Will Pound & Jenn Butterworth
Schedule
Sun Nov 03 2024 at 09:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
The Greystones, Sheffield | Sheffield, EN
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This virtuosic duo formed as the result of a chance meeting at a folk session in 2018, and led to Will Pound & Jenn Butterworth’s music travelling around the world as a viral internet sensation. In their live shows, they play a game of ‘musical cat and mouse’; improvising and responding to each other, weaving virtuosic performances that are unique and in-the-moment as only two musicians highly accomplished in their craft can produce.Their debut album, recorded live in Glasgow in 2023, has received great praise: “Harmonica and melodeon ace Will Pound and guitarist Jenn Butterworth – well known for her work with the Kinnaris Quintet and much else – transfer their celebrated live duo to the studio and their opening blues-inflected reel set would raise the dead and make them dance, as harmonica squalls joyously alongside the intense skitter and slap of guitar. They ease back for two Irish jigs – well-known, well-worn but treated with gently rollicking affection, before Pound switches to diatonic melodeon for a couple of limber, self-composed bourrées. There’s a solitary song from Butterworth – Better Things, a vintage but sprightly anti-nuke protest by Peggy Seeger – followed by the Queen of Sheba, ushered in with reedy gusto. A thoughtfully poignant rendering of the retreat march Battle of the Somme precedes a return to the frenetic in the Beggarman set – not so much musical dialogue as mutual hot pursuit.” Jim Gilchrist, ***** The Scotsman
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Where is it happening?
The Greystones, Sheffield, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
