaw; fiddle
Ian Hodkinson; fiddle
Richard Selvidge; fiddle & guitar
Walter Lloyd; fiddle & bass fiddle
Sounds Like
Sounds like a real good time.
The Lakeland Fiddlers host a session on the second Tuesday in the month at the Hawkshead Brewery Beer Hall in Staveley, (near Kendal), Cumbria.
The session is free and open to all. Bring your instrument, share your tunes, or just sit and listen whilst enjoying the excellent beer brewed on the premises.
The Lakeland Fiddlers formed in 2000, having grown from Adult Education classes held at the Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal and in Ulverston.
Lakeland Fiddlers have evolved from being a class, to a community band, appearing regularly at local festivals and fairs, playing for occasional parties and weddings. The Lakeland Fiddlers have appeared at the Sage Gateshead where they had the honour of playing for the “Fiddle Dance” at Fiddles on Fire in April 2007, recently appearing at Dent Folk Festival and the Furness Tradition Festival, and most recently appearing on the Drystone stage at Solfest.
Latest CD by the Lakeland Fiddlers: We'll All Lye Together
This CD mixes accompanied solos by Carolyn and tracks by the community group The Lakeland Fiddlers, with an emphasis on tunes from old tunebooks from Cumbria. To me, there are elements of Scottish, English and Irish in Carolyn’s playing. If this is the Cumbrian style that seems hardly surprising geographically! She’s a strong punchy player, and an absolute master ‘roll-er’. The Lakeland Fiddlers are clearly well schooled: they’re not just a bunch of fiddlers playing the same tune; there’s unanimity of emphasis etc, but they never slip into sounding orchestral. Their arrangements include intros and pulsing drones but as far as I can tell, there’s no other accompaniment. All in all enjoyable evidence of a living tradition.
Review written by Tom Bell-Richards and reproduced by kind permission of FiddleOn Magazine.
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Pics of the Lakeland Fiddlers on stage at Dent Folk Festival
Hi Guys, Fiddle music (and yours in particular) is so uplifting and fun.... Thought I was back at Brampton! Will bookmark the page to cheer me up if I ever get down! Thanks for the add. Carol.
hi friends, "Keswich Bonnie Lasses", just fabulous, had our Red Shoes tapping away furiously! Would love to see you play live, hopefully it will happen one day. Best from Carolyn and Mark
It may not always come across like that when I sit down with a guitar and attempt to put my own views across,but hey,that is folk music after all,isn't it?
You guys sound great playing together,I wish you all the best and look forward to catching up with you someday(I once had a tremendous portion of battered haggis from a chippy in Windermere)
Keep up your great playing in a beautiful part of the world.
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