LITTLE JOHNNY ENGLAND

SUPPORT FROM CIRCUS ENVY
7.30PM
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Mad Dog Folk in association with Beverley Folk Acoustic Roots Festival 2012 present Little Johhny England with support from Circus Envy and one more act tbc. Come and celebrate St Georges Day with some top quality English folk rock.

Little Johnny England are a unit comprising five musicians all of whom have worked within the folk/traditional and mainstream for many years.

As individuals they really do have it covered, credits include Peter Kaye, Fatima Mansions, Show Of Hands, Ruby Turner, The Steve Gibbons Band and Albion Band to pick just a few. They have combined their experiences to become quite simply a live act in every sense, as equally at home working in an acoustic manner as they are in a major concert setting.

Their aim in the last 10 years has been to take traditional and contemporary folk music to a wider audience and have attracted a lot of attention not only from press within the genre but also mainstream national press - having achieved a glowing four star review in Q magazine for their album "Mercs & Cherokees". This proving that their aim is not only achievable but is coming to fruition.

After sporadic shows over the last couple of years mainly due to individual projects, they are back stronger than ever with a new studio album 'Tournament Of Shadows', released in October 2009. A ten year retrospective double album 'Ten Years On' was released on 16th June 2009, documenting the band's journey so far.

Previously unreleased material, live tracks and rarities can be heard on 'Ten Years On'. It is a double album and the two disks are deliberately set apart, disc one being the slightly more serene of the two, whilst disk two represents the musical pyrotechnics that have come to be expected at any 'Johnny's' show.

The Band are...

Gareth Turner - Melodeons/Vocals
PJ Wright - Guitars and Vocals
Guy Fletcher - Fiddle and Vocals
Hugh Bunker - Bass/Vocals
Mark Stevens - Drums Vocals

CIRCUS ENVY

Circus Envy are an alternative-folk band based in East Yorkshire. Featuring a line-up of primarily acoustic instruments, they add a traditional sensibility to their intricately crafted harmony-led modern songs with use of bouzouki, mandolin and cajon.

High profile performances alongside artists such as Jim Moray, Megson, Belshazzar’s Feast, Iain Matthews and Jackie Leven have cemented the band’s reputation as a live act.

The band’s 2011 album, “Secrets”, was released to critical acclaim, and received significant airplay, including from Mike Harding on BBC Radio 2 and resulted in Circus Envy being featured on the front cover of R2 Magazine. The year ended with a Christmas performance at the Ropery Hall, Barton-upon-Humber which sold out before Halloween.

The band will spend 2012 promoting the new album with live and festival dates to be announced early in the New Year.

www.circusenvyband.com