Blakeley & Son - Topic

Hastings father and son folk-duo Blakeley & Son have grown their reputation locally over the years while developing a varied sound that is capable of both excitement and sublimity.
 
Garry (father) has a long standing reputation as a fiddle player of great technical versatility, with an excitement that gets the audiences before him dancing unstoppably. His collaborative credits are notable too: he is now a member of the celebrated Feast of Fiddles where he is working with Phil Beer, Chris Leslie, Peter Knight, Tom Leary, Brian McNeill, Ian Cutler, Hugh Crabtree, Dave Mattacks, Martin Vincent and Dave Harding. In the past he had toured Europe often with the Celtic band, Brian Boru, and has supported artists such as Christy Moore and Steeleye Span, and the legendary Barry Dransfield. He is known most locally as being very comfortable with the folk-rock genre, having spent many years playing with Better Days and The Tabs.
 
Ed (son) provides the accompaniment and additional instrumentation, which often takes the duo’s sound to many different unexpected places, much further outside of traditional folk music than an average audience might ordinarily be comfortable with. Somehow, they never leave the genre entirely though, and there is always a feeling of great musical comfort that emanates from the undeniably traditional routes of their playing style.