Holly & The Reivers – Saturday 18th March 2023 – Doors Open at 7pm, BYOB, Cabaret Style Seating – SOLD OUT!!
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Holly and The Reivers, a band brought together through their love of singing together and telling old stories to their audiences.
Bertie Armstrong, Merle Harbron and Holly Clarke create a musical setting for their songs by combining the musical styles of Old time banjo, Scottish fiddle and the Ballad singing, as well as bringing forth their own compositions that have been deeply influenced by these traditions.
the intricate melodies and words they have woven together shine through with their soaring three part harmonies and driving instrumental pieces.
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Christian Garrick (violin, darabuka) One of the world’s most celebrated jazz violinists. British jazz violinist, composer and band leader with a dynamic and diverse diary of actives from performances with his own Quartet, Budapest Cafe Orchestra, Tango Alakulo or John Etheridge, to tutoring jazz violin studies at the Royal Academy of Music, Royal College of Music and Guildhall School in London. He is a busy studio session musician with wealth of movie soundtracks to his name such as Les Miserables, Borat, The Imaginarium of Dr Parnasus, Chocolat, Brideshead Revisited, La Vie En Rose, Chicago, Big Fish, An Ideal Husband, Final Portrait and Tomorrow Never Dies. He plays the solo violin voice to the popular BBC Poldark television series and is a regular guest soloist on BBC1’s Strictly Come Dancing. In 1993 he broke with tradition to become the first ever non-classical violin graduate of London’s Royal Academy of Music, gaining the Academy’s top accolade, the DipRAM. His performance at 2004’s Genius of the Violin Festival provoked violinist Maxim Vengerov to request jazz lessons. In 2006 he received the invitation to perform Astor Piazzolla’s 4 Seasons with Barry Wordsworth and the BBC Concert Orchestra at The Royal Festival Hall. Of his 6 solo albums 1999’s Different Strokes.was crowned Jazz Album of the Year in the Sunday Times. Christian has played with favourite artists such as Wynton Marsalis, Nigel Kennedy, Bireli Lagrene, Dolly Parton, All About Eve, Duffy, Van Morrison, Dame Cleo Laine and Sir John Dankworth. He plays violins by John Dilworth and a Neolin by Bodo Vosshenrich.
