Oswestry Folk - Virginia Kettles Rolling Folk

Sunday Night Folk at Oswestry Cricket Club.

Virginia Kettles Rolling Folk

Virginia Kettle is the very heart of the multi award-winning folk-rock band Merry Hell. Her songs spirit and energies have helped drive the band ever upwards giving a significant outlet to her creativity providing anthems such as Bury Me Naked which had 20000 fans swaying in a Cropredy field as well as irresistible dancing tunes and slices of wry humour as seen in ‘VIOLET’ her solo tour-de-force during the band set where she often forgoes the need for amplification and wanders freely among the audience. Her solo album ‘No Place Like Tomorrow ‘was acritical and popular success hitting the heights of No.1 in the Amazon Folk Charts within days of its release.

Rolling Folk

As a prolific writer of songs Rolling Folk gives Virginia the chance to share a variety of songs not included in Merry Hell’s sets. It is not a replacement for the band but an additional outlet for her creativity and energy. Offering the same level of songwriting excellence as Merry Hell but a different more intimate feel plus additional musical explorations Rolling Folk surrounds Virginia with a fabulous and interesting selection of players particularly multi multi-instrumentalist Chris Lee (Full House Time Bandits Family Mahone Galleon Blast Rad Co. etc etc etc) and percussionist whistle player and flautist Mark Wooley (Ade Edmondson's Bad Shepherds Full House session master and more) and more recently ace fiddle player Clare ‘Fluff’ Smith again a (young) veteran of numerous projects including a stint with The Incredible String Band. Add in Virginia’s bandmate and husband John all giving breadth and depth to her musical and lyrical visions. She has been described by Folk Northwest magazine as ‘The best thing to happen in British Folk for years’ and who are we to argue?

An evening not to be missed!

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