About us
David Metcalfe - guitars, bodhran, vocals
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David has been playing guitars and singing traditional ballads for decades. He has made regular appearances at venues in and around
David is a founder and regular performing member of the storytelling company Fire Springs
Since 2000, David has played and sung at the Priddy Folk Fair, the Bath Fringe Festival and the Bath Literature Festival, as well as at numerous informal events and sessions elsewhere in the South West - and in locations varying from open fields and woodland glades to 300-seat theatres.
David plays mainly Martin, Gibson and Fender acoustic guitars.
And Friends .......
Jonathan Shorland
Jonathan Shorland - wind things, ancient and modern
Jonathan has been making and blowing through wind instruments of various kinds since childhood, when he made his first reed pipes. He has performed nationally and internationally with numerous bands and loose groupings of musicians over many years.
Jonathan's repertoire includes Breton and Welsh tunes and his own compositions. Since making his name with Fernhill in the late 1990s, he has played with Primaeval, Juice, Taran and Celtech.
Jonathan plays mainly his own hand-crafted, custom-built instruments.
Richard Selby - bodhran
Brian Madigan - flute and percussion
Anthony Nanson - acoustic bass