Mad Nanny Music
| |  | | Mad Nanny Music is a not for profit venture to promote the traditional music and dance of these islands and related folk music and activities. We organise Baldock & Letchworth Folk Club, and promote the bands Tam Lin and Millrace. We run several small festivals, and organise barndances.Baldock & Letchworth Folk Club:- We meet at The Old White Horse Baldock and feature guest artists of considerable renown and those on the way up! We are friendly and welcoming, don’t be shy, come and join us. Children are very welcome to all of hese evenings; the tradition is in their hands after all. Millrace - is an experienced barn dance/ceilidh band working with several well-regarded callers and is available for weddings, private & corporate functions, where a traditional sound is required. The repertoire includes a wide range of English, Scottish, Northumbrian & Irish dance tunes; with two singers in the band, the dances may be complemented with songs if desired.Tam Lin play Anglo-Celtic music and songs fiddle, flute, whistles, violin, guitar, djembe & bodhran (“High powered music, strong confident vocals” - The Northern Times); (“Beautiful vocals, fantastic sound! Made me tingle!’’-Sue Garner, Brigg Fiddle Festival), The trio are Aidan Broadbridge who appeared as in the film ‘Shakespeare in Love’and he was Lead Violinist in various West End London productions for ‘Uncle Ebenezer, a Christmas Carol’ & ‘Seven Brides for Seven Brothers’. Sav Malbaski was classically trained on both flute and clarinet; he plays whistles and guitar, he also sings lead and harmony vocals. Alan Hewson comes from the north east of England. With Scots, Irish and Northumbrian ancestry, the echo of those traditions run in his veins. Alan took to the folk clubs in the late 1970's as an unaccompanied singer. Since then Alan has sung in clubs and festivals in every county (not quite every town) of England and Scotland. Alan has appeared on local & national radio many times since singing his prize winning song entry ‘The Children’ on Pete Castle’s radio program in 1981; the song appears on the first Tam Lin album.
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