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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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  • Shagpile
    Five-piece electric dance band featuring Dave Burland on vocals and guitars. Mix of traditional rock'n'roll, R&B, Country. Also available with the Fraser Sisters saxophone section.
    Silkstone, Barnsley, South Yorkshire
    Contact: Dave Burland
    Telephone: 01226 792572
    Email: s.burland14@aol.com
    Website: http://www.daveburland.co.uk/s_pile.htm

  • Shanty Jack
    Shanty singer; also sings with Monkey's Orphan.
    Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire
    Telephone: 01472 696757 / 07970 651293
    Email: shantyjack@anchorage.f9.co.uk
    Website: http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/alan.j.hardy/ShantyJack/

  • Tim Sharp
    Solo singer-songwriter / guitarist. Over 30 years performing experience in folk clubs, theatre, busking, cycling events, on ferries and tour boats. His songs have been played on Radio 1 and Radio York. Also guitar tuition and performance workshops for bands.
    Contact: Tim Pheby
    Telephone: 01904 466 106
    Email: pheby@btconnect.com

  • Vic Shepherd and John Bowden
    Traditional song from England and North America.
    Ecclesfield, South Yorkshire
    Contact: John Bowden
    Telephone: 0114 246 5317

  • The Singing Secretary
    See Theatre and Street performers

  • Skellig
    Traditional Irish Band with accordion (3 times All Ireland champion), fiddle, cittern and bodhran. All musicians from dance show Damhsa.
    Contact: Chris Dyson
    30 Charlestown, Ackworth nr Pontefract, West Yorks WF7 7DU
    Telephone: 01977-614409
    Email: Ceilihouse5758@aol.com
    Website: http://damhsa.co.uk/
    See also  Fiddle tuition

  • Slide
    Four piece multi-instrumental and vocal band. Original and traditional songs and tunes in an upbeat style which fuses elements of the English, Celtic, and American traditions.
    Leeds, West Yorkshire
    Contact: Tom Bliss
    Telephone: 0113 2691761
    Email (Derek Magee): drm@comp.leeds.ac.uk
    Email (Tom Bliss): bliss@dircon.co.uk
    Website: http://www.slipjig.co.uk/

  • Slim Panatella and the Mellow Virginians
    American good time music. 1930s, 40s & 50s. Harmony singing with fiddle, mandolin, guitar, bass.
    Ilkley, West Yorkshire
    Contact: Anne Jones
    Telephone: 01189 268615
    Email: info@acousticsrecords.co.uk
    Website: http://www.acousticsrecords.co.uk/

  • Barry Smith
    Self-composed and Irish songs, celtic instrumentals. Song cycle Sophies Dance, about a teenager brought up in a Yorkshire woollen town in the 1960's. (See web site)
    Brighouse, West Yorkshire
    Telephone: 01484 719240
    Email: barrysmith@barrysmithmusic.co.uk
    Website: http://www.barrysmithmusic.co.uk/

  • Heather Smith
    Accordionist and teacher.
    Kingston upon Hull, East Yorkshire
    Telephone: 01482 345959
    Email: heather@accordions.karoo.co.uk

  • Dave Speight
    Acoustic blues on 6 and 12 string guitars, steel guitar. Broonzy and many other 30s singers.
    Ilkley, West Yorkshire
    Telephone: 01943 609558
    Fax: 01943 609817
    Email: dave@xfr.co.uk
    Website: http://www.snakekings.co.uk/

  • Hilary Spencer
    Contemporary song.
    Sheffield, South Yorkshire
    Telephone: 0114 283 0531
    Email: hilary@halpins.demon.co.uk
    Website: http://www.hilaryspencer.com/

  • Hilary Spencer and Grant Baynham
    Sheffield, South Yorkshire
    Telephone: 0114 283 0531
    Email: hilary@halpins.demon.co.uk
    Website: http://www.hilaryspencer.com/

  • Spendlow
    Performance poet with band.
    York, North Yorkshire
    Contact: Adrian Spendlow
    Telephone: 01904 647086
    Email: adrian.spendlow@ntlworld.com
    Website: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ade01/

  • Brian Stafford
    Solo Uilleann pipes, mainly traditional Irish / Scottish.
    Skipton, North Yorkshire
    Telephone: 01756 798285
    Email: brian@stafford.uklinux.net

  • Stair Heid Band
    Premier 5 piece Scottish concert and ceilidh band. Scottish, Irish, English, American and German material. Instrumentation includes accordion, fiddle, bagpipes, tenor and 5 string banjos, mandola and mandolin, guitar and bass guitar. Weddings, festivals, concerts, clubs etc. Strong vocals, traditional and contemporary material.
    Leeds, West Yorkshire
    Contact: John Gray
    Telephone: 0113 268 7414
    Email: john.gray20@virgin.net

  • Joe Stead
    Folk songs, shanties. Long established singer / banjo player with recently developed show on shanty theme, "Valparaiso Round the Horn". Children's songs.
    Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire
    Telephone: 01422 833659 / 07959 863479
    Email: banjostead@compuserve.com

  • Stormcrow
    Fun acoustic "Folk 'n' Roll" band. Amanda Hadlett, Mark Hadlett and Sarah Jay: original songs with 12 string guitar, mandolin, mandola and djembe. Sometimes accompanied by guest musicians.
    Contact: Mark Hadlett
    28 Hampton Grove, Redcar TS10 3PH
    Telephone: 01642 472174
    Email: Mark@theartworks-online.co.uk
    Website: http://www.stormcrow-online.co.uk/

  • Chris Sugden
    Author,songwriter,singer.
    10 Perseverence Road, Queensbury, Bradford, West Yorkshire BD13 1LY
    No phone calls, please contact in writing.

  • Roger Sutcliffe
    Blues.
    Whitby, North Yorkshire
    Telephone: 01947 602532

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  • Tanzen
    "A new and innovative group of experienced and enthusiastic young players, featuring flute, whistles, fiddle, guitar and vocals. Bringing together jazz and classical influences to create an exciting and unique twist on traditional folk."
    Sheffield, South Yorkshire
    Email: tanzen-folk@yahoo.co.uk
    Website: http://tanzen-folk.tripod.com/

  • Allan Taylor
    Singer/songwriter. Well established throughout the music scene, with over 50 cover versions of his songs and 14 albums/CDs in a recording and performing career of 35 years.
    Contact via John Barrow at Stoneyport agency:
    Telephone: 0131 346 8237
    Email: jb@stoneyport.demon.co.uk
    Website: http://www.allantaylor.com/
    Agency website: http://www.stoneyport.demon.co.uk/

  • Becky Taylor
    Uilleann piper, fiddle, Northumbrian smallpipes. Teacher of Uilleann pipes. Available for clubs, festivals, school performances and teaching, either solo or with guitarist or band.
    Halifax based; contact through website please.
    Telephone: 07980 600476
    Email: contact@beckytaylor.info
    Website: http://www.beckytaylor.info/

  • Steve Tilston
    Singer/songwriter, guitarist.
    Contact: Maggie Boyle
    Three's Company, PO Box 152, Keighley, West Yorkshire BD21 0YT
    Telephone: 01535 661991
    Email: three_s_company@hotmail.com
    Websites: http://www.threescompany.org.uk/
                    http://www.steve-tilston.co.uk/

  • Toein' in the Dark
    Contemporary and traditional song. Fiddle, guitar, whistle, accordion. Solo and harmony vocals. Includes original songs from local South Yorkshire songwriters.
    Rotherham, South Yorkshire
    Contact: Andy Hoult
    Telephone: 01709 370545
    Email: annettebindon@broomterrace.f9.co.uk

  • Treebeard
    Five piece acoustic band comprising bass/ bass balalaika/ vocals, guitar/ mandolin/ vocals, fiddle/ mandolin/ vocals, guitar/ bouzouki/ balalaika/ accordion/ vocals & percussion/ vocals. Playing a mix of traditional, contemporary and original songs and tunes in a style we describe as 'Heavy Wood'. CD available.
    Contact: Chris McMahon
    25 Fir Street, Sheffield, South Yorkshire S6 3TG
    Telephone: 07977 618 089
    Fax: 0114 2727001
    Email: chris@treebeard.org.uk
    Website: http://www.treebeard.org.uk/

  • Gordon Tyrrall
    Traditional and new music and song with guitar and flute.
    Leeds, West Yorkshire
    Telephone: 01132 256314
    Email: gordon@tyll.telinco.co.uk

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  • Ugly Mug Jug Band
    Good-time songs that are happy about being miserable.
    Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
    Contact: Dave Ellis
    Telephone: 01484 846611
    Email: dellis@btinternet.com

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  • York Waits
    Six piece early music / renaissance band. Concerts, banquets, processions, workshops.
    York, North Yorkshire
    Contact: William Marshall
    Telephone: 01484 602460
    Email: wilmarsh@dircon.co.uk
    Website: http://www.theyorkwaits.org.uk/

  • The Yorkshire Broads
    Three women from Leeds People's Choir. Unaccompanied songs from folk to blues, country to Beatles and some original material. Benefits, parties etc. Prefer small unamplified venues.
    Contact: Pat Brown
    4 West Park Gardens, Leeds, West Yorkshire LS8 2HD
    Telephone: 0113 2682887
    Email: patbrown19fv@hotmail.com

  • The Yorkshire Musical Saw Player
    Musical saw player: folk, classic and period music as a soloist, but also with band or piano accompaniment. Abbey Inn, Horsforth, Tuesday evenings at 8 pm.
    Leeds, West Yorkshire
    Contact: Charles Hindmarsh
    Telephone: 0113 2585819
    Email: charles.hindmarsh@tiscali.co.uk
    Website: http://playthesaw.co.uk/
    See also  Workshops and Tuition


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