venn

is:

 

Mike Smith - on hurdy-gurdies, cittern & Guitar

 

Julian Scott - on bagpipes, flutes & pastoral oboe

 

Marcus Scott - on diatonic accordions & percussion 

 

Ken Lush - on electric bass & mandocello

 

The music of Central France is characterised by the sound of the bagpipe and the hurdy-gurdy.  Together they create driving, drone based, melodies and cadences that have echoed through the centuries, developing with each successive generation.  Add an artful accordion and the mix is impossible to resist. 

 

Brittany’s trance-like music of call and answer weaves lines of dancers back and forth.  Flutes, pipes and accordion construct mysterious melodies while the cittern and the bass guitar, pick out infectious rhythms.

 

Venn play traditional, contemporary and self-penned music derived from these traditions on bagpipe, hurdy-gurdy, flutes, cittern, guitar, mandocello, bass and diatonic accordion.