We don't just play as a duo!
Vicki and Jonny also been lucky enough to team up with some great people
creating some inspiring and fun music.
Hector Gilchrist
Hector sings with the most amazing gentle Scottish accent, the songs of Burns
and pretty much anything that takes his fancy. Vicki and Jonny performed
a huge amount of the backing on his latest album Ingelneuk.
George Papavgeris
George is an amazing singer songer writer, over 160 songs to date under his belt
in roughly 5 years. Vicki & Jonny were lucky enough to be asked to play on his album For My Next Trick and
take part in the CD launch. At the launch Vicki filled in for Miranda Sykes
on bass. A second album with George was recorded in May '09, so keep an eye out for it!
Mundy-Turner
Cath and Jay are an amazing duo. Their performances are truly amazing. The songs
they write together are stirring, emotional, happy, sad, but always they
make you think. Vicki and Jonny were asked to play with them in the celebrate-10
festival in June and worked with them on their latest album "Ha'Penny Tweedle".
Isambarde
Isambarde are a Coventry based three piece well known for their up tempo songs.
Vicki and Jonny were invited to play on their last album "Barnstorming" and
joined up on on stage at the Miskin Folk Festival and then at the Bedworth
Folk Festival as the 'Bedworth Experiment'.
Cloudstreet
With their warmth, talent and loving stage presence, Australian duo Cloudstreet makes their audience feel that they are the privileged viewers of something
very special. Combining contemporary arrangements of traditional ballads
with original songs in a traditional style, their magic is marked by their
dazzling vocal harmonies. Vicki and Jonny appeared on Cloudstreet's album "The Fiddleship" and performed with them frequently in 2004 - 2005.
Harriet Earis & Colman Connolly (Luasca)
Having had a fabulous eveining in Dolgellau with Harriet and Colman, Vicki and Jonny are looking at finding more ways of working with this other fantastic duo. Harp, Guitar, Scottish Smallpipes and Uilleann pipes can make a magical sound!
A new collaboration between two young traditional musicians, Luasca are fast making a name for themselves as a dynamic and innovative duo. Their unusual combination of harp with uilleann pipes, flute and whistles makes for a head-turning alliance. Their music is foot-tapping and infectious, with a force and life to it.
seriouskitchen
Vicki and Jonny have also performed as part of seriouskitchen with Nick Hennessey.
Successfully playing festivals and folk clubs around the country, "they have developed a reputation for delivering the goods" (living Tradition). They have produced 3 albums.
seriouskitchen embody the folk tradition and make it their own, from kicking jigs and reels
to the most ancient of ballads. If they haven't written it, then it's stripped
to the bare ingredients and cooked up into something seriously fresh and tasty.
Using a whole list of acoustic instruments as diverse as harp and djembe seriouskitchen
truly is a big new sound from the kitchen!
Nick Hennessey, a highly acclaimed Storyteller and ballad singer in his own right blends his talents with Vicki and Jonny to create a dynamic trio that has entertained audiences with re-crafted traditional ballads and brand new tunes that take your breath away.