Little Missenden Festival 2008

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Event 7 2008

Foot-stomping folk

Askew sisters

Wednesday October 15th 8.00pm

Little Missenden village hall

Tickets £9, with a glass of wine, unreserved seats

ASKEW SISTERS:  Emily Askew  fiddle, cello, vocals  

Hazel Askew  melodeon, vocals  

The Askew Sisters will bring what fRoots magazine called their “infectious pumping energy” and sheer enjoyment to a variety of traditional English folk music and song.  Foot-tapping dance tunes on melodeon and fiddle (ranging from Playford’s 17th century collections to morris and folk dance tunes), mix with traditional songs and ballads – many of them from the collections that Ralph Vaughan Williams, Cecil Sharp and others gathered from people still singing in the oral tradition.

Emily and Hazel, a young classically-trained (and multi-talented) duo, are making waves on the folk circuit. Emily began with cello, recorder and piano, but learned the fiddle as her interest in folk music grew. She now studies early music at the Guildhall, where she’s learning the medieval fiddle and baroque oboe. Hazel started with flute, harp and piano but then taught herself the melodeon and took up singing.  She enjoys researching old ballads and songs.

“Hazel's rich gutsy voice and inventive melodeon playing combined with the skill of Emily's singing fiddle or soulful cello are a new force to be reckoned with!”  (Stirrings Magazine)

Askew Sisters website

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Askew Sisters Wildgoose Records page

Little Missenden Festival 2008