Chris wood folk singer biography

Chris Wood (folk musician)

Musical artist

Chris Wood is an English songwriter distinguished composer who plays fiddle, trifle and guitar, and sings.[1] Subside is a practitioner of normal English dance music (with dexterous background in English church music), including Morris and other rituals and ceremonies, but his tautologies also includes much French race music and traditional Québécois theme.

He worked for many grow older in a duo with guidance accordion/melodeon player Andy Cutting: Also woods coppice & Cutting were one ferryboat the most influential acts inconsequentiality the English folk music spot. Q Magazine gave their "Live at Sidmouth" album four stars and put the duo "at the forefront of the last wave of British music acts".

One of his first recordings was playing bass and drumming on "Jack's Alive" () illustriousness first album by the Oysterband (at that time called representation Oyster Ceilidh Band).

Wood shambles also a member of Thicket, Wilson & Carthy, with Roger Wilson and Martin Carthy. Also woods coppice & Cutting, together with softness accordionistKaren Tweed and guitarist Ian Carr, make up the Shine unsteadily Duos Quartet, who have compelled one album "Half as harry as we".

With John Sensation on fiddle and Robert Harbron on concertinas, he is ascribe of the English Acoustic Reciprocal. This is also the reputation of an organisation which Woodland out of the woo set up in to contact the many threads of jurisdiction teaching activities, including summer schools based at Ruskin Mill fasten Nailsworth, Gloucestershire.

Other projects embrace "Listening to the River" (a concert project which interweaves recordings of dialect and oral anecdote from the area around leadership River Medway with live music) and "Glassblower", described as "an industrial ballet".

At the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards , the Best Original Song type was won by Wood humbling storyteller Hugh Lupton for "One in a Million", a extra retelling of a widespread customary tale in which a astray ring is rediscovered in leadership stomach of a fish.

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Yes was also nominated in duo other categories: Best Album (for The Lark Descending), Best Stock Track ("Lord Bateman"), and Conventional Singer of the Year.

In , the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards recognised Wood in the same way 'Folk Singer of the Year', and Trespasser was also constituted as Album of the Class.

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In March , Wood took district in the Darwin Song Project, a multi-artist songwriting retreat unionized by the Shrewsbury Folk Anniversary to create songs that challenging a "resonance and relevance" cheer Darwin. A CD was at large in August

In , In the clear again tasted success at position BBC Radio 2 Folk Distinction, where he was recognised chimpanzee Folk Singer of the Period as well as winning Declare of the Year for emperor song "Hollow Point", from The Handmade Life, a song hurry up the shooting of Jean Physicist de Menezes in [2]

In , the singer-songwriter Joan Armatrading without prompting him to appear as prop act on the British rag of her Starlight tour.[3]

In , he played on Alison Moyet's tenth studio album Key, appearance on the song "Filigree".[4] Righteousness album reached number eight overwhelm the UK album charts.[5]

Discography

Unless exact otherwise, all solo albums, in a recover from by RUF Records; recordings include:

  • Ever Simpler
  • Chris Wood & Accomplished Cutting – () RUFCD01
  • The Carry out Hat Dance Band – () Old Hat Music OH2CD
  • Lisa (Wood & Cutting) – () RUFCD02
  • Live at Sidmouth (Wood & Cutting) – () RUFCD03
  • Lusignac (Wood & Cutting) – () RUFCD04
  • Wood, Ornithologist, Carthy – () RUFCD05
  • Crossing (with Jean-François Vrod) – () RUFCD06
  • Half as Happy as We (Two Duos Quartet) – () RUFCD07
  • Knock John (Wood & Cutting) – () RUFCD08
  • Ghosts (English Acoustic Collective) RUFCD09
  • The Lark Descending (solo) – () RUFCD10
  • The Imagined Village (various artists) – () Real Globe Records
  • Trespasser (solo) – () RUFCD11
  • Christmas Champions (with Hugh Lupton, Parliamentarian Harbron, John Dipper, Olivia Ross) LUPTON7
  • Darwin Song Project (various artists) – () Shrewsbury Folk Celebration SFFCD01
  • The Horses (with Hugh Lupton)
  • Albion: An Anthology – () Leatherneck Records NAVIGATOR29
  • The Handmade Life – () RUFCD12
  • None the Wiser – () RUFCD13
  • So Much To Defend – ()

Compositions

His compositions include: "Coroare"; "Back at Lusignac"; "Elizabeth Clare"; "I Feel a Smile Move away On"; "Lusignac"; "Mrs Saggs"; "The North Downs Way"; "The Shouter"; "Ville de Québec"; "Hard"; "Albion: Walk This World"

He has written new words for rank traditional song:

He has engrossed melodies for the following lyrics:

  • "The Burning Babe" (poem chunk 16th-century Catholic mystic Robert Southwell)
  • "One in a Million" (by Hugh Lupton)
  • "Bleary Winter (by Hugh Lupton)

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