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Performers: music and song: g-j

Note: performers' locations / addresses indicate where they are based, not where they are prepared to play. Most tour all across, and outside of, the county. Entries are indexed alphabetically by surname or band name.

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  • Vic Gammon
    Senior lecturer in Popular and World Musics at University of Leeds. Composer of music for plays and documentaries. Performer on anglo and duet concertinas, banjo and melodeon; English traditional song and dance music.
    Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
    Telephone: 01484 424465
    Email: v.a.f.gammon@leeds.ac.uk

  • Vin Garbutt
    Solo singer and songwriter. Traditional and contemporary songs and tunes with guitar and whistle.
    Cleveland
    Contact: Pat Garbutt
    Email: vingarbutt@boltblue.com   vin@vingarbutt.com
    Website: http://www.vingarbutt.com/
    Agency website: http://www.speakingvolumes.co.uk/

  • Robin Garside
    Solo performer, workshop leader and songwriter. Singer (traditional); guitar, fiddle, mandolin. Music workshops. Player of many years standing, traditional and self-penned songs and tunes.
    Sheffield, South Yorkshire
    Telephone: 0114 2347143 / 07890 910653
    Email: robin@garside.f9.co.uk
    Website: http://www.robingarside.co.uk/

  • Sally Goldsmith and Chris Foster
    Touring shows of new songs, readings and projected images reflecting people's lives and experiences. Current show is Plotters about allotments and allotment gardeners, researched on allotments in Sheffield. Also As We Walked Out about walkers and walking.
    Sheffield, South Yorkshire
    Telephone: 0114 2550019
    Email: goldsally@googlemail.com
    Also songwriting workshops

  • Richard Grainger
    Solo singer, guitarist. Original songs and traditional material. Available throughout the region, the UK and internationally.
    Whitby, North Yorkshire
    Telephone: 01287 660060
    Fax: Fax: 01287 660200
    Email: richard.grainger@onyxnet.co.uk
    Website: http://www.richardgrainger.co.uk/
    Also songwriting workshops

  • Grace Notes
    Traditional and contemporary song. Three part harmony. Maggie Boyle (vocals/flute/bodhran), Lynda Hardcastle (vocals/recorder), Helen Hockenhull (vocals/keyboard).
    Three's Company, PO Box 152, Keighley, West Yorkshire BD21 0YT
    Telephone: 01535 661991
    Email: maggieboyle@hotmail.com
    Websites: http://www.threescompany.org.uk/
                    http://www.maggieboyle.co.uk/

  • Granny Knot
    Two poets, Adrian Spendlow and Tony Morris, blending their very different styles with the soundscapes created by Tony's improvised multi-instrumental music.
    Contact: Tony Morris
    Telephone / Fax: 01904 413381
    Email: artformsinteractive@tiscali.co.uk
    See also:   Tony Morris   Spendlow

  • Great Northern Road Show
    Pauline Cato, Tom McConville and Terry Docherty. Northumbrian pipes, fiddle, guitar and song. Traditional and contemporary repertoire.
    Sheffield, South Yorkshire
    Telephone: 01535 658392
    Email: concerts@tomcatmusic.com
    Website: http://www.tomcatmusic.com/

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  • Bob Hall
    Bob Hall is the UK's top-rated blues pianist, singer and song writer in the idiom. The Bob Hall Show performs mostly original blues, boogie and gospel. Themed shows: "Good Liquor, Hard Times" and "The All-star Medicine Show". Also available as a duo with Hilary Blythe.
    Sheffield, South Yorkshire
    Telephone: 0114 236 3309
    Email: prospect@boogie.demon.co.uk
    Website: http://www.boogie.demon.co.uk/

  • Jim Hancock
    Unaccompanied songs from the agricultural, industrial and maritime traditions.
    Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire
    Telephone: 01724 844241
    Email: jim@guestlist.freeserve.co.uk

  • Harri Watts Band
    Duo: vocals, guitars, violins, mandolin. Original material. Workshops available.
    Hull, East Yorkshire
    Contact: Dave Watts
    Telephone: 07980 282266
    Email: davewatts@dall.karoo.co.uk

  • Jon Harvison
    Singer/ songwriter, plus traditional song, accompanied and unaccompanied. Songwriting workshops.
    Keighley, West Yorkshire
    Telephone: 01535 654836
    Email: jonharvison@drive-on.co.uk or jonharvison@lineone.net
    Website: http://www.drive-on.co.uk/

  • Mick Haywood
    Traditional ballad monger. Unaccompanied Yorkshire, humorous, drinking and sea songs.
    Whitby, North Yorkshire
    Telephone: 01947 601963
    Email: mick.angi@btinternet.com

  • Henwen
    Four women a cappella group. Own arrangements of traditional, contemporary and self-penned songs.
    Robin Hoods Bay, North Yorkshire
    Contact (1): Rowena Sommerville
    Telephone: 01947 880109
    Email: rsommerville_ca2@hotmail.com
    Contact (2): Fay Gillanders
    Telephone: 01947 897642

  • Simon Heywood
    Singer of traditional and original songs, guitarist, spoken word.
    Sheffield, South Yorkshire
    Telephone: 0114 232 3948
    Email: srheywood@ukonline.co.uk
    Website: http://mysite.freeserve.com/SimonHeywood/

  • Fay Hield
    Unaccompanied singer of mainly traditional songs. Formerly with Witches of Elswick.
    Sheffield, Sheffield Yorkshire
    Email: f.hield@shef.ac.uk

  • High Force
    A recently formed folk trio featuring an Englishman, a Scotsman and an Irishman. Mainly traditional folk music. Instruments include whistles, harmonica, violin, recorder, guitar (6 and 12 string) and keyboard.
    Contact: John Hunt
    18 Victoria Road, Barnard Castle, County Durham DL12 8HW
    Telephone: 01833 690467
    Email: john@huntbc.freeserve.co.uk
    Website: http://bcfolk.webng.com/

  • Ian Hill
    Mainly traditional tunes and songs with a leaning towards Irish and Northumbrian. Guitar and mandola, occasional mandolin, cittern, banjo. Also unaccompanied songs.
    Leeds, West Yorkshire
    Telephone: 0113 267 1858
    Email: ianhill@hotmail.com

  • Keith Hinchliffe
    Solo acoustic guitarist/singer. Traditional English, Celtic, American contemporary songs.
    Sheffield, South Yorkshire
    Telephone: 0114 2669896
    Email: keith.hinchliffe@lineone.net
    Website: http://www.keithhinchliffe.com/

  • Graham Hodge
    Solo acoustic guitarist/singer. Wide ranging cross-section of styles.
    Selby, North Yorkshire
    Address: 68 Hull Road, Cliffe, Selby, North Yorkshire YO8 6NH Telephone: 01757 638046
    Email: graham_hodge@hotmail.com

  • Rob Holden
    Relocated Lancashire singer and guitarist playing folk, blues and beyond.
    Bradford, West Yorkshire
    Contact: Rob Holden
    Telephone: 01274 730 443
    Email: robholdenmusic@yahoo.co.uk
    Website: http://www.myspace.com/robholdenmusic/

  • Honeydrum
    Brazilan Samba and Cuban Folkloric Rhythms, Songs and Dances for Festivals and Parties.
    Leeds, North Yorkshire
    Contact: Phen
    Telephone: 07932 012 787
    Email: honeydrum@yahoo.co.uk
    Website: http://www.honeydrum.co.uk/
    see also  tuition and workshops

  • House Band
    Whitby, North Yorkshire
    Contact: Chris Parkinson
    Telephone: 01947 601971
    Email: Info@chrisparkinsonmusic.co.uk
    Website: http://www.chrisparkinsonmusic.co.uk/

  • Brian Howard
    Uilleann pipes, whistles. Solo or with others.
    Sheffield, South Yorkshire
    Telephone: 0114 296 7272
    Email: shop@howardmusic.co.uk
    Website: http://www.howardmusic.co.uk/

  • The Howes Band
    Family busking band available for small events and parties. Accordion, fiddle, guitar, bongos, ukulele. Available with caller for ceilidhs.
    Sheffield, South Yorkshire
    Contact: Claire Howe
    Telephone: 01909 515068
    Email: claire@beggarsbelief.fsnet.co.uk
    Website: http://thehowesband.co.uk/

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  • Idle Road
    Traditional music and song from British Isles and beyond. Tenor banjo/ mandola, guitar, bodhran.
    Leeds, West Yorkshire
    Contact: Tom Napper
    Telephone: 0113 2680963

  • Instruments of Torture
    Trad instrumental. Duo or trio depending on occasion.
    Skipton, North Yorkshire
    Contact: Brian Stafford
    Telephone: 01756 798285 / 07968 826191
    Email: iot@stafford.uklinux.net

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  • Jig For A Kiss
    Four piece Celtic folk band. English, Welsh and Greek song with bowed psaltry, concertina, guitar, whistles.
    Sheffield, South Yorkshire
    Contact: Andy Bowdin
    Telephone: 0114 2665197
    Email: slipjig@ntlworld.com
    Website: http://www.play-on.org/

  • Alice Jones
    Piano and whistle. Ceilidh band player.
    Ripponden, West Yorkshire
    Telephone: 077333 20077
    Email: allaia_jones@hotmail.com

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