Steve
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Technology |
| Location | Whaley Bridge, High Peak, United Kingdom |
| Interests | Traditional music: particularly that of England but also French Italian and many other regions. Running particularly 10Ks and 1/2 marathons. |
| Favorite music | My earliest musical influence - after my sister Helen (whose cast-off recorders I started playing on) was Phil Pickett in the Albion Band on recorder and windcaps (sparking my love of rauschpfeifes). That lead to David Munrow and early music; also to the pyrotechnic displays of Richard Harvey in Gryphon. I soon started learning tin whistle alongside recorder; the high whistle led to low whistle and the wooden flute. Ian Blake (Pyewackett) and Jean-Pierre Rasle (Cock and Bull Band) provided early inspiration, while other huge influences on my wind playing would include Jean-Michel Veillon, Cormac Breatnach, Michael McGoldrick, Brian Finnegan, Davy Spillane, and Chris Norman. I've also taken up English concertina, led there by the fine playing of Robert Harbron and Alistair Anderson, and the encouragement (and loan of her Wheatstone) of Sue Diamond. Other influences: innumerable English, Scottish, Irish and European musicians; North-West and Border morris; and everyone I've played with in sessions and in Stomping Duck, Skipjack & The Tuners, Chorlton Green Morris, Gorton Tank, Shake The Dice, Rumworth Morris, Olio, Trebuchet, Powderkegs Border Morris and Flash In The Pan. |