John Renbourn

Now fondly referred to as the "first scene of the crime", the first time that I ever played a couple of duets on stage with John was at the Beaumaris Folk Club on Anglesey back in 1985. Along with the other members of Pentangle, John was recently honoured with the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award by the BBC for services to music. With an unprecedented body of work (both recorded and published), he has influenced at least two generations of guitar players. A great mate.

Clive Carroll

Clive and I met several years ago through our mutual friendship with John. After his performance at this year's Wirral Guitar Festival, we spent the following afternoon noodling around swapping Jerry Reed / Chet Atkins tunes and generally having some fun, like the old Carlsberg beer advert, "best acoustic guitar player in the UK....? ".........probably........ (...ps.... that means yes).

Keith Offord

John's natural succesor. With one eye to his influences, Keith's CD "The Sun Returns" took the Renbourn / Jansch / Graham "folk baroque" style to a contemporary level. Extraordinary inctricate arrangements from a one of the folk scene's best kept secrets.

Phil Hare

Now recognised as one of the top guitar players on the UK folk scene. Phil and I played our first guitar duets in public together in a little club in a pub called The Crown on Conway Street in Birkenhead, more years ago that I suspect that either of us care to admit to. He remains the guitar player that I most love to jam with. My "brother-in-arms" re all things pertaining to, and promoting acoustic guitar.

The Wee Bag Band

Rory and I "survived" St Hugh's school in Birkenhead together. We recently met up again after about 30 years when they played a gig down the road from me. They are an absolutely brilliant band specialising in Irish music, check out their web site and catch them if you possibly can.