We still have a few gigs to go this year but Whitby in August will be our last work as a duo for a while as we prepare to have our first child in September! Eeeek!
We’ll be recording with The Demon Barbers over the Winter & on tour for most of February with Time Gentlemen Please but will be back on the road doing duo gigs in Spring 2013 so please do get in touch with bryonygriffith@hotmail.co.uk if you’d like to book us for clubs and festivals next year. Thanks!
HUGE thanks to everyone who voted for us in the Spiral Earth Awards.
Our album Lady Diamond has won Best Debut. Hurrah!!
News just in: We are very pleased to announce that our debut album ‘Lady Diamond’ has made the top three in the Tradition category in the Fatea Awards for an outstanding contribution in 2011! Fatea awards 2011
A bit about us…
English fiddle player and singer Bryony Griffith and melodeon player and dancer Will Hampson have been performing together for almost 20 years. Their partnership started in the acclaimed ceilidh band Bedlam in their early teens which took them all over the UK 
festivals and gave rise to the formation of the young Cotswold side, Dogrose. They later joined the celebrated Newcastle Kingsmen and have been key members of the award-winning Demon Barbers for the last ten years. Bryony was also a member of the much-missed a cappella group The Witches of Elswick. She has been described as having “the vocal power of a young Norma Waterson, the poise and attitude of the late Sandy Denny and the stage presence of Janis Joplin.” (Allan Wilkinson, Northern Sky). Add to that her ‘deliciously rustic’ fiddle playing (Colin Irwin) and Will’s driving yet sensitive box playing and you get a distinctive repertoire of dark ballads, chorus songs and dance tunes delivered with good-humoured Yorkshire banter. Their debut duo album ‘Lady Diamond’ is due out in summer 2011.
