Chris Wood (folk musician)

Chris Wood is an English folk musician and composer who plays fiddle, viola and guitar, and sings. He is an ardent enthusiast for traditional English dance music (with a background in English church music), including Morris and other rituals and ceremonies, but his repertoire also includes much French and Québecois material. He has worked for many years in a duo with accordion/melodeon player Andy Cutting: Wood and Cutting are one of the most influential acts on the British folk music scene. Q Magazine gave their "Live at Sidmouth" album four stars and put the duo "at the forefront of the latest wave of British music acts".

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Folk musician - Fiddle - Viola - Guitar - Traditional - Morris - Ritual - Ceremonies - Accordion - Melodeon - Andy Cutting - Q Magazine

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Wood is also a member of the acclaimed Wood, Wilson & Carthy, with Roger Wilson and Martin Carthy. Wood & Cutting, together with Karen Tweed and Ian Carr, make up the Two Duos Quartet, who have made one album "Half as happy as we". With John Dipper on fiddle and Robert Harbron on concertinas, he is part of the English Acoustic Collective.

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Roger Wilson - Martin Carthy - Karen Tweed - Ian Carr - John Dipper - Fiddle - Robert Harbron - Concertina

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Other projects include "Listening to the River" (a concert project which interweaves recordings of dialect and oral history from the area around the River Medway with live music) and "Glassblower", described as "an industrial ballet".

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Dialect - Oral history - Medway

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