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Admin
- Jun 7, 2019
- 1 min
Eddie Edwards
We are sad beyond words to announce the death - after a long illness - of Eddie Edwards, our very talented banjo player, key member of the band since 2010, and the nicest bloke any of us have ever had the pleasure of working with. You can read a brief tribute to Eddie by going to the BAND page and clicking on the relevant button.
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Admin
- Jun 7, 2019
- 1 min
Melbury Osmond, last of the great Victorian actor-managers ...
Much silliness usually accompanies us on our long journeys to gigs around the South-West, and we've discovered that Dorset, in particular, is full of names which we believe to be taken from the cast list of a Victorian melodrama - Litton Cheney, Burton Bradstock, Bradford Newton and Lychett Matravers (along with that dissolute reprobate Okeford Fitzpaine) probably all toured together in the 1880s, and here we were at Melbury Osmond ... possibly the more famous brother-in-law
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Admin
- Jun 1, 2019
- 3 min
World's Finest Sausage Rolls ...
It had been a few years since our last concert in the beautifully maintained church of St Peter, in the idyllic Dorset village of Stourton Caundle, but those of us who played that concert were still talking with nostalgic longing of the utterly mouth-watering sausage rolls presented to us on that evening - along with other delicious comestibles - by the veritable Queen of sausage rolls, Vinny Taylor! Tonight, the band was making a welcome return appearance here ... but would
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