Dulwich Folk at the Castle: Club Debris Sunday 2 April from 7.30

[Dulwich Folk]

Club Débris is a new Quebec-inspired folk band based in London. I saw the Club Debris launch gig and it was a seriously brilliant one. Great musicians with a wonderfully varied background playing high energy trad/folk music in brazenly major keys; no nonsense tunes with a pro-nonsense attitude and a no nonsense step dancer!

The band's music draws on the French Canadian tradition, with North American and Irish/Scottish influences. This is going to be a great gig.

Club Debris are:

Will Allen - Kent/London-based accordion and fiddle player, one half of the duo Brown Boots; as one of the top box players on the English trad music scene.

Maisie Greenwood - Established fiddle player in the London session scene, member of Band of Burns and well-travelled musician playing a wide repertoire of tunes from England, Ireland, Scotland, Scandinavia and North America, including many learned from playing at sessions in Montreal and Quebec City.

Duncan Menzies - already well known to us thanks to Copper Vipers great 2022 gig, Duncan plays fiddle, banjo and mandolin. He is also a Doctor of electronic bagpipes. As well as Copper Viper he also plays in , pagan speed-folk pioneers PerKelt, and banjo-wielding purveyors of general silliness Banjöverkill.

Will Chamberlain - Piano player from Northeast England and member of the Silver Street Ceilidh Band, accompanying tunes in an eclectic, rhythm-orientated style.

Jessie Collins - Versatile and virtuoso percussive dancer from London, member of trad jazz band the Thames House Orchestra and ceilidh band Cut a Shine; dances a mix of styles including jazz tap, Appalachian flat footing and Irish sean-nós.

Entrance is £12 tonight.

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