Peter Knights Gigspanner - 10th Anniversary Tour visits Cotleigh Brewery Wiveliscombe Somerset

Presented by: Honest Reliable Music

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0	WIVELISCOMBE: Cotleigh Brewery Events Hall
P	Thursday 2nd May, 2019
N	7:30pm

Event information

Peter Knight brings his group Gigspanner back to Wiveliscombe for another great night of music in the splendid company the music aficionados who inhabit Cotleigh Brewery. In the wake of his departure from Steeleye Span, multi award winning fiddle player Peter Knight has turned his full attention to his trio Gigspanner, and in the process established their reputation as one of the most genuinely ground-breaking forces on the British folk scene, inspiring Maverick magazine to write "Gigspanner are making some of the most beautiful music the genre has to offer" 5*****

Peter is joined by Roger Flack on Guitar and Sacha Trochet on Percussion, both powerful and intelligent musicians in their own right.


"Peter Knight's Gigspanner were amazing... I can only think of a handful of folk musicians world-wide that have the kind of relationship with their instrument that Peter Knight has: Martin Hayes, Enda Scahill, Mike McGoldrick, John McCusker, Martin Simpson. Many people said that this was one of the best gigs they'd ever been to. I'd agree with that. If you get a quarter of a chance to see them, go - there were people there last night who had travelled many miles to be there. It was well worth every mile" Mike Harding: Broadcaster/Musician/Writer
Described by Folk Radio UK as one of the “most quietly brilliant sets of musicians in the folk world and beyond”, they take self-penned material along with music rooted in the British Isles and with the flick of a bow, a finely chosen chord or slip of a beat, produce richly atmospheric arrangements “with notes seemingly plucked from the stars and rhythms from the equator” (Spiral Earth).
Doors open 7.30pm music from 8pm