Time for a stottycake, by Mat Green & Andy Turner

Time for a stottycake

by Mat Green & Andy Turner

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Compact Disc (CD)
Debut album from Magpie Lane stalwarts Mat Green & Andy Turner.
In jewel case with 8-page booklet, including liner notes.

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Mat Green recently celebrated 50 years of dancing the morris, including 25 years as Squire of Bampton Morris. He took up the fiddle at the age of 14, learning from Bampton musicians including Arnold Woodley and Frank Purslow. For many years he played with the Woodpecker Band, favourites on the English Ceilidh scene.

Andy Turner developed a love of traditional song in his late teens. His approach to dance music was informed by dancing to, and later playing with, the Oyster Ceilidh Band. Currently he plays in Geckoes and the Oxford NAGS. He danced with Canterbury-based Oyster Morris in the 1980s, and is now the musician for Headington Quarry Morris Dancers.

As founder members of Magpie Lane, Mat and Andy have been playing together for over 30 years. For much of that time they have also performed as a duo, and thought it really was about time they recorded a CD together.

Tracklist:
1. Rosalie the Prairie Flower / James Winder’s / Lucy Farr’s Barn Dance
2. The Banks of Inverary
3. Bobbing Joe / Kempshott Hunt
4. Auchdon House / Blue Eyed Stranger
5. The Barley Raking
6. The High Tea / Lemmy Brazil’s
7. Flowers of Edinburgh / Princess Royal
8. On board a ‘98
9. Old Black Joe / Banbury Bill
10. Muffin Man / Quickstep in the Battle of Prague / Welch's Polka
11. Saucy Sailor
12. Battle of the Somme
13. The Golden Glove
14. Glorishears / Highland Mary
15. Nottingham Goose Fair
16. Stottycake Polka / Boyne Water

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released January 8, 2024

Mat Green: fiddle
Andy Turner: vocals, anglo-concertinas, one-row melodeons

Recorded at Wild Goose Studios, November 2023.
Engineered and mastered by Doug Bailey.

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Andy Turner Oxfordshire, UK

Traditional English music sung and played with conviction

A fine singer of traditional songs, and a leading exponent of the anglo-concertina.

Member of Oxfordshire group Magpie Lane and dance bands Geckoes, Chameleons and Oxford NAGS. He performs solo, and in a duo with fiddle-player Mat Green. He has also worked with Chris Wood, the Oyster Band and the Mellstock Band. ... more

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