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the wierdstring band, a wholly intriguing mixture of fiddle, double bass and acoustic guitar, bring you songs and tunes from the wide ranging genres of folk, ska,
gypsy swing, heavy rock, and pop. including iconoclastic classics to contemporary
original material. expect amazement, confoundment, exhilaration, dancing and sitting
down.
come and experience the wierdstring band.
the band has a combined age of three hundred years. admittedly, this does encompass
the age of all of their instruments, but none the less this age, experience and (dare we say
it?) maturity is reflected in the scope of their music, the wealth of their knowledge, and
their peculiar addiction to murray mints.
they met in the mint mines of old kendal, seeking a flame strong enough to inflame the
semi-mythical whitbarrow cigar. Further recognisance into the cheese seams of
wensleydale let them to farther flung fields and they chose to not to follow their previous
enthusiasm for astrology, the black arts and animal husbandry, deciding instead to
follow the muse.
the muse, however, had other plans and a much faster car. but our
boys had skill, enthusiasm and a very curious dog with great big legs, and eventually the
muse admitted defeat. the pursuit finished, the boys returned to the task of working out
what to do, now that they had foresworn witchcraft and their novelty telescope.
it was with some surprise, then, that they turned their manifold attentions to the face of
music.
music, of course, succumbed readily, and the results can be heard at every turn;
first tender, then sprightly, now melancholy, and moving stealthily through energetic
dance discourses to the place where all music naturally concludes:
drunken abandon.
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