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SUMMARY:An Evening with Owen Spafford & Louis Campbell
DESCRIPTION:Owen Spafford and Louis Campbell "Beautiful\, swirling\, modern
  folk" - Mark Radcliffe.\nA chance to hear two rising stars of the Folk Sc
 ene.\n\n\n\nOwen Spafford (Cosmo Sheldrake\, Don’t Feed the Peacocks) an
 d Louis Campbell (Sam Sweeney) met as teenagers\, as part of the first coh
 ort of the National Youth Folk Ensemble. Since forming their duo in 2018\,
  they have been nominated for the BBC Young Folk Award and received play o
 n BBC Radio 2\,3 and RTE1. A shared musical ‘true north’ and lasting f
 riendship enable the duo to make two instruments seemingly sound as one\; 
 creating subtle and emotive textures that re-calibrate the fiddle and guit
 ar duo idiom.\n\nTheir critically acclaimed debut album\, ‘You\, Golden
 ’ (04/11/22) was self-produced and recorded live in just two and a half 
 days with engineer Joe Garcia (Idles\, Blowzabella) with a make shift setu
 p in a barn in Bampton\, Oxfordshire. It features a mixture of traditional
  and self-penned material\, though the line is intentionally blurred to un
 ite the two - leaving listeners questioning which is which.\n\nOwen has pe
 rformed for the leaders of the commonwealth states\, toured with Giffords 
 Circus and has received a scholarship to study composition at the Royal Ac
 ademy of Music. He is currently working on Cosmo Sheldrake’s next album.
  Owen is also an All-Britain Fiddle Champion in the Fleadh Cheoil na Breat
 aine and BBC Young Composer Competition nominee. Equally at home in a trad
 itional session as he is in a free improvisation workshop\, Spafford's und
 erstanding of the oral tradition and love for vernacular music from around
  the world enables an inventive and thoughtful fiddle style.\n\nLouis has 
 been lucky enough to perform with Martin Carthy and John Doyle and joined 
 Sam Sweeney’s band at 19. At the Royal Northern College of Music\, he st
 udied under Martin Simpson\, Stuart McCallum\, Craig Ogden and Kris Drever
  and has been cited as ‘a talent to watch’ by the Sunday Times. Most c
 ommonly seen behind a large effects pedalboard\, the duo provides space fo
 r Campbell to connect with his first love\, the acoustic guitar. He has al
 so released three solo EPs of alternative music.\n\nThe duo allows Owen an
 d Louis to distill their love of traditional and experimental music into p
 owerful\, intricate and intimate music. Their debut album 'You\, Golden' m
 anages to orbit many different sound-worlds while staying within acoustic 
 English folk music\; seamlessly blending traditional tunes with their own 
 material.\n\nImprovisation\, humour and musicality make each live performa
 nce unique.\n\n“Rising stars of the folk scene” - Katie Derham\, BBC R
 adio 3\n\n“Beautiful\, swirling\, modern English folk music” - Mark Ra
 dcliffe\, BBC Radio 2\n\n“Gorgeous Music” - Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh\, R
 TE 1\n\n“They display a mastery and vision that\, for a debut\, is truly
  remarkable.” - Folk Radio UK\n\n“Virtuosic\, vibrant and very\, very 
 progressive. A magnificent take on the trad. tune idiom. Don't let their y
 outh suggest these aren't two very wise old hearted musicians at the start
  of a very long and glorious career” - Sam Lee\n\n“Brave\, brilliant\,
  deeply musical and creative. Listen to this....” - Martin Simpson\n\nPh
 oto by Iona Lane\n\n\n\n
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