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Good sports playing good music for two good causes — charity concerts don't come better than this.
Good vibrations was the theme of the night as supporters of Chesterfield Folk Club dug deep to find 250 each for North Derbyshire Women's Aid and Chesterfield Care Group.
Musicians Breeze & Wilson and the town's Brampton Community Band gave their services free of charge and both thoroughly entertained the 60-strong audience, including the town's deputy mayor, Cllr Keith Morgan, at Club Chesterfield.
The headliners, Graham Breeze and Toby Wilson, have hearts as big as their huge talent. The pair are on a mission to help struggling village halls and charities across the region boost their funds. They will turn up and play for a good cause, only asking for travelling expenses and the chance to sell their discs.
These natural born performers put on a very special show which was as educational as it was entertaining. Toby's obsession with all things guitar and banjo related shone through as he made a talk on the various devices and instruments he used and played sound as lively as his playing.
For the most part, Graham stuck to guitar but towards the end of the second half he switched to a cajon, an African-Peruvian beat box for a version of Dave Edmunds' song Sweet Little Lisa which went down a storm.
Breeze & Wilson are gaining a following in Canada thanks to the power of the world wide web. Their composition, Harriet's Song, was picked up by a music lover and forwarded to a radio station on the east coast of Canada which has resulted in the duo playing sell-out concerts there.
A beautiful ballad which was exquisitely performed, Harriet's Song was one of the stand-out songs of their Chesterfield show.
Other gems included their stripped-down version of Delbert McClinton's Why Me? Lieber & Stoller's Framed and Chuck Berry's Nadine.
Thirteen might be considered unlucky for some, but not for this audience, as the largest band ever to play at Chesterfield Folk Club took to the stage.
With flutes, bodhran, squeezebox, guitars, saxophone and even spoons, the Brampton Community Band played up a storm in their selection of country dances and tunes from all over Europe.
Headed by saxophonist Peter Gray, the band kicked off with the popular Dashing White Sergeant, crossed the water to Ireland for tunes such as Tenpenny Bit and Blackthorn Stock and spun back to Derbyshire for the Winster Gallop.
Their second set included bourrees from France, a return to Ireland with the popular Blarney Pilgrim and Banish Misfortune which got the audience clapping along, and a Dutch tune called Yan Mijn Man.
Befitting the birthplace of the band, they went out on a high note with Captain Pugwash which was written by Chesterfield-born Johnny Pearson.
Brampton Community Band is based at Old Hall Junior School where it rehearses on Thursday nights.
Chesterfield Folk Club's next concert is on September 11 with headliner Harvey Andrews, supported by accordion player Hannah James and violinist Sam Sweeney from the band Kerfuffle.
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Wednesday 08 February 2012
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