Gigspanner Big Band

Colchester Arts Centre, 14 Apr 2025


Tickets £27.50.
Doors open 7.30pm, starts 8pm.
This gig is for a seated audience.

Peter Knight: Violin
Roger Flack: Guitar
Sacha Trochet: Drums
Hannah Martin: Violin, Banjo, Tenor Guitar
Phillip Henry: Dobro~Harmonica
John Spiers: Melodeon 

With the Gigspanner Big Band, Peter Knight has assembled a group of musicians intent on making some of the most important and exhilarating art ever to sit under the banner of folk music" FRUK.

The Gigspanner Big Band are a unique force in British folk music....

Their high-energy, virtuosic performances appeal equally to traditionalists and to those looking for something more experimental, and they have garnered praise from publications as varied as fRoots, The Telegraph and The Wire, where they were described as ‘melodically folk-rooted yet open and innovative beyond the constraints of genre’.

Beginning life as a trio - with fiddle player Peter Knight being joined by percussionist Sacha Trochet and guitarist Roger Flack - the line-up has been expanded to form the Gigspanner Big Band, with acclaimed multi-instrumental duo Edgelarks (Phillip Henry and Hannah Martin - BBC Folk Awards 'Best Duo') and Bellowhead co-founder and melodeon player extraordinaire, John Spiers, joining the fray.

As collaborations go, it doesn't get much more mouth-watering than this.

Artists performing live


Show Details


Venue
Colchester Arts Centre
Date
14 Apr 2025
Doors
7:30 p.m.
Starts
8 p.m.

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