Folk Bands and Artists
The Brewery Band
Bristol
The Brewery Band has a wealth of experience playing mainly English dance music – bouncy, driving and lively – and is equally happy playing both for ceilidhs/barn dances and country dance clubs.
The line-up is …
Dave Byett – melodeons – has played for nearly every kind of traditional English dance, and was musical director for NYFTE (National Youth Folklore Troupe of England) for several years;
Nigel Hall – mandolin, cittern, guitar – also plays with Pendragon, Rapscallion and Old Fox Band;
Helen Brock – fiddle – studied violin at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama;
Andy Brewer – bass – ex. Dr Bowser’s Brown Bowel Oil Band and Brewer’s Troupe;
Glyn Owen – drums and all things percussive.