20250530: Friday 30th May 2025: Bob Fox
£15.00
Support: Martin Baxter
Floor spot: Ines Nunez Sullivan
At the Golden Hind, 355 Milton Road, Cambridge CB4 1SP
8pm (Doors open 7:30pm)
Entry: £16(door), £15(advance), £14(members).
Bob Fox is an English folk guitarist and singer, specialising in traditional and contemporary songs of the north-east of England and in particular, the coal mining communities thereof. He is noted for his collaborations with Tom McConville and Stu Luckley, and for solo performances since 1982. During the 1990s, together with Benny Graham he developed a multi-media show documenting the coal mining communities of Durham and Northumberland, which led to the CD "How Are You Off For Coals", featuring a selection of mining songs. In 2006 Fox, along with a range of other top UK folk artists, was involved in providing performances for the "2006 Radio Ballads" commissioned by BBC Radio, and in 2009 he performed in the part of "Songman" in the highly acclaimed West End production of War Horse which played in the West End for 18 months and was subsequently toured for another eighteen months around Britain, Ireland and South Africa. Scholar Anthony Ashbolt describes Fox as "possessing one of the best folk-singing voices in England and he evokes the world of the miners and, in general, the songs of the northeast, with power and clarity."
Martin Baxter: Well-known on the Cambridge folk scene, Martin is a laid-back performer of traditional and contemporary songs, sparingly accompanying himself on guitar, banjo or fiddle. Although his musical influences include Sarah Grey and Martin Carthy, Martin’s mid-Atlantic DNA may be the root of what has made him especially interested in exploring musical styles and traditions from different times and places. Often creatively adapting them, or else just feeding them as inspritation into his own original compositions. Martin brings a theatrical sensibility to his musical performances, sometimes demonstrating unexpected subtleties of wit, emotion and commentary.
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